In absolute terms Volkswagen is outspending everyone else for research and development. And they have been high on the list for decades. I, for one, am hoping all that work finally pays off big.
Excuses? Here's mine:
This was an act of civil disobedience, and I demand the maximum possible sentence. When you let me go I will do it again. I encourage every other freedom-loving American to do the same.
So I actually read all that and it turns out unless you have insider information you're not giving the initial fail was due to a bug. But even if it were due to a virus (that you know about but the report doesn't mention) the cascading failures were due to first: inadequately robust software design turning a processor stall into a buffer overflow. (this wouldn't have been the virus) Second: inadequately robust system design turning the overflow into a missed alarm. Third: inadequately robust system design not informing operators there were a problem. There are a couple dozen more steps but I think the pattern is obvious.
Blaming that massive outage on this virus, even in the unlikely case the virus caused the initial problem, would be like blaming a hurricane on a butterfly. The butterfly may have started it off but due to massive temperature and pressure differences a hurricane was going to happen at some point anyway. If not that butterfly then the next one.
Spies have been around since before "air" and did much the same thing: information warfare. If IW wasn't a domain before computers there's no reason for it to be a domain now. the only new situation is programs that make decisions without human intervention and for the moment that's a very few drone, missile, and Close In Weapons Systems.When robot armies march o'er the land and are making tactical decisions this will make sense, but not before. This meaningless posturing is going to cost billions.
The Democrats solution is useless: gun control doesn't work in the US. The Republican's solution is also useless: harsher prison sentences and more guns mostly just puts more guns in the hands of hardened (by the prisons) criminals. Both of these solutions give the government more power though. What an amazing coincidence. But I digress.
Police are already using programs to predict criminal behavior. I think already-public information could be used in a smart enough computer to predict the most likely shooters. These people should then be given a reason not to want the world to burn. They're most likely to be disenfranchised, mentally ill, mistreated, and feeling trapped. LISTEN TO THEM and give them a safe way out. This does not necessarily mean following a psychiatrist's recommendations. A lot of psychiatrists are arrogant and even abusive (by good intent, but nevertheless) It means assigning a case worker who is not overworked, not underpaid, and is empowered to and genuinely wants to help. Does he need a job? Is his daughter sick? Are there voices in his head? No humiliating and confusing paperwork. No standing in line for three hours only to be told to come back another day. Just have someone get in touch. Make it very easy for the highest risk individuals to receive help.
Ideological reasons often have an underlying cause. Omar might tell you Islam is the one true way but if you listen hard enough you may hear "I just wanted someone to talk to, and the fellow at the temple was there for me". Even then since you have someone listening and empowered you'll know when the risk is high enough to put FBI surveillance on him.
Crushing a media organization under the power of one's wallet is NOT standing up for free speech. Even if it's a shitty company that was actually just used as a pawn for other rich people.I'm torn between celebrating this as a great victory and mourning it as a blow to an important pillar of society. Gawker wasn't just shitty for its hypocrisyona varietyoftopics but for some seriously evil acts, not the least of which are directly related to the lawsuits at hand. In the end all I can say is I'm glad it's over and the world has a moment's rest before a "crowd funded" Totally-Not-Gawker picks up the pieces and starts spewing vileness again.
If you're setting password policy tell users to use 5 truly random words. (flip through the dictionary with their eyes closed or use a random word generator) If you're making a new password for one of the many, many places with preposterously restrictive policies that confuse "hard to remember" with "secure"... well what I do is break the cardinal rule. I make a password as secure as possible by randomly selecting applicable characters. Then I write it down and store it on an encrypted drive. The drive I leave unmounted unless I'm looking up a password. That's the best I can do. "It has to have a capital, a lowercase and a special character and can't be over 8 characters long" is a recipe for some of the most crackable passwords imaginable.
their invariable attempts to sell (you) their horrible credit cards
I can confirm that their credit cards are horrible. I made a single late payment and they closed my credit card account recently. I wasn't angry they closed it, I was angry I didn't get to close it first. Otherwise their customer service is nonexistant, getting a human requires calling during business hours and waiting up to an hour, their automated phone service is a re-purposed speak-and-spell, and they don't give the tiniest shit about you as a customer much less as a human. Their customer service once literally hung up on me. Paypal is also horrible because privacy rape.
...until the next version comes out next year or a rubber stamping judge approves a new abuse of the Patriot act. These come up year after year until the people get tired of protesting the same bill every fucking year, then Congress passes a version thereof. Why? Why do we keep electing the same scum year after year? What is wrong with the American voter?
It's not fair to compare a 100 year period to a 46 year period. (the time "since then") I strongly suspect the period from 1970 to 2070 will see changes your grandmother wouldn't dream possible even after seeing all that. Driverless cars, brain integrated internet access, thought controlled devices, strong AI, a global end to poverty-related suffering and an active, healthy Mars colony aren't any real stretch of imagination for the next 50 years.
I disagree with your proposed curriculum. As someone else said these people are already anti-science. I think the class should contain basic science and rationality courses, culminating in a class that allow the student to personally experiment with diseases and vaccines, to the extent of manufacturing a vaccine himself and watching it work on mice. A history course will be useless to someone who thinks it's all lies.
This is what happens when capitalism is unrestrained. In every country undergoing an industrial revolution there's a mix of outdated feudalistic modes of thought and inefficiency matching worker to task that allows this sort of thing -- whether it's mining camps, heavy industry, or middle commerce. Scrooge's shop in A Christmas Carol wasn't at all far from the common, nor Song of the Shirt unrealistic. Only government reigning in corporate interests for the common man can stop these travesties. So here's my hope for the Chinese people to say, "enough" and make their government fix this.
I would much rather have the convicted criminals under lock and key than roaming the streets.
No one is saying prisoners should be let free but this "hard on crime" insanity is actually just hard on criminals, and raises crime rates by turning a guy that made a mistake into a hardened criminal. If you really, truly want safe streets you're going to have to show some compassion.
AFOS person here: I think the comment in question is not worthy of investigation since it's not actually threat. But more to the point I don't think conducting an investigation should ever require silencing someone who isn't himself an investigator.
I think you may have meant "worthy of criminalization." I recognize some categories of speech as inherently dangerous to others' speech. Speaking through a bullhorn to drown out someone's soap-box, spamming or flooding fora, or jamming airways are activities I believe should be stopped. Making threats is not, unless its general effect is to silence, say, a politician.
I do not believe a threat of violence should ordinarily be a crime. Even if I were to say "I intend to kill the president at 10:00 AM next Saturday at his speech using my.50 caliber sniper rifle." Which is, by the way, an illegal thing to say.
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In absolute terms Volkswagen is outspending everyone else for research and development. And they have been high on the list for decades. I, for one, am hoping all that work finally pays off big.
It's not even that. It's a ready-made fig leaf to give politicians an excuse to make good on the bribes they're receiving.
Excuses? Here's mine: This was an act of civil disobedience, and I demand the maximum possible sentence. When you let me go I will do it again. I encourage every other freedom-loving American to do the same.
So I actually read all that and it turns out unless you have insider information you're not giving the initial fail was due to a bug. But even if it were due to a virus (that you know about but the report doesn't mention) the cascading failures were due to first: inadequately robust software design turning a processor stall into a buffer overflow. (this wouldn't have been the virus) Second: inadequately robust system design turning the overflow into a missed alarm. Third: inadequately robust system design not informing operators there were a problem. There are a couple dozen more steps but I think the pattern is obvious.
Blaming that massive outage on this virus, even in the unlikely case the virus caused the initial problem, would be like blaming a hurricane on a butterfly. The butterfly may have started it off but due to massive temperature and pressure differences a hurricane was going to happen at some point anyway. If not that butterfly then the next one.
Spies have been around since before "air" and did much the same thing: information warfare. If IW wasn't a domain before computers there's no reason for it to be a domain now. the only new situation is programs that make decisions without human intervention and for the moment that's a very few drone, missile, and Close In Weapons Systems.When robot armies march o'er the land and are making tactical decisions this will make sense, but not before. This meaningless posturing is going to cost billions.
The Democrats solution is useless: gun control doesn't work in the US. The Republican's solution is also useless: harsher prison sentences and more guns mostly just puts more guns in the hands of hardened (by the prisons) criminals. Both of these solutions give the government more power though. What an amazing coincidence. But I digress. Police are already using programs to predict criminal behavior. I think already-public information could be used in a smart enough computer to predict the most likely shooters. These people should then be given a reason not to want the world to burn. They're most likely to be disenfranchised, mentally ill, mistreated, and feeling trapped. LISTEN TO THEM and give them a safe way out. This does not necessarily mean following a psychiatrist's recommendations. A lot of psychiatrists are arrogant and even abusive (by good intent, but nevertheless) It means assigning a case worker who is not overworked, not underpaid, and is empowered to and genuinely wants to help. Does he need a job? Is his daughter sick? Are there voices in his head? No humiliating and confusing paperwork. No standing in line for three hours only to be told to come back another day. Just have someone get in touch. Make it very easy for the highest risk individuals to receive help. Ideological reasons often have an underlying cause. Omar might tell you Islam is the one true way but if you listen hard enough you may hear "I just wanted someone to talk to, and the fellow at the temple was there for me". Even then since you have someone listening and empowered you'll know when the risk is high enough to put FBI surveillance on him.
What's 50 lives next to tyrannies and wars caused by unprotected people?
Crushing a media organization under the power of one's wallet is NOT standing up for free speech. Even if it's a shitty company that was actually just used as a pawn for other rich people.I'm torn between celebrating this as a great victory and mourning it as a blow to an important pillar of society. Gawker wasn't just shitty for its hypocrisy on a variety of topics but for some seriously evil acts, not the least of which are directly related to the lawsuits at hand. In the end all I can say is I'm glad it's over and the world has a moment's rest before a "crowd funded" Totally-Not-Gawker picks up the pieces and starts spewing vileness again.
If you're setting password policy tell users to use 5 truly random words. (flip through the dictionary with their eyes closed or use a random word generator) If you're making a new password for one of the many, many places with preposterously restrictive policies that confuse "hard to remember" with "secure"... well what I do is break the cardinal rule. I make a password as secure as possible by randomly selecting applicable characters. Then I write it down and store it on an encrypted drive. The drive I leave unmounted unless I'm looking up a password. That's the best I can do. "It has to have a capital, a lowercase and a special character and can't be over 8 characters long" is a recipe for some of the most crackable passwords imaginable.
This means "maintain high margins by laying people off"
I can confirm that their credit cards are horrible. I made a single late payment and they closed my credit card account recently. I wasn't angry they closed it, I was angry I didn't get to close it first. Otherwise their customer service is nonexistant, getting a human requires calling during business hours and waiting up to an hour, their automated phone service is a re-purposed speak-and-spell, and they don't give the tiniest shit about you as a customer much less as a human. Their customer service once literally hung up on me. Paypal is also horrible because privacy rape.
...until the next version comes out next year or a rubber stamping judge approves a new abuse of the Patriot act. These come up year after year until the people get tired of protesting the same bill every fucking year, then Congress passes a version thereof. Why? Why do we keep electing the same scum year after year? What is wrong with the American voter?
If you wouldn't try abusing the contract we wouldn't sue.
Maybe not but Gawker is a giant pile of shit that needs to be shoveled into a sewer pronto. Peter Thiel is my new hero.
My Amazon Basics mouse went to shit in three months.
...which makes me think we're reading a parody of what they're really saying. And makes me wonder who wrote the parody and who is behind the curtain.
It's not fair to compare a 100 year period to a 46 year period. (the time "since then") I strongly suspect the period from 1970 to 2070 will see changes your grandmother wouldn't dream possible even after seeing all that. Driverless cars, brain integrated internet access, thought controlled devices, strong AI, a global end to poverty-related suffering and an active, healthy Mars colony aren't any real stretch of imagination for the next 50 years.
I disagree with your proposed curriculum. As someone else said these people are already anti-science. I think the class should contain basic science and rationality courses, culminating in a class that allow the student to personally experiment with diseases and vaccines, to the extent of manufacturing a vaccine himself and watching it work on mice. A history course will be useless to someone who thinks it's all lies.
This is what happens when capitalism is unrestrained. In every country undergoing an industrial revolution there's a mix of outdated feudalistic modes of thought and inefficiency matching worker to task that allows this sort of thing -- whether it's mining camps, heavy industry, or middle commerce. Scrooge's shop in A Christmas Carol wasn't at all far from the common, nor Song of the Shirt unrealistic. Only government reigning in corporate interests for the common man can stop these travesties. So here's my hope for the Chinese people to say, "enough" and make their government fix this.
They deleted a dupe. This is a good thing. Please go away.
Pics or it didn't happen. Edit: found it It's pretty much what it says on the tin.
I'm glad they fought this law, but not because I case about Uber. The Stasi had nothing on the level of surveillance being done in modern America.
No one is saying prisoners should be let free but this "hard on crime" insanity is actually just hard on criminals, and raises crime rates by turning a guy that made a mistake into a hardened criminal. If you really, truly want safe streets you're going to have to show some compassion.
Here are some of his actual equations. paper on price stickiness and the cost of menus.
AFOS person here: I think the comment in question is not worthy of investigation since it's not actually threat. But more to the point I don't think conducting an investigation should ever require silencing someone who isn't himself an investigator.
.50 caliber sniper rifle." Which is, by the way, an illegal thing to say.
I think you may have meant "worthy of criminalization." I recognize some categories of speech as inherently dangerous to others' speech. Speaking through a bullhorn to drown out someone's soap-box, spamming or flooding fora, or jamming airways are activities I believe should be stopped. Making threats is not, unless its general effect is to silence, say, a politician.
I do not believe a threat of violence should ordinarily be a crime. Even if I were to say "I intend to kill the president at 10:00 AM next Saturday at his speech using my