" I worry that Americans are, slowly but surely, losing their connection to the idea of private ownership. The nation was based on the notion that property ownership gives individuals a stake in the system. "
Hardly. It made us into a bunch of hoarders.
And really, was that what the nation was based on? I thought there was that whole religious freedom thing. And the taxation without representation. Private ownership might have played a part, but it doesn't get top billing in any version of the story I've ever heard. I'd be interested to read otherwise.
Yeah, silver can enhance a superconductor, and SrAuSi3 fits into the general AMX3 broken spatial inversion symmetry class of superconductors - but with just silver and gold you don't have that BSIS.
I can't tell if this is real or trolling. So, good job I guess.
The particular cameras they use are also running all the time. But they only begin storing once the officer presses record. What they do have is a 30 second buffer built in, so that it will store the 30s prior to the "start" click.
Most sports cameras support loop record mode. Use that and you'll always have the last X minutes before it was shut off, up to memory card capacity. There's literally no valid reason for body cams to not be in this mode in normal use.
That's what I'm telling you, that's a problem today. I've worked in real estate and as bad a system as physical copies at the county courthouse may be, the solution proposed by the mortgage industry - just let us build a database and we'll take care of it - is a thousand times worse. Unless you're a bank, then it's literally a machine for stealing homes.
With a blockchain ledger you're no better off in the first step, but every subsequent transaction increases trust.
It's entirely possible I misunderstand some blockchain details, please correct me if I'm wrong. I understand each transaction can optionally contain additional information besides just the financial details. I thought this information is readable to anyone. If this is the case, I would put the legal names of the parties in that data. Then if someone loses their key you could create a new entry that references the orphaned transaction. The physical property isn't lost like a bitcoin just because you can't transfer it in the normal way.
This would mean you could still have inconclusive title, but you could make fraud less likely by locking all transactions with the lost key. In other words, if a bank has been a party to thousands of transactions and they say they've lost their key, you'd have to lock all their transactions, making it really painful and expensive to reestablish new records for all properties. If an individual buyer lost their key, the last known-good transaction would still show them as the title holder, with the bank as the lien holder.
Blockchain is just the ledger. The value is in what the ledger describes. Cryptocurrency is an anomalous use case in that the ledger is also the repository of value.
Wish I'd seen your reply before leaving town.
The thing you're missing is that there is no central database of home ownership today. When you buy or sell a house, one of the services you pay for is a title search. The agent pulls all records on the property from the county court and checks to see if the seller has clear title. All that means is the only records on file show consecutive transfers to the current seller.
You may instead find multiple claims on a property, which could indicate fraud, or conflicting interests like in a disputed will.
Worst case you may find a bank has filed foreclosure, regardless of the fact that the current occupant owns it free and clear. You recall this was in the news a few years ago. Judges just assumed the banks were right in these disputes.
Why there isn't a central database for this now is a longer discussion, but my point here is that a distributed immutable ledger would help reduce a type of fraud that has been used in the real world.
But the technology is bad for advertisers. If you see criticism of RSS, look closely at where it comes from. If it comes from someone trying to sell you something, take their advice with a grain of salt.
This. Lots of criticisms of RSS come down to personal preference. But the ones that are legitimate issues are nearly always from the point of view of the publisher. As a listener, I'm perfectly happy with how it works now.
That means they have to know what you actually put on your ballot sheet, not simply which Primary ballot sheet you received.
Now I'm back to "What the fuck?" That's not supposed to be possible, from everything I've heard about voting since they started teaching it in grade school.
Hold on, I just re-read this and thing you're saying the opposite of what I thought on first pass.
In a primary, when you have to take one ballot or the other, it makes sense that there would be a record of which ballot you took. But in a general, how would they know which party you voted for?
In a Primary, those match; in a General, however, you can be a registered Democrat and vote for a Republican--who is exactly one specific candidate because there is only one candidate from each party.
The State knows whose ballot is whose. The rest of us don't.
I'm pretty sure that's not the case in my district here in Ohio. Every ballot has a tear-off serial number on the end. They track which voter was issued which ballot, but you tear off the number before submitting the ballot for electronic scanning. I couldn't swear to it, but I've never noticed a barcode or anything other traceable on what I turned in.
Yeah, let's just introduce a traceable way to verify who and what you voted for. None of that pesky anonymity to allow people to vote their conscience. Just register with your local church... or corporation... or political party... and let their companion app vote for you.
Say I'm a brewer and I find some of my beer is off. I examine the batches of my product with the problem; I can do this because like any sensible manufacturer of foods & pharma I record the ancestry of my products. I find that they all have one thing in common - hops[1] from supplier X batch Y. That's my internal tracking issue.
Then, because you don't know where they got the bad ingredients, you have to recall everything sourced to them. If they're your largest hops supplier, you might recall a more than half of what's in circulation.
Or, because you've enforced verifiable end-to-end tracking all the way to the end of your supply chain, you know that everything traces back to one farm and you recall 5% of what's in circulation.
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I don't believe there is a quality firefighting service for rich people yet. Perhaps we can partner with the prison system and make this happen.
You joke, but this podcast describes prisoners working as firefighters in California for $1/hr.
I was skeptical of this claim, but at least Wikipedia backs it up
Well that's good enough for me.
" I worry that Americans are, slowly but surely, losing their connection to the idea of private ownership. The nation was based on the notion that property ownership gives individuals a stake in the system. "
Hardly. It made us into a bunch of hoarders.
And really, was that what the nation was based on? I thought there was that whole religious freedom thing. And the taxation without representation. Private ownership might have played a part, but it doesn't get top billing in any version of the story I've ever heard. I'd be interested to read otherwise.
Cyber is a war-fighting domain, just like the land, air, and sea.
Yeah, silver can enhance a superconductor, and SrAuSi3 fits into the general AMX3 broken spatial inversion symmetry class of superconductors - but with just silver and gold you don't have that BSIS.
I can't tell if this is real or trolling. So, good job I guess.
Add in the "Bail is too hard on criminals" logic ...
If we're talking about bail, we're dealing with defendants, not criminals.
Can someone explain how this doesn't introduce a single point of failure? Even a plausible theory?
Even high endurance cards are only good for 5-10k hours about 6months at 40hours a week. https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk...
$20 every six months is easily covered by a single instance where video evidence shortens a court case.
The particular cameras they use are also running all the time. But they only begin storing once the officer presses record. What they do have is a 30 second buffer built in, so that it will store the 30s prior to the "start" click.
Most sports cameras support loop record mode. Use that and you'll always have the last X minutes before it was shut off, up to memory card capacity. There's literally no valid reason for body cams to not be in this mode in normal use.
"More than 300 people ..."
How many were children?
How many are there by this time on average?
Of the ones who were children, how many had parents with them?
They need to do their homework.
It's easy to imagine that not even the NIST knows every service and device that could be impacted by this decision.
There's no fucking way the NIST knows half the shit that could be impacted by this decision. [FIFY]
That's what I'm telling you, that's a problem today. I've worked in real estate and as bad a system as physical copies at the county courthouse may be, the solution proposed by the mortgage industry - just let us build a database and we'll take care of it - is a thousand times worse. Unless you're a bank, then it's literally a machine for stealing homes.
With a blockchain ledger you're no better off in the first step, but every subsequent transaction increases trust.
It's entirely possible I misunderstand some blockchain details, please correct me if I'm wrong. I understand each transaction can optionally contain additional information besides just the financial details. I thought this information is readable to anyone. If this is the case, I would put the legal names of the parties in that data. Then if someone loses their key you could create a new entry that references the orphaned transaction. The physical property isn't lost like a bitcoin just because you can't transfer it in the normal way.
This would mean you could still have inconclusive title, but you could make fraud less likely by locking all transactions with the lost key. In other words, if a bank has been a party to thousands of transactions and they say they've lost their key, you'd have to lock all their transactions, making it really painful and expensive to reestablish new records for all properties. If an individual buyer lost their key, the last known-good transaction would still show them as the title holder, with the bank as the lien holder.
Blockchain is just the ledger. The value is in what the ledger describes. Cryptocurrency is an anomalous use case in that the ledger is also the repository of value.
That only happens because Bitcoin is anonymous. Title transfers wouldn't be.
Sorry for the wall of text. Didn't realize the mobile app doesn't do preview.
Wish I'd seen your reply before leaving town. The thing you're missing is that there is no central database of home ownership today. When you buy or sell a house, one of the services you pay for is a title search. The agent pulls all records on the property from the county court and checks to see if the seller has clear title. All that means is the only records on file show consecutive transfers to the current seller. You may instead find multiple claims on a property, which could indicate fraud, or conflicting interests like in a disputed will. Worst case you may find a bank has filed foreclosure, regardless of the fact that the current occupant owns it free and clear. You recall this was in the news a few years ago. Judges just assumed the banks were right in these disputes. Why there isn't a central database for this now is a longer discussion, but my point here is that a distributed immutable ledger would help reduce a type of fraud that has been used in the real world.
Blockchain for real-estate titles isn't stupid.
But the technology is bad for advertisers. If you see criticism of RSS, look closely at where it comes from. If it comes from someone trying to sell you something, take their advice with a grain of salt.
This. Lots of criticisms of RSS come down to personal preference. But the ones that are legitimate issues are nearly always from the point of view of the publisher. As a listener, I'm perfectly happy with how it works now.
That means they have to know what you actually put on your ballot sheet, not simply which Primary ballot sheet you received.
Now I'm back to "What the fuck?" That's not supposed to be possible, from everything I've heard about voting since they started teaching it in grade school.
Hold on, I just re-read this and thing you're saying the opposite of what I thought on first pass. In a primary, when you have to take one ballot or the other, it makes sense that there would be a record of which ballot you took. But in a general, how would they know which party you voted for?
In a Primary, those match; in a General, however, you can be a registered Democrat and vote for a Republican--who is exactly one specific candidate because there is only one candidate from each party.
Ah, in the primary! OK, that makes sense.
The State knows whose ballot is whose. The rest of us don't.
I'm pretty sure that's not the case in my district here in Ohio. Every ballot has a tear-off serial number on the end. They track which voter was issued which ballot, but you tear off the number before submitting the ballot for electronic scanning. I couldn't swear to it, but I've never noticed a barcode or anything other traceable on what I turned in.
Someone's been watching too much Star Trek.
Yeah, let's just introduce a traceable way to verify who and what you voted for. None of that pesky anonymity to allow people to vote their conscience. Just register with your local church ... or corporation ... or political party ... and let their companion app vote for you.
Say I'm a brewer and I find some of my beer is off. I examine the batches of my product with the problem; I can do this because like any sensible manufacturer of foods & pharma I record the ancestry of my products. I find that they all have one thing in common - hops[1] from supplier X batch Y. That's my internal tracking issue.
Then, because you don't know where they got the bad ingredients, you have to recall everything sourced to them. If they're your largest hops supplier, you might recall a more than half of what's in circulation.
Or, because you've enforced verifiable end-to-end tracking all the way to the end of your supply chain, you know that everything traces back to one farm and you recall 5% of what's in circulation.