As you say, the big problem with wooden construction is the joints. By "concrete" what they really mean is "reinforced masonry" which is steel tension members embedded in stone. If the same effort adding tension members to masonry was made to wooden construction, then it would gain a similar improvement in strength.
Number 3 would have no chances under the supreme court without a constitutional amendment, the reason the sawed off shotgun got rejected was because it wasn't useful in a war scenario.
The defendants were not represented at the USSC trial. The matter was referred back to the lower court for a determination but again, the defendants were not represented and by that time one was dead. The whole thing was a setup.
Absolutely incorrect. There are multiple chains of authority that someone in the IC can report to if they discovery improper behavior. Local office, agency IG, other agency IGs, the IC IG, even the Congressional Oversight Committees.
Snowden contacted journalists about his upcoming leaks before he even got his job. He made no attempt to contact any of the reporting agencies. He made no complaints or reports of abuses or improper behavior by his agency. He also downloaded ALL the data he could trick people into giving him access to, rather than revealing only those items he thought were criminal.
Snowden was not a whistleblower. He was an "information wants to be free!" anti-government attention-whore, and rotting in Russia is better than he deserves for his acts.
Snowden was a contractor so most or all of the avenues to report malfeasance available to federal employees were not available to him. And if they had been available, it would not matter because statutory whistle-blower laws are intended to lure whistle-blowers into the open where they can be persecuted. He did the right thing.
Since the feed includes German domestic accounts. Will the agency have to get a permission letter from every internet user in Germany? The EU? The world?
The only two options I see here, besides of not using the internet, are encrypting everything and or additionally creating a lot of junk data. But since the internet infrastructure is already stressed hard enough here in Germany and our larger telcos give a crap about it even though they get millions of € from the government in order to fix the issues, I prefer the former.
Both encryption and chaff data will be required to foil traffic analysis.
But even encryption is not enough. Traffic analysis goes a long way towards uncovering your tracks; for this reason no nosy govt agency must be ever allowed this data, nor ISPs+transit providers allowed to aggregate it.
So generate more encrypted traffic. Generate an order of magnitude more encrypted traffic.
Sure, it will make all of the various links look like they are an order of magnitude smaller but so what?
Huh? The coal companies even said they are being pushed out by a glut of cheaper natural gas and renewable energy. If they can not provide a product at the same level of quality and at a similar price to competitors then why shouldn't they go out of business?
It is especially difficult when laws are passed requiring customers to buy from your competitors lowering your capacity factor. A suspicious person might think lowering the capacity factor of nuclear power plants which have low marginal costs was intentional.
After the nuclear power plants and coal power plants shut down because they are not being paid for their 24 hour availability, what do you believe will provide power grid stability?
Secondly, we need to restore our education system that we had before Clinton/W got ahold of it. Not everybody is cut out for college. Look at CHina/Europe/Japan. In America, we require nearly all students to take our tests such as GRE, ACT, SAT, etc. Elsewhere, by soph year, they have weeded out those that will go to college and those that will not. The ones not going will follow down a blue-collar path and learn various trades. We need to do the same here. there is nothing wrong with learning a trade, esp. when we need them.
But if these students do not accumulate crippling educational debt, our system of debt peonage will collapse.
China has always been a fascist oligarchy, like pretty much all Communist nations end up (or, more accurately, start at and never move beyond). A small group of families run everything, and maintain dictatorial control via 100% State control of key industries. China still does this - complete control of communications, steel, transportation (air and rail), banks, and a few other key industries. It also maintains strict controls on the flow of currency in and out of the country, as well as goods and services; not just tariffs on imports, but required tariffs and controls on exports.
The US is also a hydraulic empire with little political representation of its population; it is just not as blatant.
I can't think of any commercially successful attempt to put Windows on something that isn't an x86 PC. And I don't see why that thing would be any different.
Microsoft really screwed that up with their attempt to leverage their desktop monopoly into portable devices which do not support a desktop interface and porting that back to desktop Windows screwing it up also.
It does not take ARM to develop a usable ARM based desktop; all it takes is for Microsoft to screw it up for both themselves and Intel. Intel should have been working on a desktop replacement for Windows years ago just to keep MIcrosoft focused.
You get Windows for the huge software library accumulated over decades and because you get the best support for just about anything you can plug into your computer,
Not anymore and less all the time. Every revision of Windows after XP has removed more compatibility with 32 bit applications so Linux now has better Win32 legacy support than MIcrosoft does.
Unless someone has their machine connected directly to the internet (in which case you've got a whole lot of bigger problems), what's the likelyhood that this would actually be exploited?
Since very few consumers use a VLAN for their local network, their system can be attacked by compromised systems on their LAN.
Cleanest at the actual plant, but look at how much waste was produced making the fuel. We still haven't managed to clean up oak ridge and we're 5 billion into it. Then add to that the waste products take millions of years to decay, (which we still don't have a viable storage plan for)...and even after that are a poisonous heavy metal.
Did you mean Hanford?
The nuclear waste at Hanford was from chemical extraction of plutonium from the plutonium breeder reactors on the site. What is there has very little if anything to do with the nuclear power industry.
Oh, I forgot... it could be worse, they could track phones that spend most evening in the same house as another phone that has visited a site like Ashley Madison and serve ads for private eyes and divorce lawyers, or they could geofence bars or pubs or liquor stores and if you visit them too often you start getting ads for rehab, or if a phone that spends most nights, again, with another and one phone is spotted spending a lot of time at a place that sells guns it serves the other with ads for crisis centers, battered spouses shelters, etc... no, the thing with ads for lawyers is NOT as creepy as it can get, either.
I would be disappointed if they are *not* doing all of the above.
How is it that they operate in the operations and intelligence business? Worst case is based on capabilities and not alleged intentions?
How about geofencing places where political rallies are held, and advertising contraceptives and assisted suicide to attendees? OR... serving ads for deals too good to pass up to people at those venues, (legitimately,) just to get people to show up for their free, or steeply discounted... whatever, so as to get their personal info so as to be able to ID them, get their license plates, see where they live, etc. No, the ads for personal injury lawyers is tame stuff, really, and not really anything to get excited over.
I have no doubt someone is collecting this data even if they have not figured out what to do with it yet.
Um, I’m pretty sure they could get a whole lot worse. Are they deliberately causing car crashes, sabotaging consumer safety products, or hiring thugs to beat random (rich-seeming) strangers to drum up business yet?
I do not know abut beating people up but someone is responsible for sabotaging car design leading to more crashes which would otherwise not happen.
Which TV shows show ubiquitous civil assets forfeiture?
The Wire did that in one of the early series. If memory serves, they gave the bloke a receipt and told him he could have the money back if he could prove it came from a legal source.
That was the only one which came to mind with the added benefit of the Baltimore cops recently having been revealed to be doing exactly that on a larger and more personal scale without the receipt part.
they're paying for their electricity, what's the problem?
The problem is that the power company does not have a rate structure in place which can fund the capitol expansion necessary for unplanned demand. Since it is a government regulated utility, this is not surprising and to be expected.
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As you say, the big problem with wooden construction is the joints. By "concrete" what they really mean is "reinforced masonry" which is steel tension members embedded in stone. If the same effort adding tension members to masonry was made to wooden construction, then it would gain a similar improvement in strength.
3. Raise the requirements for assault rifles and other weapons with the potential for mass carnage.
Raise the requirements beyond what? Manufacturer and registration of new assault rifles for civilian use has been banned since 1986.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Number 3 would have no chances under the supreme court without a constitutional amendment, the reason the sawed off shotgun got rejected was because it wasn't useful in a war scenario.
The defendants were not represented at the USSC trial. The matter was referred back to the lower court for a determination but again, the defendants were not represented and by that time one was dead. The whole thing was a setup.
http://www.law.nyu.edu/sites/d...
Absolutely incorrect.
There are multiple chains of authority that someone in the IC can report to if they discovery improper behavior. Local office, agency IG, other agency IGs, the IC IG, even the Congressional Oversight Committees.
Snowden contacted journalists about his upcoming leaks before he even got his job. He made no attempt to contact any of the reporting agencies. He made no complaints or reports of abuses or improper behavior by his agency. He also downloaded ALL the data he could trick people into giving him access to, rather than revealing only those items he thought were criminal.
Snowden was not a whistleblower. He was an "information wants to be free!" anti-government attention-whore, and rotting in Russia is better than he deserves for his acts.
Snowden was a contractor so most or all of the avenues to report malfeasance available to federal employees were not available to him. And if they had been available, it would not matter because statutory whistle-blower laws are intended to lure whistle-blowers into the open where they can be persecuted. He did the right thing.
Microsoft has been a huge contributor to git in the last couple years. Maybe it's time you update your antiquated preconceived ideas.
That is fair. Let's do that.
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
Preconceived ideas about MIcrosoft confirmed.
Have they added a text editing function? I could really use a new editor.
Since the feed includes German domestic accounts. Will the agency have to get a permission letter from every internet user in Germany? The EU? The world?
They have a default opt-in policy.
The only two options I see here, besides of not using the internet, are encrypting everything and or additionally creating a lot of junk data. But since the internet infrastructure is already stressed hard enough here in Germany and our larger telcos give a crap about it even though they get millions of € from the government in order to fix the issues, I prefer the former.
Both encryption and chaff data will be required to foil traffic analysis.
Ultimately Ron Rivest was right but for a different reason.
But even encryption is not enough. Traffic analysis goes a long way towards uncovering your tracks; for this reason no nosy govt agency must be ever allowed this data, nor ISPs+transit providers allowed to aggregate it.
So generate more encrypted traffic. Generate an order of magnitude more encrypted traffic.
Sure, it will make all of the various links look like they are an order of magnitude smaller but so what?
Huh? The coal companies even said they are being pushed out by a glut of cheaper natural gas and renewable energy. If they can not provide a product at the same level of quality and at a similar price to competitors then why shouldn't they go out of business?
It is especially difficult when laws are passed requiring customers to buy from your competitors lowering your capacity factor. A suspicious person might think lowering the capacity factor of nuclear power plants which have low marginal costs was intentional.
After the nuclear power plants and coal power plants shut down because they are not being paid for their 24 hour availability, what do you believe will provide power grid stability?
Between $311 million to $11.8 billion per year? That is only a range of 32dB; maybe you can find a way to increase it further.
Remind me again why we are listening to you for economic planning.
So electric vehicle ranges are 33% lower than advertised? Why am I not surprised?
We have no fly lists so why not no money lists? There is no right to conduct financial transactions.
Back in them olden days, if you were doing anything serious with a computer you would have a Mainframe or at least a Mini-computer.
Back in the olden days, we used development systems on PCs to develop software for minicomputers.
Secondly, we need to restore our education system that we had before Clinton/W got ahold of it. Not everybody is cut out for college. Look at CHina/Europe/Japan. In America, we require nearly all students to take our tests such as GRE, ACT, SAT, etc. Elsewhere, by soph year, they have weeded out those that will go to college and those that will not. The ones not going will follow down a blue-collar path and learn various trades. We need to do the same here. there is nothing wrong with learning a trade, esp. when we need them.
But if these students do not accumulate crippling educational debt, our system of debt peonage will collapse.
When you only hire a percent of the 1% of the best out there your pool is quite limited regardless of salary offered.
That is a great incentive for people to train in the fields affected. There is a critical shortage and they have a 99% chance of not being hired.
China has always been a fascist oligarchy, like pretty much all Communist nations end up (or, more accurately, start at and never move beyond). A small group of families run everything, and maintain dictatorial control via 100% State control of key industries. China still does this - complete control of communications, steel, transportation (air and rail), banks, and a few other key industries. It also maintains strict controls on the flow of currency in and out of the country, as well as goods and services; not just tariffs on imports, but required tariffs and controls on exports.
The US is also a hydraulic empire with little political representation of its population; it is just not as blatant.
I can't think of any commercially successful attempt to put Windows on something that isn't an x86 PC. And I don't see why that thing would be any different.
Microsoft really screwed that up with their attempt to leverage their desktop monopoly into portable devices which do not support a desktop interface and porting that back to desktop Windows screwing it up also.
It does not take ARM to develop a usable ARM based desktop; all it takes is for Microsoft to screw it up for both themselves and Intel. Intel should have been working on a desktop replacement for Windows years ago just to keep MIcrosoft focused.
You get Windows for the huge software library accumulated over decades and because you get the best support for just about anything you can plug into your computer,
Not anymore and less all the time. Every revision of Windows after XP has removed more compatibility with 32 bit applications so Linux now has better Win32 legacy support than MIcrosoft does.
How about an ARM pizza box with PCIe slots, plenty of ECC DIMM slots, and a standard ATX power supply? No? Then I am not interested.
Unless someone has their machine connected directly to the internet (in which case you've got a whole lot of bigger problems), what's the likelyhood that this would actually be exploited?
Since very few consumers use a VLAN for their local network, their system can be attacked by compromised systems on their LAN.
Cleanest at the actual plant, but look at how much waste was produced making the fuel. We still haven't managed to clean up oak ridge and we're 5 billion into it. Then add to that the waste products take millions of years to decay, (which we still don't have a viable storage plan for)...and even after that are a poisonous heavy metal.
Did you mean Hanford?
The nuclear waste at Hanford was from chemical extraction of plutonium from the plutonium breeder reactors on the site. What is there has very little if anything to do with the nuclear power industry.
Oh, I forgot... it could be worse, they could track phones that spend most evening in the same house as another phone that has visited a site like Ashley Madison and serve ads for private eyes and divorce lawyers, or they could geofence bars or pubs or liquor stores and if you visit them too often you start getting ads for rehab, or if a phone that spends most nights, again, with another and one phone is spotted spending a lot of time at a place that sells guns it serves the other with ads for crisis centers, battered spouses shelters, etc... no, the thing with ads for lawyers is NOT as creepy as it can get, either.
I would be disappointed if they are *not* doing all of the above.
How is it that they operate in the operations and intelligence business? Worst case is based on capabilities and not alleged intentions?
How about geofencing places where political rallies are held, and advertising contraceptives and assisted suicide to attendees? OR... serving ads for deals too good to pass up to people at those venues, (legitimately,) just to get people to show up for their free, or steeply discounted... whatever, so as to get their personal info so as to be able to ID them, get their license plates, see where they live, etc. No, the ads for personal injury lawyers is tame stuff, really, and not really anything to get excited over.
I have no doubt someone is collecting this data even if they have not figured out what to do with it yet.
Um, I’m pretty sure they could get a whole lot worse. Are they deliberately causing car crashes, sabotaging consumer safety products, or hiring thugs to beat random (rich-seeming) strangers to drum up business yet?
I do not know abut beating people up but someone is responsible for sabotaging car design leading to more crashes which would otherwise not happen.
Which TV shows show ubiquitous civil assets forfeiture?
The Wire did that in one of the early series. If memory serves, they gave the bloke a receipt and told him he could have the money back if he could prove it came from a legal source.
That was the only one which came to mind with the added benefit of the Baltimore cops recently having been revealed to be doing exactly that on a larger and more personal scale without the receipt part.
they're paying for their electricity, what's the problem?
The problem is that the power company does not have a rate structure in place which can fund the capitol expansion necessary for unplanned demand. Since it is a government regulated utility, this is not surprising and to be expected.