How can anybody run the CIA and not be a psychopath? This "execute first, follow the Rule of Law never" attitude should surprise nobody who has been paying attention - except perhaps that they're now emboldened to say it out of the shadows.
The Belgium Foreign Minister confirmed this morning that ISIS has ported Telegram to the PS2. He implored good citizens to switch exclusively to USB peripherals and await the banning of cash and TLS, technologies known to enable human trafficking.
While I understand their desire to do this, we need a legal system that does it automatically.
Until people can choose among competing legal systems, for the best value, the monopoly systems will be for sale to the highest bidder (cf. history). Don't waste your time trying to fix the current monopoly system.
The DMCA is the best copyright system Disney could buy (rest in pieces, Fritz Hollings). Maybe Google can buy a little bit back. And yes, this sucks.
Fortunately *some* states have been nullifying the FDA on this one. Unfortunately they're fighting prohibited speech with compulsory speech. #fail
This is what happens when you make philosophically-inconsistent carve outs like "rights stop existing when money is involved". Those who fail to understand that attempts to impose control always create chaos may now enjoy their maybe-it's-frankenfish.
I'd love to see fusion reactors eventually, but no, we really don't need them now.
What we have is a huge nuclear waste problem from the light-water fission reactors. That is a primitive design that only uses 3% of the fuel and the waste is going to be hot for 300,000 years. Leaving that to posterity is wildly irresponsible.
Fortunately, we have a solution. Anybody with a high school diploma should know that the only thing that can be done with nuclear waste is to transmute it down to less radioactive elements. Fortunately we have the technology to do that: the fast breeder reactors. We can take 300,000 year waste and make it into waste that's going to be a problem for less than a few hundred years - we can build casks that can last that long (and English will still be understood at that time).
We have a moral imperative to do this, and the side effect of cleaning up the mess we've inherited is enough power for all conceivable power needs for humans for over a century. Plenty of time to get fusion reactors perfected (yes, they should still be worked on!).
We already have the technology but politicians killed it so that global warming could remain a political football (in the US). Fortunately Russia has continued to progress and they're helping China get online over the next decade. The successor to the current US system will eventually buy these reactors from China because we'll need them and the politicians cannot destroy everything for their own powerbase forever. It's a shame that the People complacently allow such potential to be squandered, but it's not for a lack of technical ability to solve these problems.
It is disappointing to see the fusion people constantly claim that they would have been done by now had their funding not been cut, and then be *so* wrong about their T&M budgets for the current big research project. Maybe the current generation in positions of authority don't have what it takes (and that can be OK since we have time).
to take a nerd detour since the official reporting is all half-truths and lies anyway - is Telegram any good? Solid crypto? Apparently the usability is sufficient.
... you were wondering what to do with those hundreds of billions of dollars of cash. Here's a good use for one of them.
It used to be in NYC you could see buildings and buses plastered with the images of the misfits - the troublemakers; Apple roared into its current success on those precepts. Now it's time for a massive pro-privacy campaign on the same or larger scale.
Fix this - it'll be a good investment for the shareholders.
This might be useful only if I could bring my own compiler
You can (per the FAQ).
and could keep the resulting binary and I could install that myself on the hardware (never going to happen).
If Cisco defines the hash of the build binary as their IP, then the whole thing is doomed. If you can reproduce their build, a hash collision isn't going to be an actual risk.
However:
Q: What technologies or products can be reviewed? TVS includes all Cisco technologies, within the bounds of applicable Export Control Laws. Where certain technologies from third-party OEMs are received encrypted, we may be unable to provide greater visibility
The good news is this sounds like hardware is included (perhaps a way to work around the NSL problem.) The bad news is you're getting binary blobs anyway and you'll just have to trust _those_. Ouch.
Cisco is realizing that secret source and security applications are incompatible. That's good. Hopefully the next step is to embrace full openness (and therefore stay relevant). As usual, patent fears will probably keep them paralyzed instead and an open competitor (probably non-US) will start to eat their marketshare. Between the US patent system and the NSA taint, the secret-source US 'security' industry has a bleak future. #thanksobama
It's the AMA that has the defacto monopoly on accreditation of new medical schools. There have been a few built but nothing close to the rate necessary to keep up with demand. Why? To improve physicians' salaries.
regulations are evil and somehow there'd magically
There's no magic involved. The FDA effectively bans the chemicals, people want them anyway, retailers find a way (these were usually kept under the checkout counter). I've tried this stuff, it did little for me and wasn't worth the price, but some people did see benefits. Everybody buying it was aware of the rouse - you can't accidentally ask for the stuff stored under the register. Nobody thought it contained flower extracts.
The ban is the entire reason for the inaccurate labels - and the high prices. There should be several brands competing for shelfspace at Walmart by vying for the best third-party certification. This is extremely simple market economics as soon as you take off your rose-colored glasses about what political edicts can achieve. In reality they cause chaos.
but we have to treat people as collectives, not individuals! Wait...
Frankly, industry members could start by showing much lower tolerance for awful hours, dead-end careers, and generalized workplace assholery. Oh, but that's more expensive than pinkwashing and working together is hard. If you all stand up to the Deathmarches you don't need to fear the H1B worker. Look in the mirror, righteous warriors.
And Aristotle taught us that violence IS the answer. "We make war so that we may live in peace".
Aristotle made many dubious claims (and many good ones). An improvement over Plato, to be sure, but not always.
Augustine echoed the same sentiments later, setting the stage for the "Just War Theory" that the Jesuits still push forward today - even Bush the Second used Augustinian rationalization to go to war in Iraq.
Modern ethics understands that the means are what's important - not the ends. Just ends can be arrived at through just or unjust means. 'Evil' exists at that decision point.
Violence has only one place - in response to unprovoked aggression. When everything is wound up in a tight positive feedback loop of response to response to response, the only way out is to broker an end to responding. 'An eye for an eye' will leave the whole world blind.
The keyboard is great, and mosh support is even better. After the second time your connection drops when your mobile IP changes *again* on the same 'session', you'll spit vinegar until mosh is configured on your server.
That part doesn't matter, but if it's true, the perps should never work in academia again. They can probably get cushy jobs in NoVA though. CMU's reputation is also on the line. If they do a thorough investigation and out any wrongdoers, only their review process ought be found needing of improvement.
The advertising would be a mishmash of varying tastes
It's still going to get a better result than the shotgun approach. Marketers are good at many things - not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good is one of them.
Yeah there may be a million more Android users than iOS users but a good chunk of those are still on gingerbread or Froyo even and infested with exploits. It's hard to do tech support for a $3 app when the platform is probably at fault. Google is actually hurting its revenue picture on the app side by encouraging the abandonment of older devices through its policies. Android is popular enough now that Google really could tell the carriers the way it's going to be like Apple has been doing. It's a shame they're squandering that commercial capital this far into the game. On the other hand who wants to put 5 million dollars into an app only to have Apple's capricious censors reject it?
They have the two best options right now but neither of them are creating as functional, dynamic, and profitable a market as they could be.
When they write up these "drafts", usually what they just do is figure out what kind of legal crap they're already doing and put it down on paper for ratification by the "representatives".
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How can anybody run the CIA and not be a psychopath? This "execute first, follow the Rule of Law never" attitude should surprise nobody who has been paying attention - except perhaps that they're now emboldened to say it out of the shadows.
The Belgium Foreign Minister confirmed this morning that ISIS has ported Telegram to the PS2. He implored good citizens to switch exclusively to USB peripherals and await the banning of cash and TLS, technologies known to enable human trafficking.
While I understand their desire to do this, we need a legal system that does it automatically.
Until people can choose among competing legal systems, for the best value, the monopoly systems will be for sale to the highest bidder (cf. history). Don't waste your time trying to fix the current monopoly system.
The DMCA is the best copyright system Disney could buy (rest in pieces, Fritz Hollings). Maybe Google can buy a little bit back. And yes, this sucks.
how do they expect to win hearts and minds?
Get the government to threaten their competition so they don't face marketplace competition?
Fortunately *some* states have been nullifying the FDA on this one. Unfortunately they're fighting prohibited speech with compulsory speech. #fail
This is what happens when you make philosophically-inconsistent carve outs like "rights stop existing when money is involved". Those who fail to understand that attempts to impose control always create chaos may now enjoy their maybe-it's-frankenfish.
I'd love to see fusion reactors eventually, but no, we really don't need them now.
What we have is a huge nuclear waste problem from the light-water fission reactors. That is a primitive design that only uses 3% of the fuel and the waste is going to be hot for 300,000 years. Leaving that to posterity is wildly irresponsible.
Fortunately, we have a solution. Anybody with a high school diploma should know that the only thing that can be done with nuclear waste is to transmute it down to less radioactive elements. Fortunately we have the technology to do that: the fast breeder reactors. We can take 300,000 year waste and make it into waste that's going to be a problem for less than a few hundred years - we can build casks that can last that long (and English will still be understood at that time).
We have a moral imperative to do this, and the side effect of cleaning up the mess we've inherited is enough power for all conceivable power needs for humans for over a century. Plenty of time to get fusion reactors perfected (yes, they should still be worked on!).
We already have the technology but politicians killed it so that global warming could remain a political football (in the US). Fortunately Russia has continued to progress and they're helping China get online over the next decade. The successor to the current US system will eventually buy these reactors from China because we'll need them and the politicians cannot destroy everything for their own powerbase forever. It's a shame that the People complacently allow such potential to be squandered, but it's not for a lack of technical ability to solve these problems.
It is disappointing to see the fusion people constantly claim that they would have been done by now had their funding not been cut, and then be *so* wrong about their T&M budgets for the current big research project. Maybe the current generation in positions of authority don't have what it takes (and that can be OK since we have time).
Actually, you could extend that to "Most "first-world" humans treat some animals really badly" at least by proxy.
Not to mention the mass slaughter of millions of animals every year by trucks hauling California vegetables cross-country.
Obligate-localvore vegans I give an ethical pass to, though.
to take a nerd detour since the official reporting is all half-truths and lies anyway - is Telegram any good? Solid crypto? Apparently the usability is sufficient.
... you were wondering what to do with those hundreds of billions of dollars of cash. Here's a good use for one of them.
It used to be in NYC you could see buildings and buses plastered with the images of the misfits - the troublemakers; Apple roared into its current success on those precepts. Now it's time for a massive pro-privacy campaign on the same or larger scale.
Fix this - it'll be a good investment for the shareholders.
effective alternatives to mass survailence and bulk data collection
Courage. The outcomes are far superior.
How can they convince anyone that they can keep the NSA out when the Law says they have to let the NSA in?
Well, assuming your premise the only thing that can be done is to show everybody the code and let somebody not under NSL seal disclose it.
Cisco's actions aren't inconsistent with that approach. The speculation is hardly proven, though.
This might be useful only if I could bring my own compiler
You can (per the FAQ).
and could keep the resulting binary and I could install that myself on the hardware (never going to happen).
If Cisco defines the hash of the build binary as their IP, then the whole thing is doomed. If you can reproduce their build, a hash collision isn't going to be an actual risk.
However:
The good news is this sounds like hardware is included (perhaps a way to work around the NSL problem.) The bad news is you're getting binary blobs anyway and you'll just have to trust _those_. Ouch.
Cisco is realizing that secret source and security applications are incompatible. That's good. Hopefully the next step is to embrace full openness (and therefore stay relevant). As usual, patent fears will probably keep them paralyzed instead and an open competitor (probably non-US) will start to eat their marketshare. Between the US patent system and the NSA taint, the secret-source US 'security' industry has a bleak future. #thanksobama
It's the AMA that has the defacto monopoly on accreditation of new medical schools. There have been a few built but nothing close to the rate necessary to keep up with demand. Why? To improve physicians' salaries.
This not only costs money, but lives
regulations are evil and somehow there'd magically
There's no magic involved. The FDA effectively bans the chemicals, people want them anyway, retailers find a way (these were usually kept under the checkout counter). I've tried this stuff, it did little for me and wasn't worth the price, but some people did see benefits. Everybody buying it was aware of the rouse - you can't accidentally ask for the stuff stored under the register. Nobody thought it contained flower extracts.
The ban is the entire reason for the inaccurate labels - and the high prices. There should be several brands competing for shelfspace at Walmart by vying for the best third-party certification. This is extremely simple market economics as soon as you take off your rose-colored glasses about what political edicts can achieve. In reality they cause chaos.
but we have to treat people as collectives, not individuals! Wait ...
Frankly, industry members could start by showing much lower tolerance for awful hours, dead-end careers, and generalized workplace assholery. Oh, but that's more expensive than pinkwashing and working together is hard. If you all stand up to the Deathmarches you don't need to fear the H1B worker. Look in the mirror, righteous warriors.
hey, now, this is just an airliner, not a fancy tractor trailer.
And Aristotle taught us that violence IS the answer. "We make war so that we may live in peace".
Aristotle made many dubious claims (and many good ones). An improvement over Plato, to be sure, but not always.
Augustine echoed the same sentiments later, setting the stage for the "Just War Theory" that the Jesuits still push forward today - even Bush the Second used Augustinian rationalization to go to war in Iraq.
Modern ethics understands that the means are what's important - not the ends. Just ends can be arrived at through just or unjust means. 'Evil' exists at that decision point.
Violence has only one place - in response to unprovoked aggression. When everything is wound up in a tight positive feedback loop of response to response to response, the only way out is to broker an end to responding. 'An eye for an eye' will leave the whole world blind.
>Anyhoo, France already sent their aircraft carrier east. Now there will be even more resolve to roll ISIS up.
You mean more Western bombs falling in the Middle East? How else can we a actively fund their recruiting efforts?
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SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?
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The keyboard is great, and mosh support is even better. After the second time your connection drops when your mobile IP changes *again* on the same 'session', you'll spit vinegar until mosh is configured on your server.
What happens in 20 years when the store is unavailable? Does the system require cryptographically-secure date validation from Mothership?
The classic emulator crowd of 2034 wants to know.
That part doesn't matter, but if it's true, the perps should never work in academia again. They can probably get cushy jobs in NoVA though. CMU's reputation is also on the line. If they do a thorough investigation and out any wrongdoers, only their review process ought be found needing of improvement.
>anti-drug laws that do no good and make no sense
You must be new here. Follow the money.
https://youtu.be/5_UbAmRGSYw
The advertising would be a mishmash of varying tastes
It's still going to get a better result than the shotgun approach. Marketers are good at many things - not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good is one of them.
I don't know what it is or does
Making the right decision here creates or solves most of our privacy/security problems.
Yeah there may be a million more Android users than iOS users but a good chunk of those are still on gingerbread or Froyo even and infested with exploits. It's hard to do tech support for a $3 app when the platform is probably at fault. Google is actually hurting its revenue picture on the app side by encouraging the abandonment of older devices through its policies. Android is popular enough now that Google really could tell the carriers the way it's going to be like Apple has been doing. It's a shame they're squandering that commercial capital this far into the game. On the other hand who wants to put 5 million dollars into an app only to have Apple's capricious censors reject it?
They have the two best options right now but neither of them are creating as functional, dynamic, and profitable a market as they could be.
When they write up these "drafts", usually what they just do is figure out what kind of legal crap they're already doing and put it down on paper for ratification by the "representatives".