I want to keep using a 3rd party extension with the important feature of NOT BEING INSTALLED BY DEFAULT
Simple.... Whatever Ad-Blocker is installed by default will be the ad-blocker that all the websites that want to show Ads spend their efforts detecting and making workarounds for.... workarounds like annoying prompts requiring you to "Whitelist" before being allowed to see the content referenced by the search link you clicked on.
For this really to be carefully crafted, they'd have to have a control group, where they craft equally (im)plausible scientific papers to a large variety of fields
The study is not in a scientific field to a scientific journal --- its in a liberal arts field. Your standards such as "control groups" and "rigorous statistical analysis" only apply to scientific papers. Thats how much gender studies studies can be published at all - there's no reliable standard of rigor
like you suggest applied outside the hard sciences.
Control groups are not even necessary to prove the main point of the study though ---- the review process was a farce, at least for them, and what they submitted.
Also, We should take exception to the idea that this is scientific research with "Human subjects". This is not a study on human subjects ----- its true that humans will presumably be involved in the review process, but never actually observed, affected, nor controlled directly by researchers nor subjected to anything outside the normal course of those humans' employment and ordinary every-day interactions with other people --- this is a study on the specific review process and acceptance of papers By certain publishing organizations, however that might be occurring, not any kind of
medical, sociological, or psychological "Test" made upon human subjects in particular (Or any subjects
other than the publishing "system").
People are not streaming across the border with impunity, and overall illegal immigration is down and at one of the lowest points we've seen.
Your assertion above is demonstrably false. People are in fact streaming across the border, and the estimated numbers for 2017-2018 are greatly elevated from 2015-2016. Who told you "illegal immigration is down and at one of the lowest points we've seen" ? Because their evaluation is the opposite of reality and needs correction.
in the form of the border partrol and the long lines of fences we already have
The "border patrols" are inadequately staffed -- or rather, they're staffed inadequately given the gaps in the fencing; increasing the man power on the patrols sufficiently to compensate for bad fencing would in-fact cost more money than shoring up the barriers appropriately.
The "long lines of fences" only cover some select high-traffic areas, and the fencing doesn't meet the current day bare-minimum physical security standards which organizations use.
Those tolls are not allowed to be used for trash maintenance or other maintenance.
They should add extra surcharges on top of overall tolls across their park footprint, until they DO cover "necessary maintenance expenses incurred due to visitors at parks".
Essentially.... things like picking up trash should be covered primarily by the people who use these parks; The general public good is in maintaining and PRESERVING these places for current and future generations, But the public who never visit these places should not be burdened by the costs incurred by those that do --- those that visit them should have to pay the costs that the overall group of people who visit the public parks cause to be incurred (including the costs of collecting the user fees).
Most of the national parks used to be free. There are tollgates now and they do charge except right now during the shutdown because there is nobody to collect the tolls. OOTH I am not at all sure why they don't leave the honor boxes used at lots of less popular locations open.
Close a funding source during a funding deficiency? That makes no sense.
Proceeds from the tollgates ought to first self-fund the operation of the tollgate.
Better still, I see no need for a human toll collector. Perhaps a security company monitoring the cameras at a large number of tollgates across the country to report attempts to vandalize or bypass the gate.
They can put in the "self serve" tollgates, where you scan your debit card, or choose an option to be "Billed by License plate" like the Florida highways do - with Invoice sent to the address your car is registered at, and computer lets you through --- Or shoot, the computer can just read your license plate as you pull in, and after a successful read, display a sign you may proceed, and open gate.
Your first mistake is assuming the wall is about basic security.
What on earth do you think "basic security" means in the context of physical security? I know what the industry would say it means. Basic security is achieved when you have these elements at a basic level:
1. Establishment of Security Boundaries and Access Control: You define the area to which access is to be protected. You put systems in place to divert or steer the movement of vehicles, people, etc, so that those wanting to move from inside to outside of the secure area or vice-versa are directed to pass through a small opening or zone called a "Security Checkpoint" where a careful inspection can be made, and the security policy rules regarding what person(s)/vehicle(s) and other things allowed to enter or exit can be efficiently enforced.
2. Monitoring of Access Control: You have systems, infrastructure, and processes in place, designed to detect and respond to violations -- such as a fujitive or stolen vehicle or other item attempting to exit through a security boundary, or an unauthorized person, or dangerous contraband such as firearms, munitions, an illegal import, dangerous drugs, or other hazardous materials whether overt or concealed/hidden attempting to be brought in through the checkpoint, OR any traffic attempting to circumvent the checkpoint.
3. Enforcement of Access Control: You have systems, infrastructure, and processes in place designed to deter the largest number of
vehicles, people, etc, who would attempt to circumvent the security checkpoints from doing so.
A wall or protective barrier, in height no less than 8 feet, generally made with concrete, or steel, and topped with razor wire and other anti-climb features, is a common construction generally used to provide basic (3) Enforcement of the Access Control ---- and for protecting a large area at the minimal security level, generally a concrete masonry wall is the cheapest/most economical option for such a barrier, or less expensive than building as a long fortified steel fence.
Such barrier is very effective to deter, thwart, or delay the vast majority of would-be physical security attackers, more than 99%, who are casual ----- obviously, there are exceptions: well-resourced attackers who are highly persistent can attempt to circumvent fencing by bringing climbing tools, or by bringing explosives to make a hole in the offense. Therefore, there is still a need for more expensive Advanced Security (Which requires the interactive work of live humans) to be layered on top of Basic Automatic Security deterrents --- the Basic Security measure is to still function to Delay and Discourage the advanced attacker for as long as possible, to delay the attacker long enough for a Live response from humans to arrive in time to thwart the rare and occassional advanced attack events.
I will admit my Father drives a Pickup but, he is a farmer he has his truck for Farm things,
A Farmer's farm pickup truck is definitely a vehicle used primarily for professional/work reasons, e.g. Actually hauling large heavy loads around in a farm, and picking up and dropping off the materials and products related to business conducted by the owner of the vehicle.
And not used nearly as much for driving when not for the purpose of hauling stuff.
Which is specifically not the type of pick-up truck owner I'm referring to.
Look at the pickups in the photo at the charger... these are really shiny with no visible wear, they do not even look like vehicles that have seen much use, let alone hauling for a work purpose.
You can likely go to a used car lot and purchase 2 to 3 used pick-ups and 1 regular car, all suited for 10 to 15 years or more of additional operation for business use, for the price the owner paid to get one of the new shiny trucks in the photo.
Lamfrom says the full scale of the problem is yet to be determined but clean up timelines will range in length.
If we can't afford to authorize funding for a border wall for basic security, then how the hell can we afford to authorize funding for a multi-generational cleanup?
As far as the trash issues, that is just people being fucking assholes.
Yeah.... This is shit taxpayers shouldn't be paying for. What they should do is put tollgates for
recovery of costs incurred by visitors, if you want to use the public roads to bring a vehicle to visit a national park or park it on public land, and directly appropriate a share of the toll fees between the park service and law enforcement, such that basic maintenance for any building or improved facility remaining open is funded even during a "shutdown".
Pickups aren't usually that fuel inefficient, maybe 20 mpg instead of 30
More like 20 mpg City, 23 mpg Highway Instead of: 30 mpg City, 40 mpg Highway.
Driving only 2/3 the miles is kind of a big deal; it means you need 1.5x as much fuel which also means 1.5x as much fuel cost, for city driving, and 2x as much fuel and 2x as much cost for highway driving.
For an average driver, that's $1600 a year in gas, instead of $800.
And there's a simple solution for occasional hauling --- fit your car with a towing hitch, and get a small trailer. As I was saying.... Pickup Trucks don't make any economic sense at all to purchase, unless its a work truck, and you have a special professional justification or good reason to be hauling a lot of stuff with every or nearly every ride. Otherwise, it makes more sense to own both car and pickup --- one or both vehicles purchased used, and use pickup only when necessary.
The environmental impact for manufacturing such vehicle is ~5 Tons of CO2; approximately the same as 1 year's worth of driving.
My feeling is many of the people that own and drive personal pickup trucks all the time; even when they're not actually hauling anything are self-centered arrogant SOBs who compare p***s links with each other; couldn't care less about being green, and often either don't think the rules apply to them -- or challenge the rules frequently through open defiance, Such as parking as to straddle two parking spaces, ignoring the lines, double parking locking people in, pulling in parallel to perpendicular parking, or pulling in perpendicular to parallel parking, etc.
Many Supercharger stations are in sectioned off area of a larger parking lot --- the pickup drivers' ego is probably irked that someone else is special, other than them. Tesla drivers get dedicated Tesla-only "parking" areas in a crowded space, and that alone drives them batshit insane.
Since bypassing Apple for purchase of In-App services is against ToS; How long before Apple suspends the Netflix app in the iTunes store and disables existing installations on Apple customers' hardware with an error message indicating "This app is currently unavailable, because the creator, 'Netflix', is in breach of the Apple Developer Agreement" ?
problem is a rogue usb device that pretends to be a usb drive, but also behaves as a usb keyboard, and as soon as it is inserted, it presses Win+R and run whatever it wants without user intervention.
Uhm... in this case, WHO gets to decide what hardware is legitimate? There are perfectly USB devices that act as HID devices "pretend to be keyboard" for perfectly legitimate reasons -- things like remote KVM over IP devices with Virtual Media, Auto-Typers, Mouse Wiggler, Two-Factor Auth tokens such as Yubikey, Hardware Password Managers.
Many keyboards also contain a convenience/easy-access USB port you can use to plug in a Thumb drive (or a mouse) --- there's no way to tell the difference between a single device pretending to be two USB components, and a USB device with another device plugged into it, or shared using a passive USB hub.
If someone makes a malicious device: what exactly is going to stop them from doing the next step and getting a valid certificate on their malicious device?
If the process is too involved, they'll hinder a lot of USB hardware including open source projects --- with prohibitive costs. It kind of defeats what makes USB such a popular interface --- is that it's simple, universal, and generic, no licensing etc; the barrier to entry is extremely low.
What about computers needing to emulate USB devices AND USB hosts that need to simulate another vendor's USB device for compatibility reasons?
They're basically pulling the rug out of the USB standard and make it so ``malicious device makers'' may just opt to purchase a legit piece of device and dissect/decap the chips on the legitimate device in order to capture/"steal" a copy of the crypto material, then re-use the legit device's certificate on their malicious device. That's what probably will wind up happening eventually when laptop and phone manufacturers start abusing the Auth protocol to arbitrarily ban/block interoperability with 3rd party USB chargers ----- some devices may now start adding USB ports that only work with "Manufacturer $X thumb drives",
great.....
While the agency is shut down, consumer complaints will not be heard, consumer protection enforcement actions will be ceased, and licensing services will end until new funding is approved.
So, now that enforcement, licensing, and spectrum management are shutdown.. until the FCC resumes operation... You or I could just start taking over some local cellular and FM radio broadcast frequencies that traditionally require licensing to use to transmit whatever I want, setup a 100-Watt wideband signal on the VHF broadcast range for personal high-speed internet, etc? Maybe play with some jamming devices in a public place to see how people glued to their cell phones react. How spectacular.
Management of radio spectrum and the creation of new opportunities for competitive technologies and services for the American public must be suspended
so $500 refund - 25K legal fees = big loss for him
He'll probably get legal fees back plus punitive damages.
They were involved in attempting to deprive him of first amendment free speech rights under color of statute, A violation of 42 U.S. Code 1983 - Civil action for deprivation of rights - Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress
Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Awards Act of 1976 provides attorney's fees for: "any action or proceeding to enforce a provision of sections 1981, 1981a, 1982, 1983, 1985, and 1986 of this title, title IX of Public Law 92–318 [20 U.S.C. 1681 et seq.], the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 [42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq.], the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 [42 U.S.C. 2000cc et seq.], title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 [42 U.S.C. 2000d et seq.], or section 12361 of title 34"
I thought nuclear was the future and was so much cheaper to produce?
That's true of Nuclear in principle; However, the implementation of the nuclear plant needs to be right to avoid creating hazards. It calls for further engineering research work to produce "inherently safe" reactor designs based on Thorium / Molten Salt Reactor Technology (MSR) such as the LfTR
First: at the very minimum -- Old plant designs such as those in use at Fukushima should be permanently decommissioned and 100% of plants using modern reactors and overall plant systems designed to maintain containment across all environmental hazards -- including loss of outside power and damage to generators.
Not the Tepco board only. For any public corpiration that makes profit all the stockholders should also go in prison.
No.... stockholders are definitely immune to personal liability for the actions of the corporation whose stock they own (other than the value of the stock can become worthless). The board and management of the corporation have the duty to ensure that actions of the corporation are compliant with the law.
All three have pleaded not guilty in Tokyo District Court, saying they could not have predicted the tsunami.
Duh, they could not have predicted THAT particular event, BUT Tsunami's are a known and foreseeable natural event, so they definitely could have predicted that there would be the possibility of one or more tsunami's in general (over long periods of time), and when installing and operating a nuclear plant: you have a duty to ensure that radioactive material created and stored in/about your plant creates does not endanger the survivors after a foreseeable natural event.
So if a particular Tsunami strength and size would not be guaranteed to kill everyone within 100 miles of your plant: your plant had better not be a threat to the public within 100 miles during/after that tsunami.
The only regret is that they waited until AFTER the event to arrest them. There should be 3rd party reviews and audits of overall power plant designs and operations, and the capability of charging executives for crimes, mandating jail time and/or plant shutdowns BEFORE a catastrophic tsunami, etc, actually occurs..
This thread suggests that President Trump is mentally ill and it is clear that he shows behavioral signs of a cluster B personality disorder as defined by the DSM
It doesn't matter if someone believes Trump acts suggesting he may have mental conditions --- so long as he is capable of discharging the powers and duties of his office: the president stays in control. People disliking or thinking his mannerisms strange, or disapproving of his decisions does not constitute inability to discharge the powers and duties of the office.
The standard the Constitution sets is Trump stays in control for his term, unless someone persuades Trump to voluntarily step down,
The alternative is persuading The Vice President + a Majority of the Principal Executives to make a written declaration ---- but if Trump has any capacity at all, he can immediately make a written declaration reversing that action, and Only A 2/3 Majority of the House + a 2/3 Majority of the Senate can find the president unable to discharge the office ----- That's an action that requires a much higher bar and greater majority of congress involved in agreement, than even impeachment requires.
Federal courts have not ruled and there is nothing in the Constitution.
The president cannot be charged in federal courts while sitting as president, mainly: because the judiciary on its own does not have the power to prosecute a court case, and neither does the legislature --- that is not a judicial power, that is not a legislative power: that is solely an executive power. Guess what the constitution says about where the executive power lies: Article II Section 1: The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. --- The president is immune from arrest by virtue of being in absolute control of the full executive power of the US government; that's why unlike members of congress the president and his cabinet members don't need a specific exemption written into the constitution for protection from arrest - simply because the President and Vice President have absolute authority over the federal police forces, But members of congress DO have a constitutional protection against being arrested while in office.
In other words: Essentially, only someone working for the president can be the prosecutor in a court case against ANYONE. If such person were to attempt to prosecute the president in court; the president could simply order them to drop the case, or fire them, and that individual would no longer be able to represent the US government.
Once upon a time Congress thought they had the power to prevent the president from firing an official the Senate had confirmed. The supreme court smacked them down appropriately for that in Myers v. United States.
Also, if the president were sitting in office, the general law enforcement cannot raid his office and attempt to arrest him --- the president as cmdr. in chief can direct the secret service and the military to thwart any such attempt.
The president can also write up a pardon for himself --- since he has the full executive authority to grant even pardons; the only adverse act he cannot prevent is the legislative act of impeachment as provided for by the constitution.
Why are you not heading for your nearest bank? Woohoo CRIME SPREE TIME!
There are still police patrolling the streets that don't rely on phones to communicate. And if a suitably equipped civillian happens to notice there's a bank robbery in progress and phones are down, they can still radio in on the police dispatcher to call for help, only under such extreme circumstances, of course.
There *were* national outages of Internet and voice, but the 911 outages were much more limited
National outage of voice through CL's network is in the same category, since if voice is down -- subscribers cannot dial 911. If CenturyLink cannot handle ensuring that local voice service is not interrupted by conditions existing outside the local region, then they should be broken up into a larger number of small providers, that way each small provider can provide a local voice service that will not routinely fail on a national level because of an IT issue.
Fighting in the street is an emergency. It is a violent crime in progress, and there are people in immediate danger of serious physical injury or possible death, so yes, 911 should be dialed if people are fighting in the street.
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I want to keep using a 3rd party extension with the important feature of NOT BEING INSTALLED BY DEFAULT
Simple.... Whatever Ad-Blocker is installed by default will be the ad-blocker that all the websites that want to show Ads spend their efforts detecting and making workarounds for.... workarounds like annoying prompts requiring you to "Whitelist" before being allowed to see the content referenced by the search link you clicked on.
For this really to be carefully crafted, they'd have to have a control group, where they craft equally (im)plausible scientific papers to a large variety of fields
The study is not in a scientific field to a scientific journal --- its in a liberal arts field.
Your standards such as "control groups" and "rigorous statistical analysis" only apply to scientific papers.
Thats how much gender studies studies can be published at all - there's no reliable standard of rigor
like you suggest applied outside the hard sciences.
Control groups are not even necessary to prove the main point of the study though ---- the review process was a farce, at least for them, and what they submitted.
Also, We should take exception to the idea that this is scientific research with "Human subjects".
This is not a study on human subjects ----- its true that humans will presumably be involved in the review process, but never actually observed, affected, nor controlled directly by researchers nor subjected to anything outside the normal course of those humans' employment and ordinary every-day interactions with other people --- this is a study on the specific review process and acceptance of papers By certain publishing organizations, however that might be occurring, not any kind of
medical, sociological, or psychological "Test" made upon human subjects in particular (Or any subjects
other than the publishing "system").
People are not streaming across the border with impunity, and overall illegal immigration is down and at one of the lowest points we've seen.
Your assertion above is demonstrably false. People are in fact streaming across the border, and the estimated numbers for 2017-2018 are greatly elevated from 2015-2016. Who told you "illegal immigration is down and at one of the lowest points we've seen" ?
Because their evaluation is the opposite of reality and needs correction.
in the form of the border partrol and the long lines of fences we already have
The "border patrols" are inadequately staffed -- or rather, they're staffed inadequately given the gaps in the fencing;
increasing the man power on the patrols sufficiently to compensate for bad fencing would in-fact cost more money than
shoring up the barriers appropriately.
The "long lines of fences" only cover some select high-traffic areas, and the fencing doesn't meet the current day bare-minimum physical security standards which organizations use.
Those tolls are not allowed to be used for trash maintenance or other maintenance.
They should add extra surcharges on top of overall tolls across their park footprint, until they DO cover "necessary maintenance expenses incurred due to visitors at parks".
Essentially.... things like picking up trash should be covered primarily by the people who use these parks;
The general public good is in maintaining and PRESERVING these places for current and future generations, But
the public who never visit these places should not be burdened by the costs incurred by those that do --- those that
visit them should have to pay the costs that the overall group of people who visit the public parks cause to be incurred (including the costs of collecting the user fees).
Most of the national parks used to be free. There are tollgates now and they do charge except right now during the shutdown because there is nobody to collect the tolls. OOTH I am not at all sure why they don't leave the honor boxes used at lots of less popular locations open.
Close a funding source during a funding deficiency? That makes no sense.
Proceeds from the tollgates ought to first self-fund the operation of the tollgate.
Better still, I see no need for a human toll collector. Perhaps a security company monitoring the cameras
at a large number of tollgates across the country to report attempts to vandalize or bypass the gate.
They can put in the "self serve" tollgates, where you scan your debit card, or choose an
option to be "Billed by License plate" like the Florida highways do - with Invoice sent to the address
your car is registered at, and computer lets you through --- Or shoot, the computer can just read
your license plate as you pull in, and after a successful read, display a sign you may proceed, and open gate.
Your first mistake is assuming the wall is about basic security.
What on earth do you think "basic security" means in the context of physical security? I know what the industry would say it means.
Basic security is achieved when you have these elements at a basic level:
1. Establishment of Security Boundaries and Access Control: You define the area to which access is to be protected. You put systems in place to divert or steer the movement of vehicles, people, etc, so that those wanting to move from inside to outside of the secure area or vice-versa are directed to pass through a small opening or zone called a "Security Checkpoint" where a careful inspection can be made, and the security policy rules regarding what person(s)/vehicle(s) and other things allowed to enter or exit can be efficiently enforced.
2. Monitoring of Access Control: You have systems, infrastructure, and processes in place, designed to detect and respond to violations -- such as a fujitive or stolen vehicle or other item attempting to exit through a security boundary, or an unauthorized person, or dangerous contraband such as firearms, munitions, an illegal import, dangerous drugs, or other hazardous materials whether overt or concealed/hidden attempting to be brought in through the checkpoint, OR any traffic attempting to circumvent the checkpoint.
3. Enforcement of Access Control: You have systems, infrastructure, and processes in place designed to deter the largest number of
vehicles, people, etc, who would attempt to circumvent the security checkpoints from doing so.
A wall or protective barrier, in height no less than 8 feet, generally made with concrete, or steel, and topped with razor wire and other anti-climb features, is a common construction generally used to provide basic (3) Enforcement of the Access Control ---- and for protecting a large area at the minimal security level,
generally a concrete masonry wall is the cheapest/most economical option for such a barrier, or less expensive than building as a long fortified steel fence.
Such barrier is very effective to deter, thwart, or delay the vast majority of would-be physical security attackers, more than 99%, who are casual ----- obviously, there are exceptions: well-resourced attackers who are highly persistent can attempt to circumvent fencing by bringing climbing tools, or by bringing explosives to make a hole in the offense. Therefore, there is still a need for more expensive Advanced Security (Which requires the interactive work of live humans) to be layered on top of Basic Automatic Security deterrents --- the Basic Security measure is to still function to Delay and Discourage the advanced attacker for as long as possible, to delay the attacker long enough for a Live response from humans to arrive in time to thwart the rare and occassional advanced attack events.
I will admit my Father drives a Pickup but, he is a farmer he has his truck for Farm things,
A Farmer's farm pickup truck is definitely a vehicle used primarily for professional/work reasons,
e.g. Actually hauling large heavy loads around in a farm, and picking up and dropping off the materials and products related to business conducted by the owner of the vehicle.
And not used nearly as much for driving when not for the purpose of hauling stuff.
Which is specifically not the type of pick-up truck owner I'm referring to.
Look at the pickups in the photo at the charger... these are really shiny with no visible wear, they do not even look like vehicles that have seen much use, let alone hauling for a work purpose.
You can likely go to a used car lot and purchase 2 to 3 used pick-ups and 1 regular car, all suited for 10 to 15 years or more of additional operation for business use, for the price the owner paid to get one of the new shiny trucks in the photo.
Lamfrom says the full scale of the problem is yet to be determined but clean up timelines will range in length.
If we can't afford to authorize funding for a border wall for basic security, then how the hell can we afford to authorize funding for a multi-generational cleanup?
As far as the trash issues, that is just people being fucking assholes.
Yeah.... This is shit taxpayers shouldn't be paying for. What they should do is put tollgates for
recovery of costs incurred by visitors, if you want to use the public roads to bring a vehicle to visit a national park or park it on public land, and directly appropriate a share of the toll fees between the park service and law enforcement, such that basic maintenance for any building or improved facility remaining open is funded even during a "shutdown".
Pickups aren't usually that fuel inefficient, maybe 20 mpg instead of 30
More like 20 mpg City, 23 mpg Highway Instead of: 30 mpg City, 40 mpg Highway.
Driving only 2/3 the miles is kind of a big deal; it means you need 1.5x as much fuel which also means 1.5x as much
fuel cost, for city driving, and 2x as much fuel and 2x as much cost for highway driving.
For an average driver, that's $1600 a year in gas, instead of $800.
And there's a simple solution for occasional hauling --- fit your car with a towing hitch, and get a small trailer.
As I was saying.... Pickup Trucks don't make any economic sense at all to purchase, unless its a work truck, and you
have a special professional justification or good reason to be hauling a lot of stuff with every or nearly every ride.
Otherwise, it makes
more sense to own both car and pickup --- one or both vehicles purchased used, and use pickup only when necessary.
The environmental impact for manufacturing such vehicle is ~5 Tons of CO2; approximately the same as 1 year's worth of driving.
My feeling is many of the people that own and drive personal pickup trucks all the time; even when they're not actually hauling anything are self-centered arrogant SOBs who compare p***s links with each other; couldn't care less about being green, and often either don't think the rules apply to them -- or challenge the rules frequently through open defiance, Such as parking as to straddle two parking spaces, ignoring the lines, double parking locking people in, pulling in parallel to perpendicular parking, or pulling in perpendicular to parallel parking, etc.
Many Supercharger stations are in sectioned off area of a larger parking lot ---
the pickup drivers' ego is probably irked that someone else is special, other than them. Tesla drivers get dedicated Tesla-only "parking" areas in a crowded space, and that alone drives them batshit insane.
Since bypassing Apple for purchase of In-App services is against ToS; How long before Apple suspends the Netflix app in the iTunes store and disables existing installations on Apple customers' hardware with an error message indicating "This app is currently unavailable, because the creator, 'Netflix', is in breach of the Apple Developer Agreement" ?
problem is a rogue usb device that pretends to be a usb drive, but also behaves as a usb keyboard, and as soon as it is inserted, it presses Win+R and run whatever it wants without user intervention.
Uhm... in this case, WHO gets to decide what hardware is legitimate?
There are perfectly USB devices that act as HID devices "pretend to be keyboard" for perfectly legitimate reasons -- things like
remote KVM over IP devices with Virtual Media, Auto-Typers, Mouse Wiggler, Two-Factor Auth tokens such as Yubikey, Hardware Password Managers.
Many keyboards also contain a convenience/easy-access USB port you can use to plug in a Thumb drive (or a mouse) ---
there's no way to tell the difference between a single device pretending to be two USB components, and a USB device with another device plugged into it, or shared using a passive USB hub.
If someone makes a malicious device: what exactly is going to stop them from doing the next step and getting a valid certificate
on their malicious device?
If the process is too involved, they'll hinder a lot of USB hardware including open source projects --- with prohibitive costs.
It kind of defeats what makes USB such a popular interface --- is that it's simple, universal, and generic, no licensing etc; the barrier to entry is extremely low.
What about computers needing to emulate USB devices AND USB hosts that need to simulate another vendor's USB device for compatibility reasons?
They're basically pulling the rug out of the USB standard and make it so ``malicious device makers'' may just opt to purchase a legit piece of device and dissect/decap the chips on the legitimate device in order to capture/"steal" a copy of the crypto material, then re-use the legit device's certificate on their malicious device. That's what probably will wind up happening eventually when laptop and phone manufacturers start abusing the Auth protocol to arbitrarily ban/block interoperability with 3rd party USB chargers ----- some devices may now start adding USB ports that only work with "Manufacturer $X thumb drives",
great.....
While the agency is shut down, consumer complaints will not be heard, consumer protection enforcement actions will be ceased, and licensing services will end until new funding is approved.
So, now that enforcement, licensing, and spectrum management are shutdown.. until the FCC resumes operation... You or I could just start taking over some local cellular and FM radio broadcast frequencies that traditionally require licensing to use to transmit whatever I want, setup a 100-Watt wideband signal on the VHF broadcast range for personal high-speed internet, etc?
Maybe play with some jamming devices in a public place to see how people glued to their cell phones react.
How spectacular.
Management of radio spectrum and the creation of new opportunities for competitive technologies and services for the American public must be suspended
so $500 refund - 25K legal fees = big loss for him
He'll probably get legal fees back plus punitive damages.
They were involved in attempting to deprive him of first amendment free speech rights under color of statute, A violation of 42 U.S. Code 1983 - Civil action for deprivation of rights -
Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress
Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Awards Act of 1976 provides attorney's fees for:
"any action or proceeding to enforce a provision of sections 1981, 1981a, 1982, 1983, 1985, and 1986 of this title, title IX of Public Law 92–318 [20 U.S.C. 1681 et seq.], the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 [42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq.], the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 [42 U.S.C. 2000cc et seq.], title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 [42 U.S.C. 2000d et seq.], or section 12361 of title 34"
As for malicious attacks, no certificate is going to protect the port against a brute force "fry the port" chargers.
Malicious actors are likely going to find a way of cloning the certificate off a legitimate USB Host and simply re-using that identity.
On the other hand it can be used to prevent that rogue USB flash drive you found on the parking lot from installing a key logger in your computer.
Not at all. That Rogue USB flash drive will still be able to contain installable malware. Nothing about the authentication standard changes that.
I thought nuclear was the future and was so much cheaper to produce?
That's true of Nuclear in principle; However, the implementation of the nuclear plant needs to be right to avoid creating hazards.
It calls for further engineering research work to produce "inherently safe" reactor designs based on Thorium / Molten Salt Reactor Technology (MSR) such as the LfTR
First: at the very minimum -- Old plant designs such as those in use at Fukushima should be permanently decommissioned and 100% of plants using modern reactors and overall plant systems designed to maintain containment across all environmental hazards -- including loss of outside power and damage to generators.
Not the Tepco board only. For any public corpiration that makes profit all the stockholders should also go in prison.
No.... stockholders are definitely immune to personal liability for the actions of the corporation whose stock they own (other than the value of the stock can become worthless). The board and management of the corporation have the duty to ensure that actions of the corporation are compliant with the law.
All three have pleaded not guilty in Tokyo District Court, saying they could not have predicted the tsunami.
Duh, they could not have predicted THAT particular event, BUT Tsunami's are a known and foreseeable natural event, so
they definitely could have predicted that there would be the possibility of one or more tsunami's in general (over long periods of time),
and when installing and operating a nuclear plant: you have a duty to ensure that radioactive material created and stored in/about
your plant creates does not endanger the survivors after a foreseeable natural event.
So if a particular Tsunami strength and size would not be guaranteed to kill everyone within 100 miles of your plant: your plant had better not be a threat to the public within 100 miles during/after that tsunami.
The only regret is that they waited until AFTER the event to arrest them.
There should be 3rd party reviews and audits of overall power plant designs and operations, and the capability of charging executives for crimes,
mandating jail time and/or plant shutdowns BEFORE a catastrophic tsunami, etc, actually occurs..
This thread suggests that President Trump is mentally ill and it is clear that he shows behavioral signs of a cluster B personality disorder as defined by the DSM
It doesn't matter if someone believes Trump acts suggesting he may have mental conditions --- so long as he is capable of discharging the powers and duties of his office: the president stays in control. People disliking or thinking his mannerisms strange, or disapproving of his decisions does not constitute inability to discharge the powers and duties of the office.
The standard the Constitution sets is Trump stays in control for his term, unless someone persuades Trump to voluntarily step down,
The alternative is persuading The Vice President + a Majority of the Principal Executives to make a written declaration ---- but if Trump has any capacity at all, he can immediately make a written declaration reversing that action, and Only A 2/3 Majority of the House + a 2/3 Majority of the Senate can find the president unable to discharge the office ----- That's an action that requires a much higher bar and greater majority of congress involved in agreement, than even impeachment requires.
Federal courts have not ruled and there is nothing in the Constitution.
The president cannot be charged in federal courts while sitting as president, mainly: because the judiciary on its own does not have the power to prosecute a court case, and neither does the legislature --- that is not a judicial power, that is not a legislative power: that is solely an executive power. Guess what the constitution says about where the executive power lies: Article II Section 1: The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. --- The president is immune from arrest by virtue of being in absolute control of the full executive power of the US government; that's why unlike members of congress the president and his cabinet members don't need a specific exemption written into the constitution for protection from arrest - simply because the President and Vice President have absolute authority over the federal police forces, But members of congress DO have a constitutional protection against being arrested while in office.
In other words: Essentially, only someone working for the president can be the prosecutor in a court case against ANYONE.
If such person were to attempt to prosecute the president in court; the president could simply order them to drop the case, or fire them, and that individual would no longer be able to represent the US government.
Once upon a time Congress thought they had the power to prevent the president from firing an official the Senate had confirmed.
The supreme court smacked them down appropriately for that in Myers v. United States.
Also, if the president were sitting in office, the general law enforcement cannot raid his office and attempt to arrest him --- the president as cmdr. in chief can direct the secret service and the military to thwart any such attempt.
The president can also write up a pardon for himself --- since he has the full executive authority to grant even pardons; the only adverse act he cannot prevent is the legislative act of impeachment as provided for by the constitution.
Why are you not heading for your nearest bank? Woohoo CRIME SPREE TIME!
There are still police patrolling the streets that don't rely on phones to communicate. And if a suitably equipped civillian happens to notice there's a bank robbery in progress and phones are down, they can still radio in on the police dispatcher to call for help, only under such extreme circumstances, of course.
There *were* national outages of Internet and voice, but the 911 outages were much more limited
National outage of voice through CL's network is in the same category, since if voice is down -- subscribers cannot dial 911.
If CenturyLink cannot handle ensuring that local voice service is not interrupted by conditions existing outside the local region, then they should be broken up into a larger number of small providers, that way each small provider can provide a local voice service that will not routinely fail on a national level because of an IT issue.
Fighting in the street is an emergency. It is a violent crime in progress, and there are people in immediate danger of serious physical injury or possible death, so yes, 911 should be dialed if people are fighting in the street.