"Burn it all down, so the Russians can't have it. "
Why WOULDN'T we want the Russians to have the Middle East? After a few generations of good old colonial exploitation, the ME will have completely forgotten about hating the US and, depending on the effectiveness of Russia's indoctrination and cultural reprogramming, could emerge as the "India" of the 23rd or 24th century.
This may ultimately take a new party, one that forms out of the wreckage that Sanders and Trump will leave behind them. Meanwhile, let's use our scanning electron microscopes to find evidence of pro-science sentiment in the existing political field.
Republicans: Isn't science/tech as worthy of investment as war?
Democrats: When science bestows on us such things as dense carbon-free energy and fine control over how the genome of any desired species can develop, just for once try embracing innovation instead of fearing it. This is where new jobs - those good American jobs in your platform rhetoric - come from.
Actually I wish you were right about the ease of decrypting an iPhone, because that would make the FBI's case even weaker. You're saying it could easily break into the iPhone by hiring its own developers, but instead chooses to go mano a mano against a company with far more money than it does, and be willing to shred the US Constitution - in an election year - to support its crappy case?
Yes, the FBI wants to establish "writing special break-in software that we could write ourselves if we weren't terminally clueless" as a compulsory labor exception like prison time, the draft or jury duty. Welcome, oh bootlickers, to the wonderful world this would open up to you as developers.
"If Apple wants to avoid such cases in the future, they should design phones that they themselves cannot break into. That is entirely legal."
Apple has already designed iOS to be not decryptable. The FBI, like any other possessor of an encrypted device, is welcome to try writing the facilitating software it would take to allow a brute-force attack on the iPhone. Instead, it is trying to compel Apple to write the software for it, knowing that this would make it easier to break into other such devices in the future and to establish an exception to the Thirteenth Amendment as precedent. Apple disagrees with this legal maneuver.
"I'm really glad that our government spends so much on R&D in order to kill people better."
The big but is that by making a project military in some way, the government might actually be able to do it without twenty years of oppositional hearings.
The article describes some general safeguards on the process, but no specifics on how to control exactly where the device goes. Or is the idea to worm a catheter right to the site of implantation before sending the stentrode through it?
Current "brain control" tech involves using electroencephalography to read electrical emissions of the brain so that, through feedback training, the patient can make willable and repeatable patterns of such electrical activity to do things like move a cursor on a screen and "click on" something where desired. Can't we get a sensor close enough to the brain in some way that does not involve the circulatory system?
We of the dark side are often accused of invoking the slippery slope argument too soon. But in this instance, if the FBI is able to convince courts that forced labor is a valid tactic to use in a terror investigation, it already has nine new cases (more according to some sources) for which it wants Apple to be forced to write custom crack code in hopes of solving. And every single one of these new cases involves the drug war, not terror.
Unfortunately, police who screw up usually can't be fired, and are insulated from any consequences by the legal system. In Los Angeles a cop, driving wile texting, plowed into a cyclist and killed him. The country prosecutor declined to indict because police privilege. Fortunately the cyclist was a Silicon Valley executive whose family had the resources to sue.
Some of the women that have been raped have apologized, so they obviously disagree with you. They recognize that the rape was the fault of society and not the victims that committed it.
This, succinctly, is the fundamental difference between the European and American worldviews.
Jews? What would be their self-interest in importing a flood of zombie killers who hate, specifically, Jews?
Here in Arizona, the leading supporters of illegal immigration are major Democrat farmers, who like workers who labor for virtually nothing and can't complain for fear of attracting attention from La Migra. Small wonder they poop in our Chipotle ingredients.
This project is also going to need a carefully balanced mix of genres. What impression would the AI form of human behavior from noir, bodice-rippers, SFF, police procedurals, or academic fiction? If you fed it Infinite Jest, would it explode?
Not so bizarre, when you think about it. China's government is studded with engineers, rather than the lawyers who dominate our own government. When lawyers run things, you get inanity like resetting the iCloud password of your suspect's newly seized iPhone, making it impossible to recover data by backing it up to Apple's servers.
Because of the slowness of the data link and the fact that NH is barreling away from Earth at high speed, the strategy has been to send all the JPGs first, then the Raw images. It is these, trickling back, that we are seeing now, that are giving us these new revelations so long after the flyby,
When all the high-res images have been uploaded, NH can be repurposed for a new flyby in the Oort Cloud.
Why not try first marketing the device in some country where the registration requirements are not as ridiculous? If the device proves out over time, getting it registered in other countries will be easier.
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"Burn it all down, so the Russians can't have it. "
Why WOULDN'T we want the Russians to have the Middle East? After a few generations of good old colonial exploitation, the ME will have completely forgotten about hating the US and, depending on the effectiveness of Russia's indoctrination and cultural reprogramming, could emerge as the "India" of the 23rd or 24th century.
This may ultimately take a new party, one that forms out of the wreckage that Sanders and Trump will leave behind them. Meanwhile, let's use our scanning electron microscopes to find evidence of pro-science sentiment in the existing political field.
Republicans: Isn't science/tech as worthy of investment as war?
Democrats: When science bestows on us such things as dense carbon-free energy and fine control over how the genome of any desired species can develop, just for once try embracing innovation instead of fearing it. This is where new jobs - those good American jobs in your platform rhetoric - come from.
"Heed this: If Sanders is the nominee, I'll vote libertarian as always. "
Republican here: If Trump is nominated, I will do the same, and I'll hide an Apple developer in my attic at least until the FBI finds her.
Actually I wish you were right about the ease of decrypting an iPhone, because that would make the FBI's case even weaker. You're saying it could easily break into the iPhone by hiring its own developers, but instead chooses to go mano a mano against a company with far more money than it does, and be willing to shred the US Constitution - in an election year - to support its crappy case?
Yes, the FBI wants to establish "writing special break-in software that we could write ourselves if we weren't terminally clueless" as a compulsory labor exception like prison time, the draft or jury duty. Welcome, oh bootlickers, to the wonderful world this would open up to you as developers.
"If Apple wants to avoid such cases in the future, they should design phones that they themselves cannot break into. That is entirely legal."
Apple has already designed iOS to be not decryptable. The FBI, like any other possessor of an encrypted device, is welcome to try writing the facilitating software it would take to allow a brute-force attack on the iPhone. Instead, it is trying to compel Apple to write the software for it, knowing that this would make it easier to break into other such devices in the future and to establish an exception to the Thirteenth Amendment as precedent. Apple disagrees with this legal maneuver.
The victim's name was Milton Olin. Lots of news about this case is available:
http://www.dailynews.com/gener...
"I'm really glad that our government spends so much on R&D in order to kill people better."
The big but is that by making a project military in some way, the government might actually be able to do it without twenty years of oppositional hearings.
The article describes some general safeguards on the process, but no specifics on how to control exactly where the device goes. Or is the idea to worm a catheter right to the site of implantation before sending the stentrode through it?
Current "brain control" tech involves using electroencephalography to read electrical emissions of the brain so that, through feedback training, the patient can make willable and repeatable patterns of such electrical activity to do things like move a cursor on a screen and "click on" something where desired. Can't we get a sensor close enough to the brain in some way that does not involve the circulatory system?
A more accurate version of that motto might be "Protect Ourselves, Bend Over So We Can Serve You."
We of the dark side are often accused of invoking the slippery slope argument too soon. But in this instance, if the FBI is able to convince courts that forced labor is a valid tactic to use in a terror investigation, it already has nine new cases (more according to some sources) for which it wants Apple to be forced to write custom crack code in hopes of solving. And every single one of these new cases involves the drug war, not terror.
Unfortunately, police who screw up usually can't be fired, and are insulated from any consequences by the legal system. In Los Angeles a cop, driving wile texting, plowed into a cyclist and killed him. The country prosecutor declined to indict because police privilege. Fortunately the cyclist was a Silicon Valley executive whose family had the resources to sue.
Being careful about wax is part of the standard instruction that patients get.
Can it figure out where the notorious goatse photo was taken?
I thought everyone knew it was Christmas Island.
"When the satellites show that the sea level isn't rising, will you global warming supporters finally admit to being wrong? "
No, it just means that the ocean is ABSORBING the increase in level!
Some of the women that have been raped have apologized, so they obviously disagree with you. They recognize that the rape was the fault of society and not the victims that committed it.
This, succinctly, is the fundamental difference between the European and American worldviews.
Jews? What would be their self-interest in importing a flood of zombie killers who hate, specifically, Jews?
Here in Arizona, the leading supporters of illegal immigration are major Democrat farmers, who like workers who labor for virtually nothing and can't complain for fear of attracting attention from La Migra. Small wonder they poop in our Chipotle ingredients.
This project is also going to need a carefully balanced mix of genres. What impression would the AI form of human behavior from noir, bodice-rippers, SFF, police procedurals, or academic fiction? If you fed it Infinite Jest, would it explode?
That's why they're not lifting military secrets from Iceland.
And if those two pennies had been minted in Denver, they would probably be more radioactive than we're talking about here.
Not so bizarre, when you think about it. China's government is studded with engineers, rather than the lawyers who dominate our own government. When lawyers run things, you get inanity like resetting the iCloud password of your suspect's newly seized iPhone, making it impossible to recover data by backing it up to Apple's servers.
Unless the host is the US, when you can walk in and do business whenever you want to because past aggression colonialism white people suck.
Because of the slowness of the data link and the fact that NH is barreling away from Earth at high speed, the strategy has been to send all the JPGs first, then the Raw images. It is these, trickling back, that we are seeing now, that are giving us these new revelations so long after the flyby,
When all the high-res images have been uploaded, NH can be repurposed for a new flyby in the Oort Cloud.
" your favorite cool new thing that we learned from New Horizons? "
My vote goes to the finding of active tectonics. This implies heat, which is coming from...where?
Why not try first marketing the device in some country where the registration requirements are not as ridiculous? If the device proves out over time, getting it registered in other countries will be easier.