I would suggest a set of new metrics.... Number of unique users that played this week and Geometric Mean of plays per month per unique User
In order to discourage cheating... A unique user shall have: a verified name, e-mail address, verified cell phone number shared with no other user, and verified scan of passport, driver's license, or national ID card with the name and address on the ID matching a name and address listed on the account.
So it is relatively credible for a large object to come in from the Sun's direction, having been deflected from an orbit which didn't seem to be particularly hazardous. But the credible windows of size, albedo, and orbital characteristics are fairly small, for large objects.
Fair enough.... on the other hand: just because an object comes from the Sun's direction does not necessarily mean it crosses the path of a telescope zoomed in at the sun in a manner that the telescope will detect an object and be able to determine anything....
Arizona banned Uber from continuing to test self-driving cars. Seems like they're basically shooting for a law that will prevent such things in the future. Under laws like the ones they propose: individual states would no longer be able to prevent or require special permissions for SDCs.
"(b) PREEMPTION. (1) HIGHLY AUTOMATED VEHICLES.—No State or political subdivision of a State may maintain, enforce, prescribe, or continue in effect any law or regulation regarding the design, construction, or performance of highly automated vehicles, automated driving systems, or components of automated driving systems unless such law or regulation is identical to a standard prescribed under this chapter."
So apparently they suspect someone at that facility of being somewhat naughty. Shutting the facility down, means hiding it inside the facility, people at the National Solar Observatory, you are now being watched, probably in more rooms than you suspect
If that was true, they still wouldn't close the whole facility --- they would work with management on the staffing schedules to figure out the off-hour times perhaps at 3AM when their team could be in and out in 10 minutes with nobody noticing for each particular room.
Probably something involving a response to some threat someone made or a possible biological agent received.
My thinking is if the security folks found something like an explosive or suspicious package, they would have already sent the bomb squad and detonated it after evacuating for a day or less --- although there might be difficulties doing so at such high altitude: the news headlines would already say what the threat is.
On the other hand, if they have INFORMATION that a potential hazard will exist which they haven't yet been able to find or identify yet, for example someone called in a threat, or they discovered a suspicious chemical or biological agent that could be a potent poison, bioweapon, or radiation hazard, then that could warrant keeping the place quarantined for a longer period of time; it may also be that there is a new kind of hazard that they want to keep secret for now.
and keep the details as secret as possible for as long as possible.
Exactly... which is why it is more likely whatever the threat is puts the entire facility or people there in immediate danger to require the evacuation and closure -- this is probably not some surveillance device they discovered.
Putting in the News headlines "Sunspot Observatory closed due to security problem" is not quite keeping their discovery secret, and likely the last thing they would want.
Likely the response wouldn't be "evacuate" the facility --- they'd send a team in off-hours including some key staff from the facility and work in a clandestine manner so as to keep the discovery confidential.
Parent is a REALLY bad term to use as Parent - Child has an established technical meaning that is purely hierarchical positioning - for example: the Parent node in a tree is a higher node in the hierarchy, But that does not imply the Parent node is "In Control of" a child node. That is: parent-child is something completely different from a Master - Slave pairing.
Master - Slave implies that the Master contains all the logic, and the Slave mirrors operations controlled by the master.....
More appropriate relationship names like "Senior/Junior", "Supervisor Node/Work Node", "Active Node / Accessory Node", "Primary / Secondary", "Active / Passive", "Director / Subordinate", "Designated Node / Contributory Node", would imply at least a control aspect rather than a mere positional one.
None of these seem to express the idea as clearly as the one of "Master/Slave" --- it is much more clear the level of control the Master node has in these types of systems.
It's unfortunate that some people may find a way to take offense to that, but IMO that is not adequate justification to switch to more confusing naming schemes or naming schemes that conflict with other similar ideas such as the Parents/Children in hierarchically arranged systems where the CHILD node may actually be the "Master" and the PARENT node may actually be the "Slave" at a particular point in time, from a data distribution standpoint..
Small non-chain restaurants with fewer than 500 employees will suddenly be at an advantage.
Actually... come to think of it: each franchisee is a completely separate business just licensing from the franchise a privilege of operating with their name, branding, recipes, and suppliers, subject to conforming with their standards, so even the local McDonalds would have fewer than total 500 employees, so they likely wouldn't have to pay the tax based on size: even if workers get minimum wage.
You're asking for something specific: there will never be any increase in standard-of-living again.....
I don't want to call this the end of technological development and ensure our society never gains a higher standard-of-living than it has today.
That's not what a post-employment world is. A post-employment world is not an end of innovation.
A post-employment world is one in which the vast majority of the population can no longer be gainfully employed through no fault of their own AND has no need to work, but businesses and economies continue, and people's cost of living is met ---
scarcity is made no longer an issue, so a post-employment world is also a post-scarcity world.
Ultimately it is a society where people essentially have access to unlimited resources and time to do what they want in life ---- they can fully actualize themselves creatively, or if you choose: you can burn it all on fun and entertainment, but it becomes every individual's choice what to spend their time and resources on.
Some people's creative outlet will be invention, so inventions continue to be made, but they are CHOOSING to work.
Also, the need for some professions' continue --- For a long time there will be a need for teachers, doctors, and lawyers: even if initially almost all the supportive work can be quickly automated - this is a transition that takes decades and perhaps a hundred years.
A post employment world may be something like 80% of the population don't do work, and the remaining 20% do it mainly for love or vocation; in most cases 10 to 20 hours a week, not 40, AND nothing to do with survival.
It is actually completely ludicrous. If I'm a contractor and I have 10 jobs in a year with 10 different employers and am also receiving government assistance, then each of those 10 employers would be on the hook
Yeah... that is never going to fly. If you are a contractor, then it is going to cause the person hiring out the project to either background check you and set requirements to essentially ensure you have $X in assets to render you ineligible for assistance, not hire you at all, or write terms where you're not going to get paid until you earn at least enough to ensure your contract income would disqualify you ---- either way the minimum amount of work you'll have to be willing to commit to get paid is going up.
Nice straw man. Look at both Amazon and Wal-Mart employees. You'll see single mothers with one, maybe two children who need benefits to survive.
Nice with your moving the goalposts. The proposition doesn't have anything to do with single mothers -- it is suggesting taxing all federal subsidies made to employees. Look at both Amazon and Wal-Mart employees.... you'll see some single Fathers with 4+ children.
The point is The employer is not responsible for the family situation. Minimally skilled jobs are for supporting 1 person at most. It is not Walmart's responsibility that you have 1 child or 2 children you had without first ensuring you attained securely the means to support them ---- should Walmart pay if you purchased a dog or cat also, that you can't afford basic food and care for without SNAP benefits? No...... Walmart should pay the difference required to support a single individual if the pay is so low that the single full-time worker would be below the poverty line.
In other words: a tax on employees would do as you say, destroying employment
A POST-EMPLOYMENT world enabled by automation could be a great thing. That's why I say tax all individuals holding interest in revenue-generating businesses equally above a threshold, and tax them even more if they have employees --- then the ones employing automation are still at an advantage.
and tax them the way out of the country when they move their assets to the Caymans, Panama, etc.
Levy taxes on shareholders who have shares causing their share of earnings to meet a minimum threshold, and tax taking shares or wealth in excess of a certain amount outside of US jurisdiction.
For example: if a company takes their operation out of the US, then all the shareholders whose interest in the company exceeds $1 Million in equity value will immediately be required to pay an export tax on their interest in the company or surrender shares to the IRS.
This tax is making it more expensive to KEEP employees, and cheaper to automated more.
That's absolutely fine.... more automation is good.
The bill is a first step
I think the next step is to create a Shared obligation to support benefits of the unemployable
Basically; calculate the government benefits such as SNAP, Medicaid, etc, paid to those who are Not employed OR Who are not able to be employed at any job due to automation, or due to permanent disability, injury, etc. POOL the total costs.
Identify EVERY individual human working for any company or business in the country whose cumulative personal salary or gross compensation across all jobs exceeds $500,000 per year. Add up that number as the total of Pool A.
Identify EVERY operational business that generates revenues and profits AND has an Owner or Shareholder whose stake in the business has that person with a share of more than $200,000 a year in profits or $1,000,000 in earnings or sales. Add up this number as the total of Pool B.
Allocate a tax to every person in Pool A which is (This person's excess $$ above the threshold) X (50% of Total federal benefits paid to all unemployable/unemployed) / (Total excess $$ of every individual in Pool A)
Allocate a tax to every person in Pool B which is (This person's excess $$ above the threshold) X (50% Total federal benefits paid to all unemployable/unemployed) / (Total excess $$ of every individual in Pool B)
might end up with employees claiming benefits getting fired by the company
If the bill doesn't address it, then my suggestion would be: Tax on benefits does not end with termination --- If an employee receiving government benefits is terminated, then the employer continues paying Tax for all government benefits that employee receives - Including any unemployment benefits or increase in SNAP or other program benefits caused by unemployment - for the earlier of 4 years, or until that employee is hired and maintains jobs for a total of at least 2000 hours of work with new employers, at which time the last year's "Benefits tax" amounts paid on that person's benefits by both their new and previous employers will be credited or refunded to their previous employer.
Tell you what. Carry around a set of lock picks with you and see what happens if you get noticed by the police.
I think the police aren't going to care unless you engage in suspicious activity such as going to a neighborhood where they are on patrol, or where the police are called to report a suspicious person, and you are seen wandering around with apparently no obvious reason for being there.
Even then you are likely to be free to go if you show ID and provide a remotely plausible reason for being there: they would be more concerned about drugs -- without probable cause to search, lockpicks or other things you might have on you are immaterial, unless you are seen physically holding tools.
Furthermore, you can legally carry around lockpicks all day long if you want, unless you've already been convicted in the past --- general possession of lockpicks and even use of them (On your own locks or locks you have permission to open) is legal in most states. With exception of a few places; having them is only illegal if you possess lockpicks with an actual intent to commit a crime such as burglary.
Or software that could technically be used for good / neutral purposes? There's plenty of "Remote Access Tool" products such as TeamViewer and GoToAssist; TV and others are occasionally used in security breaches and social-engineering scams by hackers. Don't see any managers of those companies going to jail for "distributing a remote access tool/tool that can be used for hacking"
They're not volunteering for Reddit. Reddit themself doesn't offer moderation services for communities unless global rules are violated --- you can pretty much write anything you want, even junk nobody wants to see. These moderators are members of a Reddit subcommunity who either (A) Created the Community or "SubReddit", Or (B) Were appointed by the creator of the SubReddit, usually after Volunteering to help create more "Catered" content by enforcing that community's rules/standards on posters ---- such as removing Offtopic or low-quality spammy posts such as "Meme pics"/stupid jokes outside a Meme community.
If the people who have volunteered regularly read and post that Sub, then they are helping out both the community and themselves by helping to keep the spammers out ---- ultimately without the community-specific moderation: spam would lower the quality of everybody's experience, including that of the moderators.
There are MANY of users active on any given major community other than the moderators who may spend a lot of time reading and posting, that could very easily take on moderation as an extra side-task while reading ---- And if a current moderator feels "abused", to the extent that the abuse outweighs the benefits they get from moderating (Like helping keeping the community active and interesting for everyone INCLUDING themself), then they can always resign their moderator position. Usually there would be PLENTY of people willing to take a moderator position to help delete crap and ban deliberate extreme violators and repeat rulebreakers -- perhaps letting one resign and adding 4 in different timezones to replace them would be a viable strategy, and reduce the per-person workload.
Apparently you're wrong... even for Virginia, according to the Virginia DMV....
Passing is unlawful and unsafe: on hills, curves,
at intersections or railroad crossings, except on roads with two or more lanes of traffic moving in the same direction ...
when a solid line marks the left side of your lane
HINT: Due to the exception -- Legal to change lanes in Virginia according to the rules with two or more lanes traffic moving in the same direction EVEN for purposes of passing when there is not a solid line while, even when there's an intersection consisting of a business driveway or side street on the right or the left with traffic wanting to turn onto the road you're on, Or even a full 4-way crossroads (The side street will often have a Stop or Yield sign, while the 2 or 3-lane major thoroughfare has no sign, or there may be a traffic light when there's a 4-way crossroads with two major thoroughfares)
Still ok to switch lanes either way between traffic moving in the same direction in Virginia even when there is an intersecting road, so long as there are not 1 or 2 solid yellow lines between the lanes preceding the intersecting road.
per the Virginia DMV's publication solid White lines are advisory if it is necessary that you change lanes for reasons other than passing [Might be dangerous = warning to the driver who has duty to make sure the lane change is safe]:
Solid white lines show turn lanes and discourage lane changes near intersections, interchange/on- and off-ramps, and at other locations where lane changes might be dangerous.
Double solid yellow:
You may not cross the lines unless you are making a left turn or passing pedestrians, bicyclists, and riders of scooters or skateboards, when the opposite lane is clear and you can pass safely.
I have zero doubt that this is the start of a "tactic" to try to get congress to create a new law to further some agenda they have.
The CFAA does not say anything about being connected to the internet --- heck, when the law was passed most critical computer systems were mainframes accessed over terminals or dial-in modem.
"Connecting" a keyboard+monitor or a USB device to a computer system "makes it a system you are connected to"
To further solidify it as "protected"; the election folks should attach warning stickers to equipment cabinets and make sure any access ports are covered and sealed so the general public cannot touch.
I'm pretty sure that deliberate tampering with government equipment in order to commit a fraud regarding elections will involve a number of criminal infractions.
Honestly, there are two subjects that dramatically improved my critical thinking skills - physics, and statistics. Both of them use applied math to analyze and solve real world situations.
Yes.... these two subjects at a level advanced enough to require knowledge of at least single-variable differential and integral calculus are subjects that ANYONE graduating from college ought to be required to take -- as necessary to be well-rounded.
It doesn't matter if your degree is humanities --- If you are lacking in High-School Algebra, Trigonometry, or Calculus, then you should not be admitted as a Freshman until you take remediation up to that basic level in math.
Human language is evolutionary, and humans have a need to express their feelings with others, which can occur through various outlets, but mostly by talking about them.
If someone feels what you call hatred, and you just don't like that, and you feel they shouldn't be able to express that, so you try banning a word or phrase, then what do you think happens?
Either (A) They find a different mode of expression, and for "Hate speech" that may be bad, since their channel may be taking negative actions in the real world to express their feelings instead of talking about it in a more passive setting. You need to allow so called speakers of "Hate Speech" to be able to express their views in order to be able to successfully have a conversation with those people and possibly reason them to a different position, or at least understand the motivating factors.
Or (B) People find a different word or phrase or image or euphamism to express the same thing. Because language is evolutionary --- existing words will be co-opted, or new words or phrases will be created to express what they wish to express. These people who would write "hate speech"; will simply use different words or phrases to express their exact feelings, whatever they can find which will avoid flagging the detection system -- because language is evolutionary, in time others will begin to get feelings like the new phrases or words they co-opted
may now qualify as hate speech, and thus the algorithms fall out of date.
The real fix is not to try and "block" offensive words or "hate speech", BUT instead to modify the social conventions around the language, so that there is no such thing as a verboten word, phrase, or sentence.
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I would suggest a set of new metrics.... Number of unique users that played this week and Geometric Mean of plays per month per unique User
In order to discourage cheating... A unique user shall have: a verified name, e-mail address, verified cell phone number shared with no other user, and verified scan of passport, driver's license, or national ID card with the name and address on the ID matching a name and address listed on the account.
So it is relatively credible for a large object to come in from the Sun's direction, having been deflected from an orbit which didn't seem to be particularly hazardous. But the credible windows of size, albedo, and orbital characteristics are fairly small, for large objects.
Fair enough.... on the other hand: just because an object comes from the Sun's direction does not necessarily mean it crosses the path of a telescope zoomed in at the sun in a manner that the telescope will detect an object and be able to determine anything....
Arizona banned Uber from continuing to test self-driving cars.
Seems like they're basically shooting for a law that will prevent such things in the future.
Under laws like the ones they propose: individual states would no longer be able to prevent or require special permissions for SDCs.
"(b) PREEMPTION. (1) HIGHLY AUTOMATED VEHICLES.—No State or political subdivision of a State may maintain, enforce, prescribe, or continue in effect any law or regulation regarding the design, construction, or performance of highly automated vehicles, automated driving systems, or components of automated driving systems unless such law or regulation is identical to a standard prescribed under this chapter."
Pay attention.... They added the SMB capability to the Files app, not the Web Browser app.
This particular observatory is staring at the sun; not looking for big rocks.
So apparently they suspect someone at that facility of being somewhat naughty. Shutting the facility down, means hiding it inside the facility, people at the National Solar Observatory, you are now being watched, probably in more rooms than you suspect
If that was true, they still wouldn't close the whole facility --- they would work with management on the staffing schedules to figure out the off-hour times perhaps at 3AM when their team could be in and out in 10 minutes with nobody noticing for each particular room.
Probably something involving a response to some threat someone made or a possible biological agent received.
My thinking is if the security folks found something like an explosive or suspicious package, they would have already sent the bomb squad and detonated it after evacuating for a day or less --- although there might be difficulties doing so at such high altitude: the news headlines would already say what the threat is.
On the other hand, if they have INFORMATION that a potential hazard will exist which they haven't yet been able to find or identify yet, for example someone called in a threat, or they discovered a suspicious chemical or biological agent that could be a potent poison, bioweapon, or radiation hazard, then that could warrant keeping the place quarantined for a longer period of time; it may also be that there is a new kind of hazard that they want to keep secret for now.
and keep the details as secret as possible for as long as possible.
Exactly... which is why it is more likely whatever the threat is puts the entire facility or people there in immediate danger to require the evacuation and closure -- this is probably not some surveillance device they discovered.
Putting in the News headlines "Sunspot Observatory closed due to security problem" is not quite keeping their discovery secret, and likely the last thing they would want.
Likely the response wouldn't be "evacuate" the facility --- they'd send a team in off-hours including some key staff from the facility and work in a clandestine manner so as to keep the discovery confidential.
sent data across a network of seven balloons from a single ground connection spanning a distance of 1,000 kilometers, or about 621 miles.
LoTR used this method first.
Parent is a REALLY bad term to use as Parent - Child has an established technical meaning that is purely hierarchical positioning - for example: the Parent node in a tree is a higher node in the hierarchy, But that does not imply the Parent node is "In Control of" a child node. That is: parent-child is something completely different from a Master - Slave pairing.
Master - Slave implies that the Master contains all the logic, and the Slave mirrors operations controlled by the master.....
More appropriate relationship names like "Senior/Junior", "Supervisor Node/Work Node", "Active Node / Accessory Node", "Primary / Secondary", "Active / Passive", "Director / Subordinate", "Designated Node / Contributory Node", would imply at least a control aspect rather than a mere positional one.
None of these seem to express the idea as clearly as the one of "Master/Slave" --- it is much more clear the level of control the Master node has in these types of systems.
It's unfortunate that some people may find a way to take offense to that, but IMO that is not adequate justification to switch to more confusing naming schemes or naming schemes that conflict with other similar ideas such as the Parents/Children in hierarchically arranged systems where the CHILD node may actually be the "Master" and the PARENT node may actually be the "Slave" at a particular point in time, from a data distribution standpoint..
That'll certainly put an end to most restaurants.
Small non-chain restaurants with fewer than 500 employees will suddenly be at an advantage.
Actually... come to think of it: each franchisee is a completely separate business just licensing from the franchise a
privilege of operating with their name, branding, recipes, and suppliers, subject to conforming with their standards,
so even the local McDonalds would have fewer than total 500 employees,
so they likely wouldn't have to pay the tax based on size: even if workers get minimum wage.
You're asking for something specific: there will never be any increase in standard-of-living again. ....
I don't want to call this the end of technological development and ensure our society never gains a higher standard-of-living than it has today.
That's not what a post-employment world is.
A post-employment world is not an end of innovation.
A post-employment world is one in which the vast majority of the population can no longer be gainfully employed through no fault of their own AND has no need to work, but businesses and economies continue, and people's cost of living is met ---
scarcity is made no longer an issue, so a post-employment world is also a post-scarcity world.
Ultimately it is a society where people essentially have access to unlimited resources and time to do what they want in life ----
they can fully actualize themselves creatively, or if you choose: you can burn it all on fun and entertainment, but it becomes
every individual's choice what to spend their time and resources on.
Some people's creative outlet will be invention, so inventions continue to be made, but they are CHOOSING to work.
Also, the need for some professions' continue --- For a long time there will be a need for teachers, doctors, and lawyers:
even if initially almost all the supportive work can be quickly automated - this is a transition that takes decades and perhaps a hundred years.
A post employment world may be something like 80% of the population don't
do work, and the remaining 20% do it mainly for love or vocation; in most cases 10 to 20 hours a week, not 40, AND
nothing to do with survival.
It is actually completely ludicrous. If I'm a contractor and I have 10 jobs in a year with 10 different employers and am also receiving government assistance, then each of those 10 employers would be on the hook
Yeah... that is never going to fly. If you are a contractor, then it is going to cause the person hiring out the project to either background check you and set requirements to essentially ensure you have $X in assets to render you ineligible for assistance, not hire you at all, or write terms where you're not going to get paid until you earn at least enough to ensure your contract income would disqualify you ---- either way the minimum amount of work you'll have to be willing to commit to get paid is going up.
Nice straw man. Look at both Amazon and Wal-Mart employees. You'll see single mothers with one, maybe two children who need benefits to survive.
Nice with your moving the goalposts. The proposition doesn't have anything to do with single mothers -- it is suggesting taxing all federal subsidies made to employees. Look at both Amazon and Wal-Mart employees.... you'll see some single Fathers with 4+ children.
The point is The employer is not responsible for the family situation.
Minimally skilled jobs are for supporting 1 person at most.
It is not Walmart's responsibility that you have 1 child or 2 children you had without first ensuring you attained securely the means to support them ---- should Walmart pay if you purchased a dog or cat also, that you can't afford basic food and care for without SNAP benefits?
No...... Walmart should pay the difference required to support a single individual if the pay is so low that the single full-time worker would be below the poverty line.
In other words: a tax on employees would do as you say, destroying employment
A POST-EMPLOYMENT world enabled by automation could be a great thing.
That's why I say tax all individuals holding interest in revenue-generating businesses equally
above a threshold, and tax them even more if they have employees --- then the ones employing automation are still at an advantage.
and tax them the way out of the country when they move their assets to the Caymans, Panama, etc.
Levy taxes on shareholders who have shares causing their share of earnings to meet a minimum threshold,
and tax taking shares or wealth in excess of a certain amount outside of US jurisdiction.
For example: if a company takes their operation out of the US, then all the shareholders whose interest in the
company exceeds $1 Million in equity value will immediately be required to pay an export tax on their interest
in the company or surrender shares to the IRS.
This tax is making it more expensive to KEEP employees, and cheaper to automated more.
That's absolutely fine.... more automation is good.
The bill is a first step
I think the next step is to create a Shared obligation to support benefits of the unemployable
Basically; calculate the government benefits such as SNAP, Medicaid, etc, paid to those who are Not employed OR
Who are not able to be employed at any job due to automation, or due to permanent disability, injury, etc.
POOL the total costs.
Identify EVERY individual human working for any company or business in the country whose cumulative personal salary or gross compensation across all jobs exceeds $500,000 per year. Add up that number as the total of Pool A.
Identify EVERY operational business that generates revenues and profits AND has an Owner or Shareholder whose stake in the business has that person with a share of more than $200,000 a year in profits or $1,000,000 in earnings or sales.
Add up this number as the total of Pool B.
Allocate a tax to every person in Pool A which is (This person's excess $$ above the threshold) X (50% of Total federal benefits paid to all unemployable/unemployed) / (Total excess $$ of every individual in Pool A)
Allocate a tax to every person in Pool B which is (This person's excess $$ above the threshold) X (50% Total federal benefits paid to all unemployable/unemployed) / (Total excess $$ of every individual in Pool B)
might end up with employees claiming benefits getting fired by the company
If the bill doesn't address it, then my suggestion would be: Tax on benefits does not end with termination --- If an employee receiving government benefits is terminated, then the employer continues paying Tax for all government benefits that employee receives - Including any unemployment benefits or increase in SNAP or other program benefits caused by unemployment - for the earlier of 4 years, or until that employee is hired and maintains jobs for a total of at least 2000 hours of work with new employers, at which time the last year's "Benefits tax" amounts paid on that person's benefits by both their new and previous employers will be credited or refunded to their previous employer.
Tell you what. Carry around a set of lock picks with you and see what happens if you get noticed by the police.
I think the police aren't going to care unless you engage in suspicious activity such as going to a neighborhood where they are on patrol, or where the police are called to report a suspicious person, and you are seen wandering around with apparently no obvious reason for being there.
Even then you are likely to be free to go if you show ID and provide a remotely plausible reason for being there: they would be more concerned about drugs -- without probable cause to search, lockpicks or other things you might have on you are immaterial, unless you are seen physically holding tools.
Furthermore, you can legally carry around lockpicks all day long if you want, unless you've already been convicted in the past --- general possession of lockpicks and even use of them (On your own locks or locks you have permission to open) is legal in most states.
With exception of a few places; having them is only illegal if you possess lockpicks with an actual intent to commit a crime such as burglary.
Or software that could technically be used for good / neutral purposes? There's plenty of "Remote Access Tool" products such as TeamViewer and GoToAssist; TV and others are occasionally used in security breaches and social-engineering scams by hackers. Don't see any managers of those companies going to jail for "distributing a remote access tool/tool that can be used for hacking"
They're not volunteering for Reddit. Reddit themself doesn't offer moderation services for communities unless global rules are violated --- you can pretty much write anything you want, even junk nobody wants to see. These moderators are members of a Reddit subcommunity who either (A) Created the Community or "SubReddit", Or (B) Were appointed by the creator of the SubReddit, usually after Volunteering to help create more "Catered" content by enforcing that community's rules/standards on posters ---- such as removing Offtopic or low-quality spammy posts such as "Meme pics"/stupid jokes outside a Meme community.
If the people who have volunteered regularly read and post that Sub, then they are helping out both the community and themselves by helping to keep the spammers out ---- ultimately without the community-specific moderation: spam would lower the quality of everybody's experience, including that of the moderators.
There are MANY of users active on any given major community other than the moderators who may spend a lot of time reading and posting, that could very easily take on moderation as an extra side-task while reading ---- And if a current moderator feels "abused", to the extent that the abuse outweighs the benefits they get from moderating (Like helping keeping the community active and interesting for everyone INCLUDING themself), then they can always resign their moderator position. Usually there would be PLENTY of people willing to take a moderator position to help delete crap and ban deliberate extreme violators and repeat rulebreakers -- perhaps letting one resign and adding 4 in different timezones to replace them would be a viable strategy, and reduce the per-person workload.
Apparently you're wrong... even for Virginia, according to the Virginia DMV....
HINT: Due to the exception -- Legal to change lanes in Virginia according to the rules with two or more lanes traffic moving in the same direction EVEN for purposes of passing when there is not a solid line while,
even when there's an intersection consisting of a business driveway or side street on the right or the left with traffic wanting to turn onto the road you're on, Or even a full 4-way crossroads (The side street will often have a Stop or Yield sign, while the 2 or 3-lane major thoroughfare has no sign, or there may be a traffic light when there's a 4-way crossroads with two major thoroughfares)
Still ok to switch lanes either way between traffic moving in the same direction in Virginia even when there is an intersecting road, so long as there are not 1 or 2 solid yellow lines between the lanes preceding the intersecting road.
per the Virginia DMV's publication solid White lines are advisory if it is necessary that you change lanes for reasons other than passing [Might be dangerous = warning to the driver who has duty to make sure the lane change is safe]:
Double solid yellow:
I have zero doubt that this is the start of a "tactic" to try to get congress to create a new law to further some agenda they have.
The CFAA does not say anything about being connected to the internet --- heck, when the law was passed most critical computer systems were mainframes accessed over terminals or dial-in modem.
"Connecting" a keyboard+monitor or a USB device to a computer system "makes it a system you are connected to"
To further solidify it as "protected"; the election folks should attach warning stickers to equipment cabinets and make sure any access ports are covered and sealed so the general public cannot touch.
I'm pretty sure that deliberate tampering with government equipment in order to commit a fraud regarding elections will involve a number of criminal infractions.
Honestly, there are two subjects that dramatically improved my critical thinking skills - physics, and statistics. Both of them use applied math to analyze and solve real world situations.
Yes.... these two subjects at a level advanced enough to require knowledge of at least single-variable differential and integral calculus are subjects that ANYONE graduating from college ought to be required to take -- as necessary to be well-rounded.
It doesn't matter if your degree is humanities --- If you are lacking in High-School Algebra, Trigonometry, or Calculus, then you should not be admitted as a Freshman until you take remediation up to that basic level in math.
Human language is evolutionary, and humans have a need to express their feelings with others, which can occur through various outlets, but mostly by talking about them.
If someone feels what you call hatred, and you just don't like that, and you feel they shouldn't be able to express that, so you
try banning a word or phrase, then what do you think happens?
Either (A) They find a different mode of expression, and for "Hate speech" that may be bad, since their channel may be taking negative actions in the real world to express their feelings instead of talking about it in a more passive setting. You need to allow so called speakers of "Hate Speech" to be able to express their views in order to be able to successfully have a conversation with those people and possibly reason them to a different position, or at least understand the motivating factors.
Or (B) People find a different word or phrase or image or euphamism to express the same thing.
Because language is evolutionary --- existing words will be co-opted, or new words or phrases will be created to express what they wish to express.
These people who would write "hate speech"; will simply use different words or phrases to express their exact feelings, whatever they can find which
will avoid flagging the detection system -- because language is evolutionary, in time others will begin to get feelings like the new phrases or words they co-opted
may now qualify as hate speech, and thus the algorithms fall out of date.
The real fix is not to try and "block" offensive words or "hate speech", BUT instead to modify the social conventions around the language,
so that there is no such thing as a verboten word, phrase, or sentence.