The source of what? Nobody has provided any citations for anything in this thread, so attacking the source of these non-existent citations is ridiculous!
You win an argument like this by providing a reference (or calculation) that counters his claim, not by claiming that his unsourced claims are known to come from an unreliable source!
Google can't decrypt the data without your password...
Which is why Google, Facebook, or any of these other "free" services will never do something like that. The entire reason these services exist is to harvest that data. What needs to happen is for people to realize that these services cost something to provide and be ok with self-hosting or paying a marginal amount of real money for these services instead of paying with unfettered access to their data. (Paying for email service is dirt cheap, especially compared with what you're paying Google if you actually value your privacy.)
I hope that he also took the opportunity to redesign the system to fail safer. A few end of travel reed switches could have saved him from that and many other predictable failures.
We're already getting lots of ants, spiders, and other bugs pretty early this year, so watch what you wish for! Those who live in mosquito country are not going to be terribly happy with an extra long "growing season".
Yeah, the automatic soap dispensers seem the goofiest from a germaphobic point of view. I think that they're installed to limit how much soap is dispensed and save money for the owner.
Automatic faucets make a lot of sense, though. The faucet control is touched by everybody before they wash their hands and then again immediately after they wash their hands. It took seeing an actual smear of feces on a faucet knob to really drive home how ineffective manually operated faucets in public restrooms really are.
That's a very enlightened message that you'd expect from someone who has found some level of mastery of math. However, the very first math teachers that you're expected to encounter are quite likely not among that set. Overcoming poor teaching at the early stages requires a spark of insight or very good follow-up teaching. Hard work along the wrong trajectory may get you a passing grade, but doesn't gain you an actual understanding of the subject.
If your first few teachers insist that learning math is just a matter of memorizing a huge number of cryptic and arcane rules (or worse, actual numerical answers like multiplication tables), and they even treat arithmetic and basic algebra like that, you're going to have a hell of a time gaining any appreciation for how math actually works.
Much of that comes from the fact that math is hard to the teachers who end up teaching the very first math classes that kids take. They may not explicitly tell the kids that math is hard, but they project it very clearly. Thankfully, my mathematician mother taught me much of what I needed to know before I "learned" it in school.
So people are essentially using the every-day shortcuts and Trump doesn't sound like a politician (which automatically gives him the benefit of the doubt, rather than automatic suspicion) and he uses rhetorical tricks which sound honest.
It's important to note that all of the "slimy" characteristics that are attributed to politicians and car salesmen were originally characteristics that people perceived as indicators of honesty, too. If his tricks work, they will be coopted by other career manipulators (politicians, marketers, etc) until they no longer have any value and will then be dropped for new tricks.
There's a very real chance that this constant abuse of trust will have longterm effects on our society.
I'm an EU citizen and I'm tired of the US invading our privacy. The only real solution is to...
Unless the end of that sentence is "hold your own government accountable for its corruption", you haven't thought about it very hard.
I know (hope!) that you were being facetious about going to war, but I hope you realize that you're better off trying to clean up your own government first. A good start is to start blaming your "representatives" for their actions instead of letting them off the hook every time they start bleating about the Americans.
Payment systems upgrades can be year-long projects. Recertifying with your bank and other partners takes months. And with everyone having to do it at the same time, everyone is stretched thin getting it all done.
Well, it's a good thing for them that NIST declared that "SHA-1 shall not be used for digital signature generation after December 31, 2013", back in January of 2011. They should be done with their year-long POS upgrade by sometime in 2012 at the latest.
Maybe businesses should follow actual security best practices instead of waiting for ultimatums.
The DEA can go fuck themselves, as far as I'm concerned. Since their inception, they've been some of the worst abusers of the US population to date. They're huge proponents of such treats as early dawn no-knock raids, parallel construction (institutionalized perjury), the use of Stingray type devices, and the list goes on.
As soon as we end this neo-prohibitionist bullshit and the jackbooted thugs that get off on it, we can have a better shot of rebuilding our country.
You're conflating two very different issues here: what people want to share with (some) others and what people want to keep private. Even if some, but not all, people put a bunch of stuff online that you wouldn't put online, it doesn't mean that they should lose the right to keep other stuff private. We need to educate people about the impacts of divulging information about themselves to strangers and keep the ability to keep private information private.
Backdoors in devices aren't intended to get at information that people publicly post, but to let those prying eyes get at information that people don't publicly post.
Wow. No wonder your government sucks so much if you guys blame the actions of Australian politicians elected by Australian citizens on a different country on the other side of the planet. It's your house: keeping it in order is your responsibility.
You mean "en masse". Hopefully you won't get too pissed off about being corrected and we can gradually become (or at least appear) more educated as a group.
The fact that our language contains so many idioms makes this harder, but a first step should be to think about what "on mass" could mean and decide that it probably isn't the actual phrase you're looking for.
How could it be unfair if attorneys for both sides agree he should be tossed? Unfair to whom?!
Justice, I suppose. Both of the attorneys wanted gullible jurors on the basis that it's easier to make a case based on bullshit emotional pleas than it is to uncover all of the facts and debate them.
If your best argument in favor of letting people starve in the street (while you have yours) is the lack of an appropriate ordnance (sic), then you'll find that the starving people around you don't much consent to being part of your society and will string you up to help make a society that doesn't have such a lacking. The authority of your documents is entirely based on the consent of the governed (as the documents themselves clearly state), so it's in your best interest to maintain that consent.
This is the race to the bottom and as despicable as the industry is for profiting off of it, a huge amount of the blame lies with the workers for enabling it. Stop working for shitty salaries in overpriced cities and the executives running these corporations will stop expecting people to ruin themselves in order to bloat the executive bonuses. Grow a spine or brain or whatever it is that you're lacking and stop propping this shit up.
You beat me to it, but maybe the mailman was actually quite fit. They walk like twenty-five miles a day, unlike the typical desk jockey. Maybe he needs a treadmill-powered computer, to better match his dad's lifestyle.
But that is small thinking anyway. If you're trying to maintain either speed or distance separation there are systems for that in place already. I'd like to hope that when this becomes a feature available in cars that cruise control capable of maintaining distance could be a standard feature of cars. Not only is that the first step to automation but it also solves the very real problem that people's inability to control a steady speed causes some pretty stupid traffic jams.
True enough, though current cruise control relies heavily on engine braking as it can't/won't use the wheel brakes! An on-demand regenerative brake could easily be used here (and probably is in electric vehicles). Even if you just used the wheel brakes and didn't turn on the brake lights (which would cause waves of people hitting their own brakes in your wake), everything would be fine.
I really do wish that most drivers would discover their cruise control, though.
From an energy efficiency standpoint, it makes sense to get rid of intrinsic engine braking, but from a user interface standpoint, it complicates things.
To keep going (roughly) the same speed while driving, you just don't move your foot and maintain a constant throttle position. To slightly slow down, you let up on the throttle slightly. To make a drastic change in speed, you move your foot from one pedal to the other.
With no engine braking, slowing down by a tiny amount involves changing pedals and turning on the brake lights. Everybody would turn into those people who can't maintain a constant smooth speed but need to hit the accelerator, then the brakes, then the accelerator, then the brakes. Yuck.
If you want to get rid of intrinsic engine braking, but tie an on-demand brake into the throttle position, I'll go along with that.
After not too much longer, no such place with exist, thanks to all of "trade agreements" that every other country is falling over themselves to sign.
I doubt Google has any interest in moving Youtube to a saner jurisdiction anyway, since their fast track system is the cause of many of the complaints. They're getting something out of this situation.
Eliminate engine breaking completely further increasing fuel efficiency by allowing an engine to freewheel without compression eating up efficiency.
Boo. I like engine braking, and I wish that more small auto engines had a compression release type system like many trucks have (maybe using a forced aspiration system). Engine braking can supplant the need to use the brake pedal in most normal traffic.
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The source of what? Nobody has provided any citations for anything in this thread, so attacking the source of these non-existent citations is ridiculous!
You win an argument like this by providing a reference (or calculation) that counters his claim, not by claiming that his unsourced claims are known to come from an unreliable source!
Google can't decrypt the data without your password...
Which is why Google, Facebook, or any of these other "free" services will never do something like that. The entire reason these services exist is to harvest that data. What needs to happen is for people to realize that these services cost something to provide and be ok with self-hosting or paying a marginal amount of real money for these services instead of paying with unfettered access to their data. (Paying for email service is dirt cheap, especially compared with what you're paying Google if you actually value your privacy.)
Every prime is odd, so there are no prime number that end in 0 in base 2.
I hope that he also took the opportunity to redesign the system to fail safer. A few end of travel reed switches could have saved him from that and many other predictable failures.
We're already getting lots of ants, spiders, and other bugs pretty early this year, so watch what you wish for! Those who live in mosquito country are not going to be terribly happy with an extra long "growing season".
I've had nightmares about being stuck in one of those during the cleaning cycle.
Yeah, the automatic soap dispensers seem the goofiest from a germaphobic point of view. I think that they're installed to limit how much soap is dispensed and save money for the owner.
Automatic faucets make a lot of sense, though. The faucet control is touched by everybody before they wash their hands and then again immediately after they wash their hands. It took seeing an actual smear of feces on a faucet knob to really drive home how ineffective manually operated faucets in public restrooms really are.
That's a very enlightened message that you'd expect from someone who has found some level of mastery of math. However, the very first math teachers that you're expected to encounter are quite likely not among that set. Overcoming poor teaching at the early stages requires a spark of insight or very good follow-up teaching. Hard work along the wrong trajectory may get you a passing grade, but doesn't gain you an actual understanding of the subject.
If your first few teachers insist that learning math is just a matter of memorizing a huge number of cryptic and arcane rules (or worse, actual numerical answers like multiplication tables), and they even treat arithmetic and basic algebra like that, you're going to have a hell of a time gaining any appreciation for how math actually works.
Much of that comes from the fact that math is hard to the teachers who end up teaching the very first math classes that kids take. They may not explicitly tell the kids that math is hard, but they project it very clearly. Thankfully, my mathematician mother taught me much of what I needed to know before I "learned" it in school.
So people are essentially using the every-day shortcuts and Trump doesn't sound like a politician (which automatically gives him the benefit of the doubt, rather than automatic suspicion) and he uses rhetorical tricks which sound honest.
It's important to note that all of the "slimy" characteristics that are attributed to politicians and car salesmen were originally characteristics that people perceived as indicators of honesty, too. If his tricks work, they will be coopted by other career manipulators (politicians, marketers, etc) until they no longer have any value and will then be dropped for new tricks.
There's a very real chance that this constant abuse of trust will have longterm effects on our society.
I'm an EU citizen and I'm tired of the US invading our privacy. The only real solution is to...
Unless the end of that sentence is "hold your own government accountable for its corruption", you haven't thought about it very hard.
I know (hope!) that you were being facetious about going to war, but I hope you realize that you're better off trying to clean up your own government first. A good start is to start blaming your "representatives" for their actions instead of letting them off the hook every time they start bleating about the Americans.
Payment systems upgrades can be year-long projects. Recertifying with your bank and other partners takes months. And with everyone having to do it at the same time, everyone is stretched thin getting it all done.
Well, it's a good thing for them that NIST declared that "SHA-1 shall not be used for digital signature generation after December 31, 2013", back in January of 2011. They should be done with their year-long POS upgrade by sometime in 2012 at the latest.
Maybe businesses should follow actual security best practices instead of waiting for ultimatums.
The DEA can go fuck themselves, as far as I'm concerned. Since their inception, they've been some of the worst abusers of the US population to date. They're huge proponents of such treats as early dawn no-knock raids, parallel construction (institutionalized perjury), the use of Stingray type devices, and the list goes on.
As soon as we end this neo-prohibitionist bullshit and the jackbooted thugs that get off on it, we can have a better shot of rebuilding our country.
You're conflating two very different issues here: what people want to share with (some) others and what people want to keep private. Even if some, but not all, people put a bunch of stuff online that you wouldn't put online, it doesn't mean that they should lose the right to keep other stuff private. We need to educate people about the impacts of divulging information about themselves to strangers and keep the ability to keep private information private.
Backdoors in devices aren't intended to get at information that people publicly post, but to let those prying eyes get at information that people don't publicly post.
Wow. No wonder your government sucks so much if you guys blame the actions of Australian politicians elected by Australian citizens on a different country on the other side of the planet. It's your house: keeping it in order is your responsibility.
You mean "en masse". Hopefully you won't get too pissed off about being corrected and we can gradually become (or at least appear) more educated as a group.
The fact that our language contains so many idioms makes this harder, but a first step should be to think about what "on mass" could mean and decide that it probably isn't the actual phrase you're looking for.
How could it be unfair if attorneys for both sides agree he should be tossed? Unfair to whom?!
Justice, I suppose. Both of the attorneys wanted gullible jurors on the basis that it's easier to make a case based on bullshit emotional pleas than it is to uncover all of the facts and debate them.
This is pretty basic stuff.
If your best argument in favor of letting people starve in the street (while you have yours) is the lack of an appropriate ordnance (sic), then you'll find that the starving people around you don't much consent to being part of your society and will string you up to help make a society that doesn't have such a lacking. The authority of your documents is entirely based on the consent of the governed (as the documents themselves clearly state), so it's in your best interest to maintain that consent.
This is the race to the bottom and as despicable as the industry is for profiting off of it, a huge amount of the blame lies with the workers for enabling it. Stop working for shitty salaries in overpriced cities and the executives running these corporations will stop expecting people to ruin themselves in order to bloat the executive bonuses. Grow a spine or brain or whatever it is that you're lacking and stop propping this shit up.
You beat me to it, but maybe the mailman was actually quite fit. They walk like twenty-five miles a day, unlike the typical desk jockey. Maybe he needs a treadmill-powered computer, to better match his dad's lifestyle.
Anyhoo, where is the gut biota miracle pill I can pop daily to peal pounds while sitting in AC with a fan and blanket?
There is such a pill, but the "popping" isn't terribly pleasant.
But that is small thinking anyway. If you're trying to maintain either speed or distance separation there are systems for that in place already. I'd like to hope that when this becomes a feature available in cars that cruise control capable of maintaining distance could be a standard feature of cars. Not only is that the first step to automation but it also solves the very real problem that people's inability to control a steady speed causes some pretty stupid traffic jams.
True enough, though current cruise control relies heavily on engine braking as it can't/won't use the wheel brakes! An on-demand regenerative brake could easily be used here (and probably is in electric vehicles). Even if you just used the wheel brakes and didn't turn on the brake lights (which would cause waves of people hitting their own brakes in your wake), everything would be fine.
I really do wish that most drivers would discover their cruise control, though.
From an energy efficiency standpoint, it makes sense to get rid of intrinsic engine braking, but from a user interface standpoint, it complicates things.
To keep going (roughly) the same speed while driving, you just don't move your foot and maintain a constant throttle position. To slightly slow down, you let up on the throttle slightly. To make a drastic change in speed, you move your foot from one pedal to the other.
With no engine braking, slowing down by a tiny amount involves changing pedals and turning on the brake lights. Everybody would turn into those people who can't maintain a constant smooth speed but need to hit the accelerator, then the brakes, then the accelerator, then the brakes. Yuck.
If you want to get rid of intrinsic engine braking, but tie an on-demand brake into the throttle position, I'll go along with that.
After not too much longer, no such place with exist, thanks to all of "trade agreements" that every other country is falling over themselves to sign.
I doubt Google has any interest in moving Youtube to a saner jurisdiction anyway, since their fast track system is the cause of many of the complaints. They're getting something out of this situation.
Eliminate engine breaking completely further increasing fuel efficiency by allowing an engine to freewheel without compression eating up efficiency.
Boo. I like engine braking, and I wish that more small auto engines had a compression release type system like many trucks have (maybe using a forced aspiration system). Engine braking can supplant the need to use the brake pedal in most normal traffic.