You've never heard of the citizen's united supreme court decision? Corporations are people and money is free speech. Corporations can give as much as they want to any politician or party they choose.
Spying and security problems at corporations are directly related. If data was kept encrypted until it is used, including the data I voluntarily give corporations, they'd have fewer hackers stealing credit card data type security breaches and it would be harder for industrial espionage to take place. It would also be harder for governments, foreign and domestic, to intercept communications.
The problem now is that no one can trust any encryption because you can't be sure the NSA hasn't already put back doors into it. If someone comes along and claims they have encryption that the NSA can't bust, how are they going to prove it?
corporations that control the government. They are the ones paying real money to prevent and remedy security breaches. It seems it would be in their best interests to have strong encryption to prevent a lot of expensive problems, yet they seem unusually quiet on the subject.
The terrorists will always find a way to communicate in secret. Eliminating secure encryption will simply raise the cost of secure communication for them. Meanwhile the rest of us will be left with our asses showing.
Why not use a real random number generator (such as avalanche noise in a semiconductor junction) to generate a key instead of a pseudorandom number generated by software that can be back-doored?
Comparing college students to cavemen and drawing conclusions about language seems a little silly. College students don't do anything but communicate. Cavemen did everything- they hunted/gathered/raised food, made tools, entertained themselves. How do we know language didn't develop because of the desire for entertainment? Maybe they got bored sitting around a fire grunting. maybe they wanted to hear some jokes.
You apparently have not been reading the news in the last couple years.
There is no such thing as privacy, anywhere. All computer and phone communications are being vacuumed up and can eventually be used to justify doing anything they want to you, from stealing your girl to having you assassinated.
I think a lot of company communication retention policies are based on risk management. They are afraid to delete anything in case they get sued. Depending on the industry they may be required to retain data by law.
It seems this can work equally in their favor or against them.
I have worked for a lot of big companies and realized from day one of email that there is literally zero privacy. Once you hit the send button you have no idea who is going to read what you wrote. I have always refrained from putting anything in a company email (or in a personal email accessed via company networks) that could come back and bite me in the ass. No jokes, no comments about coworkers, the boss, or management in general, no comments about the futility of the project I'm assigned to, etc. Keep it strictly business. Likewise for telephone conversations where one or both ends are in the company phone network. Likewise for web browsing and searches.
Anyone who thinks any form of communication at their place of employment is private is an idiot. Always assume every word said, written, or typed will be heard/read by someone who was not intended to be part of the communication, either now or in the future.
The bible, used by many as a guide to run their lives, including many soldiers and gun nutz, says "thou shalt not kill", but none of those people have any compunctions about violating THAT principle, so what is a Constitution, the words of men, compared to the Bible, the word of God? If people who profess to be Christian can't live by the most basic rules in their own holy book, why would anyone expect any of them to actually follow the Constitution? There's conflict in every action a soldier takes. Soldiers are trained to ignore the internal conflicts and follow orders.
When a soldier is ordered to do a job, maybe kill some people, they do it in spite of their belief in the Bible as the word of God because if they don't they may be imprisoned or suffer other harsh consequences. If a soldier will kill people under orders, what makes you think they'd hesitate to take away someone's guns when ordered to do so? They will face the same consequences for disobeying orders in either case. It's no different than a gun nut saying in one breath that he "supports the troops" and in the next saying he's going to shoot any soldiers who come to take away his guns.
People pick and choose conflicting beliefs and act on whichever provide the least discomfort all the time. In this case, the Constitution is a convenient banner, a way of justifying the gun nutz' blood lust in as patriotic a way as possible, thereby allowing them to take comfort in knowing their fellow "patriots" support them. Soldiers aren't supreme court justices. They follow orders or suffer severe penalties for not doing so. Your fantasies about citizen-soldiers are nothing more than dreams. If the federal government ever decided to take away your guns, they won't have any problem getting soldiers to do it, and you'll be massively outgunned.
jet planes and flame throwers and guided fucking missles and grenades
The armed forces are currently composed of your brothers, sisters, uncles, cousins, and friends. These people still have some compunction to not shoot at American citzens.
Yeah I know, they're all heroes for going to fight for the oil companies in Iraq and Afghanistan, and you're proud to put that yellow ribbon on your pickup declaring how you support the troops. Funny you mention that they are your brothers, sisters, cousins, etc., because they are the same people the gun nutz (you?) say they are going to shoot if they try to take away their (your?) guns. What happened to all that respect and support? Where is THEIR (your?) compunction not to shoot American citizens who are just doing their jobs?
they are responsible legally. If they didn't want to have legal problems they should have pointed it at Amazon.com or Walmart. Just because they are "artists" doesn't make it art, and doesn't absolve them of legal responsibility. Maybe they were too stupid to anticipate illegal purchases. They are still responsible.
If they had made a gun that randomly shoots moving objects in front of it expecting to shoot birds and squirrels, but it ends up shooting people, would they be legally responsible? Is it art?
And the guy who was running silk road didn't have his bitcoins seized and auctioned? And bitcoin is immune to manipulation of its value against other currencies?
Never underestimate the power of denial!
If something has value, someone has/will figure out a way to steal it or manipulate it, and governments will figure out how to seize it. There, by reverse logic, I just proved that bitcoin has value. Happy?
It was not really a useful wrench. It was a publicity gimmick. 3 in-lbs is finger tight. You don't need a wrench for that.
The design was poor- torque applied to the socket would apply shearing force to the square post on the wrench and tear the layers apart. There was a single pawl engaging the ratchet wheel which means that tiny little bit of plastic had all the force applied to it. Also, the ratchet only turned in one direction- tightening a nut but not loosening. After a relatively few turns, the pawl started to slip and the wrench became even more useless. The pawl was difficult to print because of the tiny print area on the printer's bed. There wasn't much helping it stick to the bed. I had to restart the print a few times before I got it to stick.
A smarter way to make a wrench would have been to have multiple pawls engaging the ratchet wheel to reduce force applied to any one of them, and there should have been a square hole in the ratchet wheel and a second, square cross section part to fit in the hole printed laying on its side. You would put the square peg into the hole and it would be long enough to allow a socket to be put on either side of the wrench- one side for tightening and the other for loosening a nut.
NASA really needs to have contests for this sort of thing. They'd get even more publicity with that.
the "smallest miscalculation could lead to disaster". What sort of disaster are we talking about here? Will it tear a hole in the space time continuum and result in an ever expanding vacuum bubble that will engulf the known universe?
Until they can incorporate my driver's license, ADA card, Chicago symphony card, corner bakery free cup o joe card, BLS/CPR card, medical insurance, Saks Off Fith More card, Sam's club card, medical flex account spending card, Bartolotta Rewards card, PADI certification card, DEA registration card, dental license, erewhon explorer card, optical insurance card, credit, debit, and ATM cards, and every other goddammed stupid card that someone forces or wants me to carry around now and in the future because they are too goddammed stupid to put all this crap onto a single memory chipped card, a payment system on a phone is just one more silly thing to have to deal with.
drug dealers, assassins, money launderers, and other shady types who use Bitcoin a chance to buy back the bitcoins they used on Silk Road at a discount!
It seems their idea of reliability is mainly based on the lifetime of the machine, which I get, but the real reliability problem with FDM printers isn't machine longevity, but the ability to start a print and know it will finish. My machine is built using 8020 frame- no laser cut plywood, and no 3D printed parts in the structure of the machine. I have been working to eliminate reliability problems from the beginning because I want to print full size human skulls from CT scans. Such prints take anywhere from 24-48 hours. The extruder has been the #1 reliability problem- it usually has some problem about 15 hours or so into the print. I've also had some problems with filament tangling on the spool. Slicing software has problems that occur with some STL files and not others.
CAN buses are nice, but I'm not sure that does much unless youre setting up a shop with 20 machines on a network. Show me an extruder than can run without fail for 48 hours at a time and I'll throw some money at it.
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political in nature. Science denial, a willingness to kill in the name of religion, etc. Can it address that type of problem?
You've never heard of the citizen's united supreme court decision? Corporations are people and money is free speech. Corporations can give as much as they want to any politician or party they choose.
Spying and security problems at corporations are directly related. If data was kept encrypted until it is used, including the data I voluntarily give corporations, they'd have fewer hackers stealing credit card data type security breaches and it would be harder for industrial espionage to take place. It would also be harder for governments, foreign and domestic, to intercept communications.
The problem now is that no one can trust any encryption because you can't be sure the NSA hasn't already put back doors into it. If someone comes along and claims they have encryption that the NSA can't bust, how are they going to prove it?
corporations that control the government. They are the ones paying real money to prevent and remedy security breaches. It seems it would be in their best interests to have strong encryption to prevent a lot of expensive problems, yet they seem unusually quiet on the subject.
The terrorists will always find a way to communicate in secret. Eliminating secure encryption will simply raise the cost of secure communication for them. Meanwhile the rest of us will be left with our asses showing.
the US had a near monopoly on stupid public officials.
Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Why not use a real random number generator (such as avalanche noise in a semiconductor junction) to generate a key instead of a pseudorandom number generated by software that can be back-doored?
did the cavemen go to?
Comparing college students to cavemen and drawing conclusions about language seems a little silly. College students don't do anything but communicate. Cavemen did everything- they hunted/gathered/raised food, made tools, entertained themselves. How do we know language didn't develop because of the desire for entertainment? Maybe they got bored sitting around a fire grunting. maybe they wanted to hear some jokes.
You apparently have not been reading the news in the last couple years.
There is no such thing as privacy, anywhere. All computer and phone communications are being vacuumed up and can eventually be used to justify doing anything they want to you, from stealing your girl to having you assassinated.
Don't be a fool!
I think a lot of company communication retention policies are based on risk management. They are afraid to delete anything in case they get sued. Depending on the industry they may be required to retain data by law.
It seems this can work equally in their favor or against them.
I have worked for a lot of big companies and realized from day one of email that there is literally zero privacy. Once you hit the send button you have no idea who is going to read what you wrote. I have always refrained from putting anything in a company email (or in a personal email accessed via company networks) that could come back and bite me in the ass. No jokes, no comments about coworkers, the boss, or management in general, no comments about the futility of the project I'm assigned to, etc. Keep it strictly business. Likewise for telephone conversations where one or both ends are in the company phone network. Likewise for web browsing and searches.
Anyone who thinks any form of communication at their place of employment is private is an idiot. Always assume every word said, written, or typed will be heard/read by someone who was not intended to be part of the communication, either now or in the future.
The bible, used by many as a guide to run their lives, including many soldiers and gun nutz, says "thou shalt not kill", but none of those people have any compunctions about violating THAT principle, so what is a Constitution, the words of men, compared to the Bible, the word of God? If people who profess to be Christian can't live by the most basic rules in their own holy book, why would anyone expect any of them to actually follow the Constitution? There's conflict in every action a soldier takes. Soldiers are trained to ignore the internal conflicts and follow orders.
When a soldier is ordered to do a job, maybe kill some people, they do it in spite of their belief in the Bible as the word of God because if they don't they may be imprisoned or suffer other harsh consequences. If a soldier will kill people under orders, what makes you think they'd hesitate to take away someone's guns when ordered to do so? They will face the same consequences for disobeying orders in either case. It's no different than a gun nut saying in one breath that he "supports the troops" and in the next saying he's going to shoot any soldiers who come to take away his guns.
People pick and choose conflicting beliefs and act on whichever provide the least discomfort all the time. In this case, the Constitution is a convenient banner, a way of justifying the gun nutz' blood lust in as patriotic a way as possible, thereby allowing them to take comfort in knowing their fellow "patriots" support them. Soldiers aren't supreme court justices. They follow orders or suffer severe penalties for not doing so. Your fantasies about citizen-soldiers are nothing more than dreams. If the federal government ever decided to take away your guns, they won't have any problem getting soldiers to do it, and you'll be massively outgunned.
jet planes and flame throwers and guided fucking missles and grenades
The armed forces are currently composed of your brothers, sisters, uncles, cousins, and friends. These people still have some compunction to not shoot at American citzens.
Yeah I know, they're all heroes for going to fight for the oil companies in Iraq and Afghanistan, and you're proud to put that yellow ribbon on your pickup declaring how you support the troops. Funny you mention that they are your brothers, sisters, cousins, etc., because they are the same people the gun nutz (you?) say they are going to shoot if they try to take away their (your?) guns. What happened to all that respect and support? Where is THEIR (your?) compunction not to shoot American citizens who are just doing their jobs?
they are responsible legally. If they didn't want to have legal problems they should have pointed it at Amazon.com or Walmart. Just because they are "artists" doesn't make it art, and doesn't absolve them of legal responsibility. Maybe they were too stupid to anticipate illegal purchases. They are still responsible.
If they had made a gun that randomly shoots moving objects in front of it expecting to shoot birds and squirrels, but it ends up shooting people, would they be legally responsible? Is it art?
When the poo hits the fan and "civilization" collapses, they'll be good feed stock (as in dinner) for those of us who know how to actually do things.
And the guy who was running silk road didn't have his bitcoins seized and auctioned?
And bitcoin is immune to manipulation of its value against other currencies?
Never underestimate the power of denial!
If something has value, someone has/will figure out a way to steal it or manipulate it, and governments will figure out how to seize it.
There, by reverse logic, I just proved that bitcoin has value.
Happy?
Bitcoin is secure?
Bill Clinton said it best: "That depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is..."
It was not really a useful wrench. It was a publicity gimmick. 3 in-lbs is finger tight. You don't need a wrench for that.
The design was poor- torque applied to the socket would apply shearing force to the square post on the wrench and tear the layers apart. There was a single pawl engaging the ratchet wheel which means that tiny little bit of plastic had all the force applied to it. Also, the ratchet only turned in one direction- tightening a nut but not loosening. After a relatively few turns, the pawl started to slip and the wrench became even more useless. The pawl was difficult to print because of the tiny print area on the printer's bed. There wasn't much helping it stick to the bed. I had to restart the print a few times before I got it to stick.
A smarter way to make a wrench would have been to have multiple pawls engaging the ratchet wheel to reduce force applied to any one of them, and there should have been a square hole in the ratchet wheel and a second, square cross section part to fit in the hole printed laying on its side. You would put the square peg into the hole and it would be long enough to allow a socket to be put on either side of the wrench- one side for tightening and the other for loosening a nut.
NASA really needs to have contests for this sort of thing. They'd get even more publicity with that.
Haven't there been about 20 star trek movies already? How is this one number 3?
It's like the star wars movies coming out all out of sequence and without numbers. How the hell are you supposed to know which comes after which?
And don't get me started in "Final Fantasy 2-14". I guess it wasn't really final after all, was it?
Get off my lawn!
to paying administrators higher salaries?
is it?
the "smallest miscalculation could lead to disaster". What sort of disaster are we talking about here? Will it tear a hole in the space time continuum and result in an ever expanding vacuum bubble that will engulf the known universe?
Until they can incorporate my driver's license, ADA card, Chicago symphony card, corner bakery free cup o joe card, BLS/CPR card, medical insurance, Saks Off Fith More card, Sam's club card, medical flex account spending card, Bartolotta Rewards card, PADI certification card, DEA registration card, dental license, erewhon explorer card, optical insurance card, credit, debit, and ATM cards, and every other goddammed stupid card that someone forces or wants me to carry around now and in the future because they are too goddammed stupid to put all this crap onto a single memory chipped card, a payment system on a phone is just one more silly thing to have to deal with.
Oh wait....
We'll all be able to store all our "home movies" and photos on one drive!
drug dealers, assassins, money launderers, and other shady types who use Bitcoin a chance to buy back the bitcoins they used on Silk Road at a discount!
It seems their idea of reliability is mainly based on the lifetime of the machine, which I get, but the real reliability problem with FDM printers isn't machine longevity, but the ability to start a print and know it will finish. My machine is built using 8020 frame- no laser cut plywood, and no 3D printed parts in the structure of the machine. I have been working to eliminate reliability problems from the beginning because I want to print full size human skulls from CT scans. Such prints take anywhere from 24-48 hours. The extruder has been the #1 reliability problem- it usually has some problem about 15 hours or so into the print. I've also had some problems with filament tangling on the spool. Slicing software has problems that occur with some STL files and not others.
CAN buses are nice, but I'm not sure that does much unless youre setting up a shop with 20 machines on a network. Show me an extruder than can run without fail for 48 hours at a time and I'll throw some money at it.