I don't even understand the point of the claim. So the interpreter has a baked-in crypto library? And how is that different than simply #including a crypto library, which has the added bonus that you can pick any number of crypto libraries.
More to the point - this is the main problem with PHP. The idiots who "design" it think that something like this should be compiled into their interpreter and made into even more built-in function calls. The better way to handle it is exactly as you describe - allow people to add their own code and make your language robust enough to allow them to code the crypto library (or whatever) in your language.
Historically, PHP was terrible at handling binary data and such, so there was no way to do a lot of these sorts of actions in straight PHP. The workaround was to write your functionality in C and then include it as a PHP module - meaning that PHP would have a new set of functions when your module was included. This caused namespace issues and idiocy such as two sets of "functions" for handling MySQL connectivity: the "mysql_" set and the "mysqli_" set. It's like the "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" of programming languages, except "it's so bad, well, it's just bad".
Now their idea is to encourage WordPress programmers to do better by including a crypto library in their already polluted function namespace.
Scientific study of the benefit or harm is good. No doubt.
But, from a common sense 30,000 foot perspective, if there is even the slightest effect among the majority of these apps of embarrassing you into getting off your ass a little more often, isn't that likely to be a net health positive?
I agree. This guy's questioning the 10,000 steps metric. Fine. Maybe it isn't "best" for everybody. But I'm sure it's a hell of a lot better than sitting on your ass all day.
This is known as allowing the perfect to be the enemy of the good.
Yes every President lies at some point. But few lie about things so easily disproved.
Right. Like "If you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan." Or, "It wasn't a preplanned terrorist attack - it was a demonstration against an internet video that got out of hand spontaneously." I could go on and on, but you get the point. Thanks to that stupid crap, we ended up with Trump.
As democracy is perfected, the office of the president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and a complete narcissistic moron.
~H.L. Mencken
And now that he's had his 8 year term, people elected Trump.
Because when the PV videos on staging violence came out, we found evidence that Zulema Rodriguez was employed by MoveOn to be in Arizona, we have a video of her blocking the road and lying to cops, and that corroborates the video?
Your original source is a video by a guy who is famous for dishonestly editing videos... and yet you keep going back to him as a primary source.
I have absolutely zero confidence that you know how to determine if a piece of evidence is true or relevant.
So, he edited her into the video?
Look, I know the looney left hates this, but O'Keefe releases all his original videos. The reason you would believe is that he lays out his evidence using verifiable primary sources. I know it's good on your side to attack the messenger and claim victory, but it just makes you look like a fool in this case.
MAME represents the idea that our digital heritage is important and should be preserved for future generations. MAME strives to accurately represent original systems, allowing unmodified software to run as intended.
We might be living in MAME for the universe. I know, this has been beaten to death, but think of it in these terms. How many Pacman machines exist right now in the world? Now, how many people run it on MAME? If I were to randomly pick one person on the planet playing Pacman right now, they would almost certainly be playing in MAME. In 20 years from now, the chance will be even higher.
Only a moron would send something irreplaceable via regular mail. Sorry. This is what UPS and FedEx are for. If it's purely domestic within the US, there are services available from the USPS that will do the same thing (priority mail with tracking). It also needs to be in a secure box - thick cardboard and taped up really well.
It's sad that these carts were lost. Consider it another expensive class at the school of hard knocks.
As much as I'd love for you to be right - MS has behaved like this for 20 years and they're still the dominant desktop OS.
They're the dominant desktop OS simply because of inertia and the large volume of software available. And that's the same reason Windows phones will never be able to break into the two-horse race between iOS and Android. There's no real software available for a Windows phone compared to the other platforms, and nobody in their right mind is going to develop for a platform that accounts for 3/1000ths of the phones out there. Worse yet, when someone has a market share that low you have to wonder who the schmucks are that got suckered into one and are they even interested in buying more software for it?
I have been a contributer on Slashdot for over 15 years. There have been things to complain about over the years, but FOR GOD SAKE don't let the banner adds chase everyone away. What's more annoying than a Banner Ad? A banner add that doesn't scroll away as you read.
Serious, I will never visit Slashdot again if this isn't fixed ASAP.
Don't be like the thousands of other crap sites that are doing this now. I don't care if it is in the advertisers JavaScript, find somewhat to stop that shit OR I AM GONE!
Is there a way that tensorflow can fix the banner ad problem?
I worked for Cisco Systems for nearly ten years. I could convert all of my capital to Cisco stock and not even touch a tenth of a percent.
Meanwhile, a single executive at Cisco could issue a decree that all offices require a $100,000 to $250,000 conferencing solution (out of their own budgets), and it would be nearly impossible to fight. Think I'm wrong? Check out any Cisco office's teleconference room.
Yes, I understand - you have to have widespread buy in to get anywhere. A lot of companies give huge stock incentives to executives, also, furthering the divide.
Publix has been that way likely from the start. I probably don't have to tell you which store treats its employees far better, right? Hint: not the unionized store.
One of the cool things about employee ownership is that everybody is on the same team again, rather than having the "workers vs. management" mentality.
C is portable assembler. I love C, and there will *always* be a place for it, but to really use it safely and properly you simply have to understand how computers work at the lowest levels. I'm old school and at one time could write in 3 different assembly languages fluently. I know how processors and hardware work. But most modern programmers don't, and they need something a little higher level to be able to write reasonably safe code. If Swift can fill that niche, I'm all for it. Ultimately having a somewhat safer compiled language is a really good thing since almost all language development these days is tending toward scripting languages with better VMs - not something to put in your IoT device.
Put more simply, "death to all jews" in a vacuum is stupid and offensive, but we don't live in a vacuum. In the context of our modern world this was an actual goal that a homicidal maniac was able to, at the very least, make significant headway toward attaining just 75 years ago. Plenty of his victims are still alive, with far more children and grandchildren, so this is still well within the collective conscience of the world and particularly the west.
It's mind boggling to me that the guy who probably has no other marketable skills would throw away a dream career in such a dramatically stupid fashion.
When I get time, I'd like to use satellite photos of the arctic into a time lapse video, play it, then ask "Now, what was it you were saying about climate change being a scam?"
And presumably the other side simply pulls out this 2008 Al Gore video where he predicts that the arctic would be ice-free in 5 years:
The company insisted the boxes were intended to reduce energy costs, ensuring that empty cubicles weren't overheated or over-air-conditioned
What a load of bullshit. A cubicle by its very nature is a division of a larger room.
It *is* possible that it looks at all the cubicles in a room to decide if the lights and a/c can be turned off or reduced. But if that were *really* the issue don't you think they would have told folks before sticking a black box under their desk?
The reason it sounds like they're doing something wrong is that they acted like they were doing something wrong when they quietly installed these things while nobody was around.
I just don't know how many occupations there are that the normal job state is being in one place the entire day. Sounds horrifying.
My wife and I both work from home, so that's normal to us. She works for a company that processes medicare claims (she's in QA) so she's in constant contact with her coworkers throughout the day via instant messaging, email, and phone, while I often talk to clients on the phone. It gets kind of difficult, but we often take off after work and walk around town (we live in a tourist trap) or even just the mall. She gets cabin fever pretty bad and just needs to get out. I am an outdoorsy type so I go to the park or whatever, too.
Barring absolutely needing the job not to be on the street, I would not work at such a place.
This sort of thing will get to the point where even the rabid anti-union types will be rethinking that opinion, and maybe companies who would like to remain union-free should think about such things.
Or, maybe instead of putting money into a union they could put money into buying stock in the company and handle it that way.
It's interesting. We have two grocery stores that are prevalent in this area: Kroger and Publix. Kroger is a large public company that has a unionized workforce. Publix is employee-owned - the only way to buy stock is to be an employee and if you sell your stock Publix has the right of first refusal (and they always buy it). Do I have to tell you 1) which store treats its employees far better and 2) which store is far better to shop at? Hint: same answer to both questions, starts with "P".
I have no problem with unions as a concept, but employee-ownership is a much, much better way to go about it. I know it's not always possible but where it is possible it's a great idea.
LOL. So the "difference" is that when they're caught they backtrack. Got it.
Exactly.
Fake new sites-- like trolls-- don't acknowledge errors.
The damage is already done, and everybody's moved on. Go to the next looney left rally and ask the, um, "protestors" about the bust of MLK. You'll find that most of them think it was removed.
This works on both sides, by the way. Ask your typical conservative about Lt. Joe Gliniewicz - a cop who committed suicide but staged it to look like he'd been killed by people that he had been harassing in his city. All kinds of conservative sites carried the story about this brave hero who was tragically assassinated by thugs. Few had any follow up when it came out that he did, indeed, kill himself - apparently to avoid the consequences of multiple illegal activities that he was involved in and were close to being exposed. Some sites removed the original stories, others simply never followed up (see twitchy.com as an example).
It's the same thing. By the time the correction comes around - if ever - they've all moved on to the next outrage.
I'm quite aware of the looney left talking point that Pelosi's quote makes total sense in context. And, though I'm aware of the context, I stand by what I said.
Pelosi is *nothing* but a typical leftist lunatic. Nothing. Zilch.
For those wondering about the context, hopefully this is enough to give you an idea. The part I quoted is in the middle. This doesn't include the "duhs", "ders" and general drooling that it, er, she does while babbling:
You’ve heard about the controversies, the process about the billbut I don’t know if you’ve heard that it is legislation for the future – not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America. But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it – away from the fog of the controversy.
Sorry, the reason she didn't want to talk about it was because it had a number of bombs in it that were timed to go off after elections. As they've went off, they have continued to propel the cost of insurance up astronomically. She could have been honest about this beforehand, but instead she chose to claim that it's easier to pass the bill, shove it down everybody's throat, and then let you find out what was in it.
That you've simply regurgitated a left-wing talking point means that you're one of the sheep. FYI.
You unfriend any nation state from your nation's facebook page if they break the convention? The regular Geneva Convention is hard enough to enforce, a digital one will be even harder because it's harder to prove an actor is really from a location or nation. Even if an assailant traced back to Russia is caught breaking the convention online and Russia "fails to catch" the person responsible they can claim he was a Ukrainian acting on behalf of Ukraine from within their borders.
Even the regular Geneva Convention isn't really respected anymore. You've got the US brazenly violating it in Gitmo. Iraqi troops during the gulf war were violating it. No-one really takes it seriously anymore.
How's the US violating it in Gitmo? (I'll give you a hint: the GC covers uniformed soldiers)
I should note, by the way, that the NYT article that you linked describes *exactly* what happens when fake news is passed off by the mainstream media. The guy took a Trump talking point, made up a story about it, and passed it off.
There is literally no difference between that and the two stories that I referenced, with the exception that Time Magazine is supposedly a legitimate news source. You should be *far* more concerned about Time creating and passing fake news than some guy working by himself.
No, fake news really exists, although it the term has been coopted to mean "stuff I don't agree with."
That's not correct - it's a looney left talking point. The two items that I referenced are *factually* incorrect. The MLK bust was never removed from the White House, this isn't someone's "opinion", it's a fact. Likewise, Trump became President on January 21, 2017. So if someone was detained at the airport in December of 2016, it had nothing to do with now President Trump. It had to do with President Obama. Again, not an "opinion", not "stuff I don't agree with", instead it is "fact".
Both items were passed off as "news" by seemingly legitimate news organizations. Both items are fake news - literally fake. There are plenty of other examples, but, newsflash: Media Matters isn't going to tell you about it.
but the reaction of the looney left has made me so glad he won.
A celebration of irrational thinking. Politics are bizzare.
The point, which you likely missed, is that as much as I don't like or trust Trump, I really don't want to give more political power to the people who are out rioting now. And that's what Hillary would do.
I would think it would be prudent to wait to hear what the politicians who are cancelling it tell us what they are going to implement instead.
So far, it's a pig in a poke-- they're saying "we'll come up with something much much better, trust us, it will be great"-- but they don't seem to have any idea what this "better" system is going to be or how it will work.
Sorry, but I'm skeptical: I want to see some details before I'm convinced.
Right. I mean, I can imagine those Republicans are so stupid that they'll come up with something and then say "duh, but, der, we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it". That'd be just like a stupid Republican, amiright?
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I don't even understand the point of the claim. So the interpreter has a baked-in crypto library? And how is that different than simply #including a crypto library, which has the added bonus that you can pick any number of crypto libraries.
More to the point - this is the main problem with PHP. The idiots who "design" it think that something like this should be compiled into their interpreter and made into even more built-in function calls. The better way to handle it is exactly as you describe - allow people to add their own code and make your language robust enough to allow them to code the crypto library (or whatever) in your language.
Historically, PHP was terrible at handling binary data and such, so there was no way to do a lot of these sorts of actions in straight PHP. The workaround was to write your functionality in C and then include it as a PHP module - meaning that PHP would have a new set of functions when your module was included. This caused namespace issues and idiocy such as two sets of "functions" for handling MySQL connectivity: the "mysql_" set and the "mysqli_" set. It's like the "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" of programming languages, except "it's so bad, well, it's just bad".
Now their idea is to encourage WordPress programmers to do better by including a crypto library in their already polluted function namespace.
<facepalm>
Scientific study of the benefit or harm is good. No doubt.
But, from a common sense 30,000 foot perspective, if there is even the slightest effect among the majority of these apps of embarrassing you into getting off your ass a little more often, isn't that likely to be a net health positive?
I agree. This guy's questioning the 10,000 steps metric. Fine. Maybe it isn't "best" for everybody. But I'm sure it's a hell of a lot better than sitting on your ass all day.
This is known as allowing the perfect to be the enemy of the good.
The greatest benefit Bill Gates or Warren Buffet could leave to human kind is to use most of their money to fund a global free press foundation.
Yeah, with Democrat cronyist leftists like Gates and Buffet funding it there's no way it would have an ideological bias.
Yes every President lies at some point. But few lie about things so easily disproved.
Right. Like "If you like your health plan, you can keep your health plan." Or, "It wasn't a preplanned terrorist attack - it was a demonstration against an internet video that got out of hand spontaneously." I could go on and on, but you get the point. Thanks to that stupid crap, we ended up with Trump.
As democracy is perfected, the office of the president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.
On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House
will be occupied by a downright fool and a complete narcissistic moron.
~H.L. Mencken
And now that he's had his 8 year term, people elected Trump.
> Why would I believe
Because when the PV videos on staging violence came out, we found evidence that Zulema Rodriguez was employed by MoveOn to be in Arizona, we have a video of her blocking the road and lying to cops, and that corroborates the video?
Your original source is a video by a guy who is famous for dishonestly editing videos... and yet you keep going back to him as a primary source.
I have absolutely zero confidence that you know how to determine if a piece of evidence is true or relevant.
So, he edited her into the video?
Look, I know the looney left hates this, but O'Keefe releases all his original videos. The reason you would believe is that he lays out his evidence using verifiable primary sources. I know it's good on your side to attack the messenger and claim victory, but it just makes you look like a fool in this case.
MAME represents the idea that our digital heritage is important and should be preserved for future generations. MAME strives to accurately represent original systems, allowing unmodified software to run as intended.
We might be living in MAME for the universe. I know, this has been beaten to death, but think of it in these terms. How many Pacman machines exist right now in the world? Now, how many people run it on MAME? If I were to randomly pick one person on the planet playing Pacman right now, they would almost certainly be playing in MAME. In 20 years from now, the chance will be even higher.
Only a moron would send something irreplaceable via regular mail. Sorry. This is what UPS and FedEx are for. If it's purely domestic within the US, there are services available from the USPS that will do the same thing (priority mail with tracking). It also needs to be in a secure box - thick cardboard and taped up really well.
It's sad that these carts were lost. Consider it another expensive class at the school of hard knocks.
As much as I'd love for you to be right - MS has behaved like this for 20 years and they're still the dominant desktop OS.
They're the dominant desktop OS simply because of inertia and the large volume of software available. And that's the same reason Windows phones will never be able to break into the two-horse race between iOS and Android. There's no real software available for a Windows phone compared to the other platforms, and nobody in their right mind is going to develop for a platform that accounts for 3/1000ths of the phones out there. Worse yet, when someone has a market share that low you have to wonder who the schmucks are that got suckered into one and are they even interested in buying more software for it?
I have been a contributer on Slashdot for over 15 years. There have been things to complain about over the years, but FOR GOD SAKE don't let the banner adds chase everyone away. What's more annoying than a Banner Ad? A banner add that doesn't scroll away as you read.
Serious, I will never visit Slashdot again if this isn't fixed ASAP.
Don't be like the thousands of other crap sites that are doing this now. I don't care if it is in the advertisers JavaScript, find somewhat to stop that shit OR I AM GONE!
Is there a way that tensorflow can fix the banner ad problem?
I worked for Cisco Systems for nearly ten years. I could convert all of my capital to Cisco stock and not even touch a tenth of a percent.
Meanwhile, a single executive at Cisco could issue a decree that all offices require a $100,000 to $250,000 conferencing solution (out of their own budgets), and it would be nearly impossible to fight. Think I'm wrong? Check out any Cisco office's teleconference room.
Yes, I understand - you have to have widespread buy in to get anywhere. A lot of companies give huge stock incentives to executives, also, furthering the divide.
Publix has been that way likely from the start. I probably don't have to tell you which store treats its employees far better, right? Hint: not the unionized store.
One of the cool things about employee ownership is that everybody is on the same team again, rather than having the "workers vs. management" mentality.
C is portable assembler. I love C, and there will *always* be a place for it, but to really use it safely and properly you simply have to understand how computers work at the lowest levels. I'm old school and at one time could write in 3 different assembly languages fluently. I know how processors and hardware work. But most modern programmers don't, and they need something a little higher level to be able to write reasonably safe code. If Swift can fill that niche, I'm all for it. Ultimately having a somewhat safer compiled language is a really good thing since almost all language development these days is tending toward scripting languages with better VMs - not something to put in your IoT device.
Put more simply, "death to all jews" in a vacuum is stupid and offensive, but we don't live in a vacuum. In the context of our modern world this was an actual goal that a homicidal maniac was able to, at the very least, make significant headway toward attaining just 75 years ago. Plenty of his victims are still alive, with far more children and grandchildren, so this is still well within the collective conscience of the world and particularly the west.
It's mind boggling to me that the guy who probably has no other marketable skills would throw away a dream career in such a dramatically stupid fashion.
When I get time, I'd like to use satellite photos of the arctic into a time lapse video, play it, then ask "Now, what was it you were saying about climate change being a scam?"
And presumably the other side simply pulls out this 2008 Al Gore video where he predicts that the arctic would be ice-free in 5 years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Al Gore is God's gift to "deniers".
The company insisted the boxes were intended to reduce energy costs, ensuring that empty cubicles weren't overheated or over-air-conditioned
What a load of bullshit. A cubicle by its very nature is a division of a larger room.
It *is* possible that it looks at all the cubicles in a room to decide if the lights and a/c can be turned off or reduced. But if that were *really* the issue don't you think they would have told folks before sticking a black box under their desk?
The reason it sounds like they're doing something wrong is that they acted like they were doing something wrong when they quietly installed these things while nobody was around.
I just don't know how many occupations there are that the normal job state is being in one place the entire day. Sounds horrifying.
My wife and I both work from home, so that's normal to us. She works for a company that processes medicare claims (she's in QA) so she's in constant contact with her coworkers throughout the day via instant messaging, email, and phone, while I often talk to clients on the phone. It gets kind of difficult, but we often take off after work and walk around town (we live in a tourist trap) or even just the mall. She gets cabin fever pretty bad and just needs to get out. I am an outdoorsy type so I go to the park or whatever, too.
But, yeah, you have to get a little variety.
Barring absolutely needing the job not to be on the street, I would not work at such a place.
This sort of thing will get to the point where even the rabid anti-union types will be rethinking that opinion, and maybe companies who would like to remain union-free should think about such things.
Or, maybe instead of putting money into a union they could put money into buying stock in the company and handle it that way.
It's interesting. We have two grocery stores that are prevalent in this area: Kroger and Publix. Kroger is a large public company that has a unionized workforce. Publix is employee-owned - the only way to buy stock is to be an employee and if you sell your stock Publix has the right of first refusal (and they always buy it). Do I have to tell you 1) which store treats its employees far better and 2) which store is far better to shop at? Hint: same answer to both questions, starts with "P".
I have no problem with unions as a concept, but employee-ownership is a much, much better way to go about it. I know it's not always possible but where it is possible it's a great idea.
LOL. So the "difference" is that when they're caught they backtrack. Got it.
Exactly.
Fake new sites-- like trolls-- don't acknowledge errors.
The damage is already done, and everybody's moved on. Go to the next looney left rally and ask the, um, "protestors" about the bust of MLK. You'll find that most of them think it was removed.
This works on both sides, by the way. Ask your typical conservative about Lt. Joe Gliniewicz - a cop who committed suicide but staged it to look like he'd been killed by people that he had been harassing in his city. All kinds of conservative sites carried the story about this brave hero who was tragically assassinated by thugs. Few had any follow up when it came out that he did, indeed, kill himself - apparently to avoid the consequences of multiple illegal activities that he was involved in and were close to being exposed. Some sites removed the original stories, others simply never followed up (see twitchy.com as an example).
It's the same thing. By the time the correction comes around - if ever - they've all moved on to the next outrage.
I'm quite aware of the looney left talking point that Pelosi's quote makes total sense in context. And, though I'm aware of the context, I stand by what I said.
Pelosi is *nothing* but a typical leftist lunatic. Nothing. Zilch.
For those wondering about the context, hopefully this is enough to give you an idea. The part I quoted is in the middle. This doesn't include the "duhs", "ders" and general drooling that it, er, she does while babbling:
You’ve heard about the controversies, the process about the billbut I don’t know if you’ve heard that it is legislation for the future – not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America. But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it – away from the fog of the controversy.
Sorry, the reason she didn't want to talk about it was because it had a number of bombs in it that were timed to go off after elections. As they've went off, they have continued to propel the cost of insurance up astronomically. She could have been honest about this beforehand, but instead she chose to claim that it's easier to pass the bill, shove it down everybody's throat, and then let you find out what was in it.
That you've simply regurgitated a left-wing talking point means that you're one of the sheep. FYI.
How do you enforce a digital Geneva convention?
You unfriend any nation state from your nation's facebook page if they break the convention? The regular Geneva Convention is hard enough to enforce, a digital one will be even harder because it's harder to prove an actor is really from a location or nation. Even if an assailant traced back to Russia is caught breaking the convention online and Russia "fails to catch" the person responsible they can claim he was a Ukrainian acting on behalf of Ukraine from within their borders.
Even the regular Geneva Convention isn't really respected anymore. You've got the US brazenly violating it in Gitmo. Iraqi troops during the gulf war were violating it. No-one really takes it seriously anymore.
How's the US violating it in Gitmo? (I'll give you a hint: the GC covers uniformed soldiers)
LOL. So the "difference" is that when they're caught they backtrack. Got it.
Sorry, it's fake news. Period.
Fake news is stuff that's made up.
Yeah, I know. Like, "the bust of MLK was removed from the White House". Made up. Fake. That they issue a correction when caught means nothing.
I should note, by the way, that the NYT article that you linked describes *exactly* what happens when fake news is passed off by the mainstream media. The guy took a Trump talking point, made up a story about it, and passed it off.
There is literally no difference between that and the two stories that I referenced, with the exception that Time Magazine is supposedly a legitimate news source. You should be *far* more concerned about Time creating and passing fake news than some guy working by himself.
No, fake news really exists, although it the term has been coopted to mean "stuff I don't agree with."
That's not correct - it's a looney left talking point. The two items that I referenced are *factually* incorrect. The MLK bust was never removed from the White House, this isn't someone's "opinion", it's a fact. Likewise, Trump became President on January 21, 2017. So if someone was detained at the airport in December of 2016, it had nothing to do with now President Trump. It had to do with President Obama. Again, not an "opinion", not "stuff I don't agree with", instead it is "fact".
Both items were passed off as "news" by seemingly legitimate news organizations. Both items are fake news - literally fake. There are plenty of other examples, but, newsflash: Media Matters isn't going to tell you about it.
but the reaction of the looney left has made me so glad he won.
A celebration of irrational thinking. Politics are bizzare.
The point, which you likely missed, is that as much as I don't like or trust Trump, I really don't want to give more political power to the people who are out rioting now. And that's what Hillary would do.
I would think it would be prudent to wait to hear what the politicians who are cancelling it tell us what they are going to implement instead.
So far, it's a pig in a poke-- they're saying "we'll come up with something much much better, trust us, it will be great"-- but they don't seem to have any idea what this "better" system is going to be or how it will work.
Sorry, but I'm skeptical: I want to see some details before I'm convinced.
Right. I mean, I can imagine those Republicans are so stupid that they'll come up with something and then say "duh, but, der, we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it". That'd be just like a stupid Republican, amiright?