This is exactly what I was coming here to say. We have recently seen a bunch of this happening even today. Teens basically play chicken with oncoming traffic, standing in the road and then jumping out of the way at the last second to hide behind a tree or phone pole to try and cause an accident. If the car will only hit the brakes, you prevent them from intentionally causing an accident. Otherwise, they can maliciously cause accidents and largely get away with it.
Singapore had a similar problem with sideswipe pedestrian accidents for cash until they changed their laws such that outside of a crosswalk with a green crossing signal, the car had the right of way and could run you over. People morally still try to avoid this, but it puts pedestrians on notice that the car may not stop, so don't try to cause an accident, or you may get killed, and you will be at fault 99% of the time.
There have been a number of cases both with cars and homes where the door is left wide open (which is equivalent). It cannot be charged as B&E as there is no lock involved. If the police do it, it is often thrown out as entrapment, if a private citizen does it, it may get charged as trespassing in the home or attempted theft in the car (assuming they didn't actually steal the vehicle, just got in it.) If you have ever seen the show bait car, the cops always wait until the thief actually drives off in the car, as they can't get them on anything for just sitting in a car.
I'm not saying taking control of some IoT devices with default passwords for the purpose of DDoS attacks is not a crime, just that they need to call it something else, like digital trespassing or something.
How is this even considered a hack? It is basically just scanning for default passwords. Its the equivalent of buying a house with the locks on all of the exterior doors removed after a foreclosure. The seller/bank provides you with new locks in a sack for you to install, but instead, you leave all the doors without locks... So anyone who tries the handle can come in. No one would wonder why they were robbed in that situation, the same is true of any connected electronic device. Change the admin username and password when you buy it or suffer the consequences.
I am a fan of both technologies if they are ready for prime time.
I have had AR apps on my iPhone for what, 6 years now (Theodolite, Layar, etc.) They are useful for what they are, but until I have something like Google glass integrated into my glasses and AR is feeding me info real time my entire day, it is not that groundbreaking. I'm not buying Google glass until it hits like $200 over a normal pair of Rx glasses and they have a solid suite of built in apps.
My friend had a VR headset 30 years ago that we had a lot of fun with. I played virtual boy when it came out. I have Google cardboard on my iPhone. I plan on taking a test drive of PSVR in the very near future as I think it is the first mass market VR headset out there ($400 vs $2000 for VR plus a beast PC). The key selling point for me with PSVR will be immersion. The deal breaker will be motion sickness and/or eye fatigue.
Racist? We have a black/arab president, a woman leading the race for the presidency, the republicans had a woman and black in the primary, we have had a black man/black woman secretary of state, we currently have a black woman US attorney general and a black man before that. We are probably among the top if not the top multicultural country on the planet.
Repressive? We are arguably the most free people in the world. We enjoy the freedom of speech, religion, association, etc. How specifically is the US repressive to it's citizens?
Corrupt political process? There has always been corruption in politics, that is why it is illegal. We must hold corrupt politicians like Hillary accountable. If Hillary is elected, I may agree with that one.
Regardless of the brainwashing your college professor or MSNBC, you are factually wrong.
Just one question: Are they using the same engine that Facebook uses to promote trending news? You know, the one that was posting a bunch of articles from parody sites?
Beyond that, Google has given up on their "Do no evil" motto since they became subsidiaries of Alphabet. Do your own research or you will wind up ignorant, brain washed or worse. They are in tight with the Obama administration, does anyone believe that their fact checking is going to look at both sides of each assertion by each candidate?
As for foreign internet companies, as long as they help us violate the privacy of our citizens, commit human rights violations and destroy any political opposition. (FTFY)
People equating China and the US have no damn clue how repressive China still is, most especially to it's own people. They have come a long way, but they still have a long way to go. Hopefully they don't decide to start WW3 before they get to a free society.
I suppose it depends on where you live, but I suspect if you live outside of a large city, FiOS is not a realistic option (check the map). Again, if you live too far away, the same is true for DSL, so you are left with the cable monopoly.
There is no third option for encryption right now, but that does not mean there can never be one. You argue that there are only two solutions, either good encryption or weak security, and while that may be true right now, and may even always be true from a technical standpoint, there may be other creative options available over time. Maybe it boils down to as you said pulling the phone memory physically and then cloning it and running every possible password until it works. As long as there is a way to get at the info on the phone for sufficiently important situations. OTOH, I do kinda wonder if this is all a kabuik theater where the feds have figured out an easy crack (or Apple handed it to them under the table) and they are doing this to try and shift all the Islamic terrorists to use Apple products.
If we had a single, mentally deranged individual I would tend to agree with you that once he is dead, the rest is a non-issue. The problem arises when it is neither an isolated individual nor an isolated incident. What you have with radical Islam is essentially a fragmented conspiracy around a certain set of ideas. These guys are usually killed, but it is a 50% chance that he was not alone and he either had money or other forms of assistance/encouragement to do what he did.
Islam has ~1 billion active followers globally and around 3.3 million in the US. 25% of US muslims think violent jihad is OK against their fellow Americans, at the very least should be doing our best to gather information on any and all who back or support violence against us.
And before anyone complains about Islamophobia and discrimination against Muslims, that is a canard. We are all adults here and fully capable of discerning the difference between normal, peaceful fellow citizens who also happen to be Muslims and those radicals who want to do us harm. That is probably why Muslims only accounted for 16% of US hate crimes, vs 57% against Jews.
Basically, she hasn't BEEN CAUGHT doing anything that past administrations dating back to Reagan haven't done. (FTFY)
Hillary Clinton is a lawyer, and a very smart, wily individual. When you know the law and go in planning to commit a crime, it is much easier to get away with than a crime of passion or opportunity, especially if you have people who are willing to go to jail for you because they know if they rat on you they will be murdered days before they testify. On top of that she has most of the media in her corner, doing all of her opposition research while putting in zero effort to uncover any misbehavior on her part. If she had 10% of the real scrutiny i.e. investigative journalists (not just Republican bloviating) she would have imploded a long time ago.
You seem to be confusing Comcast with some other business. Comcast is a state sponsored MONOPOLY. Furthermore, it is a utility, meaning most people need the service as a basic function of daily life. The reality is that Comcast could go chapter 7 (bankrupt and its assets sold off) and yes, there would be some churn and turbulence, but those assets would be bought up by investors and we would probably get 6 or more smaller cable TV companies. The net number of employees might go down a little, but not massively, because cable TV/internet is hugely lucrative and stable source of profit and you need those employees to make the business work.
Was just coming here to write that. At this point, any organization that is not clearly a consumer representation organization, is essentially a shill set up by big businesses to hide the fact that they are representing big businesses. Further, as you point out, if there were a real technical problem, it would be trivial to point that out, but the generalities are another huge red flag. Strict ISP net neutrality should be a bare minimum across the globe.
Or tell them that your current wage is for performing your job, and that if they would like to add training of someone else to do your job, i.e. instructor, then your rate is quadrupled (or more). As a consultant I have done this in the past, and while companies generally don't like it, it is a rather simple argument to make that the knowledge you have accrued has a lot of intrinsic value (it allows you to work year after year at your position) and thus transferring that knowledge to someone else has a lot more value than continuing to do the work, as you are making yourself less valuable in the market. A couple of companies have paid the higher rate, a couple told me to pound sand, one of which came back to me begging for help as my replacement was a total disaster without proper training. Making a years salary in a couple of months can go a long way helping to find your next job.
She had classified information on a personal server - crime regardless of intent
She is on video lying to congress (the FBI director Comey later confirmed in front of congress that she told the FBI the truth, in direct contradiction to what she told congress earlier) - crime regardless of intent (just ask Scooter Libby, that is what he ended up going to jail over: perjury).
She directed her "IT" guy to purge thousands of emails from her personal server days after receiving a subpoena from congress and in direct violation of federal document retention rules; this is destruction of evidence - this is also a crime regardless of intent.
I suggest you watch the full video of Comey's testimony before congress. It is very damning and the only way Hillary avoided indictment was some backroom deal between Bill and Loretta Lynch (Comey's boss) on her airplane days before Comey presented to congress. Bill Clinton delayed his flight to wait for Lynch on the tarmac. In that meeting on the plane, everyone was kicked off and they talked for 40 minutes in complete privacy. Lynch's FBI security detail was directed to prevent anyone from photographing or recording the visit via cell phone or camera from the tarmac. Lynch specifically flew out a day early prior to her engagement which was the following day.
So lets shit can the major two parties and vote for Gary Johnson. Hillary stole the election from Bernie on top of being a liar and a criminal and enabling her husbands rape of women and the list goes on. Why anyone would vote for her is beyond me.
Actually, in much of the US the judge will take financial hardship into account for most fines, assuming that you are otherwise an upstanding individual. On some occasion, fines of thousands of dollars have been reduced to $50 or even $1. The exception is the IRS, because they are out for blood.
Just a bit of googling shows in 2015 Comcast had revenue of $74.5B and a net income of $16B with $8.9B cash on hand...
The purpose of a fine that would yield criminal charges were the actions performed by an individual should be to inflict severe pain such that most of the CxO level executives are fired and sued into oblivion by stock holders and make these dirt bags so toxic they never work at the executive level again. Fines should also be doubled or trebled on government sanctioned monopolies. A fine of half of their annual profit, or $8B would eliminate this criminal behavior and have the desired effect. Comcast has no right to exist. If they engage in fraud, they should be fined into oblivion and the pieces bought up by other companies/startups.
a) Sorry, let me clarify, THE FBI found that 110 emails contained classified information, including 8 that contained top secret, the highest level of classification, and two emails that were marked classified at the time they were sent. (This does not include several thousand emails which have now been marked classified but were not strictly marked classified at the time. This is the point of secured email systems for the Secretary of State; much of what they create may be classified, though not so marked at the time, and you want to protect that shit from spies.) You might want to pay attention to the news and maybe watch the FBI reporting on this to congress.
b) She was sent a subpoena by congress for all her private server emails which she used for work at the state department, after she failed to turn them over 2 years earlier when she left the state department, as required by the federal records act, which is supposed to take all of her correspondence and archive it for FOIA requests. The federal government has a 100% retention requirement for high ranking government officials. She worked for us and we have a right to review her non-classified work at any time. The 60 day retention policy is pure bullshit.
c) Legislators are accountable every 4 or 6 years (house and senate respectively). DO YOU HAVE A CLUE HOW OUR GOVERNMENT WORKS?? The out of power party is always obstructionist to a degree. If you have a president who is a leader who will compromise to get things done, that is how the government works. Everyone gets something they want, but no one gets everything that they want. Obama has not figured this out in 8 years, so he gets out his pen and his phone. It didn't matter for Obama's first 2 years in office as he had majorities in both the house and senate. He rubbed it in everyone's face "elections have consequences" and used his majorities to pass the ACA, a massive overreach of government power (the penalty for not buying a product from a private company wasn't a tax until the supreme court, then it sure as hell was).
d) We have anything but the two best candidates. Hillary is a liar and a law breaker, and literally every other candidate in the republican primary was better than Trump, he mainly got nominated by non-republicans (i.e. Democrats) seeking to fuck up the process:
So no, the two major parties to not have the best candidates this time around, and if you think so you need to stop smoking whatever you have been smoking.
This: Honestly the federal government should be paying a $10,000 bounty for evidence of criminal misbehavior of political figures. 50 years ago, this was the job that the press did, to dig up the facts and dirt on the politicians; it put the fear of God in them and it kept them more honest. These days the MSM is licking Hillarys boots so often I will be surprised if she has any sole left on them come election day. There is a lot of evidence that the leak came from a disillusioned DNC insider who was subsequently murdered, not Russian hackers. The hacker bit is just a lie to try and damn the source and vilify Trump by association.
I am pretty sure what Hillary did to Bernie Sanders in the primary was criminal fraud and if it were you or I we would be wearing an orange jumpsuit, but seeing as how she has already committed multiple felonies (lying to congress being the most easily provable one) and she is still running for president, our system is broken at a fundamental level. The fact that there is 40% of the population who would vote for her even if she admitted on camera to murder is the more troubling issue. People act like there are no other candidates running. How about voting Libertarian for once? If everyone actually voted their conscience, Gary Johnson would probably have a real shot at the presidency. (I don't give a shit if he doesn't know where Aleppo is or that he doesn't have any world leaders he respects, neither do I.)
Not really. Not having read it I checked Wikipedia, and it is classified historical fiction and/or a Technothriller. Many also confuse fantasy novels with SF. The truth is that the examples I listed above are just that, examples. They are neither an exhaustive nor exclusive list of themes. Novels are fiction, and as such can blend content and themes such that it is difficult to classify each novel exclusively in one category. However, it is easy to point to certain works as exemplars of SF, such as Assimovs Foundation series and say that that is definitively SF.
By your definition any novel that contains science is a SF novel. That falls apart with some simple investigation. What about the Detective novels that use CSI style forensics to solve crimes, or thrillers like most of the Tom Clancy novels which use intricate details about science and technology in their fundamental plots? That is clearly not SF, but by your definition it would be because there is a lot of science in the book. I could go on but I think you get the point. SF as a genre typically has as some part of its basic plot a significant shift in the technological level of the setting (or some theme or device) versus society at the time of its authorship.
As someone who has been a voracious reader of SF for 40 years and dabbled in SF authorship, this remains a problem for the genre. The reality is that many of the literary awards are looking to push a certain agenda, rather than to reward the most moving, innovative, well written pieces that they review. SF, on the other hand, is looking to engage the reader and capture their imagination. To show the reader new worlds, new races and, often, eschew social and moral norms. This flies in the face of the world view and objectives of most of the critics out there, who think that they are both intellectually and morally superior to the rest of the world, and thus you have the snub of most SF content.
For my money, Amazon should create it's own awards ceremony with cash payouts, considering the volume of books that it clears, and instead of the crusty, bitter old critics who have never created anything in their lives, they should use a combination of lottery/volunteer judges who are also known, active authors, certified purchase reviews and volume sold to give out awards. Literature has always been about bringing new ideas to the masses, but if your novel is neither popular, nor well received by the public, you have failed as an author, regardless of the content of your work.
This may be a cultural problem more than a technical one. One of the main strengths that US companies have from a technical perspective these days, is that we accept that mistakes can be made. It is often still painful financially to have a recall, but typically, at least on the engineering side, the mistake is rapidly found and a solution put forth. (If you see recall shenanigans, they are typically being run by corrupt management).
In Japan at least, this can be much more difficult, as making a mistake is seen as tantamount to betraying your company, and company loyalty is huge in Asia. They work 10-12h days and then are expected to go out drinking and socializing with their coworkers after hours. Thus, there have been numerous cases of people actually committing suicide over what amounts to an honest mistake. The recall typically happens eventually, but much later and you often still have obfuscation around the root cause of the problem (see the Toyota problems). Granted Samsung is not a Japanese company, but they still have a much more devout work force that we see here in the US.
What this is shaping up to look like is a mistake somewhere in the phone hardware (probably around the battery charge/discharge circuit) that was politically blamed on the battery manufacturer. They are probably replacing the original battery with a higher discharge rated battery to try and mask the problem (if they can reduce the CATO battery failures to a rate seen with Apple, they are in the clear). However, whatever the underlying problem is with the phone, it looks like it may not have been fixed with just a new battery, as the most recent failures show. If it is an incorrect board level component (capacitor/resistor/transistor etc.) they may have a much larger problem, as board level rework is very difficult on these phones; (i.e. Apple won't even try it for the iPhone 6 touch disease problem) the parts are tiny and initially placed by robot precision. If they have to scrap 3 million of phones world wide and we are talking $200 cost per phone, they are looking at eating over $1B for this mistake. (I'm guessing around now that extra 2 months of beta testing is looking like a bargain to management)...
The new line for the Johnnie Cochran's of the world: "If you can't unlock, you must acquit." The reality is that police do have a right, with a court order to search everything related to you, especially if you commit multiple attempted murders. The public has a vested interest in knowing if you had any co-conspirators among other things. That said I am all for strong encryption on all electronics. I think the best solution is some middle ground. I don't know where that middle ground is. The reality is that we the people need to start by requiring the federal government to treat our computers, email and cell phones with the same level of respect for privacy as is given to the US mail (i.e. its a felony to tamper/interfere/gain unauthorized access). Once that is established we can have a conversation about giving access with court order to some or all of these items.
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This is exactly what I was coming here to say. We have recently seen a bunch of this happening even today. Teens basically play chicken with oncoming traffic, standing in the road and then jumping out of the way at the last second to hide behind a tree or phone pole to try and cause an accident. If the car will only hit the brakes, you prevent them from intentionally causing an accident. Otherwise, they can maliciously cause accidents and largely get away with it.
Singapore had a similar problem with sideswipe pedestrian accidents for cash until they changed their laws such that outside of a crosswalk with a green crossing signal, the car had the right of way and could run you over. People morally still try to avoid this, but it puts pedestrians on notice that the car may not stop, so don't try to cause an accident, or you may get killed, and you will be at fault 99% of the time.
There have been a number of cases both with cars and homes where the door is left wide open (which is equivalent). It cannot be charged as B&E as there is no lock involved. If the police do it, it is often thrown out as entrapment, if a private citizen does it, it may get charged as trespassing in the home or attempted theft in the car (assuming they didn't actually steal the vehicle, just got in it.) If you have ever seen the show bait car, the cops always wait until the thief actually drives off in the car, as they can't get them on anything for just sitting in a car.
I'm not saying taking control of some IoT devices with default passwords for the purpose of DDoS attacks is not a crime, just that they need to call it something else, like digital trespassing or something.
How is this even considered a hack? It is basically just scanning for default passwords. Its the equivalent of buying a house with the locks on all of the exterior doors removed after a foreclosure. The seller/bank provides you with new locks in a sack for you to install, but instead, you leave all the doors without locks... So anyone who tries the handle can come in. No one would wonder why they were robbed in that situation, the same is true of any connected electronic device. Change the admin username and password when you buy it or suffer the consequences.
I am a fan of both technologies if they are ready for prime time.
I have had AR apps on my iPhone for what, 6 years now (Theodolite, Layar, etc.) They are useful for what they are, but until I have something like Google glass integrated into my glasses and AR is feeding me info real time my entire day, it is not that groundbreaking. I'm not buying Google glass until it hits like $200 over a normal pair of Rx glasses and they have a solid suite of built in apps.
My friend had a VR headset 30 years ago that we had a lot of fun with. I played virtual boy when it came out. I have Google cardboard on my iPhone. I plan on taking a test drive of PSVR in the very near future as I think it is the first mass market VR headset out there ($400 vs $2000 for VR plus a beast PC). The key selling point for me with PSVR will be immersion. The deal breaker will be motion sickness and/or eye fatigue.
Racist? We have a black/arab president, a woman leading the race for the presidency, the republicans had a woman and black in the primary, we have had a black man/black woman secretary of state, we currently have a black woman US attorney general and a black man before that. We are probably among the top if not the top multicultural country on the planet.
Repressive? We are arguably the most free people in the world. We enjoy the freedom of speech, religion, association, etc. How specifically is the US repressive to it's citizens?
Corrupt political process? There has always been corruption in politics, that is why it is illegal. We must hold corrupt politicians like Hillary accountable. If Hillary is elected, I may agree with that one.
Regardless of the brainwashing your college professor or MSNBC, you are factually wrong.
Just one question: Are they using the same engine that Facebook uses to promote trending news? You know, the one that was posting a bunch of articles from parody sites?
Beyond that, Google has given up on their "Do no evil" motto since they became subsidiaries of Alphabet. Do your own research or you will wind up ignorant, brain washed or worse. They are in tight with the Obama administration, does anyone believe that their fact checking is going to look at both sides of each assertion by each candidate?
https://theintercept.com/2016/...
Are they going to hold Hillary accountable for her lie that she said denying that she said that the TPP is the gold standard for trade agreements?
As for foreign internet companies, as long as they help us violate the privacy of our citizens, commit human rights violations and destroy any political opposition. (FTFY)
People equating China and the US have no damn clue how repressive China still is, most especially to it's own people. They have come a long way, but they still have a long way to go. Hopefully they don't decide to start WW3 before they get to a free society.
I suppose it depends on where you live, but I suspect if you live outside of a large city, FiOS is not a realistic option (check the map). Again, if you live too far away, the same is true for DSL, so you are left with the cable monopoly.
There is no third option for encryption right now, but that does not mean there can never be one. You argue that there are only two solutions, either good encryption or weak security, and while that may be true right now, and may even always be true from a technical standpoint, there may be other creative options available over time. Maybe it boils down to as you said pulling the phone memory physically and then cloning it and running every possible password until it works. As long as there is a way to get at the info on the phone for sufficiently important situations. OTOH, I do kinda wonder if this is all a kabuik theater where the feds have figured out an easy crack (or Apple handed it to them under the table) and they are doing this to try and shift all the Islamic terrorists to use Apple products.
If we had a single, mentally deranged individual I would tend to agree with you that once he is dead, the rest is a non-issue. The problem arises when it is neither an isolated individual nor an isolated incident. What you have with radical Islam is essentially a fragmented conspiracy around a certain set of ideas. These guys are usually killed, but it is a 50% chance that he was not alone and he either had money or other forms of assistance/encouragement to do what he did.
Islam has ~1 billion active followers globally and around 3.3 million in the US. 25% of US muslims think violent jihad is OK against their fellow Americans, at the very least should be doing our best to gather information on any and all who back or support violence against us.
http://www.breitbart.com/natio...
And before anyone complains about Islamophobia and discrimination against Muslims, that is a canard. We are all adults here and fully capable of discerning the difference between normal, peaceful fellow citizens who also happen to be Muslims and those radicals who want to do us harm. That is probably why Muslims only accounted for 16% of US hate crimes, vs 57% against Jews.
http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/mi...
Basically, she hasn't BEEN CAUGHT doing anything that past administrations dating back to Reagan haven't done. (FTFY)
Hillary Clinton is a lawyer, and a very smart, wily individual. When you know the law and go in planning to commit a crime, it is much easier to get away with than a crime of passion or opportunity, especially if you have people who are willing to go to jail for you because they know if they rat on you they will be murdered days before they testify. On top of that she has most of the media in her corner, doing all of her opposition research while putting in zero effort to uncover any misbehavior on her part. If she had 10% of the real scrutiny i.e. investigative journalists (not just Republican bloviating) she would have imploded a long time ago.
Check the AC posts on your comment. It is always pleasantly surprising when they are informative.
You seem to be confusing Comcast with some other business. Comcast is a state sponsored MONOPOLY. Furthermore, it is a utility, meaning most people need the service as a basic function of daily life. The reality is that Comcast could go chapter 7 (bankrupt and its assets sold off) and yes, there would be some churn and turbulence, but those assets would be bought up by investors and we would probably get 6 or more smaller cable TV companies. The net number of employees might go down a little, but not massively, because cable TV/internet is hugely lucrative and stable source of profit and you need those employees to make the business work.
Was just coming here to write that. At this point, any organization that is not clearly a consumer representation organization, is essentially a shill set up by big businesses to hide the fact that they are representing big businesses. Further, as you point out, if there were a real technical problem, it would be trivial to point that out, but the generalities are another huge red flag. Strict ISP net neutrality should be a bare minimum across the globe.
Or tell them that your current wage is for performing your job, and that if they would like to add training of someone else to do your job, i.e. instructor, then your rate is quadrupled (or more). As a consultant I have done this in the past, and while companies generally don't like it, it is a rather simple argument to make that the knowledge you have accrued has a lot of intrinsic value (it allows you to work year after year at your position) and thus transferring that knowledge to someone else has a lot more value than continuing to do the work, as you are making yourself less valuable in the market. A couple of companies have paid the higher rate, a couple told me to pound sand, one of which came back to me begging for help as my replacement was a total disaster without proper training. Making a years salary in a couple of months can go a long way helping to find your next job.
She had classified information on a personal server - crime regardless of intent
She is on video lying to congress (the FBI director Comey later confirmed in front of congress that she told the FBI the truth, in direct contradiction to what she told congress earlier) - crime regardless of intent (just ask Scooter Libby, that is what he ended up going to jail over: perjury).
She directed her "IT" guy to purge thousands of emails from her personal server days after receiving a subpoena from congress and in direct violation of federal document retention rules; this is destruction of evidence - this is also a crime regardless of intent.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?...
33:36 will give you a dose of unvarnished truth about Hillary's truthfulness.
I suggest you watch the full video of Comey's testimony before congress. It is very damning and the only way Hillary avoided indictment was some backroom deal between Bill and Loretta Lynch (Comey's boss) on her airplane days before Comey presented to congress. Bill Clinton delayed his flight to wait for Lynch on the tarmac. In that meeting on the plane, everyone was kicked off and they talked for 40 minutes in complete privacy. Lynch's FBI security detail was directed to prevent anyone from photographing or recording the visit via cell phone or camera from the tarmac. Lynch specifically flew out a day early prior to her engagement which was the following day.
http://wallstreetonparade.com/...
So lets shit can the major two parties and vote for Gary Johnson. Hillary stole the election from Bernie on top of being a liar and a criminal and enabling her husbands rape of women and the list goes on. Why anyone would vote for her is beyond me.
OK, let me rephrase that to be more accurate:
Explain how and why based on the leaks so far that Hillary HAS NOT BEEN INDICTED.
Actually, in much of the US the judge will take financial hardship into account for most fines, assuming that you are otherwise an upstanding individual. On some occasion, fines of thousands of dollars have been reduced to $50 or even $1. The exception is the IRS, because they are out for blood.
Just a bit of googling shows in 2015 Comcast had revenue of $74.5B and a net income of $16B with $8.9B cash on hand...
The purpose of a fine that would yield criminal charges were the actions performed by an individual should be to inflict severe pain such that most of the CxO level executives are fired and sued into oblivion by stock holders and make these dirt bags so toxic they never work at the executive level again. Fines should also be doubled or trebled on government sanctioned monopolies. A fine of half of their annual profit, or $8B would eliminate this criminal behavior and have the desired effect. Comcast has no right to exist. If they engage in fraud, they should be fined into oblivion and the pieces bought up by other companies/startups.
a) Sorry, let me clarify, THE FBI found that 110 emails contained classified information, including 8 that contained top secret, the highest level of classification, and two emails that were marked classified at the time they were sent. (This does not include several thousand emails which have now been marked classified but were not strictly marked classified at the time. This is the point of secured email systems for the Secretary of State; much of what they create may be classified, though not so marked at the time, and you want to protect that shit from spies.) You might want to pay attention to the news and maybe watch the FBI reporting on this to congress.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?...
check out 33:36 for some very straight facts on the case, extracted by a former federal prosecutor.
http://www.politifact.com/trut...
b) She was sent a subpoena by congress for all her private server emails which she used for work at the state department, after she failed to turn them over 2 years earlier when she left the state department, as required by the federal records act, which is supposed to take all of her correspondence and archive it for FOIA requests. The federal government has a 100% retention requirement for high ranking government officials. She worked for us and we have a right to review her non-classified work at any time. The 60 day retention policy is pure bullshit.
c) Legislators are accountable every 4 or 6 years (house and senate respectively). DO YOU HAVE A CLUE HOW OUR GOVERNMENT WORKS?? The out of power party is always obstructionist to a degree. If you have a president who is a leader who will compromise to get things done, that is how the government works. Everyone gets something they want, but no one gets everything that they want. Obama has not figured this out in 8 years, so he gets out his pen and his phone. It didn't matter for Obama's first 2 years in office as he had majorities in both the house and senate. He rubbed it in everyone's face "elections have consequences" and used his majorities to pass the ACA, a massive overreach of government power (the penalty for not buying a product from a private company wasn't a tax until the supreme court, then it sure as hell was).
d) We have anything but the two best candidates. Hillary is a liar and a law breaker, and literally every other candidate in the republican primary was better than Trump, he mainly got nominated by non-republicans (i.e. Democrats) seeking to fuck up the process:
http://www.redstate.com/diary/...
So no, the two major parties to not have the best candidates this time around, and if you think so you need to stop smoking whatever you have been smoking.
This: Honestly the federal government should be paying a $10,000 bounty for evidence of criminal misbehavior of political figures. 50 years ago, this was the job that the press did, to dig up the facts and dirt on the politicians; it put the fear of God in them and it kept them more honest. These days the MSM is licking Hillarys boots so often I will be surprised if she has any sole left on them come election day. There is a lot of evidence that the leak came from a disillusioned DNC insider who was subsequently murdered, not Russian hackers. The hacker bit is just a lie to try and damn the source and vilify Trump by association.
I am pretty sure what Hillary did to Bernie Sanders in the primary was criminal fraud and if it were you or I we would be wearing an orange jumpsuit, but seeing as how she has already committed multiple felonies (lying to congress being the most easily provable one) and she is still running for president, our system is broken at a fundamental level. The fact that there is 40% of the population who would vote for her even if she admitted on camera to murder is the more troubling issue. People act like there are no other candidates running. How about voting Libertarian for once? If everyone actually voted their conscience, Gary Johnson would probably have a real shot at the presidency. (I don't give a shit if he doesn't know where Aleppo is or that he doesn't have any world leaders he respects, neither do I.)
Not really. Not having read it I checked Wikipedia, and it is classified historical fiction and/or a Technothriller. Many also confuse fantasy novels with SF. The truth is that the examples I listed above are just that, examples. They are neither an exhaustive nor exclusive list of themes. Novels are fiction, and as such can blend content and themes such that it is difficult to classify each novel exclusively in one category. However, it is easy to point to certain works as exemplars of SF, such as Assimovs Foundation series and say that that is definitively SF.
By your definition any novel that contains science is a SF novel. That falls apart with some simple investigation. What about the Detective novels that use CSI style forensics to solve crimes, or thrillers like most of the Tom Clancy novels which use intricate details about science and technology in their fundamental plots? That is clearly not SF, but by your definition it would be because there is a lot of science in the book. I could go on but I think you get the point. SF as a genre typically has as some part of its basic plot a significant shift in the technological level of the setting (or some theme or device) versus society at the time of its authorship.
As someone who has been a voracious reader of SF for 40 years and dabbled in SF authorship, this remains a problem for the genre. The reality is that many of the literary awards are looking to push a certain agenda, rather than to reward the most moving, innovative, well written pieces that they review. SF, on the other hand, is looking to engage the reader and capture their imagination. To show the reader new worlds, new races and, often, eschew social and moral norms. This flies in the face of the world view and objectives of most of the critics out there, who think that they are both intellectually and morally superior to the rest of the world, and thus you have the snub of most SF content.
For my money, Amazon should create it's own awards ceremony with cash payouts, considering the volume of books that it clears, and instead of the crusty, bitter old critics who have never created anything in their lives, they should use a combination of lottery/volunteer judges who are also known, active authors, certified purchase reviews and volume sold to give out awards. Literature has always been about bringing new ideas to the masses, but if your novel is neither popular, nor well received by the public, you have failed as an author, regardless of the content of your work.
This may be a cultural problem more than a technical one. One of the main strengths that US companies have from a technical perspective these days, is that we accept that mistakes can be made. It is often still painful financially to have a recall, but typically, at least on the engineering side, the mistake is rapidly found and a solution put forth. (If you see recall shenanigans, they are typically being run by corrupt management).
In Japan at least, this can be much more difficult, as making a mistake is seen as tantamount to betraying your company, and company loyalty is huge in Asia. They work 10-12h days and then are expected to go out drinking and socializing with their coworkers after hours. Thus, there have been numerous cases of people actually committing suicide over what amounts to an honest mistake. The recall typically happens eventually, but much later and you often still have obfuscation around the root cause of the problem (see the Toyota problems). Granted Samsung is not a Japanese company, but they still have a much more devout work force that we see here in the US.
What this is shaping up to look like is a mistake somewhere in the phone hardware (probably around the battery charge/discharge circuit) that was politically blamed on the battery manufacturer. They are probably replacing the original battery with a higher discharge rated battery to try and mask the problem (if they can reduce the CATO battery failures to a rate seen with Apple, they are in the clear). However, whatever the underlying problem is with the phone, it looks like it may not have been fixed with just a new battery, as the most recent failures show. If it is an incorrect board level component (capacitor/resistor/transistor etc.) they may have a much larger problem, as board level rework is very difficult on these phones; (i.e. Apple won't even try it for the iPhone 6 touch disease problem) the parts are tiny and initially placed by robot precision. If they have to scrap 3 million of phones world wide and we are talking $200 cost per phone, they are looking at eating over $1B for this mistake. (I'm guessing around now that extra 2 months of beta testing is looking like a bargain to management)...
The new line for the Johnnie Cochran's of the world: "If you can't unlock, you must acquit." The reality is that police do have a right, with a court order to search everything related to you, especially if you commit multiple attempted murders. The public has a vested interest in knowing if you had any co-conspirators among other things. That said I am all for strong encryption on all electronics. I think the best solution is some middle ground. I don't know where that middle ground is. The reality is that we the people need to start by requiring the federal government to treat our computers, email and cell phones with the same level of respect for privacy as is given to the US mail (i.e. its a felony to tamper/interfere/gain unauthorized access). Once that is established we can have a conversation about giving access with court order to some or all of these items.