Riiiiiight....and we've all seen how well the "cut taxes to the bone" model has worked in Kansas and Louisiana. Both states are nearly bankrupt, are deeply in debt, and can't afford to pay for basic services like schools, police, roads, and other "socialist" infrastructure.
No one like paying taxes, but they're a necessary thing in a modern society. It's a fact, and no amount of voodoo tax-cutting theory will change that.
Some people complain that everything was great 100 years ago where there was no taxation. Yeah, there were no taxes 100 years ago, and you know what else we didn't have 100 years ago?
A standing army, the FDA, the EPA, clean, drinkable water coming from every faucet, 24-hour emergency rooms, fully-staffed hospitals waiting to give you life-saving care, fire departments, 12 years of public education, child-abuse investigators, controls on what toxic chemicals can be poured into your drinking water, nationwide 911 service, a national highway system, social services, drug treatment centers, Medicaid and Medicare, Social Security, community colleges, public schools, water and sewer systems, parks and recreation services, food inspection, electrical utilities, gas service, a National School Lunch Program, Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, foster care services, School Breakfast Programs, State Children's Insurance Programs, Unemployment insurance, Worker's Comp, Senior Community Service Employment Programs, street lights, mass transit, zoning, planning, building permits and inspection, housing and development programs, road maintenance, the State Board of Health, building inspections, building and fire codes, disaster relief, FEMA, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, the FBI, flood mitigation, pollution inspections, drug treatment centers, the National Crime Information Center (NCIC), the Library of Congress, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and on and on and on.
This law changes nothing. If you have something juicy or illegal to disclose, you should ALWAYS do it anonymously, because they will find a way to get back at you sooner or later.
Oh, and of course scrub any signs of the information from your equipment as soon as you've made the disclosure and deny, deny, deny, if asked about it.
Wow: A whole 18 machine guns - man-portable ones from 1933 and 1938, and a vehicle-mounted version from 1949 (suitable for taking potshots at WW II aircraft, if you have a set of four working together, mounted on a trailer behind your Jeep).
There are collectors with far more than that many. I think typical shipments from nation-states to their anti-establishment proxies have more than that many per package.
Somehow I don't think they've found the underground arms market that's arming any major insurgency.
, , , and MANPAD and antitank missiles.
From second link; "The research group recorded 1,346 sales over the course of the last 18 months and found between 250 and 300 sales posts went up each month." That's maybe not huge, but more than you've quoted.
They do this in Australia. People buy phones and sims on the net to get around it. Except criminals who use fake id or get someone else to buy for them
You can buy phones and sims, but you have to provide some ID to register the sim, such as driver's license details. Of course for professional criminals who seem to have little trouble importing large quantities of drugs and weapons, this is not much of a hurdle.
at a traffic stop
The solution then is to not get stopped by the police. Remember what The Transporter said:
Transportation is a precise business.
Don't speed down the road in a car with a broken tail light. As The Transporter also said:
I always say, the way a man treats his car is how he treats himself.
Considering I recently took a 3,500 mile round trip vacation across the middle of the country, I had no problems with not getting stopped. I could have been carrying thousands of greenbacks or anything else and no one would have known.
At least in the US, if a cop asks if it's all right to look in your car or search your person, and they don't have good probable cause, politely SAY NO. Never resist but do not consent.
I know we talk about how long it takes a machine to get infected but hot damn these hospitals must be loading these machines up behind no firewalls at all to get to the internet.
The network was supposed to be air gapped, but a clueless contract tech came in and connected it up anyway.
I'm guessing that anyone who surprises us with a nuclear detonation, or more probably a radiological attack like a dirty bomb, is going to *tell us that they did it*, because you don't just set off nuclear bombs or dirty bombs and run away and go "tee hee".
Not necessarily. For example, given that ISIS and al-Qaeda hate each other almost as much as they hate the West. It would suit either if the other got the blame, and was promptly wiped off the map.
Or possibly Israel did it and blamed the other two.
Actual latency is a thing too. Going all the way to the other side of the world is a ping time of ~133ms in vacuum, or almost 200ms in perfect fiberoptic cable on a straight-line path with instantaneous routers.
You could possibly set a series of visual way points, that the robot would move to then stop until further instructions are received.
I remember when I wanted to take a more proactive approach to monitoring my BP, so I went out and bought one of those machines. Paid almost $100 for it, so wasn't exactly the cracker-jack model.
Plugged it in and performed several tests on both arms. Measurements swung so wildly that I ended up returning the damn thing the next day. Utterly pointless.
You want to measure your blood pressure accurately and consistently? Do it the old-fashioned way. Find a seasoned nurse with a good ear.
I have an older Omron and the readings it gives seem to be both consistent and broadly in line with the readings at my doctor's office. Sometimes getting different readings on different arms can be a sign of something wrong.
So... our solution to increasing drop out rates is to make the curriculum simpler? Idiocy! (That should be pronounced 'Idiocracy') Its true that I'm not calculating trajectories or finding the surface area of unusual shaped solids defined by funky formulas -- most of that knowledge has been lost to me over the years.
A lot of the examples you quote are just plugging numbers into formulas that other people have already worked out.
In TFA they quote the example of people not being able to get into theater or arts courses at college because they don't have algebra 2. Where's the advantage to society in that?
Actually, America's Army was a US military recruitment tool.
Cheating in that game could be considered patriotic, educational trolling of the DoD to teach them that video games are a terribly useless way to find new recruits.
Bravo, good sir! The b-tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of simulated patriots and aimbotting tyrants.
In a real war, cheating is considered a good thing. It means fewer of your troops going home in body bags vs the enemy.
General Patton: “No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.”
The progress of Tails is welcome, but there is a lack of trustworthy hardware to run it on. All current Intel processors are hopelessly and fundamentally flawed. The state of x86 security was never good, but Intel has taken it to a whole new level, and now provides the perfect platform for invisible backdoors, rootkits, and other malware.
True, so use a computer that can't be traced to you.
Buy a second hand laptop for cash in a private sale, somewhere away from the cameras, and use it only for that purpose. Transfer files using USB keys or disposable data CDs, to or from your working computer which is air-gaped, or at least not used for anything the watchers may be interested in.
Yeah, and I wanted to put a urinal in the stairwell of my parking garage.
No dice - couldn't get a permit. Not ADA compliant because of the stairs, didn't pass health because no dividers, and there wasn't a sit-down for the ladies.
Actually looking at the graphs in TFA, the total losses have been pretty steady for the last five years, just proportionally more in the Air Force in 2015, as opposed to the other services.
whoa there! The article you quoted is misleading. First off, it lists Recommended Power Supplies. This is NOT the same as the power draw by the GPU. This is the manufacturers recommendation of what you need to ensure stable performance of EVERYTHING in the PC with that card installed. The higher end the card, the greater the recommended minimum, partly to compensate for increased GPU needs, but also because the kind of people that run these cards are likely to have a crap load of other stuff that needs feeding as well.
Actually the high power recommendations are to cope with the clueless noobs who buy white box PSUs, which can barely supply 50% of their rated current for an extended period without catching fire.
Oh, and maybe also to allow some small headroom for later system expansion.
It's really a Chrome issue, on Firefox LasPass uses an OS dialog. According to TFA there's an outstanding issue report in chromium to make the legit extension URL more clear (the exploit relies on the user not seeing a slight modification to the extension URL).
Also in TFA, he was able to pretty effectively fake the OS dialog. Most people would be fooled.
"Once both sides of a conflict start playing with nukes, even if it starts out with small, tactical, targeted nukes, the other side will too, and whichever side is losing will be tempted to scale up, "
Even if the conflict is with a non-nuclear country, or one with no long-distance delivery technology, there is a fear that a contained strike, say the US blasting an ISIS underground redoubt, would 'normalize' nuclear warfare in the future.
Not to mention that if the fallout is encountered by even one citizen of another nuclear state, let alone an embassy or crosses a border into a nuclear armed country, they may well consider that an attack and retaliate. Nuking Daesh should be safe-ish in that one regard, but even there you have Israel (still denying they have nukes), would they show restraint if, say, fallout from a Russian nuke contaminated their northern territories? How would Turkey, a member of NATO, respond if their country was irradiated? If a Chinese embassy was rendered uninhabitable by fallout, what would they do?
Best to leave that can of radioactive worms unopened.
That's a load of crap. Do you really think Israel with its piddling few bombs and tiny population would go nuclear on Russia?
Most likely there's be a bucket load of bluster and a demand for an apology and compensation. Even China would not risk an expansion of a situation based on an accident. The MAD doctrine still applies.
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Riiiiiight....and we've all seen how well the "cut taxes to the bone" model has worked in Kansas and Louisiana. Both states are nearly bankrupt, are deeply in debt, and can't afford to pay for basic services like schools, police, roads, and other "socialist" infrastructure.
No one like paying taxes, but they're a necessary thing in a modern society. It's a fact, and no amount of voodoo tax-cutting theory will change that.
Some people complain that everything was great 100 years ago where there was no taxation. Yeah, there were no taxes 100 years ago, and you know what else we didn't have 100 years ago?
A standing army, the FDA, the EPA, clean, drinkable water coming from every faucet, 24-hour emergency rooms, fully-staffed hospitals waiting to give you life-saving care, fire departments, 12 years of public education, child-abuse investigators, controls on what toxic chemicals can be poured into your drinking water, nationwide 911 service, a national highway system, social services, drug treatment centers, Medicaid and Medicare, Social Security, community colleges, public schools, water and sewer systems, parks and recreation services, food inspection, electrical utilities, gas service, a National School Lunch Program, Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, foster care services, School Breakfast Programs, State Children's Insurance Programs, Unemployment insurance, Worker's Comp, Senior Community Service Employment Programs, street lights, mass transit, zoning, planning, building permits and inspection, housing and development programs, road maintenance, the State Board of Health, building inspections, building and fire codes, disaster relief, FEMA, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, the FBI, flood mitigation, pollution inspections, drug treatment centers, the National Crime Information Center (NCIC), the Library of Congress, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and on and on and on.
What have the Romans ever done for us?
This law changes nothing. If you have something juicy or illegal to disclose, you should ALWAYS do it anonymously, because they will find a way to get back at you sooner or later.
Oh, and of course scrub any signs of the information from your equipment as soon as you've made the disclosure and deny, deny, deny, if asked about it.
Wow: A whole 18 machine guns - man-portable ones from 1933 and 1938, and a vehicle-mounted version from 1949 (suitable for taking potshots at WW II aircraft, if you have a set of four working together, mounted on a trailer behind your Jeep).
There are collectors with far more than that many. I think typical shipments from nation-states to their anti-establishment proxies have more than that many per package.
Somehow I don't think they've found the underground arms market that's arming any major insurgency.
, , , and MANPAD and antitank missiles.
From second link; "The research group recorded 1,346 sales over the course of the last 18 months and found between 250 and 300 sales posts went up each month." That's maybe not huge, but more than you've quoted.
They do this in Australia. People buy phones and sims on the net to get around it. Except criminals who use fake id or get someone else to buy for them
You can buy phones and sims, but you have to provide some ID to register the sim, such as driver's license details. Of course for professional criminals who seem to have little trouble importing large quantities of drugs and weapons, this is not much of a hurdle.
at a traffic stop
The solution then is to not get stopped by the police. Remember what The Transporter said:
Transportation is a precise business.
Don't speed down the road in a car with a broken tail light. As The Transporter also said:
I always say, the way a man treats his car is how he treats himself.
Considering I recently took a 3,500 mile round trip vacation across the middle of the country, I had no problems with not getting stopped. I could have been carrying thousands of greenbacks or anything else and no one would have known.
At least in the US, if a cop asks if it's all right to look in your car or search your person, and they don't have good probable cause, politely SAY NO. Never resist but do not consent.
Yep
I know we talk about how long it takes a machine to get infected but hot damn these hospitals must be loading these machines up behind no firewalls at all to get to the internet.
The network was supposed to be air gapped, but a clueless contract tech came in and connected it up anyway.
I'm guessing that anyone who surprises us with a nuclear detonation, or more probably a radiological attack like a dirty bomb, is going to *tell us that they did it*, because you don't just set off nuclear bombs or dirty bombs and run away and go "tee hee". Not necessarily. For example, given that ISIS and al-Qaeda hate each other almost as much as they hate the West. It would suit either if the other got the blame, and was promptly wiped off the map.
Or possibly Israel did it and blamed the other two.
Actual latency is a thing too. Going all the way to the other side of the world is a ping time of ~133ms in vacuum, or almost 200ms in perfect fiberoptic cable on a straight-line path with instantaneous routers.
You could possibly set a series of visual way points, that the robot would move to then stop until further instructions are received.
It doesn't allow non-surgeons to perform surgery. It lowers the skill level to be a surgeon.
I can see more H-1B visa applications on the way.
I remember when I wanted to take a more proactive approach to monitoring my BP, so I went out and bought one of those machines. Paid almost $100 for it, so wasn't exactly the cracker-jack model.
Plugged it in and performed several tests on both arms. Measurements swung so wildly that I ended up returning the damn thing the next day. Utterly pointless.
You want to measure your blood pressure accurately and consistently? Do it the old-fashioned way. Find a seasoned nurse with a good ear.
I have an older Omron and the readings it gives seem to be both consistent and broadly in line with the readings at my doctor's office. Sometimes getting different readings on different arms can be a sign of something wrong.
"I actually found this funny"
Funny in a very sad way.
So... our solution to increasing drop out rates is to make the curriculum simpler? Idiocy! (That should be pronounced 'Idiocracy') Its true that I'm not calculating trajectories or finding the surface area of unusual shaped solids defined by funky formulas -- most of that knowledge has been lost to me over the years.
A lot of the examples you quote are just plugging numbers into formulas that other people have already worked out.
In TFA they quote the example of people not being able to get into theater or arts courses at college because they don't have algebra 2. Where's the advantage to society in that?
can shoot it down with 24 cent shotgun shell
From 2km away?
But it sure is a neat way of getting rid of the evidence...
And the witnesses.
Expendable.
Post to undo faulty moderation.
Actually, America's Army was a US military recruitment tool.
Cheating in that game could be considered patriotic, educational trolling of the DoD to teach them that video games are a terribly useless way to find new recruits.
Bravo, good sir! The b-tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of simulated patriots and aimbotting tyrants.
In a real war, cheating is considered a good thing. It means fewer of your troops going home in body bags vs the enemy.
General Patton: “No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.”
Because apparently timothy thinks we're too stupid to understand 'nanometre'? ugh
The original TFA was written for a general audience, many of whom probably aren't sure what "nano" is.
The progress of Tails is welcome, but there is a lack of trustworthy hardware to run it on. All current Intel processors are hopelessly and fundamentally flawed. The state of x86 security was never good, but Intel has taken it to a whole new level, and now provides the perfect platform for invisible backdoors, rootkits, and other malware.
True, so use a computer that can't be traced to you.
Buy a second hand laptop for cash in a private sale, somewhere away from the cameras, and use it only for that purpose. Transfer files using USB keys or disposable data CDs, to or from your working computer which is air-gaped, or at least not used for anything the watchers may be interested in.
If you are thinking of storing illegal things this way, remember that the FBI can take over the server, keep it running, and then track it back to you.
The "server" will be someone ELSE's laser printer, and you'll probably be accessing it via a VPN, or Tails and Tor, so it's not a problem (for you).
Yeah, and I wanted to put a urinal in the stairwell of my parking garage.
No dice - couldn't get a permit. Not ADA compliant because of the stairs, didn't pass health because no dividers, and there wasn't a sit-down for the ladies.
So, no urinal.
The bums still piss in the stairwell, however.
See if you can get a permit for a large sink.
Actually looking at the graphs in TFA, the total losses have been pretty steady for the last five years, just proportionally more in the Air Force in 2015, as opposed to the other services.
whoa there! The article you quoted is misleading. First off, it lists Recommended Power Supplies. This is NOT the same as the power draw by the GPU. This is the manufacturers recommendation of what you need to ensure stable performance of EVERYTHING in the PC with that card installed. The higher end the card, the greater the recommended minimum, partly to compensate for increased GPU needs, but also because the kind of people that run these cards are likely to have a crap load of other stuff that needs feeding as well.
Actually the high power recommendations are to cope with the clueless noobs who buy white box PSUs, which can barely supply 50% of their rated current for an extended period without catching fire. Oh, and maybe also to allow some small headroom for later system expansion.
It's really a Chrome issue, on Firefox LasPass uses an OS dialog. According to TFA there's an outstanding issue report in chromium to make the legit extension URL more clear (the exploit relies on the user not seeing a slight modification to the extension URL).
Also in TFA, he was able to pretty effectively fake the OS dialog. Most people would be fooled.
"Once both sides of a conflict start playing with nukes, even if it starts out with small, tactical, targeted nukes, the other side will too, and whichever side is losing will be tempted to scale up, "
Even if the conflict is with a non-nuclear country, or one with no long-distance delivery technology, there is a fear that a contained strike, say the US blasting an ISIS underground redoubt, would 'normalize' nuclear warfare in the future.
Not to mention that if the fallout is encountered by even one citizen of another nuclear state, let alone an embassy or crosses a border into a nuclear armed country, they may well consider that an attack and retaliate. Nuking Daesh should be safe-ish in that one regard, but even there you have Israel (still denying they have nukes), would they show restraint if, say, fallout from a Russian nuke contaminated their northern territories? How would Turkey, a member of NATO, respond if their country was irradiated? If a Chinese embassy was rendered uninhabitable by fallout, what would they do? Best to leave that can of radioactive worms unopened.
That's a load of crap. Do you really think Israel with its piddling few bombs and tiny population would go nuclear on Russia?
Most likely there's be a bucket load of bluster and a demand for an apology and compensation. Even China would not risk an expansion of a situation based on an accident. The MAD doctrine still applies.