Except you assume that all the players are actually honest about every option and valuation and not just playing the algorithm. Imagine a well off and not so well off student decide to share an apartment which consists of two rooms, one small and one big and a common area. They can't agree how much the extra space is worth, now the poor student he doesn't want the big room. He just wants the other guy to pay this "fair" share extra so he can pay as little as possible. Now the rich student he knows the poor student is trying to cost optimize, he doesn't want to pay extra for extra space. So he doesn't have to bid a "fair" value, he just has to outbid the poor student.
If the poor student tries to push up the price of the big room or the rich student tries to penny pinch low-balling the price and they end up swapping rooms neither is going to be happy, the poor student didn't really want to pay extra and the rich student didn't really want the cramped room. They were just trying to use their own knowledge of the other person's preferences to maximize their own value. No algorithm can reasonably cope with that because the total utility is not fixed, it's not like a cake where the sum always adds up to 100%.
You can see this for example in divorce proceeding where something has different sentimental values. You want that family heirloom? Well I don't really want it, I'm just trying to gouge you for as much as I can. If you gouge too much the other person may give it up and say "fuck you too". The threshold is an essential secret which limits the gouging, if you knew that $100 item has a $1000 sentimental value you might bid $999 even though you don't want it for $101, you want to lose but in the most rewarding way.
It doesn't even have to be the big stuff it might be chocolates in a bowl, if you know your buddy is big on toffee you might grab one even though you don't like it much because you know your buddy will offer a good swap. Until he catches on and lets you simmer with your toffee because he knows that's a lose-lose situation you want to get out of too. It's like trying to stand still at a game of rock-paper-scissors, in theory they all have a 1/3 chance of winning but if you pick rock every time you'll soon lose every time. The way to win is to recognize your opponents patterns and exploit them for a better than 1/3rd chance.
Of your three articles, the first is behind a pay wall. The second explicitly says they caught the package in the mail and worked from there. The third happened before the Silk Road bust and they said they used information in that case against Silk Road, not the other way around. Nothing really supports that the bust itself was used to round up sellers or buyers in large numbers.
What arrests? From what I gathered last time I looked into it, people advertised drugs with their public PGP key. The actual transaction with payment and shipping address happened encrypted between the seller and the buyer, they got Slik Road 1.0 the site but not anything like a customer registry or order history. Of course there's the risk of dealing with the individual dealer but hey, it's not exactly like that's risk free in the real world either. From what I gather it was pretty much like closing down a torrent site, everybody just moves to another site and carry on like before. Now who'd operate an online drug sales portal that's a good question, you're getting waaay too much exposure compared to the rewards. But that's for the 0,1% who runs the site, not the 99,99% that use them.
Electric cars, LOL just another liberal pipe dream that will never actually work
A liberal pipe dream that will never actually work as long as oil is cheap, perhaps. But it's made me a whole lot less concerned about peak oil, here in Norway around 9% of cars sold this year are electric through subsidies. Another 9% are hybrids. If oil prices doubled or tripled I'd expect those numbers to go way up. Before it seemed like peak oil would be the end of personal transportation as we know it, but even if electrics never get quite as cheap or convenient as gas and diesel they'll do. Good enough for my commute, shopping and local activities, visiting nearby friends and family and at least in Tesla's case cabin trips - not the most remote cabin in the world, but still. Of course it now depends on cheap electricity, but at least there we've got many different sources and they don't have to be compact, light and portable like an internal combustion engine.
Particularly if it eventually gets paired with autonomous cars, cargo generally isn't in any hurry and the lorry isn't paid by the hour. Tesla did US coast-to-coast in 76 hours, the record ignoring all laws and sanity is 29 hours so it's not like they're orders of magnitude slower even if the truck has to stop for a recharge every hour or two. It's only very inconvenient as long as you need truck drivers. Basically it looks to me like we have a workable solution for when oil runs out, if we'll switch faster due to the environment that's nice but I'm guessing push will eventually come to shove anyway even though "unconventional" oil and gas extraction has pushed it back another decade or two.
(g)(3) Contents of counter-notification (D) The subscriber's name, address, and telephone number, (...)
combined with (g)(2)(B):
(B) upon receipt of a counter notification described in paragraph (3), promptly provides the person who provided the notification under subsection (c)(1)(C) with a copy of the counter notification
There's no provision to keep your identity a secret, so anyone willing to commit DMCA fraud can reveal who their opponent is. Note that the DMCA only cares about the service provider's liability and their ability to recover costs from fraudulent notices. It it not a shield for the accuser, if you want to sue them for "filing a false statement" you can. But just like taking you to court and being wrong generally isn't a crime, neither is a wrongful DMCA notice unless you can prove it was deliberately false. At any rate it's unlikely it would help here, the courts would probably never manage to pursue it while they already got what they wanted.
The purpose of providing this counter-notice is that you now have a dispute (claimant and counter-claimant) that the courts would like to see settled outside of court. That part should have been optional and shouldn't need to involve revealing your identity though. I think it's reasonable that your personal information is part of your counter notice and kept in escrow at the service provider to avoid "Mickey Mouse" filing counter notices, but you should get one of three choices when it comes to passing it on:
a) Use your contact information as legal contact address, like today. Basically, you represent yourself. b) Provide a legal contact address, basically your lawyer and a case ID but which doesn't reveal who you are. c) Decline to provide a legal contact address, see you in court. They can subpoena your identity if they want.
As it is though, the DMCA makes this form of abuse of process essentially required for the parties involved.
Most parents would do great if they only let go of their ego and the proxy competition through their children. They want their children to be smart and successful and end up setting unrealistic standards and goals that makes children feel like failures when reality isn't that easy. And negative feedback on how they're falling short only makes it worse. Don't inflate their ego, don't crush it. Take your children for what they are, motivate them to do better. Show them that through effort they can improve. Recognize the improvement, no matter if it's D to C or A to A+. Encourage them to set their own goals, support them in reaching it, celebrate if they do, comfort if they don't. Don't think you can dictate the results.
I guess you didn't bother to read your own link as it's all about what the US military invents and creates secret patents for, not really sure what they point of it is but probably to avoid paying patent royalties on stuff they already knew, but were classified so they couldn't tell they were first.
Also there's a whole lot of other countries outside the US, where the US can't just send gag orders as they please. Many cryptography projects won't accept any US contributors due to US export regulations anyway. And with open source it's pretty hard to do anything in secret, there will have to be a git commit. There will be proof of who added it and why. I'm sure some would have been caught and confessed to being blackmailed to compromise their software, but I don't recall that ever happening.
In short, your claims seems heavy on tin foil. Feel free to do security reviews and locate these back doors then, I mean according do you they're everywhere and yet nobody can manage to find them? I'm sure it happens here and there, but if it was really that widespread they'd also get found more often.
Actually, it works much the same as in the private sector... if the government unions increase wages too much, the budgets aren't increased to match so there's a reduction in staff - though usually through people retiring or leaving rather than firing, though that occasionally happens too when they relocate functions. Creating new government positions goes all the way up to the political level, neither the head of my section, department, division or top leader can create a new permanent position. If they have money they can hire temporary positions for as long as they have funding, but they can't commit future governments to support more employees. New positions are in a wage bracket, so that's a way to curb wage inflation too. They're an employer, I guess maybe you do in the US but we don't make an oath or fealty or anything like that. We have a constitution and is says exactly nothing about what I'm doing for a living.
Well the median US home costs $189k (pdf) so a $300k home is far into the upper half, where customers can afford to be picky about what they want. It's not like it would bring $5k value to every home nor would it be worth as much if it were more commonplace. Right now it's a fairly exclusive feature that can add a nice premium because it specifically attracts tech-oriented people who want it. It doesn't take that much to make a bidding war on a $300k home go $5k further if it's particularly attractive to somebody. I wouldn't dare tell how much my parents bid over the asking price when they finally found their place, but then the glove also fit perfectly after talking about it for 5-10 years. Gigabit Internet is the kind of frosting on the cake that would make me go one bid or two beyond what reason dictates.
All those that talk about "location location location" really mean "the things you can't change". Interior, exterior, garden, floor plan, pretty much anything can be redone but you're stuck with your surroundings. And you're usually stuck with a crappy Internet connection. And despite most people not getting around to changing all they'd like to change, they kind of know they could. Things you can't fix tend to gnaw at you a lot more. I'm probably more Internet-addicted than the average person but I don't think I'd want to live at any place with <10 Mbit/s Internet. Unless it's a tropical island or something, then I'd make concessions. Or put up a big satellite dish, not really sure.
You make a funny but frankly there realy is no reason for AMD to follow Intel down the rabbit hole of ever lower nm sizes (which if rumors are true is ending up with worse yields and lower clocks do to leakage with each rev)
Yields are a matter of process tuning, if one CPU works well it means the others will too eventually. And the new Core Ms are down to 82mm^2 from 131mm^2, meaning more dies per chip which translates directly to higher margins for Intel. It would mean lower prices, but there's no competition. And eventually they will have tuned it while AMD haven't, it's only a win if AMD never ever has to do the same job.
What jobs do Joe and Jane Average have that won't be well served by a C2Q or Phenom X4 from 7 years ago? None, not a damned thing, in fact many can get by just fine on a C2D or Athlon X2 and never notice any difference because they just aren't stressing the chips.
Yes. Which leaves the question, why should they buy a new machine from AMD rather than some second hand machine that used to be state of the art 5 years ago? While the people who do want to push the envelope in performance/features/battery life/whatever buy new Intel machines instead.
This is why I'm not worried about what Intel does even though I'm an AMD exclusive shop
Not even that Intel seems to have been taking the gloves off and fights hard and dirty in the tablet/convertible market with contra revenue? ARM is a big enough threat to Intel they might not care much about keeping their x86 competition alibi alive anymore. AMDs CPU revenue keeps going down and losing money, it's a volume business and if they can't step up pretty soon they'll have to get out.
Which is a fair point, if you're on a regular flight with passengers. Not that pilots can't make a bad situation into an even worse cock-up. But on a test flight any percentage chance of failure with human pilots will have a higher risk of casualties than an unmanned flight. The US fly drones all over the place, there's autoland systems for airplanes and unmanned rockets go up quite often. Does this rocket plane really require pilots? And human creativity is often limited by the practical choices available in any given situation. For a self-driving car I'm guessing the right emergency response is 90% braking, 9% turning, 0.9% accelerating to get out of harm's way and maybe 0.1% getting creative like unbuckling and bailing because the car's going over a cliff. It's different if you're Apollo 13 and got hours to play MacGyver, but that's probably the exception not the rule.
Well, if it's an old Windows 7 machine it's probably a non-touch, non-convertible regular laptop/desktop. Any 2009+ hardware is still good for most people so you won't throw it out and why on earth would you upgrade it to Windows 8? While we might argue the finer points of whether it's ever a good idea, it certainly doesn't make sense without hardware to support the most essential new features. It still has 5-6 years of support left, no hurry to avoid end of support either.
And why is trasporting people so much nobler than giving them a thrill? Why is dying for the cause or 'trasporting people' more acceptable than dying for 'making people's lifes happier'?
So if an ambulance plane tries to weather a storm to save lives and crashes that's totally the same as the rich guy who promised double pay for the pilot to weather that storm and crashed right? One cause is as good as another. To be honest, I feel any "cash for life" swap is morally dubious because you know that money brings people to do things they'd rather not like work in unsafe or unsanitary conditions. Or hey, we can't make this very safe but here's a reckless thrill seeker we can exploit. That nobody put a gun to the their head and forced them to do it doesn't necessarily make it right. True, every time I step on the bus I'm asking the bus driver to risk dying in a traffic accident on the way, but that's a very slim risk we've tried to eliminate. Dying on the job, because of the job is not generally supposed to be part of the accepted risk.
That's an ideal we can't fully keep of course, nobody can guarantee that a police officer won't get shot and killed on duty. Somebody has to be the test pilot on a new airplane, at least until we can do it remotely. But I think you have a bigger moral obligation than the dollar value it takes to pay them. Are you really risking their lives for the progress of society, science and technology or are you doing it so rich tourists can get a joy ride? They're of course not mutually exclusive and maybe there's a halo effect or spin-off effects that'll be useful but when there is an accident and Branson picks one as his reason to keep going I think it's fair for other people to question if it's not mostly the other. It's pretty hard to argue for the net win on "making people's lifes happier" when you have to take into account the loss and grief of the deceased's family and also what the heavily injured is going through.
I work in an office all day and I don't care if it's light or dark outside while I'm at the office. Already today it's sunrise at 8AM and sunset at 4PM and in the darkest part of the year the sun gets up at 10 AM and goes down at 2:30 PM. In other words it's dark when I go to work and dark again when I leave, it's depressing and I'm basically never out in the sun except on weekends. Whether I work or am at home while it's dark doesn't matter, as I use roughly the same amount of lights anyway. If it was light outside when I was off work I'd have a lot more interest and opportunity to be outside which would be much better. Personally I'd like the standard working day to shift to nights like what is 1AM to 9AM today, the day 9 AM to 5PM to be the new "evening" and 5PM to 1AM the new "night" when people sleep. The important hours of daylight are no longer the work hours, it's the leisure time hours.
I guess that's a bit unpractical for those who work outdoors and want natural light, but they're starting to be such a small part of the workforce that they should either get floodlights or work "evening" shifts when the sun is up. For office jobs, schools. hospitals, retail jobs, factory jobs etc. I don't see the big problem, maybe in agriculture, construction and transport it's more annoying but the days here are so short they'll always work some of the time in the dark already. And the transport industry I hope gets taken over by autonomous vehicles soon anyway.
Not being able to afford luxuries used to be one symptom of being poor. This is redistribution of wealth, plain and simple. The parent comment is correct.
Many things that used to be luxuries are now standard living conditions, if the Internet's not one of them already it's soon going to be. Here in Norway some 88% of the population have broadband, 93% Internet and pretty much all the exceptions are in the 65+ age group, mostly 75+ so unless a service is particularly catering to that age group it's more and more all digital. And that's really the thing, when so few remain - and particularly so few profitable customers - it gets shut down. For example, take cell phones - there used to be 16000+ pay phones here in Norway. Now there's 445 total mostly at airports, hospitals, train stations and such including 100 old fashioned phone boxes conserved as historical curiosities. If you need to make a phone call on the go, you probably won't find one.
Same with for example bank offices, with some 85% doing online banking they've been shutting down offices left and right. I've no idea how many retail outlets online shopping has killed, but it's many. It's a whole lot more annoying to be without Internet in an Internet-connected world than it used to be when almost everybody else was offline too. And with more and more on broadband, they make less and less considerations for those on dial-up. I don't mean they need gigabit speeds, but 56kbps is feeling mighty slow even for regular web use. Okay so it's not a true basic need but broadband is way down on the list of expenses I'd cut first, because it'd make an awful lot of other things inconvenient.
The police have a [right to] gather information (...), BUT they have no right to (...) use their access to the information to impersonate you such as by using the information to defraud another person or service that they are you.
I'm sorry but his is just legal fiction taken entirely from your own head. If you put a post-it note under the keyboard with your username and password, the cops can most certainly log in as you on your own machine. And if you get arrested for say kiddie porn, then yes the police will try logging in on every account they find impersonating you looking for more illegal files and trying to bait everyone you know into criminally implicating themselves as well as you. And while the more recent practice of setting up fake social media profiles in your name might - or might not - get curbed, the rest has been established practice for many, many years. Cops lie. Cops have the right to lie about being you. If you don't believe that, you'd better check your facts.
Personally I'd rather they lobby the voters than the politicians, you might say that people being gullible and easy manipulated is a flaw but at least that's democracy as designed. When politicians get paid lots of campaign contributions to buy votes while voting in favor of the corporations funding them rather than the votes electing them that's circumventing the democratic process. Not to mention that I think most voters vote for what they want to believe, facts be damned.
The question is, if the US really wanted to go back to the moon would they use a Saturn V anyway? If you take the Falcon Heavy launching early next year with two booster rockets and add four more so it's a hex ring around a center rocket you'd have a Falcon Superheavy that would roughly match the Saturn V. The Falcon Heavy does 53000 kg to LEO / 3 (center + 2 side) * 7 (center plus hex) = 123000kg ~= 118000kg for the Saturn V. I'm guessing if you gave SpaceX a billion dollar check they'd have a working prototype on the launch pad in a year or two for ~$250 million/launch with maximal reuse of existing and up-to-date technology.
Who knows? The main argument has been against the compelling part, if they can read your mind through involuntary responses that may be legally permissible. They probably can't get a confession that way, but they might gather leads on what you may recognize or feeling or whatever. They show you a picture of your dead wife, your brain goes to hate. That cute secretary you have a secret affair with triggers a quite different and legally interesting response. And photos from where the body was dumped triggers recall responses more than shock responses, oh my. They are after all allowed to play mind games with you, that's what most interrig... sorry, interview techniques are all about. Maybe it'll be like sci-fi series where characters hum children's rhymes to avoid telepaths being able to read their thoughts.
True, but rightly or wrongly those people are perceived of has being in control of their own fate and could have escaped death with better decisions. Here you just strap your butt to someone else's bomb.
My impression is that between guides, porters, avalanches, snow storms and equipment failures they're highly dependent on other expedition members and accept quite a bit of inherent risk in what they're doing that they don't in any meaningful way control. It's not like you can walk off on your own, you bend or break with your team. If you can put your faith in them you can put it the people making your spaceship too, not because they'll be perfect because they won't but because they're (hopefully) smart and doing their best.
This. Ask people who the first man in space is and if they have a name it's almost certainly Yuri Gagarin, unless they confuse it with the moon landing. Very few count Alan Shepard's suborbital flight as really going into space even though he took a peek and got the astronaut wings for it. What SpaceShipTwo is delivering will certainly give you some bragging rights, but you'll also find many party poopers who'll tell you it's $200k spent on not really going into space anyway.
And there's a lot of potential for SpaceX to improve on that $20 million/head if they take a Falcon Heavy which should be able to lift 8-9 Dragon capsules to orbit as it has payload 53000 kg to LEO, one Dragon is 6000 kg launch weight. My guess is that it's possible to design a "Dragon XXL" to carry 100 people to sit on top of that rocket. At $85 million for the rocket let's say $100 million total with capsule - a $1 million/head trip seems entirely within reach in the next 10-20 years. While that is still out of the average persons' reach there's literally millions of millionaires out there who could go if they spent their entire net worth going. And thousands who wouldn't even feel it.
Facebook wanted to work out facebook*.onion, so they only had to sha-1 'facebook' and then store that state. After that, feed 40 sha-1 bits to the sha-1 function to generate a bunch of different hashes, keeping the ones that match.
That doesn't make any sense at all, if they can choose "facebook" I can choose "facebookcorewwwi" and feed it 0 bits to get my hash. It is the other way around, you must generate a public key and SHA-1 hash that, cut to 80 bits and convert to base32 and that'll be your service descriptor. Since each letter = 5 bits they basically brute force created 2^40 = public keys to find one that hashed to facebook*. There are tools for this, the estimate for a single 1.5 GHz processor choosing 8 letters is about ~25 days. Note that spoofing a full address would take millions of years the same way.
Back in the dotcom days everything was funded, even Linux companies with too much VC money pushing physical CDs on everyone who'd take them. Vast numbers of discs were thrown away when they were no longer the latest and greatest version. I'm guessing for every person who'd want one there's a hundred thinking "yeah I might have something like that in my closet somewhere", personally I might have Red Hat Linux 6 (not RHEL 6) somewhere. I used to have OS/2, but I threw away all my floppies some years ago. Even for a trip down nostalgia lane I'd probably look for a VM/emulator to install it in from an ISO, it's not like they had album art and liner notes.
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Except you assume that all the players are actually honest about every option and valuation and not just playing the algorithm. Imagine a well off and not so well off student decide to share an apartment which consists of two rooms, one small and one big and a common area. They can't agree how much the extra space is worth, now the poor student he doesn't want the big room. He just wants the other guy to pay this "fair" share extra so he can pay as little as possible. Now the rich student he knows the poor student is trying to cost optimize, he doesn't want to pay extra for extra space. So he doesn't have to bid a "fair" value, he just has to outbid the poor student.
If the poor student tries to push up the price of the big room or the rich student tries to penny pinch low-balling the price and they end up swapping rooms neither is going to be happy, the poor student didn't really want to pay extra and the rich student didn't really want the cramped room. They were just trying to use their own knowledge of the other person's preferences to maximize their own value. No algorithm can reasonably cope with that because the total utility is not fixed, it's not like a cake where the sum always adds up to 100%.
You can see this for example in divorce proceeding where something has different sentimental values. You want that family heirloom? Well I don't really want it, I'm just trying to gouge you for as much as I can. If you gouge too much the other person may give it up and say "fuck you too". The threshold is an essential secret which limits the gouging, if you knew that $100 item has a $1000 sentimental value you might bid $999 even though you don't want it for $101, you want to lose but in the most rewarding way.
It doesn't even have to be the big stuff it might be chocolates in a bowl, if you know your buddy is big on toffee you might grab one even though you don't like it much because you know your buddy will offer a good swap. Until he catches on and lets you simmer with your toffee because he knows that's a lose-lose situation you want to get out of too. It's like trying to stand still at a game of rock-paper-scissors, in theory they all have a 1/3 chance of winning but if you pick rock every time you'll soon lose every time. The way to win is to recognize your opponents patterns and exploit them for a better than 1/3rd chance.
Of your three articles, the first is behind a pay wall. The second explicitly says they caught the package in the mail and worked from there. The third happened before the Silk Road bust and they said they used information in that case against Silk Road, not the other way around. Nothing really supports that the bust itself was used to round up sellers or buyers in large numbers.
What arrests? From what I gathered last time I looked into it, people advertised drugs with their public PGP key. The actual transaction with payment and shipping address happened encrypted between the seller and the buyer, they got Slik Road 1.0 the site but not anything like a customer registry or order history. Of course there's the risk of dealing with the individual dealer but hey, it's not exactly like that's risk free in the real world either. From what I gather it was pretty much like closing down a torrent site, everybody just moves to another site and carry on like before. Now who'd operate an online drug sales portal that's a good question, you're getting waaay too much exposure compared to the rewards. But that's for the 0,1% who runs the site, not the 99,99% that use them.
Electric cars, LOL
just another liberal pipe dream that will never actually work
A liberal pipe dream that will never actually work as long as oil is cheap, perhaps. But it's made me a whole lot less concerned about peak oil, here in Norway around 9% of cars sold this year are electric through subsidies. Another 9% are hybrids. If oil prices doubled or tripled I'd expect those numbers to go way up. Before it seemed like peak oil would be the end of personal transportation as we know it, but even if electrics never get quite as cheap or convenient as gas and diesel they'll do. Good enough for my commute, shopping and local activities, visiting nearby friends and family and at least in Tesla's case cabin trips - not the most remote cabin in the world, but still. Of course it now depends on cheap electricity, but at least there we've got many different sources and they don't have to be compact, light and portable like an internal combustion engine.
Particularly if it eventually gets paired with autonomous cars, cargo generally isn't in any hurry and the lorry isn't paid by the hour. Tesla did US coast-to-coast in 76 hours, the record ignoring all laws and sanity is 29 hours so it's not like they're orders of magnitude slower even if the truck has to stop for a recharge every hour or two. It's only very inconvenient as long as you need truck drivers. Basically it looks to me like we have a workable solution for when oil runs out, if we'll switch faster due to the environment that's nice but I'm guessing push will eventually come to shove anyway even though "unconventional" oil and gas extraction has pushed it back another decade or two.
The law itself ("safe harbor") isn't really a problem either.
Actually the law is the problem here, USC 17512:
(g)(3) Contents of counter-notification
(D) The subscriber's name, address, and telephone number, (...)
combined with (g)(2)(B):
(B) upon receipt of a counter notification described in paragraph (3), promptly provides the person who provided the notification under subsection (c)(1)(C) with a copy of the counter notification
There's no provision to keep your identity a secret, so anyone willing to commit DMCA fraud can reveal who their opponent is. Note that the DMCA only cares about the service provider's liability and their ability to recover costs from fraudulent notices. It it not a shield for the accuser, if you want to sue them for "filing a false statement" you can. But just like taking you to court and being wrong generally isn't a crime, neither is a wrongful DMCA notice unless you can prove it was deliberately false. At any rate it's unlikely it would help here, the courts would probably never manage to pursue it while they already got what they wanted.
The purpose of providing this counter-notice is that you now have a dispute (claimant and counter-claimant) that the courts would like to see settled outside of court. That part should have been optional and shouldn't need to involve revealing your identity though. I think it's reasonable that your personal information is part of your counter notice and kept in escrow at the service provider to avoid "Mickey Mouse" filing counter notices, but you should get one of three choices when it comes to passing it on:
a) Use your contact information as legal contact address, like today. Basically, you represent yourself.
b) Provide a legal contact address, basically your lawyer and a case ID but which doesn't reveal who you are.
c) Decline to provide a legal contact address, see you in court. They can subpoena your identity if they want.
As it is though, the DMCA makes this form of abuse of process essentially required for the parties involved.
Most parents would do great if they only let go of their ego and the proxy competition through their children. They want their children to be smart and successful and end up setting unrealistic standards and goals that makes children feel like failures when reality isn't that easy. And negative feedback on how they're falling short only makes it worse. Don't inflate their ego, don't crush it. Take your children for what they are, motivate them to do better. Show them that through effort they can improve. Recognize the improvement, no matter if it's D to C or A to A+. Encourage them to set their own goals, support them in reaching it, celebrate if they do, comfort if they don't. Don't think you can dictate the results.
I guess you didn't bother to read your own link as it's all about what the US military invents and creates secret patents for, not really sure what they point of it is but probably to avoid paying patent royalties on stuff they already knew, but were classified so they couldn't tell they were first.
Also there's a whole lot of other countries outside the US, where the US can't just send gag orders as they please. Many cryptography projects won't accept any US contributors due to US export regulations anyway. And with open source it's pretty hard to do anything in secret, there will have to be a git commit. There will be proof of who added it and why. I'm sure some would have been caught and confessed to being blackmailed to compromise their software, but I don't recall that ever happening.
In short, your claims seems heavy on tin foil. Feel free to do security reviews and locate these back doors then, I mean according do you they're everywhere and yet nobody can manage to find them? I'm sure it happens here and there, but if it was really that widespread they'd also get found more often.
Actually, it works much the same as in the private sector... if the government unions increase wages too much, the budgets aren't increased to match so there's a reduction in staff - though usually through people retiring or leaving rather than firing, though that occasionally happens too when they relocate functions. Creating new government positions goes all the way up to the political level, neither the head of my section, department, division or top leader can create a new permanent position. If they have money they can hire temporary positions for as long as they have funding, but they can't commit future governments to support more employees. New positions are in a wage bracket, so that's a way to curb wage inflation too. They're an employer, I guess maybe you do in the US but we don't make an oath or fealty or anything like that. We have a constitution and is says exactly nothing about what I'm doing for a living.
Well the median US home costs $189k (pdf) so a $300k home is far into the upper half, where customers can afford to be picky about what they want. It's not like it would bring $5k value to every home nor would it be worth as much if it were more commonplace. Right now it's a fairly exclusive feature that can add a nice premium because it specifically attracts tech-oriented people who want it. It doesn't take that much to make a bidding war on a $300k home go $5k further if it's particularly attractive to somebody. I wouldn't dare tell how much my parents bid over the asking price when they finally found their place, but then the glove also fit perfectly after talking about it for 5-10 years. Gigabit Internet is the kind of frosting on the cake that would make me go one bid or two beyond what reason dictates.
All those that talk about "location location location" really mean "the things you can't change". Interior, exterior, garden, floor plan, pretty much anything can be redone but you're stuck with your surroundings. And you're usually stuck with a crappy Internet connection. And despite most people not getting around to changing all they'd like to change, they kind of know they could. Things you can't fix tend to gnaw at you a lot more. I'm probably more Internet-addicted than the average person but I don't think I'd want to live at any place with <10 Mbit/s Internet. Unless it's a tropical island or something, then I'd make concessions. Or put up a big satellite dish, not really sure.
You make a funny but frankly there realy is no reason for AMD to follow Intel down the rabbit hole of ever lower nm sizes (which if rumors are true is ending up with worse yields and lower clocks do to leakage with each rev)
Yields are a matter of process tuning, if one CPU works well it means the others will too eventually. And the new Core Ms are down to 82mm^2 from 131mm^2, meaning more dies per chip which translates directly to higher margins for Intel. It would mean lower prices, but there's no competition. And eventually they will have tuned it while AMD haven't, it's only a win if AMD never ever has to do the same job.
What jobs do Joe and Jane Average have that won't be well served by a C2Q or Phenom X4 from 7 years ago? None, not a damned thing, in fact many can get by just fine on a C2D or Athlon X2 and never notice any difference because they just aren't stressing the chips.
Yes. Which leaves the question, why should they buy a new machine from AMD rather than some second hand machine that used to be state of the art 5 years ago? While the people who do want to push the envelope in performance/features/battery life/whatever buy new Intel machines instead.
This is why I'm not worried about what Intel does even though I'm an AMD exclusive shop
Not even that Intel seems to have been taking the gloves off and fights hard and dirty in the tablet/convertible market with contra revenue? ARM is a big enough threat to Intel they might not care much about keeping their x86 competition alibi alive anymore. AMDs CPU revenue keeps going down and losing money, it's a volume business and if they can't step up pretty soon they'll have to get out.
Which is a fair point, if you're on a regular flight with passengers. Not that pilots can't make a bad situation into an even worse cock-up. But on a test flight any percentage chance of failure with human pilots will have a higher risk of casualties than an unmanned flight. The US fly drones all over the place, there's autoland systems for airplanes and unmanned rockets go up quite often. Does this rocket plane really require pilots? And human creativity is often limited by the practical choices available in any given situation. For a self-driving car I'm guessing the right emergency response is 90% braking, 9% turning, 0.9% accelerating to get out of harm's way and maybe 0.1% getting creative like unbuckling and bailing because the car's going over a cliff. It's different if you're Apollo 13 and got hours to play MacGyver, but that's probably the exception not the rule.
Well, if it's an old Windows 7 machine it's probably a non-touch, non-convertible regular laptop/desktop. Any 2009+ hardware is still good for most people so you won't throw it out and why on earth would you upgrade it to Windows 8? While we might argue the finer points of whether it's ever a good idea, it certainly doesn't make sense without hardware to support the most essential new features. It still has 5-6 years of support left, no hurry to avoid end of support either.
And why is trasporting people so much nobler than giving them a thrill? Why is dying for the cause or 'trasporting people' more acceptable than dying for 'making people's lifes happier'?
So if an ambulance plane tries to weather a storm to save lives and crashes that's totally the same as the rich guy who promised double pay for the pilot to weather that storm and crashed right? One cause is as good as another. To be honest, I feel any "cash for life" swap is morally dubious because you know that money brings people to do things they'd rather not like work in unsafe or unsanitary conditions. Or hey, we can't make this very safe but here's a reckless thrill seeker we can exploit. That nobody put a gun to the their head and forced them to do it doesn't necessarily make it right. True, every time I step on the bus I'm asking the bus driver to risk dying in a traffic accident on the way, but that's a very slim risk we've tried to eliminate. Dying on the job, because of the job is not generally supposed to be part of the accepted risk.
That's an ideal we can't fully keep of course, nobody can guarantee that a police officer won't get shot and killed on duty. Somebody has to be the test pilot on a new airplane, at least until we can do it remotely. But I think you have a bigger moral obligation than the dollar value it takes to pay them. Are you really risking their lives for the progress of society, science and technology or are you doing it so rich tourists can get a joy ride? They're of course not mutually exclusive and maybe there's a halo effect or spin-off effects that'll be useful but when there is an accident and Branson picks one as his reason to keep going I think it's fair for other people to question if it's not mostly the other. It's pretty hard to argue for the net win on "making people's lifes happier" when you have to take into account the loss and grief of the deceased's family and also what the heavily injured is going through.
I work in an office all day and I don't care if it's light or dark outside while I'm at the office. Already today it's sunrise at 8AM and sunset at 4PM and in the darkest part of the year the sun gets up at 10 AM and goes down at 2:30 PM. In other words it's dark when I go to work and dark again when I leave, it's depressing and I'm basically never out in the sun except on weekends. Whether I work or am at home while it's dark doesn't matter, as I use roughly the same amount of lights anyway. If it was light outside when I was off work I'd have a lot more interest and opportunity to be outside which would be much better. Personally I'd like the standard working day to shift to nights like what is 1AM to 9AM today, the day 9 AM to 5PM to be the new "evening" and 5PM to 1AM the new "night" when people sleep. The important hours of daylight are no longer the work hours, it's the leisure time hours.
I guess that's a bit unpractical for those who work outdoors and want natural light, but they're starting to be such a small part of the workforce that they should either get floodlights or work "evening" shifts when the sun is up. For office jobs, schools. hospitals, retail jobs, factory jobs etc. I don't see the big problem, maybe in agriculture, construction and transport it's more annoying but the days here are so short they'll always work some of the time in the dark already. And the transport industry I hope gets taken over by autonomous vehicles soon anyway.
Not being able to afford luxuries used to be one symptom of being poor. This is redistribution of wealth, plain and simple. The parent comment is correct.
Many things that used to be luxuries are now standard living conditions, if the Internet's not one of them already it's soon going to be. Here in Norway some 88% of the population have broadband, 93% Internet and pretty much all the exceptions are in the 65+ age group, mostly 75+ so unless a service is particularly catering to that age group it's more and more all digital. And that's really the thing, when so few remain - and particularly so few profitable customers - it gets shut down. For example, take cell phones - there used to be 16000+ pay phones here in Norway. Now there's 445 total mostly at airports, hospitals, train stations and such including 100 old fashioned phone boxes conserved as historical curiosities. If you need to make a phone call on the go, you probably won't find one.
Same with for example bank offices, with some 85% doing online banking they've been shutting down offices left and right. I've no idea how many retail outlets online shopping has killed, but it's many. It's a whole lot more annoying to be without Internet in an Internet-connected world than it used to be when almost everybody else was offline too. And with more and more on broadband, they make less and less considerations for those on dial-up. I don't mean they need gigabit speeds, but 56kbps is feeling mighty slow even for regular web use. Okay so it's not a true basic need but broadband is way down on the list of expenses I'd cut first, because it'd make an awful lot of other things inconvenient.
The police have a [right to] gather information (...), BUT they have no right to (...) use their access to the information to impersonate you such as by using the information to defraud another person or service that they are you.
I'm sorry but his is just legal fiction taken entirely from your own head. If you put a post-it note under the keyboard with your username and password, the cops can most certainly log in as you on your own machine. And if you get arrested for say kiddie porn, then yes the police will try logging in on every account they find impersonating you looking for more illegal files and trying to bait everyone you know into criminally implicating themselves as well as you. And while the more recent practice of setting up fake social media profiles in your name might - or might not - get curbed, the rest has been established practice for many, many years. Cops lie. Cops have the right to lie about being you. If you don't believe that, you'd better check your facts.
Personally I'd rather they lobby the voters than the politicians, you might say that people being gullible and easy manipulated is a flaw but at least that's democracy as designed. When politicians get paid lots of campaign contributions to buy votes while voting in favor of the corporations funding them rather than the votes electing them that's circumventing the democratic process. Not to mention that I think most voters vote for what they want to believe, facts be damned.
Well, KDE consists of two parts. Plasma is the desktop shell. SC (Software Compilation) are the various apps that come with KDE.
No, what used to be the "Software Compilation" in KDE4 split into three parts:
KDE Frameworks 5 - the KDE libraries on top of Qt5
KDE Plasma 5 - the shell
KDE Applications - the applications, duh
They're now on three separate release schedules from what I gather, there's no more SC like it used to be.
The question is, if the US really wanted to go back to the moon would they use a Saturn V anyway? If you take the Falcon Heavy launching early next year with two booster rockets and add four more so it's a hex ring around a center rocket you'd have a Falcon Superheavy that would roughly match the Saturn V. The Falcon Heavy does 53000 kg to LEO / 3 (center + 2 side) * 7 (center plus hex) = 123000kg ~= 118000kg for the Saturn V. I'm guessing if you gave SpaceX a billion dollar check they'd have a working prototype on the launch pad in a year or two for ~$250 million/launch with maximal reuse of existing and up-to-date technology.
Who knows? The main argument has been against the compelling part, if they can read your mind through involuntary responses that may be legally permissible. They probably can't get a confession that way, but they might gather leads on what you may recognize or feeling or whatever. They show you a picture of your dead wife, your brain goes to hate. That cute secretary you have a secret affair with triggers a quite different and legally interesting response. And photos from where the body was dumped triggers recall responses more than shock responses, oh my. They are after all allowed to play mind games with you, that's what most interrig... sorry, interview techniques are all about. Maybe it'll be like sci-fi series where characters hum children's rhymes to avoid telepaths being able to read their thoughts.
True, but rightly or wrongly those people are perceived of has being in control of their own fate and could have escaped death with better decisions. Here you just strap your butt to someone else's bomb.
My impression is that between guides, porters, avalanches, snow storms and equipment failures they're highly dependent on other expedition members and accept quite a bit of inherent risk in what they're doing that they don't in any meaningful way control. It's not like you can walk off on your own, you bend or break with your team. If you can put your faith in them you can put it the people making your spaceship too, not because they'll be perfect because they won't but because they're (hopefully) smart and doing their best.
This. Ask people who the first man in space is and if they have a name it's almost certainly Yuri Gagarin, unless they confuse it with the moon landing. Very few count Alan Shepard's suborbital flight as really going into space even though he took a peek and got the astronaut wings for it. What SpaceShipTwo is delivering will certainly give you some bragging rights, but you'll also find many party poopers who'll tell you it's $200k spent on not really going into space anyway.
And there's a lot of potential for SpaceX to improve on that $20 million/head if they take a Falcon Heavy which should be able to lift 8-9 Dragon capsules to orbit as it has payload 53000 kg to LEO, one Dragon is 6000 kg launch weight. My guess is that it's possible to design a "Dragon XXL" to carry 100 people to sit on top of that rocket. At $85 million for the rocket let's say $100 million total with capsule - a $1 million/head trip seems entirely within reach in the next 10-20 years. While that is still out of the average persons' reach there's literally millions of millionaires out there who could go if they spent their entire net worth going. And thousands who wouldn't even feel it.
Facebook wanted to work out facebook*.onion, so they only had to sha-1 'facebook' and then store that state. After that, feed 40 sha-1 bits to the sha-1 function to generate a bunch of different hashes, keeping the ones that match.
That doesn't make any sense at all, if they can choose "facebook" I can choose "facebookcorewwwi" and feed it 0 bits to get my hash. It is the other way around, you must generate a public key and SHA-1 hash that, cut to 80 bits and convert to base32 and that'll be your service descriptor. Since each letter = 5 bits they basically brute force created 2^40 = public keys to find one that hashed to facebook*. There are tools for this, the estimate for a single 1.5 GHz processor choosing 8 letters is about ~25 days. Note that spoofing a full address would take millions of years the same way.
Back in the dotcom days everything was funded, even Linux companies with too much VC money pushing physical CDs on everyone who'd take them. Vast numbers of discs were thrown away when they were no longer the latest and greatest version. I'm guessing for every person who'd want one there's a hundred thinking "yeah I might have something like that in my closet somewhere", personally I might have Red Hat Linux 6 (not RHEL 6) somewhere. I used to have OS/2, but I threw away all my floppies some years ago. Even for a trip down nostalgia lane I'd probably look for a VM/emulator to install it in from an ISO, it's not like they had album art and liner notes.