So I assume you are also in favor of registering every firearm in the country as well, since they don't need to be turned into anything? For someone who doesn't support the panopticon, you sure seem to be in favor of it.
National Security? China already broke in and stole anything that was even marginally interesting, and they still have root. Might as well get the changes to the design back from them...
where I wouldn't dare venture with such things as implanted RFID chips.
Want to use your implanted RFID chip to access your bank via ATM? What's to stop criminals from cutting off your finger and racing to the nearest ATM before your finger and the chip become non-operational? Probably the PIN you also use to authenticate, but still.......
Ummmmm, the same thing that keeps them from stealing your card and doing the same thing? Yeah, stealing an ATM access device is already a problem, though not a huge one. What makes you think it will become a larger problem when the device in question is implanted? Seems like it would be a more difficult robbery with greater legal repercussions than a simple mugging.
5-digit Slashdot userid numberAh haha, I know where you work, friend; did you author the utility of which I speak? Silicon Valley campus, or north of here?
It's a fairly common hex string, here is what Wikipedia says about it:
0xDEADBEEF ("dead beef") is frequently used to indicate a software crash or deadlock in embedded systems. DEADBEEF was originally used to mark newly allocated areas of memory that had not yet been initialized—when scanning a memory dump, it is easy to see the DEADBEEF. It is used by IBM RS/6000 systems, Mac OS on 32-bit PowerPC processors and the Commodore Amiga as a magic debug value. On Sun Microsystems' Solaris, it marks freed kernel memory. On OpenVMS running on Alpha processors, DEAD_BEEF can be seen by pressing CTRL-T. The DEC Alpha SRM console has a background process that traps memory errors, identified by PS as "BeefEater waiting on 0xdeadbeef".[19]
What is wrong with leaving the city? Why should a magical line drawn on a map make a difference? Why do people want to make cities into insular bubbles that don't interact with the rest of the region? But commercial buildings in the suburbs, and residential buildings in the suburbs, and then people will live in the suburbs and have a higher quality of life than living in the city.
Or just stop teaching people that they must have a job in the city and no where else, get rid of parochialism. That's a major problem in so many cities. People want to be in the city limits even though it cames with more drawbacks than advantages, the demand makes the housing prices skyrocket, it drives out the middle class, it drives out people with families, it destroys the public schools, and the only reason for it is that some people care about having a desirable zip code.
In most places, that has already happened, then the new real estate "out of the city" becomes desirable, because the highly paid workers that work at the company that located outside the city want to live close to work. For example, Microsoft isn't located in Seattle itself, it is in Redmond. So Redmond real estate becomes pricier because all the borg drones want to live near the MS campus. All the tech companies aren't located in San Francisco, they are located in Silicon Valley so more housing is built there and so it becomes a massive nightmare of urban sprawl rather than the higher-density housing you get when the company locates within the city center. Amazon is a bit of an exception as it is located in Seattle proper, but many companies that are moving into a given area locate in the existing suburbs for many reasons (taxes, local workforce, cheaper real estate, etc.). In many (most?) cities the problem isn't gentrification driving lower income people out, it is all the well-off people (and many of the companies) moving to the outlying areas leaving mostly poorer people living in the city centers.
But can MythTV transcode CableCARD-sourced video to Android and Apple if it is marked "copy once" or "copy never"? Or are the five tuners solely for OTA?
Nope, it can only transcode stuff that is copy freely. Of course, none of its competitors can do that either so it's not like that's a deal-breaker.
Sure, I use a CableCard for Myth. The issue is that it is highly dependent on what your cable company allows, if they have the 'copy never' bit set on their programming then it will be pretty much useless. I haven't ever run into a problem recording something with my cable co. but they could pretty much disable my ability to record on a whim.
Sorry, which political party aren't full of corporatists again?
Neither. The problem is the voting system in the US, which pretty much guarantees a two party system. Both the major parties have completely sold out to the corporations, and there isn't anything we can do because the system is rigged to prefer two parties, and only two parties. Both parties are authoritarian corporatists and it will never change because the people who would need to act to change it are the very people who would lose power by changing it. It's the same reason term limits or campaign finance reform never get passed.
What's more reasonable, that some MS drone fucked up, or that the NSA compromised their update servers to illegally wiretap every system on the planet, Batman style, just sort of hoping no one would notice? Where's Morgan Freeman when you need him?
Why would the NSA need to compromise the update servers? They just send a National Security Letter to Microsoft and their backdoor gets put into the OS when it ships, they don't need to slip it into an update.
So charge them with fraud if they can't be charged under the clean air act. They deliberately misrepresented their product to customers to make greater profits, seems like a textbook case of fraud to me. Of course, since they are a large corporation they will probably skate with a small fine. You get the government you voted for, I hope all the people who vote for the corporatists each election are happy with the outcome.
Inherited money won't last. Eventually Paris Hilton (or her offspring) will spend herself broke.
According to this article, 97% of the fortune ($2.5B) that Paris stood to inherit (along with other heirs) will be given to charity. Paris will have to split a paltry $65M, with her personal share likely to be around $5M. Not peanuts, but certainly not the huge amount that it could have been. For someone who lives her lifestyle, it would be no problem just to blow through $5M. Of course, she can leverage all her family connections to get her "products" placed in stores and she was able to parley her membership in the family (and her vapidity) into b-list celebrity status, which can also generate revenue.
Slashdot moderation system used to measure us as a total of karma over all posts to measure the contribution to Slashdot.
Slashdot had to stop using those because of karma whores.
Even meaningless numbers are a strong motivators to cheat a system. You have to be very careful about what you do. Improving those metrics will triumph over quality and ethics.
They still have the total score, they just don't display it. It is still used to determine your starting post score as well as factoring in how frequently you get mod points (and how many you get).
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Use fahrenheit and you will loose all creadability
Use 'loose' or 'creadability' and you lose all credibility.
Oh, it's not "yeah, this proposal a horrible thing, we shouldn't have thought that this was a good idea", it's "You misunderstood what we are trying to do, we will do it again with more obfuscated language this time". No, we fucking didn't misunderstand. Your stupid proposal makes a nationwide backdoor into anything encrypted. If this were to actually happen, it would certainly be abused - India's government is notoriously corrupt. The Indian people need to tell their government in no uncertain terms that this is unacceptable.
The police were called, and they are compelled and required to investigate once called.
The police have no duty to the public at all. They don't even need to show up if they don't want to. They aren't compelled to do anything.
They don't just show up and say, "Eh, whatever," and leave.
Of course they do, they do it all the time and that's exactly what they should have done in this case. They should have looked at the clock, asked the kid "Were you trying to make people think you had a bomb? Did you have any plans to leave this somewhere or did you intend to keep it in your possession at all times?" If the kid answered correctly the police should have said "There was no crime committed here, have a nice day!". Instead, they arrested and handcuffed a child.
a big red digital display with a bunch of loose wires in a brief-case looking box is awful like a Hollywood-style representation of a bomb
Adults should be smart enough to know that the Hollywood depiction of something often doesn't resemble real-life. What's next, people getting arrested for having dangerous weapons because they were carrying flashlights and the police thought they were lightsabers? People (particularly people who are supposed to be educating the next generation) need to learn to apply critical thinking skills.
Keep saying Irving, TX is a "small town". The more you say it, the truer it becomes. Except for those of us familiar with DFW. Which recently surpassed metro Houston as the fourth largest glob of people in the US. Yeah. Small town. Chock full of slack-jawed yokels.
It's not a small town, but it IS full of slack-jawed yokels.
most polymaths are patently insane; in fact, I think every polymath anyone's ever taken note of in history was insane. DaVinci cut his own ear off.
Nitpick, isn't that Van Gogh that cut off his ear?
"Last Sunday night at half past eleven a painter named Vincent Vangogh, appeared at the maison de tolérance No 1, asked for a girl called Rachel, and handed her... his ear with these words: 'Keep this object like a treasure.'"
If a central bank purchases a government security, such as a bond or treasury bill, it increases the money supply, in effect creating money.
Yes, if a central bank purchases a government security. Your comment was stating that ALL government debt was in the form of loans from the central bank, and that just isn't how it is. The Fed currently owns about $2.4T of the more that $18T debt. Yes, it is a significant amount of money but they certainly aren't the only holder of US debt and aren't even close to the largest creditor.
That is greater than the $580B or so spent on the DoD in 2014
This page shows national security spending in 2014 was more like $968B. Yes, defense discretionary spending was around $580B but they also need to pay for the VA and military pensions as well as other national security expenditures. Neither figure includes the trillions we spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Still not the trillions we would need to fund a basic income, but certainly getting closer. Obviously, we can't totally eliminate national security spending and we would still have to honor our commitments to our veterans but there is a lot of money that can be removed from the defense budget while still spending more than any other country in the world.
In the current economic model, governments of the world go to their central banks and ask to "borrow" money.
Ummm [citation needed]. The way modern governments borrow money is by issuing sovereign bonds. If they want to borrow more money, they issue more bonds.
The key to success is to tax the top 1% of income/asset possessors. 90% to the top bracket may sound outrageous, but that was the rate back in the previous century when income tax was first implemented.
Actually, the first income tax in the US was implemented in 1861 (right after the Civil War). It was a 3% tax on incomes over $800 (around $17k in today's dollars). The 90% tax rate you are thinking of was WWII/post-WWII. The top rate was 94% on income over $200k (~$2.8M in today's dollars).
The problem with giving this type of freedom is that it is freedom to fail. The reason many programs have limits on how you can spend the money (i.e. WIC only allowing food purchases) is because when you just give cash to people who are already bad with money, they tend to waste it. Our current welfare programs are mostly aimed at helping children, but if everything is just a cash handout under BIG then many of these children (and adults) will end up going hungry because the money is spent on frivolities rather than necessities. Sure, it is "more free" than mandating how they should spend the assistance but that freedom ends up with kids (who aren't the ones making the poor decisions) going to bed hungry. As more jobs are automated away it is going to be harder and harder to employ everybody who wants a job so we certainly need to do something, but it doesn't seem like any of the basic income proposals are workable in practice.
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Are you under the impression that all drones are quadcopters with onboard cameras?
Because they are very easy to turn into weapons.
So I assume you are also in favor of registering every firearm in the country as well, since they don't need to be turned into anything? For someone who doesn't support the panopticon, you sure seem to be in favor of it.
National Security? China already broke in and stole anything that was even marginally interesting, and they still have root. Might as well get the changes to the design back from them...
where I wouldn't dare venture with such things as implanted RFID chips.
Want to use your implanted RFID chip to access your bank via ATM? What's to stop criminals from cutting off your finger and racing to the nearest ATM before your finger and the chip become non-operational? Probably the PIN you also use to authenticate, but still.......
Ummmmm, the same thing that keeps them from stealing your card and doing the same thing? Yeah, stealing an ATM access device is already a problem, though not a huge one. What makes you think it will become a larger problem when the device in question is implanted? Seems like it would be a more difficult robbery with greater legal repercussions than a simple mugging.
5-digit Slashdot userid numberAh haha, I know where you work, friend; did you author the utility of which I speak? Silicon Valley campus, or north of here?
It's a fairly common hex string, here is what Wikipedia says about it:
0xDEADBEEF ("dead beef") is frequently used to indicate a software crash or deadlock in embedded systems. DEADBEEF was originally used to mark newly allocated areas of memory that had not yet been initialized—when scanning a memory dump, it is easy to see the DEADBEEF. It is used by IBM RS/6000 systems, Mac OS on 32-bit PowerPC processors and the Commodore Amiga as a magic debug value. On Sun Microsystems' Solaris, it marks freed kernel memory. On OpenVMS running on Alpha processors, DEAD_BEEF can be seen by pressing CTRL-T. The DEC Alpha SRM console has a background process that traps memory errors, identified by PS as "BeefEater waiting on 0xdeadbeef".[19]
What is wrong with leaving the city? Why should a magical line drawn on a map make a difference? Why do people want to make cities into insular bubbles that don't interact with the rest of the region? But commercial buildings in the suburbs, and residential buildings in the suburbs, and then people will live in the suburbs and have a higher quality of life than living in the city.
Or just stop teaching people that they must have a job in the city and no where else, get rid of parochialism. That's a major problem in so many cities. People want to be in the city limits even though it cames with more drawbacks than advantages, the demand makes the housing prices skyrocket, it drives out the middle class, it drives out people with families, it destroys the public schools, and the only reason for it is that some people care about having a desirable zip code.
In most places, that has already happened, then the new real estate "out of the city" becomes desirable, because the highly paid workers that work at the company that located outside the city want to live close to work. For example, Microsoft isn't located in Seattle itself, it is in Redmond. So Redmond real estate becomes pricier because all the borg drones want to live near the MS campus. All the tech companies aren't located in San Francisco, they are located in Silicon Valley so more housing is built there and so it becomes a massive nightmare of urban sprawl rather than the higher-density housing you get when the company locates within the city center. Amazon is a bit of an exception as it is located in Seattle proper, but many companies that are moving into a given area locate in the existing suburbs for many reasons (taxes, local workforce, cheaper real estate, etc.). In many (most?) cities the problem isn't gentrification driving lower income people out, it is all the well-off people (and many of the companies) moving to the outlying areas leaving mostly poorer people living in the city centers.
I post to Slashdot maybe one every few years... and it still can't convert line breaks to <br>'s?
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It does if your posting mode is "plain old text", and as far as I remember it has always been this way, even before you created your account.
You must have something else selected as your default posting mode, try clicking the Options button and see what mode you are using.
But can MythTV transcode CableCARD-sourced video to Android and Apple if it is marked "copy once" or "copy never"? Or are the five tuners solely for OTA?
Nope, it can only transcode stuff that is copy freely. Of course, none of its competitors can do that either so it's not like that's a deal-breaker.
Sure, I use a CableCard for Myth. The issue is that it is highly dependent on what your cable company allows, if they have the 'copy never' bit set on their programming then it will be pretty much useless. I haven't ever run into a problem recording something with my cable co. but they could pretty much disable my ability to record on a whim.
Sorry, which political party aren't full of corporatists again?
Neither. The problem is the voting system in the US, which pretty much guarantees a two party system. Both the major parties have completely sold out to the corporations, and there isn't anything we can do because the system is rigged to prefer two parties, and only two parties. Both parties are authoritarian corporatists and it will never change because the people who would need to act to change it are the very people who would lose power by changing it. It's the same reason term limits or campaign finance reform never get passed.
What's more reasonable, that some MS drone fucked up, or that the NSA compromised their update servers to illegally wiretap every system on the planet, Batman style, just sort of hoping no one would notice? Where's Morgan Freeman when you need him?
Why would the NSA need to compromise the update servers? They just send a National Security Letter to Microsoft and their backdoor gets put into the OS when it ships, they don't need to slip it into an update.
So charge them with fraud if they can't be charged under the clean air act. They deliberately misrepresented their product to customers to make greater profits, seems like a textbook case of fraud to me. Of course, since they are a large corporation they will probably skate with a small fine. You get the government you voted for, I hope all the people who vote for the corporatists each election are happy with the outcome.
Inherited money won't last. Eventually Paris Hilton (or her offspring) will spend herself broke.
According to this article, 97% of the fortune ($2.5B) that Paris stood to inherit (along with other heirs) will be given to charity. Paris will have to split a paltry $65M, with her personal share likely to be around $5M. Not peanuts, but certainly not the huge amount that it could have been. For someone who lives her lifestyle, it would be no problem just to blow through $5M. Of course, she can leverage all her family connections to get her "products" placed in stores and she was able to parley her membership in the family (and her vapidity) into b-list celebrity status, which can also generate revenue.
Slashdot moderation system used to measure us as a total of karma over all posts to measure the contribution to Slashdot.
Slashdot had to stop using those because of karma whores.
Even meaningless numbers are a strong motivators to cheat a system. You have to be very careful about what you do. Improving those metrics will triumph over quality and ethics.
They still have the total score, they just don't display it. It is still used to determine your starting post score as well as factoring in how frequently you get mod points (and how many you get).
Use fahrenheit and you will loose all creadability
Use 'loose' or 'creadability' and you lose all credibility.
Oh, it's not "yeah, this proposal a horrible thing, we shouldn't have thought that this was a good idea", it's "You misunderstood what we are trying to do, we will do it again with more obfuscated language this time". No, we fucking didn't misunderstand. Your stupid proposal makes a nationwide backdoor into anything encrypted. If this were to actually happen, it would certainly be abused - India's government is notoriously corrupt. The Indian people need to tell their government in no uncertain terms that this is unacceptable.
The police were called, and they are compelled and required to investigate once called.
The police have no duty to the public at all. They don't even need to show up if they don't want to. They aren't compelled to do anything.
They don't just show up and say, "Eh, whatever," and leave.
Of course they do, they do it all the time and that's exactly what they should have done in this case. They should have looked at the clock, asked the kid "Were you trying to make people think you had a bomb? Did you have any plans to leave this somewhere or did you intend to keep it in your possession at all times?" If the kid answered correctly the police should have said "There was no crime committed here, have a nice day!". Instead, they arrested and handcuffed a child.
a big red digital display with a bunch of loose wires in a brief-case looking box is awful like a Hollywood-style representation of a bomb
Adults should be smart enough to know that the Hollywood depiction of something often doesn't resemble real-life. What's next, people getting arrested for having dangerous weapons because they were carrying flashlights and the police thought they were lightsabers? People (particularly people who are supposed to be educating the next generation) need to learn to apply critical thinking skills.
Keep saying Irving, TX is a "small town". The more you say it, the truer it becomes. Except for those of us familiar with DFW. Which recently surpassed metro Houston as the fourth largest glob of people in the US. Yeah. Small town. Chock full of slack-jawed yokels.
It's not a small town, but it IS full of slack-jawed yokels.
most polymaths are patently insane; in fact, I think every polymath anyone's ever taken note of in history was insane. DaVinci cut his own ear off.
Nitpick, isn't that Van Gogh that cut off his ear?
"Last Sunday night at half past eleven a painter named Vincent Vangogh, appeared at the maison de tolérance No 1, asked for a girl called Rachel, and handed her ... his ear with these words: 'Keep this object like a treasure.'"
Which the central banks buy. From your own link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yes, if a central bank purchases a government security. Your comment was stating that ALL government debt was in the form of loans from the central bank, and that just isn't how it is. The Fed currently owns about $2.4T of the more that $18T debt. Yes, it is a significant amount of money but they certainly aren't the only holder of US debt and aren't even close to the largest creditor.
That is greater than the $580B or so spent on the DoD in 2014
This page shows national security spending in 2014 was more like $968B. Yes, defense discretionary spending was around $580B but they also need to pay for the VA and military pensions as well as other national security expenditures. Neither figure includes the trillions we spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Still not the trillions we would need to fund a basic income, but certainly getting closer. Obviously, we can't totally eliminate national security spending and we would still have to honor our commitments to our veterans but there is a lot of money that can be removed from the defense budget while still spending more than any other country in the world.
In the current economic model, governments of the world go to their central banks and ask to "borrow" money.
Ummm [citation needed]. The way modern governments borrow money is by issuing sovereign bonds. If they want to borrow more money, they issue more bonds.
The key to success is to tax the top 1% of income/asset possessors. 90% to the top bracket may sound outrageous, but that was the rate back in the previous century when income tax was first implemented.
Actually, the first income tax in the US was implemented in 1861 (right after the Civil War). It was a 3% tax on incomes over $800 (around $17k in today's dollars). The 90% tax rate you are thinking of was WWII/post-WWII. The top rate was 94% on income over $200k (~$2.8M in today's dollars).
The problem with giving this type of freedom is that it is freedom to fail. The reason many programs have limits on how you can spend the money (i.e. WIC only allowing food purchases) is because when you just give cash to people who are already bad with money, they tend to waste it. Our current welfare programs are mostly aimed at helping children, but if everything is just a cash handout under BIG then many of these children (and adults) will end up going hungry because the money is spent on frivolities rather than necessities. Sure, it is "more free" than mandating how they should spend the assistance but that freedom ends up with kids (who aren't the ones making the poor decisions) going to bed hungry. As more jobs are automated away it is going to be harder and harder to employ everybody who wants a job so we certainly need to do something, but it doesn't seem like any of the basic income proposals are workable in practice.