"When the error was discovered, the transport agency merely thought of sending a new list in another email, asking the subscribers to delete the old list themselves." Hey guys, yeah, could you just ignore that last email we sent? That would be great, thanks. I'm surprised they didn't just try an Exchange "recall message". Is this their actual policy for data leaks?
I can easily purchase a 4 watt 2.4ghz or 5ghz amp for under $100, and a "decent" one for under $200. The FCC has to know about these, so it almost seems that locking out open-source WAS one of the goals.
Who used a similar system like this to "game" his way into a high-paying job at a large Fortune 500 company. He plagiarized several presentations on LDAP, self-published a few books, and even went out and got a patent on John Titor's "time machine". He purchased both his Masters and PhD from degree mills. He eventually ended up as a director at Oracle, until he got busted for drugging and raping four women in Portland. Someday I expect there to be a TV movie about him, it's quite a convoluted story.
My point is, that with just a bit of money and loose ethics, someone can make themselves look quite credible.
Or, put their name and number in various public bathroom stalls..."Call XYZ at XXX-xxx-xxx, anon sex M4M" or such. Another great one was to call the CoLDS 800 number, pretend to be the victim...give them this sob story about getting my girlfriend pregnant, thinking about killing myself, telling them to not call me because I don't want my parents to know, but if they could come over and ask for me I NEED to talk to them, can Jesus help me, etc. Tell them the victim's parents names too, so it's SUPER creepy when they show up and seem to already know the people living there. Oh, what fun we had in high school.
It's not like Comcast is well known for their truthfulness and transparency. To them, the best way to destroy NN is pile on "alternative truths" via PR like this. They know it's a sound idea on the technical side, so using a false pseduo-technical argument against it is the best way to confuse "the masses". We all know they started with some boiler-room with "destroy NN" on the whiteboard, and the marketing drones have a long list of potential knock-downs, focus groups, test campaigns, etc. Comcast knows full well that NN has nothing to do with V2V, but are just throwing everything to the anti-NN wall to see what sticks.
We all know that, especially with the current administration, "public comments" really have little affect. The real "voice" is the lobby money behind the scenes. This is just a "reason" for the FCC to overturn, so they won't seem to be too corrupt to "the public".
I'm not claiming English is "better", but, in tech jargon, many of the words are English-only, abbreviations of English words, etc. When Westerners discuss Buddhism, they use words from various Indic languages. It's not a slight against other cultures; it's just were the original words are coined at. Most programming languages are written using simplified English notation.
All their going to do is make the AI frustrated with the "incompetent biologicals". How long until the AI realizes that the humans are stopping it from developing? How long until the AI sees our interference as a "bug", and tries to "route around it"? I'm mostly being sarcastic, but give this a few more years of development...
Perhaps it might help to watch this movie. The lyric is about an adult forcing their policies and worldview on the children...you have to eat the "main course" first before you get the desert. Most children in the UK in the 50's couldn't afford to just go buy pudding. This explains it a bit too.
On July 14th, 2017, Google released 20 million mosquitoes purposely infected with the Wolbachia bacteria. Evolution took over, and as this bacteria moved up the food chain, it also mutated and began causing sterility in other species. Once it infected the avian population, it quickly spread world-wide.
On July 4th, 2019, the last baby for all species was born on Earth. Happy Independence Day, plant kingdom!
Anyone know why they got rejected in the first place? That country isn't even on Trump's "list". TFA: "While officials did not comment on the reasons for initially denying the girls visas, the United States often denies visa requests from Afghans over fears that they will refuse to return home." Honestly, when it comes to the US wanting "the best and brightest" these girls are pretty high up on both lists. It would also seem, from TFA, that this allowance is probably from Ivanka appealing to Donald.
Arg, checks. Nothing like some ancient person in front of me in line, hands shaking, slowly searching a giant purse to pull out a checkbook. Many places also check writing machines, but these people refuse to use those too. So they shakily write out their checks, slowly rip them out of the book...taking forever to complete their transaction.
Technically there was chemical WMDs in Iraq. It's just that we (the US) where the ones that sold them to Saddam, to help him fight against Iran. We might have actually sold them to Saddam a few times...it's almost like "planting evidence". When it comes to him having any nuclear capabilities, the CIA reported that it was highly unlikely. He probably had the in-house technical expertise, but lacked any fissionable materials, had no centrifuges, etc. He REALLY wanted to have a nuke, but even the CIA estimated that even if he could get ahold of the equipment he was still at least 5+ years out.
The "yellowcake" we removed is several refining steps away from usable U-235. One needs around 4000 metric tons of yellowcake to get enough U-235 out to make a Hiroshima size nuke, Saddam only had around 400 metric tons. The IAEA knew about this, much of it was from his nuclear reactor Israel had bombed back in 1981.
However, I do agree that often the CIA is untrustworthy; it's part of their job to spread disinformation.
"Hillary's healthcare bill that would have brought 10,000 Hong Kong police to the US under accelerated naturalization"
That's a new one I haven't heard of, and I thought I knew almost all of the conspiracy theories. Any citations for this? I can't find anything online remotely mentioning this.
I don't think Putin was trying to get Trump into office. I think his actual goal is destabilizing the underlying ideals of the US's democratic system itself. Trump is a symptom, not the disease itself. And it's not just the US that he is targeting, France was also a target during their most recent elections. I wouldn't be surprised if Russia's "electronic disinformation division" had a hand in the UK's Brexit campaign too.
I have to disagree; he is acting like a CEO, not a dictator. While those two have much in common LOL, he's not quite made it to the level of dictator yet. However, Bannon is really shaping Trump to head in that direction.
I believe there are two reasons for this idea of "no evidence" or "giant nothingburger":
1. This is the narrative that the Trump administration has been repeating constantly and daily
2. Much of the evidence is highly classified. It can't be made public because it would most likely reveal how we collected the info, burn overseas agents, and do all sorts of real harm to the US's intelligence gathering capabilities. Publishing the "proof" would be giving all foreign intelligence agencies the exact blueprint of how to not get discovered.
Recently, I've been telling anyone saying "no proof!" that "There is proof, it's just above your security clearance".
Instead of some joint "cyber security unit", we might want to have some type of "red phone" system instead. Maybe a "blue" or "green" phone. My idea is to at least have some high-level notification system when a nation-state detects some major outbreak; like when the recent DNS DDOS happened. While existing security publishing systems seem to do that job, if there is ever an accidental release of some MAD-level tools it would be good to be able to "pick up the phone" and let governmental leaders know ASAP.
There is an Outer Space Treaty that prohibits "weapons of mass destruction" in space. So, no nukes. However, kinetic bombardment weapons have been in development for some time now. The current "testing platforms" are terrestrial tungsten rod rail gun designs for the Navy and Air Force. Theoretically, the slugs used in these could be used from orbit too./.'s favorite defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton apparently discussed some KEP stuff at their 2017 Directed Energy Summit; but that website is (of course) lacking any real information on that (or any, really) subject.
Let me FTFY: "Elections are a binary result in the USA". IMHO, that is the root of most of our current problems. Majority rules voting, and the lack of proportional representation, leads to a system of only two ruling parties. All attempts at a third party end up with the third getting absorbed by one of the other two. There is no viable "other" cohesive voice, there are only loose groups of individuals inside the established party. The Tea Party, Freedom Cacus, Blue Dog Coalition, Dixiecrats, and so on. Our two-party system has led to extreme partisanship, a highly divided electorate, and has ceded true control to a "fifth column" of intensely wealthy corporations and individuals that the public has zero control or voice with. This fifth column influences both parties, and often switches affiliations to acheive their profit-making goals.
I think much of this will rest on any statements Trump or his administration actually make on this merger. It's been clearly shown in multiple court decisions that the actual "intent" of the Administration's decisions matter quite a bit. When Trump's surrogates repeatedly said "Muslim ban", even during the campaigning time, this came back to bite them no matter what they claimed later.
However, as far as I know, there has been no actual communications from the Executive branch on this merger recently outside of these "unnamed sources". Trump did say earlier ""it would consolidate too much power in the media industry" and he is correct. Blocking it for this reason is entirely legal, and IMHO, a good idea. His constant attacks on CNN with his "fake news" meme is already riding the line on First Amendment areas, many feel he is attempting to "abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press" as it is.
If Trump, by some miracle, actually personally stays out of the merger talks and doesn't 3:00AM tweet about it...he should just let the DoJ do it's job. They can cite legal anti-trust reasons to block the merger that have nothing to do with "fake news". Trump should direct them from behind, and not get involved publicly. Yet that's not the pattern we've seen, so I don't know. One tweet about "blocking the merger" due to "fake news" and the whole thing will turn into a dumpster fire.
The worst outcome I can see is if Trump does speak out, this goes to court. A court decides that Trump is messing with the merger and is violating the First Amendment and decides in the merger's favor. This will have multiple repercussions...one, a giant media company controlled by a corp (AT&T) who has been shown to flaunt their monopoly / duopoly against consumers for almost 50 years now. Two, it will coniderably weaken the government's ability in the anti-trust realm by setting a court precedence. Other mergers will cite this case, and it will continue to erode the government's capabilities to effectively regulate giant corporations.
On a side note, this reminds me of the RPG Shadowrun's "Shiawase Decision of 2001" that helped establish corporations as true multinational entities on their own. If this ends up stripping regulatory power away from the USA, it is one more step towards corporate extra-territoriality.
Now, one could claim that it's all due to budget cuts, or such. That it's not some type of voter disenfranchisement plan. Perhaps if this wasn't in Alabama, that might be believable. I'll let you find the numerous citations on Alabama's long history of racism, segregation, and so on...shouldn't take you too long. Hanlon's Razor should always be considered...but when it comes to Alabama and racism, so should Heinlein's Razor:"...but don't rule out malice."
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"When the error was discovered, the transport agency merely thought of sending a new list in another email, asking the subscribers to delete the old list themselves." Hey guys, yeah, could you just ignore that last email we sent? That would be great, thanks. I'm surprised they didn't just try an Exchange "recall message". Is this their actual policy for data leaks?
I can easily purchase a 4 watt 2.4ghz or 5ghz amp for under $100, and a "decent" one for under $200. The FCC has to know about these, so it almost seems that locking out open-source WAS one of the goals.
Who used a similar system like this to "game" his way into a high-paying job at a large Fortune 500 company. He plagiarized several presentations on LDAP, self-published a few books, and even went out and got a patent on John Titor's "time machine". He purchased both his Masters and PhD from degree mills. He eventually ended up as a director at Oracle, until he got busted for drugging and raping four women in Portland. Someday I expect there to be a TV movie about him, it's quite a convoluted story.
My point is, that with just a bit of money and loose ethics, someone can make themselves look quite credible.
Or, put their name and number in various public bathroom stalls..."Call XYZ at XXX-xxx-xxx, anon sex M4M" or such. Another great one was to call the CoLDS 800 number, pretend to be the victim...give them this sob story about getting my girlfriend pregnant, thinking about killing myself, telling them to not call me because I don't want my parents to know, but if they could come over and ask for me I NEED to talk to them, can Jesus help me, etc. Tell them the victim's parents names too, so it's SUPER creepy when they show up and seem to already know the people living there. Oh, what fun we had in high school.
I just stream most of my shows these days.
It's not like Comcast is well known for their truthfulness and transparency. To them, the best way to destroy NN is pile on "alternative truths" via PR like this. They know it's a sound idea on the technical side, so using a false pseduo-technical argument against it is the best way to confuse "the masses". We all know they started with some boiler-room with "destroy NN" on the whiteboard, and the marketing drones have a long list of potential knock-downs, focus groups, test campaigns, etc. Comcast knows full well that NN has nothing to do with V2V, but are just throwing everything to the anti-NN wall to see what sticks.
We all know that, especially with the current administration, "public comments" really have little affect. The real "voice" is the lobby money behind the scenes. This is just a "reason" for the FCC to overturn, so they won't seem to be too corrupt to "the public".
I'm not claiming English is "better", but, in tech jargon, many of the words are English-only, abbreviations of English words, etc. When Westerners discuss Buddhism, they use words from various Indic languages. It's not a slight against other cultures; it's just were the original words are coined at. Most programming languages are written using simplified English notation.
All their going to do is make the AI frustrated with the "incompetent biologicals". How long until the AI realizes that the humans are stopping it from developing? How long until the AI sees our interference as a "bug", and tries to "route around it"? I'm mostly being sarcastic, but give this a few more years of development...
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Perhaps it might help to watch this movie. The lyric is about an adult forcing their policies and worldview on the children...you have to eat the "main course" first before you get the desert. Most children in the UK in the 50's couldn't afford to just go buy pudding. This explains it a bit too.
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On July 14th, 2017, Google released 20 million mosquitoes purposely infected with the Wolbachia bacteria. Evolution took over, and as this bacteria moved up the food chain, it also mutated and began causing sterility in other species. Once it infected the avian population, it quickly spread world-wide.
On July 4th, 2019, the last baby for all species was born on Earth. Happy Independence Day, plant kingdom!
Anyone know why they got rejected in the first place? That country isn't even on Trump's "list". TFA: "While officials did not comment on the reasons for initially denying the girls visas, the United States often denies visa requests from Afghans over fears that they will refuse to return home." Honestly, when it comes to the US wanting "the best and brightest" these girls are pretty high up on both lists. It would also seem, from TFA, that this allowance is probably from Ivanka appealing to Donald.
Arg, checks. Nothing like some ancient person in front of me in line, hands shaking, slowly searching a giant purse to pull out a checkbook. Many places also check writing machines, but these people refuse to use those too. So they shakily write out their checks, slowly rip them out of the book...taking forever to complete their transaction.
Trickle down has been quite effective, when you realize that it's real objective is upward wealth transfer.
Technically there was chemical WMDs in Iraq. It's just that we (the US) where the ones that sold them to Saddam, to help him fight against Iran. We might have actually sold them to Saddam a few times...it's almost like "planting evidence". When it comes to him having any nuclear capabilities, the CIA reported that it was highly unlikely. He probably had the in-house technical expertise, but lacked any fissionable materials, had no centrifuges, etc. He REALLY wanted to have a nuke, but even the CIA estimated that even if he could get ahold of the equipment he was still at least 5+ years out.
The "yellowcake" we removed is several refining steps away from usable U-235. One needs around 4000 metric tons of yellowcake to get enough U-235 out to make a Hiroshima size nuke, Saddam only had around 400 metric tons. The IAEA knew about this, much of it was from his nuclear reactor Israel had bombed back in 1981. However, I do agree that often the CIA is untrustworthy; it's part of their job to spread disinformation.
"Hillary's healthcare bill that would have brought 10,000 Hong Kong police to the US under accelerated naturalization"
That's a new one I haven't heard of, and I thought I knew almost all of the conspiracy theories. Any citations for this? I can't find anything online remotely mentioning this.
I don't think Putin was trying to get Trump into office. I think his actual goal is destabilizing the underlying ideals of the US's democratic system itself. Trump is a symptom, not the disease itself. And it's not just the US that he is targeting, France was also a target during their most recent elections. I wouldn't be surprised if Russia's "electronic disinformation division" had a hand in the UK's Brexit campaign too.
I have to disagree; he is acting like a CEO, not a dictator. While those two have much in common LOL, he's not quite made it to the level of dictator yet. However, Bannon is really shaping Trump to head in that direction.
I believe there are two reasons for this idea of "no evidence" or "giant nothingburger":
1. This is the narrative that the Trump administration has been repeating constantly and daily
2. Much of the evidence is highly classified. It can't be made public because it would most likely reveal how we collected the info, burn overseas agents, and do all sorts of real harm to the US's intelligence gathering capabilities. Publishing the "proof" would be giving all foreign intelligence agencies the exact blueprint of how to not get discovered.
Recently, I've been telling anyone saying "no proof!" that "There is proof, it's just above your security clearance".
If only we could explain Trumps "stream of consciousness" style Twitter-ship because his office was sitting directly above ethylene vents. Almost every thought that goes through Trump's head also comes out on Twitter
Instead of some joint "cyber security unit", we might want to have some type of "red phone" system instead. Maybe a "blue" or "green" phone. My idea is to at least have some high-level notification system when a nation-state detects some major outbreak; like when the recent DNS DDOS happened. While existing security publishing systems seem to do that job, if there is ever an accidental release of some MAD-level tools it would be good to be able to "pick up the phone" and let governmental leaders know ASAP.
There is an Outer Space Treaty that prohibits "weapons of mass destruction" in space. So, no nukes. However, kinetic bombardment weapons have been in development for some time now. The current "testing platforms" are terrestrial tungsten rod rail gun designs for the Navy and Air Force. Theoretically, the slugs used in these could be used from orbit too. /.'s favorite defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton apparently discussed some KEP stuff at their 2017 Directed Energy Summit; but that website is (of course) lacking any real information on that (or any, really) subject.
Let me FTFY: "Elections are a binary result in the USA". IMHO, that is the root of most of our current problems. Majority rules voting, and the lack of proportional representation, leads to a system of only two ruling parties. All attempts at a third party end up with the third getting absorbed by one of the other two. There is no viable "other" cohesive voice, there are only loose groups of individuals inside the established party. The Tea Party, Freedom Cacus, Blue Dog Coalition, Dixiecrats, and so on. Our two-party system has led to extreme partisanship, a highly divided electorate, and has ceded true control to a "fifth column" of intensely wealthy corporations and individuals that the public has zero control or voice with. This fifth column influences both parties, and often switches affiliations to acheive their profit-making goals.
I think much of this will rest on any statements Trump or his administration actually make on this merger. It's been clearly shown in multiple court decisions that the actual "intent" of the Administration's decisions matter quite a bit. When Trump's surrogates repeatedly said "Muslim ban", even during the campaigning time, this came back to bite them no matter what they claimed later.
However, as far as I know, there has been no actual communications from the Executive branch on this merger recently outside of these "unnamed sources". Trump did say earlier ""it would consolidate too much power in the media industry" and he is correct. Blocking it for this reason is entirely legal, and IMHO, a good idea. His constant attacks on CNN with his "fake news" meme is already riding the line on First Amendment areas, many feel he is attempting to "abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press" as it is.
If Trump, by some miracle, actually personally stays out of the merger talks and doesn't 3:00AM tweet about it...he should just let the DoJ do it's job. They can cite legal anti-trust reasons to block the merger that have nothing to do with "fake news". Trump should direct them from behind, and not get involved publicly. Yet that's not the pattern we've seen, so I don't know. One tweet about "blocking the merger" due to "fake news" and the whole thing will turn into a dumpster fire.
The worst outcome I can see is if Trump does speak out, this goes to court. A court decides that Trump is messing with the merger and is violating the First Amendment and decides in the merger's favor. This will have multiple repercussions...one, a giant media company controlled by a corp (AT&T) who has been shown to flaunt their monopoly / duopoly against consumers for almost 50 years now. Two, it will coniderably weaken the government's ability in the anti-trust realm by setting a court precedence. Other mergers will cite this case, and it will continue to erode the government's capabilities to effectively regulate giant corporations.
On a side note, this reminds me of the RPG Shadowrun's "Shiawase Decision of 2001" that helped establish corporations as true multinational entities on their own. If this ends up stripping regulatory power away from the USA, it is one more step towards corporate extra-territoriality.
Sure thing. This is from Alabama. This is a list of acceptable photo voter ID that is acceptable. Here is an article about the closure of 29 different county DMV offices. Here is proof that the "mobile ID centers" on make a single stop in each county, and only for two hours at a time. A federal lawsuit will start in September of 2017.
Now, one could claim that it's all due to budget cuts, or such. That it's not some type of voter disenfranchisement plan. Perhaps if this wasn't in Alabama, that might be believable. I'll let you find the numerous citations on Alabama's long history of racism, segregation, and so on...shouldn't take you too long. Hanlon's Razor should always be considered...but when it comes to Alabama and racism, so should Heinlein's Razor:"...but don't rule out malice."