The west was too busy spying on itself to worry too much about external threats. After all, if they helped us secure our systems they would just be breaking their own ability to hack them! Better to keep those vulnerabilities for their own use than to get them fixed.
Improving security to prevent spying is better than trying to arrest and convict the spies. Aside from anything else, there will likely be retaliation against US citizens in China who are accused of spying, and further restrictions on US companies trying to do business there in the name of "national security". Just quietly finding the spies and sabotaging them, e.g. with fake data, is much more effective and less costly.
Sovereignty: "supreme power or authority" and "the authority of a state to govern itself" according to my dictionary.
Inside the EU the UK has great power to control its own destiny. A veto on important issues, a strong voice on everything. The EU cannot be bullied or forced to compromise itself for trade deals.
Outside the EU the UK will have to fend for itself, accepting terms it does not want in order to get the deals it needs. For example it will likely have to stick to EU regulation for the most part in order to keep trade flowing. Even if it pulls out, British companies will still have to follow them because the EU is their biggest export market. Except it will have no say over them, the only choice it can make is to obey or commit economic suicide.
It's a bizarre notion of freedom that thinks the man in the gutter is freer than the man who exchanges a little bit of obligation for a huge amount of power.
I don't know which papers you are reading but on the news outlets I frequent it was headline news for multiple days. The BBC lead it with on their prime time news programming more than once, discussed it at least.
NOBODY is even talking about this premeditated murder
There was extended debate about if the UK should continue to supply arms to SA, and if our political leaders should attend the "Davos in the desert" meeting. I seem to recall Trump making a slightly bizarre statement about it too.
I'm thinking that maybe it was the right leaning news outlets in the US that buried it, because the bombs were targeting those in the centre-right and on the left of politics. I've noticed that e.g. Fox News often buries stories that would look bad for the Republicans and the far right, e.g. they barely mentioned a lot of the Mueller stuff and their coverage of the recent shooting was mostly talking heads calling it a false flag op. Could it be that you have this impression due to the sources you are using?
Scroll down a bit to the post 2001 table and count how much terrorism is coming from either side. It's basically non-existent from the far left, and excluding non-politically motivated incidents almost everyone on the list is far right.
Yes, there are incidents at some protests. But one side has a real problem with more than just idiots and vandals, it has people convinced that there is a literal war and that they are soldiers in it.
It happens if you care about your privacy, e.g. use a VPN/Tor or use browser add-ons and security settings.
Even using it via remote desktop or in a VM seems to screw it up.
From what I can tell it tries to detect if you are human by looking at things like mouse movement and how fast the pointer update rate is (if it's fake or done via software KVM or something it's not as smooth?) and various other browser metrics. If you break any of them it makes you solve more of its little games, and 15 times is not unusual.
Even the current one does. If you take steps to protect your privacy, such as using a VPN or disabling Javascript or blocking access to canvas etc. it breaks and you have to solve it about 900 times to get past.
The irony is that they are throwing away sovereignty and control by leaving the EU. Countries are lining up to force the UK to accept crappy terms for trade deals, knowing that it will be weak and desperate outside the EU.
We have a lot more control inside the EU that out of it.
The problem with books is not the physical size, it's the fact that we already spend far too long looking at screens and then looking at small print in a book for another hour or two just isn't that appealing.
I've been using more audiobooks lately for this reason. I usually want to give my eyes a rest.
If you dig in to the actual paper rather than the abstract you can see that on average female firefighters reported higher levels of fitness than males. It's not a massive difference but it's there. At the very least they are no worse.
Surveys are a standard way of gathering this information and have been shown to be reliable if the right questions are asked.
They gathered that information to try to determine the cause of pregnancy problems among female firefighters. It's most likely due to exposure to toxins on the job, as they are as a whole fitter than average women and normally that would mean less likely to have issues.
What is dishonest about it? It's even cited, although admittedly unless you pay to read the paper you can't see the bit about average fitness levels among female firefighters being a little higher than the average level for men. Much of that difference seems to be due to female firefighters on average being younger.
Indeed, same as the race war preppers buying all the ammo when Obama was elected. They may be fringe but they have significant buying power and influence their non-believing friends to stock up too.
USB hub. 2 ports isn't enough, you need one to charge and the other for Thunderbolt stuff like an external monitor (because there is no separate HDMI/DP port).
Wouldn't it be great if we could use wireless mice/keyboards without taking up a USB port too? Bluetooth is crap for those and every manufacturer has proprietary dongle.
Of course, because the Race War (TM) has now been cancelled.
The new QAnon and Leftist conspiracy theories aren't nearly as compelling. Race War (TM) had decades, maybe centuries of build up and re-enforcement behind it. QAnon is some weird internet thing and few people have ever seen these Leftists.
A blog and a couple of books challenging peer reviewed papers. I'm sorry, I don't have time to go through them in detail but if we just look at the second book "Roadmap to Nowhere" we can see that in chapters 5 and 6 it talks about how much of certain materials, including steel, are required. Even if we assume that those numbers are right, their argument seems to be that "this is a lot, and we might need to increase capacity" without much discussion of why that isn't possible.
In fact it doesn't seem like a problem at all, more like an opportunity. There is a big global over-capacity of steel, for example.
When they talk about the cost of nuclear, they seem to be ignoring the current reality of the situation. The price of new plants being built today is extremely high, and that's with things like free insurance and other subsidies. They seem to think the cost could come down... Well, maybe, we can debate that, but what is undeniable is that the cost of renewable energy is falling rapidly already. It's already pushing coal out, let along nuclear.
As a society, our energy needs are going to continue to increase
Disagree. We can have a better quality of life if we decrease energy consumption, and tech is getting more efficient, not less. Phones run for longer on the same size battery, cars go further for every kWh of energy expended.
Why do we need nuclear? What is wrong with existing renewable and storage technology?
If you build enough renewable energy it reduces the need for storage, and storage is a proven and relatively cheap technology now. It also really helps to modernize the grid rather than trying to continue with the old centralized supply model of having huge single points of generation/failure.
Even with over-building capacity it's still much cheaper than nuclear, and one of the primary objections to doing anything about climate change is the cost.
We need to do this quick, and it has to make economic sense or it won't happen, and renewables offer massive opportunities for jobs and growth.
Sure, they sometimes do mass bans based on things like association with verified fake accounts and the like. But that's still one off actions taken with human oversight. There is no automatic filter that simply removes tweets with certain words or phrases or anything like that.
Do you think that the larger actions based on what is basically spam detection are a problem? Telcos that benefit from safe harbour seem to be free to boot people abusing their ToS off, for example.
The lowered standards thing is largely a myth too. Most female firefighters want to be held to the same standards as their male counterparts, and since men continue in the service into their 50s and those standards are lower than many presume anyway (the days of carrying people down long ladders are mostly over, not least because of the obesity crisis and buildings designed to avoid the need for it) it's not actually difficult for women to reach that level anyway.
On top of all that there is no statistical evidence of things getting worse as women were allowed to join fire fighting. Instead things have been consistently getting better, mostly due to improved technology and fire dampening systems.
It's because anyone who doesn't look like you gets labelled a "diversity hire" and dismissed as lacking merit regardless, destroying equality of opportunity. If you fixed your assumptions and attitude the problem could be corrected, and until you do it will appear to get worse in your eyes.
The way to increase diversity to to increase the pool of talent you are hiring from, and increase your understanding of people's skills.
Also, if you hire someone exactly like yourself, is that an undiversity hire? A mono hire? What is the derogatory phrase for someone who is too similar to the boss for your comfort?
The shit-o-meter is how many up-votes the dissenting reply gets.
Often on Twitter the best posts are replies, and you can see them as a thread with the original post and any subsequent discussion. The original poster can't bury them down down-votes.
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The west was too busy spying on itself to worry too much about external threats. After all, if they helped us secure our systems they would just be breaking their own ability to hack them! Better to keep those vulnerabilities for their own use than to get them fixed.
Improving security to prevent spying is better than trying to arrest and convict the spies. Aside from anything else, there will likely be retaliation against US citizens in China who are accused of spying, and further restrictions on US companies trying to do business there in the name of "national security". Just quietly finding the spies and sabotaging them, e.g. with fake data, is much more effective and less costly.
Sovereignty: "supreme power or authority" and "the authority of a state to govern itself" according to my dictionary.
Inside the EU the UK has great power to control its own destiny. A veto on important issues, a strong voice on everything. The EU cannot be bullied or forced to compromise itself for trade deals.
Outside the EU the UK will have to fend for itself, accepting terms it does not want in order to get the deals it needs. For example it will likely have to stick to EU regulation for the most part in order to keep trade flowing. Even if it pulls out, British companies will still have to follow them because the EU is their biggest export market. Except it will have no say over them, the only choice it can make is to obey or commit economic suicide.
It's a bizarre notion of freedom that thinks the man in the gutter is freer than the man who exchanges a little bit of obligation for a huge amount of power.
Buried. Page 7 at least.
I don't know which papers you are reading but on the news outlets I frequent it was headline news for multiple days. The BBC lead it with on their prime time news programming more than once, discussed it at least.
NOBODY is even talking about this premeditated murder
There was extended debate about if the UK should continue to supply arms to SA, and if our political leaders should attend the "Davos in the desert" meeting. I seem to recall Trump making a slightly bizarre statement about it too.
I'm thinking that maybe it was the right leaning news outlets in the US that buried it, because the bombs were targeting those in the centre-right and on the left of politics. I've noticed that e.g. Fox News often buries stories that would look bad for the Republicans and the far right, e.g. they barely mentioned a lot of the Mueller stuff and their coverage of the recent shooting was mostly talking heads calling it a false flag op. Could it be that you have this impression due to the sources you are using?
The two sides are not the same though. Not by a long way.
Have a look at the Wikipedia article on domestic terrorism in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Scroll down a bit to the post 2001 table and count how much terrorism is coming from either side. It's basically non-existent from the far left, and excluding non-politically motivated incidents almost everyone on the list is far right.
Yes, there are incidents at some protests. But one side has a real problem with more than just idiots and vandals, it has people convinced that there is a literal war and that they are soldiers in it.
Could the politicians sue them for pretending to be them? Or sue Facebook for not bothering to properly verify identity and wrongly labelling the ad?
It happens if you care about your privacy, e.g. use a VPN/Tor or use browser add-ons and security settings.
Even using it via remote desktop or in a VM seems to screw it up.
From what I can tell it tries to detect if you are human by looking at things like mouse movement and how fast the pointer update rate is (if it's fake or done via software KVM or something it's not as smooth?) and various other browser metrics. If you break any of them it makes you solve more of its little games, and 15 times is not unusual.
Even the current one does. If you take steps to protect your privacy, such as using a VPN or disabling Javascript or blocking access to canvas etc. it breaks and you have to solve it about 900 times to get past.
The irony is that they are throwing away sovereignty and control by leaving the EU. Countries are lining up to force the UK to accept crappy terms for trade deals, knowing that it will be weak and desperate outside the EU.
We have a lot more control inside the EU that out of it.
The problem with books is not the physical size, it's the fact that we already spend far too long looking at screens and then looking at small print in a book for another hour or two just isn't that appealing.
I've been using more audiobooks lately for this reason. I usually want to give my eyes a rest.
If you dig in to the actual paper rather than the abstract you can see that on average female firefighters reported higher levels of fitness than males. It's not a massive difference but it's there. At the very least they are no worse.
Surveys are a standard way of gathering this information and have been shown to be reliable if the right questions are asked.
They gathered that information to try to determine the cause of pregnancy problems among female firefighters. It's most likely due to exposure to toxins on the job, as they are as a whole fitter than average women and normally that would mean less likely to have issues.
What is dishonest about it? It's even cited, although admittedly unless you pay to read the paper you can't see the bit about average fitness levels among female firefighters being a little higher than the average level for men. Much of that difference seems to be due to female firefighters on average being younger.
Indeed, same as the race war preppers buying all the ammo when Obama was elected. They may be fringe but they have significant buying power and influence their non-believing friends to stock up too.
Ethernet.
USB hub. 2 ports isn't enough, you need one to charge and the other for Thunderbolt stuff like an external monitor (because there is no separate HDMI/DP port).
Wouldn't it be great if we could use wireless mice/keyboards without taking up a USB port too? Bluetooth is crap for those and every manufacturer has proprietary dongle.
Of course, because the Race War (TM) has now been cancelled.
The new QAnon and Leftist conspiracy theories aren't nearly as compelling. Race War (TM) had decades, maybe centuries of build up and re-enforcement behind it. QAnon is some weird internet thing and few people have ever seen these Leftists.
No-where in any of that did you mention how you find people to interview. Do you do anything at all to increase the size of your talent pool?
The hiring process is about much more than just interviewing. If you don't find the good people to begin with you can't interview them.
A blog and a couple of books challenging peer reviewed papers. I'm sorry, I don't have time to go through them in detail but if we just look at the second book "Roadmap to Nowhere" we can see that in chapters 5 and 6 it talks about how much of certain materials, including steel, are required. Even if we assume that those numbers are right, their argument seems to be that "this is a lot, and we might need to increase capacity" without much discussion of why that isn't possible.
In fact it doesn't seem like a problem at all, more like an opportunity. There is a big global over-capacity of steel, for example.
When they talk about the cost of nuclear, they seem to be ignoring the current reality of the situation. The price of new plants being built today is extremely high, and that's with things like free insurance and other subsidies. They seem to think the cost could come down... Well, maybe, we can debate that, but what is undeniable is that the cost of renewable energy is falling rapidly already. It's already pushing coal out, let along nuclear.
As a society, our energy needs are going to continue to increase
Disagree. We can have a better quality of life if we decrease energy consumption, and tech is getting more efficient, not less. Phones run for longer on the same size battery, cars go further for every kWh of energy expended.
Why do we need nuclear? What is wrong with existing renewable and storage technology?
If you build enough renewable energy it reduces the need for storage, and storage is a proven and relatively cheap technology now. It also really helps to modernize the grid rather than trying to continue with the old centralized supply model of having huge single points of generation/failure.
Even with over-building capacity it's still much cheaper than nuclear, and one of the primary objections to doing anything about climate change is the cost.
We need to do this quick, and it has to make economic sense or it won't happen, and renewables offer massive opportunities for jobs and growth.
Sure, they sometimes do mass bans based on things like association with verified fake accounts and the like. But that's still one off actions taken with human oversight. There is no automatic filter that simply removes tweets with certain words or phrases or anything like that.
Do you think that the larger actions based on what is basically spam detection are a problem? Telcos that benefit from safe harbour seem to be free to boot people abusing their ToS off, for example.
Some very old myths there. Let's look at female firefighters. For a start, they tend to be MORE fit than their male counterparts according to the biggest study (Jahnke, Sara A. (June 2018). "Maternal and Child Health Among Female Firefighters in the U.S.". Maternal and Child Health Journal. 22 (6): 922â"931., paywalled I'm afraid).
The lowered standards thing is largely a myth too. Most female firefighters want to be held to the same standards as their male counterparts, and since men continue in the service into their 50s and those standards are lower than many presume anyway (the days of carrying people down long ladders are mostly over, not least because of the obesity crisis and buildings designed to avoid the need for it) it's not actually difficult for women to reach that level anyway.
On top of all that there is no statistical evidence of things getting worse as women were allowed to join fire fighting. Instead things have been consistently getting better, mostly due to improved technology and fire dampening systems.
It's because anyone who doesn't look like you gets labelled a "diversity hire" and dismissed as lacking merit regardless, destroying equality of opportunity. If you fixed your assumptions and attitude the problem could be corrected, and until you do it will appear to get worse in your eyes.
You are doing it wrong.
The way to increase diversity to to increase the pool of talent you are hiring from, and increase your understanding of people's skills.
Also, if you hire someone exactly like yourself, is that an undiversity hire? A mono hire? What is the derogatory phrase for someone who is too similar to the boss for your comfort?
The fact that half these posts are still up and the accounts not banned proves that there isn't a word/phrase filter.
As I said, it's down to user reporting and then Twitter staff make a decision based on context and account history.
What is this "word/phrase ban"?
The shit-o-meter is how many up-votes the dissenting reply gets.
Often on Twitter the best posts are replies, and you can see them as a thread with the original post and any subsequent discussion. The original poster can't bury them down down-votes.