The Waters of the United States issue was a clear power grab by Obama. It doesn't matter where you stand on the EPA. That was clearly a power grab.
And yet for all the slurs and barbs the right has concocted about Obama for no other reason than that he had the wrong skin color, there was a peaceful transition of power when his term was up. What reason is there to form a secret police force, other than to extra-judicially enforce the will of the president and keep him in power? The only reason to form a 'Off the Books' intelligence service is to BREAK LAWS.
Give the white house a private army / spy network / whatever else controlled exclusively by the president, and it will still be there for the next president.
If you give Trump a private army / spy network / whatever, there would be no next president. Do you for one second think that Trump would step down from power if he had a private army? He has been attacking established intelligence agencies, The FBI, the free press, and grabbing power where ever he can. Even Nixon, one of the most arguably corrupt presidents we have ever had took six years to come to a point where he stated that a president cannot break the law because he is above it. Trump is defending his actions in under a year. You give this guy an inch and you will have America's first dictator.
Over the summer, DHS published a "statement of objectives" for a system that would use computer algorithms to scan social media and other material in order to automatically flag undesirable entrants -- and to continuously scan the activities of those allowed into the U.S.
Strangely, I could get behind this idea. Could we add parameters to look for people who post abusive racist and sexist tirades on twitter? I would die laughing if the Donald was denied entry next time he tried to get in...
We must control content that would undermine our authority. I can't believe the Chinese Communist Party actually thinks people are dumb enough to believe the shit that they spew.
I don't know, I think we should appoint China the regulator of the entire Internet. It might be amusing to watch them try to play whack-a-mole with the toxic garbage that makes up a good 1/3 of the Internet. It will keep most of their population well occupied for the next few decades until they realize the utter futility of it all. In the meantime, once one or two well trafficked sites get shut down, a sizeable portion of the entire Internet would devote every waking moment to undermining the PRC and making life a living hell for every member of the government.
Moreover, as soon as you can do the work in half the time, you get handed double the workload. People see work as going away and becoming scarce but in reality there is more work being undertaken as we become more efficient at it. To expand on the parent post, once we figure out how to ship packages more efficiently, we now have time to track each package as it travels, something that would have been impossible 100 years ago. Once that is fully automated with zero human involvement, there will be some other type of work undertaken that was previously thought impossible.
There is always more worthwhile work to do, automation and technology just changes the nature of the work.
What we deal with here is something that is, essentially, an impossibility. A gaming corporation. The combination of "gaming", an activity that requires something that is fun, exciting, interesting, and engaging, and "corporation", which is the exact opposite thereof.
It is an interesting parallel to the lack of creativity that we are seeing in Hollywood now. In both cases, large corporations have moved in to an industry built on creativity and art and tried to turn the development processes into assembly lines. And both industries seem to think that fancy graphics can cover for poorly developed products.
Four words in the post calling someone stupid, and one is actually spelled properly. Every time I feel bad about myself, I come read the Internet and I am right back on top of the world...
The fix is an easy one. The simpler laws are, the harder it becomes to find loopholes. If the law was that everyone must pay 10% VAT regardless of buyer or seller country, then it become much harder to min-max the system. It is only when you start trying to introduce complexity and exception into the rules that loopholes get created.
Apple better enjoy its position, because sooner or later, nation states will decide that they aren't going to have multi-nationals screwing with them, and just collectively decide to slap them down once and for all. Nation states don't need lawyers if they decide they want multinationals to pay their share of taxes, they have guns, cops, and tanks. Fuck with them at your own risk.
The idea that government can compel people to participate in a free and open economy (Obamacare) isn't liberty, it is fascism. Because once a government can compel people against their own conscience is a violation of the basic tenants of liberty.
Is Obamacare 'Slaver' as a Libertarian would claim, or is it a commons? If people are truly able to opt in to every aspect of society, then there really no such things as commons.
Take a park as an example. A public park is paid for by taxes collected from everyone, and is available to be used by everyone. Buy if you allow people to opt in to each and every government program ala cart, isn't then the park owned by the select few that chose to allocate their 'tax' money for it? Moreover, unless there are rules that prohibit non-contributors from using a commons, then what incentive is there to personally fund anything? Why not just let others fund it, and use the commons for free? If only the contributors can use each commons they give to, haven't you just in effect created a corporation that owns private property?
Public healthcare is the exact same thing. If you aren't getting everyone to contribute to lower costs, then you are just creating another private health care plan. Libertarian idiots howl about taxes being slavery, they are not, UNLESS you have no option to choose another society to be a part of. You can renounce your citizenship at any time you wish and emigrate to a country where the rules are more to your liking. Slaves do not have that option.
It makes no sense. I'd rather more countries review it, so there's more eyes on it and less likely to have something nefarious that only benefits one or some countries.
It is a two edged sword. More people look at the code, the more confidence you have that it isn't hiding anything. But then, you also have more people who understand how to write malware that either attacks the AV app, or is able to bypass it entirely. You can have it both ways of course, if you don't let select countries that have historically acted against US interest (cough cough Russia) look at the code.
On the flip side, I would not mind letting a website I was on use some of my CPU time slices in lieu of ads IF THEY JUST ASKED NICELY.
It would make a nice alternative to plastering every square inch of the browser window with 3rd party ads. I have a multi core proc, I can usually spare CPU for sites I like to run miners.
As The Hill's Taylor Lorenz noted in her tweets, there was no way to turn off the feature. Lorenz also claimed that using pink cupcakes as the unit of measurement was "lowkey aimed at women."
As a man who will eat the shit out of any pink cupcake that is dropped in front of him, I am highly offended by Lorenz's tweet. Lorenz is racist against men and sexist against pink! Boo!
"assume" their data is already in the hands of criminals and "act accordingly."
...And do what exactly? Burn our current identity and get a new one out of the bag that we have hidden in a locker at the bus station? Whee, I am now Raoul Yankinov now, bricklayer from New Jersey!
If the government is going to hoard PI and not defend it with ICE and brutal cyber crime laws, they better come up with a better fucking plan 'b' for when they worked over by everyone on the Internet who can write a script.
I'm more inclined to believe that it's another state-actor or else a very, very large criminal enterprise, something on the international scale.
Of course it is a state actor. Also it seems very clear that it is probably a false flag op trying to create friction between Cuba and the US. Lets think about this: In recent years there are has been a considerable thawing of relations between the US and Cuba. Previously, it was a Soviet friendly country right off the coast of the US. If Cuba suddenly becomes A BFF with the US, what do you think happens to relations with Russia?
Moreover, Putin has signed off on outlandish 'James Bond' operations before. (Poisoning a journalist with radioactive material, conducing false flag terrorist bombings, etc.). Using exotic ultrasonic weapons to deafen embassy personnel sound like something right out of his playbook.
Police detectives look for motives when working on a case. I'd say Putin has a pretty good motive to keep US - Cuba relations on ice.
Ironically enough, they will probably will be involved. This tool is probably just going to put the servers in a data center on Native American land, and claim that it is just another casino. Because there will need to be tech support for the users of this site/service, they will outsource the tech support to India.
Yeah, 'Indian' is culturally insensitive, but I don't know if it falls into the 'racist' category. Racism the act of claiming that one race is superior or inferior to another. I don't really see anything inherently racist about confusing West Indies inhabitants with North American natives. Just being stupid isn't automatically racist.
Suspect that there will be a lot more morally questionable stuff going on behind the scenes than just cultural insensitivity.
It is the CIO's responsibility to see that systems are put in place to insure that the responsibility does not rest on one person, and that the company's systems cannot fail without multiple extreme and uncontrollable events occurring. They create the organization that will see that things happen properly even if individuals drop the ball. The technical buck stops at the CIO.
The CEO is responsible for hiring a CIO that do their fucking job properly. Moreover, if.25B has been spent and one person can fail with these sort of results, the shareholders need to sue them for failure to discharge their duties, and possible fraud.
Nobody owns a fuck up of this scale but the CEO and CIO. These assholes need to be sent to an extra-rapey prison.
Fuck you very much, and you could switch the terms to left-wing, atheist, Christian, Muslim, Nazi, Communist, Socialist, Fascist, etc etc, and unless they're actually inciting violence and/or armed rebellion/overthrow, I'd still tell you to fuck right off.
Government has no business policing the content of speech outside the aforementioned incitement to violence and/or armed rebellion/overthrow caveats, particularly and especially concerning politics or religion. This idea of "hate speech" is simply Orwell's "Newspeak" re-labeled. A prison for the minds of the masses who cannot rebel when the words and the concepts they conveyed that were used to describe it, and even for the very concept of individual freedom itself, have been erased.
You are correct that freedom of speech includes the right to say things that a vast majority find disagreeable. But what point is there crossover between hate speech and incitement of violence? It seems like a very slippery slope. Would we have had the the vehicular assault on protesters in Charlotte occur if it were not for decades of far right media agitation? Trump's speeches (and election) have have a very obvious correlation on the rise of hate crimes across the USA. Companies like FOX are very obviously in the business of selling propaganda as a product, where they are interpreting news as evidence to support their worldview. When that worldview is to be afraid and hate other people, you need to ask some hard questions about the
Where is the line? Clearly, telling people to go murder all foreigners right now is inciting violence, and unacceptable. But isn't it also going to have a negative consequences if you spend decades telling people repeatedly that all foreigners are thieves and rapists? That will result in murders and violence, but likely on a lesser scale.
The right has some solid political ideas that are worthy of discussion, but they are in bed with some really questionable people with seedy ideas. The level of political animosity that exists right now is a direct result of decades of conservative political propaganda telling Americans to hate each other.
What is that last sentence referring to? Does Walmart have some sort of security history or hiring practices that you are alluding to?
Walmart is notorious for paying it's employees terrible wages and benefits. Am I to assume that if they cannot be bothered to pay people a basic living wage that they are going to devote much effort to vetting them and making sure that the are not criminals? Moreover, how much it security is a skinflint company like Walmart going to invest in to make sure that the one time pass codes they are using are properly secured aren't falling into the wrong hands?
If you were a professional criminal, and you learned that Walmart had or could create onetime keys for half the city, wouldn't you be very interested? This is a terrifying idea, made more so because of who wants to do it.
Wow, I would never let an unknown person have unsupervised access to my home. Especially someone employed by Walmart.
Aside from all the new security issues that are opened up by generating one time access to a digital lock, doesn't this raise all sorts of red flags for people?
What happens when law enforcement decides that they want to sneak in an poke around? We going to have another of situations where they can make it fly just because the Supreme Court hasn't gotten around to pointing out that it isn't legal just because it is novel, like we have with feds intercepting internet and phone data?
Are you thinking that a national actor will attack the block chain servers after wide adoption? Your comment is interesting, but I don't see a trivial fashion to selectively 'turn off' bitcoin for a specific target country. A national actor could create some interesting problems for validating the BC. Please expound.
The idea that you shouldn't be able to record a copy of anything that plays on your machine is ridiculous.
Amen! As a consumer, it is not my problem if your business model isn't robust enough to survive people copying data that you sold them access to. Keep your goddamed failed encryption strategies out of my browser.
Excellent point. When there is a crime committed, the police will ask who benefits from it. Who benefits from Cuban diplomats being attacked and maimed?
Also, what countries are willing to commit outlandish and almost comic book esq plots against people they don't like? The KGB springs to mind, with their strange assassination techniques that they have employed in the past. (Look up details on their radiation poisoning of people. Rather than just hit somebody with a car when they walk across the street, the have engaged in Bond villain level silliness.)
Further, keep in mind that they have already shown that they are willing to engage in manipulation of the US elections, so they are clearly willing to try bold and aggressive things. Attacking diplomats on foreign soil as a false flag op is a pretty hostile act.
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The Waters of the United States issue was a clear power grab by Obama. It doesn't matter where you stand on the EPA. That was clearly a power grab.
And yet for all the slurs and barbs the right has concocted about Obama for no other reason than that he had the wrong skin color, there was a peaceful transition of power when his term was up. What reason is there to form a secret police force, other than to extra-judicially enforce the will of the president and keep him in power? The only reason to form a 'Off the Books' intelligence service is to BREAK LAWS.
Give the white house a private army / spy network / whatever else controlled exclusively by the president, and it will still be there for the next president.
If you give Trump a private army / spy network / whatever, there would be no next president. Do you for one second think that Trump would step down from power if he had a private army? He has been attacking established intelligence agencies, The FBI, the free press, and grabbing power where ever he can. Even Nixon, one of the most arguably corrupt presidents we have ever had took six years to come to a point where he stated that a president cannot break the law because he is above it. Trump is defending his actions in under a year. You give this guy an inch and you will have America's first dictator.
Over the summer, DHS published a "statement of objectives" for a system that would use computer algorithms to scan social media and other material in order to automatically flag undesirable entrants -- and to continuously scan the activities of those allowed into the U.S.
Strangely, I could get behind this idea. Could we add parameters to look for people who post abusive racist and sexist tirades on twitter? I would die laughing if the Donald was denied entry next time he tried to get in...
We must control content that would undermine our authority. I can't believe the Chinese Communist Party actually thinks people are dumb enough to believe the shit that they spew.
I don't know, I think we should appoint China the regulator of the entire Internet. It might be amusing to watch them try to play whack-a-mole with the toxic garbage that makes up a good 1/3 of the Internet. It will keep most of their population well occupied for the next few decades until they realize the utter futility of it all. In the meantime, once one or two well trafficked sites get shut down, a sizeable portion of the entire Internet would devote every waking moment to undermining the PRC and making life a living hell for every member of the government.
I would be entertaining.
Well stated.
Moreover, as soon as you can do the work in half the time, you get handed double the workload. People see work as going away and becoming scarce but in reality there is more work being undertaken as we become more efficient at it. To expand on the parent post, once we figure out how to ship packages more efficiently, we now have time to track each package as it travels, something that would have been impossible 100 years ago. Once that is fully automated with zero human involvement, there will be some other type of work undertaken that was previously thought impossible.
There is always more worthwhile work to do, automation and technology just changes the nature of the work.
What we deal with here is something that is, essentially, an impossibility. A gaming corporation. The combination of "gaming", an activity that requires something that is fun, exciting, interesting, and engaging, and "corporation", which is the exact opposite thereof.
It is an interesting parallel to the lack of creativity that we are seeing in Hollywood now. In both cases, large corporations have moved in to an industry built on creativity and art and tried to turn the development processes into assembly lines. And both industries seem to think that fancy graphics can cover for poorly developed products.
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Four words in the post calling someone stupid, and one is actually spelled properly. Every time I feel bad about myself, I come read the Internet and I am right back on top of the world...
The fix is an easy one. The simpler laws are, the harder it becomes to find loopholes. If the law was that everyone must pay 10% VAT regardless of buyer or seller country, then it become much harder to min-max the system. It is only when you start trying to introduce complexity and exception into the rules that loopholes get created.
Apple better enjoy its position, because sooner or later, nation states will decide that they aren't going to have multi-nationals screwing with them, and just collectively decide to slap them down once and for all. Nation states don't need lawyers if they decide they want multinationals to pay their share of taxes, they have guns, cops, and tanks. Fuck with them at your own risk.
The idea that government can compel people to participate in a free and open economy (Obamacare) isn't liberty, it is fascism. Because once a government can compel people against their own conscience is a violation of the basic tenants of liberty.
Is Obamacare 'Slaver' as a Libertarian would claim, or is it a commons? If people are truly able to opt in to every aspect of society, then there really no such things as commons.
Take a park as an example. A public park is paid for by taxes collected from everyone, and is available to be used by everyone. Buy if you allow people to opt in to each and every government program ala cart, isn't then the park owned by the select few that chose to allocate their 'tax' money for it? Moreover, unless there are rules that prohibit non-contributors from using a commons, then what incentive is there to personally fund anything? Why not just let others fund it, and use the commons for free? If only the contributors can use each commons they give to, haven't you just in effect created a corporation that owns private property?
Public healthcare is the exact same thing. If you aren't getting everyone to contribute to lower costs, then you are just creating another private health care plan. Libertarian idiots howl about taxes being slavery, they are not, UNLESS you have no option to choose another society to be a part of. You can renounce your citizenship at any time you wish and emigrate to a country where the rules are more to your liking. Slaves do not have that option.
It makes no sense. I'd rather more countries review it, so there's more eyes on it and less likely to have something nefarious that only benefits one or some countries.
It is a two edged sword. More people look at the code, the more confidence you have that it isn't hiding anything. But then, you also have more people who understand how to write malware that either attacks the AV app, or is able to bypass it entirely. You can have it both ways of course, if you don't let select countries that have historically acted against US interest (cough cough Russia) look at the code.
Well.....shit....This pretty much put an end to the POTUS's account.....
On the flip side, I would not mind letting a website I was on use some of my CPU time slices in lieu of ads IF THEY JUST ASKED NICELY. It would make a nice alternative to plastering every square inch of the browser window with 3rd party ads. I have a multi core proc, I can usually spare CPU for sites I like to run miners.
As The Hill's Taylor Lorenz noted in her tweets, there was no way to turn off the feature. Lorenz also claimed that using pink cupcakes as the unit of measurement was "lowkey aimed at women."
As a man who will eat the shit out of any pink cupcake that is dropped in front of him, I am highly offended by Lorenz's tweet. Lorenz is racist against men and sexist against pink! Boo!
"assume" their data is already in the hands of criminals and "act accordingly."
...And do what exactly? Burn our current identity and get a new one out of the bag that we have hidden in a locker at the bus station? Whee, I am now Raoul Yankinov now, bricklayer from New Jersey!
If the government is going to hoard PI and not defend it with ICE and brutal cyber crime laws, they better come up with a better fucking plan 'b' for when they worked over by everyone on the Internet who can write a script.
well that's just magickal - it's better than sex.
If it is better than sex, you are doing sex wrong.
I'm more inclined to believe that it's another state-actor or else a very, very large criminal enterprise, something on the international scale.
Of course it is a state actor. Also it seems very clear that it is probably a false flag op trying to create friction between Cuba and the US. Lets think about this: In recent years there are has been a considerable thawing of relations between the US and Cuba. Previously, it was a Soviet friendly country right off the coast of the US. If Cuba suddenly becomes A BFF with the US, what do you think happens to relations with Russia?
Moreover, Putin has signed off on outlandish 'James Bond' operations before. (Poisoning a journalist with radioactive material, conducing false flag terrorist bombings, etc.). Using exotic ultrasonic weapons to deafen embassy personnel sound like something right out of his playbook.
Police detectives look for motives when working on a case. I'd say Putin has a pretty good motive to keep US - Cuba relations on ice.
Cool idea Disney, but you really don't have to worry about digital piracy. Pirates only 'steal' good movies, so you are quite safe.....
Ironically enough, they will probably will be involved. This tool is probably just going to put the servers in a data center on Native American land, and claim that it is just another casino. Because there will need to be tech support for the users of this site /service, they will outsource the tech support to India.
Yeah, 'Indian' is culturally insensitive, but I don't know if it falls into the 'racist' category. Racism the act of claiming that one race is superior or inferior to another. I don't really see anything inherently racist about confusing West Indies inhabitants with North American natives. Just being stupid isn't automatically racist.
Suspect that there will be a lot more morally questionable stuff going on behind the scenes than just cultural insensitivity.
It is the CIO's responsibility to see that systems are put in place to insure that the responsibility does not rest on one person, and that the company's systems cannot fail without multiple extreme and uncontrollable events occurring. They create the organization that will see that things happen properly even if individuals drop the ball. The technical buck stops at the CIO.
.25B has been spent and one person can fail with these sort of results, the shareholders need to sue them for failure to discharge their duties, and possible fraud.
The CEO is responsible for hiring a CIO that do their fucking job properly. Moreover, if
Nobody owns a fuck up of this scale but the CEO and CIO. These assholes need to be sent to an extra-rapey prison.
Fuck you very much, and you could switch the terms to left-wing, atheist, Christian, Muslim, Nazi, Communist, Socialist, Fascist, etc etc, and unless they're actually inciting violence and/or armed rebellion/overthrow, I'd still tell you to fuck right off.
Government has no business policing the content of speech outside the aforementioned incitement to violence and/or armed rebellion/overthrow caveats, particularly and especially concerning politics or religion. This idea of "hate speech" is simply Orwell's "Newspeak" re-labeled. A prison for the minds of the masses who cannot rebel when the words and the concepts they conveyed that were used to describe it, and even for the very concept of individual freedom itself, have been erased.
You are correct that freedom of speech includes the right to say things that a vast majority find disagreeable. But what point is there crossover between hate speech and incitement of violence? It seems like a very slippery slope. Would we have had the the vehicular assault on protesters in Charlotte occur if it were not for decades of far right media agitation? Trump's speeches (and election) have have a very obvious correlation on the rise of hate crimes across the USA. Companies like FOX are very obviously in the business of selling propaganda as a product, where they are interpreting news as evidence to support their worldview. When that worldview is to be afraid and hate other people, you need to ask some hard questions about the
Where is the line? Clearly, telling people to go murder all foreigners right now is inciting violence, and unacceptable. But isn't it also going to have a negative consequences if you spend decades telling people repeatedly that all foreigners are thieves and rapists? That will result in murders and violence, but likely on a lesser scale.
The right has some solid political ideas that are worthy of discussion, but they are in bed with some really questionable people with seedy ideas. The level of political animosity that exists right now is a direct result of decades of conservative political propaganda telling Americans to hate each other.
What is that last sentence referring to? Does Walmart have some sort of security history or hiring practices that you are alluding to?
Walmart is notorious for paying it's employees terrible wages and benefits. Am I to assume that if they cannot be bothered to pay people a basic living wage that they are going to devote much effort to vetting them and making sure that the are not criminals? Moreover, how much it security is a skinflint company like Walmart going to invest in to make sure that the one time pass codes they are using are properly secured aren't falling into the wrong hands?
If you were a professional criminal, and you learned that Walmart had or could create onetime keys for half the city, wouldn't you be very interested? This is a terrifying idea, made more so because of who wants to do it.
Wow, I would never let an unknown person have unsupervised access to my home. Especially someone employed by Walmart.
Aside from all the new security issues that are opened up by generating one time access to a digital lock, doesn't this raise all sorts of red flags for people?
What happens when law enforcement decides that they want to sneak in an poke around? We going to have another of situations where they can make it fly just because the Supreme Court hasn't gotten around to pointing out that it isn't legal just because it is novel, like we have with feds intercepting internet and phone data?
Are you thinking that a national actor will attack the block chain servers after wide adoption? Your comment is interesting, but I don't see a trivial fashion to selectively 'turn off' bitcoin for a specific target country. A national actor could create some interesting problems for validating the BC. Please expound.
The idea that you shouldn't be able to record a copy of anything that plays on your machine is ridiculous.
Amen! As a consumer, it is not my problem if your business model isn't robust enough to survive people copying data that you sold them access to. Keep your goddamed failed encryption strategies out of my browser.
Excellent point. When there is a crime committed, the police will ask who benefits from it. Who benefits from Cuban diplomats being attacked and maimed?
Also, what countries are willing to commit outlandish and almost comic book esq plots against people they don't like? The KGB springs to mind, with their strange assassination techniques that they have employed in the past. (Look up details on their radiation poisoning of people. Rather than just hit somebody with a car when they walk across the street, the have engaged in Bond villain level silliness.)
Further, keep in mind that they have already shown that they are willing to engage in manipulation of the US elections, so they are clearly willing to try bold and aggressive things. Attacking diplomats on foreign soil as a false flag op is a pretty hostile act.