The sale of automatic weapons is highly regulated and almost impossible to purchase on the civilian market. To be fair, semi-automatic weapons are far more accurate causing a significantly higher fatality rate. If you want to lower the number of deaths in a mass shooting, allow shooters to purchase fully automatic weapons, after the 3rd round - the rest of the bullets go into the ceiling causing very few fatalities as they run out of ammo faster.
The problem with an unarmed populace is there is no way to revolt from an unjust government.
No inflation isn't a problem... Assume that I am given 2000 dollars by Y Combiner. This is taxable income. Various governments will easily take 1000 a month off the top. Now, lets assume that Y Combiner needs to come up with this money - they will have to apply for a government grant for 3000 dollars per person, allowing them to pay various people 1000 a month to cover overhead and "profit", 2000 to the lucky recipient. So the government looses 2000 dollars. Now the government will need to raise taxes (or increase debt spending) by 5-6 thousand a month (again to cover their overhead - you think this stuff is free). This will cause a net loss in income of 4000 dollars to give me 1000 dollars a month to spend.
Actually they are Lets buy america. Almost impossible to move your company to canada - very easy for your company to be "bought" by a canadian company. Burger King was bought by Tim Horton. The sad thing is once you are purchased by an overseas company it is easy to move the money into the US Tax free to spend on things like hiring employees, buying infrastructure, and general investing needs. Many of these large tech companies are borrowing money in the US so they can spend it here. It is cheaper to borrow money in the US than bring cash from overseas that comes with a significant penalty. This is just stupid.
It is not that it is tax deductible - it is that it is a simple expense. Frankly, trying to do what you suggest is crazy complicated. Now you have to define what is a payroll expense and would count against earnings, and what it a outsourcing contract that wouldn't count, and what is an outsourcing contract that would count (I assume that is someone like IBM/HP/EDS comes in as a US company that would be Ok, right?)
Now that we have to define these things to the point where they are crystal clear - what happens if EDS uses a worker that is based in India? What happens if Wipro uses a US hired worker? Do we go racist and say that if they hire a Caucasian it is fine, but hire an Indian that got the MSCS here at Berkeley it isn't fine?
Please god quit trying to use the tax code to get the behavior that you want - you won't get it, and you will only make things worse for most of us that aren't rich enough to hire 10-12 tax accountants
They can't even afford to build new public schools.
So, first off - the school district isn't "owned" by the city council. As far as I know - the city doesn't pay a dime for the schools here, it is all funded by a block of money from the state from property taxes that is used to pay for the school system.
Second off - the Cupertino schools consistently rank as the top high schools in California. To say that there is a lack of funding would be a travesty. The schools appear to be adequately funded and staffed with a superior outcome.
Third - if the schools needed operational money, that is very different than needing capital money to build a new school. Frankly - poking around in Cupertino, I am not sure there is a suitably large property that could be bought and developed into a school. So that leaves us with expanding existing campuses. My daughter's school just had a new building added 2 years ago - cafeteria, physics classrooms, etc. that was needed. This was simply budgeted and spent. I believe the other high schools have similar programs to build classroom space as it is needed.
So in conclusion - that statement doesn't apply. The schools are great here, please don't imply it is apple's fault that the schools are so great
Depends on the car you are driving. My last car was a Mercedes SLK convertible. It easily went 80, you could not pay attention on the highway and find out you were doing 80 in a 65. 100 was easy (again on a straight highway) - I didn't feel safe at 120, the car was fine though.
I couldn't imagine doing this in your standard Toyota, mid range sedan.
Yeah, when I was in college worked for a company. Since I didn't have a degree the owner paid me hourly. My manager had a degree and was paid salary. Crunch time comes in and I worked a ridiculous amount of hours for about 3 weeks. When my check came in - my manager told me I was making significantly more than him (think 40 hours normal and another 40+ at time and a half) I was making almost 3 times my normal paycheck.
The good news was when you work all of those hours, you have no time to do anything but eat work and maybe sleep - so you just save all of that money.
Sucked to be my manager though
Yes, and the goals of the little man should be to become the employer. To be honest my wages raise regularly without the need of the government compelling my employer to raise them... The idea is you have a useful skill that people are willing to pay for - if your current employer doesn't pay you what you are worth, then you go to the next employer, or even better become your own employer and sell directly to the customer without a middle-man taking a hit on the profits.
The idea that there is a wage that no one should be willing to work under simply means that if someone doesn't have the skills to be valuable at the minimum wage - they are unemployable... Making their minimum wage 0. You see this happen all the time. You used to have to stand in line at the grocery store to have your groceries rung up and pay. Now there is an automated system that allows customers to check out themselves and pay without any help from store employees (well, 1 per 4-6 checkout lines). Now those 2-3 people that used to checkout customers are unemployed, rather than making a little less money than minimum wage. I wonder how they feel about this?
Translation: They figured out they have a non trivial chance of losing this case so they 'discovered' this new alleged hack that they doubtless had all along.
You are not nearly cynical enough. Let me translate for you... They figured out they have a strong possibility of losing this case so they "discover" a hack that they announce they have. This causes Apples "security" value to plummet (Now everyone knows an iPhone is hackable - the US government said it is). There will be some back channel negotiations, they will come out and say - no it is completely secure, we couldn't get into the phone. Apple will quietly hack the phone and give the FBI the information that it wants
Easy - go to 5Gz channels. Many more channels, they don't overlap... Plus they don't go through nearly as many walls. Why are you stuck at 2.4Ghz, the 90s are calling - they want their WiFi back
In both the examples given (Page & Zuch) they did not get their wealth and billions from stock options, but from a direct ownership stake in the company. They Owned and retained a huge percentage of the companies that they founded and therefor get the value of the company that they retained. While they may get ongoing stock option packages, this is not the majority of their holdings.
Bad summary, bad article, etc. etc. etc.
Fine give them the source, it has a multi-billion dollar value. There is the takings clause in the constitution
5th Amendment that says Apple would need to be compensated for the release of their source code. Then even with the source code the FBI couldn't get it onto the phone without the Apple signing key, again - worth 10s of billions of dollars as the signing key is what protects apple products from fraud. This is easily appealed by Apple lawyers to the supreme court (in 2-10 years through different appeal layers) by which time the information on the phone would be worthless.
That report linked flooding from a glacial lake with an increase of sexually transmitted infections in women. "I was fascinated by how two seemingly disparate issues could be so intimately linked through glacial ice," Rushing said. "I wanted to know more about the relationship between women and ice, so we pursued the topic from climate-change vulnerability to knowledge."
One of the questions from the audience still strikes me 10 years later. Someone asked how he felt about his Cryptography being used by bad people to do bad things. His reply is he didn't think anything of it. He provides a tool - what people do with the tool is on them, not himself. This was a very interesting response - why do we blame scientists for their inventions rather than the criminals for their behavior
If you assume that those 5-10 apple employees have access to the signing key that is needed to load the firmware. Without that, it would take another 1-2 M compute years to reverse the signing key needed to sign the firmware.
What is being asked to do isn't that complicated - please disable this feature, please reduce this timeout... It shouldn't take 1/2 staff year to produce that firmware (and even if you include full review and validation). It is in Apple's interest to increase this time because this is what they will charge the FBI when they are required to produce the firmware if/when they loose the supreme court hearing. (which by that time, all of the data would be worthless in 2-3 years)
Please define fair share.
Please define bloated.
How would money being taken from profit generating entities be used to "Inject" money into the economy more efficiently than the entity making money doing it?
If your idea of fair share is everyone paying a larger percentage of taxes than you do - you just don't get it. If Warren Buffet believes he is paying too little in taxes, he is free to mail the IRS a check for the surplus taxes he believes he owes. Since he doesn't send this check in, he is basically saying everyone ELSE needs to pay more in taxes. Now everyone feels like that, no one wants to pay more in taxes - but wants everyone else to pay more so there are more benefits to go around.
You can exactly clone the 1s and 0s perfectly. This will allow you to have a cloned copy of the encrypted data. The problem is access to the hardware key. Loose the key and you go from a 1:10000 chance of guessing the pin to 1:2^128 chance of guessing the AES key.
You can easily clone an encypted DVD exactly and be able to play it anywhere. What is hard is to copy the data, transcode it and write it back in another format without DVD John getting involved with his magic key
Actually,
Trump has told Apple they should just decrypt the phone already. As far as I am concerned - he can say that as soon as I have seen the content of his decrypted phone - love letters to Sarah Palin and Nancy Pollocci and all
300 Million in savings/318.9 Million population (2014)
94 cents a year per person.
How much does the more efficient wall wart cost, and does it make sense to actually purchase said wall wart to solve a 1 dollar problem per person.
Most surveys show what the sponsor of the survey wants to be shown... Lets ask a few more interesting questions
1) What percentage chance do you want the gun to fail shooting when someone is threatening a family member
2) Would you buy a gun that unlocked with the same percentage (and time) as your current generation cell phone
3) If a gun fails to fire because of a safe lock - who should be responsible for its failure?
There are already trigger locks that do what you want, there are safeties to take care of the gun when the trigger lock is removed. People that actually know gun safety and have trained the people around them don't see the problem. Those that haven't think a tech solution will work - it won't
Not quite... The damned utilities are installed by the OEM as a part of the driver suite from the manufacturer (Yes, pretty much all manufacturers leave a turd like this running in the background). Utility tells you that there is an updated file to install, please click Install...
So having worked at Intel in software for many years - there is a fundamental flaw. Each group inside Intel hires a "installer guy" that is responsible for installing and updating their component. Get enough Intel hardware/software on your system and you will see 3 or 4 of these utilities running - each with their own little flaws.
What I would have expected in an Intel update tool that each group would plug into and get updates handled. Then instead of the 15-20 people working on Installers at Intel, each making their own flawed implementation, you would have 5-10 people at Intel working on an awesome installer with the rest being used to make products better.
Like the post office that looses billions of dollars a year. The only other company so inept at wasting tax dollars as a "public" company is amtrack. Why not just ditch all of the unprofitable rail lines and keep the one line that makes money on the eastern seaboard.
Trains just don't make sense for hauling people. Cheaper to fly and takes way less time
Netflix would kill to get out from under AWS and paying the profits that Amazon gets, the problem is once your data is locked in - it is hard to get away. AWS is great for small (in big data center terms) projects with unknown scaling - once you are pushing a significant amount of the Internet's traffic it is good to have your own data center where you can control content, costs, etc.
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The problem with an unarmed populace is there is no way to revolt from an unjust government.
No inflation isn't a problem... Assume that I am given 2000 dollars by Y Combiner. This is taxable income. Various governments will easily take 1000 a month off the top. Now, lets assume that Y Combiner needs to come up with this money - they will have to apply for a government grant for 3000 dollars per person, allowing them to pay various people 1000 a month to cover overhead and "profit", 2000 to the lucky recipient. So the government looses 2000 dollars. Now the government will need to raise taxes (or increase debt spending) by 5-6 thousand a month (again to cover their overhead - you think this stuff is free). This will cause a net loss in income of 4000 dollars to give me 1000 dollars a month to spend.
Oh Wait - you thought money grows on trees?
Actually they are Lets buy america. Almost impossible to move your company to canada - very easy for your company to be "bought" by a canadian company. Burger King was bought by Tim Horton. The sad thing is once you are purchased by an overseas company it is easy to move the money into the US Tax free to spend on things like hiring employees, buying infrastructure, and general investing needs. Many of these large tech companies are borrowing money in the US so they can spend it here. It is cheaper to borrow money in the US than bring cash from overseas that comes with a significant penalty. This is just stupid.
I assume payroll is tax-deductible
It is not that it is tax deductible - it is that it is a simple expense. Frankly, trying to do what you suggest is crazy complicated. Now you have to define what is a payroll expense and would count against earnings, and what it a outsourcing contract that wouldn't count, and what is an outsourcing contract that would count (I assume that is someone like IBM/HP/EDS comes in as a US company that would be Ok, right?)
Now that we have to define these things to the point where they are crystal clear - what happens if EDS uses a worker that is based in India? What happens if Wipro uses a US hired worker? Do we go racist and say that if they hire a Caucasian it is fine, but hire an Indian that got the MSCS here at Berkeley it isn't fine?
Please god quit trying to use the tax code to get the behavior that you want - you won't get it, and you will only make things worse for most of us that aren't rich enough to hire 10-12 tax accountants
They can't even afford to build new public schools.
So, first off - the school district isn't "owned" by the city council. As far as I know - the city doesn't pay a dime for the schools here, it is all funded by a block of money from the state from property taxes that is used to pay for the school system.
Second off - the Cupertino schools consistently rank as the top high schools in California. To say that there is a lack of funding would be a travesty. The schools appear to be adequately funded and staffed with a superior outcome.
Third - if the schools needed operational money, that is very different than needing capital money to build a new school. Frankly - poking around in Cupertino, I am not sure there is a suitably large property that could be bought and developed into a school. So that leaves us with expanding existing campuses. My daughter's school just had a new building added 2 years ago - cafeteria, physics classrooms, etc. that was needed. This was simply budgeted and spent. I believe the other high schools have similar programs to build classroom space as it is needed.
So in conclusion - that statement doesn't apply. The schools are great here, please don't imply it is apple's fault that the schools are so great
Depends on the car you are driving. My last car was a Mercedes SLK convertible. It easily went 80, you could not pay attention on the highway and find out you were doing 80 in a 65. 100 was easy (again on a straight highway) - I didn't feel safe at 120, the car was fine though. I couldn't imagine doing this in your standard Toyota, mid range sedan.
Yeah, when I was in college worked for a company. Since I didn't have a degree the owner paid me hourly. My manager had a degree and was paid salary. Crunch time comes in and I worked a ridiculous amount of hours for about 3 weeks. When my check came in - my manager told me I was making significantly more than him (think 40 hours normal and another 40+ at time and a half) I was making almost 3 times my normal paycheck.
The good news was when you work all of those hours, you have no time to do anything but eat work and maybe sleep - so you just save all of that money.
Sucked to be my manager though
Yes, and the goals of the little man should be to become the employer. To be honest my wages raise regularly without the need of the government compelling my employer to raise them... The idea is you have a useful skill that people are willing to pay for - if your current employer doesn't pay you what you are worth, then you go to the next employer, or even better become your own employer and sell directly to the customer without a middle-man taking a hit on the profits.
The idea that there is a wage that no one should be willing to work under simply means that if someone doesn't have the skills to be valuable at the minimum wage - they are unemployable... Making their minimum wage 0. You see this happen all the time. You used to have to stand in line at the grocery store to have your groceries rung up and pay. Now there is an automated system that allows customers to check out themselves and pay without any help from store employees (well, 1 per 4-6 checkout lines). Now those 2-3 people that used to checkout customers are unemployed, rather than making a little less money than minimum wage. I wonder how they feel about this?
Translation: They figured out they have a non trivial chance of losing this case so they 'discovered' this new alleged hack that they doubtless had all along.
You are not nearly cynical enough. Let me translate for you... They figured out they have a strong possibility of losing this case so they "discover" a hack that they announce they have. This causes Apples "security" value to plummet (Now everyone knows an iPhone is hackable - the US government said it is). There will be some back channel negotiations, they will come out and say - no it is completely secure, we couldn't get into the phone. Apple will quietly hack the phone and give the FBI the information that it wants
Easy - go to 5Gz channels. Many more channels, they don't overlap... Plus they don't go through nearly as many walls. Why are you stuck at 2.4Ghz, the 90s are calling - they want their WiFi back
In both the examples given (Page & Zuch) they did not get their wealth and billions from stock options, but from a direct ownership stake in the company. They Owned and retained a huge percentage of the companies that they founded and therefor get the value of the company that they retained. While they may get ongoing stock option packages, this is not the majority of their holdings.
Bad summary, bad article, etc. etc. etc.
Fine give them the source, it has a multi-billion dollar value. There is the takings clause in the constitution 5th Amendment that says Apple would need to be compensated for the release of their source code. Then even with the source code the FBI couldn't get it onto the phone without the Apple signing key, again - worth 10s of billions of dollars as the signing key is what protects apple products from fraud. This is easily appealed by Apple lawyers to the supreme court (in 2-10 years through different appeal layers) by which time the information on the phone would be worthless.
That report linked flooding from a glacial lake with an increase of sexually transmitted infections in women. "I was fascinated by how two seemingly disparate issues could be so intimately linked through glacial ice," Rushing said. "I wanted to know more about the relationship between women and ice, so we pursued the topic from climate-change vulnerability to knowledge."
Global Warming cause
One of the questions from the audience still strikes me 10 years later. Someone asked how he felt about his Cryptography being used by bad people to do bad things. His reply is he didn't think anything of it. He provides a tool - what people do with the tool is on them, not himself. This was a very interesting response - why do we blame scientists for their inventions rather than the criminals for their behavior
What is being asked to do isn't that complicated - please disable this feature, please reduce this timeout... It shouldn't take 1/2 staff year to produce that firmware (and even if you include full review and validation). It is in Apple's interest to increase this time because this is what they will charge the FBI when they are required to produce the firmware if/when they loose the supreme court hearing. (which by that time, all of the data would be worthless in 2-3 years)
Please define bloated.
How would money being taken from profit generating entities be used to "Inject" money into the economy more efficiently than the entity making money doing it?
If your idea of fair share is everyone paying a larger percentage of taxes than you do - you just don't get it. If Warren Buffet believes he is paying too little in taxes, he is free to mail the IRS a check for the surplus taxes he believes he owes. Since he doesn't send this check in, he is basically saying everyone ELSE needs to pay more in taxes. Now everyone feels like that, no one wants to pay more in taxes - but wants everyone else to pay more so there are more benefits to go around.
You can easily clone an encypted DVD exactly and be able to play it anywhere. What is hard is to copy the data, transcode it and write it back in another format without DVD John getting involved with his magic key
Actually,
Trump has told Apple they should just decrypt the phone already. As far as I am concerned - he can say that as soon as I have seen the content of his decrypted phone - love letters to Sarah Palin and Nancy Pollocci and all
300 Million in savings/318.9 Million population (2014)
94 cents a year per person.
How much does the more efficient wall wart cost, and does it make sense to actually purchase said wall wart to solve a 1 dollar problem per person.
1) What percentage chance do you want the gun to fail shooting when someone is threatening a family member
2) Would you buy a gun that unlocked with the same percentage (and time) as your current generation cell phone
3) If a gun fails to fire because of a safe lock - who should be responsible for its failure?
There are already trigger locks that do what you want, there are safeties to take care of the gun when the trigger lock is removed. People that actually know gun safety and have trained the people around them don't see the problem. Those that haven't think a tech solution will work - it won't
Trump/Palin 2016
Not quite... The damned utilities are installed by the OEM as a part of the driver suite from the manufacturer (Yes, pretty much all manufacturers leave a turd like this running in the background). Utility tells you that there is an updated file to install, please click Install...
What I would have expected in an Intel update tool that each group would plug into and get updates handled. Then instead of the 15-20 people working on Installers at Intel, each making their own flawed implementation, you would have 5-10 people at Intel working on an awesome installer with the rest being used to make products better.
Never happen in their org. though
Like the post office that looses billions of dollars a year. The only other company so inept at wasting tax dollars as a "public" company is amtrack. Why not just ditch all of the unprofitable rail lines and keep the one line that makes money on the eastern seaboard.
Trains just don't make sense for hauling people. Cheaper to fly and takes way less time
Netflix would kill to get out from under AWS and paying the profits that Amazon gets, the problem is once your data is locked in - it is hard to get away. AWS is great for small (in big data center terms) projects with unknown scaling - once you are pushing a significant amount of the Internet's traffic it is good to have your own data center where you can control content, costs, etc.