There is nothing wrong with a steak and boiled potatoes. Accompanied with a fresh salad that's very healthy food. (Unless you add some pre-fabricated sauce or pre-fabricated salad dressing, which taste like crap anyway.)
A news service brought to you by politically motivated "writers" with a political agenda and served via images with included ads? Thanks, I definitely don't need this kind of "news".
Why is a university the only way to learn about art history or philosophy? Go to the library. Take a night class. Enrichment doesn't require 4 years in an accredited institution.
It's much better to go to an accredited institution. Unless you're exceptionally talented you cannot learn advanced philosophy from night classes or self-study, just as it is extremely hard to learn advanced math from night classes and self-study. You cannot learn everything "on the fly" from Wikipedia or skimming through popular science books.
On a side note, what people call "socialism" in the US is the standard in the EU and overall fairly pleasant. There are worse things than having guaranteed holidays, retirement funds and universal health care.
Some judge and a jury who have absolutely no clue and ignore expert testimonies will put you into prison, whether you have used encryption or not. Because they don't like your face.
You wrongly assume that your lawmakers care about false positives.
I think the major difference might be that firearms are designed to kill animals and people, whereas encryption is designed to keep information secure. As in: Comparing apples with bananas.
I surf too much on the web;-) and from this perspective must say that I highly doubt that there are organized US trolls. Or at least, if there are some, then they are much harder to recognize. Russian trolls are easy to spot, they come in troves and swamp news media forums. They don't have to be sneaky, because the 1x1 of political propaganda is to simply repeat a complete falsehood over and over. Works all the time.
Com on, I'm doing research in belief revision theory, epistemic logic and social choice. Not every science is empirical. Surely there's a lot of crap in the human sciences, but there is also some good and serious science. Admittedly, much of the better research could be considered applied mathematics but, then again, the same could also be said about many fields in the natural sciences.
Right, I'm in the humanities and there is this running joke that you only need to publish one really bad and obviously flawed paper on a really popular topic, and your career is certain. It's true, one bad paper, a followup book that is even worse published at 'prestigious' publisher like Oxford UP*, and you will get cited everywhere and get full tenure within about 3 years after the book has been published. I swear I'm not kidding, I've seen this more than once.
So much for impact scores and citation indices...
----- * I mention this publisher because he's well respected and nevertheless publishes many bad or at least dubious books without a proper peer review. I should know, because they once contacted me, a lowly postdoc from an unknown university, to review the latest book project by one of the most famous researchers in my area. It's obvious that they just googled me, as I'm easier to find on the net than some of my more established colleagues.
The counts can be hacked at the target computer. For example, by the government, by foreign governments or by the company providing the voting systems.
Or are the "electronic votes" counted manually by thousands of volunteers and leave a huge paper trail?
The key problem is that politicians rarely want to take the responsibility for abolishing a law, unless it is from 1900 and concerns lending vacuum cleaners to your neighbour in Colorado, whereas being a sharp 'law and order guy' often helps in getting more voters (mostly thanks to hysteric mass media). Hence, the laws accumulate and are getting broader and broader.
Who cares? People died and everything should be done to prevent a similar accident in the future.
Oh, man, I'm glad you're here to tell us how policy making and risk assessment works. Let's just ground all flights of all planes forever. The least we can do is everything.
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There is nothing wrong with a steak and boiled potatoes. Accompanied with a fresh salad that's very healthy food. (Unless you add some pre-fabricated sauce or pre-fabricated salad dressing, which taste like crap anyway.)
A news service brought to you by politically motivated "writers" with a political agenda and served via images with included ads? Thanks, I definitely don't need this kind of "news".
Last time I checked, there were plenty of reports by the mass media on this topic. Unless by "mass media" you mean Fox News.
So, going along that line of thinking, do you also write lousy code in hopes that you are the only one who can maintain it? Because that doesn't work.
Huh? I thought that was the standard business model of small b2b software companies.
Why is a university the only way to learn about art history or philosophy? Go to the library. Take a night class. Enrichment doesn't require 4 years in an accredited institution.
It's much better to go to an accredited institution. Unless you're exceptionally talented you cannot learn advanced philosophy from night classes or self-study, just as it is extremely hard to learn advanced math from night classes and self-study. You cannot learn everything "on the fly" from Wikipedia or skimming through popular science books.
Cool. I loved Geocities! However, I recently found out, much to my shock and horror, that modern browsers no longer support the blink tag. :(
Because its the only VOIP solution that actually is usable?
On a side note, what people call "socialism" in the US is the standard in the EU and overall fairly pleasant. There are worse things than having guaranteed holidays, retirement funds and universal health care.
Some judge and a jury who have absolutely no clue and ignore expert testimonies will put you into prison, whether you have used encryption or not. Because they don't like your face.
You wrongly assume that your lawmakers care about false positives.
No problem, I hate Android, too.
Not on my machine. You have the wrong settings.
Forget it, they have exploits for every programmable machine you can possibly imagine.
The Stasi was much worse. Read about "Zersetzungsmaßnahmen". But they were also extremely low tech.
I think the major difference might be that firearms are designed to kill animals and people, whereas encryption is designed to keep information secure. As in: Comparing apples with bananas.
I surf too much on the web ;-) and from this perspective must say that I highly doubt that there are organized US trolls. Or at least, if there are some, then they are much harder to recognize. Russian trolls are easy to spot, they come in troves and swamp news media forums. They don't have to be sneaky, because the 1x1 of political propaganda is to simply repeat a complete falsehood over and over. Works all the time.
You (and the tube) can't move at c, because you have mass.
Com on, I'm doing research in belief revision theory, epistemic logic and social choice. Not every science is empirical. Surely there's a lot of crap in the human sciences, but there is also some good and serious science. Admittedly, much of the better research could be considered applied mathematics but, then again, the same could also be said about many fields in the natural sciences.
Right, I'm in the humanities and there is this running joke that you only need to publish one really bad and obviously flawed paper on a really popular topic, and your career is certain. It's true, one bad paper, a followup book that is even worse published at 'prestigious' publisher like Oxford UP*, and you will get cited everywhere and get full tenure within about 3 years after the book has been published. I swear I'm not kidding, I've seen this more than once.
So much for impact scores and citation indices ...
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* I mention this publisher because he's well respected and nevertheless publishes many bad or at least dubious books without a proper peer review. I should know, because they once contacted me, a lowly postdoc from an unknown university, to review the latest book project by one of the most famous researchers in my area. It's obvious that they just googled me, as I'm easier to find on the net than some of my more established colleagues.
Mosquitoes don't fill any ecological niche that couldn't be filled by a host of other species.
That is true of almost any species. Such as humans, for example.
Environmental regulations should be based on a deliberative scientific process, not on which interest group can shout the loudest.
Uhm, if that was the case, nobody would complain. There is a reason why most of TTIP is being drafted behind closed doors.
Also, ISDSes are unacceptable.
The counts can be hacked at the target computer. For example, by the government, by foreign governments or by the company providing the voting systems.
Or are the "electronic votes" counted manually by thousands of volunteers and leave a huge paper trail?
The key problem is that politicians rarely want to take the responsibility for abolishing a law, unless it is from 1900 and concerns lending vacuum cleaners to your neighbour in Colorado, whereas being a sharp 'law and order guy' often helps in getting more voters (mostly thanks to hysteric mass media). Hence, the laws accumulate and are getting broader and broader.
To be on the safe side, you should never teach math in Australia, especially not combinatorics!
Who cares? People died and everything should be done to prevent a similar accident in the future.
Oh, man, I'm glad you're here to tell us how policy making and risk assessment works. Let's just ground all flights of all planes forever. The least we can do is everything.
Anyway, why don't you just use an ad-blocker like uBlock or Adblock Edge?