Neither the Democrats nor Republicans have anything to offer; which is why I believe Trump will earn both the nomination and the presidency. This is not a joke.
I don't know about that. Women are predominantly going to vote for Hilary. I don't think you realize the vitriol that many women have for Mr. Trump. My own mom surprised me by calling him an "asshole" when his face popped up on TV. Minorities are not going to vote for him due to his views on immigration.
Trump, at least, for all of the negative, has character, backbone, and is too arrogant to lie.
Let's just agree to disagree on that. The lying, not the arrogance.
It's worth noting since we're on the subject, that there is a huge conflict of interest here with all of the appearance of being heavily exploited. I see two ways that could be eliminated:
I see a third possibility. They could use the Internet for its intended purpose of inexpensively distributing information and put the materials online for free. I realize how unthinkable that option is to some, but it is a possibility that no one else here seems to be considering.
correction, senators dont pass bills that dont help them politically. they dont really care what is in the bill as long as its politically worth it to them
In a representative democracy the people elect representatives to enact laws on their behalf. At least theoretically. In practice, once elected, representatives don't have any obligation other than to enact laws to benefit themselves. If you need legislation in your favor there is a price to pay.
On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.
Somehow Stewart Brand's original statement got morphed into "information wants to be free."
My personal favorite home remedy for congestion is a Tom Yum Soup paste imported from Thailand I found one day at my local Asian food store. Just add hot water (and if you want to get fancy shrimp, mushrooms, green onions) and it makes a fiery hot soup. It's delicious and instantly clears up any nasal or chest congestion.
I suspect they don't know or care the function of your machine. It's just a blanket "attack everything and see what happens".
That's what it looks like in my logs, too. When I was running an open http port I would see not targeted attacks, but what looked like scripts looking for an insecure/misconfigured server.
I found it amusing that since switching to https with self-signed certificates, the number of attacks dropped to zero. Even hackers won't accept my certificate:/
The Koch Brothers do not believe in climate change, or in any public policy that would do anything to mitigate it.
Oh, the Koch Brothers believe in climate change, alright. They realize how damaging the reality is to their business interests. That's why they funnel so much money in to conservative candidates and PR groups to create the false impression that there is serious scientific debate.
Suzanne Goldenberg of the London Guardian reports that "conservative billionaires used a secretive funding route to channel nearly $120 million . . . to more than 100 groups casting doubt about the science behind climate change," helping to "build a vast network of think tanks and activist groups working to a single purpose: to redefine climate change from neutral scientific fact to a highly polarizing 'wedge issue' for hardcore conservatives."
What pleases me is that no amount of money can keep the current set of Republican presidential candidates from self-destructing every time they open their mouths. The GOP should heed Bobby Jindal's advice to "stop being the stupid party."
If Congress passes law which reads "money is property, not speech,...
Of course they could, but how likely do you think it is that Congress will vote to lessen the amount of money they receive? For instance, I'm aware of times when they voted to increase their own salaries, but I can't remember a single time they voted to decrease their salaries.
If you're an American (or frankly, any innocent person) anywhere in the world who isn't an active member of a foreign terrorist organization or an agent of a foreign power, the Intelligence Community DOES NOT CARE ABOUT and actually DOES NOT WANT your data.
Then why are they collecting it? Why is the fact that they are collecting it so secretive? Why then, do they share this data with other TLAs? Are we just supposed to forget that NSA officials used the data they collected to spy on their love interests?
I've built a lot of databases in my day and I never put data in a database that I did not intend to use. You see, there would be no point in doing that.
If, as you say, the Intelligence Community DOES NOT WANT our data why are they working so hard to obtain it.? Why should American taxpayers pay to be spied on? The government is supposed to work for us, on our behalf, based on our shared goals. It must also act with strict adherence to the principles set forth in the US Constitution, and stop making up highly questionable "interpretations" of law to try to justify highly illegal actions.
Say hello to quantum encryption to replace some uses of asymmetric algorithms (which are often only used to exchange keys for symmetric algorithms).
Quantum computers will only be available to those that can afford them so at first you'll see yet another huge capability imbalance between the haves and the have nots. If quantum computer does eventually become cheap enough for the average consumer, I'm not sanguine it will occur in my lifetime.
If your application requires a piece of wood, you should use a piece of wood. If molded glass is required, you should use molded glass. No one is disputing that. Those materials aren't going away.
3D printing doesn't reduce what you can do, it increases what you can do.
There are serious 3D printers by the way that just don't deal in two types of plastic, and other ways of rapid prototyping besides traditional mills, lathes, etc.
You probably meant to respond to the guy that who was talking about plastic 3D printers. I wasn't talking about those, We can use sand and sunlight, the most abundant and cheapest feedstocks we have to print glass. There are printers for printing metal, building materials, human tissues, etc. I get that.
Traditional mill, and lathes, use a subtractive manufacturing process - you take a piece of lumber for instance and remove what you don't want. 3D printers create products using an additive process so in theory they use less material. They should be more efficient and cheaper than the traditional methods eventually.
Fukishima was a once-in-a-thousand years disaster.
And yet the time from when the Fukushima plant was commissioned to the tsunami that caused significant damage to the plant was 40 years. What bad fortune!
We (humans, presumably) are terrible at making predictions. The book The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb investigates this idea in detail. Incidentally, he made a pantload of money on Wall Street by betting against the conventional narrative that economists are good at quantifying risk.
Incidentally, you may have noticed extreme weather events are becoming more common across the globe. Some of you know the reason for that (the others are Republicans.) Yet we inevitably make predications based on past events.
I just finished reading "The Terror Factory" by Trevor Aaronson and it describes in detail how since 9/11 the FBI has been using informants to induce (or entrap, depending on how you look at it) people on the fringes of society to commit crimes. In some cases the targets were so incompetent that they couldn't be trusted to tie their own shoelaces without fucking it up at least twice. People who are no threat at all to societyl, and haven't actually committed any crimes (though they may have thought about it) just so the FBI can claim it is "winning" the war on terror. Anyways, I recommend the book if you really want to read something that will put your panties in a twist.
Because 3D printers will eventually be able to make the parts to make other 3D printers. I expect to see more than exponential growth because of this. Explosive growth.
really, this points out the thing about 3D printing, it usually is the very most expensive solution to a problem.
Fine. That may be true today. The people involved with 3D printing are typically looking toward the future. It's not unreasonable to expect that 3D printers will enjoy the same exponential growth (and cost reductions) as computers, green energy, and internet access have had.
'Mr. Bush, for the first time, explicitly said that his authorizations were "displacing" specific federal statutes, including the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and criminal wiretapping laws... the president had "made an interpretation of law concerning his authorities"...
That's the heart of the issue right there. President Bush wrongly believed the threat of terrorism gave him authority to break constitutional law. It actually doesn't, but no one has thus far found a way to correct this mistake. It's absolutely stunning to me after 14 years. The Orwellian-named Patriot Act was supposed to be a temporary measure and yet it's still in place.
if someone is nervous that their lies are going to be detected they will potentially show other visible signs in behavior or answering of questions, someone that goes out of their way to beat a polygraph in such an arena is also someone that needs some serious looking at.
Oh, I see. If you don't pass a polygraph test you are guilty and if you do pass a polygraph test you are also guilty. Burn them!
You do realize that the ads are coming from a third party and the webmaster really doesn't have a lot of control over this.
Ahem. The webmaster is the only one who has total control over what appears, or doesn't appear, on the website. This is not complicated, folks. If you don't want shit ads appearing on your website, don't accept shit ads.
Mostly because he's assuming that an autonomous car will be exactly like a current car + driver... but with a really stupid robot driver that will do anything you tell it to do. Don't assume that.
I won't assume anything, but I question how autonomous cars are going to negotiate with other cars, something I do on a daily basis. And I'm not just talking about the famous one-fingered salute. For example, to get out of my driveway I need to make a right hand turn on to a busy street that often has a long line of cars stopped at a light. I've found through trial and error that the quickest way to get moving is to roll my window down, stick my arm out the window, give the next car in line a jaunty wave, a toothsome grin, then I clearly mouth the words "Thank You!". Even if they previously had no intention of letting me in, since I've preemptively thanked them, 98% of the time they'll let me go (the other 2% are clearly sociopaths.)
Now with autonomous cars on the road how are such interactions going to be handled?
I recently learned that necrophilic acts are not illegal in Massachusetts. So if you murder someone there is no downside (legally) to molesting the corpse.
Not quite sure what to do with this information, but I thought it was interesting.
"Several people in the UK have been diagnosed with electrosensitivity and received help for the disability but any financial allowance usually refers to a different name for the condition or a related condition," it [the court] said in a statement.
I'll bet the judge decided she was so delusional as to be unfit to work, and gave her benefits based on that. The "different name for the condition" could be delusional thinking (or whatever the correct psychiatric term for that is - IANAP). Mental illness certainly can be debilitating.
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Neither the Democrats nor Republicans have anything to offer; which is why I believe Trump will earn both the nomination and the presidency. This is not a joke.
I don't know about that. Women are predominantly going to vote for Hilary. I don't think you realize the vitriol that many women have for Mr. Trump. My own mom surprised me by calling him an "asshole" when his face popped up on TV. Minorities are not going to vote for him due to his views on immigration.
Trump, at least, for all of the negative, has character, backbone, and is too arrogant to lie.
Let's just agree to disagree on that. The lying, not the arrogance.
It's worth noting since we're on the subject, that there is a huge conflict of interest here with all of the appearance of being heavily exploited. I see two ways that could be eliminated:
I see a third possibility. They could use the Internet for its intended purpose of inexpensively distributing information and put the materials online for free. I realize how unthinkable that option is to some, but it is a possibility that no one else here seems to be considering.
correction, senators dont pass bills that dont help them politically. they dont really care what is in the bill as long as its politically worth it to them
In a representative democracy the people elect representatives to enact laws on their behalf. At least theoretically. In practice, once elected, representatives don't have any obligation other than to enact laws to benefit themselves. If you need legislation in your favor there is a price to pay.
On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.
Somehow Stewart Brand's original statement got morphed into "information wants to be free."
My personal favorite home remedy for congestion is a Tom Yum Soup paste imported from Thailand I found one day at my local Asian food store. Just add hot water (and if you want to get fancy shrimp, mushrooms, green onions) and it makes a fiery hot soup. It's delicious and instantly clears up any nasal or chest congestion.
I suspect they don't know or care the function of your machine. It's just a blanket "attack everything and see what happens".
That's what it looks like in my logs, too. When I was running an open http port I would see not targeted attacks, but what looked like scripts looking for an insecure/misconfigured server.
I found it amusing that since switching to https with self-signed certificates, the number of attacks dropped to zero. Even hackers won't accept my certificate :/
The Koch Brothers do not believe in climate change, or in any public policy that would do anything to mitigate it.
Oh, the Koch Brothers believe in climate change, alright. They realize how damaging the reality is to their business interests. That's why they funnel so much money in to conservative candidates and PR groups to create the false impression that there is serious scientific debate.
Suzanne Goldenberg of the London Guardian reports that "conservative billionaires used a secretive funding route to channel nearly $120 million . . . to more than 100 groups casting doubt about the science behind climate change," helping to "build a vast network of think tanks and activist groups working to a single purpose: to redefine climate change from neutral scientific fact to a highly polarizing 'wedge issue' for hardcore conservatives."
What pleases me is that no amount of money can keep the current set of Republican presidential candidates from self-destructing every time they open their mouths. The GOP should heed Bobby Jindal's advice to "stop being the stupid party."
If Congress passes law which reads "money is property, not speech,...
Of course they could, but how likely do you think it is that Congress will vote to lessen the amount of money they receive? For instance, I'm aware of times when they voted to increase their own salaries, but I can't remember a single time they voted to decrease their salaries.
If you're an American (or frankly, any innocent person) anywhere in the world who isn't an active member of a foreign terrorist organization or an agent of a foreign power, the Intelligence Community DOES NOT CARE ABOUT and actually DOES NOT WANT your data.
Then why are they collecting it? Why is the fact that they are collecting it so secretive? Why then, do they share this data with other TLAs? Are we just supposed to forget that NSA officials used the data they collected to spy on their love interests?
I've built a lot of databases in my day and I never put data in a database that I did not intend to use. You see, there would be no point in doing that.
If, as you say, the Intelligence Community DOES NOT WANT our data why are they working so hard to obtain it.? Why should American taxpayers pay to be spied on? The government is supposed to work for us, on our behalf, based on our shared goals. It must also act with strict adherence to the principles set forth in the US Constitution, and stop making up highly questionable "interpretations" of law to try to justify highly illegal actions.
Say hello to quantum encryption to replace some uses of asymmetric algorithms (which are often only used to exchange keys for symmetric algorithms).
Quantum computers will only be available to those that can afford them so at first you'll see yet another huge capability imbalance between the haves and the have nots. If quantum computer does eventually become cheap enough for the average consumer, I'm not sanguine it will occur in my lifetime.
Have you ever done something stupid and damaged your electronics?
It's such a fine line between stupid, and uh..clever. Yeah, and clever.
If your application requires a piece of wood, you should use a piece of wood. If molded glass is required, you should use molded glass. No one is disputing that. Those materials aren't going away.
3D printing doesn't reduce what you can do, it increases what you can do.
There are serious 3D printers by the way that just don't deal in two types of plastic, and other ways of rapid prototyping besides traditional mills, lathes, etc.
You probably meant to respond to the guy that who was talking about plastic 3D printers. I wasn't talking about those, We can use sand and sunlight, the most abundant and cheapest feedstocks we have to print glass. There are printers for printing metal, building materials, human tissues, etc. I get that.
Traditional mill, and lathes, use a subtractive manufacturing process - you take a piece of lumber for instance and remove what you don't want. 3D printers create products using an additive process so in theory they use less material. They should be more efficient and cheaper than the traditional methods eventually.
Snowden's theory is pointless as well because there is no way to prove or disprove it.
What he's trying to say is we should be encrypting our communications so aliens can't surveil them.
Fukishima was a once-in-a-thousand years disaster.
And yet the time from when the Fukushima plant was commissioned to the tsunami that caused significant damage to the plant was 40 years. What bad fortune!
We (humans, presumably) are terrible at making predictions. The book The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb investigates this idea in detail. Incidentally, he made a pantload of money on Wall Street by betting against the conventional narrative that economists are good at quantifying risk.
Incidentally, you may have noticed extreme weather events are becoming more common across the globe. Some of you know the reason for that (the others are Republicans.) Yet we inevitably make predications based on past events.
I just finished reading "The Terror Factory" by Trevor Aaronson and it describes in detail how since 9/11 the FBI has been using informants to induce (or entrap, depending on how you look at it) people on the fringes of society to commit crimes. In some cases the targets were so incompetent that they couldn't be trusted to tie their own shoelaces without fucking it up at least twice. People who are no threat at all to societyl, and haven't actually committed any crimes (though they may have thought about it) just so the FBI can claim it is "winning" the war on terror. Anyways, I recommend the book if you really want to read something that will put your panties in a twist.
Because 3D printers will eventually be able to make the parts to make other 3D printers. I expect to see more than exponential growth because of this. Explosive growth.
really, this points out the thing about 3D printing, it usually is the very most expensive solution to a problem.
Fine. That may be true today. The people involved with 3D printing are typically looking toward the future. It's not unreasonable to expect that 3D printers will enjoy the same exponential growth (and cost reductions) as computers, green energy, and internet access have had.
From TFS:
'Mr. Bush, for the first time, explicitly said that his authorizations were "displacing" specific federal statutes, including the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and criminal wiretapping laws... the president had "made an interpretation of law concerning his authorities"...
That's the heart of the issue right there. President Bush wrongly believed the threat of terrorism gave him authority to break constitutional law. It actually doesn't, but no one has thus far found a way to correct this mistake. It's absolutely stunning to me after 14 years. The Orwellian-named Patriot Act was supposed to be a temporary measure and yet it's still in place.
if someone is nervous that their lies are going to be detected they will potentially show other visible signs in behavior or answering of questions, someone that goes out of their way to beat a polygraph in such an arena is also someone that needs some serious looking at.
Oh, I see. If you don't pass a polygraph test you are guilty and if you do pass a polygraph test you are also guilty. Burn them!
You do realize that the ads are coming from a third party and the webmaster really doesn't have a lot of control over this.
Ahem. The webmaster is the only one who has total control over what appears, or doesn't appear, on the website. This is not complicated, folks. If you don't want shit ads appearing on your website, don't accept shit ads.
As Albert Einstein used to say :" two things are infinite in this world. Stupidity is one".
As Albert Einstein used to say about misattribution: "I didn't say that."
Mostly because he's assuming that an autonomous car will be exactly like a current car + driver ... but with a really stupid robot driver that will do anything you tell it to do. Don't assume that.
I won't assume anything, but I question how autonomous cars are going to negotiate with other cars, something I do on a daily basis. And I'm not just talking about the famous one-fingered salute. For example, to get out of my driveway I need to make a right hand turn on to a busy street that often has a long line of cars stopped at a light. I've found through trial and error that the quickest way to get moving is to roll my window down, stick my arm out the window, give the next car in line a jaunty wave, a toothsome grin, then I clearly mouth the words "Thank You!". Even if they previously had no intention of letting me in, since I've preemptively thanked them, 98% of the time they'll let me go (the other 2% are clearly sociopaths.)
Now with autonomous cars on the road how are such interactions going to be handled?
So I guess it's open season for murder, then.
I recently learned that necrophilic acts are not illegal in Massachusetts. So if you murder someone there is no downside (legally) to molesting the corpse.
Not quite sure what to do with this information, but I thought it was interesting.
From TFA:
"Several people in the UK have been diagnosed with electrosensitivity and received help for the disability but any financial allowance usually refers to a different name for the condition or a related condition," it [the court] said in a statement.
I'll bet the judge decided she was so delusional as to be unfit to work, and gave her benefits based on that. The "different name for the condition" could be delusional thinking (or whatever the correct psychiatric term for that is - IANAP). Mental illness certainly can be debilitating.