He's either going to have to dig up some at least semi-reputable cryptographers to throw under the bus, or admit that he's "pulling a trump" and ignoring all the experts around him in favor of his own opinions on the matter.
It's at least partly a political question though, not just a technical question (I mean the whole issue, not the senator's question).
Fire exits make stores less secure, for example, but we still require stores to have them.
Now if this requires the director to be explicit about the tradeoffs, fine.
So much money has been added to gov education over the decades from the gov and private sector in the USA.
The amount per student in some city and states should have produced amazing results if a lack of spending in the past was the only problem.
What the hell are you talking about? In my state, total per-pupil funding is about $7000-$8000/yr, and has barely been keeping pace with inflation. For reference, daycare for one kid costs about $2000 PER MONTH here - what the schools get is a pittance by comparison. And keep in mind that daycare can be done by college students and stay-at-home moms, while teachers must have a bachelor's degree, minimum, and often have an advanced degree. Many of those are STEM degrees, worth quite a bit in industry.
The schools haven't been adequately funded for decades, and things are only getting worse.
You must be in a low cost of living state: see this.
The comparison to daycare is also bizarre. Daycare, you may be surprised to learn, lasts all day, and doesn't take random days, weeks, and MONTHS off.
Because you can use emoji characters? "Oh look how cute I can name this variable *pile of poo emoji* now I want to be a programmer more than anything in the world".
OK, so my son would think that was funny and cool, and likely be more interested because of it.
It could be that before, they were in blissful ignorance of how people felt about them; with social networking, it isn't possible to ignore what people think of you, and how much better than you their life is, and who they spend their time with.
Really? You think that social media "shatters" illusions, rather than allows all your friends to create the online illusion that their lives are wonderful, so that you can feel depressed at the comparison of their fake life with your real life?
Alternate formulation of the conclusion: now that they can observe the world more easily, American teenagers start to realize how crappy the world really is, completely unlike the imagined perfect America they have been fed all their lives like their parents and their parents' parents, and therefore no longer feel the same entitlement and superiority towards the rest of the world.
And now they see how crappy the world is, maybe they will try to change it.
Actually, what they "observe" is:
Fake wonderful pictures of the supposed lives of their peers and stars, via social media, to which they compare themselves and feel inferior, and
Insane freak out SJW stuff about how everything bad is someone else's fault, probably some old white guy's fault. Whipping them up into hate and anger.
In any case, depression is not a healthy or useful response to anything. See Kramer's Against Depression.
Those CO2 reclamation plants are called trees. However, for them to work, we not only have to plant them and care for them until they are self-sufficient, but we also have to stop emitting so much atmospheric carbon.
Oh, is that all?!
It's obviously not that easy, therefore mitigation measures may be needed.
Instead of try a chemistry experiment of unprecedented proportions, it would be much better if we simply addressed the problem directly: remove the excess CO2 from the air. It will take years and millions of CO2 reclamation plants but it will get the job done! The question is not if we can do it but if we will do it.
So instead you'll do a financial, political, and geo-engineering experiment of unprecedented proportions?
When can I transfer my consciousness to silicon? Transhumanism anyone?
The problem of course being that you won't be transferring your consciousness; you'll be simulating it. The simulation won't be you, no matter how good it is.
The difference is that there is no document that proves ownership of a car in the UK.
So... then... if I steal a car in the UK it's mine because the owner can't prove otherwise?
I'm sure I'm missing something, but that sounds really fucking broken.
How the fuck do you establish ownership?
If someone steals your bag of bagels, how do you establish ownership?
It seems unlikely there could such a huge range of possible disputes over ownership of bagels.
Just one possible example: aging parent originally bought the car, but adult child has been taking over more and more of driving it, and maintaining it. Do they own it now? If so, how much of it?
Sure, you can just adjudicate this stuff, but for big pieces of property, a system of title, liens, controlled transfers, and so forth seems to work well.
You don't think that's a lot? Judging by Slashdot, that is more than the total value of Netflix. Of course watching Netflix's line-up is sometimes like watching the movies on MST3k without the riffing... so I'm guessing that's why people are willing to pay more to hackers than to Netflix.
For the whole world, for the whole year, as much high profile hacking as was going on?
Nearly one in four believe stealing information online is not as bad as stealing property in ‘real life’
That depends entirely on what you mean by "information".
Believing that Disney et al 's hijacking of copyright to totally pervert the system from what the founders intended is a travesty that deserves civil disobedience is not a "contradictory belief" to also believing you shouldn't steal your neighbor's stuff.
You can go to prison for copying Steamboat Willie 90 years after it was published.
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Capitalism needs socialism in order to avoid becoming like Somalia.
Somalia looks like Google, Amazon, and Facebook?
Or America looks like Somalia?
I'm not following your argument here.
What's "reasonable"?
That will be adjudicated, when necessary. Which is sensible.
E.g. what about some one-off cheap $1 toy? Is selling that illegal without an easily replaceable battery? There are going to be edge cases.
And then what? Politely ask the suspect to get in the car?
It's armed, of course. Maybe with webbing immobilization stuff (sure ... )
You have 30 seconds to comply!
That was supposed to be "choose to pay more".
... to be able to choose more to get faster service at a restaurant. (Or conversely, get big savings if you are willing to wait.) Sounds good to me.
Oh good heavens. You people are insane.
It is so smug and self aggrandizing. The very essence of Apple. Exponential smugness.
Then based on their history and market, it should do well :)
The FBI is saying that the public law enforcement need justifies weakening already strong encryption.
Though others will disagree that encryption should be anything but the strongest available.
Precisely. It's a political decision (meaning, one that we resolve peacefully through our elected representatives), not a technical issue per se.
Technical details, yes, bring on the tech experts. Deciding which trade-offs to make, well, that's what the political system is for.
He's either going to have to dig up some at least semi-reputable cryptographers to throw under the bus, or admit that he's "pulling a trump" and ignoring all the experts around him in favor of his own opinions on the matter.
It's at least partly a political question though, not just a technical question (I mean the whole issue, not the senator's question).
Fire exits make stores less secure, for example, but we still require stores to have them.
Now if this requires the director to be explicit about the tradeoffs, fine.
As long as they hide the criteria in a block box and call it "AI", they should be fine?
I mean we "don't know" why AI makes the decisions it does, right?
So much money has been added to gov education over the decades from the gov and private sector in the USA.
The amount per student in some city and states should have produced amazing results if a lack of spending in the past was the only problem.
What the hell are you talking about? In my state, total per-pupil funding is about $7000-$8000/yr, and has barely been keeping pace with inflation. For reference, daycare for one kid costs about $2000 PER MONTH here - what the schools get is a pittance by comparison. And keep in mind that daycare can be done by college students and stay-at-home moms, while teachers must have a bachelor's degree, minimum, and often have an advanced degree. Many of those are STEM degrees, worth quite a bit in industry.
The schools haven't been adequately funded for decades, and things are only getting worse.
You must be in a low cost of living state: see this.
The comparison to daycare is also bizarre. Daycare, you may be surprised to learn, lasts all day, and doesn't take random days, weeks, and MONTHS off.
Because you can use emoji characters? "Oh look how cute I can name this variable *pile of poo emoji* now I want to be a programmer more than anything in the world".
OK, so my son would think that was funny and cool, and likely be more interested because of it.
But he'll grow out of it, I swear ...
It could be that before, they were in blissful ignorance of how people felt about them; with social networking, it isn't possible to ignore what people think of you, and how much better than you their life is, and who they spend their time with.
Really? You think that social media "shatters" illusions, rather than allows all your friends to create the online illusion that their lives are wonderful, so that you can feel depressed at the comparison of their fake life with your real life?
Alternate formulation of the conclusion: now that they can observe the world more easily, American teenagers start to realize how crappy the world really is, completely unlike the imagined perfect America they have been fed all their lives like their parents and their parents' parents, and therefore no longer feel the same entitlement and superiority towards the rest of the world.
And now they see how crappy the world is, maybe they will try to change it.
Actually, what they "observe" is:
In any case, depression is not a healthy or useful response to anything. See Kramer's Against Depression.
The app is now simply called "Books," rather than "iBooks," according to the update.
Nooooo, is this finally the end of "i"Everything?
I'm still in mourning over the end of iCarly!
Any writer who thinks he doesn't do this is deluding himself. It's a matter of using tropes consciously.
Yep. There is nothing new under the sun. The question is whether you use tropes well.
Those CO2 reclamation plants are called trees. However, for them to work, we not only have to plant them and care for them until they are self-sufficient, but we also have to stop emitting so much atmospheric carbon.
Oh, is that all?!
It's obviously not that easy, therefore mitigation measures may be needed.
Instead of try a chemistry experiment of unprecedented proportions, it would be much better if we simply addressed the problem directly: remove the excess CO2 from the air. It will take years and millions of CO2 reclamation plants but it will get the job done! The question is not if we can do it but if we will do it.
So instead you'll do a financial, political, and geo-engineering experiment of unprecedented proportions?
I'm not sure which one is better; just sayin' ...
When can I transfer my consciousness to silicon? Transhumanism anyone?
The problem of course being that you won't be transferring your consciousness; you'll be simulating it. The simulation won't be you, no matter how good it is.
So ... then ... if I steal a car in the UK it's mine because the owner can't prove otherwise?
I'm sure I'm missing something, but that sounds really fucking broken.
How the fuck do you establish ownership?
If someone steals your bag of bagels, how do you establish ownership?
It seems unlikely there could such a huge range of possible disputes over ownership of bagels.
Just one possible example: aging parent originally bought the car, but adult child has been taking over more and more of driving it, and maintaining it. Do they own it now? If so, how much of it?
Sure, you can just adjudicate this stuff, but for big pieces of property, a system of title, liens, controlled transfers, and so forth seems to work well.
172 billion? That's all??
You don't think that's a lot? Judging by Slashdot, that is more than the total value of Netflix. Of course watching Netflix's line-up is sometimes like watching the movies on MST3k without the riffing... so I'm guessing that's why people are willing to pay more to hackers than to Netflix.
For the whole world, for the whole year, as much high profile hacking as was going on?
Well, I was expecting more anyway ...
If Twitter's going to be the official emergency management channel from now on, I guess I'd better recover my own Twitter password ...
Fair enough ... I would consider not knowing your Twitter password a badge of honor (not having an account even more so).
Alerting broadcast media might have been a better use of time (if he wasn't already doing that) though.
Nearly one in four believe stealing information online is not as bad as stealing property in ‘real life’
That depends entirely on what you mean by "information".
Believing that Disney et al 's hijacking of copyright to totally pervert the system from what the founders intended is a travesty that deserves civil disobedience is not a "contradictory belief" to also believing you shouldn't steal your neighbor's stuff.
You can go to prison for copying Steamboat Willie 90 years after it was published.