You seriously think there are terrorists out there all set with their bomb thinking "Hm, now where in the world can I find people? Darn, there's no way to figure out where a crowd might currently exist so I'll have to cancel the attack."
Unfortunately it's very sustainable if we sustain military funding levels as we have for so long. They practically have to burn money to continue using their budgets and allowing congresspeople to look tough and patriotic by voting yet another increase to a national military budget that's already a third of the entire world's military budget.
Is there really a need to allow the manifest to be updated? It's not as if IoT device makers are in the habit of giving customers free software updates that enable new features, you're supposed to throw it out and buy the next device for that.
Proposing desalinization in California the definition of being brain dead: no matter how many nuclear plants you build, it would create vastly more expensive water than the market is willing to buy. Nobody seriously thinks there's any shortage of fresh water in California -- it's a shortage of sufficiently cheap water in the desired places. The shortage of cheap water in desired places is because of issues that come up whenever we attempt to store or move water from one place to another -- it's impossible to get a diversion tunnel or a dam build for the past 30 years or so because of environmental concerns. If you want a rabid republican complaint that's not brain dead, the rational complaint would be about California's courts insisting on protection of certain fish species being more important than giving the farmers all the cheap water they want.
Personally I think the court's priorities are correct for the moment, because the water issues are not severe enough to seriously impair the state's agriculture -- if they ever are, we'll let the fish die, but at the moment there's no need to ruin ecosystems.
Comcast will quickly counter it by replacing their reps with bots that talk the customer into expensive upgrades and bundles. Better hope your bot doesn't lose the argument.
Polynesians and Africans had already moved people across the oceans. The big problem for Europeans is they didn't think there was anywhere to go across the ocean, until someone came along who was stupid enough to ignore the well-established size of the Earth and convince a few people that it was half its real size.
The crazy Americans are the 96% majority who voted for what they knew was a horrible candidate, on the grounds that they didn't want the other lizard to win.
People are no longer able to distinguish between biased news and fake news, conflate the two, and consider their favored made up stories to be morally equal to any bias in the opposing ideology's mainstream media. It's sick. Personally, as a liberal, I have no problem with the existence of the likes of FOX News -- they're biased, but they're just putting their slant on stories that are at least connected to reality and open to evidence. All news sources do that because everyone has some bias as a result of their differing life experiences.
Making up fake stories not connected to reality is a completely different game we've been seeing way too much of which should not be tolerated.
This is the source of fake news; if you write it, no matter how absurd, there's some fucking retard partisan who will lap it up.
You've hit on an important point, but not carried it far enough. The reason we're inundated by fake news is that the more blatantly extreme and fake you make your story the more people will feel compelled to share it.
Every obscure website dreams of the riches that will result from one of their stories going viral. They've now caught on to the fact that making up political lies to get a fake "scoop" on something that will really outrage hyperpartisans into thinking that the future of civilization depends on forcing everyone they know to read your story is the most effective shortcut to do that. I'm sure some of these stories are manipulation for political reasons, but some of them are just in the interests of profit. And their profit is what google is hoping to make a dent in.
I worked out all issues with the core rule set in my scripts a long time ago anyway. The big problem is that some web hosts use more than just the core rule set, and when I don't know in advance where people are going to install my scripts it's quite hard to develop for unpredictable random rules that a few people are using.
It's for web hosts and other people running code they didn't write -- in other words, the 99.998% of websites that aren't custom-built from scratch. Unfortunately, the false positives are a major headache which make me loathe modsecurity.
It is dramatic, but it's not necessarily a bad idea. It could be better for everyone -- both Americans and the rest of the world -- if the USA splits into several smaller friendly nations with free trade agreements who relate to each other much like the USA relates to Canada now. Disparate interests would be better represented. The south could outlaw abortion and institute school prayer and Christian values to their heart's content, California could outlaw guns, Texas could eliminate all pesky regulations, etc.
The one big problem is that states are not a unified mass. California may hate Trump, but my county in California voted 51-39 for Trump... and is attempting to succeed from California to create the state of Jefferson. A clean split without Balkanization would be difficult to achieve.
Stopping the new cold war, giving up the pointless protests over the crimea, letting Russia risk their lives in Syria -- it's all good. Constructive ties with Russia is just about the only potential positive I can see in Trump's presidency, if I can buy that it'll last.
Unfortunately, what I fear is that that the buddy-buddy relationship with Putin will not last long. At some point, two macho buffoons with egos that large are going to clash over something and want to fight. It can turn very quickly and very disastrously. Probably Iran will be the sticking point -- Trump talks tough on Iran, hates the nuclear deal and want to antagonize them. But Iran is an important Russian ally and Russia is the country being paid to do much of the nuclear work in Iran.
If a computer could accurately tell us the economic result of policies, we'd have to elect the computer president... and be very wary of its programmers.
It might be possible to mark a claim as "controversial" and link to a page of search results about it. Even that would be abused though, soon everything would be labeled controversial.
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You seriously think there are terrorists out there all set with their bomb thinking "Hm, now where in the world can I find people? Darn, there's no way to figure out where a crowd might currently exist so I'll have to cancel the attack."
Unfortunately it's very sustainable if we sustain military funding levels as we have for so long. They practically have to burn money to continue using their budgets and allowing congresspeople to look tough and patriotic by voting yet another increase to a national military budget that's already a third of the entire world's military budget.
It may not be elegant, but is there any reason they coudn't have proxied the new weather underground data through the original server?
When have Russia and China ever been BFFs? They've always been competitors with very different interests... even when they were both communist.
Is there really a need to allow the manifest to be updated? It's not as if IoT device makers are in the habit of giving customers free software updates that enable new features, you're supposed to throw it out and buy the next device for that.
Proposing desalinization in California the definition of being brain dead: no matter how many nuclear plants you build, it would create vastly more expensive water than the market is willing to buy. Nobody seriously thinks there's any shortage of fresh water in California -- it's a shortage of sufficiently cheap water in the desired places. The shortage of cheap water in desired places is because of issues that come up whenever we attempt to store or move water from one place to another -- it's impossible to get a diversion tunnel or a dam build for the past 30 years or so because of environmental concerns. If you want a rabid republican complaint that's not brain dead, the rational complaint would be about California's courts insisting on protection of certain fish species being more important than giving the farmers all the cheap water they want.
Personally I think the court's priorities are correct for the moment, because the water issues are not severe enough to seriously impair the state's agriculture -- if they ever are, we'll let the fish die, but at the moment there's no need to ruin ecosystems.
Far more likely to be the simple "most things that don't kill you eventually get better" effect. Doing nothing would have the same positive result.
Comcast will quickly counter it by replacing their reps with bots that talk the customer into expensive upgrades and bundles. Better hope your bot doesn't lose the argument.
Polynesians and Africans had already moved people across the oceans. The big problem for Europeans is they didn't think there was anywhere to go across the ocean, until someone came along who was stupid enough to ignore the well-established size of the Earth and convince a few people that it was half its real size.
The crazy Americans are the 96% majority who voted for what they knew was a horrible candidate, on the grounds that they didn't want the other lizard to win.
At least make the browser multi-platform, or failing that have it use webkit/blink.
The amount of energy used to refrigerate hell will be enormous and will accelerate global warming.
Oracle and IBM do a ton more business with Linux than they do with their own OSes which they've long since effectively given up on.
In today's market, non-exponential profit growth = doom.
People are no longer able to distinguish between biased news and fake news, conflate the two, and consider their favored made up stories to be morally equal to any bias in the opposing ideology's mainstream media. It's sick. Personally, as a liberal, I have no problem with the existence of the likes of FOX News -- they're biased, but they're just putting their slant on stories that are at least connected to reality and open to evidence. All news sources do that because everyone has some bias as a result of their differing life experiences.
Making up fake stories not connected to reality is a completely different game we've been seeing way too much of which should not be tolerated.
You've hit on an important point, but not carried it far enough. The reason we're inundated by fake news is that the more blatantly extreme and fake you make your story the more people will feel compelled to share it.
Every obscure website dreams of the riches that will result from one of their stories going viral. They've now caught on to the fact that making up political lies to get a fake "scoop" on something that will really outrage hyperpartisans into thinking that the future of civilization depends on forcing everyone they know to read your story is the most effective shortcut to do that. I'm sure some of these stories are manipulation for political reasons, but some of them are just in the interests of profit. And their profit is what google is hoping to make a dent in.
Unobtrusive white noise should be mandated.
I worked out all issues with the core rule set in my scripts a long time ago anyway. The big problem is that some web hosts use more than just the core rule set, and when I don't know in advance where people are going to install my scripts it's quite hard to develop for unpredictable random rules that a few people are using.
It's for web hosts and other people running code they didn't write -- in other words, the 99.998% of websites that aren't custom-built from scratch. Unfortunately, the false positives are a major headache which make me loathe modsecurity.
I presume websites will be replaced with mail order catalogs from which appropriate site cartridges will arrive in 4-6 weeks?
The FBI did not increase supply at all. They simply delayed the decreasing of supply after seizing sites that already existed.
It is dramatic, but it's not necessarily a bad idea. It could be better for everyone -- both Americans and the rest of the world -- if the USA splits into several smaller friendly nations with free trade agreements who relate to each other much like the USA relates to Canada now. Disparate interests would be better represented. The south could outlaw abortion and institute school prayer and Christian values to their heart's content, California could outlaw guns, Texas could eliminate all pesky regulations, etc.
The one big problem is that states are not a unified mass. California may hate Trump, but my county in California voted 51-39 for Trump... and is attempting to succeed from California to create the state of Jefferson. A clean split without Balkanization would be difficult to achieve.
Stopping the new cold war, giving up the pointless protests over the crimea, letting Russia risk their lives in Syria -- it's all good. Constructive ties with Russia is just about the only potential positive I can see in Trump's presidency, if I can buy that it'll last.
Unfortunately, what I fear is that that the buddy-buddy relationship with Putin will not last long. At some point, two macho buffoons with egos that large are going to clash over something and want to fight. It can turn very quickly and very disastrously. Probably Iran will be the sticking point -- Trump talks tough on Iran, hates the nuclear deal and want to antagonize them. But Iran is an important Russian ally and Russia is the country being paid to do much of the nuclear work in Iran.
If a computer could accurately tell us the economic result of policies, we'd have to elect the computer president... and be very wary of its programmers.
It might be possible to mark a claim as "controversial" and link to a page of search results about it. Even that would be abused though, soon everything would be labeled controversial.