In all seriousness, would the tradeoff of the luxuries one is entitled to in a 1st World country offset the purported privacy you might get in a 3rd World nation?
Odds are, people would still be clamoring to immigrate to the privacy stricken 1st World nqtions.
We talk about the backdoor installations the government's pet TLAs request in exported electronics.
We assume the information gatherers track us at every chance, often with our tacit permission.
No longer bordering on tinhattery, there exists the very real possibility everything you purchase in the electronics section might report your doings for fun and profit. If you can break the phone, why wouldn't you?
A concern of mine, if I were a foreign arms purchaser, would be along these lines. A national security backdoor into the electronics has been exported before_thanks again, Edward.
US arms manufacturers would certainly try to resist government pressure on this though, as the revelation of such a tactic would flat-line their sales abroad.
Weapons, entertainment, and food are pretty much the bulk of American exports.
Exporting weapons that wind up being used against our own troops is fairly commonplace in this scenario, but hey, it's all about the corporate profits baby!
Thanks that's indeed informative. Amazing nobody thought this information should be in TFS. Reading the summary, the obvious question was: what? a Russian citizen is extradited to the US? From Russia??
You don't see the beauty of it?
You and I both clicked on the story. Devilishly clever.
The comments section is actually kind of quaint... way back in '07 to'09, people used to assume, tongue-in-cheek, the CIA was the agency snooping on their online presence.
The argument isn't, or shouldn't be, whether alcohol consumption is worse than marijuana use for drivers. Alcohol is a legal social drug imbibed by many who choose to drive. We can all agree this has turned out poorly.
Marijuana is transforming into a legal social drug. Is it a good idea, based on this one interpretation of one study, to condone toking and driving as a safe practice?
The tone of the article: absorb these statistics with a grain of logic as this is not causality.
The tone of the summary: Yah! Driving stoned is safe!
The zealous presentation of the evils of alcohol (commonly understood, mind you) at the end of TFS only serves to reveal the author's bias, rather than clarify his argument. It's like arguing, "Punching someone in the nose is okay, because murdering them is so much worse."
There is a collective difference in one's ability to cope with the effects of a marijuana high as an everyday user versus that of an occasional user. The same can be said of alcohol use.
It is an impossible distinction to make when attempting to determine who is a hazard on the road under the influence, and who is not.
It is "much more difficult to get pinched smoking a doobie while driving around". Hogwash. As a regular smoker, you are probably not aware how long the smell lingers inside your vehicle and on your clothes, but you should be aware that you are quite vulnerable to random search by LEOs in your vehicle driving down the road.
The alcohol drink-to-intoxication levels are misleading... they appear to assume no time lapse in the consumption of alcoholic drinks. If it takes you two hours to have the four drinks, assuming your liver is in proper working order, two of those drinks are processed out of your system.
Whenever inaccuracies are reported as fact, it makes the rest of the information less credible.
FWIW, I condone neither drunk nor stoned operation of a motor vehicle. Sober drivers are distracted enough with ubiquitous cellphone use, eating and talking, putting on makeup, turning around to correct backseat children, et al.
Absolutely. Entergy has multiple options to power the grid, and this was a sane, safe way to react to another bout of record snowfall.
But hell, if you put it like that, there's no controversy.
FWIW, I an a big fan of renewable power generation too, but I recognize that we're not there yet for reliable grid electricity generation. The nuclear option should not be off the table.
California also does this. We have ads on billboards with guys holding limp cigarettes in their mouth. The anti-smoking ads in California are funny, and very effective.
Bypass encryption from a Country not beholden to cooperate with the U.S. Sadly, the list is growing.
Here's the craziest part of the whole story. One of these banks may not have cashed a check I had, made out to me... by my employer... who rented office space out of the same building, simply because I was one shy of three IDs.
$Tens of millions U.S. leaves out in the night without any real-time human authentication.
Is it likely that defenses employed by banks (and other market segments) will need to be downgraded to hacker-resistant in the same vein that things are now fire-resistant instead of fireproof?
It became clear to me years ago that I could only make something fool-resistant, since as soon as I imagined foolproof had been achieved, they kept making a better fool.
My takeaway: The most devilishly clever security system, devised by the most gifted programmers, in a scenario where money was no object, can still be compromised because of the human user element in the implementation of the system.
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In all seriousness, would the tradeoff of the luxuries one is entitled to in a 1st World country offset the purported privacy you might get in a 3rd World nation?
Odds are, people would still be clamoring to immigrate to the privacy stricken 1st World nqtions.
How would you know if you successfully rooted your phone and replaced the system? Might look like you did... How's that for a tin-hat?
Yo dawg! We heard you like tricks. So we put a trick your trick...
We assume the information gatherers track us at every chance, often with our tacit permission.
No longer bordering on tinhattery, there exists the very real possibility everything you purchase in the electronics section might report your doings for fun and profit. If you can break the phone, why wouldn't you?
US arms manufacturers would certainly try to resist government pressure on this though, as the revelation of such a tactic would flat-line their sales abroad.
We work hard to prevent nuclear proliferation ... why not prevent advanced drone proliferation as well?
They're just not that difficult to manufacture.
If American military developers are not allowed to sell theirs, someone else will.
The market share of worldwide death-dealing is a real thing.
Exporting weapons that wind up being used against our own troops is fairly commonplace in this scenario, but hey, it's all about the corporate profits baby!
Thanks that's indeed informative. Amazing nobody thought this information should be in TFS. Reading the summary, the obvious question was: what? a Russian citizen is extradited to the US? From Russia??
You don't see the beauty of it?
You and I both clicked on the story. Devilishly clever.
My first thought? Snowden's fucked.
No individual on the planet benefits less from a thawing of US/Soviet relations.
The comments section is actually kind of quaint... way back in '07 to'09, people used to assume, tongue-in-cheek, the CIA was the agency snooping on their online presence.
I guess we could cross train as fast response robotics repairmen, unless it is only a matter of time before that job is mechanized, too. Sigh.
Marijuana is transforming into a legal social drug. Is it a good idea, based on this one interpretation of one study, to condone toking and driving as a safe practice?
What say you?
The tone of the summary: Yah! Driving stoned is safe!
The zealous presentation of the evils of alcohol (commonly understood, mind you) at the end of TFS only serves to reveal the author's bias, rather than clarify his argument. It's like arguing, "Punching someone in the nose is okay, because murdering them is so much worse."
It is an impossible distinction to make when attempting to determine who is a hazard on the road under the influence, and who is not.
It is "much more difficult to get pinched smoking a doobie while driving around". Hogwash. As a regular smoker, you are probably not aware how long the smell lingers inside your vehicle and on your clothes, but you should be aware that you are quite vulnerable to random search by LEOs in your vehicle driving down the road.
Whenever inaccuracies are reported as fact, it makes the rest of the information less credible.
FWIW, I condone neither drunk nor stoned operation of a motor vehicle. Sober drivers are distracted enough with ubiquitous cellphone use, eating and talking, putting on makeup, turning around to correct backseat children, et al.
If the macrophages do this with tattoo ink, they no doubt do it with other things, as well.
I wonder if using this cream to remove ALL the dead-macrophages-loaded-with-junk from the skin will result in effectively "younger" skin?
If your hypothesis is proven accurate, the new product will remove ink and years off your appearance.
Cha-ching!
The only pharmaceutical product imaginably more profitable would be a weight loss cream that makes your dick hard.
But hell, if you put it like that, there's no controversy.
FWIW, I an a big fan of renewable power generation too, but I recognize that we're not there yet for reliable grid electricity generation. The nuclear option should not be off the table.
Trust me. I work for the Temporal Bureau.
The UK already does.
California also does this. We have ads on billboards with guys holding limp cigarettes in their mouth. The anti-smoking ads in California are funny, and very effective.
How the hell do they get the actual money OUT?
Bypass encryption from a Country not beholden to cooperate with the U.S. Sadly, the list is growing.
Here's the craziest part of the whole story. One of these banks may not have cashed a check I had, made out to me... by my employer ... who rented office space out of the same building, simply because I was one shy of three IDs.
$Tens of millions U.S. leaves out in the night without any real-time human authentication.
It became clear to me years ago that I could only make something fool-resistant, since as soon as I imagined foolproof had been achieved, they kept making a better fool.
My takeaway: The most devilishly clever security system, devised by the most gifted programmers, in a scenario where money was no object, can still be compromised because of the human user element in the implementation of the system.
Sometimes the thing that makes a series a classic is the finite nature of its run.
it seems unlikely a longer list will cause cigarette sales to plummet.
"I was okay with heart disease and lung cancer, but shit Mabel, now there claiming links to kidney and intestinal problems!"
3rd link. Test drive it and see.
Though offtopic, I have a soft spot for the patented Scrooge McDuck dive and swim in the vault.
Fucking comic books
tricked me.
It depreciates in efficiency as soon as you open windows.