There are actually an indefinitely large number of in-between states between true and false. OTOH, when you reduce it to a binary value (true or false) one must use proper rounding.
In this particular case, I would say he clearly lied, and planned to lie ahead of time. (The last part requires proof that I don't have, but I consider it as more than 75% probable.)
N.B.: It is potentially possible that he actually told the technical truth (i.e., less than the specified number of US citizens were known to be spied on) and that wouldn't change the fact that he lied. In actuality, my suspicion is that more then the specified number (millions and millions) of US citizens were spied upon, and that he either knew this, or had reason to know it.
You don't really want to block all non-site pages. Some web pages host content from different sites. Additionally, some sites host ads on their own site. So that's (probably) the wrong place to cut.
When I remember back to before lots of web based advertising, I remember a better internet. Perhaps it's because my interests don't align well with LOLCats, but they ARE my interests.
P.S.: Ads are occasionally so annoying that I uninstalled Flash, after installing it. Usually, however, I just don't go to sites that try to annoy me with it. (OTOH, I also consider Flash to be a severe security hole, which is another reason I uninstalled it. So it's not all down to annoyance with ads.)
Well, Steve Jobs was. Of course he wasn't as much of an innovator as Steve Wozniak, but he *was* an innovator. Also Hewlett and Packard. Also dead. And who's that guy pushing Space-X?
OTOH, these people probably wouldn't move to an isolated enclave of the rich. So it might still be a good idea.
Sorry, but no. Throughout most of history upward mobility was much higher than currently. It was also usually quite violent. Up through the middel ages rulers could expect to be assassinated, or otherwise killed off, by someone aiming to replace them. Most of the Caesars died violently in office. Anyone who could put a gang together could be an army officer. Etc. (Of course, the army officers also regularly died.)
Now if you go back earlier, the top was much lower, and about one out of every 50 people could expect to get to the top. And it wasn't be strict inheritance. Even when there were formal elgibility rules, power was respected, and power meant a large number of friends. Also, formal elgibility rules often allowed cousins to rightfully succeed to power. Midieval France and post-conquest England were anomolies, even if they do figure largely in US history.
Nope. Because trying to extract it is likely to result in a major release. Methyl cathlates are a bit fragile, expecially when they get warmer. And the ocean's been warming.
P.S.: Methyl cathlates are solid while they exist, to "extracting" them is more like underwater coal mining than drilling for oil. With the exciting additional feature that if you heat them too much, or give them too abrupt a shock, they're likely to explode. For some reason the companies that have previously looked into mining them decided it was a bad idea.
Actually, 4 feet is NOT the upper limit. It the upper amount that they consider reasonable to project. There could occur events that would be considerably larger...they're just a bit unlikely. One example is the dissolution of the methyl cathlates releasing an unmeasured, but large, amount of methane into the atmosphere. That could easily yield an increase larger than 4 feet. Or perhaps not, if there isn't enough methane there, or if it decomposed into the sea water on its way up. There've been a time or two in the past when methane releases may have lead to rapid changes, but it was so long ago that the evidence is equivocal.
Then of course there's "giant meteor impacts". A danger that's not quantifiable, but which can have effects anywhere from trivial to species-ending for multiple species, depending on just how large it is, just where it hits, and whether the shock-wave from the impact sets off a chain of volcanos. (There's some evidence that the Deccan Tapps was initiated by a large meteor impacting on the other side of the world.) Again, the times this has happened before are so long ago that the evidence is equivocal. Timings become very difficult to determine in the distant past.
There are lots of other uncommon effects that have undeterminable probability. E.g., it's known that methyl cathlates can be "detonated" by shock waves...especially as the approach the critical temperature at which they would release without other causes. The oceans are getting warmer, so they are closer to release than they have been previously. Perhaps they could already be set off by an earthquake in the wrong place. Perhaps they are still stable. Probably SOME of them are unstable, but which and how many? It's a complex problem that depends on temperature (cooler temperatures increases stability), pressure (more pressure increases stability) and inclusions in the "crystal" matrix (these can go either way).
I really don't expect most of Antarctica to melt. I suspect that before that happens other effects will cause human civilization to collapse. (Massive famines leading to wars, e.g.) and that then, as no more CO2 is being pumped into the atmosphere, things will slowly return to normal, which probably means a glaciation, being as warm oceans and cold continents tends to yield massive snowpacks. But how that would work out depends on the timing of events I'll never see happen.
1) Actually the number of people who have access to it is over a million, so this requirement is satisfied. 2) EVERYBODY is a reasonable suspect, so this requirement is satisfied. 3) Terrorism is defined by the law in such a way that hiding what you are doing is plausible grounds for suspicion of terrorism, so this requirement is satisfied.
Aren't you glad you're cool with mass survielance.
The reason may be that you can't trust it to stay disabled. Other posts have claimed that software can re-enable your disabled TPM without letting you know. (I suspect that it may require a reboot.)
At least in the case of Dell you were wrong. I don't know about now, but a couple of decades ago I tried to get a dial-up modem replaced in a Dell desktop, and only a Dell part would work. Which the company wouldn't sell, because they didn't sell that model any more.
I haven't looked at Dell since, so they may have changed that policy.
Well, the USArmy and Universities put together the original internet, and Cern designed the web on top of it. Corporations, except for universities and a few other non-profits, were late-comers to the party.
OTOH, the original internet was specifically designed to avoid centralized routing. Basically, when power grabbers took over ICANN and were blessed by the US govt. the writing was on the wall. You shouldn't be surprised by anything that has happened since then...well, actually the existence of torrents is a *bit* of a surprise, and there were a few others. All having to do with temporarily maintaining a bit of open communication.
P.S.: Don't trust encryption. The NSA is currently putting together a "big" quantum computer, and one of the kinds of calculation that is particularly good at is prime factorization. They may not be able to crack that message THIS year.
The problem is that methyl-cathlates are tender. A shock (like a drill, perhaps) can cause them to destabilze into methane and water...and the shock of that can propagate.
One reason this resource hasn't been tapped previously is that the people who looked into it decided it was too dangerous for the potential payoff.
The thing about that "lowered solar output" is that it's a part of a cycle. I forget the length, though IIRC is isn't the same as the 11 year sunspot cycle. But it's not a permanent lowering. It's not even a long-term lowering. And, again IIRC, it's predicted to be already nearing the next up-swing.
Yes, there is currently lowered solar output. So **** what! It's just one part of a cycle, and it doesn't stop at the bottom just because you want it to.
Encryption protects the contents of the message, not who it's directed to. So if you want to disguise who the communication is directed to, you need to hide it in something that will be downloaded by lots of people. Steganography of porn videos is the best idea I have. If the message is properly encrypted it can't be read by anyone who doesn't have the right key. Most people who download it won't even know it's there. And any govt. agents that are attempting to track the messages will be thoroughly distracted.
Unfortunately, it doesn't disguise the sender, only the recipient. And it's an approach that uses a lot of bandwidth. Perhaps you could produce the pictures for someone else to post, but then how will your target audience find the right porn flicks to decode?
Where are you going to find these candidates who will support the constitution after being elected. (Yeah, I changed your target group. But the ones who change their minds after being elected are a big part of the problem.)
Actually, we can " pick up the next month and say "OK, tin-foil-hat guys, you're being paranoid. Where's your proof this week?".". People do it all the time. That's a part of what authority depends on.
Well, as for clothes, my personal reason is comfort. (I'm ignoring legal reasons and social reasons.) Most furniture is less comfortable to sit on without clothes. The temperature is a lot more variable without clothes. Etc.
I don't wear clothes for my privacy. Possibly you could say I do it for the privacy of others
Probably the only real alternative is to find a country that is "aggressively neutral" towards your desired market. And don't take any customers that reside in that country. This will make you of minimal interest to that country.
Of course, you also need a good security model. No government can be trusted. Remember that governments are usually just gangsters that have been in power so long that people have forgotten about their origins. (Yes, there are exceptions. But damn few. And they don't keep their morality.)
You haven't been watching long. The Republicans enact the abusive legislation. The Democrats howl about it. Then, when the Democrats are in power, they start using the new powers abusively. (Sometimes the Republicans howl about this, but they're more likely to complain when the government does something that helps people who aren't wealthy.)
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There are actually an indefinitely large number of in-between states between true and false. OTOH, when you reduce it to a binary value (true or false) one must use proper rounding.
In this particular case, I would say he clearly lied, and planned to lie ahead of time. (The last part requires proof that I don't have, but I consider it as more than 75% probable.)
N.B.: It is potentially possible that he actually told the technical truth (i.e., less than the specified number of US citizens were known to be spied on) and that wouldn't change the fact that he lied. In actuality, my suspicion is that more then the specified number (millions and millions) of US citizens were spied upon, and that he either knew this, or had reason to know it.
Well, to be honest most of the "clogging of the tubes" is done by NetFlix et al. I've got to grant you the other two, however.
You don't really want to block all non-site pages. Some web pages host content from different sites. Additionally, some sites host ads on their own site. So that's (probably) the wrong place to cut.
When I remember back to before lots of web based advertising, I remember a better internet. Perhaps it's because my interests don't align well with LOLCats, but they ARE my interests.
P.S.: Ads are occasionally so annoying that I uninstalled Flash, after installing it. Usually, however, I just don't go to sites that try to annoy me with it. (OTOH, I also consider Flash to be a severe security hole, which is another reason I uninstalled it. So it's not all down to annoyance with ads.)
P.P.S.: You kids! Get off my lawn!
I think you overrate him. The best I can do is "I guess he was better than Sarah Palin".
Well, Steve Jobs was. Of course he wasn't as much of an innovator as Steve Wozniak, but he *was* an innovator. Also Hewlett and Packard. Also dead. And who's that guy pushing Space-X?
OTOH, these people probably wouldn't move to an isolated enclave of the rich. So it might still be a good idea.
Sorry, but no. Throughout most of history upward mobility was much higher than currently. It was also usually quite violent. Up through the middel ages rulers could expect to be assassinated, or otherwise killed off, by someone aiming to replace them. Most of the Caesars died violently in office. Anyone who could put a gang together could be an army officer. Etc. (Of course, the army officers also regularly died.)
Now if you go back earlier, the top was much lower, and about one out of every 50 people could expect to get to the top. And it wasn't be strict inheritance. Even when there were formal elgibility rules, power was respected, and power meant a large number of friends. Also, formal elgibility rules often allowed cousins to rightfully succeed to power. Midieval France and post-conquest England were anomolies, even if they do figure largely in US history.
Nope. Because trying to extract it is likely to result in a major release. Methyl cathlates are a bit fragile, expecially when they get warmer. And the ocean's been warming.
P.S.: Methyl cathlates are solid while they exist, to "extracting" them is more like underwater coal mining than drilling for oil. With the exciting additional feature that if you heat them too much, or give them too abrupt a shock, they're likely to explode. For some reason the companies that have previously looked into mining them decided it was a bad idea.
That's only true if the curve is continuous. There exist curves that are discontinuous at every point.
Actually, 4 feet is NOT the upper limit. It the upper amount that they consider reasonable to project. There could occur events that would be considerably larger...they're just a bit unlikely. One example is the dissolution of the methyl cathlates releasing an unmeasured, but large, amount of methane into the atmosphere. That could easily yield an increase larger than 4 feet. Or perhaps not, if there isn't enough methane there, or if it decomposed into the sea water on its way up. There've been a time or two in the past when methane releases may have lead to rapid changes, but it was so long ago that the evidence is equivocal.
Then of course there's "giant meteor impacts". A danger that's not quantifiable, but which can have effects anywhere from trivial to species-ending for multiple species, depending on just how large it is, just where it hits, and whether the shock-wave from the impact sets off a chain of volcanos. (There's some evidence that the Deccan Tapps was initiated by a large meteor impacting on the other side of the world.) Again, the times this has happened before are so long ago that the evidence is equivocal. Timings become very difficult to determine in the distant past.
There are lots of other uncommon effects that have undeterminable probability. E.g., it's known that methyl cathlates can be "detonated" by shock waves...especially as the approach the critical temperature at which they would release without other causes. The oceans are getting warmer, so they are closer to release than they have been previously. Perhaps they could already be set off by an earthquake in the wrong place. Perhaps they are still stable. Probably SOME of them are unstable, but which and how many? It's a complex problem that depends on temperature (cooler temperatures increases stability), pressure (more pressure increases stability) and inclusions in the "crystal" matrix (these can go either way).
I really don't expect most of Antarctica to melt. I suspect that before that happens other effects will cause human civilization to collapse. (Massive famines leading to wars, e.g.) and that then, as no more CO2 is being pumped into the atmosphere, things will slowly return to normal, which probably means a glaciation, being as warm oceans and cold continents tends to yield massive snowpacks. But how that would work out depends on the timing of events I'll never see happen.
1) Actually the number of people who have access to it is over a million, so this requirement is satisfied.
2) EVERYBODY is a reasonable suspect, so this requirement is satisfied.
3) Terrorism is defined by the law in such a way that hiding what you are doing is plausible grounds for suspicion of terrorism, so this requirement is satisfied.
Aren't you glad you're cool with mass survielance.
The reason may be that you can't trust it to stay disabled. Other posts have claimed that software can re-enable your disabled TPM without letting you know. (I suspect that it may require a reboot.)
At least in the case of Dell you were wrong. I don't know about now, but a couple of decades ago I tried to get a dial-up modem replaced in a Dell desktop, and only a Dell part would work. Which the company wouldn't sell, because they didn't sell that model any more.
I haven't looked at Dell since, so they may have changed that policy.
Moby Dick. But Ahab will be a thorough-going villian, intent on destroying an endangered species. And Ishmael will be an "unindicted co-conspirator".
An excellent comment, even if you slightly miss the point. Different countries will filter different things...which, actually, is the main hope.
Well, the USArmy and Universities put together the original internet, and Cern designed the web on top of it. Corporations, except for universities and a few other non-profits, were late-comers to the party.
OTOH, the original internet was specifically designed to avoid centralized routing. Basically, when power grabbers took over ICANN and were blessed by the US govt. the writing was on the wall. You shouldn't be surprised by anything that has happened since then...well, actually the existence of torrents is a *bit* of a surprise, and there were a few others. All having to do with temporarily maintaining a bit of open communication.
P.S.: Don't trust encryption. The NSA is currently putting together a "big" quantum computer, and one of the kinds of calculation that is particularly good at is prime factorization. They may not be able to crack that message THIS year.
The problem is that methyl-cathlates are tender. A shock (like a drill, perhaps) can cause them to destabilze into methane and water...and the shock of that can propagate.
One reason this resource hasn't been tapped previously is that the people who looked into it decided it was too dangerous for the potential payoff.
The thing about that "lowered solar output" is that it's a part of a cycle. I forget the length, though IIRC is isn't the same as the 11 year sunspot cycle. But it's not a permanent lowering. It's not even a long-term lowering. And, again IIRC, it's predicted to be already nearing the next up-swing.
Yes, there is currently lowered solar output. So **** what! It's just one part of a cycle, and it doesn't stop at the bottom just because you want it to.
I feel it's quite difficult to get less than none, which is what we have. (Clearly your taste is different from mine.)
Encryption protects the contents of the message, not who it's directed to. So if you want to disguise who the communication is directed to, you need to hide it in something that will be downloaded by lots of people. Steganography of porn videos is the best idea I have. If the message is properly encrypted it can't be read by anyone who doesn't have the right key. Most people who download it won't even know it's there. And any govt. agents that are attempting to track the messages will be thoroughly distracted.
Unfortunately, it doesn't disguise the sender, only the recipient. And it's an approach that uses a lot of bandwidth. Perhaps you could produce the pictures for someone else to post, but then how will your target audience find the right porn flicks to decode?
Where are you going to find these candidates who will support the constitution after being elected. (Yeah, I changed your target group. But the ones who change their minds after being elected are a big part of the problem.)
Actually, we can " pick up the next month and say "OK, tin-foil-hat guys, you're being paranoid. Where's your proof this week?".". People do it all the time. That's a part of what authority depends on.
Well, as for clothes, my personal reason is comfort. (I'm ignoring legal reasons and social reasons.) Most furniture is less comfortable to sit on without clothes. The temperature is a lot more variable without clothes. Etc.
I don't wear clothes for my privacy. Possibly you could say I do it for the privacy of others
Probably the only real alternative is to find a country that is "aggressively neutral" towards your desired market. And don't take any customers that reside in that country. This will make you of minimal interest to that country.
Of course, you also need a good security model. No government can be trusted. Remember that governments are usually just gangsters that have been in power so long that people have forgotten about their origins. (Yes, there are exceptions. But damn few. And they don't keep their morality.)
You haven't been watching long. The Republicans enact the abusive legislation. The Democrats howl about it. Then, when the Democrats are in power, they start using the new powers abusively. (Sometimes the Republicans howl about this, but they're more likely to complain when the government does something that helps people who aren't wealthy.)