The sensible approach to the TSA is shut its doors and go back to private screening with metal detectors sans the nudity scanners and pat downs.
Why do you think the "nudity scanners and pat downs" would go away?
Even before 9/11, there were pat downs - done by the private security screeners.
The "nudity scanners" were developed after 9/11, so weren't available to those screeners.
Since 9/11, many places employing private security screeners are using nudity scanners and pat downs. Why? Because the people paying the security companies to provide screeners think that those things increase security.
which are religiously fanatic do-gooders. PC-bullshit spewing, safe-space needing special snowflakes that come up with solutions trying to find a problem.
They aren't all religious. and those that are, are not all religious fanatics. But they are fanatic about "politically correct".
However, "politically correct" is intrinsically "politically incorrect".
Don't know what the current "proper" terminology, but several years ago, a friend of mine said "How is 'vertically challenged' less insulting than 'short'? I'm short and damn proud of it."
I'm sure the MPAA feels something similar about YouTube's responsibility for infringing content
Based on recent complaints from both the MPAA and RIAA, they want youtube and other similar sites to hold posted content until it's verified to be non-infringing.
About a year ago, I was attending an event in a hotel's banquet room. In the other (bigger) banquet room, a DJ was setting up, She had a transparent, touchscreen monitor (48cm, 1080p) as her DJ console. When I asked, she said it cost about $3000 US. The event she was DJ'ing was longer than the event I was attending, so I looked in on her before I left. Since the room was dark, could barely see her hands through the back of the screen. Mostly, it just added a little to the light show with the level meters and wave forms displayed on the screen.
(BTW, she was running the open source Mixxx DJ console under Gentoo Linux on her laptop.)
Impress... *sigh* Impress... Powerpoint is still far superior.
Where I work, use of Powerpoint is restricted to the Marketing&Sales and Financial divisions. There were just too many crappy PP documents being made. As one VP put it, "You can can put all kinds of poop in those - and too many people do."
I use Dia, exporting in PDF or Visio format. The people I work with tell me they think my diagrams are very good.
Officially, the company I work for uses MS Office. Unofficially, many of us in product development use LibreOffice. No one else in the company seems to notice. And, compared to MSOffice users in my division, we have about the same number of formatting irregularities as them.
My daughter's experience in K-12 school (she's now an engineering student at a nearby university) was that girls are still being told that STEM careers are not appropriate for girls while boys are pushed to excel at STEM subjects. So, girls were encouraged to focus more on social, language and arts subjects. Those girls who expressed interest in becoming teachers were told they would need to study more match and science than other girls. And those girls that expressed interest in STEM subjects were encouraged to consider teaching, instead. The stated rational being that those subject and careers were more in line with girls' natural talents - and they wanted to help the girls prepare for their best opportunities for success..
(Of course, my daughter could point to her mom as an example of a successful engineer. And when her councilor tried to point out girls still face very significant challenges in STEM studies that boys don't, my daughter's response was "Only people like you trying to discourage her.")
FWIW, my cousin says that Second Life supposedly supports one of the VR headsets. She thinks Oculus, but doesn't have a VR headset, so isn't sure.
A friend of mine has an Oculus (dev version). Besides working on his own 3D apps, he uses it for gaming, even games that weren't designed for VR, let alone the Oculus. I tried it once. There was no depth perception, so was similar to sitting right on front of large monitor (or front row seat at an IMAX movie (non-3D)).
Seems to me that an actual game like World of Warcraft, Guild Wars or EVE would have been less boring. One of my cousins wonders if the rules would have excluded Second Life as it's not a game itself, but a "world" with many different things to do, including various games. (She plays in Second Life.)
whenever someone comes crying about "how should the artist get paid"
The RIAA/MPAA argue that "the artists should be paid", but their actions are not about paying artists. It's about preserving the oligopoly status of their members, the record companies and movie studios.
As a musical artist, I agree with you that they - the RIAA (and MPAA) should not have the right to get laws changed to make it's member companies' businnesses profitable. If their business model is nolonger profitable, it's because they failed to adapt.
I don't need the RIAA or its members. In fact, I'd be better off if they'd just "bugger off" (as you put it). Because of their lobbyists, the royalty regulations designate an RIAA controled organization, "Sound Exchange", to collect and distribute "statutory royalty" payments. Of course, Sound Exchanege, so the RIAA, skims a percentage from those payments. Also, it costs artists $50 per year in "membership dues" to receive our share of the payments.
(Granted, a truly independant organization - of the musical artists - would have to skim costs from the payments, but at least it would not be a puppet of the RIAA.)
Just because you aren't doing something wrong doesn't mean you don't have something to hide.
Example, many companies prohibit cameras and devices with cameras (phones, tablets, laptops, etc) in their offices and other facilities, This is to help protect their intellectual property from being seen by the competition.
Germany, like most (no, all) countries in Europe, is a Rechtsstaat (...), so follows the rule of law; the North-European countries in general, and the Germans in particular seem to take a particular pride in being law-abiding and care a great deal about not just the letter, but also the spirit of the law. This may be different in America - one sometimes get that impression
We certainly argue about what the laws mean, with people adhering to their preferred interpretations, regardless of what other people are doing.
We do generally hold that "ignorance of the law is not an excuse."
However, our Supreme Court recently ruled that because a police officer had a "good faith belief" that a law was being violated, therefore, the defendant's 4th Amendment rights were not violated - despite the fact that the problem the officer observed was not a violation of the law.
So, apparently, "ignorance of the law is not an excuse" only applies to the defendant.
- but we have a strong tradition for this in Nordic culture;.... Knowing, understanding and following the law is a part of our cultural identity, and implying that our courts are biased or corrupt is hurtful and rather insulting on a level that may surprise outsiders.
In the US, implying - or out right accusing - government entities of being biased or corrupt is a time honored tradition. Generally those on the "loosing side" of a decision, action or ruling are quick to make such implications/accusations. This happened, for example, after the Marbury v. Madison ruling in 1803.
I develop software for electronic controls in several industries, including automotive, so I am very familiar with the MISRA C Guidelines. They define a "safe subset" of C. The intention of the guidelines is really to make sure that certain, problematic features of C are being used correctly and only when needed. The idea being that when those problematic features are used, code reviews be performed to make sure the use is needed, correct and documented.
The problems come in when the guidelines meet reality.
Reviewing code for MISRA exceptions often distracts from reviewing code for other problems.
In some organizations, management demands strict and complete compliance with the guidelines. This results in more code and more complex code, thus significantly increasing the amount of code to be reviewed - as well as increasing opportunities for bugs.
In other organizations, blanket waivers are in place, requiring only that developers cite the relevant waivers when they use problematic features. This tends to make code reviews too lax.
So, why do electronic control systems still use C? Because cheap, low resource microprocessors are still the rule for these mass produced devices. As an example, most of the devices I am working on - now and in the recent past - use a micro with 16 kilobytes of RAM and 256 kilobytes of ROM (Read Only Memory; what we use to hold the running application). and it runs at 40 MHz - about 50 times slower than a low end PC
We have looked at alternatives. Not yet found one that fits our needs, though Rust looks close. (We know Rust's compiler is based on LVMM, so there might be back-ends for some of the (higher end) micros we use, but the ones we have found are all pre-Alpha quality.)
Apple isn't claiming to be above the law. It's claiming the FBI's interpretation of the existing law is invalid. Ultimately, after all appeals have been exhausted, Apple will comply with the final ruling. Until then, let them argue their points.
That said, I would still love for the judge to send the CEO of a highly rated - and powerful - corporation to jail and NOT stay the order pending appeal. Granted, the appeals court could stay the order. My point is that the courts need to show they have the courage to actually send even the most powerful people to jail.
Definitely. Also should have better sandboxing of apps, like finer grain permissions, proxy handling and the ability to substitute alternate resources. For example, a few apps might really make sense to let them see you on-call status, but they don't strictly need more than that. Other apps only need audio mute or attenuation. That could be handled in the audio services rather than by the apps. Then sometimes, one might have a good reason to use an app that request more permissions than one is willing to grant. Resource substitution Could allow that. (Any app that refused to work because it detected a "dummy" resource better have an extremely good reason to need the "real" resource.) One or more (preferably more) alternate contacts resources, for example, would allow users to control what subsets of their contacts each app has access to (for the apps that have a legitimate use for reading your contacts).
The article only suggests relaxing the mass limit.
The line of site, elevation and other requirements would remain. And, while it's been many years since I last flew an RC plane, I recall similar line of site and elevation restrictions on RC planes.
Time to move the source code and the signing key to Germany.Germany has a special hate for domestic spying.
Germany has a special hate for foreign governments and organizations spying on its citizens. No guarantee it would use its laws to project anyone not its citizen.
As of this posting, I found and read the following in their policy:
When using the Service to make or receive calls, our servers log and collect time and date of your calls, and the other user or users with whom you are communicating. We do not collect and store content of the calls.
So it does store the meta data, which can be very dangerous in and of itself.
Of course, even though parts of the app are open source, it's still a proprietary app. No way to be sure the app isn't sending your keys to the service.
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likely you and I are just the NPCs
This "NPC" demands the source code, the debugger and full root access.
consider the attackers used box cutters which were not considered contraband at the time
Weird. Not long before then, I accidentally left a screwdriver in my laptop case. The screener at the airport confiscated it as being not allowed.
The sensible approach to the TSA is shut its doors and go back to private screening with metal detectors sans the nudity scanners and pat downs.
Why do you think the "nudity scanners and pat downs" would go away?
Even before 9/11, there were pat downs - done by the private security screeners.
The "nudity scanners" were developed after 9/11, so weren't available to those screeners.
Since 9/11, many places employing private security screeners are using nudity scanners and pat downs. Why? Because the people paying the security companies to provide screeners think that those things increase security.
which are religiously fanatic do-gooders. PC-bullshit spewing, safe-space needing special snowflakes that come up with solutions trying to find a problem.
They aren't all religious. and those that are, are not all religious fanatics. But they are fanatic about "politically correct".
However, "politically correct" is intrinsically "politically incorrect".
Don't know what the current "proper" terminology, but several years ago, a friend of mine said "How is 'vertically challenged' less insulting than 'short'? I'm short and damn proud of it."
I'm sure the MPAA feels something similar about YouTube's responsibility for infringing content
Based on recent complaints from both the MPAA and RIAA, they want youtube and other similar sites to hold posted content until it's verified to be non-infringing.
About a year ago, I was attending an event in a hotel's banquet room. In the other (bigger) banquet room, a DJ was setting up, She had a transparent, touchscreen monitor (48cm, 1080p) as her DJ console. When I asked, she said it cost about $3000 US. The event she was DJ'ing was longer than the event I was attending, so I looked in on her before I left. Since the room was dark, could barely see her hands through the back of the screen. Mostly, it just added a little to the light show with the level meters and wave forms displayed on the screen.
(BTW, she was running the open source Mixxx DJ console under Gentoo Linux on her laptop.)
Impress... *sigh* Impress... Powerpoint is still far superior.
Where I work, use of Powerpoint is restricted to the Marketing&Sales and Financial divisions. There were just too many crappy PP documents being made. As one VP put it, "You can can put all kinds of poop in those - and too many people do."
I use Dia, exporting in PDF or Visio format. The people I work with tell me they think my diagrams are very good.
Officially, the company I work for uses MS Office. Unofficially, many of us in product development use LibreOffice. No one else in the company seems to notice. And, compared to MSOffice users in my division, we have about the same number of formatting irregularities as them.
My daughter's experience in K-12 school (she's now an engineering student at a nearby university) was that girls are still being told that STEM careers are not appropriate for girls while boys are pushed to excel at STEM subjects. So, girls were encouraged to focus more on social, language and arts subjects. Those girls who expressed interest in becoming teachers were told they would need to study more match and science than other girls. And those girls that expressed interest in STEM subjects were encouraged to consider teaching, instead. The stated rational being that those subject and careers were more in line with girls' natural talents - and they wanted to help the girls prepare for their best opportunities for success..
(Of course, my daughter could point to her mom as an example of a successful engineer. And when her councilor tried to point out girls still face very significant challenges in STEM studies that boys don't, my daughter's response was "Only people like you trying to discourage her.")
FWIW, my cousin says that Second Life supposedly supports one of the VR headsets. She thinks Oculus, but doesn't have a VR headset, so isn't sure.
A friend of mine has an Oculus (dev version). Besides working on his own 3D apps, he uses it for gaming, even games that weren't designed for VR, let alone the Oculus. I tried it once. There was no depth perception, so was similar to sitting right on front of large monitor (or front row seat at an IMAX movie (non-3D)).
Seems to me that an actual game like World of Warcraft, Guild Wars or EVE would have been less boring. One of my cousins wonders if the rules would have excluded Second Life as it's not a game itself, but a "world" with many different things to do, including various games. (She plays in Second Life.)
Also, it seems to only apply to email. People are putting a lot more than just email in "the cloud".
whenever someone comes crying about "how should the artist get paid"
The RIAA/MPAA argue that "the artists should be paid", but their actions are not about paying artists. It's about preserving the oligopoly status of their members, the record companies and movie studios.
As a musical artist, I agree with you that they - the RIAA (and MPAA) should not have the right to get laws changed to make it's member companies' businnesses profitable. If their business model is nolonger profitable, it's because they failed to adapt.
I don't need the RIAA or its members. In fact, I'd be better off if they'd just "bugger off" (as you put it). Because of their lobbyists, the royalty regulations designate an RIAA controled organization, "Sound Exchange", to collect and distribute "statutory royalty" payments. Of course, Sound Exchanege, so the RIAA, skims a percentage from those payments. Also, it costs artists $50 per year in "membership dues" to receive our share of the payments.
(Granted, a truly independant organization - of the musical artists - would have to skim costs from the payments, but at least it would not be a puppet of the RIAA.)
Just because you aren't doing something wrong doesn't mean you don't have something to hide.
Example, many companies prohibit cameras and devices with cameras (phones, tablets, laptops, etc) in their offices and other facilities, This is to help protect their intellectual property from being seen by the competition.
Germany, like most (no, all) countries in Europe, is a Rechtsstaat (...), so follows the rule of law; the North-European countries in general, and the Germans in particular seem to take a particular pride in being law-abiding and care a great deal about not just the letter, but also the spirit of the law. This may be different in America - one sometimes get that impression
We certainly argue about what the laws mean, with people adhering to their preferred interpretations, regardless of what other people are doing.
We do generally hold that "ignorance of the law is not an excuse."
However, our Supreme Court recently ruled that because a police officer had a "good faith belief" that a law was being violated, therefore, the defendant's 4th Amendment rights were not violated - despite the fact that the problem the officer observed was not a violation of the law.
So, apparently, "ignorance of the law is not an excuse" only applies to the defendant.
- but we have a strong tradition for this in Nordic culture; .... Knowing, understanding and following the law is a part of our cultural identity, and implying that our courts are biased or corrupt is hurtful and rather insulting on a level that may surprise outsiders.
In the US, implying - or out right accusing - government entities of being biased or corrupt is a time honored tradition. Generally those on the "loosing side" of a decision, action or ruling are quick to make such implications/accusations. This happened, for example, after the Marbury v. Madison ruling in 1803.
I develop software for electronic controls in several industries, including automotive, so I am very familiar with the MISRA C Guidelines. They define a "safe subset" of C. The intention of the guidelines is really to make sure that certain, problematic features of C are being used correctly and only when needed. The idea being that when those problematic features are used, code reviews be performed to make sure the use is needed, correct and documented.
The problems come in when the guidelines meet reality.
Reviewing code for MISRA exceptions often distracts from reviewing code for other problems.
In some organizations, management demands strict and complete compliance with the guidelines. This results in more code and more complex code, thus significantly increasing the amount of code to be reviewed - as well as increasing opportunities for bugs.
In other organizations, blanket waivers are in place, requiring only that developers cite the relevant waivers when they use problematic features. This tends to make code reviews too lax.
So, why do electronic control systems still use C? Because cheap, low resource microprocessors are still the rule for these mass produced devices. As an example, most of the devices I am working on - now and in the recent past - use a micro with 16 kilobytes of RAM and 256 kilobytes of ROM (Read Only Memory; what we use to hold the running application). and it runs at 40 MHz - about 50 times slower than a low end PC
We have looked at alternatives. Not yet found one that fits our needs, though Rust looks close. (We know Rust's compiler is based on LVMM, so there might be back-ends for some of the (higher end) micros we use, but the ones we have found are all pre-Alpha quality.)
Yes, but the Republicans complained when most people used it to pay down their on their debts instead of rushing to spend it all on splurge purchases.
Apple isn't claiming to be above the law. It's claiming the FBI's interpretation of the existing law is invalid. Ultimately, after all appeals have been exhausted, Apple will comply with the final ruling. Until then, let them argue their points.
That said, I would still love for the judge to send the CEO of a highly rated - and powerful - corporation to jail and NOT stay the order pending appeal. Granted, the appeals court could stay the order. My point is that the courts need to show they have the courage to actually send even the most powerful people to jail.
Definitely. Also should have better sandboxing of apps, like finer grain permissions, proxy handling and the ability to substitute alternate resources. For example, a few apps might really make sense to let them see you on-call status, but they don't strictly need more than that. Other apps only need audio mute or attenuation. That could be handled in the audio services rather than by the apps. Then sometimes, one might have a good reason to use an app that request more permissions than one is willing to grant. Resource substitution Could allow that. (Any app that refused to work because it detected a "dummy" resource better have an extremely good reason to need the "real" resource.) One or more (preferably more) alternate contacts resources, for example, would allow users to control what subsets of their contacts each app has access to (for the apps that have a legitimate use for reading your contacts).
Actually, this is businesses ignoring regulations.
semi/non line of site operation
The article only suggests relaxing the mass limit.
The line of site, elevation and other requirements would remain. And, while it's been many years since I last flew an RC plane, I recall similar line of site and elevation restrictions on RC planes.
That would be great for business for Android, until they eventually suffered the same fate.
www.cyanogenmod.org
At least the Chinese government protects Chinese IP while disregarding foreign IP.
You really think the Chinese government doesn't make similar mistakes handling its secret data?
Time to move the source code and the signing key to Germany.Germany has a special hate for domestic spying.
Germany has a special hate for foreign governments and organizations spying on its citizens. No guarantee it would use its laws to project anyone not its citizen.
As of this posting, I found and read the following in their policy:
When using the Service to make or receive calls, our servers log and collect time and date of your calls, and the other user or users with whom you are communicating. We do not collect and store content of the calls.
So it does store the meta data, which can be very dangerous in and of itself.
Of course, even though parts of the app are open source, it's still a proprietary app. No way to be sure the app isn't sending your keys to the service.