Agree completely. And have always thought that a lot of our (already dwindling) crime problems would evaporate if we stopped trying to do Prohibition II with recreational pharmaceuticals...
If the FDA wasn't so damn corrupt, smoking would be a thing of the past. Vaping works. Harm reduction works. It's only because the FDA's overlords, Big Pharma, can't compete with the technology that it isn't approved and pervasive in our society.
So, the FDA is why California is trying to ban vaping? I think not.
Far as I can tell, the real problem is that the anti-smoking nazis are really the new generation of prohibitionists - if someone enjoys something that they don't, it must be evil, therefore vaping is evil....
The beauty of this post is that in 2 sentences you have just educated any readers lacking this knowledge to the point that the OP's interview question could be answered.
Actually, since the interviewer said "would decrypt", not "could decrypt", I'd think that mentioning in plaintext in the email that there was porn in the encrypted stuff would be easier....
Do you know what a challenge all of us, public and private sector alike, are up against when it comes to cyber security?
Yes.
The message today was not about "backdoors". Not even close.
I take it you seriously believe that something like backdoors would be the subject of public meetings? As opposed to something that is quietly written into laws/regulations AFTER the public meetings are done?
Yes, I know you think Obama is another Christ figure. That's your privilege. But get over the notion that when he gets involved the government stops being the enemy.
Note, by the by, that I only mentioned him because the first article I read on the subject said that he was going to CA to talk to tech company CEO's about "cyber-security threats". If the articles had instead been more generic about who was approaching whom, I'd have left his name out of it....
A ton is and has always been metric. No need to specify.
Interesting theory you have.
But wrong.
They were measuring ship displacement in tons long before the French started beheading their royalty. And the metric system came out of that particular mess.
Note also that the PROPER metric term for 1000 Kg is the Mg. Too bad so few metric worshipers ever use the "mega" prefix....
Thats approximately 350 meters long, 50 meters wide, and 15 meters deep of containers stacked 14-high per ship. That's a lot of material.
Compared to the 1000 meters long, 1000 meters wide, 1000 meters deep of each and every one of the 80,000,000 cubic kilometers of ocean, it's not really a lot.
Should we stop dumping plastic in the ocean? Yep, surely should. Alas, we here in the US have little control over China and the other 18 countries that dump more of it into the oceans than we do. And eliminating our 1.3% or so of the problem wouldn't do much really....
TFA is about Intel doing things to "level the playing field". It's not about society in general.
Intel may or may not need to do things to "level the playing field", depending on their own internal culture. I've got no opinions about that.
But Intel's need to fix things (or not), and the methods they use (or don't), are the subject at hand. NOT society's problems in general. Not even the tech industry's problems in general, though a lot of commenters have extended it to that.
You, on the other hand, seem to have decided that society's problems in general are the subject of TFA. Your privilege. But when everyone else is talking about the 40-year-old tech industry, comments about the century-old problem are, at best, jarring.
I never said "reverse discrimination" is the right thing. But acting like the status-quo is cool [because it benifits you] pisses me off.
He says to the guy whose wife has been working in the tech industry as a programmer for nearly thirty years....
There are plenty of qualified candidates who aren't white males, who have been "passed up" for a century
I'm curious. Do you happen to know of any specific people or groups of people who've been, how did you put it, "passed up for a century" for a job at Intel?
Note that the NATIONAL vaccination rate is 94.7%. Why does CA as a whole lag behind, much less these daycare centers?
I also notice from TFA that children at the companies in question ( ot just the daycare kids, but all the kids) are mostly well below the Herd Immunity level. What's with that?
So now you want to talk "average", which is not the same as "median". Note that the average family earns ~$60K per year, so fewer than half of US families are "above average".
So, the average person has a $12.4K standard deduction (presumably they'll itemize if they can justify more deductions), so they're paying Federal Income taxes on ~48K per year. That'll leave them a tax liability of about $7800 (13%).
If they're employed normally (as opposed to self-employed), they'll pay another 7.65% in SSA/Medicare taxes out of that $60K. So we're up to 21%.
State tax rates are, of course, quite variable. California tends to be on the high side of that variable, but when all is said and done, a CA resident who makes that "average" 60K income will pay less than 1% of his income in taxes to CA, what with deductions and all.
So, maybe 22% for the "average" family. Note that the "median" family makes rather less than that, so will pay a slightly lower rate.
Now, the most regressive part of this is, of course, SSA/Medicare taxes, since there is a ceiling beyond which you don't pay more. On the other hand, you don't get any more benefit beyond that point either (face it, while SSA may matter to you, it won't to Romney). Note that, excluding SSA/Medicare, your total income tax burden is about 15%.
So, no, the "average" person isn't paying 35% taxes. Now, YOU may be paying that much, but YOU are probably living in CA and earning twice as much as the "average" family....
In the end, I don't think it's purely a price thing. They're hoping to have a positive impact on the world as well.
It's purely a price thing. Plus a little bit of publicity.
If they were after having a "positive impact on the world", they could have spent $80B building solar installations without seriously straining their bankroll....
That all works out to about 3.0 cents per kWh (24-7).
If they're not paying extra for the actual electricity, of course. TFA seems to be saying this will be their actual cost for the electricity for the next 25 years.
I find myself wondering how they're managing such a low rate given that half the power they're buying (at least) will be generated by the local electric company the old-fashioned way (which charges about five times that for commercial power).
A FOIA request can be of the form "please send me all emails to/from the governor/senator/whatever". What you'd get with such a request depends on the specific sunshine laws in the jurisdiction in question, but Florida's are pretty generous.
The PII might (maybe, possibly) be something that could legally be redacted. Or not.
There are no doubt people with no internet access here. But there are very few, if any, who are without internet access because they just can't get it.
Even my mom, who is in her late 70's and lives out in the boonies, found a way to get enough internet access for her purposes....
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Agree completely. And have always thought that a lot of our (already dwindling) crime problems would evaporate if we stopped trying to do Prohibition II with recreational pharmaceuticals...
Yeah, that worked really well last time....
So, the FDA is why California is trying to ban vaping? I think not.
Far as I can tell, the real problem is that the anti-smoking nazis are really the new generation of prohibitionists - if someone enjoys something that they don't, it must be evil, therefore vaping is evil....
Actually, since the interviewer said "would decrypt", not "could decrypt", I'd think that mentioning in plaintext in the email that there was porn in the encrypted stuff would be easier....
Note that the word "supercritical" has a specific meaning when it comes to nuclear power - it means that fission rate is increasing. Nothing more.
Just as "subcritical" means that fission rate is decreasing.
And "critical" means that fission rate is non-zero and stable.
Note also that the words have slightly different usages when it comes to nuclear weapons....
Yes.
Yes.
I take it you seriously believe that something like backdoors would be the subject of public meetings? As opposed to something that is quietly written into laws/regulations AFTER the public meetings are done?
Yes, I know you think Obama is another Christ figure. That's your privilege. But get over the notion that when he gets involved the government stops being the enemy.
Note, by the by, that I only mentioned him because the first article I read on the subject said that he was going to CA to talk to tech company CEO's about "cyber-security threats". If the articles had instead been more generic about who was approaching whom, I'd have left his name out of it....
Saw this in the news earlier.
So, Obama wants software companies to cooperate with the Feds more to help deal with cyber-security issues...
So, anyone else see this as government-mandated backdoors in everything?
Interesting theory you have.
But wrong.
They were measuring ship displacement in tons long before the French started beheading their royalty. And the metric system came out of that particular mess.
Note also that the PROPER metric term for 1000 Kg is the Mg. Too bad so few metric worshipers ever use the "mega" prefix....
Compared to the 1000 meters long, 1000 meters wide, 1000 meters deep of each and every one of the 80,000,000 cubic kilometers of ocean, it's not really a lot.
Should we stop dumping plastic in the ocean? Yep, surely should. Alas, we here in the US have little control over China and the other 18 countries that dump more of it into the oceans than we do. And eliminating our 1.3% or so of the problem wouldn't do much really....
TFA is about Intel doing things to "level the playing field". It's not about society in general.
Intel may or may not need to do things to "level the playing field", depending on their own internal culture. I've got no opinions about that.
But Intel's need to fix things (or not), and the methods they use (or don't), are the subject at hand. NOT society's problems in general. Not even the tech industry's problems in general, though a lot of commenters have extended it to that.
You, on the other hand, seem to have decided that society's problems in general are the subject of TFA. Your privilege. But when everyone else is talking about the 40-year-old tech industry, comments about the century-old problem are, at best, jarring.
He says to the guy whose wife has been working in the tech industry as a programmer for nearly thirty years....
Well, no.
27 States have one or more privately operated prisons.
The 48 (and 90%) number(s) comes from a letter sent to 48 governors OFFERING to buy and run their prison systems privately.
And NONE of the States accepted the offer. not one.
I'm curious. Do you happen to know of any specific people or groups of people who've been, how did you put it, "passed up for a century" for a job at Intel?
Note that the NATIONAL vaccination rate is 94.7%. Why does CA as a whole lag behind, much less these daycare centers?
I also notice from TFA that children at the companies in question ( ot just the daycare kids, but all the kids) are mostly well below the Herd Immunity level. What's with that?
So now you want to talk "average", which is not the same as "median". Note that the average family earns ~$60K per year, so fewer than half of US families are "above average".
So, the average person has a $12.4K standard deduction (presumably they'll itemize if they can justify more deductions), so they're paying Federal Income taxes on ~48K per year. That'll leave them a tax liability of about $7800 (13%).
If they're employed normally (as opposed to self-employed), they'll pay another 7.65% in SSA/Medicare taxes out of that $60K. So we're up to 21%.
State tax rates are, of course, quite variable. California tends to be on the high side of that variable, but when all is said and done, a CA resident who makes that "average" 60K income will pay less than 1% of his income in taxes to CA, what with deductions and all.
So, maybe 22% for the "average" family. Note that the "median" family makes rather less than that, so will pay a slightly lower rate.
Now, the most regressive part of this is, of course, SSA/Medicare taxes, since there is a ceiling beyond which you don't pay more. On the other hand, you don't get any more benefit beyond that point either (face it, while SSA may matter to you, it won't to Romney). Note that, excluding SSA/Medicare, your total income tax burden is about 15%.
So, no, the "average" person isn't paying 35% taxes. Now, YOU may be paying that much, but YOU are probably living in CA and earning twice as much as the "average" family....
I always just paid for my phone up front. Unlocking was never an issue....
Along with all their employees.
So do you.
It's called TAXES.
You really shouldn't say something that is so easily checked.
For the 2014 tax year, you have to make rather more than $405,100 (if Married filing Jointly) to pay 28% income taxes.
Now, Median Household income in the USA is $53,981. In case you didn't know, that means that half the population makes less than that.
So, in order for your statement to be even CLOSE to true, EVERY SINGLE FAMILY above median income has to make more than $400K.
By the by, a quick check shows that less than 2% of US households make $400K+ (about 2.3% manage $250K+, by the by.)
And all of that ignores deductions, so the actual income required to pay 28% of your income to the Feds is even higher than $400K+.
It's purely a price thing. Plus a little bit of publicity.
If they were after having a "positive impact on the world", they could have spent $80B building solar installations without seriously straining their bankroll....
which falls on a Tuesdae this month, as I recall....
Actually, no.
Apple is HELPING to build the installation. They're not funding it fully. They're funding enough to get 130MW as their share of the pie.
That all works out to about 3.0 cents per kWh (24-7).
If they're not paying extra for the actual electricity, of course. TFA seems to be saying this will be their actual cost for the electricity for the next 25 years.
I find myself wondering how they're managing such a low rate given that half the power they're buying (at least) will be generated by the local electric company the old-fashioned way (which charges about five times that for commercial power).
Why not?
Magic or magic technology, what's the difference really?
Or do you really think the Super-Soldier formula is somehow more "realistic" than Mjolnir?
The PII might (maybe, possibly) be something that could legally be redacted. Or not.
There are no doubt people with no internet access here. But there are very few, if any, who are without internet access because they just can't get it.
Even my mom, who is in her late 70's and lives out in the boonies, found a way to get enough internet access for her purposes....
So, how does the iPhone know that you don't know the recording was being made, given that you hit the mic button?