Our government (Seattle & Olympia) is working on that.
I live on Beacon Hill (south Seattle) and at the foot of the hill there are at least a couple of "medical" dispensaries every mile. Probably "co-ops" where they grow their own. So they don't seem to be importing from the smugglers.
I wish we had been a bit smarter when we did this but even with the mistakes it is a HUGE step forward.
But I think the biggest problem was trying to anticipate what the Federal government would do. And what they still might do.
I think that the laws around the "recreational" drugs were mostly racially inspired. Or at the very least they have been racially prosecuted.
I'm in Seattle. I like that we've started addressing this. I think we need to go further though. And I don't think that this will have any effect on us other than bringing in some more tax dollars.
If the average person can handle alcohol (beer and wine sold all over) then why wouldn't that person be able to handle cannabis?
Lots of people who sign up for a MOOC have other things they're doing, and this thing they don't really have to do inevitably is the first thing cut if they they busy.
Exactly. And the further you are along with your life the MORE this happens. So enrolling more non-traditional students means more "failures".
But are they really failures? Even if they did not pass the course did they learn some of the material? More than they knew before? So what if all you learned was bubble sort before you had to drop the class. That's more than you started with. And if you take it again then you might get further.
I can see where discussion sites don't allow for deletion as it is a royal PITA to maintain site integrity, threads, etc. if a user disappears.
It should be easy. Since all the posts should be in a database, just replace the content with something like --self-deleted-- and keep everything else the same.
For anyone quoting it from before it was deleted I'd say "fair use" if they're in the USofA.
Take your account: chill (34294) Leave the user number the same (34294) and just --self-deleted-- the user name (chill) and anything you've listed in your profile.
And your post (#45807903) would also show --self-deleted-- but it would still show and my reply would still show in this thread.
And just make sure that no one else can ever use "chill" as a username or the email address you've used. That's just a different list.
If you later decide that you would like to reactivate your account, you can do so at any time by signing in to Nextdoor using the same email address and password as before, and then clicking Reactivate.
So everything is still there.
Why not kill the account completely except for the past posts? And put the username and email address into a do-not-allow list so that a future user won't be able to take it over.
The reason is that they want to be able to sell your information.
And if that doesn't work then change as much as you can. Your email address should be the easiest. Then any other personal information that you can alter. If they won't delete it then make it worthless to them.
And this is another reason to fight against the current trend of requiring real names for accounts.
There's nothing wrong with helping women (and other minorities) deal with actual bullying and dismissive attitude that does, in fact, exist.
That is the important part. Once you start going against society's expectation of acceptable careers for your sex/gender/race/whatever then you're going to be dealing with it in school and with your family and even in the job market once you graduate.
Getting more of X to attend classes in STEM is easy.
Getting more of X to love STEM enough to stick with a career despite the constant societal pressures to conform is very difficult.
Men avoid working for public school systems because their policy is now dictated by feminist trained soccer moms who think all men are potential rapists/pedophiles.
Not exactly. But that does show how the larger society will influence/dictate what careers are "acceptable" to which genders/sexes.
As a male, you will have fewer problems and more social support as an engineer than as a teacher (except college professor).
Unless there are roaming gangs of white nerdy kids beating up anyone with the wrong color that I haven't heard of.
It doesn't have to be that overt to still be racist or sexist.
But the first issue is whether Computer Science (and "STEM" in general) is more or less racist/sexist than the larger society.
Talk to women who take the bus to college and ask them whether their experiences on the bus are better or worse than in the classroom. Or even join an on-line game with a female avatar and name.
In the classroom it is usually more subtle. But when you depend upon a good grade from a sexist/racist teacher there will be issues.
Though he's probably proposing it for all the wrong reasons, Draper's terrible plan is premised on a totally salient criticismâ"it's absurd that California only sends two senators to Washington when it is by far the country's most populous state.
He's never heard of the "House of Representatives"?
Or is he just unhappy that each state gets an equal vote in the Senate?
They claimed several prevented attacks but refused to provide details.
And given the way they publicise the "attacks" that they "stop" which are really just an informant giving fake bombs/weapons to some nut job... you know they'd be shouting any successes from every rooftop they could get to. They'd be doing the talk show circuit and hosting their own news conferences.
The first problem is that the kind of "terrorism" that they want to focus on is almost non-existant in the USofA. The real terrorists had one huge success and that's all.
The second problem is that the real terrorists don't spend time gossipping on the phone with all their terrorist friends. Yes, it is a way to map out a social network. But this isn't Facebook. Sam the suicide does not have to call Bill the bomb every Tuesday at 7 to chat.
The metadata and phone location are useful for reconstructing the final days and those contacts AFTER an attack. And they don't need years of data for that. Or even months.
I doubt it took the FBI that long to track someone who was not trying to hide.
I don't have that much faith in the FBI. If anything, the ease with which they can gather as much data as they do would indicate that they just aren't very good at targeted objectives.
Now, I will make my own now. He did bounce his connection, and that is why they needed to use a trojan aimed at his account.
In which case he'd have the same results using Tor. And that takes a lot less skill.
Instead, if he had any competency he'd be using a cracked system so that any compromises would happen on the cracked system. And he'd use a command and control protocol that was different than the HTTP used to connect to Yahoo!.
Questioning cognitively active, passive, and mixed travelers about distances from a survey site to LA's city hall, the research demonstrated that the passive bus and subway riders have less of a grip on distance.
Rather they had a better grip on how distance is really measured... the time it takes you to get there.
Which is more useful for a traveler to know: a. The miles between A and B?
In theory it is not that they watch it but what they watch.
Suppose the NSA loads up the computer of some "radical" with 100's of gigs of interracial gay enema porn and then "reveals" the dirty sex browsing history to the world.
In reality, you'll just be convincing the people who already don't like that person that he is a filthy disgusting bad person. And the people who approved of his ideas will claim it is a conspiracy by the NSA/FBI/CIA/whatever to discredit him and that those pictures were planted.
I think that the biggest problem here is that there isn't a recognized definition of "security" as it applies to computers.
Security is not about becoming invulnerable. That is impossible. Mostly because there is no "secure". There is only "more secure" or "less secure" than your starting point.
Improving security is, initially, about reducing the number of people who can EFFECTIVELY attack you. Then increase the number of people REQUIRED to attack you.
And that isn't even addressing the issue of whether you KNOW that you're being attacked and/or whether the data has been compromised.
Maybe your 4 month contract requirement is weeding out the good coders that don't want to give up a full-time job for a 4 month test that may leave them without a job if they don't live up to some hard to quantify metric of "good enough".
Too bad I don't have mod points. That's exactly the case.
Think about EVERYTHING that a good programmer has with an average employer. Paycheck Medical Dental Vacation And so forth.
Is the 4 month contract paying so much to offset the other disadvantages? Primarily VACATION. Because 4 months means that Christmas and such will happen if the contract starts from September through December. Which puts the ending from December through March. That's HALF the year right there.
And if the programmer has kids then summer vacation is an issue as well.
Hey, just give up on your family for 4 months while we "evaluate" you.
And hope that you and your family are very healthy during those 4 months because health insurance is expensive.
So what the "testing" is really doing is selecting for younger coders without experience who are willing to take on such contracts to build up their resumes.
The vast majority are useless, as is evident during that trial phase.
... and...
The shortfall isn't in occupation, it's in talent.
Talent usually falls along a bell curve. And half the programmers out there will be worse than the other half of the programmers out there.
If you're having trouble finding the good programmers then you either aren't advertising the job openings enough or there is some problem with the pay/environment/project that causes the better programmers to choose other employment.
There are literally NO "sites" using BGP (except inasmuch as sites use routers to convey data back to users). BGP is used by ISPs and Telcos, on peering routers etc.
You are wrong. I've worked at sites that do use BGP because they have to manager multiple incoming lines from multiple ISP's. It's for failover.
Yep that is exactly what they are talking about. Someone is compromising backbone providers. THAT'S WHY THIS IS NEWS.
No. Because the ISP's and Telco's exchange BGP information between themselves. So if bad BGP info is uploaded then it will be shared and the packets will only go to the bad network. They will never get to their original destination. Because every time a packet hits a backbone router it will be routed back to the bad network.
Unless their original destination is off of the bad network in which case why bother with this?
Slashdot Mirror
Not just him. Go to that website:
http://www.yahoo.com/tech/?ref=news
It's wall-to-wall crap and ads. Literally wall-to-wall. It fills the page with graphics slammed up touching to each other. Up-down-left-right.
It's what you would get if a douchbag spec'ed out a site.
Our government (Seattle & Olympia) is working on that.
I live on Beacon Hill (south Seattle) and at the foot of the hill there are at least a couple of "medical" dispensaries every mile. Probably "co-ops" where they grow their own. So they don't seem to be importing from the smugglers.
I wish we had been a bit smarter when we did this but even with the mistakes it is a HUGE step forward.
But I think the biggest problem was trying to anticipate what the Federal government would do. And what they still might do.
And what the next administration might do.
I think that the laws around the "recreational" drugs were mostly racially inspired. Or at the very least they have been racially prosecuted.
I'm in Seattle. I like that we've started addressing this. I think we need to go further though. And I don't think that this will have any effect on us other than bringing in some more tax dollars.
If the average person can handle alcohol (beer and wine sold all over) then why wouldn't that person be able to handle cannabis?
I'm more concerned with DRM. And the concept that you do not "own" media any more. You just "rent" it.
A library can lend a physical book thousands of times for just the price of the book.
Once you get into digital media, the publisher can demand a payment per check-out.
The private companies are collecting the data for the government.
Exactly. And the further you are along with your life the MORE this happens. So enrolling more non-traditional students means more "failures".
But are they really failures? Even if they did not pass the course did they learn some of the material? More than they knew before? So what if all you learned was bubble sort before you had to drop the class. That's more than you started with. And if you take it again then you might get further.
It should be easy. Since all the posts should be in a database, just replace the content with something like --self-deleted-- and keep everything else the same.
For anyone quoting it from before it was deleted I'd say "fair use" if they're in the USofA.
Take your account:
chill (34294)
Leave the user number the same (34294) and just --self-deleted-- the user name (chill) and anything you've listed in your profile.
And your post (#45807903) would also show --self-deleted-- but it would still show and my reply would still show in this thread.
And just make sure that no one else can ever use "chill" as a username or the email address you've used. That's just a different list.
Not exactly. From that link:
So everything is still there.
Why not kill the account completely except for the past posts? And put the username and email address into a do-not-allow list so that a future user won't be able to take it over.
The reason is that they want to be able to sell your information.
And if that doesn't work then change as much as you can. Your email address should be the easiest. Then any other personal information that you can alter. If they won't delete it then make it worthless to them.
And this is another reason to fight against the current trend of requiring real names for accounts.
Or even use the PIN as part of the encryption key used to encrypt a random string sent from the bank once authentication is requested.
And the connection between the PoS and the bank should also be encrypted.
And that connection should be 100% private. ISDN or whatever. Nothing going across the Internet. Not even with a VPN.
An even easier test of trust:
Did RSA take $10 million from the NSA and if so for what service?
So far it looks like they aren't arguing that they did NOT take the money.
That is the important part. Once you start going against society's expectation of acceptable careers for your sex/gender/race/whatever then you're going to be dealing with it in school and with your family and even in the job market once you graduate.
Getting more of X to attend classes in STEM is easy.
Getting more of X to love STEM enough to stick with a career despite the constant societal pressures to conform is very difficult.
Not exactly. But that does show how the larger society will influence/dictate what careers are "acceptable" to which genders/sexes.
As a male, you will have fewer problems and more social support as an engineer than as a teacher (except college professor).
It doesn't have to be that overt to still be racist or sexist.
But the first issue is whether Computer Science (and "STEM" in general) is more or less racist/sexist than the larger society.
Talk to women who take the bus to college and ask them whether their experiences on the bus are better or worse than in the classroom. Or even join an on-line game with a female avatar and name.
In the classroom it is usually more subtle. But when you depend upon a good grade from a sexist/racist teacher there will be issues.
He's never heard of the "House of Representatives"?
Or is he just unhappy that each state gets an equal vote in the Senate?
And given the way they publicise the "attacks" that they "stop" which are really just an informant giving fake bombs/weapons to some nut job ... you know they'd be shouting any successes from every rooftop they could get to. They'd be doing the talk show circuit and hosting their own news conferences.
The first problem is that the kind of "terrorism" that they want to focus on is almost non-existant in the USofA. The real terrorists had one huge success and that's all.
The second problem is that the real terrorists don't spend time gossipping on the phone with all their terrorist friends. Yes, it is a way to map out a social network. But this isn't Facebook. Sam the suicide does not have to call Bill the bomb every Tuesday at 7 to chat.
The metadata and phone location are useful for reconstructing the final days and those contacts AFTER an attack. And they don't need years of data for that. Or even months.
I don't have that much faith in the FBI. If anything, the ease with which they can gather as much data as they do would indicate that they just aren't very good at targeted objectives.
In which case he'd have the same results using Tor. And that takes a lot less skill.
Instead, if he had any competency he'd be using a cracked system so that any compromises would happen on the cracked system. And he'd use a command and control protocol that was different than the HTTP used to connect to Yahoo!.
Or if he had any skill at all he'd have cracked another computer and bounced all the traffic through the zombie.
And now the world has an example of FBI virus to dissect.
Couldn't the FBI just ask Yahoo! for the IP address of the account that sent those messages?
Also from the summary:
Rather they had a better grip on how distance is really measured ... the time it takes you to get there.
Which is more useful for a traveler to know:
a. The miles between A and B?
b. The time it will take to get from A to B?
It's a HUGE jump from finding that traumatic events can alter DNA to finding that training can used to pass specific behaviours through DNA.
In theory it is not that they watch it but what they watch.
Suppose the NSA loads up the computer of some "radical" with 100's of gigs of interracial gay enema porn and then "reveals" the dirty sex browsing history to the world.
In reality, you'll just be convincing the people who already don't like that person that he is a filthy disgusting bad person. And the people who approved of his ideas will claim it is a conspiracy by the NSA/FBI/CIA/whatever to discredit him and that those pictures were planted.
Exactly. And Bruce Schneier has an excellent article on that concept. He calls it "attack trees".
https://www.schneier.com/paper-attacktrees-ddj-ft.html
I think that the biggest problem here is that there isn't a recognized definition of "security" as it applies to computers.
Security is not about becoming invulnerable. That is impossible. Mostly because there is no "secure". There is only "more secure" or "less secure" than your starting point.
Improving security is, initially, about reducing the number of people who can EFFECTIVELY attack you. Then increase the number of people REQUIRED to attack you.
And that isn't even addressing the issue of whether you KNOW that you're being attacked and/or whether the data has been compromised.
Too bad I don't have mod points. That's exactly the case.
Think about EVERYTHING that a good programmer has with an average employer.
Paycheck
Medical
Dental
Vacation
And so forth.
Is the 4 month contract paying so much to offset the other disadvantages? Primarily VACATION. Because 4 months means that Christmas and such will happen if the contract starts from September through December. Which puts the ending from December through March. That's HALF the year right there.
And if the programmer has kids then summer vacation is an issue as well.
Hey, just give up on your family for 4 months while we "evaluate" you.
And hope that you and your family are very healthy during those 4 months because health insurance is expensive.
So what the "testing" is really doing is selecting for younger coders without experience who are willing to take on such contracts to build up their resumes.
If the place is so great then name it.
... and ...
Talent usually falls along a bell curve. And half the programmers out there will be worse than the other half of the programmers out there.
If you're having trouble finding the good programmers then you either aren't advertising the job openings enough or there is some problem with the pay/environment/project that causes the better programmers to choose other employment.
You are wrong. I've worked at sites that do use BGP because they have to manager multiple incoming lines from multiple ISP's. It's for failover.
No. Because the ISP's and Telco's exchange BGP information between themselves. So if bad BGP info is uploaded then it will be shared and the packets will only go to the bad network. They will never get to their original destination. Because every time a packet hits a backbone router it will be routed back to the bad network.
Unless their original destination is off of the bad network in which case why bother with this?