A conviction is already an issue for certain job types. For even more certain job types, whether it's working with vulnerable people or to get some Top Secret clearance, it's also of interest to have the arrest record.
The arrest record is also disclosed when there's a pattern of arrests where the victim is a vulnerable person, and patterns tend to be a good indicator of potential problems. Also, the reason why the arrests haven't lead to a conviction is also documented, thus false accusations will also be detailed as well. Even if the vulnerable sector check finds an issue, the person should still be able to find employment in related positions that don't require high-end checks.
Speaking of "innocent until proven guilty", why not challenge the concept behind the Vulnerable Sector check? If it is an actual infringement on people's rights, then it shouldn't be too hard to have it struck down.
That would be other Western countries (or at least the one I reside in). Arrests/complaints are logged, but are not "public" in that there's a livestream or where random businesses can collect that information without consent of the indiviudal.
The police would be free to arrest and detain people without public knowledge, as long as they were eventually released (i.e. not charged). If they did this in a discriminatory manner, there would be no public record and possibly no recourse.
Even with the "secret" arrest record, that is also disallowed. Arresting/detaining people without charging them is unconstitutional, as is holding them until their "eventual" release. Doing so in a discriminatory manner is also unconstitutional as well. Such behavior is also unlikely to reach one of the permitted exceptions as well. Such violations are rare, and appear to be more of a casual mistake that gets contained easily.
Compare this to the US, which still required a supreme court case to confirm that there was already a constitutional right to retain legal council (Gideon v. Wainwright, a.k.a. states still disagree with amendments they ratified), and currently has a wave of civil forfeiture where police simply seize property from random people without charging them with crimes (plus their recourse is "expensive" and not guaranteed.) It's almost like the USA doesn't have a constitution.
Make it a civil violation to use arrest information alone to deny employment,
Not a good idea. Sometimes the arrest record is important for specific jobs.
Check this example - on page 34, non-conviction is presented in a Vulaerable Sector records check, which is meant for those taking care of those who are vulnerable due to special circumstances (disability, age, etc.) In this case, the arrest record gets disclosed if there's more than one offence, where said offence matches the schedule of relevant offenses (e.g. sexual offences for all vulnerable persons, theft/fraud for adult vulnerable persons), and the victims meet the definition of a vulnerable person.
Of course, this arrest record is only important to a small pool of job types. Everything else should be happy enough with just the criminal record rather than the arrest record.
Because the less attention you can bring to the fact that "apple.com" is "secure", there'll be less people getting confused.
For the context, an old version of chrome displayed that url as apple.com, and the user would be unaware of the difference. It also displayed "secure", thus visitors would have a false feeling of being connected to the correct site.
The only reason to draw attention to a "secure" site is if it's got one of those "verified" certificates that show something special in the address bar. And even then, there's still room for caution cause certain computers in a corporate environment may have their own security certificates that allows the company to MITM employees.
The United States is more religious overall than Europe. Many of the conservatives, those who pushed for harsher sentencing, are also those who are more likely to identify as Christian and be devout..
Jesus was once asked which of the commandments was the most important.
If the United States is more religious, Christian, and/or devout than compared to Europe, how to they reflect this in the two commandments Jesus identified? (For reference, it's "love God" instead of being infatuated with Him, and "love your neighbour" rather than being hostile towards them. This was then followed by the Parable of the Good Samaritan since people still couldn't grasp the concept.)
They're in the process of disabling flash. In the version I'm running, Flash is technically supposed to ask to play, but Chrome doesn't actually display a prompt and treats it as if the plugin isn't present at all. You have to enable it for specific sites, which means you're doing an all-or-nothing approach.
In my case specifically, I disabled the option "Use hardware acceleration when available" because it was a troubleshooting step in the past (Youtube was somehow misbehaving under Chrome.) The result is some Flash/WebGL games are unplayable because they don't show critical images, such as the phasing bloons that don't show in Bloons Super Monkey 2.
Basically, those playing web games need to use Internet Explorer (version 8/9 that still supports plugins), Pale Moon, or Vivaldi. Sticking with Chrome/Firefox/Edge means those web games will die.
Doesn't have to be immune, just resistant enough to interfere with casual attacks.
If one simply alters the raw data early in the chain, that gets detected as the various other nodes have to backtrack about ~100+ blocks to accept the new content. Still doesn't prevent someone with a few supercomputer clusters from remaking these blocks, but a random clerk won't get far.
Not that it's the best system to use, but it's their decision to implement it.
Name one actual use apart from launching ponzi schemes.
A few governments (e.g. Inida) use this to ledger land ownership, which cuts down on the type of fraud that involves switching around records or directly altering the database.
But for the use of selling tickets, blockchain is technically overkill and doesn't help the problem of "giving" tickets to another person (who could then claim to be the first purchaser). They're better off using optical scanners, printing the name of the owner on the ticket along with price,
Big data
Machine learning
And of your list, these two are somewhat useful. Big data can technically become a library of useful textbooks, videos, etc. Machine learning can lead to general AI.
The same can be said about any platform that has legacy content, which causes problems further down the line (including technical debt, or various tutorials that still reference less effective functions.) This is why both Windows and Unix are more complex than they should be - they're expected to be backwards compatible with something, and said compatibility can't be removed without crippling practically every single program.
If you dig down to ANSI C, you see the shady stuff right there. A complete lack of functions that would otherwise allow you to write something modern, which directly resulted in the 30+ libraries and operating systems that mostly do stuff in their own way.
As I stated in my original post, I've seen it happen once. The fast food cashiers still knew how to handle cash, and it didn't hit the news because it wasn't newsworthy to actually appear on the news. "Breaking news: Some random fast food location had trouble with its PoS PoS, but was still able to conduct business."
For major things, like the bank network going down or Puerto Rico suffering from Hurricane Maria, that will hit the news because it has major consequences.
Yes, you could also try Google Wallet, Apple Pay, Bitcoin, or any other system. No number of alternative electronic systems protect against major outages. If Visa goes down for an entire country (which did happen), things like Square also stop working. If you have a disaster that destroys all electronic infrastructure as it happened with Puerto Rico, nothing electronic functions as a suitable backup.
You never want your business to fail from just one point of failure, and in this case, it's the electronic payment network.
I've seen enough stories where the restaurant has a fault with their credit card system, and thus has an extremely long delay in processing them (assuming that they still get processed.)
If there's any major failure, which will happen when an ice storm causes scattered outages across the city, the restaurant has no way to receive income. Either they accept cash, or they don't get the day's income.
I've also went into a fast food restaurant which also had a cash register failure. They still did business using pen-and-paper, taking payments in cash, and thus didn't have to close down. Even if slightly slower or less reliable, it's as if the cashiers knew how to handle the situation.
Same way Slashdot paid for it's hosting and submission system.
Better question is how to grow quickly enough so that one has a reason to keep the newsroom and hosting, cause plopping down yet another news site isn't going to attract any attention. There's plenty of graveyard news/blogs/websites around, sometimes disappear without warning, etc.
Bankroll+income is always a problem, but that's handled with a proper plan (which depends on how the indy-news site unfolds), finding some staff as well, and someone who can provide startup funds.
If you're disliking DRM-loaded media, then there's obviously a market for DRM-free media (or the alternative, DRM-lite which comments if you violate the DRM but still allows the user to utilize the content.)
It may seem hard, but still possible.
Imagine trying to copy-and-paste some text from a news article somewhere into a Slashdot submission box, and having browser DRM tell you 'Sorry! The author, copyright holder or publisher of this text does not allow it to be quoted or re-published anywhere other than where it was originally published!'.
Imaging me removing that site from my lost of bookmarks...
Or me creating my own news site that permits basic copy-paste, etc.
Except that this video is DRM'd, and requires you to pay 0.1 Cent each time someone watches the video on your blog
Actually, there's a much simpler way of handling this.
ISPs currently bill customers a fixed amount per month, and it would be "trivial" for them to include a copyright quota as part of the bill, similar to what university students paid for printing paper per month. Thus for $5/month, that 0.1 cent can allow the user to view said video, or allow downloading whatever.
Not to mention that those people creating those movies should technically have those free trailers and/or exerpts that encourage people to post them on the blog without having to pay some DRM fee. Then someone discovers that those independent bloggers are more willing to post advertisements for their new movie if there's no DRM costs.
This would be a specialized proxy server, an extremely "niche" use where I haven't seen obvious instructions on how to setup. The steps involved are also the scary "OMG, you're becoming vulnerable to MitM attacks" despite the process actually being safe.
Plenty of obstacles as well.
1. No easy toggle for switching to and from a proxy server. There's extensions/utilities for this, but you have to find them.
2. HTTPS requires you to create and install both a root and intermediate certificate. (Which basically shows that HTTPS simply just prevents casual interception - any skilled malware author could trivially intercept anything.)
3. Current video sites download the stuff in piecemeal (either DRM style, or as a means to save bandwidth). You need special software to patch them together again.
4. (If running a caching proxy) The HTTP standard document (some random RFC) is no longer the comprehensive standard. Any trivial mistake (including something not obvious in the origianl document) confuses the browser.
None of this stops pirates or experienced programmers, only casual users.
And there's a lot of signs that it does: that it desensitizes them to violence, that it makes them more willing to hurt and kill.
Pretty sure there's a video game called "Real Life" that does even more desensitization, especially in sections where children get forced into violent situations, and getting punished for it. If only said game received the same type of regulations that conventional video games receive.
With the explosion of school shootings, we should be asking ourselves "what's changed?" and one of the obvious answers is the increasing violence and realism of video games.
If the increasing violence/realism of video games was the issue, why is said explosion mostly contained in the USA? That may be an obvious reply, but it isn't the obvious answer.
One important thing that did change was that Obama was president for 8 years, and people somehow became upset with that. The other change is the following president saying "fake news" more often than a broken record, along with a rise in what amounts to a populist party.
First, paper ballots can have questionable disputes as to whether they were filled out correctly
A better question is how someone can mess up a paper ballot. Really, even North Korea has a better paper ballot system than the fragmented system all over the US.
The United States is adjacent to a country that does things correctly - voters receive a paper ballot, they mark the entry on the paper, and drop it into the box. Of all the ballots cast, none of them were spoiled, rejected, had hanging chads, or had any other funny business. Plus there were scrutineers from the major parties making sure that there's no funny business going on either.
The only election that used a machine was the local election, and it's purpose was only to scan the ballot as they were completed.
Now some city is dictating what you can use your electricity for that you purchased in your own home and banning some computation.
Actually, it's the city that purchased the electricity, and passes the lowered rates onto the people and industries in the city. Because of the nature of the reduced rates, it's perfectly acceptable for the city to provide requirements for people or industries to likewise be billed at the reduced rate, whether it is to provide jobs for the community or making a custom arrangement so that it doesn't disrupt others.
The libertarian argument should be reserved for those who purchase electricity directly from the power companies, rather than those who constantly sink a discounted rate from the city grid.
Does anyone know the best way to beat dead unicorns? Should I use a regular stick, something flexible like a flail, or resort to sharp implements?
Now, these discussions about violent video games ignore the one that's actually causing problems, known as "real life". In the current implementation, you force people to socialize with undesirable individuals, some of whom are violent, etc. It's almost as if they don't want to fix actual problems, and instead focus on virtual ones.
As for the games themselves... let me know if and when there's a large-scale emulation of Pacman (popping pills in dark mazes while fleeing from ghosts), Europa Universalis (especially conquering the world even more than the British Empire), Minecraft (magically creating fully-functional items from scrap) and so on. After all, if violent behaviour can be learned, so can anything else.
The American product was $35. The Chinese clone was $3
Second-hand account: A government organization purchased a large quantity of cheap network cards. The reason they were so cheap was that it was a mass-produced knockoff, where all the network cards were identical down to the MAC address. This resulted in a MAC address conflict that brought down the local network, and the counterfeit company ran off laughing with their money.
If you see a cheap knock-off, it is likely to be a cheap knock-off that will cause problems if you need anything more than basic use.
Compete or don't, but don't bitch just because someone out competes you.
If they were competing, they would use their own brand name (or perhaps no brand name) rather than trying to pass their own product as something else.
If only there was some consumer protection law that requires a product guaranteed to last at least for a reasonable life cycle of said product... For software running on a supported computer, this would be infinite, as the computer itself is more likely to decay compared to the software running on it.
Speaking of decaying multiplayer, even old games such as Doom, Quake, and related didn't stop working simply because some multiplayer master server went down. If only modern developers knew how to implement that feature as well...
It's hard to find prices for these devices, almost as if there's some secondary market where prices are negotiated without being displayed publicly. But from what I can tell, it's seems to be sent towards enterprise-tier, thus you'd have to be a big company just to get one.
If existing prices are a good way to calculate price of the 30TB whopper, it's likely to cost $14250 each (using $/TB from a Samsung MZ-76P4T0BW). Currently cheaper to get a three pack of spinning 12TB drives (totalling $1350).
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A conviction is already an issue for certain job types. For even more certain job types, whether it's working with vulnerable people or to get some Top Secret clearance, it's also of interest to have the arrest record.
The arrest record is also disclosed when there's a pattern of arrests where the victim is a vulnerable person, and patterns tend to be a good indicator of potential problems. Also, the reason why the arrests haven't lead to a conviction is also documented, thus false accusations will also be detailed as well. Even if the vulnerable sector check finds an issue, the person should still be able to find employment in related positions that don't require high-end checks.
Speaking of "innocent until proven guilty", why not challenge the concept behind the Vulnerable Sector check? If it is an actual infringement on people's rights, then it shouldn't be too hard to have it struck down.
If only false accusations were illegal enough to encourage arresting people that make them.
That would be other Western countries (or at least the one I reside in). Arrests/complaints are logged, but are not "public" in that there's a livestream or where random businesses can collect that information without consent of the indiviudal.
Even with the "secret" arrest record, that is also disallowed. Arresting/detaining people without charging them is unconstitutional, as is holding them until their "eventual" release. Doing so in a discriminatory manner is also unconstitutional as well. Such behavior is also unlikely to reach one of the permitted exceptions as well. Such violations are rare, and appear to be more of a casual mistake that gets contained easily.
Compare this to the US, which still required a supreme court case to confirm that there was already a constitutional right to retain legal council (Gideon v. Wainwright, a.k.a. states still disagree with amendments they ratified), and currently has a wave of civil forfeiture where police simply seize property from random people without charging them with crimes (plus their recourse is "expensive" and not guaranteed.) It's almost like the USA doesn't have a constitution.
Not a good idea. Sometimes the arrest record is important for specific jobs.
Check this example - on page 34, non-conviction is presented in a Vulaerable Sector records check, which is meant for those taking care of those who are vulnerable due to special circumstances (disability, age, etc.) In this case, the arrest record gets disclosed if there's more than one offence, where said offence matches the schedule of relevant offenses (e.g. sexual offences for all vulnerable persons, theft/fraud for adult vulnerable persons), and the victims meet the definition of a vulnerable person.
Of course, this arrest record is only important to a small pool of job types. Everything else should be happy enough with just the criminal record rather than the arrest record.
Because the less attention you can bring to the fact that "apple.com" is "secure", there'll be less people getting confused.
For the context, an old version of chrome displayed that url as apple.com, and the user would be unaware of the difference. It also displayed "secure", thus visitors would have a false feeling of being connected to the correct site.
The only reason to draw attention to a "secure" site is if it's got one of those "verified" certificates that show something special in the address bar. And even then, there's still room for caution cause certain computers in a corporate environment may have their own security certificates that allows the company to MITM employees.
Jesus was once asked which of the commandments was the most important.
If the United States is more religious, Christian, and/or devout than compared to Europe, how to they reflect this in the two commandments Jesus identified? (For reference, it's "love God" instead of being infatuated with Him, and "love your neighbour" rather than being hostile towards them. This was then followed by the Parable of the Good Samaritan since people still couldn't grasp the concept.)
No, this cryptocurrency is used to purchase Zynga credits, or whatever is the P2W thing de jour.
They're in the process of disabling flash. In the version I'm running, Flash is technically supposed to ask to play, but Chrome doesn't actually display a prompt and treats it as if the plugin isn't present at all. You have to enable it for specific sites, which means you're doing an all-or-nothing approach.
In my case specifically, I disabled the option "Use hardware acceleration when available" because it was a troubleshooting step in the past (Youtube was somehow misbehaving under Chrome.) The result is some Flash/WebGL games are unplayable because they don't show critical images, such as the phasing bloons that don't show in Bloons Super Monkey 2.
Basically, those playing web games need to use Internet Explorer (version 8/9 that still supports plugins), Pale Moon, or Vivaldi. Sticking with Chrome/Firefox/Edge means those web games will die.
Doesn't have to be immune, just resistant enough to interfere with casual attacks.
If one simply alters the raw data early in the chain, that gets detected as the various other nodes have to backtrack about ~100+ blocks to accept the new content. Still doesn't prevent someone with a few supercomputer clusters from remaking these blocks, but a random clerk won't get far.
Not that it's the best system to use, but it's their decision to implement it.
A few governments (e.g. Inida) use this to ledger land ownership, which cuts down on the type of fraud that involves switching around records or directly altering the database.
But for the use of selling tickets, blockchain is technically overkill and doesn't help the problem of "giving" tickets to another person (who could then claim to be the first purchaser). They're better off using optical scanners, printing the name of the owner on the ticket along with price,
And of your list, these two are somewhat useful. Big data can technically become a library of useful textbooks, videos, etc. Machine learning can lead to general AI.
The same can be said about any platform that has legacy content, which causes problems further down the line (including technical debt, or various tutorials that still reference less effective functions.) This is why both Windows and Unix are more complex than they should be - they're expected to be backwards compatible with something, and said compatibility can't be removed without crippling practically every single program.
If you dig down to ANSI C, you see the shady stuff right there. A complete lack of functions that would otherwise allow you to write something modern, which directly resulted in the 30+ libraries and operating systems that mostly do stuff in their own way.
As I stated in my original post, I've seen it happen once. The fast food cashiers still knew how to handle cash, and it didn't hit the news because it wasn't newsworthy to actually appear on the news. "Breaking news: Some random fast food location had trouble with its PoS PoS, but was still able to conduct business."
For major things, like the bank network going down or Puerto Rico suffering from Hurricane Maria, that will hit the news because it has major consequences.
Yes, you could also try Google Wallet, Apple Pay, Bitcoin, or any other system. No number of alternative electronic systems protect against major outages. If Visa goes down for an entire country (which did happen), things like Square also stop working. If you have a disaster that destroys all electronic infrastructure as it happened with Puerto Rico, nothing electronic functions as a suitable backup.
You never want your business to fail from just one point of failure, and in this case, it's the electronic payment network.
I've seen enough stories where the restaurant has a fault with their credit card system, and thus has an extremely long delay in processing them (assuming that they still get processed.)
If there's any major failure, which will happen when an ice storm causes scattered outages across the city, the restaurant has no way to receive income. Either they accept cash, or they don't get the day's income.
I've also went into a fast food restaurant which also had a cash register failure. They still did business using pen-and-paper, taking payments in cash, and thus didn't have to close down. Even if slightly slower or less reliable, it's as if the cashiers knew how to handle the situation.
Same way Slashdot paid for it's hosting and submission system.
Better question is how to grow quickly enough so that one has a reason to keep the newsroom and hosting, cause plopping down yet another news site isn't going to attract any attention. There's plenty of graveyard news/blogs/websites around, sometimes disappear without warning, etc.
Bankroll+income is always a problem, but that's handled with a proper plan (which depends on how the indy-news site unfolds), finding some staff as well, and someone who can provide startup funds.
If you're disliking DRM-loaded media, then there's obviously a market for DRM-free media (or the alternative, DRM-lite which comments if you violate the DRM but still allows the user to utilize the content.)
It may seem hard, but still possible.
Imaging me removing that site from my lost of bookmarks...
Or me creating my own news site that permits basic copy-paste, etc.
Actually, there's a much simpler way of handling this.
ISPs currently bill customers a fixed amount per month, and it would be "trivial" for them to include a copyright quota as part of the bill, similar to what university students paid for printing paper per month. Thus for $5/month, that 0.1 cent can allow the user to view said video, or allow downloading whatever.
Not to mention that those people creating those movies should technically have those free trailers and/or exerpts that encourage people to post them on the blog without having to pay some DRM fee. Then someone discovers that those independent bloggers are more willing to post advertisements for their new movie if there's no DRM costs.
This would be a specialized proxy server, an extremely "niche" use where I haven't seen obvious instructions on how to setup. The steps involved are also the scary "OMG, you're becoming vulnerable to MitM attacks" despite the process actually being safe. Plenty of obstacles as well. 1. No easy toggle for switching to and from a proxy server. There's extensions/utilities for this, but you have to find them. 2. HTTPS requires you to create and install both a root and intermediate certificate. (Which basically shows that HTTPS simply just prevents casual interception - any skilled malware author could trivially intercept anything.) 3. Current video sites download the stuff in piecemeal (either DRM style, or as a means to save bandwidth). You need special software to patch them together again. 4. (If running a caching proxy) The HTTP standard document (some random RFC) is no longer the comprehensive standard. Any trivial mistake (including something not obvious in the origianl document) confuses the browser. None of this stops pirates or experienced programmers, only casual users.
Pretty sure there's a video game called "Real Life" that does even more desensitization, especially in sections where children get forced into violent situations, and getting punished for it. If only said game received the same type of regulations that conventional video games receive.
If the increasing violence/realism of video games was the issue, why is said explosion mostly contained in the USA? That may be an obvious reply, but it isn't the obvious answer.
One important thing that did change was that Obama was president for 8 years, and people somehow became upset with that. The other change is the following president saying "fake news" more often than a broken record, along with a rise in what amounts to a populist party.
North Korea uses the "pre-printed" ballot method, where everyone's choices are pre-determined.
It's blatantly corrupt, but still not messed up because voters are certain that their votes are cast correctly.
A better question is how someone can mess up a paper ballot. Really, even North Korea has a better paper ballot system than the fragmented system all over the US.
The United States is adjacent to a country that does things correctly - voters receive a paper ballot, they mark the entry on the paper, and drop it into the box. Of all the ballots cast, none of them were spoiled, rejected, had hanging chads, or had any other funny business. Plus there were scrutineers from the major parties making sure that there's no funny business going on either.
The only election that used a machine was the local election, and it's purpose was only to scan the ballot as they were completed.
Actually, it's the city that purchased the electricity, and passes the lowered rates onto the people and industries in the city. Because of the nature of the reduced rates, it's perfectly acceptable for the city to provide requirements for people or industries to likewise be billed at the reduced rate, whether it is to provide jobs for the community or making a custom arrangement so that it doesn't disrupt others.
The libertarian argument should be reserved for those who purchase electricity directly from the power companies, rather than those who constantly sink a discounted rate from the city grid.
Does anyone know the best way to beat dead unicorns? Should I use a regular stick, something flexible like a flail, or resort to sharp implements?
Now, these discussions about violent video games ignore the one that's actually causing problems, known as "real life". In the current implementation, you force people to socialize with undesirable individuals, some of whom are violent, etc. It's almost as if they don't want to fix actual problems, and instead focus on virtual ones.
As for the games themselves... let me know if and when there's a large-scale emulation of Pacman (popping pills in dark mazes while fleeing from ghosts), Europa Universalis (especially conquering the world even more than the British Empire), Minecraft (magically creating fully-functional items from scrap) and so on. After all, if violent behaviour can be learned, so can anything else.
Second-hand account: A government organization purchased a large quantity of cheap network cards. The reason they were so cheap was that it was a mass-produced knockoff, where all the network cards were identical down to the MAC address. This resulted in a MAC address conflict that brought down the local network, and the counterfeit company ran off laughing with their money.
If you see a cheap knock-off, it is likely to be a cheap knock-off that will cause problems if you need anything more than basic use.
If they were competing, they would use their own brand name (or perhaps no brand name) rather than trying to pass their own product as something else.
If only there was some consumer protection law that requires a product guaranteed to last at least for a reasonable life cycle of said product... For software running on a supported computer, this would be infinite, as the computer itself is more likely to decay compared to the software running on it.
Speaking of decaying multiplayer, even old games such as Doom, Quake, and related didn't stop working simply because some multiplayer master server went down. If only modern developers knew how to implement that feature as well...
It's hard to find prices for these devices, almost as if there's some secondary market where prices are negotiated without being displayed publicly. But from what I can tell, it's seems to be sent towards enterprise-tier, thus you'd have to be a big company just to get one.
If existing prices are a good way to calculate price of the 30TB whopper, it's likely to cost $14250 each (using $/TB from a Samsung MZ-76P4T0BW). Currently cheaper to get a three pack of spinning 12TB drives (totalling $1350).