All I can say is: Due to Questionable recommendation practices..... I can no longer recommend Consumer Reports, and especially do not recommend the next issue, even though I have not been able to see their upcoming issue yet.
Students have a STRONG motivation to cheat and little in the way of consequences of getting caught. Expelled? So what? They didn't go to jail. Probably for every 1 expelled 1000 got away with it.
I would suggest educators (1) Use a set of paper records (assignment grade journal) to keep track of student grades during term -- as the definitive record to fall back on, in addition to keeping a computer record, and (2) Reconcile any digital summary record at end of term against the paper records --- if two versions disagree for a student, then check individual papers..
Finally, the grade reports from educator to school should be a signed scan or technology such as an Adobe AcroForm signed PDF using a signing device from an AATL listed certificate authority.
PDF Digital signature as an example requires Two-Factor Authentication to create: PIN + Physical token specific to a certain person. Thus keylogging doesn't allow a student to forge a PDF grade report document. The university's "Grade Entry" system, whatever it is, should then simply be designed to accept the signed PDF form and verify the digital signature before gathering data into a record together with the PDF attachment; Once data is in a record, there should be no means of editing it other than a professor submitting a signed PDF revising the report.
I can use the magic phrase "That's not my signature".
They'll send it to friend computer for analysis and the handwriting check, and when the computer says they have confirmed it legitimate, you'll pay 20000 credits, and be held in detention for fraudulent unauthorized charge report. See nobody will question friend computer's findings, because the act of doubting the computer is treason in and of itself.
It is important to be able to travel with your cell phone and laptop on either checked or carry-on luggage as you need; these are somewhat indispensable items for many.
The concept of "banning them " from modes of travel is patently absurd and unacceptable.
If the risk is too high by some measure (I seriously doubt it, considering people have successfully been flying with laptops for 20 years), then find ways of mitigating it or allowing people to bring their laptops without causing an undue or excessive burden for travelers --- even if that means the laptop has to be packed in a special kind of hardened bag and pressurized with an inert gas at the luggage station, Or (more on a limb) that the laptop needs a new battery tech or safety cert.
every new feature added to Azure it becomes that much easier for an org using MS programs and OS to move somewhat seamlessly to the cloud
Existing MS programs and Operating systems are NOT cloud applications. What it sounds like you're referring to is Server Virtualization; or packaging up existing servers and virtualizing them on someone else's infrastructure -- also known as virtual private server hosting. Amazon can do that too through EC2 or the new vSphere on AWS.
Virtualizing servers does not result in a cloud application, however ---- It results in a Legacy application running on cloud-hosted compute and storage; that's just a traditional on-premise-style app being run from somewhere else. Cloud Based applications are what are taking over, NOT Cloud-hosted-compute, and before too long.... no longer will people run such traditional OSes and programs they have to virtualize.
Example: In the long run companies are not virtualizing their legacy business CRMs and running them on EC2 or Azure IaaS, instead they are switching to Pure Cloud-Based (SaaS) solutions such as salesforce that are built on top of the PaaS offerings of other cloud providers - Code + Service -- not virtualized X86 servers.
Clearly Amazon's PaaS is the dominant player in this, when developers set out to build their new software FULLY leveraging cloud services, and not just hosted on remote compute; Azure's IaaS doesn't make them a dominant player here ---- Just a (Large) hosting provider for your legacy applications.
You're just misunderstanding it.... It's not "stolen card prevention" --- it is a form of transaction Non-Repudiation.
If you actually signed it; you can't very well turn around and claim the charge was unauthorized, so there's that deterrent.
It would be more useful if they actually authenticated that the signature was your handwriting, AND verify that the customer signs it while being watched to ensure they don't just trace over a copy.
So they get dinged the second year if they don't remove the "hazard" despite their best efforts, right?
No fine for successive years would be based on severity and failure to improve, or severity and amount of worsening (if they backtracked), and zero'd if they remain on documented plain and continued to improve...
what do you do with the people who have gained weight because of the medication you've put them on to keep them alive?
They need to get a medical exclusion from the penalty for being on a treatment or having a metabolic issue that caused the condition outside their control; for these cases they get an exception lasting at least 10-years that can be renewed if they're still on the treatment or still have the condition.
However, one does have to ask whether this is a wise choice based on the evidence.
Agree. A much better strategy would be to require a mandatory annual checkup. During the checkup, the patient will be checked for all the normal stuff, And in addition they will be checked for "Hazards" --- for example, checks will be made to determine if they are Obese or a Smoker.
Patients will be assessed an annual Penalty or additional charge that will append to taxes owed; E.g. $1400 fine for failing to report for an annual checkup; $400 per year fine if found to be a smoker, and up to $700 fine per year if found to be obese scaled by the level of obesity down to $200 for somewhat obese and $0 for only slightly -- the fine will be reduced to zero if this is the first year they showed in a 'Hazard' category and make a marked improvement.
That way they help compensate the system/society for the additional costs AND promote change in all citizens, not just those that already need a surgery.
the USA itself was getting hammered by deflation. It was a wonderful time when American shoe factories laid off workers to starve in the streets while barefoot farmers were kicked off their farms
All that tells you is that economic downturns (Booms and Busts) happen. And reminds that SUDDEN massive changes in price inflation / deflation are Bad, which are different from having deflationary or inflationary exchange currencies.
That doesn't tell you anything in general about deflationary currencies or economics, however. Economics is mostly about forecasting "on average" / "eventually" / "when equilibrium is reached" results; the economy under ALL/ANY kind of monetary system and EITHER inflation OR deflation is subject to the possibility of temporary shocks / spikes in growth or sudden major losses, all of which are observed to smooth out only in time
All long-term inflationary currency is is essentially a TAX, most of the value of which is taken from people and distributed to the bankers.
People who want to save money for future use would likely prefer to hold their savings in Deflationary currency given a choice, and people who want to spend most money as soon as they get it would likely prefer Inflationary, so they earn more and more quantity of units over time to help replace what they didn't save.
(0) Make generic "consumer waivers" And "compulsory arbitration of disputes involving company mishandling of customer information" illegal. Consumers may NOT be required to waive rights to the privacy of their personal information from dissemination by potential criminals and unauthorized individuals in a generic manner or by a "click through" or "default" agreement, Just to use or purchase a product or service.
(1) Shift the burden of proof so companies cannot imply non-breach by saying "We found no evidence that X occurred or that Y was leaked"; Make it law that Security breach will be assumed to have occurred, AND/OR Every piece of information from every system and database will be assumed to be leaked, Especially upon any suspected incident or event, in the absence of control audit reports with complete competent comprehensive evidence to a high standard that information has Not been leaked and a breach did not occur; Based on evaluating system log outputs over a period of time, and auditing the strength, adequate depth, and proper implementation of a set of whole-stack multi-layer detective controls on network/database activities: Proving the continuous and ongoing integrity of controls intact for a period of time after a suspected incident --- consistent with end-to-end monitoring and analysis of every network transmission and query action on systems containing consumer data.
(2) Legal damages for security breaches where customer personal/financial information is breached with Absolute legal responsibility (Instead of the current standard of a 'Mere duty of care' or 'Mere non-negligence') on any 3rd-party holder of consumer personal, medical, or financial information to keep that safe ---- To be defined to include A minimum statutory amount of damages of $2,000 - and other amounts to cover Consumer's inconvenience - at least $100 per hour that will be wasted on the phone for reasonable number of hours plus All costs appropriate for the consumer to help mitigate the risk of identity theft or repair their privacy ($$ per hour of labor, the real-estate commission costs, moving costs, travel, and other $$$ costs to move house in order to change a leaked street address, for example).
(3) Legal liability for damages TIMES 100 for data brokerage companies that COLLECT information with no consumer opt-out or "information removal" controls. With a burden of proof that customers with access to a brokers' services are legitimate users , and consumer information is not disseminated or leaked to potential criminals.
(4) Legal liability for damages TIMES 10 on the accuracy of security claims and/or marketing messages made by services or paid software companies implying that their product, website, or service is secure And/Or breaches that occur after a company makes any security claims or representations.
What if you've already consumed the goods (eg in a restaurant, or already pumped some gas) and then their card machine is faulty?
The Merchant agreement with the credit card companies that allows use of the Visa or Mastercard logo Requires the merchant to use backup methods such as: resort to calling in through the Voice Authorization Center or take a Card Imprint Using a manual credit card imprinting machine instead.
Who has only one person that has admin access to their systems?? What if that person gets hit by a car or quits
It's not a big deal. That is why equipment and servers provide procedures that can be used to utilize physical access to reset the admin password without knowing the admin password.
Ideally you require all admin passwords be filed in a password management system, so when the admin is done, they hand over the keys to the password vault, and that is that.
Greetings to you. I am Mohammed Abacha,the son of the late Nigerian Head of State who died on the 8th of June 1998.
It is my great pleasure to write to you and present my business proposal for your consideration and possible acceptance which you will find mutually beneficial to both parties. In order to enable you to short the bitcoins... I will make the following proposition for you:
If you agree to wire $6500 to an agreed upon 3rd party in collateral at my Bank of new Nigeria and pay me 10% APR daily on the maximum daily value of a Bitcoin plus 1% in administrative fees for the shorting escrow; then i'll loan you 1.0000 of my BTC for shorting, that you can sell to buyer of your choice and return to me later.
If the value of BTC decreases or stays below $6000, thence you can give me my BTC back at your convenience: any time in exchange for a return of your collateral (but not interest).
On the other hand, if the value of BTC increases, you shall within 12 hours deposit additional collateral to maintain 160% of the value of my 1 BTC you are borrowing at all times, and if you fail: you agree that ownership of the collateral transfers to me, and you will repay me for the maximum value my 1 BTC had that occurred on or after the date you defaulted; before we begin the transaction, you shall provide a signed and notarized promissory note to that affect with additional collateral or a surety bond towards your performance.
It is why most wealth is not maintained in currency form, but rather assets that increase in value faster than inflation.
Perhaps.... but imagine a world with a deflationary currency. In order for businesses to persuade you to invest in their business or their debts, the bar for investing will be a much greater return --- because the business will have to increase in value faster or pay in interest a rate of interest you expect to be greater than the rate at which the deflationary currency increases in value, thus the cost of capital will be high, and businesses will be more responsible and careful with $$$ they spend not to waste it, Whereas with an inflationary currency it is almost a "Given", that tangible commodities and businesses will become worth more currency over time.
What happens when the cost of the computing resources required to generate more falls below the marginal selling price of a bitcoin?
Chances are the people who bought those resources Already made their profit, because they did the calculations. The marginal cost of continuing to operate that hardware is very small though, particularly in certain parts of China where they get free electricity.
At the point it becomes non-profitable to CONTINUE to operate bought and paid for miners, they either RAISE THE BAR FOR TRANSACTION FEES, so users pay a little more, or shut off, and the hashrate goes down ---- and eventually profitability of the miners increases, so it's self-correcting.
I get there, it tells me things are fresh. 75% fresh. WTF? I never asked for this.
They've been manipulated into saying rotten things are actually fresh, so it's a subtle kind of rottenness where you read that it's fresh, then check it out to find it was rotten.
This is a topic of potentially broad interest; its formulation won a trio of physicists the Nobel Prize in 1979.
Winning the Nobel prize means the work was one of the most IMPORTANT advancements for mankind. That does not mean that the general public and people with limited physics or math background should be interested or could meaningfully understand the work or much of the motivation behind this without getting their feet wet in other topics first -- you should be a college Physics I or Physics II student, before you've delved far enough down the rabbit hole and learned enough basics for topics like this to be of much interest to you.
Generally, it has to do with a fundamental linkage between two of the four fundamental forces of the universe, electromagnetism and the weak force.
Yes, and I thought you said general interest... the moment you speak of "electromagnetism" you have lost 50% of your audience scared away by the crazy word electromagnetism... of the remaining half, 90% of them have no idea or a very confused idea of what electromagnetic or weak force refers to. So maybe 10% of readers make it past the first sentence of the simple intro.
BUT That does not mean the entire physics section of WP should be dumbed down to "Explain it like the reader is a 5-year-old".
The mathematical formulation is definitely a huge part of this. And a lot of scientists don't keep their textbooks, but a reference for such encyclopedic knowledge is useful.
Perhaps a longer introduction or explanatory section would be useful to guide newbies in their studies; If you really want to understand it though, you can't avoid the technical details --- your understanding would be done harm by withholding the maths.
It could be that he was just CONSIDERING this, but since he didn't even send the message... did he COMMIT that this is what he wants to do?
Wills usually require some kind of signature and witness, that they were actually made by the person, also, that they are sane or of sound mind at the time that they prepare the document, and it's their actual intention --- not just some thing they rambled out in a fit of rage.
The draft timestamp is probably falsifiable; if you have the right technical knowledge or the right backdoor installed: the draft could have been created days in advance ahead of premeditated foul-play and uploaded to the brother's phone with a fake timestamp.
We'll be safer against the COMMON bad actor that just finds a simple bug that STANDARD REVIEW would detect. And less safe against bad actors that have highly-advanced specialized technical knowledge to find subtle bugs that everyone else is going to miss (Although these highly-advanced technical actors with a lot of money to spend could likely be able to reverse-engineer the entire product in their search for potential bugs).
How about putting a small "DELIVERY-ONLY" shed on your house, and the doorbell can only unlock the delivery shed (After scanning the package for that address)
You nor I will be allowed to use our autonomous cars for taxi services, due to the EULA.
Sure we will be allowed to: So long as we don't Opt-Out of our vehicle manufacturer's sponsored Ride-Sharing program where the vehicle manufacturer gets to keep 98% of the profits and then reimburses the vehicle owner for the cost of electricity or fuel, plus a small token profit.
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All I can say is: Due to Questionable recommendation practices..... I can no longer recommend Consumer Reports, and especially do not recommend the next issue, even though I have not been able to see their upcoming issue yet.
Students have a STRONG motivation to cheat and little in the way of consequences of getting caught.
Expelled? So what? They didn't go to jail. Probably for every 1 expelled 1000 got away with it.
I would suggest educators (1) Use a set of paper records (assignment grade journal) to keep track of
student grades during term -- as the definitive record to fall back on, in addition to keeping a computer record,
and (2) Reconcile any digital summary record at end of term against the paper records ---
if two versions disagree for a student, then check individual papers..
Finally, the grade reports from educator to school should be a signed scan or technology such as an Adobe AcroForm signed PDF using
a signing device from an AATL listed certificate authority.
PDF Digital signature as an example requires Two-Factor Authentication to create: PIN + Physical token specific to a certain person.
Thus keylogging doesn't allow a student to forge a PDF grade report document. The university's "Grade Entry" system,
whatever it is, should then simply be designed to accept the signed PDF form and verify the digital signature before gathering data
into a record together with the PDF attachment; Once data is in a record, there should be no means of editing it other than a professor submitting a signed PDF revising the report.
I can use the magic phrase "That's not my signature".
They'll send it to friend computer for analysis and the handwriting check, and when the computer says they have confirmed it legitimate,
you'll pay 20000 credits, and be held in detention for fraudulent unauthorized charge report.
See nobody will question friend computer's findings, because the act of doubting the computer is treason in and of itself.
It is important to be able to travel with your cell phone and laptop on either checked or carry-on luggage as you need; these are somewhat indispensable items for many.
The concept of "banning them " from modes of travel is patently absurd and unacceptable.
If the risk is too high by some measure (I seriously doubt it, considering people have successfully been flying with laptops for 20 years), then find ways of mitigating it or allowing people to bring their laptops without causing an undue or excessive burden for travelers --- even if that means the laptop has to be packed in a special kind of hardened bag and pressurized with an inert gas at the luggage station, Or (more on a limb) that the laptop needs a new battery tech or safety cert.
every new feature added to Azure it becomes that much easier for an org using MS programs and OS to move somewhat seamlessly to the cloud
Existing MS programs and Operating systems are NOT cloud applications. What it sounds like you're referring to is Server Virtualization; or packaging up existing servers and virtualizing them on someone else's infrastructure -- also known as virtual private server hosting. Amazon can do that too through EC2 or the new vSphere on AWS.
Virtualizing servers does not result in a cloud application, however ---- It results in a Legacy application running on cloud-hosted compute and storage; that's just a traditional on-premise-style app being run from somewhere else.
Cloud Based applications are what are taking over, NOT Cloud-hosted-compute, and before too long.... no longer will people run such traditional OSes and programs they have to virtualize.
Example: In the long run companies are not virtualizing their legacy business CRMs and running them on EC2 or Azure IaaS, instead they are switching to Pure Cloud-Based (SaaS) solutions such as salesforce that are built on top of the PaaS offerings of other cloud providers - Code + Service -- not virtualized X86 servers.
Clearly Amazon's PaaS is the dominant player in this, when developers set out to build their new software FULLY leveraging cloud services, and not just hosted on remote compute; Azure's IaaS doesn't make them a dominant player here ---- Just a (Large) hosting provider for your legacy applications.
You're just misunderstanding it.... It's not "stolen card prevention" --- it is a form of transaction Non-Repudiation.
If you actually signed it; you can't very well turn around and claim the charge was unauthorized, so there's that deterrent.
It would be more useful if they actually authenticated that the signature was your handwriting, AND verify that the customer signs it
while being watched to ensure they don't just trace over a copy.
Amazon is dominating that space the way Microsoft dominated the desktop.
TFIFY.
So they get dinged the second year if they don't remove the "hazard" despite their best efforts, right?
No fine for successive years would be based on severity and failure to improve, or severity and amount of worsening (if they backtracked), and zero'd if they remain on documented plain and continued to improve...
what do you do with the people who have gained weight because of the medication you've put them on to keep them alive?
They need to get a medical exclusion from the penalty for being on a treatment or having a metabolic issue that caused the condition outside their control; for these cases they get an exception lasting at least 10-years that can be renewed if they're still on the treatment or still have the condition.
Seems like this will remove the entire point of liposuction surgery.
This is a risky non-medical (cosmetic) surgery that insurance or the NHS probably won't cover anyways.
However, one does have to ask whether this is a wise choice based on the evidence.
Agree. A much better strategy would be to require a mandatory annual checkup.
During the checkup, the patient will be checked for all the normal stuff, And in addition they will be checked for "Hazards" --- for example, checks will be made to determine if they are Obese or a Smoker.
Patients will be assessed an annual Penalty or additional charge that will append to taxes owed; E.g. $1400 fine for failing to report for an annual checkup; $400 per year fine if found to be a smoker, and up to $700 fine per year if found to be obese scaled by the level of obesity down to $200 for somewhat obese and $0 for only slightly -- the fine will be reduced to zero if this is the first year they showed in a 'Hazard' category and make a marked improvement.
That way they help compensate the system/society for the additional costs AND promote change in all citizens, not just those that already need a surgery.
the USA itself was getting hammered by deflation. It was a wonderful time when American shoe factories laid off workers to starve in the streets while barefoot farmers were kicked off their farms
All that tells you is that economic downturns (Booms and Busts) happen.
And reminds that SUDDEN massive changes in price inflation / deflation are Bad, which
are different from having deflationary or inflationary exchange currencies.
That doesn't tell you anything in general about deflationary currencies or economics, however.
Economics is mostly about forecasting "on average" / "eventually" / "when equilibrium is reached" results;
the economy under ALL/ANY kind of monetary system and EITHER inflation OR deflation is subject to the
possibility of temporary shocks / spikes in growth or sudden major losses, all of which are observed to
smooth out only in time
All long-term inflationary currency is is essentially a TAX, most of the value of which is taken from people and distributed to the bankers.
People who want to save money for future use would likely prefer to hold their savings in Deflationary currency given a choice,
and people who want to spend most money as soon as they get it would likely prefer Inflationary, so they earn more and more quantity of units over time
to help replace what they didn't save.
(0) Make generic "consumer waivers" And "compulsory arbitration of disputes involving company mishandling of customer information" illegal. Consumers may NOT be required to waive rights to the privacy of their personal information from dissemination by potential criminals and unauthorized individuals in a generic manner or by a "click through" or "default" agreement, Just to use or purchase a product or service.
(1) Shift the burden of proof so companies cannot imply non-breach by saying "We found no evidence that X occurred or that Y was leaked"; Make it law that Security breach will be assumed to have occurred, AND/OR Every piece of information from every system and database will be assumed to be leaked, Especially upon any suspected incident or event, in the absence of control audit reports with complete competent comprehensive evidence to a high standard that information has Not been leaked and a breach did not occur; Based on evaluating system log outputs over a period of time, and auditing the strength, adequate depth, and proper implementation of a set of whole-stack multi-layer detective controls on network/database activities: Proving the continuous and ongoing integrity of controls intact for a period of time after a suspected incident --- consistent with end-to-end monitoring and analysis of every network transmission and query action on systems containing consumer data.
(2) Legal damages for security breaches where customer personal/financial information is breached with Absolute legal responsibility (Instead of the current standard of a 'Mere duty of care' or 'Mere non-negligence') on any 3rd-party holder of consumer personal, medical, or financial information to keep that safe ---- To be defined to include A minimum statutory amount of damages of $2,000 - and other amounts to cover Consumer's inconvenience - at least $100 per hour that will be wasted on the phone for reasonable number of hours plus All costs appropriate for the consumer to help mitigate the risk of identity theft or repair their privacy ($$ per hour of labor, the real-estate commission costs, moving costs, travel, and other $$$ costs to move house in order to change a leaked street address, for example).
(3) Legal liability for damages TIMES 100 for data brokerage companies that COLLECT information with no consumer opt-out or "information removal" controls.
With a burden of proof that customers with access to a brokers' services are legitimate users , and consumer information is not disseminated or leaked to potential criminals.
(4) Legal liability for damages TIMES 10 on the accuracy of security claims and/or marketing messages made by services or paid software companies implying that their product, website, or service is secure And/Or breaches that occur after a company makes any security claims or representations.
What if you've already consumed the goods (eg in a restaurant, or already pumped some gas) and then their card machine is faulty?
The Merchant agreement with the credit card companies that allows use of the Visa or Mastercard logo Requires the merchant to use backup methods such as: resort to calling in through the Voice Authorization Center or take a Card Imprint Using a manual credit card imprinting machine instead.
Who has only one person that has admin access to their systems?? What if that person gets hit by a car or quits
It's not a big deal. That is why equipment and servers provide procedures that can be used to utilize physical access to reset the admin password without knowing the admin password.
Ideally you require all admin passwords be filed in a password management system, so when the admin is done, they hand over the keys to the password vault, and that is that.
So where can I go short on bitcoin?
Greetings to you. I am Mohammed Abacha,the son of the late Nigerian Head of State who died on the 8th of June 1998.
It is my great pleasure to write to you and present my business proposal for your consideration and possible acceptance which you will find mutually beneficial to both parties. In order to enable you to short the bitcoins... I will make the following proposition for you:
If you agree to wire $6500 to an agreed upon 3rd party in collateral at my Bank of new Nigeria and pay me 10% APR daily on the maximum daily value of a Bitcoin plus 1% in administrative fees for the shorting escrow; then i'll loan you 1.0000 of my BTC for shorting, that you can sell to buyer of your choice and return to me later.
If the value of BTC decreases or stays below $6000, thence you can give me my BTC back at your convenience: any time in exchange for a return of your collateral (but not interest).
On the other hand, if the value of BTC increases, you shall within 12 hours deposit additional collateral to maintain 160% of the value of my 1 BTC you are borrowing at all times, and if you fail: you agree that ownership of the collateral transfers to me, and you will repay me for the maximum value my 1 BTC had that occurred on or after the date you defaulted; before we begin the transaction, you shall provide a signed and notarized promissory note to that affect with additional collateral or a surety bond towards your performance.
What could possibly go wrong, though?
It is why most wealth is not maintained in currency form, but rather assets that increase in value faster than inflation.
Perhaps.... but imagine a world with a deflationary currency. In order for businesses to persuade you to invest in their business or their debts, the bar for investing will be a much greater return --- because the business will have to increase in value faster or pay in interest a rate of interest you expect to be greater than the rate at which the deflationary currency increases in value, thus the cost of capital will be high, and businesses will be more responsible and careful with $$$ they spend not to waste it, Whereas with an inflationary currency it is almost a "Given", that tangible commodities and businesses will become worth more currency over time.
A conservative estimate is that the last block will be mined in 2140
Not the last block.... the last block that pays out a direct reward. After that last block, mining is subsidized by the transaction fees alone.
What happens when the cost of the computing resources required to generate more falls below the marginal selling price of a bitcoin?
Chances are the people who bought those resources Already made their profit, because they did the calculations.
The marginal cost of continuing to operate that hardware is very small though, particularly in certain parts of China where they get free electricity.
At the point it becomes non-profitable to CONTINUE to operate bought and paid for miners, they either RAISE THE BAR FOR TRANSACTION FEES, so users pay a little more, or shut off, and the hashrate goes down ---- and eventually profitability of the miners increases, so it's self-correcting.
I get there, it tells me things are fresh. 75% fresh. WTF? I never asked for this.
They've been manipulated into saying rotten things are actually fresh, so it's a subtle kind of rottenness where you read that it's fresh, then check it out to find it was rotten.
This is a topic of potentially broad interest; its formulation won a trio of physicists the Nobel Prize in 1979.
Winning the Nobel prize means the work was one of the most IMPORTANT advancements for mankind. That does not mean that the general public and people with limited physics or math background should be interested or could meaningfully understand the work or much of the motivation behind this without getting their feet wet in other topics first -- you should be a college Physics I or Physics II student, before you've delved far enough down the rabbit hole and learned enough basics for topics like this to be of much interest to you.
Generally, it has to do with a fundamental linkage between two of the four fundamental forces of the universe, electromagnetism and the weak force.
Yes, and I thought you said general interest... the moment you speak of "electromagnetism" you have lost 50% of your audience scared away by the crazy word electromagnetism... of the remaining half, 90% of them have no idea or a very confused idea of what electromagnetic or weak force refers to. So maybe 10% of readers make it past the first sentence of the simple intro.
BUT That does not mean the entire physics section of WP should be dumbed down to "Explain it like the reader is a 5-year-old".
The mathematical formulation is definitely a huge part of this. And a lot of scientists don't keep their textbooks, but a reference for such encyclopedic knowledge is useful.
Perhaps a longer introduction or explanatory section would be useful to guide newbies in their studies; If you really want to understand it though, you can't avoid the technical details --- your understanding would be done harm by withholding the maths.
It could be that he was just CONSIDERING this, but since he didn't even send the message... did he COMMIT that this is what he wants to do?
Wills usually require some kind of signature and witness, that they were actually made by the person, also, that they are sane or of sound mind at the time that they prepare the document, and it's their actual intention --- not just some thing they rambled out in a fit of rage.
The draft timestamp is probably falsifiable; if you have the right technical knowledge or the right backdoor installed: the draft could have been created days in advance ahead of premeditated foul-play and uploaded to the brother's phone with a fake timestamp.
We'll be safer against the COMMON bad actor that just finds a simple bug that STANDARD REVIEW would detect.
And less safe against bad actors that have highly-advanced specialized technical knowledge to find subtle bugs that everyone else is going to miss (Although these highly-advanced technical actors with a lot of money to spend could likely be able to reverse-engineer the entire product in their search for potential bugs).
How about putting a small "DELIVERY-ONLY" shed on your house, and the doorbell can only unlock the delivery shed (After scanning the package for that address)
You nor I will be allowed to use our autonomous cars for taxi services, due to the EULA.
Sure we will be allowed to: So long as we don't Opt-Out of our vehicle manufacturer's sponsored Ride-Sharing program where the vehicle manufacturer gets to keep 98% of the profits and then reimburses the vehicle owner for the cost of electricity or fuel, plus a small token profit.