I actually read it at exactly the right time, maybe I was around 14-15 years old. Helped me put some things in context and get some good priorities in life, helped me get where I am now.
Securing authentication servers isn't a new problem. User authentication on headless devices is.
The problem the article identifies is when someone loses their watch. Your suggestion authenticates the watch, but what really needs to be authenticated here is the user.
Of course we are. Or more generously, we're not all qualified to govern, we have other trades. That's why we have a Republic, with representatives to figure out the governing stuff for us.
Nearly all of us have somewhere in our circle of known people somebody we consider wiser than us in such matters, who we'd be happy to have represent our interests in government.
There are just two problems. The ratio of citizens to congressmen has gone from a max of 60,000:1 to today's approximately 700,000:1. There used to be a possibility to personally know the representative, and regardless it wasn't that hard to meet with him. Now you might get a minute to talk with him during his election campaign or the county fair if you try real hard.
The other problem is the one Lessig discusses. Realistically, we don't get to nominate our representatives, we only get to vote from among the nominees that monied interests pre-selected for us.
So no, we can't vote in hard-working reformers, because even if reformers could attract some funding from the grassroots, even if we managed to elect one or two, the installed base of legislators and executives alike are already bought and paid for, and they stymie any reform. How much did Ron and Rand Paul accomplish - do we audit the Federal Reserve? Did they stop warrantless citizen surveillance? How much have Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren changed the system? How's McCain - Feingold campaign finance reform going?
Voters are not in charge. Never in our lifetime have they been.
What they tell you on your cereal box isn't entirely accurate. If you can find 20 minutes every two years to go vote, perhaps you can also come up with 20 minutes once in your life to watch this TED talk by Lawrence Lessig and learn how american electoral politics really works.
Well, you shouldn't feel guilty for things you didn't do. That's obvious.
What seems to be less obvious to you is that nor should you nonchalantly accept past crimes and with a wave of your hand dismiss the grievances of a wronged people.
"The war is over" is the biggest historical cop-out ever heard. As long as morality is equated to victory in war, there will be no peace.
So don't feel guilty about past generations' war crimes. Feel guilty about your own imperialist moralism.
" filing misdemeanor criminal charges in juvenile court with a pre-arranged deal where they charges would be dismissed and the arrest expunged within 1-2 years would not be inappropriate."
What the hell are you smoking? It's a stupid classroom prank. Nothing that deserves to be called a crime happened here.
If you cage kids up for 6 hours a day, they're going to test the fences. This is healthy and natural. Well, testing the fences is. The forced incarceration, not so much.
No regulations, no permits, no artificial barriers to entry. Open competition. Cool.
I want to lay my own fiber in your neighborhood. So I bring my backhoes and dig up your street and lawn. Barbie down the street wants to lay fiber too, so she gets her backhoes. Perhaps you can see that unregulated open competition for infrastructure would be a big mess.
I have libertarianish views, and I hear what you're saying, but what you call the problem is not really the problem. The problem is trying to privatize infrastructure we all share.
The most logical entity to own infrastructure is The People. Call me a socialist, communist, whatever, but that's how it is.
But people don't like government, so they "privatize", which is to say, hand a monopoly to private hands.
So your choice. Regulated public ownership. Regulated localized monopolies. Unregulated libertarian fantasy of every american with a dream driving backhoes through your yard.
RTFA: "The World Resource Institute, which coordinates Global Forest Watch, notes that the loss is both of the permanent, human-driven varietyâ"razing for agriculture and developmentâ"and the cyclical; from fires, logging, harvesting, and natural tree death. In the case of the latter, forests can take decades to be restored. In the former, they are gone for good"
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"t a better system has yet to be developed. "
That depends on how one defines and measures "better", doesn't it?
Or: "Hmm. What constituency is most likely to be loose with their money?"
" fortunately it may actually work."
That's great news! Let's see your math.
I actually read it at exactly the right time, maybe I was around 14-15 years old. Helped me put some things in context and get some good priorities in life, helped me get where I am now.
"Single shot, nobody will know."
The bullet will land somewhere. For most of us, the bullet's landing site will be a high-density residential area that's not our own back yard.
"Someone hacks the server..."
Securing authentication servers isn't a new problem. User authentication on headless devices is.
The problem the article identifies is when someone loses their watch. Your suggestion authenticates the watch, but what really needs to be authenticated here is the user.
Probably he is, quietly. He's never really been a publicity seeker.
"Voters are often idiots though."
Of course we are. Or more generously, we're not all qualified to govern, we have other trades. That's why we have a Republic, with representatives to figure out the governing stuff for us.
Nearly all of us have somewhere in our circle of known people somebody we consider wiser than us in such matters, who we'd be happy to have represent our interests in government.
There are just two problems. The ratio of citizens to congressmen has gone from a max of 60,000:1 to today's approximately 700,000:1. There used to be a possibility to personally know the representative, and regardless it wasn't that hard to meet with him. Now you might get a minute to talk with him during his election campaign or the county fair if you try real hard.
The other problem is the one Lessig discusses. Realistically, we don't get to nominate our representatives, we only get to vote from among the nominees that monied interests pre-selected for us.
So no, we can't vote in hard-working reformers, because even if reformers could attract some funding from the grassroots, even if we managed to elect one or two, the installed base of legislators and executives alike are already bought and paid for, and they stymie any reform. How much did Ron and Rand Paul accomplish - do we audit the Federal Reserve? Did they stop warrantless citizen surveillance? How much have Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren changed the system? How's McCain - Feingold campaign finance reform going?
Voters are not in charge. Never in our lifetime have they been.
bughunter's link is good, it leads to the URL I meant to include
"Politicians are a reflection of voters"
+1 Funny
What they tell you on your cereal box isn't entirely accurate. If you can find 20 minutes every two years to go vote, perhaps you can also come up with 20 minutes once in your life to watch this TED talk by Lawrence Lessig and learn how american electoral politics really works.
"If everybody gets to live a very long time, then we run out of resources"
And then not everybody would get to live very long. Nature can be postponed, but eventually she has her say.
"The problem isn't the quantity of food. It's distribution."
In other words, lots of people don't have enough food. And if this were the Star Trek universe, they wouldn't be starving.
What society considers morally reprehensible would probably change to fit the new reality.
"All. The. Time." is not the same thing as the Olympics.
We all know that biologically, men tend to be more muscular than women.
If a woman can't qualify, so be it. But if she can, why refuse the opportunity?
" Why else there would be a need for segregation in sports? "
Who says there is a need?
Lots of girls/women want desperately to compete with the boys/men.
> he has merely alerted you to that perspective
No, he didn't "merely alert" to an "alternative viewpoint", he disparaged their character while implicitly asserting he had mind-reading powers.
How does one "fact check" his ESP?
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sleep();
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Well, you shouldn't feel guilty for things you didn't do. That's obvious.
What seems to be less obvious to you is that nor should you nonchalantly accept past crimes and with a wave of your hand dismiss the grievances of a wronged people.
"The war is over" is the biggest historical cop-out ever heard. As long as morality is equated to victory in war, there will be no peace.
So don't feel guilty about past generations' war crimes. Feel guilty about your own imperialist moralism.
Why should I believe what you say their motives are over what they say their motives are?
"Russia is one of the clear winners from global warming."
You really don't know that. Just because the average global temperature rises doesn't mean Russia will have sunny skies and stable weather patterns.
" filing misdemeanor criminal charges in juvenile court with a pre-arranged deal where they charges would be dismissed and the arrest expunged within 1-2 years would not be inappropriate."
What the hell are you smoking? It's a stupid classroom prank. Nothing that deserves to be called a crime happened here.
If you cage kids up for 6 hours a day, they're going to test the fences. This is healthy and natural. Well, testing the fences is. The forced incarceration, not so much.
And who cares if it ever happens again?
Good point. I should have said "driving backhoes through your street", but I posted in a hurry.
No regulations, no permits, no artificial barriers to entry. Open competition. Cool.
I want to lay my own fiber in your neighborhood. So I bring my backhoes and dig up your street and lawn. Barbie down the street wants to lay fiber too, so she gets her backhoes. Perhaps you can see that unregulated open competition for infrastructure would be a big mess.
I have libertarianish views, and I hear what you're saying, but what you call the problem is not really the problem. The problem is trying to privatize infrastructure we all share.
The most logical entity to own infrastructure is The People. Call me a socialist, communist, whatever, but that's how it is.
But people don't like government, so they "privatize", which is to say, hand a monopoly to private hands.
So your choice. Regulated public ownership. Regulated localized monopolies. Unregulated libertarian fantasy of every american with a dream driving backhoes through your yard.
Knowing what specific values triggers audits has nothing at all to do (hopefully) with the algorithm; it's just a variable.
If an algorithm has to be secret, it sucks. The good cryptographic algorithms are all publicly available. It's only the keys that are secrets.
RTFA:
"The World Resource Institute, which coordinates Global Forest Watch, notes that the loss is both of the permanent, human-driven varietyâ"razing for agriculture and developmentâ"and the cyclical; from fires, logging, harvesting, and natural tree death. In the case of the latter, forests can take decades to be restored. In the former, they are gone for good"