This case involves a country known to some as Russia.
You may not be aware of this, but MI5 and MI6 aren't happy with Russia right now. Neither are quite a few hospitals, police forces, tea shops or other organizations, but it's generally the people with power that matter.
Aiding and abetting Russia through providing material support in a criminal enterprise... It's not going to fly, is it? Seriously? That's an open invitation to the lawyers. That the incidents are probably unrelated is irrelevant. All you need is some basis you can offer to a judge in a foreign country and you've got yourself an international arrest warrant. Any time Zuckerberg goes outside of the US, he gets slapped with an extradition request.
Doesn't matter if he never does, either. If it causes Facebook shares to crumble in value, he's maybe not broke but certainly not the mogul he makes himself out to be. And that wouldn't be hard. Psychological Operations is the military term. And he's handed them a near-infinite supply of ammo for it.
His ego is extremely fragile, the real reason he didn't go. I do not believe it would be difficult for MI6 to exact a very British revenge.
Or, as Number 6 from The Prisoner would say, who is hammer and who is avil?
Contempt of Parliament is a crime in the UK and, for the remainder of the time it is in the EU, a crime across Europe. The UK is eligible to issue an International Arrest Warrant, although no nation is obligated to honour it. It does, however, mean Zuckerberg can't risk going anywhere outside of America because any nation might decide to cash in.
Russia was given material aid by Facebook, Russia has launched radiological and chemical weapons attacks on Britain, it wouldn't take much for MI6 to find a way to spin it that these are related. The potential damage to the Facebook brand vastly exceeds any legal penalty that could be exacted by Britain, although the EU could come close by fining Facebook $50 billion, a fine fairly normal for them when they want to discipline a corporation.
A great many international Internet links enter Europe through Britain. Makes it handy for Five Eyes. Also makes it very handy for filtering.
The issue is surely that Britain can lawfully pursue an international arrest warrant as he has committed serious criminal offences.
Further, as Russia has launched chemical and radiological weapons attacks on British soil, it would not surprise me in the least if any official charge placed alleged Facebook provided material support, either for the attack or just to Russian intelligence efforts.
It wouldn't matter much what Zuckerberg did, then. The kind of public relations damage the British government could do, if it wished to, would far exceed any legal penalty it could exact on him. Pissing off governments is generally a Bad Thing, in the 1066 And All That sense.
No, no power. Except to totally ruin your business model.
And, yes, they do have power. Failure to answer a subpoena is a criminal offence.
Which means he can't answer to the British courts, because as soon as he turned up, he'd be arrested for contempt of Parliament. Under the British system, this can be indefinite, since Britain is leaving the EU and will no longer follow EU law obligating them to limited tariffs.
He has sold personal information to agents of a hostile power that has launched multiple chemical warfare attacks against Britain. What sort of trial do you think he'd get?
Yes, they could block Facebook. And don't think they'd give a damn about their bad reputation. They're going to lose the next general election, so why should they care? What's in it for them? Besides, people in Britain hold privacy dear to them, we invented most of the existing data protection laws around the world. Don't expect the British to support Facebook, in a showdown.
(And, no, nobody would regard it as censorship. It is enforcing a law the British requested in the first place. To put it in perspective, many British hold privacy in the same regard as Americans hold the Second Amendment, maybe higher.)
The US doesn't matter to Britain. We regard our former colonists with derision and amusement, and very little more.
Britain is more likely to put out an international arrest warrant, which would affect Zuckerberg's freedom of movement and would not seriously affect anyone in Britain.
The most likely situation, though, is for the EU to place a $1 billion fine on Facebook, with threat of disconnection across Europe as a whole if Facebook didn't pay up. Whether they carried that out or not wouldn't matter, share prices would be hit, as would advertising revenue.
If it's not "every government in the world" then it's highly relevant. A statement cannot be both true and false. You seem to imagine that false statements that are grandiose give Zuckerberg an air of respectability. He just wants to make me puke. And he can get off my lawn.
Since Facebook committed crimes on British soil, Britain does indeed have the right to subpoena him. They are entitled to place an international arrest warrant out for him, due to the seriousness of the existing charges, if they so wish. However, failing to respect a subpoena is also a crime sufficient for an international arrest warrant.
The EU is another matter. Whatever other rights they have, they have the absolute right to block Facebook not only from Europe but from anywhere that can be reached via European backbone links, which is just about everywhere not America. (Facebook has traded in personal data in violation of EU privacy law, which means that the EU has the legal authority to prohibit anyone from doing business with it.) That gives them the authority to demand whatever the hell they want.
Zuckerberg is not big or bright, he's not turning up not because he's busy but because he's a coward who knows that he can't buy his way out of trouble the way he did with the US government.
It says that it's very unlikely any occupants are active and about. The only realistic way to have occupants with such low gravity for such prolonged periods of time is in some form of suspended animation. Frozen, it wouldn't matter what the gravity was like.
To answer whether this is viable, we need the centre of rotation versus the centre of mass (ie: is it a uniform mass) and we need to know the probable density (you'd be looking at something that is filled with something considerably denser than air, you need mostly atmosphere if it's a generation ship). In both cases, the density would be markedly lower than you'd get if it was solid rock or even a rubble pile.
You certainly wouldn't optimize the shape to feed the plants. You're either using hydroponics or a Biosphere II with artificial lighting inside. You'd have to. Whether you could pull off a Rendezvous With Rama-style dormancy is unclear, but frankly I don't see any advantage to it. If you're going the Biosphere II route, you need some decking, some artificial lighting, power and pumps for artificial circulation. There, you'd need gravity. If you're opting for hydroponics, why bother? The plants won't care.
I'm thinking of casually stealing your idea for a short story, though, as that's probably one one the best solutions I've seen. That ok?
If you've that much shielding, then your primary problem is getting rid of excess heat. I wonder if that could be used, in some way. Just direct the IR in a relatively tight beam. It wouldn't be significant, but it would be free. Regardless, the more you have of anything, the more heat that generates. You can't scale below a certain point without losing sustainability, so there's a minimum heat. You can't scale the total above the point where you can get rid of the heat. If the minimum exceeds the maximum, the design is impossible with that technology.
Too many people have to be able to access the raw information for any such card to be useful. It's also re-used. As Turing demonstrated, reusing a key isn't always good. You want certificates that are generated purely for one-off use.
This is precisely the path America took as it moved from copying Europe to competing.
If that pattern continues, China will dominate in new R&D in 20 years time.
America won't win by complaining, only by investing. It needs to put far more into education, research and blue sky science. You win races by being faster, not by trying to make others slower.
You have the computer that generates credentials offline, physically inaccessible and tamper-resistant. Very basic airwall type stuff. You can't hack what you can't reach. Physically transfer votes to a tape drive bridging the gap.
Voters never transmit voting credentials. Why would you need to? It's a shared secret, or one half of a public/private key pair. Transmit a vote encrypted by the credential and it'll only decrypt if valid.
The other issues are more significant. You can't do anything about a PC, so you'd need to make a voting tablet that was adequately secure. However, that's expensive and you can't prove who used it or that they weren't coerced. I'd prefer polling stations for that reason.
If you wanted to fly to the stars, you'd need a ship with a very thick hull to handle galactic background radiation. If you wanted to go slow, you'd also make it a generation ship, which means you need something very large for the population and life support.
That's simply not very practical to build. But why build? Find an asteroid on an extreme elliptical orbit, hollow it out, and use the interior for your ship. Walls already made for you, and you've extracted ore you can use to make floors, engines, etc.
It probably was just a fragment from two planets colliding, but the assumption that it couldn't have been that plus a spaceship is flawed.
The lack of signal isn't an issue. Why would a generation ship transmit signals? Who would it transmit to? Space is very big, after all, and radio is very slow. With walls thick enough to shield against galactic winds, nothing on the inside would have reached Earth.
Only way we could have known for sure would be to have put a lander on it. But there's a distinct lack of space probes capable of such redirected missions. Thank you, American tax payer. Arthur C. Clarke would have been fuming. The good news is that the builders of Rama do everything in threes.
The first job of government is to obey the law. If the law won't cut it, change it.
The problem with Big Data, which you still miss, is that. Individuals are irrelevant. It's not about people, it's about populations. These tools could not be used the way you suggest.
Third, terrorism has increased as surveillance has, none of whom were caught by
surveillance, proving it is not about protecting people.
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It was medical data. Whatever else was present, medical data was present. Medical data record laws apply.
It isn't public information. Since when was private medical data a public record?
Registration rolls, yes. This isn't a registration roll. This is private personal information (PPI) coupled with ballot data.
I don't care what the law currently is, it is nobody's business but yours if you voted, unless voting is mandatory.
Your current state of health, financial well-being, etc, absolutely should be private.
It's sickening that those normally critical of government intrusion tend to be the ones supporting this government intrusion.
Some exceptions, yes. Good that you're consistent. I'm in favour of government with mandatory access controls and I try to be consistent in that, too.
It's those who care nothing for what actually happens as long as their tribe takes from others that anger me.
The mouse that roared.
He's a billionaire on paper. He's worthless in any meaningful sense. And if you don't recognize the expression, you can get off my lawn too.
This case involves a country known to some as Russia.
You may not be aware of this, but MI5 and MI6 aren't happy with Russia right now. Neither are quite a few hospitals, police forces, tea shops or other organizations, but it's generally the people with power that matter.
Aiding and abetting Russia through providing material support in a criminal enterprise... It's not going to fly, is it? Seriously? That's an open invitation to the lawyers. That the incidents are probably unrelated is irrelevant. All you need is some basis you can offer to a judge in a foreign country and you've got yourself an international arrest warrant. Any time Zuckerberg goes outside of the US, he gets slapped with an extradition request.
Doesn't matter if he never does, either. If it causes Facebook shares to crumble in value, he's maybe not broke but certainly not the mogul he makes himself out to be. And that wouldn't be hard. Psychological Operations is the military term. And he's handed them a near-infinite supply of ammo for it.
His ego is extremely fragile, the real reason he didn't go. I do not believe it would be difficult for MI6 to exact a very British revenge.
Or, as Number 6 from The Prisoner would say, who is hammer and who is avil?
Parliament is run by Fraggles, the Lords by Muppets.
Contempt of Parliament is a crime in the UK and, for the remainder of the time it is in the EU, a crime across Europe. The UK is eligible to issue an International Arrest Warrant, although no nation is obligated to honour it. It does, however, mean Zuckerberg can't risk going anywhere outside of America because any nation might decide to cash in.
Russia was given material aid by Facebook, Russia has launched radiological and chemical weapons attacks on Britain, it wouldn't take much for MI6 to find a way to spin it that these are related. The potential damage to the Facebook brand vastly exceeds any legal penalty that could be exacted by Britain, although the EU could come close by fining Facebook $50 billion, a fine fairly normal for them when they want to discipline a corporation.
A great many international Internet links enter Europe through Britain. Makes it handy for Five Eyes. Also makes it very handy for filtering.
The issue is surely that Britain can lawfully pursue an international arrest warrant as he has committed serious criminal offences.
Further, as Russia has launched chemical and radiological weapons attacks on British soil, it would not surprise me in the least if any official charge placed alleged Facebook provided material support, either for the attack or just to Russian intelligence efforts.
It wouldn't matter much what Zuckerberg did, then. The kind of public relations damage the British government could do, if it wished to, would far exceed any legal penalty it could exact on him. Pissing off governments is generally a Bad Thing, in the 1066 And All That sense.
No, no power. Except to totally ruin your business model.
And, yes, they do have power. Failure to answer a subpoena is a criminal offence.
Which means he can't answer to the British courts, because as soon as he turned up, he'd be arrested for contempt of Parliament. Under the British system, this can be indefinite, since Britain is leaving the EU and will no longer follow EU law obligating them to limited tariffs.
He has sold personal information to agents of a hostile power that has launched multiple chemical warfare attacks against Britain. What sort of trial do you think he'd get?
The EU has taken to placing fines of billions to tens of billions on companies and individuals who abuse corporate power.
He doesn't have that kind of money.
Yes, they could block Facebook. And don't think they'd give a damn about their bad reputation. They're going to lose the next general election, so why should they care? What's in it for them? Besides, people in Britain hold privacy dear to them, we invented most of the existing data protection laws around the world. Don't expect the British to support Facebook, in a showdown.
(And, no, nobody would regard it as censorship. It is enforcing a law the British requested in the first place. To put it in perspective, many British hold privacy in the same regard as Americans hold the Second Amendment, maybe higher.)
The US doesn't matter to Britain. We regard our former colonists with derision and amusement, and very little more.
Britain is more likely to put out an international arrest warrant, which would affect Zuckerberg's freedom of movement and would not seriously affect anyone in Britain.
The most likely situation, though, is for the EU to place a $1 billion fine on Facebook, with threat of disconnection across Europe as a whole if Facebook didn't pay up. Whether they carried that out or not wouldn't matter, share prices would be hit, as would advertising revenue.
If it's not "every government in the world" then it's highly relevant. A statement cannot be both true and false. You seem to imagine that false statements that are grandiose give Zuckerberg an air of respectability. He just wants to make me puke. And he can get off my lawn.
Since Facebook committed crimes on British soil, Britain does indeed have the right to subpoena him. They are entitled to place an international arrest warrant out for him, due to the seriousness of the existing charges, if they so wish. However, failing to respect a subpoena is also a crime sufficient for an international arrest warrant.
The EU is another matter. Whatever other rights they have, they have the absolute right to block Facebook not only from Europe but from anywhere that can be reached via European backbone links, which is just about everywhere not America. (Facebook has traded in personal data in violation of EU privacy law, which means that the EU has the legal authority to prohibit anyone from doing business with it.) That gives them the authority to demand whatever the hell they want.
Zuckerberg is not big or bright, he's not turning up not because he's busy but because he's a coward who knows that he can't buy his way out of trouble the way he did with the US government.
Actually, it might.
It says that it's very unlikely any occupants are active and about. The only realistic way to have occupants with such low gravity for such prolonged periods of time is in some form of suspended animation. Frozen, it wouldn't matter what the gravity was like.
To answer whether this is viable, we need the centre of rotation versus the centre of mass (ie: is it a uniform mass) and we need to know the probable density (you'd be looking at something that is filled with something considerably denser than air, you need mostly atmosphere if it's a generation ship). In both cases, the density would be markedly lower than you'd get if it was solid rock or even a rubble pile.
You certainly wouldn't optimize the shape to feed the plants. You're either using hydroponics or a Biosphere II with artificial lighting inside. You'd have to. Whether you could pull off a Rendezvous With Rama-style dormancy is unclear, but frankly I don't see any advantage to it. If you're going the Biosphere II route, you need some decking, some artificial lighting, power and pumps for artificial circulation. There, you'd need gravity. If you're opting for hydroponics, why bother? The plants won't care.
I'm thinking of casually stealing your idea for a short story, though, as that's probably one one the best solutions I've seen. That ok?
If you've that much shielding, then your primary problem is getting rid of excess heat. I wonder if that could be used, in some way. Just direct the IR in a relatively tight beam. It wouldn't be significant, but it would be free. Regardless, the more you have of anything, the more heat that generates. You can't scale below a certain point without losing sustainability, so there's a minimum heat. You can't scale the total above the point where you can get rid of the heat. If the minimum exceeds the maximum, the design is impossible with that technology.
Too many people have to be able to access the raw information for any such card to be useful. It's also re-used. As Turing demonstrated, reusing a key isn't always good. You want certificates that are generated purely for one-off use.
This is precisely the path America took as it moved from copying Europe to competing.
If that pattern continues, China will dominate in new R&D in 20 years time.
America won't win by complaining, only by investing. It needs to put far more into education, research and blue sky science. You win races by being faster, not by trying to make others slower.
In fact, he'd need only appear before the EU, AU and USAN to have appeared before over two thirds the inhabited globe.
By my count, that's three. His may be different. I am sure he can spare half a week from selling your data to whoever asks.
Has been looking for such signals for years on this basis. It's far easier than radio. The problem is identifying it.
The other problem is that almost nobody does OSETI, it's just not fashionable.
You have the computer that generates credentials offline, physically inaccessible and tamper-resistant. Very basic airwall type stuff. You can't hack what you can't reach. Physically transfer votes to a tape drive bridging the gap.
Voters never transmit voting credentials. Why would you need to? It's a shared secret, or one half of a public/private key pair. Transmit a vote encrypted by the credential and it'll only decrypt if valid.
The other issues are more significant. You can't do anything about a PC, so you'd need to make a voting tablet that was adequately secure. However, that's expensive and you can't prove who used it or that they weren't coerced. I'd prefer polling stations for that reason.
From being just a rock and a spaceship.
If you wanted to fly to the stars, you'd need a ship with a very thick hull to handle galactic background radiation. If you wanted to go slow, you'd also make it a generation ship, which means you need something very large for the population and life support.
That's simply not very practical to build. But why build? Find an asteroid on an extreme elliptical orbit, hollow it out, and use the interior for your ship. Walls already made for you, and you've extracted ore you can use to make floors, engines, etc.
It probably was just a fragment from two planets colliding, but the assumption that it couldn't have been that plus a spaceship is flawed.
The lack of signal isn't an issue. Why would a generation ship transmit signals? Who would it transmit to? Space is very big, after all, and radio is very slow. With walls thick enough to shield against galactic winds, nothing on the inside would have reached Earth.
Only way we could have known for sure would be to have put a lander on it. But there's a distinct lack of space probes capable of such redirected missions. Thank you, American tax payer. Arthur C. Clarke would have been fuming. The good news is that the builders of Rama do everything in threes.
If you wanted to travel to another solar system in a generation ship, would you build one from scratch or hollow out something suitable?
Agreed. If they do not accept the bill of rights, have them put the changes to Congress lawfully.
The first job of government is to obey the law. If the law won't cut it, change it.
The problem with Big Data, which you still miss, is that. Individuals are irrelevant. It's not about people, it's about populations. These tools could not be used the way you suggest.
Third, terrorism has increased as surveillance has, none of whom were caught by
surveillance, proving it is not about protecting people.