I can personally reconcile those two things, but the optics aren't good. I know the response: "But my attack wasn't *baseless*." Okay. The problem is that it's a matter of opinion.
Not really as bad as you think. Some functions in the system control panel can be accessed by normal users. That includes the app store. I think the issue is that once you're there it might let you do things that you shouldn't be able to do.
To be honest, I don't think he's exactly wrong to say that unbreakable encryption is a public safety issue. It's an issue.
He's absolutely correct that it's a public safety issue. The last century taught us (those who were paying attention, at least) that authoritarian government is the biggest public safety issue that has ever existed, save for maybe the bubonic plague. So, sorry FBI, the bottom line is that we have bigger fish to fry than "encryption".
"The New Orleans Levee breaches that caused all the flooding: OK, we should have seen that coming, but have we fixed the problems there? Would another hurricane cause as much damage?"
The hurricane didn't cause the damage. Katrina actually wasn't that bad of a hurricane after it made landfall. The levee breaches didn't happen until a couple of days later.
Add to that: there's almost no point in recycling aluminum. It's extremely plentiful on earth and landfills aren't actually a problem
Piling on because it's important - aluminum absolutely should be recycled. Turning bauxite (oxidized aluminum) into metal is far more expensive than simply melting and reforming aluminum. Same with steel and glass.
Plastic is very different. It can't be melted back to a liquid, so reuse of the raw material is limited.
Cardboard is another good candidate for recycling, and even paper. Anything that can be recycled should be recycled. Plastic? Burn it.
But plastic waste should be burned for energy. It's made of oil, and most plastics aren't really recycled. They're used to make other things, but there's no net savings of any kind. Burning them would solve the waste problem and extract useful energy.
And grandparents. Especially grandparents. My mother-in-law is a wonderful 75 year old lady who believes everything she reads on facebook. She comes from a generation where broadcasting was expensive so if you saw it on TV it had a better chance of being true. This is an almost daily thing.
She was eating garlic a couple of weeks ago because someone said it would help with blood pressure. When I say "eating garlic" I mean she was peeling the paint in the house when she breathed. Yesterday I couldn't find my brown sugar. Turns out white sugar has all kinds of dangerous chemicals in it and brown sugar is healthy, so she's going to try using that in her coffee. I tried to explain that brown sugar is white sugar with molasses added back in and what she was really seeking is something like turbinado sugar, which is only processed in a centrifuge. Whoever made the facebook video apparently doesn't know the difference, neither does she.
It's difficult to take someone who doesn't have a working bullshit detector and try to install one in them.
They don't have to choose between getting killed and getting prosecuted. Better training is needed, but decent people don't have to be "trained" to not shoot someone in a situation like this.
Thank you, but it gets better. The people I sold it to sent it back to me after taking pictures with it, so I still have the check. In 2006 or so I got a form letter from Microsoft that says "Hey, we were looking through our books and we wrote you a $500 check that never got cashed. We'll send you another one if you want." So, I still have the check, but I also got the $500. Plus, Bill Gates knows my name and probably still hates me, which is kind of cool.
I know people in law enforcement. Training is a huge problem here, as they're taught that if they pause they'll be killed. And they're shown videos repeatedly of officers who are shot during a traffic stop or whatever by a psycho who went hunting for them. What they're not told is that in a nation of 350,000,000 people and around 1,000,000 sworn law enforcement officers a scenario like that takes place a few times each year, with less than 50 total officers killed in homicide. It's not far behind lightning and bathtub drownings.
The fix is a double-pronged approach - aggressively prosecute officers like the one who killed a guy here (should be murder 2) and change training toward de-escalation. We also need to look into how best to prosecute crimes committed by on-duty police officers in general, because it's obvious that we're not doing a good job of it right now.
And, furthermore, the entire point of them busting into the house unannounced is to *surprise* the occupants and make it more difficult for the occupants to react in a predictable manner. That's the entire point of knocking the door down. Radley Balko points this out every chance he gets.
Frankly, on the modern Slashdot I expected to see something about the Russians interfering with our adoption of the metric system at the behest of Donald Trump.
Idiotic Obama PR gimmick designed to encourage slacktivism and thereby dampen the practical impact of any actual public dissent/movements.
Obsolete in the Trump era since you can just bitch at him on twitter if you ever feel the need to vent some impotent rage.
With the difference being that Trump himself might actually see the tweet and respond. The WH petition was set up so President Obama could trick his followers into thinking he was paying attention to them.
Slashdot Mirror
How much would a 30 second spot right after Mr. Rogers cost me?
He's talking about "baseless attacks on professional law enforcement", "professional law enforcement" being the FBI in this case.
https://twitter.com/RonWyden/s...
I can personally reconcile those two things, but the optics aren't good. I know the response: "But my attack wasn't *baseless*." Okay. The problem is that it's a matter of opinion.
You are only feeding the alt-Right trolls with respect to Germany's empathy towards refugees.
Yeah, because facts have a political bias.
Geeze.
I'll have another option for places to not shop.
We're aware of the story. But we need credible sources to corroborate the claims before we run it here.
Oh, this is rich. msmash now requires "credible sources". Thank God I wasn't taking a drink when I read that.
Not really as bad as you think. Some functions in the system control panel can be accessed by normal users. That includes the app store. I think the issue is that once you're there it might let you do things that you shouldn't be able to do.
Yeah, 'cause Hillary would have totally reigned the FBI in.
LOL!
(By the way, I voted for neither of them)
To be honest, I don't think he's exactly wrong to say that unbreakable encryption is a public safety issue. It's an issue.
He's absolutely correct that it's a public safety issue. The last century taught us (those who were paying attention, at least) that authoritarian government is the biggest public safety issue that has ever existed, save for maybe the bubonic plague. So, sorry FBI, the bottom line is that we have bigger fish to fry than "encryption".
They didn't forget about anything. You are just picking single points instead of drawing trendlines.
Uh, yeah, genius. When you're looking for "the ____est on record" that tends to be a single point.
"The New Orleans Levee breaches that caused all the flooding: OK, we should have seen that coming, but have we fixed the problems there? Would another hurricane cause as much damage?"
The hurricane didn't cause the damage. Katrina actually wasn't that bad of a hurricane after it made landfall. The levee breaches didn't happen until a couple of days later.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
If you don't get it hot enough, it produces large amounts of Doixins which are not nice at all.
So, get it hot enough. These aren't big headscratcher type problems.
Of course we're emitting CO2. That's not going to stop. Plastic is going to break down eventually, anyway, just long periods naturally.
Add to that: there's almost no point in recycling aluminum. It's extremely plentiful on earth and landfills aren't actually a problem
Piling on because it's important - aluminum absolutely should be recycled. Turning bauxite (oxidized aluminum) into metal is far more expensive than simply melting and reforming aluminum. Same with steel and glass.
Plastic is very different. It can't be melted back to a liquid, so reuse of the raw material is limited.
Cardboard is another good candidate for recycling, and even paper. Anything that can be recycled should be recycled. Plastic? Burn it.
But plastic waste should be burned for energy. It's made of oil, and most plastics aren't really recycled. They're used to make other things, but there's no net savings of any kind. Burning them would solve the waste problem and extract useful energy.
And grandparents. Especially grandparents. My mother-in-law is a wonderful 75 year old lady who believes everything she reads on facebook. She comes from a generation where broadcasting was expensive so if you saw it on TV it had a better chance of being true. This is an almost daily thing.
She was eating garlic a couple of weeks ago because someone said it would help with blood pressure. When I say "eating garlic" I mean she was peeling the paint in the house when she breathed. Yesterday I couldn't find my brown sugar. Turns out white sugar has all kinds of dangerous chemicals in it and brown sugar is healthy, so she's going to try using that in her coffee. I tried to explain that brown sugar is white sugar with molasses added back in and what she was really seeking is something like turbinado sugar, which is only processed in a centrifuge. Whoever made the facebook video apparently doesn't know the difference, neither does she.
It's difficult to take someone who doesn't have a working bullshit detector and try to install one in them.
They don't have to choose between getting killed and getting prosecuted. Better training is needed, but decent people don't have to be "trained" to not shoot someone in a situation like this.
Thank you, but it gets better. The people I sold it to sent it back to me after taking pictures with it, so I still have the check. In 2006 or so I got a form letter from Microsoft that says "Hey, we were looking through our books and we wrote you a $500 check that never got cashed. We'll send you another one if you want." So, I still have the check, but I also got the $500. Plus, Bill Gates knows my name and probably still hates me, which is kind of cool.
I know people in law enforcement. Training is a huge problem here, as they're taught that if they pause they'll be killed. And they're shown videos repeatedly of officers who are shot during a traffic stop or whatever by a psycho who went hunting for them. What they're not told is that in a nation of 350,000,000 people and around 1,000,000 sworn law enforcement officers a scenario like that takes place a few times each year, with less than 50 total officers killed in homicide. It's not far behind lightning and bathtub drownings.
The fix is a double-pronged approach - aggressively prosecute officers like the one who killed a guy here (should be murder 2) and change training toward de-escalation. We also need to look into how best to prosecute crimes committed by on-duty police officers in general, because it's obvious that we're not doing a good job of it right now.
And, furthermore, the entire point of them busting into the house unannounced is to *surprise* the occupants and make it more difficult for the occupants to react in a predictable manner. That's the entire point of knocking the door down. Radley Balko points this out every chance he gets.
Itâ(TM)s been awhile. That was Christmas 1999, I paid it for them. You can search google to read more, including the original threads.
Frankly, on the modern Slashdot I expected to see something about the Russians interfering with our adoption of the metric system at the behest of Donald Trump.
They should teach him to program in BLISS or COBOL, just to add some irony.
It's interesting how comments like this get up to +5, then downmodded a few days later.
I mean, how will these kids know what products they need if they can't watch commercials?
Idiotic Obama PR gimmick designed to encourage slacktivism and thereby dampen the practical impact of any actual public dissent/movements.
Obsolete in the Trump era since you can just bitch at him on twitter if you ever feel the need to vent some impotent rage.
With the difference being that Trump himself might actually see the tweet and respond. The WH petition was set up so President Obama could trick his followers into thinking he was paying attention to them.