Encryption existed long before the US Constitution or the Fourth Amendment were written. By today's standards, that encryption was pathetic. But back then, it was a significant obstacle to law enforcement. The founders knew this when they wrote the Fourth Amendment so did the states when they ratified it.
The founders included the Fourth Amendment because they had already witnessed the abuses of surveillance by the British government. They were trying to limit similar abuses by the government they were forming.
The Ford Maverick ($4000 in 1974) was not an entry level car. It was a high performance car. The Ford Focus ($20,000 now) is an entry level car
To get a real comparison, you would need to determine what 2017 car is the equivalent to the 1974 Maverick. I don't know.
However, according to http://www.usinflationcalculat... $4000 in 1974 would be almost $20,000 in 2017. I'm sure that whatever the equivalent 1974 car to the 2017 Focus was less than $4000.
As I have pointed out in the past, (almost) everyone is taught writing, but only a tiny few have what it takes to become professional writers. Also, according to a friend of mine who is an editor for one of the major US book publishers, many of those pros, in the US, would have a hard time getting more than a "C" in high school English composition, yet they write beautiful books (that then have to be edited for "big piles of mistakes").
Go ahead and train all children in coding. Just don't expect more than a tiny few to be able to "go professional". No different than with writing.
A technician I know once told me that the ISPs are very good at detecting speed testing and that many testers do so from well known addresses.
Even if the testers have gotten better at hiding how and where they are running the tests, I still seriously question the results. There are too many ways the ISPs can "fast lane" the testing while blaming "real world" experience on "factors beyond their control."
Except that FedEx will claim that they are not the ones liable, it's the responsibility of the aircraft maintenance company. The maintenance company will then deflect the liability on to the local contractor, who will file bankruptcy and go out of business. Meanwhile, the home owner's insurance company, knowing the preceding, will declare the incident an "act of God", therefore, not covered.
(For those who think this wouldn't happened, something similar did happen to one of my neighbors. The "bucket lift" of a service truck for the local cable company collapsed and smashed his car. My neighbor, refusing to take "no" for an answer, pushed forward with a string of lawsuits, anyway. The cable company and the lift-truck maintenance company both got their respective cases dismissed - and court orders for my neighbor to pay their legal costs. The local contractor appeared pro-se and told the judge the business was bankrupt, closed and the assets sold, leaving a little more than $500 left for a settlement (after giving the judge a copy of the bankruptcy papers). The judge told my neighbor "That's the best you're going to get" and ruled the case settled. In the end, my neighbor lost over $10k in legal fees. And the car insurance company claimed the incident wasn't covered, so he was out another $3000 for car repairs.)
Question: Were they able to get service without being forced to give all their equipment to an existing ISP in the nearby town?
I ask because other, similar, efforts, that I am familiar with, by groups of private citizens were refused service unless they agreed to give the system they built (and paid for) to an existing ISP.
Both my girlfriend and my daughter responded to the discouragement with "BS. I'm going to be an engineer." And so my GF is a darned good engineer and our daughter will soon have her bachelor's degree in engineering.
Neither my girlfriend nor our daughter are/were weak. And neither chose a tech field because anyone thought they should, Whatever influence I might have on either of their career decisions was by being a good example.
I think that the bigger issue is that, generally, women are not as interested in tech jobs as guys are.
Is it not as interested or that our society (still) actively discourages women - and especially, school age girls - from tech jobs?
As I have mentioned before, my girlfriend was discouraged by her teachers (both female and male), and even a few of her college professors. Our daughter experienced similar discouragement in K-12 schools, though has not from any of her college professors.
While type constraints and iterator abstraction can avoid the need for run time checks of loops, there is still the case of calculated indexing. A tool like Polyspacemight
be able to determine if the calculation result will be within bounds. Mathworks would be extremely interested in hiring anyone who could independently develop similar analysis capability.
Likewise for avoiding dangling pointers and null dereferencing.
If the Rust compiler really has the same kind of source code analysis capabilities as Polyspace, I would think that even the most miserly of employers would be paying $$$ to send their software developers to "Rust Academy".
Make sure your antenna receives UHF in addition to VHF. Lots of older antennas were VHF-only (channels 2-13).
Before analog broadcasting ended, we had 2 (analog) UHF stations - 23 and 58 - that we could receive better than the VHF stations.
I tried adding a UHF booster amp at the top of the mast. It only exacerbated the problems, (We live in one of the northern suburbs of our area. The TV stations are in the southern suburbs. I'm assuming our neighborhood is a victim of the combined RF noise of the intervening city.)
In recent decades, cats and dogs have been the only exposure people - especially children - get to non-human animals on a regular basic.
Even sadder, fewer and fewer children have any exposure to non-human animals. One big reason for this is that more and more children are being over scheduled into organised activities, leaving too little time to engage with a pet.
Call us "crazy cat people" if you insist, My girlfriend, daughter and I feel more human for having our feline friends. And most of our relatives and (human) friends have similar feelings about their pets.
I wonder how many TV show execs have forgotten about over-the-air broadcasting and will be surprised to hear this.
On the other hand, you need to be in a good location to receive a view-able signal. While we still have an antenna on the roof of our house, we located in a marginal area for reception. With analog broadcasting, just meant a little random "snow" in the image. Now that broadcasting has gone all digital, we get a lot of freezes and "pixel blocking", making the image unview-able. (I still try the antenna signal a few times per year. At night, with clear skies, I can get a marginally view-able image - at best.)
It was Trump's new chief of staff (Kelly) that demanded Scaramucci be gone, no one who was career military is going to put up with the likes of Scaramucci's BS.
Rust is a compiled language. Presumably, the first Rust compiler was written completely in C, with newer versions having progressively more Rust source.
Obviously, Rust, with it's run time checks, can't match the performance of C without those checks.
A friend of mine who did a lot of Ada programming told me that his project turned off array bounds checking because it was just too slow for their application to function. There is little difference between that and coding the app in C.
A co-worker told me that early C compilers put bounds checking (and other checks) in to the generated code. He and his classmates routinely disabled the checks, only turning them on to demonstrate their code passed the checks.
I see no compelling reason to switch to Rust. If having those run time checks "built in" is desirable enough, I think it would make more sense to re-introduce those checks to C compilers, (Yes, I know, Rust has other features "built in", but most, if not all, of those features are available in libraries with many years of use and testing. (They might even be used by Rust.))
According to a co-worker of mine, that wasn't always the case.
When he was a student in the early 1980s, the C compiler, installed on the BSD Unix systems at his college, generated array bounds checking, pointer de-reference checking and a few other run-time "sanity checks". He also said there were options to disable these features.
While I can certainly understand that re-adding these checks to the code generated by the C compiler would reduce performance, I doubt it would be any worse than the performance of Rust (or most of the other "safer" languages).
Actually, during the brief recount effort in Michigan before it was shut down, roughly 60% of the ballot boxes opened did not contain the number of ballots they were supposed to.
According to someone from Michigan I met, that meant that the ballots in those boxes were, under Michigan law, not allowed to be recounted.
I don't know if that's true, but I am more and more concerned over just how much of a mess the US election system is.
Mozilla had a great browser, and a great community. Someone spooked at Chrome's early success and decided that change for change's sake was necessary,
Very true. While I can forgive the change in version numbering scheme, the rest was a shift away from great innovation, as well as needles dumbing down.
Years ago, I switched to Palemoon. Still in the Firefox family, but preforms better then either FF or Chrome and is less dumbed down.
My employer, meanwhile, has joined the crowd in standardizing on Chrome, I had hoped they'd at least have gone to a variant that doesn't phone home, for example Iron.
It's much *much* better when the local population has a say in how their kids get schooled.
From my and my girlfriend's prospective, the Obama-era nutrition requirements are a mix of both bad and good.
Since we went to a private school, in theory, our parents - and the other kids' parents - had a say in what food was served in the school cafeteria, but, for budget reasons, the school bought food from the same vendors the public schools did, so what we got was only a little better than what the public school kids got. Slightly less added sugar and salt, and (slightly) leaner meats. As I recall, it cost the school about 25-30% more, but it was still cheap food. By standards of my and my girlfriend's families, it was still too heavy with salt, fat and grains. (We are part Native American, so, at home, we ate a version of our ancestors' diet: Berries and other fruits, leafy vegetables, lean meat (venison when possible) and a small amount of grains, mostly maize (aka "corn").)
Side notes:
Common core and "no child left behind" was a disaster.
1. Much as I hate "Common Core", I know that it was a multi-state initiative that the Obamas liked, so supported. But it was the creation of many states, not the Obama administration. The only blame I place on Obama for it is for not seeing it for the disaster it is.
2. Despite the idea behind "no child left behind" being admirable, the rules it put in place were disastrous. The effect of those rules was not limited to the schools that actually needed them. The rules also penalized schools that had artificially low rates of improvement: Either they had a high turn over (such as schools with a high portion of children of new immigrants), a small number of "special needs" students, and/or were already high performing. These situations skew the results.
I need to have a bunch of different apps using a bunch of different accounts, running on multiple different platforms, just to keep track of text messages. I can't consolidate them into one app because the services aren't compatible with different clients
Because the service providers want it that way. They choose to make their services incompatible with each other and with 3rd party clients.
Does she want this guy immediately fired no question asked?
At the company I work for, the stated policy is that upon receipt of a harassment complaint, the accused is immediately put on administrative leave (with out pay) and the complaint is forwarded to the local prosecutor's office for investigation. If the prosecutor clears the accused, then he is re-instated. Otherwise, he is fired. In the even the accused is cleared AND the prosecutor determines the complaint was filed with malicious intent, then the accusor is fired.
The company also has a policy of protecting the victim's privacy, so I don't know if the above procedure has been used.
The policy may seem harsh, but the company's legal department takes the position that it is better to err on the side of the victim, even if the accusations ultimately prove to be malicious.
I used to work at a hotel and helped select one of these key card systems
If key cards are being used, why choose a system that requires the locks be networked?
Sure, there is a convenience in the front desk being able to remotely update the stay duration rather than having the guests come to desk to have their kay cards re-written, but is that really worth the problems? I recently attended a convent held in the Intercontinental Hotel in Dallas - a 5 star, luxury hotel. Although I couldn't afford a room in that hotel, some of the convention attendees did. And some of those extended their stay y a night. They all had to have their key cars re-written at the front desk. Also, one attendee had problems with the lock on his room. Some one had to go to the room and plug a device in to the lock to fix it. Also, even though the lock failed, he was not stuck in his room.
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Encryption existed long before the US Constitution or the Fourth Amendment were written. By today's standards, that encryption was pathetic. But back then, it was a significant obstacle to law enforcement. The founders knew this when they wrote the Fourth Amendment so did the states when they ratified it.
The founders included the Fourth Amendment because they had already witnessed the abuses of surveillance by the British government. They were trying to limit similar abuses by the government they were forming.
The price rise from $4,000 to $20,000
The Ford Maverick ($4000 in 1974) was not an entry level car. It was a high performance car. The Ford Focus ($20,000 now) is an entry level car
To get a real comparison, you would need to determine what 2017 car is the equivalent to the 1974 Maverick. I don't know.
However, according to http://www.usinflationcalculat... $4000 in 1974 would be almost $20,000 in 2017. I'm sure that whatever the equivalent 1974 car to the 2017 Focus was less than $4000.
As I have pointed out in the past, (almost) everyone is taught writing, but only a tiny few have what it takes to become professional writers. Also, according to a friend of mine who is an editor for one of the major US book publishers, many of those pros, in the US, would have a hard time getting more than a "C" in high school English composition, yet they write beautiful books (that then have to be edited for "big piles of mistakes").
Go ahead and train all children in coding. Just don't expect more than a tiny few to be able to "go professional". No different than with writing.
A technician I know once told me that the ISPs are very good at detecting speed testing and that many testers do so from well known addresses.
Even if the testers have gotten better at hiding how and where they are running the tests, I still seriously question the results. There are too many ways the ISPs can "fast lane" the testing while blaming "real world" experience on "factors beyond their control."
Except that FedEx will claim that they are not the ones liable, it's the responsibility of the aircraft maintenance company. The maintenance company will then deflect the liability on to the local contractor, who will file bankruptcy and go out of business. Meanwhile, the home owner's insurance company, knowing the preceding, will declare the incident an "act of God", therefore, not covered.
(For those who think this wouldn't happened, something similar did happen to one of my neighbors. The "bucket lift" of a service truck for the local cable company collapsed and smashed his car. My neighbor, refusing to take "no" for an answer, pushed forward with a string of lawsuits, anyway. The cable company and the lift-truck maintenance company both got their respective cases dismissed - and court orders for my neighbor to pay their legal costs. The local contractor appeared pro-se and told the judge the business was bankrupt, closed and the assets sold, leaving a little more than $500 left for a settlement (after giving the judge a copy of the bankruptcy papers). The judge told my neighbor "That's the best you're going to get" and ruled the case settled. In the end, my neighbor lost over $10k in legal fees. And the car insurance company claimed the incident wasn't covered, so he was out another $3000 for car repairs.)
Question: Were they able to get service without being forced to give all their equipment to an existing ISP in the nearby town?
I ask because other, similar, efforts, that I am familiar with, by groups of private citizens were refused service unless they agreed to give the system they built (and paid for) to an existing ISP.
Both my girlfriend and my daughter responded to the discouragement with "BS. I'm going to be an engineer." And so my GF is a darned good engineer and our daughter will soon have her bachelor's degree in engineering.
Neither my girlfriend nor our daughter are/were weak. And neither chose a tech field because anyone thought they should, Whatever influence I might have on either of their career decisions was by being a good example.
I think that the bigger issue is that, generally, women are not as interested in tech jobs as guys are.
Is it not as interested or that our society (still) actively discourages women - and especially, school age girls - from tech jobs?
As I have mentioned before, my girlfriend was discouraged by her teachers (both female and male), and even a few of her college professors. Our daughter experienced similar discouragement in K-12 schools, though has not from any of her college professors.
My vote is freedom, every single time, regardless of the "costs", I can deal with those.
Without freedom, you have nothing, and you never will.
I agree
When you BAKE IN security, you BAKE OUT freedom.
What's your definition of "security"?
"Secure" can mean "robust". Like TCP/IP and associated routing protocols can route around damage to provide a practical level of reliability.
"Secure" can mean resistant to wiretapping. Encryption, both end-to-end and link-level, helps with that. In fact, it also helps provide robustness.
I think most people would agree these are helpful to freedom, so are desirable.
Of course, "security" can also be used as a tool for oppression. A balance is needed.
The magic is in Rust's type system.
While type constraints and iterator abstraction can avoid the need for run time checks of loops, there is still the case of calculated indexing. A tool like
Polyspace might
be able to determine if the calculation result will be within bounds. Mathworks would be extremely interested in hiring anyone who could independently develop similar analysis capability.
Likewise for avoiding dangling pointers and null dereferencing.
If the Rust compiler really has the same kind of source code analysis capabilities as Polyspace, I would think that even the most miserly of employers would be paying $$$ to send their software developers to "Rust Academy".
Make sure your antenna receives UHF in addition to VHF. Lots of older antennas were VHF-only (channels 2-13).
Before analog broadcasting ended, we had 2 (analog) UHF stations - 23 and 58 - that we could receive better than the VHF stations.
I tried adding a UHF booster amp at the top of the mast. It only exacerbated the problems, (We live in one of the northern suburbs of our area. The TV stations are in the southern suburbs. I'm assuming our neighborhood is a victim of the combined RF noise of the intervening city.)
In recent decades, cats and dogs have been the only exposure people - especially children - get to non-human animals on a regular basic.
Even sadder, fewer and fewer children have any exposure to non-human animals. One big reason for this is that more and more children are being over scheduled into organised activities, leaving too little time to engage with a pet.
Call us "crazy cat people" if you insist, My girlfriend, daughter and I feel more human for having our feline friends. And most of our relatives and (human) friends have similar feelings about their pets.
I recommend folks looking to cut the cord and stream, to look into getting a business connection.
Assuming one has an ISP willing to provide business service to residential areas.
I wonder how many TV show execs have forgotten about over-the-air broadcasting and will be surprised to hear this.
On the other hand, you need to be in a good location to receive a view-able signal. While we still have an antenna on the roof of our house, we located in a marginal area for reception. With analog broadcasting, just meant a little random "snow" in the image. Now that broadcasting has gone all digital, we get a lot of freezes and "pixel blocking", making the image unview-able. (I still try the antenna signal a few times per year. At night, with clear skies, I can get a marginally view-able image - at best.)
It was Trump's new chief of staff (Kelly) that demanded Scaramucci be gone, no one who was career military is going to put up with the likes of Scaramucci's BS.
Yet he puts up with Trump's?
Rust would have to exist between C and python.
Rust is a compiled language. Presumably, the first Rust compiler was written completely in C, with newer versions having progressively more Rust source.
Obviously, Rust, with it's run time checks, can't match the performance of C without those checks.
A friend of mine who did a lot of Ada programming told me that his project turned off array bounds checking because it was just too slow for their application to function. There is little difference between that and coding the app in C.
A co-worker told me that early C compilers put bounds checking (and other checks) in to the generated code. He and his classmates routinely disabled the checks, only turning them on to demonstrate their code passed the checks.
I see no compelling reason to switch to Rust. If having those run time checks "built in" is desirable enough, I think it would make more sense to re-introduce those checks to C compilers, (Yes, I know, Rust has other features "built in", but most, if not all, of those features are available in libraries with many years of use and testing. (They might even be used by Rust.))
C ignores array bounds
According to a co-worker of mine, that wasn't always the case.
When he was a student in the early 1980s, the C compiler, installed on the BSD Unix systems at his college, generated array bounds checking, pointer de-reference checking and a few other run-time "sanity checks". He also said there were options to disable these features.
While I can certainly understand that re-adding these checks to the code generated by the C compiler would reduce performance, I doubt it would be any worse than the performance of Rust (or most of the other "safer" languages).
Actually, during the brief recount effort in Michigan before it was shut down, roughly 60% of the ballot boxes opened did not contain the number of ballots they were supposed to.
According to someone from Michigan I met, that meant that the ballots in those boxes were, under Michigan law, not allowed to be recounted.
I don't know if that's true, but I am more and more concerned over just how much of a mess the US election system is.
Mozilla had a great browser, and a great community. Someone spooked at Chrome's early success and decided that change for change's sake was necessary,
Very true. While I can forgive the change in version numbering scheme, the rest was a shift away from great innovation, as well as needles dumbing down.
Years ago, I switched to Palemoon. Still in the Firefox family, but preforms better then either FF or Chrome and is less dumbed down.
My employer, meanwhile, has joined the crowd in standardizing on Chrome, I had hoped they'd at least have gone to a variant that doesn't phone home, for example Iron.
I wonder if the real purpose behind this isn't to enable ads and analytics in feeds.
I have seen ads in RSS feeds. I'd be surprized if there weren't analytics.
It's much *much* better when the local population has a say in how their kids get schooled.
From my and my girlfriend's prospective, the Obama-era nutrition requirements are a mix of both bad and good.
Since we went to a private school, in theory, our parents - and the other kids' parents - had a say in what food was served in the school cafeteria, but, for budget reasons, the school bought food from the same vendors the public schools did, so what we got was only a little better than what the public school kids got. Slightly less added sugar and salt, and (slightly) leaner meats. As I recall, it cost the school about 25-30% more, but it was still cheap food. By standards of my and my girlfriend's families, it was still too heavy with salt, fat and grains. (We are part Native American, so, at home, we ate a version of our ancestors' diet: Berries and other fruits, leafy vegetables, lean meat (venison when possible) and a small amount of grains, mostly maize (aka "corn").)
Side notes:
Common core and "no child left behind" was a disaster.
1. Much as I hate "Common Core", I know that it was a multi-state initiative that the Obamas liked, so supported. But it was the creation of many states, not the Obama administration. The only blame I place on Obama for it is for not seeing it for the disaster it is.
2. Despite the idea behind "no child left behind" being admirable, the rules it put in place were disastrous. The effect of those rules was not limited to the schools that actually needed them. The rules also penalized schools that had artificially low rates of improvement: Either they had a high turn over (such as schools with a high portion of children of new immigrants), a small number of "special needs" students, and/or were already high performing. These situations skew the results.
I need to have a bunch of different apps using a bunch of different accounts, running on multiple different platforms, just to keep track of text messages. I can't consolidate them into one app because the services aren't compatible with different clients
Because the service providers want it that way. They choose to make their services incompatible with each other and with 3rd party clients.
Does she want this guy immediately fired no question asked?
At the company I work for, the stated policy is that upon receipt of a harassment complaint, the accused is immediately put on administrative leave (with out pay) and the complaint is forwarded to the local prosecutor's office for investigation. If the prosecutor clears the accused, then he is re-instated. Otherwise, he is fired. In the even the accused is cleared AND the prosecutor determines the complaint was filed with malicious intent, then the accusor is fired.
The company also has a policy of protecting the victim's privacy, so I don't know if the above procedure has been used.
The policy may seem harsh, but the company's legal department takes the position that it is better to err on the side of the victim, even if the accusations ultimately prove to be malicious.
I used to work at a hotel and helped select one of these key card systems
If key cards are being used, why choose a system that requires the locks be networked?
Sure, there is a convenience in the front desk being able to remotely update the stay duration rather than having the guests come to desk to have their kay cards re-written, but is that really worth the problems? I recently attended a convent held in the Intercontinental Hotel in Dallas - a 5 star, luxury hotel. Although I couldn't afford a room in that hotel, some of the convention attendees did. And some of those extended their stay y a night. They all had to have their key cars re-written at the front desk. Also, one attendee had problems with the lock on his room. Some one had to go to the room and plug a device in to the lock to fix it. Also, even though the lock failed, he was not stuck in his room.