What if schizophrenic people weren't "hallucinating", so to speak, but were able to actually "perceive" these energies or beings?
More often than not, the "messages" are coming from God/Jesus or Satan, according to the patient. Mind you, my sample population is almost completely Judeo-Christian in orientation. It should be completely unsurprising that such perceptions are often ascribed to powerful supernatural entities from the patient's own psyche. If you want to argue that it's really Jesus calling, you're going to have to explain why He never calls the Muslim or Hindu schizophrenics.
Mind you, I'm not trying to discount the possibility of the paranormal in general, but when it comes to the sensory experiences of those who suffer from certain disorders, this is well plowed ground. Peddle it someplace else.
I don't understand why they can't be happy with the annuity-like return on providing a utility service.
Yes, you do. We all do. Some of us call it greed, and in a less nuanced way, that's what it is. Comcast is a corporation. It's single overriding mission is to generate profit for it's shareholders. Anything that detracts from that mission is to be avoided. Indeed, shareholders would have legal cause to seek action against a board that failed to pursue profit with due vigor.
Now, with that in mind, would someone kindly explain why a public that has been demonstrably ill-served by such a corporation should not regulate it just as vigorously?
Right now the public expects government can just backdoor anything it wants, and THAT IS THE PROBLEM.
I dont' dispute that that's the public's sheep-like expectation, but that is not what today's meeting was about, at all. At least get that part right, m'kay?
So, Obama wants software companies to cooperate with the Feds more to help deal with cyber-security issues...
No. Did you read TFA? Any of them? Do you know what a challenge all of us, public and private sector alike, are up against when it comes to cyber security? Probably not, unless you work in the field and have to face not only the malignant threats, but the regulatory morass that is the current patchwork of laws and compliance rules. The message today was not about "backdoors". Not even close. So, since you have nothing but partisan bitching to contribute, kindly STFU.
Exactly... as has been opined about dozens of times before... you can never fully protect against hacking, so automakers are always going to fail at it.
Yeah, but...
Though TFA is pretty short on details, it's a safe bet that the auto makers have made only a half-assed attempt at security, at best. Time will tell, of course, but I've got money to wager that within the next few years, we're going to see just how little those companies knew and/or cared about security.
Yes, but... Most gases, in any concentration likely to exist in the atmosphere around a target, won't obscure. Smoke will, of course, but then the visible parts of smoke aren't gases.
There are a number of solutions to the problem. There are data protection appliances that can be integrated to databases or applications (via API) where encrypted data is sent to for decryption and available only in the result set; never written to disk in the clear. In this scenario, even root or dba don't have access to the sensitive data, unless authorized by the appliance.
Fail. At some point, somebody has to have access that allows them to view/copy/steal sensitive data in that system. We can, and should, make the path to gaining that access as tortuous as practically possible, but if you've got system-wide admin creds (and it sounds like the attackers had that) all the encryption in the world isn't going to help.
What might have actually helped a fucking ton, would have been some awareness of what was going on in their network. Bad guys were in there for over a month before anyone noticed. For an outfit with that much sensitive data, that's inexcusable.
Um...yes! I do get a choice for electricity and gas provider at least.
The old monopoly (AEP/Columbia Gas) is in charge of maintaining the physical infrastructure, but I can buy the actual electrons/gas from anyone who wants to provide them. Sounds like exactly what we need in terms of infrastructure. The old monopoly handles the wiring, but anyone can provide services over the wires.
And if the "old monopoly" only delivered third-party electricity at 80 VAC, what would be your proposed solution? Better question - What would be the response of all the other vendors? Come on, at least try to make an apples to apples comparison.
As a Libertarian fucktard - I can't really grasp the real issue
TFTFY.
Keep in mind, before you go whining about those more fiscally responsible than yourself, that that the very abuses that net neutrality address exist because of government interference - Giving the telecoms local monopoly powers...
Riiiight. Because it totally makes sense to let all comers string their own wires, bury their own fiber, etc. That doesn't need any regulation at all.
Yes, not only is government competing with private sector illegal — it is also a bad idea.
[citation needed]
While you're trying to find some support for your echo chamber bullshit, consider that a municipality delivering something that the so-called free market can't or won't deliver, is not really competing.
We don't like liberals getting all sciency on us and insisting that we descended from monkeys. We don't like our children to have too much knowledge about history, neither - too much liberal stuff goin' on back then. And we dang sure don't want our kids playing with magic. That's the devil's work. If it were up to me, I'd make sure that kid never came back to school and endangered other kids with his science and devil worship.
Let me get this straight. You're saying that big data, and the tools used to analyze it are frequently inaccurate, or just plain wrong? To which I say, "Yes, but big data is 'web scale', so it has to be better." /sarcasm
Which will be to shit all over this idea. Mind you, I agree that so-called "windfall taxes" are a bad idea, but corporation that profit from shipping jobs overseas, hiding assets overseas, etc., are nothing if not "un-American", a label the hypocrites of the far right are very fond a throwing about. So yeah, another populist idea that is going to go nowhere.
How high up on your list of priorities is privacy?
Top of the list. Has to be, for compliance reasons. Right behind that is an archiver that would also pass muster under those same rules.
Aparently, no one wants to sell a "cloud" solution that includes those things.
The trouble is, most of us do not have the money to hire professionals who have direct access to Congress people because they are ex-Congressmen or know people.
Correct, mostly. There's lobbying and then there are campaign contributions. Between those to funnels, a well-heeled corporat... ermm..., "citizen" can buy almost anything they want in the halls of Congress. And the telecom lobby is one bad-ass organization.
You need money or some sort of grassroots movement that also gets votes.
See, that's where the Teaparty is an example of an effeective grassroots movement. They riled up a bunch of angry white old people and THEY VOTE.
"They" being the Koch Brothers, and other interests, who executed a truly masterful campaign to manipulate a bunch of ignorant, scared, old white people into doing their bidding. Jeezuz, they even provided the buses at the "rallies". That's really more like astroturf than grassroots, but you have to hand it to them. It worked beautifully.
If you work for me, you work for me at my pleasure. If it is my pleasure that you not potentially cost me millions of dollars by infecting the children of my customers with dangerous diseases, I will require vaccinations as a condition of employment. If it is my pleasure that you not potentially cost me millions of dollars by driving my truck into minivan loaded with kids because you nodded off at an inappropriate time, I will require that you occasionally prove that are free from drugs that might cause such things.
If it is your pleasure not to work in such an environment, you may choose to work elsewhere. You are not compelled to do anything against your will.
You keep using that word. I do not think that it means what you think it means. Unless, of course, you consider the failure to implement a more efficient single-payer system to be a "fuckup". On that, we'd agree, but for the vast majority of Americans, The Affordable Care Act is a net win as is.
"we're connecting community colleges with local employers to train workers to fill high-paying jobs like coding
... while industry imports even more H1Bs to drive wages down, and offshores more and more of their development work offshore and parks the additional profits in tax havens? How is that going to work>
High paying jobs for Americans is just P.C. code for "socialism". In a free market, I should be allowed to "import" my labor from anywhere. That way, my products, be they software, hardware, or even cotton or tobacco can make more profit for me.
This cool. Very cool. A solution that cuts out a largely unnecessary part of the process (agents) and it's expense is long overdue.
Still, there's an industry that I'd like to see "disrupted" even more - undertaking. Any business whose primary product is "...the last thing you'll ever be able to do for your late loved one..." deserves, more than any other, to be disrupted.
you mean like CNN, right? Because CNN is certainly not biased in any way... nope.
Yawn... Broadcast news is entertainment first, and journalism as a distant second. A a product it is crafted to attract eyeballs (or ears, in the case of radio) of a certain demographic so that they can more easily target ad buyers. Anyone who does not get this is an idiot. Anyone who takes any one of these sources as the source of his world view is a complete idiot. Guess which network has the highest number of complete idiots in their demographic?
Well let's get things straight here. When we do that to Christianity, it is an important exercise of free speech. When we do that to Muslims, suddenly religion should be off limits for mockery or criticism without realising it's almost the most deserving thing of both!
Oh, please. Look, I know that's what a lot of people (those who get their world view from Fox News) believe, but it is simply not the case. So unless you have a citation (hint: their some isolated cases), kindly STFU with the echo chamber bullshit.
What many forget is that bitcoin is not a regulated market.
So it's a libertarian's wet dream, then. All the downsides, then are just "the price of doing business" in the wild free market. Right? Is this a great country or what?
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What if schizophrenic people weren't "hallucinating", so to speak, but were able to actually "perceive" these energies or beings?
More often than not, the "messages" are coming from God/Jesus or Satan, according to the patient. Mind you, my sample population is almost completely Judeo-Christian in orientation. It should be completely unsurprising that such perceptions are often ascribed to powerful supernatural entities from the patient's own psyche. If you want to argue that it's really Jesus calling, you're going to have to explain why He never calls the Muslim or Hindu schizophrenics.
Mind you, I'm not trying to discount the possibility of the paranormal in general, but when it comes to the sensory experiences of those who suffer from certain disorders, this is well plowed ground. Peddle it someplace else.
I don't understand why they can't be happy with the annuity-like return on providing a utility service.
Yes, you do. We all do. Some of us call it greed, and in a less nuanced way, that's what it is. Comcast is a corporation. It's single overriding mission is to generate profit for it's shareholders. Anything that detracts from that mission is to be avoided. Indeed, shareholders would have legal cause to seek action against a board that failed to pursue profit with due vigor.
Now, with that in mind, would someone kindly explain why a public that has been demonstrably ill-served by such a corporation should not regulate it just as vigorously?
Right now the public expects government can just backdoor anything it wants, and THAT IS THE PROBLEM.
I dont' dispute that that's the public's sheep-like expectation, but that is not what today's meeting was about, at all. At least get that part right, m'kay?
Saw this in the news earlier.
So, Obama wants software companies to cooperate with the Feds more to help deal with cyber-security issues...
No. Did you read TFA? Any of them? Do you know what a challenge all of us, public and private sector alike, are up against when it comes to cyber security? Probably not, unless you work in the field and have to face not only the malignant threats, but the regulatory morass that is the current patchwork of laws and compliance rules. The message today was not about "backdoors". Not even close. So, since you have nothing but partisan bitching to contribute, kindly STFU.
Exactly... as has been opined about dozens of times before... you can never fully protect against hacking, so automakers are always going to fail at it.
Yeah, but...
Though TFA is pretty short on details, it's a safe bet that the auto makers have made only a half-assed attempt at security, at best. Time will tell, of course, but I've got money to wager that within the next few years, we're going to see just how little those companies knew and/or cared about security.
Yes, but... Most gases, in any concentration likely to exist in the atmosphere around a target, won't obscure. Smoke will, of course, but then the visible parts of smoke aren't gases.
There are a number of solutions to the problem. There are data protection appliances that can be integrated to databases or applications (via API) where encrypted data is sent to for decryption and available only in the result set; never written to disk in the clear. In this scenario, even root or dba don't have access to the sensitive data, unless authorized by the appliance.
Fail. At some point, somebody has to have access that allows them to view/copy/steal sensitive data in that system. We can, and should, make the path to gaining that access as tortuous as practically possible, but if you've got system-wide admin creds (and it sounds like the attackers had that) all the encryption in the world isn't going to help.
What might have actually helped a fucking ton, would have been some awareness of what was going on in their network. Bad guys were in there for over a month before anyone noticed. For an outfit with that much sensitive data, that's inexcusable.
Um...yes! I do get a choice for electricity and gas provider at least.
The old monopoly (AEP/Columbia Gas) is in charge of maintaining the physical infrastructure, but I can buy the actual electrons/gas from anyone who wants to provide them. Sounds like exactly what we need in terms of infrastructure. The old monopoly handles the wiring, but anyone can provide services over the wires.
And if the "old monopoly" only delivered third-party electricity at 80 VAC, what would be your proposed solution? Better question - What would be the response of all the other vendors? Come on, at least try to make an apples to apples comparison.
As a Libertarian fucktard - I can't really grasp the real issue
TFTFY.
Keep in mind, before you go whining about those more fiscally responsible than yourself, that that the very abuses that net neutrality address exist because of government interference - Giving the telecoms local monopoly powers...
Riiiight. Because it totally makes sense to let all comers string their own wires, bury their own fiber, etc. That doesn't need any regulation at all.
Yes, not only is government competing with private sector illegal — it is also a bad idea.
[citation needed]
While you're trying to find some support for your echo chamber bullshit, consider that a municipality delivering something that the so-called free market can't or won't deliver, is not really competing.
We don't like liberals getting all sciency on us and insisting that we descended from monkeys. We don't like our children to have too much knowledge about history, neither - too much liberal stuff goin' on back then. And we dang sure don't want our kids playing with magic. That's the devil's work. If it were up to me, I'd make sure that kid never came back to school and endangered other kids with his science and devil worship.
Exactly right, as a situations like this are a clear indicator of a corrupt tax system and excessive government spending,
[citation needed]
...and no. Echo chamber pronouncements from Faux News are not authoritative support for your assertion about what is "clear".
Let me get this straight. You're saying that big data, and the tools used to analyze it are frequently inaccurate, or just plain wrong? To which I say,
/sarcasm
"Yes, but big data is 'web scale', so it has to be better."
That's football. Right? Big guys? Helmets? Not much action?
Better things to do.
Which will be to shit all over this idea. Mind you, I agree that so-called "windfall taxes" are a bad idea, but corporation that profit from shipping jobs overseas, hiding assets overseas, etc., are nothing if not "un-American", a label the hypocrites of the far right are very fond a throwing about. So yeah, another populist idea that is going to go nowhere.
How high up on your list of priorities is privacy?
Top of the list. Has to be, for compliance reasons. Right behind that is an archiver that would also pass muster under those same rules. Aparently, no one wants to sell a "cloud" solution that includes those things.
We all have a right to lobby Congress.
The trouble is, most of us do not have the money to hire professionals who have direct access to Congress people because they are ex-Congressmen or know people.
Correct, mostly. There's lobbying and then there are campaign contributions. Between those to funnels, a well-heeled corporat... ermm..., "citizen" can buy almost anything they want in the halls of Congress. And the telecom lobby is one bad-ass organization.
You need money or some sort of grassroots movement that also gets votes.
See, that's where the Teaparty is an example of an effeective grassroots movement. They riled up a bunch of angry white old people and THEY VOTE.
"They" being the Koch Brothers, and other interests, who executed a truly masterful campaign to manipulate a bunch of ignorant, scared, old white people into doing their bidding. Jeezuz, they even provided the buses at the "rallies". That's really more like astroturf than grassroots, but you have to hand it to them. It worked beautifully.
If you work for me, you work for me at my pleasure. If it is my pleasure that you not potentially cost me millions of dollars by infecting the children of my customers with dangerous diseases, I will require vaccinations as a condition of employment. If it is my pleasure that you not potentially cost me millions of dollars by driving my truck into minivan loaded with kids because you nodded off at an inappropriate time, I will require that you occasionally prove that are free from drugs that might cause such things.
If it is your pleasure not to work in such an environment, you may choose to work elsewhere. You are not compelled to do anything against your will.
buckshot
Oh, I think we'll see something new on the shelves really soon from Remington, Federal, Winchester, Fiocchi, etc.
Droneshot
That, or just ask the licensed drone hunters in Colorado what load they're using.
a bigger fuckup than Obamacare?
You keep using that word. I do not think that it means what you think it means. Unless, of course, you consider the failure to implement a more efficient single-payer system to be a "fuckup". On that, we'd agree, but for the vast majority of Americans, The Affordable Care Act is a net win as is.
"we're connecting community colleges with local employers to train workers to fill high-paying jobs like coding
High paying jobs for Americans is just P.C. code for "socialism". In a free market, I should be allowed to "import" my labor from anywhere. That way, my products, be they software, hardware, or even cotton or tobacco can make more profit for me.
This cool. Very cool. A solution that cuts out a largely unnecessary part of the process (agents) and it's expense is long overdue.
Still, there's an industry that I'd like to see "disrupted" even more - undertaking. Any business whose primary product is "...the last thing you'll ever be able to do for your late loved one..." deserves, more than any other, to be disrupted.
you mean like CNN, right? Because CNN is certainly not biased in any way... nope.
Yawn... Broadcast news is entertainment first, and journalism as a distant second. A a product it is crafted to attract eyeballs (or ears, in the case of radio) of a certain demographic so that they can more easily target ad buyers. Anyone who does not get this is an idiot. Anyone who takes any one of these sources as the source of his world view is a complete idiot. Guess which network has the highest number of complete idiots in their demographic?
Well let's get things straight here. When we do that to Christianity, it is an important exercise of free speech. When we do that to Muslims, suddenly religion should be off limits for mockery or criticism without realising it's almost the most deserving thing of both!
Oh, please. Look, I know that's what a lot of people (those who get their world view from Fox News) believe, but it is simply not the case. So unless you have a citation (hint: their some isolated cases), kindly STFU with the echo chamber bullshit.
What many forget is that bitcoin is not a regulated market.
So it's a libertarian's wet dream, then. All the downsides, then are just "the price of doing business" in the wild free market. Right? Is this a great country or what?