Hey, we elected a senile spray-tan with a toupee (or at least a very convincing imitation of one), why not vote for some more "common sense" conservatism?
The board certified anesthesiologist may be missing the point: these kids who no longer appear outgoing, energetic, interested in the world and happy to him may be not reclusive at all, but instead finding a wider world through their phone connection to it.
Same thing happened to teenagers who got cars in the 1950s, they used to be around the house doing homework, chores, going to bed on time, etc. and suddenly they're always gone, hanging out with new people at all hours doing god-knows-what.
Not saying that it can't go bad - freedom isn't utopia, but neither is being locked in a cell with no access to the outside world.
Unlike mineshafts, any reasonably competent CompSci or Engineering grads, or existing employee autodidacts can take an interest in cybersecurity and become a valuable asset.
Liability for "free" software rests with the people who use it to make money. They are the ones on the hook to ensure that the "free" software is suitable for the purpose for which they are selling it.
Organizations which use "free" software directly are themselves responsible for whatever happens as a result of using that "free" software.
GPL is rather long-winded - take a look at the MIT license for a notion of where liability for "free" software lies.
Before you say "that's gonna change when liability comes into the picture" - no, not at all - people writing software who don't know how it is going to be used cannot conceivably be held liable and more than Sir Issac Newton's estate could be held liable for a mishap on the space shuttle.
The whole medical ecosystem is seriously screwed up, starting with the reimbursement models. They scream high costs, but one particular med device company I worked for spent $600 per device full up for production and FDA overhead. They sold for $15K and the company was barely breaking even. Where did the other $14K+ go? Mostly sales and marketing, also lobbying for increased reimbursements.
Also another point: strip mines _should be_ going up in price as the land they are using becomes more valuable for other purposes (even wildlife preservation.) Eventually we should hit the tipping point where coal just doesn't make economic sense.
If this phenomenon only lasts a million years - give or take an order of magnitude, then it's nearly absolutely insignificant / irrelevant to the ~4 billion year life cycle that is apparently required for rocky planets to cool and interesting life to evolve.
It's also only going to be observable in places like the one being studied... they need to find another cloud to confirm the theory with, otherwise it's just a model made to fit a single dataset.
Autism has nothing to do with celibacy, using meth, running around naked outside, sleeping 10 hours a night and not eating beans because nobody understands what glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency is
Maybe not directly, but Autism is strongly correlated with most of those things... except maybe the meth.
You do have to be an outlier to get noticed. If you go around doing what everybody else does, you'll blend in to the background, and you also won't be doing anything terribly novel or intriguing.
Makes sense that discovery comes from people who are different.
and got it registered/approved via "the system." Granted, I did follow all the rules, encryption is only 56 bits, but nobody ever questioned the truth of that claim, nor requested any technical information beyond the simple claim of conformance.
I'm sure if it were more widely used, like Twitter or something, it would come under closer scrutiny. But, there are two points here:
First - if you don't use mainstream stuff, you can be as secure as you like, there's nobody to stop you.
Second - hide in plain sight tech like steganography doesn't seem to be getting serious consideration by these agencies.
Their employees pay income tax, their customers pay sales tax, how many taxes can they stand? It's all too much, too much, the cuts and breaks have to start somewhere - why not start with the small number of rich and mega-corporations, get them off of this crazy tax merry-go-round and let them breathe, why don't we? Somebody needs some relief, and if we gave real relief to the masses it would sink the whole balance sheet. Think of the great things that the ultra-wealthy and giant corporations can do with real tax relief. Give real tax relief to Joe six-pack, and he'll just go buy a case - where's the greatness in that?
The lack of integrated circuits performing computational operations would have changed the design of the system significantly, but the system could still have been rolled out (at a much higher cost than today's $600 handsets.)
It would have been built differently with tubes - the tubes would have done all the analog filtering and amplification, but the logic for cellular handoff, etc. would likely have been implemented in "wetware," operators tracking calls and doing the handoffs from tower to tower, switching frequencies when necessary.
Maybe a "mainframe" could have eventually been developed to automate all that with tubes and punch cards, but it would have been a truly impressive machine - sized like the old mechanical switch houses that handled rotary dial calling.
The 1980s car phones could have simply had a larger box and worked with tubes. It would have been a significant "chunk in the trunk," and would likely have required a technically capable operator to do the frequency selection (that much logic in tubes would be... impractical) but, it could have been usable.
As the FCC said: for the elite - who travel in large cars with technically capable staff.
My mother's 1980s "car phone" was too big to call portable - antenna had to be large to cover the distance between towers, and the "box" was the size of a small backpack, in addition to a handset sized like a traditional home or pay telephone.
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Because he can't control your kids without the government, and he's not satisfied just being the voice of the past to his own.
Hey, we elected a senile spray-tan with a toupee (or at least a very convincing imitation of one), why not vote for some more "common sense" conservatism?
Yes, involving the whole body in learning is far better than squeezing all input through a 3.5" screen, and all output through the thumbs.
However, parents in Los Altos can afford Oberlin to Berkeley- that's my 2 cents in change.
The board certified anesthesiologist may be missing the point: these kids who no longer appear outgoing, energetic, interested in the world and happy to him may be not reclusive at all, but instead finding a wider world through their phone connection to it.
Same thing happened to teenagers who got cars in the 1950s, they used to be around the house doing homework, chores, going to bed on time, etc. and suddenly they're always gone, hanging out with new people at all hours doing god-knows-what.
Not saying that it can't go bad - freedom isn't utopia, but neither is being locked in a cell with no access to the outside world.
Stick that in your vent tube and huff it.
Unlike mineshafts, any reasonably competent CompSci or Engineering grads, or existing employee autodidacts can take an interest in cybersecurity and become a valuable asset.
Liability for "free" software rests with the people who use it to make money. They are the ones on the hook to ensure that the "free" software is suitable for the purpose for which they are selling it.
Organizations which use "free" software directly are themselves responsible for whatever happens as a result of using that "free" software.
GPL is rather long-winded - take a look at the MIT license for a notion of where liability for "free" software lies.
Before you say "that's gonna change when liability comes into the picture" - no, not at all - people writing software who don't know how it is going to be used cannot conceivably be held liable and more than Sir Issac Newton's estate could be held liable for a mishap on the space shuttle.
The whole medical ecosystem is seriously screwed up, starting with the reimbursement models. They scream high costs, but one particular med device company I worked for spent $600 per device full up for production and FDA overhead. They sold for $15K and the company was barely breaking even. Where did the other $14K+ go? Mostly sales and marketing, also lobbying for increased reimbursements.
Automated test should be including known attack vectors, if the build is vulnerable, the build fails.
Agreed, nuclear should be in the mix.
Also another point: strip mines _should be_ going up in price as the land they are using becomes more valuable for other purposes (even wildlife preservation.) Eventually we should hit the tipping point where coal just doesn't make economic sense.
Or, blocked the feature? Isn't this "bug" equivalent to shipping the car with an "unlocked" infotainment device?
If this phenomenon only lasts a million years - give or take an order of magnitude, then it's nearly absolutely insignificant / irrelevant to the ~4 billion year life cycle that is apparently required for rocky planets to cool and interesting life to evolve.
It's also only going to be observable in places like the one being studied... they need to find another cloud to confirm the theory with, otherwise it's just a model made to fit a single dataset.
Autism has nothing to do with celibacy, using meth, running around naked outside, sleeping 10 hours a night and not eating beans because nobody understands what glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency is
Maybe not directly, but Autism is strongly correlated with most of those things... except maybe the meth.
Just because they are distinct does not mean they are not both true.
Newton's fascination with mercury may have helped his insights - for a short time.
You do have to be an outlier to get noticed. If you go around doing what everybody else does, you'll blend in to the background, and you also won't be doing anything terribly novel or intriguing.
Makes sense that discovery comes from people who are different.
What the open code can do is expose backdoors, if they're not cleverly hidden.
If a crypto app is too long for a thorough review, it's poorly written and probably is hiding a backdoor somewhere.
Did this, the government doesn't talk to you, much less offer payment, until you have users.
FWIW, I wrote and published this steganography/cryptography app:
http://mangocats.com/stegamail...
and got it registered/approved via "the system." Granted, I did follow all the rules, encryption is only 56 bits, but nobody ever questioned the truth of that claim, nor requested any technical information beyond the simple claim of conformance.
I'm sure if it were more widely used, like Twitter or something, it would come under closer scrutiny. But, there are two points here:
First - if you don't use mainstream stuff, you can be as secure as you like, there's nobody to stop you.
Second - hide in plain sight tech like steganography doesn't seem to be getting serious consideration by these agencies.
Their employees pay income tax, their customers pay sales tax, how many taxes can they stand? It's all too much, too much, the cuts and breaks have to start somewhere - why not start with the small number of rich and mega-corporations, get them off of this crazy tax merry-go-round and let them breathe, why don't we? Somebody needs some relief, and if we gave real relief to the masses it would sink the whole balance sheet. Think of the great things that the ultra-wealthy and giant corporations can do with real tax relief. Give real tax relief to Joe six-pack, and he'll just go buy a case - where's the greatness in that?
Doesn't it follow that non-vets deserve at least accessible basic healthcare?
TV was to spectrum as Arkansas and Cuba are to wildlands - an accidental preserve.
The lack of integrated circuits performing computational operations would have changed the design of the system significantly, but the system could still have been rolled out (at a much higher cost than today's $600 handsets.)
It would have been built differently with tubes - the tubes would have done all the analog filtering and amplification, but the logic for cellular handoff, etc. would likely have been implemented in "wetware," operators tracking calls and doing the handoffs from tower to tower, switching frequencies when necessary.
Maybe a "mainframe" could have eventually been developed to automate all that with tubes and punch cards, but it would have been a truly impressive machine - sized like the old mechanical switch houses that handled rotary dial calling.
The 1980s car phones could have simply had a larger box and worked with tubes. It would have been a significant "chunk in the trunk," and would likely have required a technically capable operator to do the frequency selection (that much logic in tubes would be... impractical) but, it could have been usable.
As the FCC said: for the elite - who travel in large cars with technically capable staff.
My mother's 1980s "car phone" was too big to call portable - antenna had to be large to cover the distance between towers, and the "box" was the size of a small backpack, in addition to a handset sized like a traditional home or pay telephone.