I'm not generally one to call people names, but Mitch "The Bitch" McConnell needs to sack up or shut up. I will admit, it takes a lot of bravery to willfully ignore potential surveillance information on principle when the costs could be high. Nobody's saying that surveillance can't work. But we're supposed to be the land of the brave, not the land of the Chicken Littles engaging in surreptitious and unconstitutional spying because we're worried that a couple of jihadists might attack us in what amounts to the existential equivalent of a stubbed toe.
Besides, I don't trust anything that hides inside it's own shell at the first sign of trouble. And God help us if he gets stuck on his back again.
Except pricing is only set when a buy meets a sell. The orders on either side of that are utterly inconsequential unless and until someone is willing to sell for less, or buy for more.
And has absolutely no disincentive for "number of convictions of people who are actually innocent."
That's the crux of the problem with our "justice" system -- neither side has an incentive to seek a just outcome. Judges basically just make sure everyone's name is on their paper and that nobody colors outside the lines.
Six months is a long time to be behind bars. Most people couldn't survive that financially. Some wouldn't survive it physically. We should be using community service far more than we do, especially for nonviolent crimes. It's not a "slap on the wrist," it's literally making the person compensate society, as opposed to using society's resources to exact sadistic revenge by putting someone in prison.
But this only seems superficially better to me, and possibly worse.
"The proposed definition for âoeaccess without authorizationâ is: to obtain information on a computer that the accessor lacks authorization to obtain, knowingly circumventing technological or physical measures designed to prevent unauthorized individuals from obtaining that information."
The problem is with the word "knowingly," to say nothing of the lack of any standard for a technological authorization method. "Knowingly," is mens rea -- a criminal mind -- and SCOTUS is currently wrestling with two other terrible laws on this very subject. There's an excellent article on this subject over at The Atlantic. The problem is that these laws are vague, probably unconstitutionally so. It's legislative laziness and hand-waving. "Don't do that thing we can't exactly define but you know what we mean!"
If we want a dividing line for criminally accessing a device, and I would argue that we do, then it needs to be directly proportional to damages. Accessing a device is just trespassing, and that's a misdemeanor, and hardly ever worth prosecuting. Taking something of no value from a device is likewise a misdemeanor. Making a copy of something is speculative damages, but probably risks felony levels of damage. Destroying data, or a network, or hardware should definitely be a felony. The circumvention clause is totally irrelevant, and shouldn't even be there.
Only if you're an idiot. Priapism is NOT something you want to experience. Best case, it's painful. Worst case is a little thing you might have heard of called gangrene. Comedians like to joke about how it's a marketing strategy, but it's definitely not.
Some grocery stores are friendly to terrorists. These institutions are BLITHELY keeping these monsters alive, with no regard for the horrible acts they commit on a full stomach, or with what appears to be a full stomach. If not for these bastions of sin, we could weed out all of these evildoers without firing a single bullet, but for some reason, these nourishment dealers continue to peddle their wares to anyone who will show them a little green.
It's time we stand up and say ENOUGH! Think of the children, and God Bless the Greatest United Great States of Excellent America, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all, light on a hill, best. country. evar. Amen.
I know dogs are smart and all, but I've never seen one administer a field sobriety test, which is the appropriate response when someone is suspected of being under the influence.
A Civic Si is about as fast as a nun in a chastity belt that's been welded shut. Congrats for managing to get a speeding ticket, but honestly, keep it under 25 in those residential areas.
If you mean the quantity of xenon headlights on $30k+ cars, that's what he just said.
If you mean the quantity of $30k+ cars themselves, the median new car price is $32k. But new cars sales numbers (for 2014) were 16.5M, while used car sales were nearly double that, at $36M.
If we (safely) assume that the used cars depreciated in price, and that the median new car price did not fall last year, then the overwhelming majority of people are paying under $30k for their vehicles.
But all you really need to do to find the relative popularity of HID headlights is drive down any highway. They're still in the minority by a long shot.
Only if you go to a dealer. It cost me $200 for labor at my (frankly, awesome) mechanic, and I didn't have to use a floor jack in my parking lot that doesn't fit under my car without first using the scissor jack to lift it a bit, let alone trying to find a solid jacking point, and then put it on jack stands, or deal with a stuck rotor that ended up requiring a blowtorch to remove. Instead of all that, I got to have lunch with my girlfriend and pick up my car in the afternoon, which was well worth it, IMO. YMMV.
It's not really the same as MPG, because the distances we travel are fixed, while the amount of data we consume is has been growing. Think 480p -> 1080p -> 4k. We need faster transfers to maintain the same perception of performance year over year given the increased data consumption.
If the history of NSA vulnerability disclosures (nearly none), the use of Stingrays, and the push for backdoor encryption are any reflection of the government's interest in network security, then the only possible conclusion is that they want to use Tor for its offensive capabilities rather than defensive. Like a basement-dwelling hacker, they want the ability to remain anonymous, and the ability to unmask anyone else. And they have the resources of the most wealthy nation on earth with which to do it.
I think what the GP meant is that the conversation loses a dimension, because binge watching will always lack the anticipation of what's to come, aside from the next season. What's the smoke monster? When will we meet the mother? What's up with the dragon eggs? With binge watching, there can be no speculation about what will happen next week, or where the plots will go from episode to episode. The odds that you will be synchronized with anyone else in your viewing is low, unless they are watching it with you.
Anticipation is half the fun of anything, or at least half the experience. It's potential. It's possibility. Once the experience arrives, it collapses down to a single outcome, for better or worse. Binge watching deprives us of a large part of that anticipation.
But it's still how I watch most of my shows, because I want instant gratification as badly as the next American.
I take issue with the idea that conservative entertainment is inherently any more "wholesome" than any other. Conservatives aren't the authority on morals, at least not the sole authority, as much as they would like us to believe that they are.
It's never been about getting "more" education; it's always been about getting "different" education. You may have a college degree, but you probably can't do any ironsmithing or glass-blowing either.
I'm also not sure what white collar jobs, specifically, you think are being automated away. Analysis and accountants? Maybe. But it seems more the case of analysts having more powerful tools than being obsoleted. Machine learning and neural networks can be great at analysis, but not at defining what to analyze.
But aside from that, lawyers? Doctors? Engineers? Educators? Architects? Bankers and brokers? Nope. Politicians? Unfortunately, no. I'm really not seeing what white collar jobs are disappearing.
we should at least think about what price we are willing to put on the suffering of highly developed animals.
We did. "Good drugs" seems to be the consensus.
Not every condition is life threatening, where humans would be willing to risk unknown side effects. And even if humans are willing to take that risk, there are bigger ethical concerns, like the potential for vulnerable people to be coerced into trials.
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I'm not generally one to call people names, but Mitch "The Bitch" McConnell needs to sack up or shut up. I will admit, it takes a lot of bravery to willfully ignore potential surveillance information on principle when the costs could be high. Nobody's saying that surveillance can't work. But we're supposed to be the land of the brave, not the land of the Chicken Littles engaging in surreptitious and unconstitutional spying because we're worried that a couple of jihadists might attack us in what amounts to the existential equivalent of a stubbed toe.
Besides, I don't trust anything that hides inside it's own shell at the first sign of trouble. And God help us if he gets stuck on his back again.
Except pricing is only set when a buy meets a sell. The orders on either side of that are utterly inconsequential unless and until someone is willing to sell for less, or buy for more.
And has absolutely no disincentive for "number of convictions of people who are actually innocent."
That's the crux of the problem with our "justice" system -- neither side has an incentive to seek a just outcome. Judges basically just make sure everyone's name is on their paper and that nobody colors outside the lines.
Six months is a long time to be behind bars. Most people couldn't survive that financially. Some wouldn't survive it physically. We should be using community service far more than we do, especially for nonviolent crimes. It's not a "slap on the wrist," it's literally making the person compensate society, as opposed to using society's resources to exact sadistic revenge by putting someone in prison.
But this only seems superficially better to me, and possibly worse.
The problem is with the word "knowingly," to say nothing of the lack of any standard for a technological authorization method. "Knowingly," is mens rea -- a criminal mind -- and SCOTUS is currently wrestling with two other terrible laws on this very subject. There's an excellent article on this subject over at The Atlantic. The problem is that these laws are vague, probably unconstitutionally so. It's legislative laziness and hand-waving. "Don't do that thing we can't exactly define but you know what we mean!"
If we want a dividing line for criminally accessing a device, and I would argue that we do, then it needs to be directly proportional to damages. Accessing a device is just trespassing, and that's a misdemeanor, and hardly ever worth prosecuting. Taking something of no value from a device is likewise a misdemeanor. Making a copy of something is speculative damages, but probably risks felony levels of damage. Destroying data, or a network, or hardware should definitely be a felony. The circumvention clause is totally irrelevant, and shouldn't even be there.
Only if you're an idiot. Priapism is NOT something you want to experience. Best case, it's painful. Worst case is a little thing you might have heard of called gangrene. Comedians like to joke about how it's a marketing strategy, but it's definitely not.
Some grocery stores are friendly to terrorists. These institutions are BLITHELY keeping these monsters alive, with no regard for the horrible acts they commit on a full stomach, or with what appears to be a full stomach. If not for these bastions of sin, we could weed out all of these evildoers without firing a single bullet, but for some reason, these nourishment dealers continue to peddle their wares to anyone who will show them a little green.
It's time we stand up and say ENOUGH! Think of the children, and God Bless the Greatest United Great States of Excellent America, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all, light on a hill, best. country. evar. Amen.
Just out of curiosity, did that happen to you? And if your cash was seized, was it returned?
I know dogs are smart and all, but I've never seen one administer a field sobriety test, which is the appropriate response when someone is suspected of being under the influence.
A Civic Si is about as fast as a nun in a chastity belt that's been welded shut. Congrats for managing to get a speeding ticket, but honestly, keep it under 25 in those residential areas.
Or "anti-abuse" trolls.
* Should have read "more than double that at 36M." Sales were in units, not dollars.
If you mean the quantity of xenon headlights on $30k+ cars, that's what he just said.
If you mean the quantity of $30k+ cars themselves, the median new car price is $32k. But new cars sales numbers (for 2014) were 16.5M, while used car sales were nearly double that, at $36M.
If we (safely) assume that the used cars depreciated in price, and that the median new car price did not fall last year, then the overwhelming majority of people are paying under $30k for their vehicles.
But all you really need to do to find the relative popularity of HID headlights is drive down any highway. They're still in the minority by a long shot.
Only if you go to a dealer. It cost me $200 for labor at my (frankly, awesome) mechanic, and I didn't have to use a floor jack in my parking lot that doesn't fit under my car without first using the scissor jack to lift it a bit, let alone trying to find a solid jacking point, and then put it on jack stands, or deal with a stuck rotor that ended up requiring a blowtorch to remove. Instead of all that, I got to have lunch with my girlfriend and pick up my car in the afternoon, which was well worth it, IMO. YMMV.
We want to be reactive. Proactive/preemptive constraints on behavior are the antithesis of freedom.
It's not really the same as MPG, because the distances we travel are fixed, while the amount of data we consume is has been growing. Think 480p -> 1080p -> 4k. We need faster transfers to maintain the same perception of performance year over year given the increased data consumption.
That's not a backup, it's a copy.
A backup is one step further -- it's a copy that's been physically archived in some way.
If the history of NSA vulnerability disclosures (nearly none), the use of Stingrays, and the push for backdoor encryption are any reflection of the government's interest in network security, then the only possible conclusion is that they want to use Tor for its offensive capabilities rather than defensive. Like a basement-dwelling hacker, they want the ability to remain anonymous, and the ability to unmask anyone else. And they have the resources of the most wealthy nation on earth with which to do it.
I think what the GP meant is that the conversation loses a dimension, because binge watching will always lack the anticipation of what's to come, aside from the next season. What's the smoke monster? When will we meet the mother? What's up with the dragon eggs? With binge watching, there can be no speculation about what will happen next week, or where the plots will go from episode to episode. The odds that you will be synchronized with anyone else in your viewing is low, unless they are watching it with you.
Anticipation is half the fun of anything, or at least half the experience. It's potential. It's possibility. Once the experience arrives, it collapses down to a single outcome, for better or worse. Binge watching deprives us of a large part of that anticipation.
But it's still how I watch most of my shows, because I want instant gratification as badly as the next American.
I take issue with the idea that conservative entertainment is inherently any more "wholesome" than any other. Conservatives aren't the authority on morals, at least not the sole authority, as much as they would like us to believe that they are.
It's never been about getting "more" education; it's always been about getting "different" education. You may have a college degree, but you probably can't do any ironsmithing or glass-blowing either.
I'm also not sure what white collar jobs, specifically, you think are being automated away. Analysis and accountants? Maybe. But it seems more the case of analysts having more powerful tools than being obsoleted. Machine learning and neural networks can be great at analysis, but not at defining what to analyze.
But aside from that, lawyers? Doctors? Engineers? Educators? Architects? Bankers and brokers? Nope. Politicians? Unfortunately, no. I'm really not seeing what white collar jobs are disappearing.
we should at least think about what price we are willing to put on the suffering of highly developed animals.
We did. "Good drugs" seems to be the consensus.
Not every condition is life threatening, where humans would be willing to risk unknown side effects. And even if humans are willing to take that risk, there are bigger ethical concerns, like the potential for vulnerable people to be coerced into trials.
The drone in that photo is closer than the truck... It's called perspective. Look into it.
Get it? Cause, perspective?