It has yet to proven the Russians had any affect on the outcome of the US Presidential Election 2016.
This is irrelevant unless you think the discussion is about the legitimacy of the president. It's not. What matters is whether there was Russian involvement and how to prevent future attacks of this kind on democracy.
Whether the attempt was successful or not is impossible to prove in practice anyway.
It's a very bad idea to allow a country to annex large parts of another, independent country with only mild sanctions that get lifted a few years later already. On the contrary, the sanctions should stay in place until the Crimean Peninsula is returned.
You have to take into account that Russia is estimated to be able to invade and occupy any of the small baltic countries within about two days. Since without the US NATO forces in the region are way too fragile and slow to respond, the main factor that keeps Russia from doing that (in military terms, not politically) are currently the US forces that have been moved there, since US politicians would be essentially forced to reply if American soldiers were killed in a conflict. If Russia could easily grab any of those country by military force and would have to fear only a few years of extremely modest sanctions, what would keep them from doing it?
If you think such scenarios are unrealistic, think again. Take a look not just at Ukraine but also at Georgia and Transnistria - the latter is part of Moldovia far away from the Russian border which is 100% maintained and controlled by the Russians.
Well, let's face it. The real problem is that neither Flynn not Bannon are remotely competent national security advisors, neither is Rex Tillerson a sufficiently unbiased foreign minister (in the light of past attempts to secure billion dollar oil deals with Russia), or Betsy DeVos a competent education minister, not to speak of the abominable choice of attorney general. Despite all this partisan chatter and division, Republicans should be able to realize that there are plenty of Republicans or independents with higher integrity who would have been better suited for these posts. I feel sorry for guys like McCain who nowadays have to worry about their own folks more than about the opposition.
Both uses are the same. It's positive to use a system in a way it wasn't intended for and think outside the box to satisfy your curiosity. Programming is not hacking, unless there is some smart trick involved.
Ironically, the 1% richest of any country already have their basic income for sure and it seems to work out fine for them. Maybe some of them work less (Richard Branson?), but I've never heard some billionaire call out his fellow billionaires that they are just lazy and don't contribute enough to society, and most of them seem to work no less than anyone else.
With a bit of care and knowledge of rank correlation coefficients and statistics, it is fairly easy to create a meaningful measure of freedom for countries, based on a variety of objective factors that aren't too hard to measure and verify either. There are finitely many factors and you probably don't even need a large number to get a meaningful comparison tool. To be honest, I'd be surprised if such an indicator doesn't exist yet, or maybe even several. Granted, the aggregation method will always be controversial, but that doesn't mean that the indicator is useless.
Your own example should already tell you that your statement is false, since a country C in which you are forbidden to do X and forbidden to do Y is clearly less free than A and B.
Yes, yes, yes, but people often forget in these debates what a massive disadvantage even just a single rejected passenger is for the US. You wouldn't want to turn too many happy travelers, businessmen and academics and all of their peer groups and/or companies and departments into fervent Anti-Americans, let alone the embarrassment and troubles that many false positives would cause on the US side. The US already now has the image of being one of the worst countries insofar as border and airport controls are concerned, and I know many people who avoid going to US conferences for that reason alone.
I agree with you overall assessment and the times you mention (used to have another account, of course), but must add that there was some pretty extreme shift in moderation and post quality/content around early September last year. I think it's credible that the Slashdot moderation system was gamed at that time, be that by automated bots or by voting rings. Of course, I could be wrong but the impression is strong and hard to shake off.
I can't really second that. In my experience, Usenet flamewars were overall much less rude and personal, and much more content-oriented. The good old crackpot Usenet troll at least used to spread his trifles with a certain level of civility and sophistication and put every second word in uppercase. These trolls seem to have almost disappeared from web-based forums like Slashdot. Instead, there are way more responses that are really just evil and have as only goal to hurt as much as possible without any real agenda (except sometimes political) behind it. Moreover, the number of people going at length to help on Usenet IMHO was way higher than on help forums nowadays.
But to be fair, I only frequented a few comp.lang and sci newsgroups then and none of the alt discussions, so maybe I was just lucky.
The problem is the opposite, all recent processors/motherboards are insecure. They contain a processor on its own, with its operating system, network stack, and complete access to all hard disks and RAM of the machine, and that little embedded OS can be controlled and triggered from the network.
There really is no benefit in replacing native plugins with a strictly inferior technology - Javascript instead of the language of your choice and then removing the former. This is just another closing down of an ecosystem for the sake of nonexistent "security" under the obviously dubious presumptions that the developers of the base technology are more competent about security than plugin developers and that users need to be constantly patronized. Instead, they should open a native plugin technology to as many languages as possible and let people decide what language to use and which developer to trust.
But you can see this trend everywhere. Less power to users and third-party developers and more control to the people who run the "platform".
That's because most interesting personalities and intelligent readers/posters have left./ quite a while ago already. I have been on slashdot basically since it was founded under a large number of different user names and used to contribute a lot. But it has become so bad, full of trolls and idiots that I post much rarer and don't even read most submissions any longer, and I'm using this throwaway user name most of the time. Reddit and hackernews are much better, because they have better karma systems that are more resilient against trolls, voting rings and blatant idiocy. Slashdot is dead.
Out of curiosity, how easy would it be for a relatively developed nation like the US to build damns to protect coastal cities? How much would they cost if there is a 2.4 ft. rise? Does somebody know how to calculate this?
I just want to make clear here and now that I do not want to live in case I should ever by completely paralyzed.
On a side note, if you share my sentiment you should check out your local lawmakers' provisions for such cases. Since my parents live in Germany, I know that at least in Germany you can make what's called a Patientenverfuegung at a notary. Emergency services and doctors will respect this document if you have it in your pocket and will switch off the machines. You can also determine a next of kin who will be responsible for this decision if reachable. The document needs to be official, though.
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It has yet to proven the Russians had any affect on the outcome of the US Presidential Election 2016.
This is irrelevant unless you think the discussion is about the legitimacy of the president. It's not. What matters is whether there was Russian involvement and how to prevent future attacks of this kind on democracy.
Whether the attempt was successful or not is impossible to prove in practice anyway.
It's a very bad idea to allow a country to annex large parts of another, independent country with only mild sanctions that get lifted a few years later already. On the contrary, the sanctions should stay in place until the Crimean Peninsula is returned.
You have to take into account that Russia is estimated to be able to invade and occupy any of the small baltic countries within about two days. Since without the US NATO forces in the region are way too fragile and slow to respond, the main factor that keeps Russia from doing that (in military terms, not politically) are currently the US forces that have been moved there, since US politicians would be essentially forced to reply if American soldiers were killed in a conflict. If Russia could easily grab any of those country by military force and would have to fear only a few years of extremely modest sanctions, what would keep them from doing it?
If you think such scenarios are unrealistic, think again. Take a look not just at Ukraine but also at Georgia and Transnistria - the latter is part of Moldovia far away from the Russian border which is 100% maintained and controlled by the Russians.
Well, let's face it. The real problem is that neither Flynn not Bannon are remotely competent national security advisors, neither is Rex Tillerson a sufficiently unbiased foreign minister (in the light of past attempts to secure billion dollar oil deals with Russia), or Betsy DeVos a competent education minister, not to speak of the abominable choice of attorney general. Despite all this partisan chatter and division, Republicans should be able to realize that there are plenty of Republicans or independents with higher integrity who would have been better suited for these posts. I feel sorry for guys like McCain who nowadays have to worry about their own folks more than about the opposition.
Both uses are the same. It's positive to use a system in a way it wasn't intended for and think outside the box to satisfy your curiosity. Programming is not hacking, unless there is some smart trick involved.
While we're at it, the AT modem command set and proprietary extensions.
Ironically, the 1% richest of any country already have their basic income for sure and it seems to work out fine for them. Maybe some of them work less (Richard Branson?), but I've never heard some billionaire call out his fellow billionaires that they are just lazy and don't contribute enough to society, and most of them seem to work no less than anyone else.
You're really just a tool.
That and as someone else said somewhere else, it's the National Security Agency and not the Secure National Agency.
With a bit of care and knowledge of rank correlation coefficients and statistics, it is fairly easy to create a meaningful measure of freedom for countries, based on a variety of objective factors that aren't too hard to measure and verify either. There are finitely many factors and you probably don't even need a large number to get a meaningful comparison tool. To be honest, I'd be surprised if such an indicator doesn't exist yet, or maybe even several. Granted, the aggregation method will always be controversial, but that doesn't mean that the indicator is useless.
Your own example should already tell you that your statement is false, since a country C in which you are forbidden to do X and forbidden to do Y is clearly less free than A and B.
Yes, yes, yes, but people often forget in these debates what a massive disadvantage even just a single rejected passenger is for the US. You wouldn't want to turn too many happy travelers, businessmen and academics and all of their peer groups and/or companies and departments into fervent Anti-Americans, let alone the embarrassment and troubles that many false positives would cause on the US side. The US already now has the image of being one of the worst countries insofar as border and airport controls are concerned, and I know many people who avoid going to US conferences for that reason alone.
Otherwise my girlfriend will get very, very angry, and I'm going to be the one who has to 'fix' the streaming for her *again*...
(Before someone asks: No, the obscure old TV series she likes to watch are not available for purchase where we live.)
I agree with you overall assessment and the times you mention (used to have another account, of course), but must add that there was some pretty extreme shift in moderation and post quality/content around early September last year. I think it's credible that the Slashdot moderation system was gamed at that time, be that by automated bots or by voting rings. Of course, I could be wrong but the impression is strong and hard to shake off.
I can't really second that. In my experience, Usenet flamewars were overall much less rude and personal, and much more content-oriented. The good old crackpot Usenet troll at least used to spread his trifles with a certain level of civility and sophistication and put every second word in uppercase. These trolls seem to have almost disappeared from web-based forums like Slashdot. Instead, there are way more responses that are really just evil and have as only goal to hurt as much as possible without any real agenda (except sometimes political) behind it. Moreover, the number of people going at length to help on Usenet IMHO was way higher than on help forums nowadays.
But to be fair, I only frequented a few comp.lang and sci newsgroups then and none of the alt discussions, so maybe I was just lucky.
That's pretty much what he meant, yes.
The problem is the opposite, all recent processors/motherboards are insecure. They contain a processor on its own, with its operating system, network stack, and complete access to all hard disks and RAM of the machine, and that little embedded OS can be controlled and triggered from the network.
There really is no benefit in replacing native plugins with a strictly inferior technology - Javascript instead of the language of your choice and then removing the former. This is just another closing down of an ecosystem for the sake of nonexistent "security" under the obviously dubious presumptions that the developers of the base technology are more competent about security than plugin developers and that users need to be constantly patronized. Instead, they should open a native plugin technology to as many languages as possible and let people decide what language to use and which developer to trust.
But you can see this trend everywhere. Less power to users and third-party developers and more control to the people who run the "platform".
Interesting. Where can you buy it? (In Europe)
Tampa, FL, is also the city from which I get the highest number of invitations for fake conferences.
Well, good luck if Betsy DeVos is put in charge of that ...
That's because most interesting personalities and intelligent readers/posters have left ./ quite a while ago already. I have been on slashdot basically since it was founded under a large number of different user names and used to contribute a lot. But it has become so bad, full of trolls and idiots that I post much rarer and don't even read most submissions any longer, and I'm using this throwaway user name most of the time. Reddit and hackernews are much better, because they have better karma systems that are more resilient against trolls, voting rings and blatant idiocy. Slashdot is dead.
Out of curiosity, how easy would it be for a relatively developed nation like the US to build damns to protect coastal cities? How much would they cost if there is a 2.4 ft. rise? Does somebody know how to calculate this?
Well, since the EU is obviously also a nuclear power, it all stays within the family.
I just want to make clear here and now that I do not want to live in case I should ever by completely paralyzed.
On a side note, if you share my sentiment you should check out your local lawmakers' provisions for such cases. Since my parents live in Germany, I know that at least in Germany you can make what's called a Patientenverfuegung at a notary. Emergency services and doctors will respect this document if you have it in your pocket and will switch off the machines. You can also determine a next of kin who will be responsible for this decision if reachable. The document needs to be official, though.
It's highly likely that they did import the caste system.
I hope he quit and did something useful.