I find it hard to decide whether banning human assistive technology in sport is a good thing. One day the average teenager with a toy or the right diet will perform better than the best athlete if we prevent athletes from using assistive technologies. So what should we do? Expect sportspeople to live outside society and perform "human" sport for our entertainment?
I agree that it would be naive to think that trained operational terror cells do not use a variety of techniques to hide from intelligence services. Technically it would be an unwinnable war to defeat encryption so the noise about it is largely ill informed political hubris.
Mass surveillance of un-encrypted communications and web browsing can detect people who have an interest in Daesh. It will certainly catch a lot of teenagers and put them on watch lists, which is probably the actual intention of mass surveillance.
Having made the commons of the internet unsafe for actual operational terror cells, governments will be free to concentrate on the uncommon internet, all VPN and Tor users will be on watch lists.
I wouldn't use Tor if I were you, it signals you as a potential criminal or terrorist. It will probably become illegal to use if it has not already been compromised by the intelligence services.
One act that would protect Westerners from Daesh would be to prevent Western teenagers from going there and being trained to use weapons. Removing the passport from anyone who reads a Wikipedia article on Daesh would achieve that objective more easily than patrolling the border. (Protecting Europe's external boarder will prove difficult, not least because it would be against the 1951 UN refugee convention to stop taking Syrian refugees - who we should remind ourselves are fleeing from years of Daesh violence far in excess of the Paris attack last week).
Unfortunately detecting terrorist sympathizers will be only a transient use of mass surveillance as once the resource is created it will eventually be abused - there are already morons who want to give random bureaucrats access to it, with no comprehension that this would rapidly get out of control and criminalize the entire population. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
(It irritates me intensely that the BBC continues to call this Khawaarij cult the Islamic State - a cult which is described by most Muslims as "people who recite the Qur’an, but it will not go past their collarbones").
If the US had the same income distribution it had in 1979, each family in the bottom 80% of the income distribution would have $11,000 more per year in income on average, or $916 per month. Half of the U.S. population lives in poverty or is low-income, according to U.S. Census data.
Sadly the 0.1% have taken all the wealth generated by economic growth since 1970 and fooled the rest of the population into believing that this is what they deserve. Remember all that relentless Fox News propaganda is paid for by those who think that this is justified.
If 80 million US jobs are destroyed by automation then they will all starve according to the current socioeconomic model of the U.S. You may want to remember that the next time you engage in a political debate.
It was recently revealed that all phone calls have been monitored in the UK for over a decade. It is equally probable that most internet traffic has been recorded by the security services. The joint task force described is obviously a liaison service allowing the police access to this data. This service will be expanded to give police direct access after the current internet security bill is passed.
The people do not care about this because the press has told them that the data will only be used to catch pedophiles. What they forget is that the police only exist to criminalize people and they will find it easy to criminalize most of the population given access to their internet records. The same will apply when all cars are connected to the internet, everybody will be fined for speeding as it is almost impossible to avoid doing so - check your GPS, it will often show that you missed a speed limit change by a few seconds.
Tragically I think that this analysis is fairly close to the mark. The moronic public have been sold the lie that opting out of human rights legislation is all about preventing the EU from forcing the UK to give prisoners the right to vote and preventing the deportation of assorted terror suspects. It is actually about giving the Tory parties sponsors the right to treat their employees as slaves but the media never discusses this.
There is far too much hype about the entitlements of the undeserving poor, there needs to be more discussion about the presumed entitlement of the undeserving 1%. There is no economic benefit from these scroungers (See Thomas Pikettys Capital) and society needs to pull the rug out from under them. The continuous propaganda selling the disgraceful behavior of these people needs to be questioned, they are not an essential part of capitalism.
There is no training because there is no requirement for it. A police state does not need justification. The US has most of the bad things that I thought we fought the USSR about in the cold war. It is very sad.
Actually tax pays for things like the free healthcare in the UK, which whilst without the better outcomes in the US costs far less as a proportion of GDP. The rich are free to pay extra for better care in the UK so I do not understand why they want to take away the right of the poor to healthcare. Unless it is of course because they are evil.
They can always drop the price of the phones, after all the BOM must be down below $100, after all it is a free market and the Apple bubble can only last for so long. There is no other industry where a single player can keep a global monopoly.
I believe you have hit the actual nail on the head. Space is unbelievably big and it takes a long time to get around. A very long time. Humanity will never reach the nearest star. We do not live long enough to get there and we do not have the appearance of a civilization that will last long enough to develop the robots who could. Have you any idea how much a starship would cost that took less than 50,000 years to get to the nearest star and stop? To be fair I do not either but it must be on the order of magnitude of several decades worth of global wealth. Sorry kids there is no star trek in your future.
The Panopticon is inevitable given the existential threats of Daesh terrorists being groomed over the internet in our midst and the convenient truth that business has already owned peoples lives without protest. (With the exception of the hated European Union's attempts to limit it).
All we can hope for now is that oversight of the agencies given snooping powers can be created - allowing a few bought off judges to rubber stamp access to peoples data is nowhere good enough. Also to restrict access to agencies with publicly sanctioned specific agendas and well trained staff - currently there is nothing to stop low level local officials from free access to peoples data and the corruption that this will create (See US policing tactics to steal money from people stopped in their vehicles).
Theresa Mays party is fameous for its bad implementation of law so expect none of the above caveats to be implemented. They are well known as the party of Law and Order - which equates to laws written by the most vocal and insane right wing media.
Posting from the X201 I use in the kitchen. Admittedly I do have it plugged into a 24" 16:10 monitor because of the lousy screen. It has the best keyboard in the building though.
Not unless it runs on a mobile phone. The whole of the tech industry is only interested in selling stuff to mobile users because the only growth industry is selling mobiles to developing countries. Linux is history because the fight for the desktop is over, all the money is in mobiles not desktops so screw desktops. Skype probably did not do any input checking because mobile users do not type in addresses, so who cares?
In six months or so we will know whether there is anything absolutely extraordinary to be learned from the LHC. It is only a hope that new physics will be found at 13TeV. We spent the money to find the Higgs and found it, in the next year or so we will know a lot more about it but the hope is that something of interest to the general public may come out of the energy boost. I would not hold your breath though, so far we have only seen exactly what we expected to see. The next big thing may be to search for the gravitational waves from the big bang to settle the question of whether inflation started the universe. No one is funding it until at least 2035.
Sadly I really think we need to keep our fingers crossed that a mere doubling of energy in the LHC will find anything startling.
Unfortunately we probably need to spend at least as much money on a different experiment to find another amazing thing.
Having said that it is already a triumph to have discovered the Higgs scalar field - something that was only a theory until the LHC came along and now it is in the text books because of it.
You may find that like the moon landing, a tremendous leap forward is followed by 50 years of disappointment once the political will has died. (At least we have transparent aluminum AlN now):-)
Advertising should be either sought after or relatively invisible. I quit watching television in the 80's and I allowed advertising on websites whilst it was apparent that they paid for the service I was using. These days advertising kills people http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e... So fuck the bastards.
I have done research on this topic and I think I will take my chances with the conclusions of the majority of the scientific community. Not the principle that if it is temporarily good for jobs then it is the right answer. The track record of going after the money and nothing else is littered with destroyed lives, Bhopal for example. I note that with freedom comes responsibility and I also note that the people who shout about it the most are the least likely to take any responsibility for anything.
Gosh, this reminds me of the 19 Century when workers were paid in company coins and had to spend it in the company store. Amazing the way institutional corruption is still going strong in the modern world. In fact it makes you doubt that the modern world ever happened.
I suspect to many Muslim youth ISIL looks very little different to the way the left in the Spanish civil war looked to young Europeans last century. Many many Europeans went to fight the dictator Franco and died. Fortunately they did not in the main bring their bombs and guns back with them, we certainly did not put them all in prison as we do returnees from Syria and Iraq.
There is no church hierarchy in Islam that we could expect to make a statement on behalf of the faith, its not so easy to denounce your own religion either. I am not surprised that you think that extremism is tolerated by default in Islam, I think it is more a case of it being difficult to tell by what is pronounced publicly. Also we have to overcome the stunning hypocrisy of Bush and Blair who are personally responsible for lying to the world about weapons of mass destruction then proceeding to start a war in which 153,828 Iraqi civilians have died. This is 51 times more people than died in the Twin Towers. No wonder muslims have concerns about their place in our societies.
Sorry but this is like expecting the Pope to denounce the Westborough hate church. Also remember that the ISIL soldiers in Syria have in fact liberated the country from Bashar al-Assad. The fact that this liberation is into the care of a death cult is something that many will not believe. It would be like the West denouncing a christian militia - say the lords resistance army. I do not recall any church leader excommunicating those men for murder, abduction, mutilation, and child-sex slavery.
The point is that Muslims views are open to persuasion just like westerners. At the moment ISIL is doing a great job of trying to tar Muslims the world over with their greasy death cult and the predictable outraged bigoted red faced old white men are screaming from the rooftops that all Muslims are apologists for terror because young Muslims are being sold a better future by the death cult than the same bigoted red faced old white men.
We need to step up to the plate and offer the youth a better vision than "all Muslims are terrorist sympathizers". If we do not ISIL will succeed in driving a wedge between the west and its Muslim population.
The one guaranteed outcome of us allowing ISIL to do this will be genocide, because they believe that the end times are here and they want it to happen on both sides - and personally I will be blaming the red faced old white men for allowing simple psychology to beat the West if it happens.
Ignoring the personal insult for a moment. Who says no nation willingly accepts regression? Have you looked at Russia and its gangster leader recently?
Turkey is a basket case. The current leadership is introducing medieval Islam in what was technically a secular country. They have little choice.
On its boarders the region run by the Islamic State death cult who have co-opted the Islamic religion to indoctrinate their cannon fodder. The point about Muslim religious authority is that it belongs to whoever declares that they own it. The point about a religion is that it replaces the moral judgement of individuals with the rules as given by the earthly religious authority.
To cut a long story short if Turkey does not adopt a mediaeval society and reject the west then the people will turn to Islamic State and kick the government out and replace them with the death cult.
Not really relevant though in this case is it. Do you really think the application of the law is by legal reasoning?
The detecting and prosecuting authority's will be instructed to apply sanctions for the personal possession of encrypting technology and to automatically sanction without discretion.
Jurys are not required for 99% of court cases, the judge just rubber stamps the prosecutions case.
Cameron has turned out to be a duffer who just repeats the odious bigotry of his class.
Even the Brown Shirt party - UKIP with their dreams of immigrant prison camps and deportations couldn't be worse than slime-ball Cameron. At least they are honest about who's neck they want to get their jackboots on.
The can of green beans is just fresh beans cooked and stored in a bug free condition for some time. So its not all that less nutritious than the fresh beans a lot of the time. There is often too much sugar added to the cans though.
Wonderful fun at the time. The characters were recognizably like us. It had great music. The science was logically correct though largely imaginary, the shoe event horizon has for example not moved in social science from a theory to a measurable process. One of the main protagonist drinks tea, and the infinite improbability drive is driven by the random information from a realy hot cup of tea; one wonders how much tea Adams drank writing it. At the time it was completely unique, it had stereo sound and even a plug on national television https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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I find it hard to decide whether banning human assistive technology in sport is a good thing. One day the average teenager with a toy or the right diet will perform better than the best athlete if we prevent athletes from using assistive technologies. So what should we do? Expect sportspeople to live outside society and perform "human" sport for our entertainment?
I agree that it would be naive to think that trained operational terror cells do not use a variety of techniques to hide from intelligence services. Technically it would be an unwinnable war to defeat encryption so the noise about it is largely ill informed political hubris.
Mass surveillance of un-encrypted communications and web browsing can detect people who have an interest in Daesh. It will certainly catch a lot of teenagers and put them on watch lists, which is probably the actual intention of mass surveillance.
Having made the commons of the internet unsafe for actual operational terror cells, governments will be free to concentrate on the uncommon internet, all VPN and Tor users will be on watch lists.
I wouldn't use Tor if I were you, it signals you as a potential criminal or terrorist. It will probably become illegal to use if it has not already been compromised by the intelligence services.
One act that would protect Westerners from Daesh would be to prevent Western teenagers from going there and being trained to use weapons. Removing the passport from anyone who reads a Wikipedia article on Daesh would achieve that objective more easily than patrolling the border. (Protecting Europe's external boarder will prove difficult, not least because it would be against the 1951 UN refugee convention to stop taking Syrian refugees - who we should remind ourselves are fleeing from years of Daesh violence far in excess of the Paris attack last week).
Unfortunately detecting terrorist sympathizers will be only a transient use of mass surveillance as once the resource is created it will eventually be abused - there are already morons who want to give random bureaucrats access to it, with no comprehension that this would rapidly get out of control and criminalize the entire population. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
(It irritates me intensely that the BBC continues to call this Khawaarij cult the Islamic State - a cult which is described by most Muslims as "people who recite the Qur’an, but it will not go past their collarbones").
If the US had the same income distribution it had in 1979, each family in the bottom 80% of the income distribution would have $11,000 more per year in income on average, or $916 per month. Half of the U.S. population lives in poverty or is low-income, according to U.S. Census data.
Sadly the 0.1% have taken all the wealth generated by economic growth since 1970 and fooled the rest of the population into believing that this is what they deserve. Remember all that relentless Fox News propaganda is paid for by those who think that this is justified.
If 80 million US jobs are destroyed by automation then they will all starve according to the current socioeconomic model of the U.S. You may want to remember that the next time you engage in a political debate.
It was recently revealed that all phone calls have been monitored in the UK for over a decade. It is equally probable that most internet traffic has been recorded by the security services. The joint task force described is obviously a liaison service allowing the police access to this data. This service will be expanded to give police direct access after the current internet security bill is passed.
The people do not care about this because the press has told them that the data will only be used to catch pedophiles. What they forget is that the police only exist to criminalize people and they will find it easy to criminalize most of the population given access to their internet records. The same will apply when all cars are connected to the internet, everybody will be fined for speeding as it is almost impossible to avoid doing so - check your GPS, it will often show that you missed a speed limit change by a few seconds.
Welcome to the panopticon.
Tragically I think that this analysis is fairly close to the mark. The moronic public have been sold the lie that opting out of human rights legislation is all about preventing the EU from forcing the UK to give prisoners the right to vote and preventing the deportation of assorted terror suspects. It is actually about giving the Tory parties sponsors the right to treat their employees as slaves but the media never discusses this.
There is far too much hype about the entitlements of the undeserving poor, there needs to be more discussion about the presumed entitlement of the undeserving 1%. There is no economic benefit from these scroungers (See Thomas Pikettys Capital) and society needs to pull the rug out from under them. The continuous propaganda selling the disgraceful behavior of these people needs to be questioned, they are not an essential part of capitalism.
There is no training because there is no requirement for it. A police state does not need justification. The US has most of the bad things that I thought we fought the USSR about in the cold war. It is very sad.
National healthcare performance UK - Expenditure per capita UK $3,405 US 8,508
https://www.gov.uk/government/...
I am from the Internet you ignorant fuckwit.
Actually tax pays for things like the free healthcare in the UK, which whilst without the better outcomes in the US costs far less as a proportion of GDP. The rich are free to pay extra for better care in the UK so I do not understand why they want to take away the right of the poor to healthcare. Unless it is of course because they are evil.
They can always drop the price of the phones, after all the BOM must be down below $100, after all it is a free market and the Apple bubble can only last for so long. There is no other industry where a single player can keep a global monopoly.
I believe you have hit the actual nail on the head. Space is unbelievably big and it takes a long time to get around. A very long time. Humanity will never reach the nearest star. We do not live long enough to get there and we do not have the appearance of a civilization that will last long enough to develop the robots who could. Have you any idea how much a starship would cost that took less than 50,000 years to get to the nearest star and stop? To be fair I do not either but it must be on the order of magnitude of several decades worth of global wealth. Sorry kids there is no star trek in your future.
The Panopticon is inevitable given the existential threats of Daesh terrorists being groomed over the internet in our midst and the convenient truth that business has already owned peoples lives without protest. (With the exception of the hated European Union's attempts to limit it).
All we can hope for now is that oversight of the agencies given snooping powers can be created - allowing a few bought off judges to rubber stamp access to peoples data is nowhere good enough. Also to restrict access to agencies with publicly sanctioned specific agendas and well trained staff - currently there is nothing to stop low level local officials from free access to peoples data and the corruption that this will create (See US policing tactics to steal money from people stopped in their vehicles).
Theresa Mays party is fameous for its bad implementation of law so expect none of the above caveats to be implemented. They are well known as the party of Law and Order - which equates to laws written by the most vocal and insane right wing media.
Posting from the X201 I use in the kitchen. Admittedly I do have it plugged into a 24" 16:10 monitor because of the lousy screen. It has the best keyboard in the building though.
I see only the raw data on the link. I think that farmers would be interested in their local projections but we need tools to see them.
Not unless it runs on a mobile phone. The whole of the tech industry is only interested in selling stuff to mobile users because the only growth industry is selling mobiles to developing countries. Linux is history because the fight for the desktop is over, all the money is in mobiles not desktops so screw desktops. Skype probably did not do any input checking because mobile users do not type in addresses, so who cares?
IANA theoretical physicist but...
In six months or so we will know whether there is anything absolutely extraordinary to be learned from the LHC. It is only a hope that new physics will be found at 13TeV. We spent the money to find the Higgs and found it, in the next year or so we will know a lot more about it but the hope is that something of interest to the general public may come out of the energy boost. I would not hold your breath though, so far we have only seen exactly what we expected to see. The next big thing may be to search for the gravitational waves from the big bang to settle the question of whether inflation started the universe. No one is funding it until at least 2035.
Sadly I really think we need to keep our fingers crossed that a mere doubling of energy in the LHC will find anything startling.
Unfortunately we probably need to spend at least as much money on a different experiment to find another amazing thing.
Having said that it is already a triumph to have discovered the Higgs scalar field - something that was only a theory until the LHC came along and now it is in the text books because of it.
You may find that like the moon landing, a tremendous leap forward is followed by 50 years of disappointment once the political will has died. (At least we have transparent aluminum AlN now) :-)
Advertising should be either sought after or relatively invisible. I quit watching television in the 80's and I allowed advertising on websites whilst it was apparent that they paid for the service I was using. These days advertising kills people http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e... So fuck the bastards.
I have done research on this topic and I think I will take my chances with the conclusions of the majority of the scientific community. Not the principle that if it is temporarily good for jobs then it is the right answer. The track record of going after the money and nothing else is littered with destroyed lives, Bhopal for example. I note that with freedom comes responsibility and I also note that the people who shout about it the most are the least likely to take any responsibility for anything.
Gosh, this reminds me of the 19 Century when workers were paid in company coins and had to spend it in the company store. Amazing the way institutional corruption is still going strong in the modern world. In fact it makes you doubt that the modern world ever happened.
I suspect to many Muslim youth ISIL looks very little different to the way the left in the Spanish civil war looked to young Europeans last century. Many many Europeans went to fight the dictator Franco and died. Fortunately they did not in the main bring their bombs and guns back with them, we certainly did not put them all in prison as we do returnees from Syria and Iraq.
There is no church hierarchy in Islam that we could expect to make a statement on behalf of the faith, its not so easy to denounce your own religion either. I am not surprised that you think that extremism is tolerated by default in Islam, I think it is more a case of it being difficult to tell by what is pronounced publicly. Also we have to overcome the stunning hypocrisy of Bush and Blair who are personally responsible for lying to the world about weapons of mass destruction then proceeding to start a war in which 153,828 Iraqi civilians have died. This is 51 times more people than died in the Twin Towers. No wonder muslims have concerns about their place in our societies.
Sorry but this is like expecting the Pope to denounce the Westborough hate church. Also remember that the ISIL soldiers in Syria have in fact liberated the country from Bashar al-Assad. The fact that this liberation is into the care of a death cult is something that many will not believe. It would be like the West denouncing a christian militia - say the lords resistance army. I do not recall any church leader excommunicating those men for murder, abduction, mutilation, and child-sex slavery.
The point is that Muslims views are open to persuasion just like westerners. At the moment ISIL is doing a great job of trying to tar Muslims the world over with their greasy death cult and the predictable outraged bigoted red faced old white men are screaming from the rooftops that all Muslims are apologists for terror because young Muslims are being sold a better future by the death cult than the same bigoted red faced old white men.
We need to step up to the plate and offer the youth a better vision than "all Muslims are terrorist sympathizers". If we do not ISIL will succeed in driving a wedge between the west and its Muslim population.
The one guaranteed outcome of us allowing ISIL to do this will be genocide, because they believe that the end times are here and they want it to happen on both sides - and personally I will be blaming the red faced old white men for allowing simple psychology to beat the West if it happens.
Ignoring the personal insult for a moment. Who says no nation willingly accepts regression? Have you looked at Russia and its gangster leader recently?
Turkey is a basket case. The current leadership is introducing medieval Islam in what was technically a secular country. They have little choice.
On its boarders the region run by the Islamic State death cult who have co-opted the Islamic religion to indoctrinate their cannon fodder. The point about Muslim religious authority is that it belongs to whoever declares that they own it. The point about a religion is that it replaces the moral judgement of individuals with the rules as given by the earthly religious authority.
To cut a long story short if Turkey does not adopt a mediaeval society and reject the west then the people will turn to Islamic State and kick the government out and replace them with the death cult.
Expect Turkey to become hostile to westerners.
Not really relevant though in this case is it. Do you really think the application of the law is by legal reasoning?
The detecting and prosecuting authority's will be instructed to apply sanctions for the personal possession of encrypting technology and to automatically sanction without discretion.
Jurys are not required for 99% of court cases, the judge just rubber stamps the prosecutions case.
Cameron has turned out to be a duffer who just repeats the odious bigotry of his class.
Even the Brown Shirt party - UKIP with their dreams of immigrant prison camps and deportations couldn't be worse than slime-ball Cameron. At least they are honest about who's neck they want to get their jackboots on.
The can of green beans is just fresh beans cooked and stored in a bug free condition for some time. So its not all that less nutritious than the fresh beans a lot of the time. There is often too much sugar added to the cans though.
Wonderful fun at the time. The characters were recognizably like us. It had great music. The science was logically correct though largely imaginary, the shoe event horizon has for example not moved in social science from a theory to a measurable process. One of the main protagonist drinks tea, and the infinite improbability drive is driven by the random information from a realy hot cup of tea; one wonders how much tea Adams drank writing it. At the time it was completely unique, it had stereo sound and even a plug on national television https://www.youtube.com/watch?...