In the UK you have to register to vote once, but that's it. At that time you need a national insurance number, which everyone is assigned at age 16. You don't need to show ID when you go to vote, just state the address you registered at and your name. There is no check done, you are simply marked off a register.
There was an attempt to requite some kind of check at the polling station, but there has been a lot of push-back because we saw what happened in the US.
Is the Unix philosophy really the best option for everything though? The obvious example is the kernel, which is a giant monolith for performance reasons. Web browsers too - sure you could have one app that renders HTML to an image, another that displays it, a third that wraps a tab UI around them both, use curl to download each page for processing... But it would suck, performance would be a joke and powerful extensions would be near impossible to implement.
Obviously systemd has a lot of issues... But it also boots a hell of a lot faster, and does a much better job of keeping critical system services running than anything else. That's why almost every distro switched to it, despite the flaws and bad attitude of the main author.
He may be right for Linux based development, but a lot of people are using stuff like Azure for their cloud services now. Write code in.NET using Azure services, and you don't care what architecture the server is.
Having said that, even for Linux stuff I think it's a mistake to think that people won't be using ARM for their development machines sooner or later. Super long battery life but affordable laptops, or just having a dedicated local ARM server rather than trying to recreate the server environment on the same machine as the IDE.
More over as everyone moves to the cloud they have less and less control over the production environment. If you use Amazon instances they are all a standard install image, and you don't want to be heavily customizing each one if you can avoid it. Even a lot of VPS stuff doesn't give you full freedom to install whatever specific versions of packages you want, not least because it would be a security nightmare, and most people don't really want it anyway - they just want a turnkey solution that someone else takes care of updating and managing.
It's a pretty common first line of defence. If you notice that all the attacks are coming from a browser that lists the OS as Linux in the HTTP request, and 0.0001% of legitimate requests come from Linux users who presumably also have an iDevice anyway... Just send a fake error message.
It actually works reasonably well against script kiddie types using cheap VPS systems, at least for a while as you get your other defences in place.
More likely it's an attempt to block attackers trying to get around 2 factor auth. The attackers trick the user into providing their 2 factor code and then do the actual login from a Linux server somewhere, so Apple's rather blunt but effective block is to return a bad gateway error for Linux clients.
I guess that is an American site, so using the American political scale... For example they rate the BBC as left of centre, where as by European standards they are either dead centre or a little to the right. In fact over the last decade or so they have definitely drifted right a bit.
At the risk of further raising your blood-alcohol level, I really wish there was a way to get notified of AC replies to my comments because I often miss yours.
I don't know what the Covington and the Smollett are or what they have to do with me or Vice.
What I do know is that most of the left leaning people I know, especially the ones who identify as socialists, don't like Vice or what they did.
Also, since apparently I'm the prototypical SJW, and Vice piss me off, they can't be SJWs either. Whatever an SJW is. Still can't get a clear answer on that one.
Problem is that proof of ID requirements are always abused to stop people voting. On balance there is so little fraud that it's usually better to have higher participation than to worry about a tiny and mostly irrelevant problem.
The Russian election hacking was all directed at voters, not the hardware. The DNC hack, for example, and the timing of the release of those emails.
Better to target voters than voting machines. If you tamper with voting machines/online voting and it gets detected, it's going to de-legitimize the result and probably result in a re-run.
If you go after the voters people will just argue that it had no effect or that it's protected speech and do everything they can to resist investigation or a do-over. Essentially you got people invested in their own manipulation.
Who is "they"? The Chinese government? The government shut this guy down and are now prosecuting him.
As for it being a gay thing, actually most HIV/AIDS infections from sex involve opposite sex couples. In the US it's about 85% same sex couples, but globally it's mostly due to heterosexual intercourse and mostly in poorer countries where education, access to condoms and access to medication are limited.
The problem with direct payments is that the minimum amount due to processing fees is too high.
There is no middle ground between watching an ad for 5 seconds and donating $1.00 (of which about $0.30 gets to the creator). People would pay $0.01 to view if they could (which is more than the ad pays), but there is simply no way for them to do it.
YouTube could fix it by having a monthly "tip jar". You put in however much you want, and then get to watch videos ad free with the creator getting a cent or two each time instead of the ad revenue.
Email isn't really a good substitute. What would you prefer, 900 emails all saying the same thing that you have to manually process, or one comment and 899 up votes supporting it? And if you need to reply to that comment, do you want to send 900 email responses or one follow up comment?
The bought and paid for politicians who introduced the biggest fines for privacy violations ever seen? 4% of global turnover is painful for companies like Google. Around â5.5 billion in Google's case.
No, the reason there isn't jail time is because the politicians are not completely crazy and didn't bring in a very strong privacy law that would take a few years for everyone to comply with that also has an extremely harsh penalty. Rest assured the penalties will ramp up over time as the requirements become better understood and compliance near universal.
GDPR is working well. Really well. One of the best designed laws for a long time.
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It's a design flaw. Every one made has it.
In the UK you have to register to vote once, but that's it. At that time you need a national insurance number, which everyone is assigned at age 16. You don't need to show ID when you go to vote, just state the address you registered at and your name. There is no check done, you are simply marked off a register.
There was an attempt to requite some kind of check at the polling station, but there has been a lot of push-back because we saw what happened in the US.
Defend Vice? They are a bunch of asshats. I have no love for them whatsoever. I was ranting about how scummy Vice are just yesterday.
You seem to be very, very confused. Do you have me mixed up with someone else?
Is the Unix philosophy really the best option for everything though? The obvious example is the kernel, which is a giant monolith for performance reasons. Web browsers too - sure you could have one app that renders HTML to an image, another that displays it, a third that wraps a tab UI around them both, use curl to download each page for processing... But it would suck, performance would be a joke and powerful extensions would be near impossible to implement.
Obviously systemd has a lot of issues... But it also boots a hell of a lot faster, and does a much better job of keeping critical system services running than anything else. That's why almost every distro switched to it, despite the flaws and bad attitude of the main author.
He may be right for Linux based development, but a lot of people are using stuff like Azure for their cloud services now. Write code in .NET using Azure services, and you don't care what architecture the server is.
Having said that, even for Linux stuff I think it's a mistake to think that people won't be using ARM for their development machines sooner or later. Super long battery life but affordable laptops, or just having a dedicated local ARM server rather than trying to recreate the server environment on the same machine as the IDE.
More over as everyone moves to the cloud they have less and less control over the production environment. If you use Amazon instances they are all a standard install image, and you don't want to be heavily customizing each one if you can avoid it. Even a lot of VPS stuff doesn't give you full freedom to install whatever specific versions of packages you want, not least because it would be a security nightmare, and most people don't really want it anyway - they just want a turnkey solution that someone else takes care of updating and managing.
It's a pretty common first line of defence. If you notice that all the attacks are coming from a browser that lists the OS as Linux in the HTTP request, and 0.0001% of legitimate requests come from Linux users who presumably also have an iDevice anyway... Just send a fake error message.
It actually works reasonably well against script kiddie types using cheap VPS systems, at least for a while as you get your other defences in place.
I think maybe you mistook me for an American. I googled those names and they seem to be related to stuff happening in the US.
More likely it's an attempt to block attackers trying to get around 2 factor auth. The attackers trick the user into providing their 2 factor code and then do the actual login from a Linux server somewhere, so Apple's rather blunt but effective block is to return a bad gateway error for Linux clients.
How dare you compare me to Fox News!
Also the 'J' is capitalized.
I guess that is an American site, so using the American political scale... For example they rate the BBC as left of centre, where as by European standards they are either dead centre or a little to the right. In fact over the last decade or so they have definitely drifted right a bit.
At the risk of further raising your blood-alcohol level, I really wish there was a way to get notified of AC replies to my comments because I often miss yours.
I don't know what the Covington and the Smollett are or what they have to do with me or Vice.
What I do know is that most of the left leaning people I know, especially the ones who identify as socialists, don't like Vice or what they did.
Also, since apparently I'm the prototypical SJW, and Vice piss me off, they can't be SJWs either. Whatever an SJW is. Still can't get a clear answer on that one.
Hmm, another troll mod. A homophobic mod perhaps, triggered by suggesting that AIDS isn't just a gay thing?
I have no idea what you are babbling on about now.
Probably because when Tesla got the rating there was a Slashdot article about it.
Live by the sword, die by the sword. Wanting all that positive publicity for your favourite iCar means you get all the negative too.
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
Problem is that proof of ID requirements are always abused to stop people voting. On balance there is so little fraud that it's usually better to have higher participation than to worry about a tiny and mostly irrelevant problem.
The Russian election hacking was all directed at voters, not the hardware. The DNC hack, for example, and the timing of the release of those emails.
Better to target voters than voting machines. If you tamper with voting machines/online voting and it gets detected, it's going to de-legitimize the result and probably result in a re-run.
If you go after the voters people will just argue that it had no effect or that it's protected speech and do everything they can to resist investigation or a do-over. Essentially you got people invested in their own manipulation.
Rei, are these troll mods anything to do with you? Hope you are not using sock puppet accounts and it's just some misguided fan.
Okay, this is weird. Who was triggered by this post? I mean how can someone be upset enough by it to label it "troll"?
Is this just straight up abuse, a stalking systematically hitting all my posts, or have we found some new species of snowflake?
It's an ethical dilemma. You have the ability to cure one serious disease, but you can't be sure it won't have side-effects, medical and social.
Who is "they"? The Chinese government? The government shut this guy down and are now prosecuting him.
As for it being a gay thing, actually most HIV/AIDS infections from sex involve opposite sex couples. In the US it's about 85% same sex couples, but globally it's mostly due to heterosexual intercourse and mostly in poorer countries where education, access to condoms and access to medication are limited.
The problem with direct payments is that the minimum amount due to processing fees is too high.
There is no middle ground between watching an ad for 5 seconds and donating $1.00 (of which about $0.30 gets to the creator). People would pay $0.01 to view if they could (which is more than the ad pays), but there is simply no way for them to do it.
YouTube could fix it by having a monthly "tip jar". You put in however much you want, and then get to watch videos ad free with the creator getting a cent or two each time instead of the ad revenue.
Email isn't really a good substitute. What would you prefer, 900 emails all saying the same thing that you have to manually process, or one comment and 899 up votes supporting it? And if you need to reply to that comment, do you want to send 900 email responses or one follow up comment?
The bought and paid for politicians who introduced the biggest fines for privacy violations ever seen? 4% of global turnover is painful for companies like Google. Around â5.5 billion in Google's case.
No, the reason there isn't jail time is because the politicians are not completely crazy and didn't bring in a very strong privacy law that would take a few years for everyone to comply with that also has an extremely harsh penalty. Rest assured the penalties will ramp up over time as the requirements become better understood and compliance near universal.
GDPR is working well. Really well. One of the best designed laws for a long time.
People have laptops in their bedrooms, where they get changed and have sex. They rightly demand that the built-in webcam can't be used to spy on them.