Separate Infrastructure != separate equipment. Logical separation != Physical separation.
I'd keep ALL administrative interfaces on a separate VLAN which does not logically connect to the network used by the rest of the world except at known points which are firewalled, controlled and monitored. Access to this VLAN would be limited to network admins who presented valid up to date credentials.
If it's somehow racist to suggest folks show up at the polls with a photo ID and given the partisan arguments that follow such statements, It's pretty clear to me why "online" voting is not likely to happen any time soon.
Can you imagine the rancor that would ensue over how to register people to vote online? How that disenfranchised voters who didn't have or couldn't afford an internet connection or where unable to follow even the simplest of instructions about how to vote? Lord help us trying to sort all that out where the various parties would be vying to protect some real or imaginary edge in how voters where registered and how they cast their votes. It's bad enough trying to deal with the gerrymandering and voter ID laws now, I cannot imagine how much fun it would be to do all this online too...
Problem solved... Just be careful about administrative access controls...
Now I know a bunch of folks who don't lock down their Cisco gear before they put it into production and they get what they deserve. But for Pete's sake, you simply MUST protect your equipment and that means keeping control of administrative credentials on these systems. Personally, I'd have all primary network equipment on a totally separate network infrastructure in the first place so the general population at a site didn't have direct access to the network equipment administrative interfaces, PLUS I would be very careful about who had access to both the network and credentials necessary to access the equipment. Not to mention I'd pretty much lock down the TFTP resources on that network so only approved and fully vetted firmware ever got where it could be flashed.
I worked for a company that didn't password protect their Cisco VTP domain on their switches or change the default admin passwords and used telnet consoles. Yea it was easy to add a switch, just wire the thing up and volia you got the VTP domain configuration pushed, worked great until an employee plugged in a factory fresh switch and deleted all the VLANS he saw on it. He unknowingly wiped the whole company's switching fabric clean (without backups, even in hard copy). It took 3 days to recover, during which time little business got done. They where extremely stupid.
So, if you don't at least override the administrative defaults or don't manage your administrative credentials carefully, you are stupid and you get what you deserve in my book.
10 ^ 50? no, I don't think that's right for positions... There are only 32 possible pieces on 64 squares with most pieces having significant limits on where they could possibly be.. For instance, a bishop will always be on 1 of 32 squares and a pawn can only advance to any of 39 squares by eliminating the opponents pieces (thus weeding down the possible positions considerably) and there are a whole host of "impossible" positions which can never be reached without having broken a rule (such as when a queen, bishop or rook has moved with out a pawn being advanced). I'll have to sit down with my statistics text and work out the possible combinations some time.
Could the 10^50 be the number of possible games? That seems like a reasonable number of possible games...
I don't think chess is a good general AI problem any more. It really has limited combinations, there are only so many games that can be played. when you get right down to it is possible, though time consuming, to just calculate all the possible games from a given position and objectively select the best move each time. One could pre-calculate all possible positions and simply program a look up table and produce the best possible outcome every time. Much like Tic-Tac-Toe can be programed. We already effectively have this and should be able to routinely beat just about any human player more often than not.
That's not to say Chess isn't a good test of AI algorithms effectiveness. It is, but it's not about being good enough to beat the human, it's about being better than you expect on hardware with significant limits on storage and processing power. It's about getting better answers on the same hardware as the other AI techniques. For this Chess is a fairly good test suite, but playing chess well really isn't a valid test of an AI system's prowess, only a means to test it's efficiency.
It's kind of hard to tell them apart with schemes like this. Oh yea, we will infiltrate the "bad guys" and get tipped off to their activities before anybody else knows, or we will invent some new attack vector, sell it to the bad guys and get loads of money from your because only we know enough to protect you from what the bad guys are doing.. You cannot know the difference....
Problem with this is you will never know and you will be letting some outfit with admitted ties to some bad actors have access to your network security systems... What could possibly go wrong?
Hard to have any sympathy for the situation. If you sign up for an currency that is designed to be outside of the world governments, don't come crying to the government that dumb ass idea blew up in your face.
No, it's even worse than that.... The folks that lost their money here put their BitCoin in another person's hands for safe keeping instead of keeping their OWN wallets locally. They took a basically untraceable currency, put it in an unregulated bank overseas (for most of them) and then where surprised when their accounts got raided because somebody figured out how to steal the currency electronically..
It's like they had the local pan handler on the street corner hold their stack of Jefferson's because it was too dangerous to stuff it in the mattress or leave it in their wallet because they might get robbed.. Wonder why the panhandler is missing now and where the money went?
For some strange reason the persons within corporations who *do* commit such crimes in the name of the corporation are rarely punished.
I don't accept your view that persons committing crimes for corporations are some how not punished. Persons within corporations who commit crimes are often charged with crimes and being "ordered" by your boss to do something you know is illegal is not a defense in a criminal trial.
But... NONE of this has anything to do with corporations being treated as people in civil law.... Corporations cannot be tried for a crime (What are you going to do? Put a corporation in jail when it's found guilty?) in CRIMINAL court, but they can be sued for damages in CIVIL court. So this is just more proof that where corporations are treated as a person in CIVIL law, they are NOT legally exactly like people in the eyes of the law in general.
At least in N.Korea they don't try to hide the fact that this is a corrupt dictatorial government which acts solely in its own best interests.
Hardly.... To those OUTSIDE North Korea it is obvious that they are a corrupt government run by a despot dictator... But INSIDE North Korea the perception is generally totally different.... The Un's are billed and accepted as the deliverer of the people, the savior of man kind and the eventual ruler of the WORLD at large. Yes they are starving and oppressed but in their world view the rest of the world is in much worse shape, both economically and morally.
To the western world view this mindset is extremely hard to understand, but one has to remember that to the North Korean, who is feed a steady diet of carefully crafted PR with never an opposing view allowed in, what they believe makes sense. They don't realize how things they are allowed to see are so skewed, or if they do realize it, they are too afraid to speak up because anybody who even hints that they know the truth will be severely punished along with their extended families.
This should cause all of us pause... Because it shows that otherwise intelligent people are controllable if you have proper control of the media they can see. A fact that was not lost on the framers of our constitution's Bill of Rights and why the 1st amendment is so very important.
Legally corporations are entitled to the same redress in the civil courts as the individual, they are treated "LIKE PEOPLE" in terms of civil law, this does not make them "people" in the eyes of the law. All this means is that they are governed by the same rules in civil courts as people. People can sue each other and defend themselves in the courts, corporations have all the same privileges in terms of civil law.
However, corporations are NOT people in many important legal ways. They cannot vote, they cannot serve on a jury, sign a petition, they cannot run for office or serve in the military. They do not have citizenship and don't have inalienable God given rights like the people who own the corporation. These rights are reserved for actual people.
People in the US often use the Bill of Rights as their guideline between the right and wrong uses of the government, without realizing where, in our legal system, the protections they intuit should exist actually come from.
The hell we do... We routinely ignore the Bill of Rights as traditionally understood in may cases so why should we be surprised when the government chooses to ignore it when running a program like PRISM? Congress does a LOT of it's lawmaking in the dark grey areas of "the common good" and "interstate commerce", stretching the meanings of these beyond all recognition at times. Why are we surprised when they ignore the bill of rights in other areas?
The Bill of Rights has been usurped, instead we have a competition about who can construct the best "feel good" story about the common good or "for the children" justifications for stupid laws that erode our freedoms. Why does the government care what size soda I can buy or what kind of light bulbs can be sold? Why does the government get involved in disputes about who bakes cakes for what reason and who doesn't or what kids can say and do on public school property?
So stop being surprised here, the precedent has been set and the government is free to ignore any of our rights as long as it can invent some emotional story that paints the opponents to the proposed law as socially unacceptable in some way. We have fallen for mob rule and ditched the principles in the Bill of Rights long ago, so the rule of law no longer matters, only riots and violence. How do I know? Watch the news, read the news paper, and step back and ask yourself if the rule of law is what folks are calling for? Usually it's not...
IMHO Most of what's written on this is apparently biased for partisan reasons. A bunch of news outlets have a bee in their collective bonnets and are trying to apply the pressure of public opinion by misleading folks about the actual facts in this case. Basically the democrats got their collective panties in a wad and are trolling the sheeple who don't know any different.
It's the ballots that cannot be released to *anybody* for any reason other than a court ordered recount by Kansas state law and then only to the election officials charged with counting the votes in the recount. The researcher may not have the records she seeks because they are essentially ballots being a hard copy record of individual's votes that was printed at the time the votes where cast. We vote by "secret" ballot in this country, so in order to protect a voter from inadvertent exposure of his/her actual vote these records are NOT made public. Kansas state law is simply to protect voters and keep their ballots secret.
So this isn't about "results" being released, the vote counts are totally in the public domain and already available to the researcher, it's about the researcher asking for records which cannot be released, about abiding by the state law designed to keep secret ballots, secret.
And an excellent pointer into the State law comes from the Kansas Secretary of State himself where he explains this.. http://www.hdnews.net/opinion/...
You can turn off the Windows 10 update icon that shows up in the task bar by uninstalling the update that installed the program and then disabling the update so it won't get re-installed. Hopefully that will keep the button clicking mistakes down...
Nobody can do what you claim the US somehow failed to do, but I put the following to you...
1. In Iraq, did we stay? Nope, where I would agree that we left too soon, that peace had not been brought to a stable state to a region, we didn't and wouldn't have stayed.
2. In Iraq, did we take anything from Iraq? Oil? Money? resources? Nope. You can argue and debate the reasons we did invade and put down the government on Iraq, but we didn't take anything and returned the whole country to the people living in it.
3. No military is good at defeating a determined enemy engaged in a guerilla campaign because the only effective option is killing massive numbers of innocent bystanders to get the few combatants who hide within them. How long did the Russians struggle in Afghanistan? Decades... We could have "won" the war quickly in Iraq, but we don't go out and start killing people if we can avoid it.
4. Finally, I'm not saying EVERYTHING the USA does is correct, only that we are NOT motivated by a desire to take stuff by force. We didn't invade Iraq to take it's Oil, though we could easily have done so. We didn't invade Iraq to expand the empire, but we returned it to local government control. You can argue the advisability of going into Iraq and make the argument that the USA's actions didn't help, but you CANNOT say the USA took resources and territory by force in order to take it.
So... Stop with the attempt to incriminate the USA and paint it as some evil force in the world. If the USA wanted to be evil, was out for just it's own good, Because it if was, there would be no Iraq, no Kuwait, no other oil rich countries still in existence in the middle east because they'd all be territory of the USA. Not to mention that if you examine history, the USA has expended a LOT of time, money, resources and blood protecting others from truly evil forces.
It is my sincerest belief that any people who think that any data that is relevant today genuinely needs to stay obscured for 30 years have sticks up their asses that need to be removed as soon as possible in the best interests of themselves and everyone they should ever meet.
Then I think you are burying your head in the sand. I can see legitimate reasons where things will need to remain obscured for more than a lifetime, especially in specific cases where national security and defense secrets are involved. How old are the LGM-30 Minuteman missiles? The last one was purchased in 1970 or so, which makes them 40+ years old and I'm pretty sure you don't want to publish their specifications on the internet for all to see even now given we still depend on them for defense purposes..
Then you make my point... I too have been doing this sort of thing off and on for 20+ years, but I'm an electrical engineer who knows that the certified lab tech does a better job at some things and I'm wasting time when I pick up a soldering iron. Yea, I can sometimes manage, but generally I'm slow, messy and I'm likely to cause damage when I do. You are equipped and claim to be skilled (which I seriously doubt unless you've been formally trained or do it professionally). If you actually are that is rare. Most people I know who claim to be skilled in soldering, really are horrible like me, they just don't understand what good soldering looks like and don't understand how difficult it really is to do it right. They just glob on the solder and it usually works,
I'd be willing to bet that the percentage of people who are reading slashdot that are equipped, skilled and capable of doing what you say you can do is vanishingly small and well under a fraction of a percent. My guess is that you, me and a handful of others are about it, even on Slashdot, and of those who claim to be able to, most really are not all that skilled.
Further, who's going to buy a $90 soldering iron to repair a $200 TV? Nobody in their right mind... Some, like you, might have the equipment for other reasons, professional tools or hobby use, but I'm telling you that the number of folks who have this stuff laying around is going to be pretty limited, even for slahsdot readers.
1. Showing the world what a constitutional representative democracy can do for governments, not to mention the free pursuit of happiness and private property can do for wealth creation.
2. Providing a destination for millions of immigrants who where allowed to come here, work hard, make money and obtain property. Immigrants who where allowed to become citizens and who's children automatically became citizens because they where born here.
3. Inventing the airplane, assembly line manufacturing, solid state electronics, digital electronics, integrated circuits, microprocessors, many petroleum based products, the bulk of the modern pharmaceutical advances and a whole host of things that has made life possible for millions and easier for hundreds of millions more.
4. Being the reserve currency of choice around the word for the better part of the last 100 years, by providing financial stability to not just ourselves but the whole world.
5. Providing BILLIONS of foreign aid annually, disaster relief and supplies on a regular basis though out the world without demanding to be paid in return.
6. Spending our resources, money and blood during WW1 and stopping the Germans in their quest to dominate Europe, not because it would have affected us all that much, but because it would have affected millions of Europeans greatly.
7. Committing resources, economy, industrial production, money and even more blood during WW2 to protect Britain and liberate the bulk of Europe from Nazi rule, then after capturing all this territory and paying for it in US blood, returning it to it's rightful owners and helping to rebuild by providing resources, taking only enough land to bury our dead in return. For liberating the Pacific including parts of China and protecting other countries in the area from being dominated by the aggressor Japan, yet returning even Japan to self rule. A conflict born out of the mismanagement of Europe after WW1 and mistakes which where NOT ours.
8. For out building, out flanking and overthrowing the old Russian empire and liberating the remaining remnants of Europe from being ruled by others.
9. For NOT using our second to none military forces to just take whatever land and resources we wanted or needed, not subjugating the world to live under OUR rules, but affording everyone the ideal to determine for themselves what they want.
So, for the above reasons, don't give me this "we owe the world" tripe because the truth is they owe US. We've more than paid what ever debt you can conjure up a reason to lay at our doorstep though our history though actual money, resources and blood. In reality the world owes US a debt it could never repay. But true to history, we are not demanding payment, nor are we forcing payment of these debts, not that we don't have both the right and the ability to make the rest of the world pay, but because that's what we do, that's what we've always done. So take your perceived "debt" you think we owe and go home, or we can start discussing what you own us from history...
It would stand to reason that there will also come of this, quantum encryption which is not crackable by quantum computing.
Ying and Yang are restored.
Yes, but the problem is the "record now" and "decrypt later" concept. To be secure, you have to know how long the data you are passing can be expected to remain obscured. How long does it take to decrypt it by doing a brute force - try every possible key - approach? If the data you are protecting goes stale in a year, you need to be assured that a persistent attacker won't decrypt your transmission in that time. For a lot of data being passed around, the stale dates are like 30 years in the future, which is a serious problem.
If advances in quantum computing happen and we get the huge jump in processing power they expect, what's currently a brute force time of years can become days or hours. This makes the recorded stuff from 5 years ago very valuable to the spooks who can now decrypt it overnight. And scares the daylights out of the folks who need that data to stay obscured for 30 years.
So, yes, future stuff will be harder to brute force because the same advances in computing power that make brute forcing possible faster will make encryption faster too, but having a treasure trove of easy to decrypt stuff recorded is what is feared.
75%? Everybody knows that you get 25% when you just guess randomly... So being able to add another 50% isn't all that amazing.
Understand how they do this though... They have taken the existing study guides and have constructed an algorithm that does basic word association. Multiple choice tests are written to have one right answer, one plausible answer and two answers which are distracters, designed to trick you. So the trick to multiple choice when you don't know the answer is to identify the distracters and pick from the remaining answers. So armed with their word association, they eliminate the distractors by finding the answers that have the more closely associated words with the question seen in the study guides and throwing out the rest. this will get you easily to a pretty good solution, and where it isn't conclusive it will easily get you to a 50/50 choice.
Problem is, this isn't how people do this. They've not invented a "common sense" way to do this that works for humans, but a way that is more suited to machine "learning". It's about pattern matching and possible associations, not knowledge of 4th grade science. They've not taught the computer 4th grade science, far from it, they've only figured out a way to winnow down the more likely answers in a multiple choice test and the computer then just guesses based on probabilities. While this is interesting, it has nothing to do with human "common sense" and is basically pointless.
Now, if they only would teach KIDS how to take multiple choice tests using similar techniques, THAT would be something worthwhile....
Oh I know I cannot solder... I went to class on the subject and learned that it takes a lot of practice and the right equipment to do it right and even armed with the proper knowledge and equipment it is beyond my skill level to do it right. I'm betting YOU cannot do it right either even for the very few "through the hole" mounted components you might actually find.
With today's lead free solder, surface mounted devices and the expense of getting the proper equipment in place, it is nearly beyond the reasonable limits for your electronic experimenter to solder on consumer electronic equipment. Yea, I have dabbled in all of this, but I know my limits and what I can reasonably expect to repair and what to just throw away. The vast majority of people they don't even open the case but throw it away and buy a new one. For those who don't mind cracking open the case, we are usually limited to replacing whole circuit cards and occasionally repairing something, but unless the failure is readily apparent upon visual inspection, you are SOL and throw it away in pieces.
On the rare occasion the problem is visually apparent, there are few instances where a soldering iron will be helpful, and a leaking electrolytic capacitor covers about half of the cases I can imagine. But unless you do this kind of thing for a living, I can almost guarantee that your soldering job will be less than ideal though the device may function when you are done. You won't have the right equipment, supplies or use the proper techniques to "do it right".
Oh sure, if you want to replace that electrolytic that exploded, be my guest. It's easy enough... In fact, any leaded component is generally easy to replace.
But what I'm saying is that it doesn't make sense for a manufacturer to provide the information or stock the replacement parts for component level repairs on consumer electronics. There are intellectual property issues, logistical issues and parts stocking that just make this too expensive for a manufacturer. While they have the item in production and for the warranty period after production stops, they can easily stock replacement circuit cards necessary for warranty work. After that, forget it. They won't risk their intellectual property and expose their designs by providing service information. The cost and risk is not worth it. It's cheaper just to build extra circuit cards and limit "repairs" to authorized repair centers who have NDA's in place.
Still, you made me wipe my desk down this morning...
Being a "nice guy" does not preclude one from doing stupid stuff and in Carter's case one could argue his "nice guy" image was actually a problem for him as a leader. Personally, I don't believe leaders can be like Carter and be effective.
Also, I think you are discounting the last Bush... He seemed like a nice guy to me... Don't get me started on Romney, who was a *really* nice guy, who got pillaged by the press for being a mean rich white guy when it really wasn't true. Yes he had made a lot of money, yes he was white, but he wasn't what the press and his opponent portrayed him as.
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Separate Infrastructure != separate equipment. Logical separation != Physical separation.
I'd keep ALL administrative interfaces on a separate VLAN which does not logically connect to the network used by the rest of the world except at known points which are firewalled, controlled and monitored. Access to this VLAN would be limited to network admins who presented valid up to date credentials.
If it's somehow racist to suggest folks show up at the polls with a photo ID and given the partisan arguments that follow such statements, It's pretty clear to me why "online" voting is not likely to happen any time soon.
Can you imagine the rancor that would ensue over how to register people to vote online? How that disenfranchised voters who didn't have or couldn't afford an internet connection or where unable to follow even the simplest of instructions about how to vote? Lord help us trying to sort all that out where the various parties would be vying to protect some real or imaginary edge in how voters where registered and how they cast their votes. It's bad enough trying to deal with the gerrymandering and voter ID laws now, I cannot imagine how much fun it would be to do all this online too...
Problem solved... Just be careful about administrative access controls...
Now I know a bunch of folks who don't lock down their Cisco gear before they put it into production and they get what they deserve. But for Pete's sake, you simply MUST protect your equipment and that means keeping control of administrative credentials on these systems. Personally, I'd have all primary network equipment on a totally separate network infrastructure in the first place so the general population at a site didn't have direct access to the network equipment administrative interfaces, PLUS I would be very careful about who had access to both the network and credentials necessary to access the equipment. Not to mention I'd pretty much lock down the TFTP resources on that network so only approved and fully vetted firmware ever got where it could be flashed.
I worked for a company that didn't password protect their Cisco VTP domain on their switches or change the default admin passwords and used telnet consoles. Yea it was easy to add a switch, just wire the thing up and volia you got the VTP domain configuration pushed, worked great until an employee plugged in a factory fresh switch and deleted all the VLANS he saw on it. He unknowingly wiped the whole company's switching fabric clean (without backups, even in hard copy). It took 3 days to recover, during which time little business got done. They where extremely stupid.
So, if you don't at least override the administrative defaults or don't manage your administrative credentials carefully, you are stupid and you get what you deserve in my book.
Hyperbole much?
Yes, we ALWAYS do, EVERY time, without fail and without exception.
10 ^ 50? no, I don't think that's right for positions... There are only 32 possible pieces on 64 squares with most pieces having significant limits on where they could possibly be.. For instance, a bishop will always be on 1 of 32 squares and a pawn can only advance to any of 39 squares by eliminating the opponents pieces (thus weeding down the possible positions considerably) and there are a whole host of "impossible" positions which can never be reached without having broken a rule (such as when a queen, bishop or rook has moved with out a pawn being advanced). I'll have to sit down with my statistics text and work out the possible combinations some time.
Could the 10^50 be the number of possible games? That seems like a reasonable number of possible games...
I don't think chess is a good general AI problem any more. It really has limited combinations, there are only so many games that can be played. when you get right down to it is possible, though time consuming, to just calculate all the possible games from a given position and objectively select the best move each time. One could pre-calculate all possible positions and simply program a look up table and produce the best possible outcome every time. Much like Tic-Tac-Toe can be programed. We already effectively have this and should be able to routinely beat just about any human player more often than not.
That's not to say Chess isn't a good test of AI algorithms effectiveness. It is, but it's not about being good enough to beat the human, it's about being better than you expect on hardware with significant limits on storage and processing power. It's about getting better answers on the same hardware as the other AI techniques. For this Chess is a fairly good test suite, but playing chess well really isn't a valid test of an AI system's prowess, only a means to test it's efficiency.
Is it black hat or white hat hacking?
It's kind of hard to tell them apart with schemes like this. Oh yea, we will infiltrate the "bad guys" and get tipped off to their activities before anybody else knows, or we will invent some new attack vector, sell it to the bad guys and get loads of money from your because only we know enough to protect you from what the bad guys are doing.. You cannot know the difference....
Problem with this is you will never know and you will be letting some outfit with admitted ties to some bad actors have access to your network security systems... What could possibly go wrong?
Hard to have any sympathy for the situation. If you sign up for an currency that is designed to be outside of the world governments, don't come crying to the government that dumb ass idea blew up in your face.
No, it's even worse than that.... The folks that lost their money here put their BitCoin in another person's hands for safe keeping instead of keeping their OWN wallets locally. They took a basically untraceable currency, put it in an unregulated bank overseas (for most of them) and then where surprised when their accounts got raided because somebody figured out how to steal the currency electronically..
It's like they had the local pan handler on the street corner hold their stack of Jefferson's because it was too dangerous to stuff it in the mattress or leave it in their wallet because they might get robbed.. Wonder why the panhandler is missing now and where the money went?
For some strange reason the persons within corporations who *do* commit such crimes in the name of the corporation are rarely punished.
I don't accept your view that persons committing crimes for corporations are some how not punished. Persons within corporations who commit crimes are often charged with crimes and being "ordered" by your boss to do something you know is illegal is not a defense in a criminal trial.
But... NONE of this has anything to do with corporations being treated as people in civil law.... Corporations cannot be tried for a crime (What are you going to do? Put a corporation in jail when it's found guilty?) in CRIMINAL court, but they can be sued for damages in CIVIL court. So this is just more proof that where corporations are treated as a person in CIVIL law, they are NOT legally exactly like people in the eyes of the law in general.
Damn... you beat me to it.
At least in N.Korea they don't try to hide the fact that this is a corrupt dictatorial government which acts solely in its own best interests.
Hardly.... To those OUTSIDE North Korea it is obvious that they are a corrupt government run by a despot dictator... But INSIDE North Korea the perception is generally totally different.... The Un's are billed and accepted as the deliverer of the people, the savior of man kind and the eventual ruler of the WORLD at large. Yes they are starving and oppressed but in their world view the rest of the world is in much worse shape, both economically and morally.
To the western world view this mindset is extremely hard to understand, but one has to remember that to the North Korean, who is feed a steady diet of carefully crafted PR with never an opposing view allowed in, what they believe makes sense. They don't realize how things they are allowed to see are so skewed, or if they do realize it, they are too afraid to speak up because anybody who even hints that they know the truth will be severely punished along with their extended families.
This should cause all of us pause... Because it shows that otherwise intelligent people are controllable if you have proper control of the media they can see. A fact that was not lost on the framers of our constitution's Bill of Rights and why the 1st amendment is so very important.
Corporations are people....
Legally corporations are entitled to the same redress in the civil courts as the individual, they are treated "LIKE PEOPLE" in terms of civil law, this does not make them "people" in the eyes of the law. All this means is that they are governed by the same rules in civil courts as people. People can sue each other and defend themselves in the courts, corporations have all the same privileges in terms of civil law.
However, corporations are NOT people in many important legal ways. They cannot vote, they cannot serve on a jury, sign a petition, they cannot run for office or serve in the military. They do not have citizenship and don't have inalienable God given rights like the people who own the corporation. These rights are reserved for actual people.
People in the US often use the Bill of Rights as their guideline between the right and wrong uses of the government, without realizing where, in our legal system, the protections they intuit should exist actually come from.
The hell we do... We routinely ignore the Bill of Rights as traditionally understood in may cases so why should we be surprised when the government chooses to ignore it when running a program like PRISM? Congress does a LOT of it's lawmaking in the dark grey areas of "the common good" and "interstate commerce", stretching the meanings of these beyond all recognition at times. Why are we surprised when they ignore the bill of rights in other areas?
The Bill of Rights has been usurped, instead we have a competition about who can construct the best "feel good" story about the common good or "for the children" justifications for stupid laws that erode our freedoms. Why does the government care what size soda I can buy or what kind of light bulbs can be sold? Why does the government get involved in disputes about who bakes cakes for what reason and who doesn't or what kids can say and do on public school property?
So stop being surprised here, the precedent has been set and the government is free to ignore any of our rights as long as it can invent some emotional story that paints the opponents to the proposed law as socially unacceptable in some way. We have fallen for mob rule and ditched the principles in the Bill of Rights long ago, so the rule of law no longer matters, only riots and violence. How do I know? Watch the news, read the news paper, and step back and ask yourself if the rule of law is what folks are calling for? Usually it's not...
IMHO Most of what's written on this is apparently biased for partisan reasons. A bunch of news outlets have a bee in their collective bonnets and are trying to apply the pressure of public opinion by misleading folks about the actual facts in this case. Basically the democrats got their collective panties in a wad and are trolling the sheeple who don't know any different.
Results? Who's talking about results?
It's the ballots that cannot be released to *anybody* for any reason other than a court ordered recount by Kansas state law and then only to the election officials charged with counting the votes in the recount. The researcher may not have the records she seeks because they are essentially ballots being a hard copy record of individual's votes that was printed at the time the votes where cast. We vote by "secret" ballot in this country, so in order to protect a voter from inadvertent exposure of his/her actual vote these records are NOT made public. Kansas state law is simply to protect voters and keep their ballots secret.
So this isn't about "results" being released, the vote counts are totally in the public domain and already available to the researcher, it's about the researcher asking for records which cannot be released, about abiding by the state law designed to keep secret ballots, secret.
And an excellent pointer into the State law comes from the Kansas Secretary of State himself where he explains this.. http://www.hdnews.net/opinion/...
You can turn off the Windows 10 update icon that shows up in the task bar by uninstalling the update that installed the program and then disabling the update so it won't get re-installed. Hopefully that will keep the button clicking mistakes down...
Nobody can do what you claim the US somehow failed to do, but I put the following to you...
1. In Iraq, did we stay? Nope, where I would agree that we left too soon, that peace had not been brought to a stable state to a region, we didn't and wouldn't have stayed.
2. In Iraq, did we take anything from Iraq? Oil? Money? resources? Nope. You can argue and debate the reasons we did invade and put down the government on Iraq, but we didn't take anything and returned the whole country to the people living in it.
3. No military is good at defeating a determined enemy engaged in a guerilla campaign because the only effective option is killing massive numbers of innocent bystanders to get the few combatants who hide within them. How long did the Russians struggle in Afghanistan? Decades... We could have "won" the war quickly in Iraq, but we don't go out and start killing people if we can avoid it.
4. Finally, I'm not saying EVERYTHING the USA does is correct, only that we are NOT motivated by a desire to take stuff by force. We didn't invade Iraq to take it's Oil, though we could easily have done so. We didn't invade Iraq to expand the empire, but we returned it to local government control. You can argue the advisability of going into Iraq and make the argument that the USA's actions didn't help, but you CANNOT say the USA took resources and territory by force in order to take it.
So... Stop with the attempt to incriminate the USA and paint it as some evil force in the world. If the USA wanted to be evil, was out for just it's own good, Because it if was, there would be no Iraq, no Kuwait, no other oil rich countries still in existence in the middle east because they'd all be territory of the USA. Not to mention that if you examine history, the USA has expended a LOT of time, money, resources and blood protecting others from truly evil forces.
It is my sincerest belief that any people who think that any data that is relevant today genuinely needs to stay obscured for 30 years have sticks up their asses that need to be removed as soon as possible in the best interests of themselves and everyone they should ever meet.
Then I think you are burying your head in the sand. I can see legitimate reasons where things will need to remain obscured for more than a lifetime, especially in specific cases where national security and defense secrets are involved. How old are the LGM-30 Minuteman missiles? The last one was purchased in 1970 or so, which makes them 40+ years old and I'm pretty sure you don't want to publish their specifications on the internet for all to see even now given we still depend on them for defense purposes..
Then you make my point... I too have been doing this sort of thing off and on for 20+ years, but I'm an electrical engineer who knows that the certified lab tech does a better job at some things and I'm wasting time when I pick up a soldering iron. Yea, I can sometimes manage, but generally I'm slow, messy and I'm likely to cause damage when I do. You are equipped and claim to be skilled (which I seriously doubt unless you've been formally trained or do it professionally). If you actually are that is rare. Most people I know who claim to be skilled in soldering, really are horrible like me, they just don't understand what good soldering looks like and don't understand how difficult it really is to do it right. They just glob on the solder and it usually works,
I'd be willing to bet that the percentage of people who are reading slashdot that are equipped, skilled and capable of doing what you say you can do is vanishingly small and well under a fraction of a percent. My guess is that you, me and a handful of others are about it, even on Slashdot, and of those who claim to be able to, most really are not all that skilled.
Further, who's going to buy a $90 soldering iron to repair a $200 TV? Nobody in their right mind... Some, like you, might have the equipment for other reasons, professional tools or hobby use, but I'm telling you that the number of folks who have this stuff laying around is going to be pretty limited, even for slahsdot readers.
1. Showing the world what a constitutional representative democracy can do for governments, not to mention the free pursuit of happiness and private property can do for wealth creation.
2. Providing a destination for millions of immigrants who where allowed to come here, work hard, make money and obtain property. Immigrants who where allowed to become citizens and who's children automatically became citizens because they where born here.
3. Inventing the airplane, assembly line manufacturing, solid state electronics, digital electronics, integrated circuits, microprocessors, many petroleum based products, the bulk of the modern pharmaceutical advances and a whole host of things that has made life possible for millions and easier for hundreds of millions more.
4. Being the reserve currency of choice around the word for the better part of the last 100 years, by providing financial stability to not just ourselves but the whole world.
5. Providing BILLIONS of foreign aid annually, disaster relief and supplies on a regular basis though out the world without demanding to be paid in return.
6. Spending our resources, money and blood during WW1 and stopping the Germans in their quest to dominate Europe, not because it would have affected us all that much, but because it would have affected millions of Europeans greatly.
7. Committing resources, economy, industrial production, money and even more blood during WW2 to protect Britain and liberate the bulk of Europe from Nazi rule, then after capturing all this territory and paying for it in US blood, returning it to it's rightful owners and helping to rebuild by providing resources, taking only enough land to bury our dead in return. For liberating the Pacific including parts of China and protecting other countries in the area from being dominated by the aggressor Japan, yet returning even Japan to self rule. A conflict born out of the mismanagement of Europe after WW1 and mistakes which where NOT ours.
8. For out building, out flanking and overthrowing the old Russian empire and liberating the remaining remnants of Europe from being ruled by others.
9. For NOT using our second to none military forces to just take whatever land and resources we wanted or needed, not subjugating the world to live under OUR rules, but affording everyone the ideal to determine for themselves what they want.
So, for the above reasons, don't give me this "we owe the world" tripe because the truth is they owe US. We've more than paid what ever debt you can conjure up a reason to lay at our doorstep though our history though actual money, resources and blood. In reality the world owes US a debt it could never repay. But true to history, we are not demanding payment, nor are we forcing payment of these debts, not that we don't have both the right and the ability to make the rest of the world pay, but because that's what we do, that's what we've always done. So take your perceived "debt" you think we owe and go home, or we can start discussing what you own us from history...
...it would be a breakthrough of *Gaussian* proportions!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/quotes?item=qt0448962
Cough, cough.... My kids roll their eyes when I make jokes like that.... Nice one....
It would stand to reason that there will also come of this, quantum encryption which is not crackable by quantum computing.
Ying and Yang are restored.
Yes, but the problem is the "record now" and "decrypt later" concept. To be secure, you have to know how long the data you are passing can be expected to remain obscured. How long does it take to decrypt it by doing a brute force - try every possible key - approach? If the data you are protecting goes stale in a year, you need to be assured that a persistent attacker won't decrypt your transmission in that time. For a lot of data being passed around, the stale dates are like 30 years in the future, which is a serious problem.
If advances in quantum computing happen and we get the huge jump in processing power they expect, what's currently a brute force time of years can become days or hours. This makes the recorded stuff from 5 years ago very valuable to the spooks who can now decrypt it overnight. And scares the daylights out of the folks who need that data to stay obscured for 30 years.
So, yes, future stuff will be harder to brute force because the same advances in computing power that make brute forcing possible faster will make encryption faster too, but having a treasure trove of easy to decrypt stuff recorded is what is feared.
75%? Everybody knows that you get 25% when you just guess randomly... So being able to add another 50% isn't all that amazing.
Understand how they do this though... They have taken the existing study guides and have constructed an algorithm that does basic word association. Multiple choice tests are written to have one right answer, one plausible answer and two answers which are distracters, designed to trick you. So the trick to multiple choice when you don't know the answer is to identify the distracters and pick from the remaining answers. So armed with their word association, they eliminate the distractors by finding the answers that have the more closely associated words with the question seen in the study guides and throwing out the rest. this will get you easily to a pretty good solution, and where it isn't conclusive it will easily get you to a 50/50 choice.
Problem is, this isn't how people do this. They've not invented a "common sense" way to do this that works for humans, but a way that is more suited to machine "learning". It's about pattern matching and possible associations, not knowledge of 4th grade science. They've not taught the computer 4th grade science, far from it, they've only figured out a way to winnow down the more likely answers in a multiple choice test and the computer then just guesses based on probabilities. While this is interesting, it has nothing to do with human "common sense" and is basically pointless.
Now, if they only would teach KIDS how to take multiple choice tests using similar techniques, THAT would be something worthwhile....
Oh I know I cannot solder... I went to class on the subject and learned that it takes a lot of practice and the right equipment to do it right and even armed with the proper knowledge and equipment it is beyond my skill level to do it right. I'm betting YOU cannot do it right either even for the very few "through the hole" mounted components you might actually find.
With today's lead free solder, surface mounted devices and the expense of getting the proper equipment in place, it is nearly beyond the reasonable limits for your electronic experimenter to solder on consumer electronic equipment. Yea, I have dabbled in all of this, but I know my limits and what I can reasonably expect to repair and what to just throw away. The vast majority of people they don't even open the case but throw it away and buy a new one. For those who don't mind cracking open the case, we are usually limited to replacing whole circuit cards and occasionally repairing something, but unless the failure is readily apparent upon visual inspection, you are SOL and throw it away in pieces.
On the rare occasion the problem is visually apparent, there are few instances where a soldering iron will be helpful, and a leaking electrolytic capacitor covers about half of the cases I can imagine. But unless you do this kind of thing for a living, I can almost guarantee that your soldering job will be less than ideal though the device may function when you are done. You won't have the right equipment, supplies or use the proper techniques to "do it right".
Oh sure, if you want to replace that electrolytic that exploded, be my guest. It's easy enough... In fact, any leaded component is generally easy to replace.
But what I'm saying is that it doesn't make sense for a manufacturer to provide the information or stock the replacement parts for component level repairs on consumer electronics. There are intellectual property issues, logistical issues and parts stocking that just make this too expensive for a manufacturer. While they have the item in production and for the warranty period after production stops, they can easily stock replacement circuit cards necessary for warranty work. After that, forget it. They won't risk their intellectual property and expose their designs by providing service information. The cost and risk is not worth it. It's cheaper just to build extra circuit cards and limit "repairs" to authorized repair centers who have NDA's in place.
Still, you made me wipe my desk down this morning...
Being a "nice guy" does not preclude one from doing stupid stuff and in Carter's case one could argue his "nice guy" image was actually a problem for him as a leader. Personally, I don't believe leaders can be like Carter and be effective.
Also, I think you are discounting the last Bush... He seemed like a nice guy to me... Don't get me started on Romney, who was a *really* nice guy, who got pillaged by the press for being a mean rich white guy when it really wasn't true. Yes he had made a lot of money, yes he was white, but he wasn't what the press and his opponent portrayed him as.