"There is also value in routing your traffic to a different legal jurisdiction"
Not really. There are networks of cooperative agreements in place because that loophole has been well known for 20 years.
It raises the cost of a compromise. They actually have to go get the data, they don't already have it on file. Your ISP will (happily or unhappily) log all your traffic and turn the data over to the government on legal request. Some foreign VPN operator might not be so forthcoming. And if they're sufficiently fly-by-night, they might well go out of business before they get around to fulfilling any requests.
I think the equipment needed to do a complete manufacturing verification on such a CPU would be difficult/expensive to get hold of, but I'm not an expert.
If you don't build the equipment, how do you trust it?
At some point, you've got to trust someone.
How do we structure society such that untrustworthy people are removed from positions of power in a timely fashion? Because I don't want to go back to an antique CPU, and I also don't want to have to make my own CPU from artisanal sand.
I never thought I'd live in a time when a US prez needs a spanking. That's at least the usual cure for a sullen kid in the terrible two that throws a tantrum for not getting the toy he wants.
The problem is, Trump likes getting spanked. The spanking is the toy. But if you do it, he'll only expect you to do it again.
It's been tried but is too much work for too little benefit.
Who's actually tried it in public? Is anyone still trying it in public?
I used to work for a sleazy little web/games company that hosted websites mostly for music acts, including BB King, Rod Stewart, and N'Sync. Before they went under, the last big project they did was make a website for a major electronics manufacturer. They wound up flushing the site and keeping the trademark for a line of mp3 players which was discontinued in 2009, but the site and players were supposed to go hand in hand. The concept of the site, which was a music retail site (CD+mp3, IIRC) was that it had web-of-trust reviews. The whole thing was coded, working, and even literally installed on the hardware (which I set up and documented, as my part of the project.) The whole thing was ready to lick and stick when they killed it. One wonders if both the mp3 e-tail landscape and the device ecosystem would look different today if they'd kept on with it...
The site worked, and the system was resistant to bad actors specifically because of the web of trust system. There was no system-wide rating that I could recall; instead, users rated other users with one to five stars. The system would then use those users' ratings to generate content ratings for you, obviously biased by the ratings you gave those reviewers. Because the goal of the site wasn't to push you to advertisements but to content that you would purchase, there was no gaming of the system — it was meant to work in good faith because it was more likely to lead you to content that you would actually purchase.
I wonder if anyone owns that company's assets now, or if they just went into the aether. It doesn't much matter, probably, because the ASP/Jscript wouldn't be particularly valuable today.
But how do you propose that a new user gets trusted? Do they have an "untrusted" score to begin with?
There would likely be two kinds of scores, a system-assigned score, and user-assigned scores. The system would assign you an untrusted score to start with, and only people who chose to see untrusted people would see them at all. But the user's scores would override or at least be weighted more strongly than the system's scores, so once you scored someone, you'd always or never see their posts, or something in between. Groups would be free to choose their own thresholds for membership. Dipping into groups with lower thresholds would be a way to encounter members with lower assigned scores.
Reducing CO2 output to zero is a fine goal, but if they want to increase public transportation ridership, then they should focus on those who are most capable of using it — single people. People with children gain much more from having their own vehicle than people without.
...which would still limit you to 4 axises and 4 buttons. Going exclusively from the joystick to the PC.
Well, no. It wouldn't. You'd be limited to 4 real axes, but you could have more axes which were reported digitally. Not so good for directions, but fine for a throttle. It would be one-way, though, unless perhaps you had a way to toggle power for the second joystick connection. Thanks for the correction.
And yeah, I did leave out those who encoded digital signals on analog axes, like buttons with resistors on.
"(X) Mailing lists and other legitimate uses would be affected"
No, this is for just one service, and the only way legitimate users would be affected is positively, since they would be able to send and receive mass messages, but "only" in accordance with users' wishes (within reason anyhow)
"(X) Users will not put up with it"
I would. Probably others would. Enough percentage to make a useful site? That's the question.
"(X) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves"
No, that is exactly what a web of trust is for. Ideally it comes with a scoring system, and you can assign weights to users yourself. That way you can keep friends who have poor judgement without them screwing up your experience.
"(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical"
Well, that's why I'm asking if anyone is trying it right now. I've never seen anyone attempt to do this with social networking in a way designed to benefit the users.
Poison oak is not a tree. In fact it is protected by trees, since it lives in the understory. Understory plants are substantially different from trees. In order for plants to benefit from increased co2 they have to be capable of additional photosynthesis. But co2 isn't the only thing that's increased, so has insolation. When plants get too hot, they close their stomata so as to retain moisture by reducing respiration. The trees are directly in the sun, so they are heated most.
The trees are not growing significantly faster. The undergrowth may be. But that doesn't increase the chance of a tree starting a fire, only the severity of the fire.
Uh no. Thinning is when you don't take all the trees in an area. Clear cutting is when you do. Maybe you were thinking of "constructing breaks", which is done by clear-cutting strips or through controlled burns.
"both State and Federal funds dried up during the Great Recession, and both clear-cutting and the original techniques fell behind schedule."
It doesn't matter, they were falling behind anyway because this nickel and dime piecemeal approach to fire suppression isn't workable. The natives set fires every year when they moved seasonally. This approach worked for literally thousands of years. Then white people showed up and started building homes in forests like jackasses. Some of the first laws in California prohibited those fires. The rest is history... Or perhaps prelude.
The only realistic fix today is to resume the practice of burning everywhere. Whether we can even manage that now that the fuel load is so high is the real question. Maybe someday we could do the work with armies of wood-chipping robots that eat undergrowth, but not today.
"Point One: Still trying to blame PG&E for the government trying to offload it's forestry and land management obligations off onto a private coporation."
Nonsense. PGE agreed to take that responsibility.
"Point Two: No, municipal, state and federal government have painted PG&E into an insurmountable corner."
Their profits increased and their executive compensation also increased as they failed to meet their legal obligation to maintain the equipment. They provably did not even make a good faith effort.
"The Nun's canyon fire was started when a tree fell on a power pole, not vice versa, and the transformer on the pole blew."
Your own citation shows that PGE located the equipment in question in a unsafe location, then failed to mitigate the risk.
"Point Four and Five: Not all Californians are idiots. But they're the ultra-rare exceptions proving the rule."
You're the chucklefuck who just pasted a citation which defeats your own argument. Thanks for that, but maybe you should STFU about idiots until you learn to read, son.
"And it's easy to be prosperous when you're doing on the backs of a near-slave caste of sub-minimum wage workers who shouldn't even be in the country."
Does anyone have a messaging system with a web of trust system? That would solve the spam problem too, but without arbitrary limits. Of course, it requires technical competence, so perhaps that rules out Whatsapp from ever doing it...
Sidewinders never used MIDI. Instead, they did what everyone else did, and they used the second joystick inputs to add additional features. That gave two more button inputs plus two more axes, so even without doing anything tricky you could implement four buttons and four axes. But by using the four button signals to make a binary number, you could either send four-bit numbers synchronously, or three-bit values asynchronously. I believe both approaches were used, but I'm not 100% on that. Later sidewinders went to USB, also like everyone else.
It's obvious what kind of autoconfiguration is desirable. For example, having devices announce what type of device they are, how many of everything they have, names of samples or patches, etc. I'm not a musician and it's still obvious.
Web integration does seem stupid. Midi will be around long after the web.
Tighter timing and more bandwidth both have obvious utility (and are essentially the same thing.) Midi bandwidth is already a limiting factor, and long has been. And a finer time scale enables additional expressiveness, so all three of those things are really part of one thing that has to happen anyway: making it faster.
TCP/IP has changed MASSIVELY. IPv4 hasn't, but now we have IPv6.
USB has changed MASSIVELY. Enumeration is still the same, but everything else is different. 2 was highly similar to 1, but 3 is very different.
There is one thing that hasn't changed much:. VGA. Sure, it's rarer, but it's still around and while it's gotten faster, it hasn't changed in other ways in absolutely ages. Oh yeah, and RS-232. The only real change there is the introduction of ports that are 5v tolerant. A 10 volt swing between high and low doesn't meet the RS-232C spec formerly used by everyone. And of course lpt ports. My PC has headers for both serial and 1284.
France isn't shrinking, so it's unclear why they are discriminating in favor of families with children. Children take up just as much space on public transportation as adults unless they are infants, in which case they either use basically none, or actually more space (carrier/stroller, plus bag of supplies.) Either way, they're making people without children subsidize those with, which is an unusual move unless you are worried about population growth rate.
Is there some reason the French should be worried about NPG?
"You don't seem to comprehend how tightly controlled they are by the regulators."
They set maximum profits, not minimum, so it's hard to see what relevance your comment might have to the situation at hand, where the problem is excessive profit.
now that it's shut down, all the G+ users are coming out of the woodwork with "There were less idiots on Google Plus!"... if I would have heard this argument louder and earlier, I might have joined.
If you would have paid attention earlier, you might have heard this argument. There's been conversations about it here before in which the same view was espoused.
G+ was certainly a great place to speak to people from all over the world about common interests, in spite of Google trying to break it again and again. And what was up with all that whitespace? Sad thing is, they finally got it working pretty well, I can actually plus tag people correctly and whatnot, and now it's going away. Typical Google.
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"There is also value in routing your traffic to a different legal jurisdiction"
Not really. There are networks of cooperative agreements in place because that loophole has been well known for 20 years.
It raises the cost of a compromise. They actually have to go get the data, they don't already have it on file. Your ISP will (happily or unhappily) log all your traffic and turn the data over to the government on legal request. Some foreign VPN operator might not be so forthcoming. And if they're sufficiently fly-by-night, they might well go out of business before they get around to fulfilling any requests.
I think the equipment needed to do a complete manufacturing verification on such a CPU would be difficult/expensive to get hold of, but I'm not an expert.
If you don't build the equipment, how do you trust it?
At some point, you've got to trust someone.
How do we structure society such that untrustworthy people are removed from positions of power in a timely fashion? Because I don't want to go back to an antique CPU, and I also don't want to have to make my own CPU from artisanal sand.
As it is, the TSA was mostly created as corporate welfare for airlines.
And also as a jobs program, which is now just one more thing Trump has broken.
I never thought I'd live in a time when a US prez needs a spanking. That's at least the usual cure for a sullen kid in the terrible two that throws a tantrum for not getting the toy he wants.
The problem is, Trump likes getting spanked. The spanking is the toy. But if you do it, he'll only expect you to do it again.
So far the only person who has tried to end the shutdown is President Trump. [...] This is officially the Democrats' Shutdown.
Trump took ownership of the shutdown on national television. Troll detected.
It's been tried but is too much work for too little benefit.
Who's actually tried it in public? Is anyone still trying it in public?
I used to work for a sleazy little web/games company that hosted websites mostly for music acts, including BB King, Rod Stewart, and N'Sync. Before they went under, the last big project they did was make a website for a major electronics manufacturer. They wound up flushing the site and keeping the trademark for a line of mp3 players which was discontinued in 2009, but the site and players were supposed to go hand in hand. The concept of the site, which was a music retail site (CD+mp3, IIRC) was that it had web-of-trust reviews. The whole thing was coded, working, and even literally installed on the hardware (which I set up and documented, as my part of the project.) The whole thing was ready to lick and stick when they killed it. One wonders if both the mp3 e-tail landscape and the device ecosystem would look different today if they'd kept on with it...
The site worked, and the system was resistant to bad actors specifically because of the web of trust system. There was no system-wide rating that I could recall; instead, users rated other users with one to five stars. The system would then use those users' ratings to generate content ratings for you, obviously biased by the ratings you gave those reviewers. Because the goal of the site wasn't to push you to advertisements but to content that you would purchase, there was no gaming of the system — it was meant to work in good faith because it was more likely to lead you to content that you would actually purchase.
I wonder if anyone owns that company's assets now, or if they just went into the aether. It doesn't much matter, probably, because the ASP/Jscript wouldn't be particularly valuable today.
But how do you propose that a new user gets trusted? Do they have an "untrusted" score to begin with?
There would likely be two kinds of scores, a system-assigned score, and user-assigned scores. The system would assign you an untrusted score to start with, and only people who chose to see untrusted people would see them at all. But the user's scores would override or at least be weighted more strongly than the system's scores, so once you scored someone, you'd always or never see their posts, or something in between. Groups would be free to choose their own thresholds for membership. Dipping into groups with lower thresholds would be a way to encounter members with lower assigned scores.
Reducing CO2 output to zero is a fine goal, but if they want to increase public transportation ridership, then they should focus on those who are most capable of using it — single people. People with children gain much more from having their own vehicle than people without.
...which would still limit you to 4 axises and 4 buttons. Going exclusively from the joystick to the PC.
Well, no. It wouldn't. You'd be limited to 4 real axes, but you could have more axes which were reported digitally. Not so good for directions, but fine for a throttle. It would be one-way, though, unless perhaps you had a way to toggle power for the second joystick connection. Thanks for the correction.
And yeah, I did leave out those who encoded digital signals on analog axes, like buttons with resistors on.
"(X) Mailing lists and other legitimate uses would be affected"
No, this is for just one service, and the only way legitimate users would be affected is positively, since they would be able to send and receive mass messages, but "only" in accordance with users' wishes (within reason anyhow)
"(X) Users will not put up with it"
I would. Probably others would. Enough percentage to make a useful site? That's the question.
"(X) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves"
No, that is exactly what a web of trust is for. Ideally it comes with a scoring system, and you can assign weights to users yourself. That way you can keep friends who have poor judgement without them screwing up your experience.
"(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical"
Well, that's why I'm asking if anyone is trying it right now. I've never seen anyone attempt to do this with social networking in a way designed to benefit the users.
Poison oak is not a tree. In fact it is protected by trees, since it lives in the understory. Understory plants are substantially different from trees. In order for plants to benefit from increased co2 they have to be capable of additional photosynthesis. But co2 isn't the only thing that's increased, so has insolation. When plants get too hot, they close their stomata so as to retain moisture by reducing respiration. The trees are directly in the sun, so they are heated most.
The trees are not growing significantly faster. The undergrowth may be. But that doesn't increase the chance of a tree starting a fire, only the severity of the fire.
"Plus, clear-cutting (thinning)"
Uh no. Thinning is when you don't take all the trees in an area. Clear cutting is when you do. Maybe you were thinking of "constructing breaks", which is done by clear-cutting strips or through controlled burns.
"both State and Federal funds dried up during the Great Recession, and both clear-cutting and the original techniques fell behind schedule."
It doesn't matter, they were falling behind anyway because this nickel and dime piecemeal approach to fire suppression isn't workable. The natives set fires every year when they moved seasonally. This approach worked for literally thousands of years. Then white people showed up and started building homes in forests like jackasses. Some of the first laws in California prohibited those fires. The rest is history... Or perhaps prelude.
The only realistic fix today is to resume the practice of burning everywhere. Whether we can even manage that now that the fuel load is so high is the real question. Maybe someday we could do the work with armies of wood-chipping robots that eat undergrowth, but not today.
"Point One: Still trying to blame PG&E for the government trying to offload it's forestry and land management obligations off onto a private coporation."
Nonsense. PGE agreed to take that responsibility.
"Point Two: No, municipal, state and federal government have painted PG&E into an insurmountable corner."
Their profits increased and their executive compensation also increased as they failed to meet their legal obligation to maintain the equipment. They provably did not even make a good faith effort.
"The Nun's canyon fire was started when a tree fell on a power pole, not vice versa, and the transformer on the pole blew."
Your own citation shows that PGE located the equipment in question in a unsafe location, then failed to mitigate the risk.
"Point Four and Five: Not all Californians are idiots. But they're the ultra-rare exceptions proving the rule."
You're the chucklefuck who just pasted a citation which defeats your own argument. Thanks for that, but maybe you should STFU about idiots until you learn to read, son.
"And it's easy to be prosperous when you're doing on the backs of a near-slave caste of sub-minimum wage workers who shouldn't even be in the country."
What? Why are we talking about Trump now?
Does anyone have a messaging system with a web of trust system? That would solve the spam problem too, but without arbitrary limits. Of course, it requires technical competence, so perhaps that rules out Whatsapp from ever doing it...
Sidewinders never used MIDI. Instead, they did what everyone else did, and they used the second joystick inputs to add additional features. That gave two more button inputs plus two more axes, so even without doing anything tricky you could implement four buttons and four axes. But by using the four button signals to make a binary number, you could either send four-bit numbers synchronously, or three-bit values asynchronously. I believe both approaches were used, but I'm not 100% on that. Later sidewinders went to USB, also like everyone else.
It's obvious what kind of autoconfiguration is desirable. For example, having devices announce what type of device they are, how many of everything they have, names of samples or patches, etc. I'm not a musician and it's still obvious.
Web integration does seem stupid. Midi will be around long after the web.
Tighter timing and more bandwidth both have obvious utility (and are essentially the same thing.) Midi bandwidth is already a limiting factor, and long has been. And a finer time scale enables additional expressiveness, so all three of those things are really part of one thing that has to happen anyway: making it faster.
TCP/IP has changed MASSIVELY. IPv4 hasn't, but now we have IPv6.
USB has changed MASSIVELY. Enumeration is still the same, but everything else is different. 2 was highly similar to 1, but 3 is very different.
There is one thing that hasn't changed much:. VGA. Sure, it's rarer, but it's still around and while it's gotten faster, it hasn't changed in other ways in absolutely ages. Oh yeah, and RS-232. The only real change there is the introduction of ports that are 5v tolerant. A 10 volt swing between high and low doesn't meet the RS-232C spec formerly used by everyone. And of course lpt ports. My PC has headers for both serial and 1284.
Just another reason we need UBI. You could make such systems illegal on the basis that monopolies are harmful.
France isn't shrinking, so it's unclear why they are discriminating in favor of families with children. Children take up just as much space on public transportation as adults unless they are infants, in which case they either use basically none, or actually more space (carrier/stroller, plus bag of supplies.) Either way, they're making people without children subsidize those with, which is an unusual move unless you are worried about population growth rate.
Is there some reason the French should be worried about NPG?
"As you are busy blaming them, are you happy to pay twice over for power?"
You think doing the maintenance they are legally obligated to do would double the prices? Show your work.
"You don't seem to comprehend how tightly controlled they are by the regulators."
They set maximum profits, not minimum, so it's hard to see what relevance your comment might have to the situation at hand, where the problem is excessive profit.
now that it's shut down, all the G+ users are coming out of the woodwork with "There were less idiots on Google Plus!" ... if I would have heard this argument louder and earlier, I might have joined.
If you would have paid attention earlier, you might have heard this argument. There's been conversations about it here before in which the same view was espoused.
Pumping a billion dollars into it doesn't make maintenance work like trimming trees go any faster
Of course it does. You hire more contractors, and more trees get cut.
They are being told/sued not to by various green activist groups both within and outside government.
Not in the places where they're actually starting fires.
G+ was certainly a great place to speak to people from all over the world about common interests, in spite of Google trying to break it again and again. And what was up with all that whitespace? Sad thing is, they finally got it working pretty well, I can actually plus tag people correctly and whatnot, and now it's going away. Typical Google.