Newer smart TVs are moving to cellular modems to transmit and receive user data so unless your living room is a faraday cage, or you actively jam cellular signals simply denying it a network connection won't work.
Let me start out saying 100% electronic voting is going to be a disaster, triply so when done remotely and not at a secure voting machine. But what most people don't realize is we currently use unencrypted images of paper ballots in many states as backups. These are very insecure. Why not use paper ballots for the primary method, blockchain for the electronic backups? This ultimately seems far more secure than what we are doing now. We also could use open source machines and have audits at each polling place to ensure everything is going as it should.
Just to clear up confusion, the voter would not have access to the votes, the key would be assigned by the machine and printed on the ballot after it is turned in so that the paper may be checked against the distributed ledger, the blockchain would include a scan of the ballot just as is already common practice.
Regulation would be fine as long as it is guarenteed free speech like what you are free to say in public per the first amendment. That is, regulation that would stop companies from limiting speech with TOS and expand the freedom of people. Treating social media like a utility would simultaneously give social media companies cover since they would no longer be responsible for what is said on the platform and people would have less limits put on them than today.
Unfortunately, that's not likely the legislation we would get. It would probably seek to limit and revoke freedoms and move the goalposts to bash or discredit non-establishment views. I'm often torn as to what is worse - government regulations bent toward inefficiency, stupidity, corruption, and cronyism or companies who only care about making the maximum amount of money and if the total costs of grinding up helpless fleeing children was less than the profits of selling the ground up corpses the human race would go extinct.
Fiat currency exchange rates are often 2-3%. On 100k that's a few thousand dollars. Crypto currencies are usually below 0.5%, considering you are buying and selling in the same day if possible, other fees are minimal. No need to do it in secret, crypto currencies are legal in most countries.
The transaction fees are often substantially less than actual exchange rates between fiat currencies so if you want a discount when transferring money you can use crypto currency exchanges that deal in both currencies instead. That is if you don't mind the slight gamble in delay between buying and selling.
They were on a professional-level service. In fact, they were on a plan for emergency services.
That's news to me. Every article I've read such as this one indicates it was a commercial data capped plan. The articles seem consistent in that after the incident started they asked them to lift the throttling. Then again the news isn't what it used to be. Do you have a source?
The problem is relying on second rate consumer data plans for critical infrastructure. This was a management failure, not a technical failure. Sending firefighting back to the 1960s is not the answer.
If they simply had called it a 25gig then throttle plan this wouldn't be confused with net neutrality. Instead it's advertised as the best unlimited everything, the data usage in real time is difficult to track for average users, and no one reads fine print leading to the confusion. In that case I'd agree it's deceptive and in this case led to an unsafe condition. Too bad deceptive advertising likely won't get fixed for the common people.
It's actually quite interesting how the force required to accelerate one kilogram at 9.8m/s^2 is the same force required to keep it stationary under standard earth gravity whose free fall acceleration is (9.8m/s^2). The idea that they could be identical and indistinguishable is a significant part of what led Einstein to develop relativity. It seems simple, on one hand due the same force being applied, but to realize a theory relating accelerating reference frames would then also be a working theory of gravity was revolutionary. Its always bothered me that the majority of constants, like big G, must be measured and not derived, perhaps with enough precision measurement and enough eyes on it someone or some group will find a way to derive them with a unified theory. Until then, minor discrepancies can be quite interesting and provide valuable insight.
If only we had some way to store hard copies of each vote that were unhackable, easily counted without technical skill, and on a media that would easily last months or years without degrading under typical room conditions. Ahh well, guess it's just 100% electronic and hope for the best.
The way that Tesla envisions it working is that the car detects the driver's intent to change lanes or make a turn by using the Autopilot hardware at its disposal, it then works to sense if there are other vehicles nearby and if it detects them, it puts the signal on for the driver.
Except the law requires you to signal when turning even if no other cars are nearby in many states. Similarly for lane changes. This needs to be done ahead of time, say 100 feet for example. So it would have to be fairly floolproof or it could wind up backfiring if it failed and tickets were issued or an accident happened. Sometimes when a company files patents like this it is simply and attempt to create a wall of IP such that others find it difficult to compete or sometimes it's simply to pad a portfolio even if it's not used. I'm personally not able to see how this would be useful as part of a manually plioted car.
Wile RT is obviously pro-Russia and one could argue has tried to spout more propaganda than CNN and Fox News combined, it is one of the only news outlets many Americans, some of whom are/were reputable, with non-mainstream opinions can be heard. It's also obviously not biased to the same spins as American mainstream media. That's why I think RT is a valuable news source. I watch Fox News, CNN, MSNBC but also a decent amount of non mainstream sources like RT because it is then far easier to see who is lying by omission, spin, or even outright lies. Sometimes I'm disgusted by the signal to noise ratio but sometimes the most beautiful pieces of humor come from it like when a CNN reporter huffed nerve agent off a backpack to verify a chemical attack.
It's simple and easy for anyone to do, even without much technical skill at all, but will probably impress recruiters. That is unless they think you will be working on the side, so make sure it looks professional.
lol I used my grad school email for 4 years after graduation and only let it lapse out of disuse. I guess it implies you were probably once enrolled, but because of how i was employed it showed the wrong department.
There seem to be more 1st amendment issues than in at least the last 40 years, I wouldn't let any backsliding take place because any freedoms lost are likely gone forever. Eventually 3-D metal sintering will be cheap enough for hobbiest units, the responsibility should be with the person printing because it will be a never ending battle trying to outlaw "forbidden shapes" in general.
This is just about 3-D printing a 100% receiver easily, drilling holes with a drill press or by hand would be harder. The main point being you actually have a functioning weapon, whereas the 3-D printed guns without a metal barrel I've seen are dangerous toys that don't have much velocity or accuracy and are almost as likely to injure the shooter as anyone else. That's why I think the receiver issue would be at least as important as the zip gun issue if you are talking about "making" firearms that actually are effective.
While not easily detected plastic firearms are one point being debated, another more serious one (in my opinion) is not being debated as much - 3-D printing the receiver for untraceable firearms. The receiver has the serial number and is legally the firearm under US law, kind of like a car frame and VIN, or an iPhone and the logic board. Printing the receiver lets you have an all metal gun and with either few to no additional parts for extra strength, an untraceableand yet fully functional firearm able to circumvent half the laws out there.
Dimethyl Mercury killed a leading reaserxher when a trivally small amount absorbed through a latex glove and then her hand. Its toxic enough such that 4 lab workers have died handling it. The researcher in the article kept getting higher and higher blood mercury test readings right up to her death half a year later. Thimerisol breaks down primarily into ethyl mercury which almost completely clears your system in 6-9 weeks it drops to half in two and a half weeks. It's toxic yes, that's the idea as it is used as a preservative - but it's not like the methyl group compounds that stay with you far longer and cause problems - that was settled 20 years ago with research.
I agree, but common what are the chances everyone becomes rational? Part of the problem is lying to outdo the other companies, but if you forced them to have truth in advertising simeltaneously, then it would stop the arms race and level the playing field. While I'm dreaming, I'd like the CFPB back too, erosion of consumer protections in general is how we got into the above mess.
They apparently didn't have the best unlimited, but now they do. Unlimited, unlimited, UNLIMITED! Seriously, the main problem is almost no one is up front about what customers are really are buying, details are buried deep in fine print. This wouldn't be a problem if they called a 10GB data plan with a throttle cap what it was instead of unlimited. Throttling is a limit. Advertisers purposefully make the language confusing to make it seem like you get more than you really do. Force advertising to be up front and not misleading, make your data usage status even more convientntly accessed, screw them if it's not as profitable.
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Here's a novel concept. Just don't spy on your users and then you never have to worry about it.
That's like asking wolves not to eat chickens because it isn't nice.
Newer smart TVs are moving to cellular modems to transmit and receive user data so unless your living room is a faraday cage, or you actively jam cellular signals simply denying it a network connection won't work.
Let me start out saying 100% electronic voting is going to be a disaster, triply so when done remotely and not at a secure voting machine. But what most people don't realize is we currently use unencrypted images of paper ballots in many states as backups. These are very insecure. Why not use paper ballots for the primary method, blockchain for the electronic backups? This ultimately seems far more secure than what we are doing now. We also could use open source machines and have audits at each polling place to ensure everything is going as it should.
Just to clear up confusion, the voter would not have access to the votes, the key would be assigned by the machine and printed on the ballot after it is turned in so that the paper may be checked against the distributed ledger, the blockchain would include a scan of the ballot just as is already common practice.
Regulation would be fine as long as it is guarenteed free speech like what you are free to say in public per the first amendment. That is, regulation that would stop companies from limiting speech with TOS and expand the freedom of people. Treating social media like a utility would simultaneously give social media companies cover since they would no longer be responsible for what is said on the platform and people would have less limits put on them than today.
Unfortunately, that's not likely the legislation we would get. It would probably seek to limit and revoke freedoms and move the goalposts to bash or discredit non-establishment views. I'm often torn as to what is worse - government regulations bent toward inefficiency, stupidity, corruption, and cronyism or companies who only care about making the maximum amount of money and if the total costs of grinding up helpless fleeing children was less than the profits of selling the ground up corpses the human race would go extinct.
Fiat currency exchange rates are often 2-3%. On 100k that's a few thousand dollars. Crypto currencies are usually below 0.5%, considering you are buying and selling in the same day if possible, other fees are minimal. No need to do it in secret, crypto currencies are legal in most countries.
The transaction fees are often substantially less than actual exchange rates between fiat currencies so if you want a discount when transferring money you can use crypto currency exchanges that deal in both currencies instead. That is if you don't mind the slight gamble in delay between buying and selling.
They were on a professional-level service. In fact, they were on a plan for emergency services.
That's news to me. Every article I've read such as this one indicates it was a commercial data capped plan. The articles seem consistent in that after the incident started they asked them to lift the throttling. Then again the news isn't what it used to be. Do you have a source?
That's why I said it was confused with net neutrality. I'm not sure you read the quote.
The problem is relying on second rate consumer data plans for critical infrastructure. This was a management failure, not a technical failure. Sending firefighting back to the 1960s is not the answer.
If they simply had called it a 25gig then throttle plan this wouldn't be confused with net neutrality. Instead it's advertised as the best unlimited everything, the data usage in real time is difficult to track for average users, and no one reads fine print leading to the confusion. In that case I'd agree it's deceptive and in this case led to an unsafe condition. Too bad deceptive advertising likely won't get fixed for the common people.
It's actually quite interesting how the force required to accelerate one kilogram at 9.8m/s^2 is the same force required to keep it stationary under standard earth gravity whose free fall acceleration is (9.8m/s^2). The idea that they could be identical and indistinguishable is a significant part of what led Einstein to develop relativity. It seems simple, on one hand due the same force being applied, but to realize a theory relating accelerating reference frames would then also be a working theory of gravity was revolutionary. Its always bothered me that the majority of constants, like big G, must be measured and not derived, perhaps with enough precision measurement and enough eyes on it someone or some group will find a way to derive them with a unified theory. Until then, minor discrepancies can be quite interesting and provide valuable insight.
If only we had some way to store hard copies of each vote that were unhackable, easily counted without technical skill, and on a media that would easily last months or years without degrading under typical room conditions. Ahh well, guess it's just 100% electronic and hope for the best.
The way that Tesla envisions it working is that the car detects the driver's intent to change lanes or make a turn by using the Autopilot hardware at its disposal, it then works to sense if there are other vehicles nearby and if it detects them, it puts the signal on for the driver.
Except the law requires you to signal when turning even if no other cars are nearby in many states. Similarly for lane changes. This needs to be done ahead of time, say 100 feet for example. So it would have to be fairly floolproof or it could wind up backfiring if it failed and tickets were issued or an accident happened. Sometimes when a company files patents like this it is simply and attempt to create a wall of IP such that others find it difficult to compete or sometimes it's simply to pad a portfolio even if it's not used. I'm personally not able to see how this would be useful as part of a manually plioted car.
Wile RT is obviously pro-Russia and one could argue has tried to spout more propaganda than CNN and Fox News combined, it is one of the only news outlets many Americans, some of whom are/were reputable, with non-mainstream opinions can be heard. It's also obviously not biased to the same spins as American mainstream media. That's why I think RT is a valuable news source. I watch Fox News, CNN, MSNBC but also a decent amount of non mainstream sources like RT because it is then far easier to see who is lying by omission, spin, or even outright lies. Sometimes I'm disgusted by the signal to noise ratio but sometimes the most beautiful pieces of humor come from it like when a CNN reporter huffed nerve agent off a backpack to verify a chemical attack.
It's simple and easy for anyone to do, even without much technical skill at all, but will probably impress recruiters. That is unless they think you will be working on the side, so make sure it looks professional.
lol I used my grad school email for 4 years after graduation and only let it lapse out of disuse. I guess it implies you were probably once enrolled, but because of how i was employed it showed the wrong department.
If only we had a ginormous fusion reactor casting light on if, but far enough away - say 93M miles or so.
If only we had invented a technology for taking pictures that didn't require batteries or circuits.
There seem to be more 1st amendment issues than in at least the last 40 years, I wouldn't let any backsliding take place because any freedoms lost are likely gone forever. Eventually 3-D metal sintering will be cheap enough for hobbiest units, the responsibility should be with the person printing because it will be a never ending battle trying to outlaw "forbidden shapes" in general.
This is just about 3-D printing a 100% receiver easily, drilling holes with a drill press or by hand would be harder. The main point being you actually have a functioning weapon, whereas the 3-D printed guns without a metal barrel I've seen are dangerous toys that don't have much velocity or accuracy and are almost as likely to injure the shooter as anyone else. That's why I think the receiver issue would be at least as important as the zip gun issue if you are talking about "making" firearms that actually are effective.
While not easily detected plastic firearms are one point being debated, another more serious one (in my opinion) is not being debated as much - 3-D printing the receiver for untraceable firearms. The receiver has the serial number and is legally the firearm under US law, kind of like a car frame and VIN, or an iPhone and the logic board. Printing the receiver lets you have an all metal gun and with either few to no additional parts for extra strength, an untraceableand yet fully functional firearm able to circumvent half the laws out there.
Dimethyl Mercury killed a leading reaserxher when a trivally small amount absorbed through a latex glove and then her hand. Its toxic enough such that 4 lab workers have died handling it. The researcher in the article kept getting higher and higher blood mercury test readings right up to her death half a year later. Thimerisol breaks down primarily into ethyl mercury which almost completely clears your system in 6-9 weeks it drops to half in two and a half weeks. It's toxic yes, that's the idea as it is used as a preservative - but it's not like the methyl group compounds that stay with you far longer and cause problems - that was settled 20 years ago with research.
I agree, but common what are the chances everyone becomes rational? Part of the problem is lying to outdo the other companies, but if you forced them to have truth in advertising simeltaneously, then it would stop the arms race and level the playing field. While I'm dreaming, I'd like the CFPB back too, erosion of consumer protections in general is how we got into the above mess.
They apparently didn't have the best unlimited, but now they do. Unlimited, unlimited, UNLIMITED! Seriously, the main problem is almost no one is up front about what customers are really are buying, details are buried deep in fine print. This wouldn't be a problem if they called a 10GB data plan with a throttle cap what it was instead of unlimited. Throttling is a limit. Advertisers purposefully make the language confusing to make it seem like you get more than you really do. Force advertising to be up front and not misleading, make your data usage status even more convientntly accessed, screw them if it's not as profitable.
You can only get it if it's dissolved in dihydrogen monoxide. I'm pretty sure that's a weapon found no where on earth.