Sound exactly like what Blue Cross did under Obama care -- used tiny changes in legal requirements to dump a million people and massively jack up rates.
From Snowden, there were essentially no technological barriers to abuse. This makes it trivial for a G. Gordon Liddy type to spy on political opponents of some bigwig.
Just knowing who they talk too can yield devastating info, to say nothing of actual phone conversations at the flip of a switch.
Stupidly written programs will still have problems, even if there is no corruption at the filesystem level -- a partially written save state, written in two parts with file closure (or to two separate files, more likely), will be corrupt from the program's point of view, if the computer resets between the two writes.
This also suggests a need for a transaction-like system at the OS level -- you open and write a ton of data, and then the crash occurs when almost done. The OS must have been writing to a temp file rather than the "real" one. Unless that is too high level in this context -- the article has no technical details at all.
Politicians are not any old user. They sought power and we want to track them; they have their thumb on our neck artery, and can press at will, especially in many of these other countries.
It is important to know their thoughts -- before handlers and lawyers buff them up or delete them.
And I remember reading Time Enough For Love as a kid, an epic series of stories of Lazarus Long. Towards the beginning, two people are guarding his room, both clad in almost space suit-like battle armor, the short guard asks the tall guard if they want to have sex. The tall guard replies, "Are you male or female?" The small one replies, "Does it matter?"
"No."
Turns out the short one was male and the tall female.
People forget we had another disaster under Clinton, where it became obvious the head of FEMA was just a political spoils job, an incompetent. Officials swore no more! All FEMA appointees from here on out will be competent managers!
It's been estimated that if you had temperature, pressure, and humidity readings for every cubic foot of atmosphere, you could only predict weather to about a month...if you had the computer power, which you wouldn't.
That's the problem with the famous butterfly effect. The tiniest deviation of a single molecule changes the weather patterns months down the road. The microscopic movements dictate large scale events down the road. The error scientists made was assuming small changes dissolved into statistical irrelevance, and that statistics of large masses of air drove particular day-to-day weather patterns. They drive climate, not weather (though particularly severe weather events can shift climate to other strange attractor basins, too. A bad volcano or two and a summer where snow doesn't clear and an ice age can come on in a year or two.)
Weather is the pattern of glitter on the water, not a statistical analysis of the pattern.
Whatever it may mean, it does not authorize the government to outlaw arms guaranteed by the very next clause. We just suffered decades of that with cities outlawing handguns (for non-criminals) because of fraudiulent interpretation.
Shouldn't "food presentation" be something consciously added to copyright law by legislatures rather than by judges? It differs from historical works of creativity.
To say metabolic rates don't vary significantly is simply wrong. In my own case I eat 3-4000 calories per day with nil exercise. I retain my lean figure despite everything I do to work against that outcome. It is true that just about any obese person could become healthier with less intake of food, but BMR remains an important factor.
It's been 20 years since researchers proved, vi a oxygen consumption, that obese people have the same metabolism as normies, with very rare exceptions.
But...it is more lack of activity than overeating. I always lost weight working summers in college. It is the all-day activity that adds 1000 calories or more to your burn rate.
Sedentary burn rate is way under your natural amount to want to eat. You aren't overeating as much as undermoving.
Ironic that planned economies have much worse pollution because they have neither the political will via democracy to clean it up, nor the economic might to spare.
Russia in Siberia was spilling an Exxon Valdez a month all over the place due to leaky pipelines.
I'll take our much lower pollution and higher wealth due to capitalism, kthxbie.
It looks good on paper. Until the working folk stop working, and nobody is left to pay for the bill. The number of people who flat out quit, will skyrocket, leaving the few that have ambition left holding the tax bag as the nation collapses under its own foolishness. Socialism never works out quite the way the designers think, because human nature isn't what they believe it to be.
This. The number of people willing to live in a hovel if they don't have to work is astronomical.
I knew a guy who would work 6 months, then ask to get fired and live on unemployment for six months.
Governments try to stop that by having max lifetime benefits, but yeesh, this society will be largely waiting for anyone else to invent things and drive society forward.
Oh please. You're a moron. This is no different from a mob boss telling his underlings whom to kill. You would probably argue that the mob boss was simply using his freedom of speech to express his opinion. Speech has consequences and in this case, it's piracy.
What a clownish statement. First of all, ordering a hit is a crime because murder is. Saying how to shoot a gun is not. Saying how to shoot to kill is not -- gun training courses do exactly that.
I have a sympathetic ear that the real goal is 99% illegal downloads, but that is the crime. Properly speaking, nobody granted government power to regulate free speech to begin with, but these are vox populi vox dei parliaments that fly by the seat of their majorities, so YMMV.
Both men stand accused of distributing knowledge
Not one further word need be read to know this government is using power no free citizen would ever grant it to begin with in their right mind. Reason: Your own damned murderous history.
Bugs in car software that don't crash the car can still crash the car if they distract the driver.
Even normal features in other contexts can cause such things, like cranking up the volume before playing a CD, then the CD blasts, distracting the driver, either in immediate scare, or as they fumble for the volume in a panic.
No, this was bad and a terrible mistake on their part.
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Ya know, if you wanna run a server, you can choose corporate rates instead of home rates.
Sound exactly like what Blue Cross did under Obama care -- used tiny changes in legal requirements to dump a million people and massively jack up rates.
Thanks, Ob...I mean Comcast!
100 of them, for 10 houses.
From Snowden, there were essentially no technological barriers to abuse. This makes it trivial for a G. Gordon Liddy type to spy on political opponents of some bigwig.
Just knowing who they talk too can yield devastating info, to say nothing of actual phone conversations at the flip of a switch.
Stupidly written programs will still have problems, even if there is no corruption at the filesystem level -- a partially written save state, written in two parts with file closure (or to two separate files, more likely), will be corrupt from the program's point of view, if the computer resets between the two writes.
This also suggests a need for a transaction-like system at the OS level -- you open and write a ton of data, and then the crash occurs when almost done. The OS must have been writing to a temp file rather than the "real" one. Unless that is too high level in this context -- the article has no technical details at all.
Politicians are not any old user. They sought power and we want to track them; they have their thumb on our neck artery, and can press at will, especially in many of these other countries.
It is important to know their thoughts -- before handlers and lawyers buff them up or delete them.
Shame on you.
This has nothing to do with politics. It should be on some nerd Web site! >:-(
Before you down mod me, go review the front page.
Kinda sad he fought the SJW's grandparents with the release of Starship Troopers, a young adult book.
"But it glorifies the military!"
"You're damned right it does!"
And I remember reading Time Enough For Love as a kid, an epic series of stories of Lazarus Long. Towards the beginning, two people are guarding his room, both clad in almost space suit-like battle armor, the short guard asks the tall guard if they want to have sex. The tall guard replies, "Are you male or female?" The small one replies, "Does it matter?"
"No."
Turns out the short one was male and the tall female.
He was very libertarian and ahead of his time.
Government Officials here and in the White House: "Oh? Was he Muslim? I hadn't noticed."
People forget we had another disaster under Clinton, where it became obvious the head of FEMA was just a political spoils job, an incompetent. Officials swore no more! All FEMA appointees from here on out will be competent managers!
"You're doing a heck of a job, Brownie!"
It's been estimated that if you had temperature, pressure, and humidity readings for every cubic foot of atmosphere, you could only predict weather to about a month...if you had the computer power, which you wouldn't.
That's the problem with the famous butterfly effect. The tiniest deviation of a single molecule changes the weather patterns months down the road. The microscopic movements dictate large scale events down the road. The error scientists made was assuming small changes dissolved into statistical irrelevance, and that statistics of large masses of air drove particular day-to-day weather patterns. They drive climate, not weather (though particularly severe weather events can shift climate to other strange attractor basins, too. A bad volcano or two and a summer where snow doesn't clear and an ice age can come on in a year or two.)
Weather is the pattern of glitter on the water, not a statistical analysis of the pattern.
So...they should increase the H1b's?
[INSERT Sarcastic Dodge Tomato GIF Here]
Whatever it may mean, it does not authorize the government to outlaw arms guaranteed by the very next clause. We just suffered decades of that with cities outlawing handguns (for non-criminals) because of fraudiulent interpretation.
> cumbersome
Microsoft has teams of people whose job is to polish the ergonomics of their products. Google, too.
Regarding Linux: "I think it will be a little better on this window if I can click a button to go back to the previous page."
Response: "Here's the Github repository. Knock yourself out!"
I am ready for my downmod, Mr. DeMille!
This is nothing. Listen to this Radiolab episode.
Shouldn't "food presentation" be something consciously added to copyright law by legislatures rather than by judges? It differs from historical works of creativity.
To say metabolic rates don't vary significantly is simply wrong. In my own case I eat 3-4000 calories per day with nil exercise. I retain my lean figure despite everything I do to work against that outcome. It is true that just about any obese person could become healthier with less intake of food, but BMR remains an important factor.
It's been 20 years since researchers proved, vi a oxygen consumption, that obese people have the same metabolism as normies, with very rare exceptions.
But...it is more lack of activity than overeating. I always lost weight working summers in college. It is the all-day activity that adds 1000 calories or more to your burn rate.
Sedentary burn rate is way under your natural amount to want to eat. You aren't overeating as much as undermoving.
Boeing was wtffing when Airbus did this -- their business analysis showed no case for larger planes. It was just politics driven showing off.
They were right, and the politicians wrong...as with Concord.
I wish politicians had greater disclosure of their paid endorsements.
Ironic that planned economies have much worse pollution because they have neither the political will via democracy to clean it up, nor the economic might to spare.
Russia in Siberia was spilling an Exxon Valdez a month all over the place due to leaky pipelines.
I'll take our much lower pollution and higher wealth due to capitalism, kthxbie.
It looks good on paper. Until the working folk stop working, and nobody is left to pay for the bill. The number of people who flat out quit, will skyrocket, leaving the few that have ambition left holding the tax bag as the nation collapses under its own foolishness. Socialism never works out quite the way the designers think, because human nature isn't what they believe it to be.
This. The number of people willing to live in a hovel if they don't have to work is astronomical.
I knew a guy who would work 6 months, then ask to get fired and live on unemployment for six months.
Governments try to stop that by having max lifetime benefits, but yeesh, this society will be largely waiting for anyone else to invent things and drive society forward.
If Congress wants to help pay for college, stop backing new student loans to any university whose tuition went up more than 2% last year
With non-teaching jobs well in excess of 50% of total employment at most universities, this is how you slam on the brakes.
It's easy to nickle dime 8% annual increases -- nobody wants to pay for a $2000 nav radio for their car, but an additional $35 a month, sign me up!
Oh please. You're a moron. This is no different from a mob boss telling his underlings whom to kill. You would probably argue that the mob boss was simply using his freedom of speech to express his opinion. Speech has consequences and in this case, it's piracy.
What a clownish statement. First of all, ordering a hit is a crime because murder is. Saying how to shoot a gun is not. Saying how to shoot to kill is not -- gun training courses do exactly that.
I have a sympathetic ear that the real goal is 99% illegal downloads, but that is the crime. Properly speaking, nobody granted government power to regulate free speech to begin with, but these are vox populi vox dei parliaments that fly by the seat of their majorities, so YMMV.
Both men stand accused of distributing knowledge
Not one further word need be read to know this government is using power no free citizen would ever grant it to begin with in their right mind. Reason: Your own damned murderous history.
Bugs in car software that don't crash the car can still crash the car if they distract the driver.
Even normal features in other contexts can cause such things, like cranking up the volume before playing a CD, then the CD blasts, distracting the driver, either in immediate scare, or as they fumble for the volume in a panic.
No, this was bad and a terrible mistake on their part.