I think more to the point is that 0 people have died in the US due to terrorists who where aided by encryption. No terrorists will ever use encryption because the benefit (easier communication) does not outweigh the cost (being arrested/killed before performing the act). If you are a terrorist or member of organized crime then you can never ever be 100% sure that NSA, FBI et al cannot spy on everything that you do and in that line of work you do need to be 100% sure.
Using overt encryption is a sure fire way to stand out from the crowd and attract attention to your communications.
People who really want to keep their communications private and not raise their profile use codes which appear to be plain text. Eg platen codes, which are computationally unbreakable and appear to be normal text.
Because while car crash deaths are still a real big killer, the IS has made MASSIVE strides in reducing them
I know the Islamic State has been trying to look more like a legitimate government, but I didn't realize they'd gone so far as keeping traffic statistics. Any idea if this reduction is because people are too scared to drive, have had their cars commandeered or blown up?
Well, in all fairness, being blown up by a car bomb shouldn't count as a traffic accident.
The problem is the transition isn't overnight. It won't be one day you obviously look like a man, and the next day you obviously look like a woman.
As it is, without any laws, bathroom usage usually causes a lot of internal anxiety to transmen and transwomen, particularly early in the process. Usually to the point that finding unisex bathrooms, or waiting to go at home are preferred options.
I can understand that. Early in the process they just look like transvestites. I mean, look at Jenner. Ok in still photos with lots of work he looks female but when you see him move its all elbows and shoulders and totally looks like a guy.
I sympathise with the washroom issue but at the same time forcing this down the throats of other people also isn't cool so wtf does society do? I guess add new washrooms "gender indeterminate" or something.
More likely they're just terrified by the prospect of a Trump presidency for the same reason everyone else is
You mean except for all the millions who are voting for him, right?
To me it's those millions who are voting for Trump who scare me. Trump is just a symptom of a disease. An education system poor enough to produce millions of people who would vote for Trump is the real sickness. Trump never answers political policy questions with substance yet people are still willing to hand over the most powerful position in the world to him.
The way I see it, the people of USA are about to get themselves a choice between Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump for president. This does not suggest a sane, stable nor intelligent population. And they have guns all over the place??? Hardly surprising there are some massive problems over there.
I can understand the Swiss having a ton of guns in every home and it not being a disaster, or Canada. But the USA? Seriously, those guys can't be trusted with voting rights, let alone guns!
So maybe we are headed towards having the first American Zaibbatsu. Although, actually, I think the real power of some of these new companies lies in the fact that they are highly multi-national. They can pick and choose different legal systems for different operations. They can choose where different assets and operations are taxed (or not taxed.) Through lobbying and financial muscle they can influence politics. Apple, Google and Microsoft are certainly very powerful in terms of the technologies they have control over and those are technologies which run a large part of the world. Amazon is probably the closest to being structured as a vertical monopoly so, maybe, they will be the first to resemble the classic Zaibatsu except at an international scale.
Its an interesting comparison. If I recall correctly, the merchant class in feudal Japan were technically below farmers and just above the eta untouchables (handlers of the dead and human waste). Yet they actually had so much power; the aristocracy, being forced to maintain two households (one in the capital and the other in their province), were massively in debt to the merchant classes. So when the aristocracy was dissolved they discovered that they were actually bankrupt and had no wealth at all.
Actually they ARE doing it for financial reasons -
Zuckerberg heads up a PAC which is trying to open up more immigration and H1Bs - because, y'know, he *cares* about the people and it has nothing at all to do with getting cheaper tech labor into the states. That goes for all the tech CEOs listed here.
Trump is adamantly against that so he must be taken down.
More likely they're just terrified by the prospect of a Trump presidency for the same reason everyone else is
You mean except for all the millions who are voting for him, right?
Does the NC law affect any part of LGBTQXYZ other than T?
I think it affects everyone of any gender persuasion.
For one thing, you have people who are women who earnestly believe they are men and have had cosmetic surgery and medications to give them the appearance of men. They may be bearded, have gruff voices and if anyone saw them using the womens washroom there'd be an uproar. Yet that is the washroom they are legally obligated to use.
You also have people who are men who earnestly believe they are women etc, and who really do look passably like women. If anyone saw them using the mens washroom there'd be raised eyebrows, not sure about uproar, but in some quarters they may be putting themselves in some danger by doing so.
Then you have people who are men who earnestly believe they are women and haven't quite had the full cosmetic surgery and the medications haven't had full effect and anyone who looked at the might be forgiven for believing them to be men in drag. If they used the mens washroom that could cause some puzzlement but if they used the womens washroom there could be a bit of an uproar.
In my opinion, these people should look at themselves in all honesty and say "Which gender do I really come across as?" and use the appropriate washroom. That should be the basis of the law, not actual gender, not the persons inner feeling or belief in which gender they identify as but WHAT OTHER PEOPLE SEE.
And thats the thing that really strikes me about this whole kerfuffle; the transgender community come across as horrifically selfish and self-centered. They don't give a fuck about anyone elses feelings, they seem to believe they are the only people whose feelings matter and thus their gender dysmorphia issues are being forced on everyone else as a gigantic, earth-shaking issue.
To these people I'd have to say "Get a grip, think about other people for a change. You aren't an island. Use whichever washroom isn't going to attract attention. And stop being attention whores."
Facebook didn't become that, it started out that way. It was NEVER a good idea.
Indeed. Zuckerberg just stole a dumb idea, claimed it as his own, made a fortune from this stolen idea and now everyone else is starting to realise what a dumb idea it was in the first place. Hopefully everyone will think it was actually Zuckerbergs dumb idea in the first place.
Facebook users are just starting to realise that no one is actually interested in their 'updates' about what they had for breakfast or reading their 'stream of consciousness'.
Its just starting to dawn on them that this is utterly boring and useless.
When the spelling mistake changes the meaning of the sentence it's more worth to point it out. Sometimes a subtle error can get weird or hilarious.
Like when the Sydney Olympic board press statement wanted to say "We support and endorse youth in Asia" and actually printed "We support and endorse euthanasia"?
I, for one, HATE my IM clients in web browsers. HATE. My company recently adopted Slack, and I use the IRC gateway to access it, because web UIs suck for messaging.
There is a desktop client for slack, but I get the impression its just browser based underneath, just with lipstick and a dress on. Doesn't work for pigs either.
cruse missiles aimed at who? or are you advocating yet another shoot first ask questions later strategy. as in many usa foreign policy disasters and defeats.
I think the idea is to just nuke everything that isn't the USA...
Part of the issue is that you are just seeing comparisons of European cities to the worst of rural america.
I recently moved from rural Europe to USA. In europe I got 1 MB for around $60 and people within 10km of me were still on ADSL. I am now getting 100MB(speed wise I average 120MB) and lots of TV and music channels for around $105.
Please kindly refrain from using the term America when refering to the United States (in this case, California?). I hated the internet services while in San Francisco myself.. I had a capped (WTF???) 24mbps (maximum speed available in the middle of SF ???) / 2 mbps (that`s last millennium!!!) from AT&T (they had signed something to be the only one providing service through the building, with fiber to the premise), for a ridiculous price, a bit more than twice what I pay for uncapped 60/30 in a remote region in Quebec, Canada, before accounting for the USD / CAD exchange rate!
So yeah, US / California sucks for internet speed, but that`s not like this everywhere in America.
And its probably better than the Internet access in downtown Seattle.
I just downgraded to a 2 meg connection for $80 a month so I won't go over the cap with Comcast which was 30 megs. I have no choice in the matter and feel that is a good deal if AT&T won't do caps. 10 megs if fine. DSL is fine for streaming and more appropriate for geeks who do 100 gig caps easily each month. Cable operators are jerks in the matter where they sell LOOK 100 megs... only 2 gig cap and $10 for each other gig in very small print.
I know the European readers are shocked and or laughing in disbelief at my comment but welcome to America.
Compared to Europe, or even some 3rd world countries, North America (Canada and USA) seem awfully backward and old fashioned. So much stuff seems extremely retro or even antiquated; the banks, the electrical systems, the plumbing, the cars, the music you hear on the street (constant flashbacks to the '80s).
I'd thought North America was a centre of innovation and modern technology, so much for 'the New World'!! More like going back in time 30 years.
My internship wasn't renewed and I wasn't hired full time (much to the disappointment of my manager). One-third of the staff got laid off a month after I left so the company could recover the lost revenues. That started a death spiral for the project.
You dodged a bullet. I just hope you have a decent job now.
Pleading 'not guilty' isn't a statement of 'I didn't do it,' it's a statement of 'I claim my rights, and you now have the burden of proving me guilty.'
Pleading 'guilty', on the other hand, *is* a statement of 'I did it.' Which is why pleading 'no contest' or 'nolo contendre' is sometimes a thing; "I'm going to be found guilty, so I'm not going to bother fighting it." If you plead guilty, however, that can be used against you civilly. If they accept NC, it isn't.
Some other countries also have a third determination beyond 'guilty' and 'not guilty' which is 'not proven.' I.e. 'We know you did it, but good for you, not enough evidence.' You can also get, in some cases, a declaration of factual innocence.
It's all very complicated.
Surely pleading guilty for a plea bargain, stating that you did something that you did not do, ie lying under oath, is perjury.
Hey, Apple (and the FA) seem to think "The Founders would be appalled." is an incisive legal argument. Give them a break, here. It's not like Apple uses the EULA to prevent you from doing what you want with the phone and software you bought, then turns around and claims in a court filing that they neither own nor control any of it. Why, that would be lying in court!
The USA has a strong tradition of lying in court being totally legal.
Look at plea bargaining. You know you are innocent, you agree to plead guilty to avoid a long and costly court case, thereby perjuring yourself. And its all legit.
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I think more to the point is that 0 people have died in the US due to terrorists who where aided by encryption. No terrorists will ever use encryption because the benefit (easier communication) does not outweigh the cost (being arrested/killed before performing the act). If you are a terrorist or member of organized crime then you can never ever be 100% sure that NSA, FBI et al cannot spy on everything that you do and in that line of work you do need to be 100% sure.
Using overt encryption is a sure fire way to stand out from the crowd and attract attention to your communications.
People who really want to keep their communications private and not raise their profile use codes which appear to be plain text. Eg platen codes, which are computationally unbreakable and appear to be normal text.
Because while car crash deaths are still a real big killer, the IS has made MASSIVE strides in reducing them
I know the Islamic State has been trying to look more like a legitimate government, but I didn't realize they'd gone so far as keeping traffic statistics. Any idea if this reduction is because people are too scared to drive, have had their cars commandeered or blown up?
Well, in all fairness, being blown up by a car bomb shouldn't count as a traffic accident.
"Pompous European millennials are calling American's stupid."
Now Europeans can only wish they could have built a wall, and made the Saudis pay for it.
I only wish for a wall around the USA, maybe not Hawaii it seems like a nice place. And yes, TOTALLY make the Saudis pay for it.
The problem is the transition isn't overnight. It won't be one day you obviously look like a man, and the next day you obviously look like a woman.
As it is, without any laws, bathroom usage usually causes a lot of internal anxiety to transmen and transwomen, particularly early in the process. Usually to the point that finding unisex bathrooms, or waiting to go at home are preferred options.
I can understand that. Early in the process they just look like transvestites. I mean, look at Jenner. Ok in still photos with lots of work he looks female but when you see him move its all elbows and shoulders and totally looks like a guy.
I sympathise with the washroom issue but at the same time forcing this down the throats of other people also isn't cool so wtf does society do? I guess add new washrooms "gender indeterminate" or something.
More likely they're just terrified by the prospect of a Trump presidency for the same reason everyone else is
You mean except for all the millions who are voting for him, right?
To me it's those millions who are voting for Trump who scare me. Trump is just a symptom of a disease. An education system poor enough to produce millions of people who would vote for Trump is the real sickness. Trump never answers political policy questions with substance yet people are still willing to hand over the most powerful position in the world to him.
The way I see it, the people of USA are about to get themselves a choice between Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump for president. This does not suggest a sane, stable nor intelligent population. And they have guns all over the place??? Hardly surprising there are some massive problems over there.
I can understand the Swiss having a ton of guns in every home and it not being a disaster, or Canada. But the USA? Seriously, those guys can't be trusted with voting rights, let alone guns!
So maybe we are headed towards having the first American Zaibbatsu. Although, actually, I think the real power of some of these new companies lies in the fact that they are highly multi-national. They can pick and choose different legal systems for different operations. They can choose where different assets and operations are taxed (or not taxed.) Through lobbying and financial muscle they can influence politics. Apple, Google and Microsoft are certainly very powerful in terms of the technologies they have control over and those are technologies which run a large part of the world. Amazon is probably the closest to being structured as a vertical monopoly so, maybe, they will be the first to resemble the classic Zaibatsu except at an international scale.
Its an interesting comparison. If I recall correctly, the merchant class in feudal Japan were technically below farmers and just above the eta untouchables (handlers of the dead and human waste). Yet they actually had so much power; the aristocracy, being forced to maintain two households (one in the capital and the other in their province), were massively in debt to the merchant classes. So when the aristocracy was dissolved they discovered that they were actually bankrupt and had no wealth at all.
Actually they ARE doing it for financial reasons -
Zuckerberg heads up a PAC which is trying to open up more immigration and H1Bs - because, y'know, he *cares* about the people and it has nothing at all to do with getting cheaper tech labor into the states. That goes for all the tech CEOs listed here.
Trump is adamantly against that so he must be taken down.
More likely they're just terrified by the prospect of a Trump presidency for the same reason everyone else is
You mean except for all the millions who are voting for him, right?
Does the NC law affect any part of LGBTQXYZ other than T?
I think it affects everyone of any gender persuasion.
For one thing, you have people who are women who earnestly believe they are men and have had cosmetic surgery and medications to give them the appearance of men. They may be bearded, have gruff voices and if anyone saw them using the womens washroom there'd be an uproar. Yet that is the washroom they are legally obligated to use.
You also have people who are men who earnestly believe they are women etc, and who really do look passably like women. If anyone saw them using the mens washroom there'd be raised eyebrows, not sure about uproar, but in some quarters they may be putting themselves in some danger by doing so.
Then you have people who are men who earnestly believe they are women and haven't quite had the full cosmetic surgery and the medications haven't had full effect and anyone who looked at the might be forgiven for believing them to be men in drag. If they used the mens washroom that could cause some puzzlement but if they used the womens washroom there could be a bit of an uproar.
In my opinion, these people should look at themselves in all honesty and say "Which gender do I really come across as?" and use the appropriate washroom. That should be the basis of the law, not actual gender, not the persons inner feeling or belief in which gender they identify as but WHAT OTHER PEOPLE SEE.
And thats the thing that really strikes me about this whole kerfuffle; the transgender community come across as horrifically selfish and self-centered. They don't give a fuck about anyone elses feelings, they seem to believe they are the only people whose feelings matter and thus their gender dysmorphia issues are being forced on everyone else as a gigantic, earth-shaking issue.
To these people I'd have to say "Get a grip, think about other people for a change. You aren't an island. Use whichever washroom isn't going to attract attention. And stop being attention whores."
How about just directing everyone to "1060 West Addison" in New York City?
I'd have thought the obvious default coordinates should be the official residence of the head of state.
Your definition of "free" is broken.
Your sense of irony is broken!
Still way cheaper than cable TV which not only costs more out of pocket, it has tons of brain-rotting commercials.
Hey its commercials or moonshine.
But you get much better value for money from cable! All those free commercials!!!!!!
blatant, clumsy, and in your face money grabs.
Facebook didn't become that, it started out that way. It was NEVER a good idea.
Indeed. Zuckerberg just stole a dumb idea, claimed it as his own, made a fortune from this stolen idea and now everyone else is starting to realise what a dumb idea it was in the first place. Hopefully everyone will think it was actually Zuckerbergs dumb idea in the first place.
Facebook users are just starting to realise that no one is actually interested in their 'updates' about what they had for breakfast or reading their 'stream of consciousness'.
Its just starting to dawn on them that this is utterly boring and useless.
When the spelling mistake changes the meaning of the sentence it's more worth to point it out. Sometimes a subtle error can get weird or hilarious.
Like when the Sydney Olympic board press statement wanted to say "We support and endorse youth in Asia" and actually printed "We support and endorse euthanasia"?
It will be back when Microsoft releases their Linux distribution.
Microsoft are never going to release a Linux distribution.
No. Instead, the next version of Windows will be based on Ubuntu.
I, for one, HATE my IM clients in web browsers. HATE. My company recently adopted Slack, and I use the IRC gateway to access it, because web UIs suck for messaging.
There is a desktop client for slack, but I get the impression its just browser based underneath, just with lipstick and a dress on. Doesn't work for pigs either.
cruse missiles aimed at who?
or are you advocating yet another shoot first ask questions later strategy.
as in many usa foreign policy disasters and defeats.
I think the idea is to just nuke everything that isn't the USA...
Part of the issue is that you are just seeing comparisons of European cities to the worst of rural america.
I recently moved from rural Europe to USA. In europe I got 1 MB for around $60 and people within 10km of me were still on ADSL. I am now getting 100MB(speed wise I average 120MB) and lots of TV and music channels for around $105.
Try downtown Seattle.
Please kindly refrain from using the term America when refering to the United States (in this case, California?). I hated the internet services while in San Francisco myself.. I had a capped (WTF???) 24mbps (maximum speed available in the middle of SF ???) / 2 mbps (that`s last millennium!!!) from AT&T (they had signed something to be the only one providing service through the building, with fiber to the premise), for a ridiculous price, a bit more than twice what I pay for uncapped 60/30 in a remote region in Quebec, Canada, before accounting for the USD / CAD exchange rate!
So yeah, US / California sucks for internet speed, but that`s not like this everywhere in America.
And its probably better than the Internet access in downtown Seattle.
I just downgraded to a 2 meg connection for $80 a month so I won't go over the cap with Comcast which was 30 megs. I have no choice in the matter and feel that is a good deal if AT&T won't do caps. 10 megs if fine. DSL is fine for streaming and more appropriate for geeks who do 100 gig caps easily each month. Cable operators are jerks in the matter where they sell LOOK 100 megs ... only 2 gig cap and $10 for each other gig in very small print.
I know the European readers are shocked and or laughing in disbelief at my comment but welcome to America.
Compared to Europe, or even some 3rd world countries, North America (Canada and USA) seem awfully backward and old fashioned. So much stuff seems extremely retro or even antiquated; the banks, the electrical systems, the plumbing, the cars, the music you hear on the street (constant flashbacks to the '80s).
I'd thought North America was a centre of innovation and modern technology, so much for 'the New World'!! More like going back in time 30 years.
My internship wasn't renewed and I wasn't hired full time (much to the disappointment of my manager). One-third of the staff got laid off a month after I left so the company could recover the lost revenues. That started a death spiral for the project.
You dodged a bullet. I just hope you have a decent job now.
Men who call women or girls "females" are ones I suspect have little direct experience with that half of the human race.
They never watched 'Species'
Xavier Fitch: We decided to make it female so it would be more docile and controllable.
Preston Lennox: More docile and controllable, eh? You guys don't get out much.
Pleading 'not guilty' isn't a statement of 'I didn't do it,' it's a statement of 'I claim my rights, and you now have the burden of proving me guilty.'
Pleading 'guilty', on the other hand, *is* a statement of 'I did it.' Which is why pleading 'no contest' or 'nolo contendre' is sometimes a thing; "I'm going to be found guilty, so I'm not going to bother fighting it." If you plead guilty, however, that can be used against you civilly. If they accept NC, it isn't.
Some other countries also have a third determination beyond 'guilty' and 'not guilty' which is 'not proven.' I.e. 'We know you did it, but good for you, not enough evidence.' You can also get, in some cases, a declaration of factual innocence.
It's all very complicated.
Surely pleading guilty for a plea bargain, stating that you did something that you did not do, ie lying under oath, is perjury.
Hey, Apple (and the FA) seem to think "The Founders would be appalled." is an incisive legal argument. Give them a break, here.
It's not like Apple uses the EULA to prevent you from doing what you want with the phone and software you bought, then turns around and claims in a court filing that they neither own nor control any of it. Why, that would be lying in court!
The USA has a strong tradition of lying in court being totally legal.
Look at plea bargaining. You know you are innocent, you agree to plead guilty to avoid a long and costly court case, thereby perjuring yourself. And its all legit.