Dihydrogen monoxide has been maligned numerous times over the years, but the
real culprit is Oxygen; DHMO is just one of the many corrupt forms that Oxygen can take.
If someone smashes a window and burglarizes your home is it your fault because you didn't put bars over your windows?
Your remark is a false analogy. You are missing an important concept called duty of care in regards to companies that require you to provide them sensitive information in order to purchase a service from them. Try this one: you go to the jewelry store, and secure into their care a $100,000 jeweled necklace for repairs. Overnight, a burglar smashes a window in the store and swipes your necklace. The store just calls you up and informs you it has been stolen, so you won't be able to pick it up, and we're sorry we can't help you replace it, BUT we will offer you a 25% discount coupon good for 2 years. There were no bars on the windows, and a worker just left your piece on a work desk or file cabinet. Only the products actually owned by the shop are locked up in a special vault after closing.
An essential fact to keep in mind, is that you as consumer have no control of the shop's level of security.
Now imagine if instead of a $100,000 necklace, it was a piece of intellectual property or personal details, where theft could be occurring without clear physical evidence.
I will agree if a burglar smashes the window of your house and burglarizes your home, the burglar is fully responsible, but only if caught.
In fact, you as homeowner will bear the cost in reality. The cost in lost items, OR the cost in increased insurance premiums that will ultimately exceed any amounts claimed.
Although you as homeowner had a choice to beef up your security, you could have chosen not to.
However you are not free of liability in this situation.. Your liability is your loss in this case.
Dear leaker community: please stop shitting in your own nest. You have no idea what you're doing, or what kind of world you're trying to create.
They could be like the roman senators who assasinated Julius Caesar, because they feared growing power would result in Caesar being crowned king and crush the republican form of government, but after the dirty deed was done, the senate lost legitimacy and Rome became a dictatorship, so their actions had the opposite of the intended affect.
With all that has been leaked so far.... if the general public has not yet become outraged enough with the NSA to have politicians driving for change, then probably nothing they have left will be able to meet that threshold.
Did I just slip through a crack in the universe, to a place where the past decades of computer intrusions didn't take place.
In every past intrusion, the intruders were always held to be 100% to blame.
No manager ever went to jail for gross negligence after a million credit card numbers were stolen, or a control system was attacked.
No major company that was breached ever got sued for all they have by customers whose personal information and privacy were compromised due to the company's gross negligence --- again the intruders were held to have all the blame.
The most serious breaches happen every day by most every business large and small....
you can bet your bottom dollar, that the vast majority of breaches are swept under the rug, and we never learn about them. Unless the breach becomes severe enough or something happens where the company can no longer hide it.... I suspect 90% of small and medium businesses are not disclosing this kind of stuff properly, not even if customers are at risk
When was the last time you got a letter from your grocery store?
Businesses are having workstations on their LAN infected with random malware all the time.
Just about any service provider you do business with has your information and has Windows workstations, and that should make the public scared as hell
But by and large, the public is unaware, even "security experts" are unaware.
There's a reason these powers exist, or did you just think CPS officers get a kick out of taking children from their homes? Idiot
The case demonstrated in the article is proof enough that CPS officers are routinely abusing (apparently) absolute powers they have been granted. I'm not saying kids can never be forcibly removed without the kids' agreement, without sufficient evidence to get the proper judiciary orders, but the controls preventing rampant abuse of this government power to commit tyrannies and misuse of the color of law to enforce CPS employees' personal opinion on proper child-rearing are too weak, and the controls and protections need to be strengthened more.
Bullshit. Not a single mention of psychological abuse, which can be just as damaging if not more so than physical abuse.
Read it again.
And which often results in the child being too scared or conditioned against speaking up about their abuse.
That's fine, but they need to have definitive evidence of claimed psychological abuse, for an emergency removal on that basis, and it should be clear enough for them to get the 2 independent peace officers outside CPS to investigate the situation and come to agreement with the CPS personnel of the immediate necessity.
Every town/city in the US is different as far as risk. That said, the risk that a child will be kidnapped is not zero.
It is never zero. However, we do not charge parents with neglect for driving their children around, even though we know that
sometimes cars get in accidents, and sometimes passengers die.
Therefore, for it to be said to be irresponsible, the risk should be at least greater than that of other modes of transportation.
In other words: there must be more than residual risk, for sure.
We also let children 'play' and engage in sports, therefore.... to be neglecting required supervision... the risk
for the child in question in that situation should be at least greater than that involved in normal 'play' and sports engagements,
including some dangerous sports that children are allowed to participate in with parental consent, where they could be at risk of serious injury or death
from effects such as snakebite or drowning, hockey puck to the temples, for example.
I think the question about whether the child was adequately supervised will depend on time, and also....
the local area.
I wouldn't be comfortable with a child left alone.... that said, their kids were not alone apparently they were accompanied by each other.
Therefore, if the kids have the proper skills, they would not be in particular danger, and if something did happen: the other child should be able to find help.
CPS needs to be severely neutered, but it can serve a purpose if it's powers are properly limited.
They can start with a rule that says no forced removal from a parent's care until a court order is issued with all sides represented; without recorded consent from a minimum of 1 parent to the child or another parent or current legal guardian;
In other words: restrict forced removal of children to situations where the child is physically unable to speak or is willing to approve, without any lengths at attempted persuasion from a CPS representative.
If the Child is unable or unwilling to agree to the removal, then the removal is almost certainly more harmful than helpful in most everyday situations.
CPS should bear a burden of proof that there is an Extraordinary and unusual circumstance justifying special actions.
Allow for "emergency" forced removal, only after a competent licensed physician, medical investigator have signed off that there is definitive evidence of significant injury or physical abuse and immediate emergency and more likely than not a physical abuse, malnutrition, or deprivation of food that should be characterized as neglect, or a licensed psychologist signed off that there is more likely than not intentional psychological abuse or neglect.
Or at least two peace officers agree and can sign a document stating that the child is likely to be in clear and immediate danger if not forcibly removed.
IOW: stringent requirements for CPS. The way to go and help curtail this abuse of inappropriate absolute power that CPS has been afforded.
Shouldn't matter. Even non-nuclear plants tend to have a "physical" layer of security beneath the computer. If, for example, a reactor vessel becomes overly full, it triggers a switch which directly closes all the feed valves
Yup. They have extra layers of safety in power plants you won't find in microcontroller-controlled mechanical devices designed for the consumer.
Then look at one of the more modern fast breeder or molten salt reactor concepts such as ThorCon, which claim to incorporate more inherent safety, and I think the fact that there are millions cars driving around with humans behind the wheel, some of them carrying large quantities of hazardous or explosive materials, some of them drunk, some of them insane or asleep, is a scary as hell, compared to the more benign idea, that a machine-learning system would be controlling some industrial processes....
"US Lawmakers Push For a Permanent Ban On Internet Access
Taxes"
Don't you think you could have used a shorter headline, so Taxes would be on the same line ?
you know.. like "US Lawmakers push to make internet tax moratorium permanent"
Or to use your characterization a moment would be captured where the suspect is not backing off. Such a moment is enough to clear the cop.
Not necessarily. Just because a suspect is not backing off does not mean the officer in the right. If the cop is charging at a 'suspect' with a weapon, without explanation or addressing them or refused to prove their identity as a legitimate police officer, then the suspect could very well be legally taking any actions to defend themselves.
That would be great, but it is currently not possible to run a mobile recording camera 24/7 with the batteries available today.
It's not 24/7. The batteries only need to last for say their 10-hour shift; perhaps some extra capacity just in case.
The body cam can also shut off, when the Officer steps in their squad car, and use a break-away charging connector like Magsafe, so the camera automatically turns on and starts recording when the officer leaves their squad car.
They could also have a mechanism to occasionally transmit image capture frames to dispatch along with GPS position, so they will be able to see the Officer is OK, provide continuous tracking history of their location at time X, and what any officer's last position was at any point in time to send help, if there is a problem.
This is exactly what they should do. The bodycam should be _always recording_ in a 10 minute continuous ring buffer.
If the Officer calls in an emergency or unholsters or uses handcuffs, a taser, firearm, handcuffs, or other weapon, or if shots are fired, then recording should start and include the 10 minutes before the incident, and continue recording 10 minutes after all police accessories are re-secured.
I had to help the non-technical staff around my office because they were utterly confused when suddenly they started getting Yahoo results rather than Google, and sites they used to find so easily weren't showing up in their searches.
Sounds like they were in need to switch to another search engine.
If you're going to a search engine to find a specific website, then you are doing it wrong.
We have this feature called bookmarks for navigating to sites that you know about.
Don't worry. It's not going to be in cars anytime soon.
I think a Pi running realtime Linux with machine learning looks much more interesting as a possible candidate for
replacement of legacy control systems in nuclear fission-based power plants with
a much more modern less-expensive system based on current generation commodity off-the-shelf hardware.
Criticisms belong in the IETF discussion forum, but as long as the protocol is an improvement
over HTTP/1, then this is progress. Sorry, PKH, about the Not Invented Here.
Yes, if the improvement to be made is great and Google or a 3rd party has already done enough work to have good results, then the standardization process
should be expeditious, and if the IETF wishes to stay relevant, they should work to provide technologically
better standards at a reasonable pace.
No, clothing, ropes, and handcuffs are not a "medical device"... none is "intended to affect the structure or function of the body" (unless chosen to be marketed that way)
Reading a nice book or listening to an exciting presentation can make you feel more energized.
So apparently Youtube and Slashdot.org are medical devices now, and
so is any computer that can be equipped with a web browser and internet connection in order to access them.
Handcuffs alter the function of the body by causing it to behave as if crippled through involuntary disabling of the use of hands;
although they clearly have a punitive use (cruel and unusual punishment, I would say), they could clearly fall within the definition.
As noted, the device operates is battery powered and influences the brain through electricity,
therefore it achieves its primary intended purpose through chemical action on the body....
Also... This device is not intended to affect the structure or any function of the body; as shown in the summary,
the device is intended to affect how energized you feel, so this is a highly subjective matter and
how nice you feel is not related to any specific structure or function of the body.
Just in the same sense you could stare at a bright light in the hopes of feeling more energized
or take a cup of coffee, but it doesn't make bright lights medical devices, and it doesn't make
Coffee a drug subject to FDA regulation as a medication, even if these products are advertised that they can do that:
the usage is not a medical purpose.
If the device is not intended to diagnose or treat a health condition, then the FDA has no authority over it.
On the other hand.... if the Consumer Product Safety Commission Tsar doesn't like it, the commission could label it as "unsafe" and ban the sale of the product and issue mandatory recall: you know, like they did with buckyballs.
My view is Cable Internet + Netflix and Hulu are good enough, and any family members that want more should pay for it themselves or split the cost of the additional fees.
since the main point would seem to be to instill consumer confidence in putting their money in banks in the first place
Other issues are addressed by federal regulations and required rules that banks need to adhere to and routine auditing that banks have to undergo in order to protect against fraud/theft. There are minimum dollar amounts in capital required to be chartered as a bank, and there are additional private insurance protections banks are essentially required to take out, so banks have to have some coverage against fraud/theft to be allowed to operate. It's just that those protections are not backed up by the full faith and credit of the US government.
Still... plenty of people buy homes and take out Homeowner's insurance policies or Auto insurance policies, even though the government does not guarantee the payout for these policies in the event of a claim coupled with insolvency by your Home/Auto insurer.
FDIC largely insures deposits against honest business failure, as in fractional reserve issues -- such as a run on the bank; anything else is up to a bank's private insurers.
FDIC does not insure or otherwise offer any protections or guarantees against fraud or theft.
FDIC only protects against insolvency by your bank not consisting of any fraud, theft, or other regulatory breaches.
Don't worry, they had to stop digging because the local authorities mysteriously started insisting the
excavators apply for some new permits. Those responsible for the safekeeping of the vault with
the Holy grail and the Ark of the Covenant, etc are already in the process of using one of the secret
secondary backdoors out of the facility to move all the valuables
to one of the backup storage vaults.
By the time they resume digging, there will be an empty chamber for them to find.
Slashdot Mirror
Water has always been the main reason people die.
Dihydrogen monoxide has been maligned numerous times over the years, but the real culprit is Oxygen; DHMO is just one of the many corrupt forms that Oxygen can take.
If someone smashes a window and burglarizes your home is it your fault because you didn't put bars over your windows?
Your remark is a false analogy. You are missing an important concept called duty of care in regards to companies that require you to provide them sensitive information in order to purchase a service from them. Try this one: you go to the jewelry store, and secure into their care a $100,000 jeweled necklace for repairs. Overnight, a burglar smashes a window in the store and swipes your necklace. The store just calls you up and informs you it has been stolen, so you won't be able to pick it up, and we're sorry we can't help you replace it, BUT we will offer you a 25% discount coupon good for 2 years. There were no bars on the windows, and a worker just left your piece on a work desk or file cabinet. Only the products actually owned by the shop are locked up in a special vault after closing.
An essential fact to keep in mind, is that you as consumer have no control of the shop's level of security.
Now imagine if instead of a $100,000 necklace, it was a piece of intellectual property or personal details, where theft could be occurring without clear physical evidence.
I will agree if a burglar smashes the window of your house and burglarizes your home, the burglar is fully responsible, but only if caught.
In fact, you as homeowner will bear the cost in reality. The cost in lost items, OR the cost in increased insurance premiums that will ultimately exceed any amounts claimed.
Although you as homeowner had a choice to beef up your security, you could have chosen not to.
However you are not free of liability in this situation.. Your liability is your loss in this case.
Dear leaker community: please stop shitting in your own nest. You have no idea what you're doing, or what kind of world you're trying to create.
They could be like the roman senators who assasinated Julius Caesar, because they feared growing power would result in Caesar being crowned king and crush the republican form of government, but after the dirty deed was done, the senate lost legitimacy and Rome became a dictatorship, so their actions had the opposite of the intended affect.
With all that has been leaked so far.... if the general public has not yet become outraged enough with the NSA to have politicians driving for change, then probably nothing they have left will be able to meet that threshold.
Did I just slip through a crack in the universe, to a place where the past decades of computer intrusions didn't take place.
In every past intrusion, the intruders were always held to be 100% to blame.
No manager ever went to jail for gross negligence after a million credit card numbers were stolen, or a control system was attacked.
No major company that was breached ever got sued for all they have by customers whose personal information and privacy were compromised due to the company's gross negligence --- again the intruders were held to have all the blame.
The most serious breaches happen every day by most every business large and small.... you can bet your bottom dollar, that the vast majority of breaches are swept under the rug, and we never learn about them. Unless the breach becomes severe enough or something happens where the company can no longer hide it.... I suspect 90% of small and medium businesses are not disclosing this kind of stuff properly, not even if customers are at risk
When was the last time you got a letter from your grocery store?
Businesses are having workstations on their LAN infected with random malware all the time.
Just about any service provider you do business with has your information and has Windows workstations, and that should make the public scared as hell
But by and large, the public is unaware, even "security experts" are unaware.
There's a reason these powers exist, or did you just think CPS officers get a kick out of taking children from their homes? Idiot
The case demonstrated in the article is proof enough that CPS officers are routinely abusing (apparently) absolute powers they have been granted. I'm not saying kids can never be forcibly removed without the kids' agreement, without sufficient evidence to get the proper judiciary orders, but the controls preventing rampant abuse of this government power to commit tyrannies and misuse of the color of law to enforce CPS employees' personal opinion on proper child-rearing are too weak, and the controls and protections need to be strengthened more.
Bullshit. Not a single mention of psychological abuse, which can be just as damaging if not more so than physical abuse.
Read it again.
And which often results in the child being too scared or conditioned against speaking up about their abuse.
That's fine, but they need to have definitive evidence of claimed psychological abuse, for an emergency removal on that basis, and it should be clear enough for them to get the 2 independent peace officers outside CPS to investigate the situation and come to agreement with the CPS personnel of the immediate necessity.
Today is January 16, 69 AE (Anthropocene Era)
Someone born in 1946 CE will now be referred to as: Born in 1 AE
Someone born in 1945 CE will now be referred to as "Born in 0 AE"; the year of the Anthropocene Epoch.
1944 CE will now be referred to as "1 BAE"; 1 year before the Anthropocene Epoch, etc
In this manner, every year renumbered.
And of course, tomorrow will be 1/17/69.
Every town/city in the US is different as far as risk. That said, the risk that a child will be kidnapped is not zero.
It is never zero. However, we do not charge parents with neglect for driving their children around, even though we know that sometimes cars get in accidents, and sometimes passengers die.
Therefore, for it to be said to be irresponsible, the risk should be at least greater than that of other modes of transportation.
In other words: there must be more than residual risk, for sure.
We also let children 'play' and engage in sports, therefore.... to be neglecting required supervision... the risk for the child in question in that situation should be at least greater than that involved in normal 'play' and sports engagements, including some dangerous sports that children are allowed to participate in with parental consent, where they could be at risk of serious injury or death from effects such as snakebite or drowning, hockey puck to the temples, for example.
I think the question about whether the child was adequately supervised will depend on time, and also.... the local area.
I wouldn't be comfortable with a child left alone.... that said, their kids were not alone apparently they were accompanied by each other. Therefore, if the kids have the proper skills, they would not be in particular danger, and if something did happen: the other child should be able to find help.
CPS needs to be severely neutered, but it can serve a purpose if it's powers are properly limited.
They can start with a rule that says no forced removal from a parent's care until a court order is issued with all sides represented; without recorded consent from a minimum of 1 parent to the child or another parent or current legal guardian;
In other words: restrict forced removal of children to situations where the child is physically unable to speak or is willing to approve, without any lengths at attempted persuasion from a CPS representative.
If the Child is unable or unwilling to agree to the removal, then the removal is almost certainly more harmful than helpful in most everyday situations. CPS should bear a burden of proof that there is an Extraordinary and unusual circumstance justifying special actions.
Allow for "emergency" forced removal, only after a competent licensed physician, medical investigator have signed off that there is definitive evidence of significant injury or physical abuse and immediate emergency and more likely than not a physical abuse, malnutrition, or deprivation of food that should be characterized as neglect, or a licensed psychologist signed off that there is more likely than not intentional psychological abuse or neglect.
Or at least two peace officers agree and can sign a document stating that the child is likely to be in clear and immediate danger if not forcibly removed.
IOW: stringent requirements for CPS. The way to go and help curtail this abuse of inappropriate absolute power that CPS has been afforded.
"I've fallen! And I can't get up!" is a call to arms.
I think you've misinterpreted that one... it's clearly a "Help Wanted" posting quietly reaching out to fellow villains for some technical assistance.
Shouldn't matter. Even non-nuclear plants tend to have a "physical" layer of security beneath the computer. If, for example, a reactor vessel becomes overly full, it triggers a switch which directly closes all the feed valves
Yup. They have extra layers of safety in power plants you won't find in microcontroller-controlled mechanical devices designed for the consumer.
Then look at one of the more modern fast breeder or molten salt reactor concepts such as ThorCon, which claim to incorporate more inherent safety, and I think the fact that there are millions cars driving around with humans behind the wheel, some of them carrying large quantities of hazardous or explosive materials, some of them drunk, some of them insane or asleep, is a scary as hell, compared to the more benign idea, that a machine-learning system would be controlling some industrial processes....
It's not their fault you have a small browser window and/or low resolution display.
My resolution is 1440 x 900, and the browser window is maximized.
http://screencloud.net/v/9qFv
Taxes"
Don't you think you could have used a shorter headline, so Taxes would be on the same line ? you know.. like "US Lawmakers push to make internet tax moratorium permanent"
Or to use your characterization a moment would be captured where the suspect is not backing off. Such a moment is enough to clear the cop.
Not necessarily. Just because a suspect is not backing off does not mean the officer in the right. If the cop is charging at a 'suspect' with a weapon, without explanation or addressing them or refused to prove their identity as a legitimate police officer, then the suspect could very well be legally taking any actions to defend themselves.
That would be great, but it is currently not possible to run a mobile recording camera 24/7 with the batteries available today.
It's not 24/7. The batteries only need to last for say their 10-hour shift; perhaps some extra capacity just in case.
The body cam can also shut off, when the Officer steps in their squad car, and use a break-away charging connector like Magsafe, so the camera automatically turns on and starts recording when the officer leaves their squad car.
They could also have a mechanism to occasionally transmit image capture frames to dispatch along with GPS position, so they will be able to see the Officer is OK, provide continuous tracking history of their location at time X, and what any officer's last position was at any point in time to send help, if there is a problem.
This is exactly what they should do. The bodycam should be _always recording_ in a 10 minute continuous ring buffer.
If the Officer calls in an emergency or unholsters or uses handcuffs, a taser, firearm, handcuffs, or other weapon, or if shots are fired, then recording should start and include the 10 minutes before the incident, and continue recording 10 minutes after all police accessories are re-secured.
I had to help the non-technical staff around my office because they were utterly confused when suddenly they started getting Yahoo results rather than Google, and sites they used to find so easily weren't showing up in their searches.
Sounds like they were in need to switch to another search engine. If you're going to a search engine to find a specific website, then you are doing it wrong.
We have this feature called bookmarks for navigating to sites that you know about.
Don't worry. It's not going to be in cars anytime soon.
I think a Pi running realtime Linux with machine learning looks much more interesting as a possible candidate for replacement of legacy control systems in nuclear fission-based power plants with a much more modern less-expensive system based on current generation commodity off-the-shelf hardware.
Criticisms belong in the IETF discussion forum, but as long as the protocol is an improvement over HTTP/1, then this is progress. Sorry, PKH, about the Not Invented Here.
Yes, if the improvement to be made is great and Google or a 3rd party has already done enough work to have good results, then the standardization process should be expeditious, and if the IETF wishes to stay relevant, they should work to provide technologically better standards at a reasonable pace.
No, clothing, ropes, and handcuffs are not a "medical device"... none is "intended to affect the structure or function of the body" (unless chosen to be marketed that way)
Reading a nice book or listening to an exciting presentation can make you feel more energized. So apparently Youtube and Slashdot.org are medical devices now, and so is any computer that can be equipped with a web browser and internet connection in order to access them.
Handcuffs alter the function of the body by causing it to behave as if crippled through involuntary disabling of the use of hands; although they clearly have a punitive use (cruel and unusual punishment, I would say), they could clearly fall within the definition.
As noted, the device operates is battery powered and influences the brain through electricity, therefore it achieves its primary intended purpose through chemical action on the body....
Also... This device is not intended to affect the structure or any function of the body; as shown in the summary, the device is intended to affect how energized you feel, so this is a highly subjective matter and how nice you feel is not related to any specific structure or function of the body.
Just in the same sense you could stare at a bright light in the hopes of feeling more energized or take a cup of coffee, but it doesn't make bright lights medical devices, and it doesn't make Coffee a drug subject to FDA regulation as a medication, even if these products are advertised that they can do that: the usage is not a medical purpose.
If the device is not intended to diagnose or treat a health condition, then the FDA has no authority over it.
On the other hand.... if the Consumer Product Safety Commission Tsar doesn't like it, the commission could label it as "unsafe" and ban the sale of the product and issue mandatory recall: you know, like they did with buckyballs.
My view is Cable Internet + Netflix and Hulu are good enough, and any family members that want more should pay for it themselves or split the cost of the additional fees.
since the main point would seem to be to instill consumer confidence in putting their money in banks in the first place
Other issues are addressed by federal regulations and required rules that banks need to adhere to and routine auditing that banks have to undergo in order to protect against fraud/theft. There are minimum dollar amounts in capital required to be chartered as a bank, and there are additional private insurance protections banks are essentially required to take out, so banks have to have some coverage against fraud/theft to be allowed to operate. It's just that those protections are not backed up by the full faith and credit of the US government.
Still... plenty of people buy homes and take out Homeowner's insurance policies or Auto insurance policies, even though the government does not guarantee the payout for these policies in the event of a claim coupled with insolvency by your Home/Auto insurer.
FDIC largely insures deposits against honest business failure, as in fractional reserve issues -- such as a run on the bank; anything else is up to a bank's private insurers.
FDIC does not insure or otherwise offer any protections or guarantees against fraud or theft. FDIC only protects against insolvency by your bank not consisting of any fraud, theft, or other regulatory breaches.
Don't worry, they had to stop digging because the local authorities mysteriously started insisting the excavators apply for some new permits. Those responsible for the safekeeping of the vault with the Holy grail and the Ark of the Covenant, etc are already in the process of using one of the secret secondary backdoors out of the facility to move all the valuables to one of the backup storage vaults.
By the time they resume digging, there will be an empty chamber for them to find.