A) Pay enormous sums of money to a the current crop of nerds and Chinese nations that hold bitcoins to acquire the liquidity they need to effect settlements? All so they can have access to a vanishingly small part of the population that has ever transacted a bitcoin and work with almost nonexistent pool of legitimate commercial vendors that already deal in bit coin?
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B) Call their CEO buddies form an industry group create their own currency with SEC and other federal agency approval do all the early mining themselves to set themselves up the initial liquidity required at no cost.
If it's based on a public, signed ledger then it HAS to be be Bitcoin.
Based on what? What exactly stops a technically similar but better architected solution - say with larger more usable at scale block sizes from being widely adopted? Widely adopted by say they entrenched financials most of whom missed the boat on the early Btc speculation but already have all the merchant relationships etc in place to take a new offering packaged in a consumer friendly way to market easily.
What is stop the Federal reserve from issuing its own cryptocurrency, and using dollar monetary policy to highly encourage its adoption.
Face it Btc is a dead end and everyone holding is going be left with worthless pseudo random bit stings once the existing players decide to move. Just ask which is more likely: Joe Sixpack learns how to use a bitcoin wallet and what a bitcoin address is ? or Joe's mega bank packages a nice little easy to use system based on their government sanctioned and back currency packeged in something that looks like the debit card he has today with easy and automatic exchanges for Dollars, Euros, Pounds, CAN, etc they way most major credit cards work now....
With the US creating a whole new military branch (or at least the executive trying to) why would be surprised other quasi hostile nations with the capability of doing so would NOT be preparing space based counter measures?
Space Force aside what did people think was going to happen everyone was just going to play nice and abide by already 40 year old treaties to not put more than 10 warheads on an ICBM for all eternity?
The important thing is the entire point of bitcoin was it was supposed to be free of middle men. Lighting is a middle man. Basically bitcoin does not work as designed. There is nothing stopping some big banks from essentially taking over lighting and making settlement feeds just about equivalent to CC rates now. Basically anyone betting on BitCoin being a primary currency or exchange mechanism of the future is a nuts.
Which is not say some blockchain based solution won't emerge just that it won't be bitcoin.
Many would argue NOTHING of value will be lost. In fact I will argue that. Our society produces entirely to much media. It does so because of artificial market tampering thru long copyrights and hidden subsides. What other industry besides perhaps bio-med enjoys the level of cooperation from law enforcement and regulators protecting its intellectual property; or even actual property for that matter?
We live in a society that produces far greater entertainment media and news media than anyone can consume. We have even for the most part left the realm where one person can be starved for content on a preferred genre or subject.
I think we could even argue that the fact we are not all reading the same books and discussing the same events anymore is harming the social fabric, and retarding the analysis and advance of ideas - rather than facilitating it. The diversity of ideas is now so large there are simply to many to discuss and the truth is most of them are stupid.
I am not sure facebook is the answer by any means but capitalism isn't being chaotic here its potentially purging a mixture of dinosaurs and "clickbait-spewing" crapola we have no need of and might be best compared to an algae bloom. I mass of toxic crap we should all rejoice in dying off and it only exists because we tampered with markets in the first place.
Yes. I think a lot of people are to committed to things never changing. Life adapts its what life does, people adapt its what people do. However I think we should still watch, think, and act carefully.
Things will change, they may change in ways we will like and ways we wont. A lot produce will be larger and more energy dense as C02 levels go up. That might actually help us feed larger populations. Other things are happening we might not like so well.
Chernobyl is a fine example. Overall the biome might have more life and be more diverse. However smaller shorter lived animals have been favored. The same seems to be true of plants. We are not small short lived creaters and as a species I don't think we'd want to be smaller and have shorter life spans as an adaptation. The same goes for plants. We want things like big long lived trees for hardwood timber. Fast growing soft wood isn't as useful for some applications we care about. Some exceptions exist; groups of wolves for example are doing very well but the aspect of the radiation that is helping them is increased small prey; but mostly keep us away so we don't compete with or hunt them.
More broadly looking at the world in general we are seeing a decrease in diversity. That is probably dangerous. I will allow for the possibility that might not be true; there could have been an explosion of new microbial specie that we simply are not counting and haven't noticed. I don't think we really want to return to world of sludge really. The reality is the climate is changing. I think we should probably drop the hubris that 'we' are the prime movers but we can acknologe we have more than enough influence to impact the time horizons and we might be able to nudge certain things in one direction or another. It would be good to nudge things in directions we want to go.
"Introduce a random time error into thermostats for things like HVAC systems" Might solve the grid loading problem but would not save energy. People are not stupid If they know the HVAC settings might go upto 15min one way or the other they will have them kick on 15min earlier. My heat comes up in Winter around 5:30 because I want my fingers and toes not be cold when I get out of bed at 6. I already know its going to take 1/2 hour for floors and such to warm up to the air temp. If I know the heat might come on 15min later I'd set it 15 earlier. That means on days when the random value is nearer to 0 it runs longer...
if there's no hot water flow, the water stays hot in a well-insulated tank
Because Newton's Law of Cooling.
Although the tank is well insulated the greater the temperature differential between the water inside and the surrounding environment the greater the energy lossless will be. To simplify its nonlinear. Assuming its 60F in the crawl space under you house and you want the water to be 120F it will require the input of additional energy to keep it around there periodically. Insulated or not. It would require less energy to keep the water around 90F.
Lets assume you work from 8a - 5p most days and so does the rest of your household. You certainly want to have nice hot showers available from 6a - 7:30 after that there is probably little demand for hot water. Around 6:30p - 9p you might want hot water handy for dishes laundry etc. After 11p there is probably little demand until 6a again. 90 would be hot enough for hand washing...
So there are some largish windows in there where a smart water heater could allow the tank temperature to drop and nobody would care. It a chance to save some energy. Sure a simple time like a set back thermostat could do this. SMART is better though because it could integrate with other stuff like lights and things to determine, "you stayed home today" and keep the water hot. Or notice you changed your pattern and started turning on the dishwasher when you leaving in the AM and adjust.
The hotel staff gives the key to the wrong room. I don't know how it happens either. You'd think the reservation system would prevent that sort of thing but I do a lot of business travel. Probably 25 or more discrete hotel stays per year. At least three times I have checked in been given room keys and told a given room number only to find - someone is already in there!
I have had this happen to me as well. Moral of the story here is 1) knock as you suggest at least the first time your are entering your new room, 2) when you are in the room use the bolt / chain. This will prevent anyone card, key or not from just entering the room.
If someone is so aggressive about entering your room they tear door form its hinges, snap the chain, etc than you may feel justifiably so threaten that I will be sympathetic if serving on your jury and we are to determine if your shooting them was self defense.
I agree with you that switching to robot mechanical weed control is probably going to be the safest long term answer. We still need to solve pest control though and the robots are a long way from being able to do that.
I think the though that this judgement shows that there are some types of civil cases where a jury just isnt appropriate. We probably need a constitutional amendment; restricting jury trials in civil cases where the proximate cause of the alleged damage isn't expected to be 100% certain.
Did round up cause this guys cancer or was he always cancern prone? We will never know and we probably can't ever know not in his lifetime.
All the information seems to suggest that round up is cancer causing in the way just about everything that isn't water is carcinogenic, maybe even water, if you spend every day of your life slathering your self in some chemical sure it probably increases your cancer risk.
Notes was never the best solution for E-mail but it absolutely was genius at everything else it did; but like any powerful tool you did need to learn how to use it. Oh it was also secure too. Beyond that offline replication meant you actually could do meaningful work on your portable while traveling. To this day I can't do as much with my laptop on plane for example because without VPN access so I can hit swarepoint - I have no current information, have to make manual list of the all the documents I have updated and need to push, etc.
People who dump on Notes fall into two main categories. 1) People who only ever used it for E-mail and 2) People who never took the time to understand it.
But Notes was/is actually secure. Some guy with kali VM isn't going to be just accessing everyone's mailbox in 10min like up until very recently was the situation on most AD/Echange/Outlook environments.
But hey who care right. Having the entire company bent over because someone clicked a phish mail was totally worth it so you could avoid 30min waiting for helpdesk to get you a new id file or and because you are to dumb to remember your password.
Or if you are cynical it suggests Apple wants to have it both ways. They want to show the public they are not kowtowing to anyone and offering consumers good privacy protection. At the same time they don't want to make the devices so secure LEOs can't get into them when the crimes get serious enough to justify paying some security "researchers" a few hundred thousand dollars. I for one think Tim Cook is not dumb.
I suspect he was pretty confident for example that the FBI was going be able to get into the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone without Apple's help. I suspect strongly Apple would have cooperated and assisted in unlocking the phone if they had believed that was the only way the FBI was going to get access in a timely fashion. If the FBI had not got access to that phone what do think the mainline political conversation pushed by the news outlets and repeated congressional caucus talking points would have been? Face facts they public values privacy but they are more scared of 'teh terrorists..' had the situation come to a head and the conversation about the iPhone angle moved out the technical press and into the main headlines the outcome would have been different. The regulators would have had their excuse...
Yes there is a problem with this model though. Eventually HQ moves somewhere else. Ask the folks in Wilkesboro about the impact of Lowe's moving to Moresville for example.
When you have one player representing to big a slice of your towns economy you have a recipe for implosion. Property values spike and existing owners make out until said corp leaves. Than you have a lot of people left holding property they can't sell. Nobody will buy a home in a place they can't get a job. In the mean time the town is left with large areas they need to keep under fireprotection, lots of roads, out sized school buildings etc; that they no longer have the tax base to support. So tax rates stay high putting even more downward pressure on the property values.
I am not so sure. There are lots of problems with moving military applications to the cloud. I don't think those can be understated. However one of the biggest problems our government has today is there are to many players in literally every activity it performs. Two men can keep a secret when one of them is dead! Not having this go to all one vendor means multiple parties will have access to the hardware that has tokens and authentication information. Multiple parties will be in a position to observe and gather sigint etc. Frankly Every single one of those parties is already to big and to international IMHO to be able to partner with the DOD in something like this! That said I am with the DOD on this one multiple party would be worse in terms of being able to monitor and control data.
Exactly wth is wrong with the current absentee ballot system?
It destroys the integrity of elections because it makes it super easy for people to fill out a ballot for you. Did granny fill out and mail that ballot or did her home health aide? How can we ever know?
It leaves the door open for vote swapping because although it generally illegal to photo or show your ballot to other etc - people can still do it which allows for swaps, sales, and trades.
I think absentee ballots are needed but we should do a few things - require it be post marked the DAY of the election! Not before and not after. Require it be post marked from a location not less than 20 miles from your otherwise assigned polling place or accompanied by a written statement on pain of purgery that you were physically unable to travel to the polling place (hospitalized, deployed as a member of the armed forces etc).
some communities are centered around the religion and really put the pressure to vote for the guy without actually saying so.
Which is why we have a secret ballot. You still vote your conscience and tell your friends and family you voted for whoever meets with their approval.
I think a better question is how in the world can you expect to belong to faith group and NOT be pressured to vote a certain way. Lets face it while no candidate in any given election might happen to be a model member of your group; its pretty unusual that one party platform or the other won't substantively better align or that one candidate wont come down on one side of an issue or other that is of greater import as far as your faith is concerned.
Frankly if you are not prepared to even vote your faith - you don't have any! Why are even bothering going to that Church or religious group? What place do you have in that community? Perhaps you should just move on!
There are two sides to that coin. How do you move a mountain? Answer one shovel full at a time.
Those things COULD be starts but they can never be more than that. It should be obvious to any thinking person that a whole lot of things have to happen after that to achieve the stated desired ends. The problem of course is there isn't (Thank God for that) the political will to take the next steps. Most of the left won't even talk about the next steps because they know how unpalatable they really are. They hope to turn the heat up slow so us frogs wont realize they are boiling us.
In the mean time they hope they can get a lot of useful idiots on board by letting them feel like they are doing something. Never mind these half measures might be more harmful than doing nothing.
Right - that explains them sending Harry Reid to the Senate over and over and over again; despite his caucusing with the Democrats; and despite being one of the biggest obstacles to Yucca development over his entire career.
Either its Democrat problem -OR- maybe its a strait up NIMBY problem that has little to do with party. Its most certainly NOT a GOP problem though. Unless you cool-aide guzzling lefty-looney voter. The facts just don't fit your claim. Try again.
unless we are talking about open source that someone might feed to an static analysis tool that is pretty unlikely.
Blackhats don't "scan" binaries they fuzz them - in other words they feed data to "ui level" inputs and than watch where those patterns land in memory. If you are talking about buffer over flow type bug where they can run software locally.
Logic bugs probably much more common today that over flows given the languages being used and the fact that everything is on the web again get exercised by things like crawlers and maybe directly parameter tampering. They key here again is the process STARTS by identifing inputs the application takes.
So if you stuff a bunch of unreachable code in the application odds are the blackhats won't ever see it and won't therefore spend any time on it. If someone does scan a binary tools like IDA are pretty good at identifying unreachable code too so its unlikely to be anything but a short lived arms race.
Now if you put 'fake bugs' like say change all the strncpy calls back to old strcpy calls and than somehow move the bounds check to some far away part of the program while you write into a buffer inside an larger data structure you don't than use for anything you 1) risk screwing it up and creating an bug that is still exploitable 2) leave a useful gadget (code someone who has exploited an actual bug can now lever to help them gain even more control of execution 3) leave a nice hunk of process that can safely be replaced with larger shell codes 4) fail to fool anyone because you are dealing with people who will be able to spot the tells and won't be taken in.
That's only if it works and it probably doesn't. It takes a lot more than just VPN to provide any reasonable level of privacy or defense against ad tracking these days.
So basically its sounds like a way for VZ to charge you an extra $4/mo to do something that costs them darn near nothing but provides users with a false sense of security. I'd not be surprised if in a week or two we will learn they used a null cipher for 'performance' as well .
The banks make money on every transaction - well if they are also the card issuers anyway - they usually are. Why do think the industry is always talking about a cashless society. Retailers lover it. Take a way the pain people feel counting out cash which they can intrinsically see dwindle in quantity and replace it with waiving this unchanging plastic card around. Card issuers love it - less cash more transactions; so they can now profit even on those little $2 purchases. Sure %2 of $2 isnt much but multiple that by every candy bar and soda sold across the nation and its a pretty chunk of change.
The next step in the game of ensuring consumers are separated from every last cent they earn is to take over thinking for then, You already see money and budget management web sites and services that aggregate all your accounts. Personally for security and privacy reasons I would anyone who chooses to use one of these things really should be classified as a danger to themselves and others and committed but its happening anyway. One of the features of these sites is they basically give people a "traffic signal" view of the monthly finances. Are they on budge? Green, nearing budget Yellow, over budget red etc.
What FB wants to do here is move that kind of site of opt-in to opt-out so they will sweep up a lot of uses who were not interested or even actively objected to but did not read all the way to the last page of the most recent privacy mailing their bank sent. So they will get a lot people. The next they will do is they will put that green traffic light image right next to the "sponsored content" basically they will run the ads right a long side a statement of "see you can afford to indulge in this this month!"
See they want to destroy the last vestiges of the physiology of saving. Today if you or I have a good month, we spend less on auto maintenance than anticipated, maybe the weather is nice and our energy costs or much lower than usual etc, we do crazy things like make an extra retirement savings contribution or just set it aside in our general rainy day funds. The retailers of the world, facebook, and even your bank don't want you doing that though - they'd rather convince you that you should buy some more Chinese plastic BS and have another $10 cup of coffee because a little circle is green...
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Yes and to put a little finer point on it..
What will the banks do.. Will they
A) Pay enormous sums of money to a the current crop of nerds and Chinese nations that hold bitcoins to acquire the liquidity they need to effect settlements? All so they can have access to a vanishingly small part of the population that has ever transacted a bitcoin and work with almost nonexistent pool of legitimate commercial vendors that already deal in bit coin?
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B) Call their CEO buddies form an industry group create their own currency with SEC and other federal agency approval do all the early mining themselves to set themselves up the initial liquidity required at no cost.
This isn't a tough one people...
If it's based on a public, signed ledger then it HAS to be be Bitcoin.
Based on what? What exactly stops a technically similar but better architected solution - say with larger more usable at scale block sizes from being widely adopted? Widely adopted by say they entrenched financials most of whom missed the boat on the early Btc speculation but already have all the merchant relationships etc in place to take a new offering packaged in a consumer friendly way to market easily.
What is stop the Federal reserve from issuing its own cryptocurrency, and using dollar monetary policy to highly encourage its adoption.
Face it Btc is a dead end and everyone holding is going be left with worthless pseudo random bit stings once the existing players decide to move. Just ask which is more likely: Joe Sixpack learns how to use a bitcoin wallet and what a bitcoin address is ? or Joe's mega bank packages a nice little easy to use system based on their government sanctioned and back currency packeged in something that looks like the debit card he has today with easy and automatic exchanges for Dollars, Euros, Pounds, CAN, etc they way most major credit cards work now....
With the US creating a whole new military branch (or at least the executive trying to) why would be surprised other quasi hostile nations with the capability of doing so would NOT be preparing space based counter measures?
Space Force aside what did people think was going to happen everyone was just going to play nice and abide by already 40 year old treaties to not put more than 10 warheads on an ICBM for all eternity?
Time marches on folks - technology improves.
The important thing is the entire point of bitcoin was it was supposed to be free of middle men. Lighting is a middle man. Basically bitcoin does not work as designed. There is nothing stopping some big banks from essentially taking over lighting and making settlement feeds just about equivalent to CC rates now. Basically anyone betting on BitCoin being a primary currency or exchange mechanism of the future is a nuts.
Which is not say some blockchain based solution won't emerge just that it won't be bitcoin.
Many would argue NOTHING of value will be lost. In fact I will argue that. Our society produces entirely to much media. It does so because of artificial market tampering thru long copyrights and hidden subsides. What other industry besides perhaps bio-med enjoys the level of cooperation from law enforcement and regulators protecting its intellectual property; or even actual property for that matter?
We live in a society that produces far greater entertainment media and news media than anyone can consume. We have even for the most part left the realm where one person can be starved for content on a preferred genre or subject.
I think we could even argue that the fact we are not all reading the same books and discussing the same events anymore is harming the social fabric, and retarding the analysis and advance of ideas - rather than facilitating it. The diversity of ideas is now so large there are simply to many to discuss and the truth is most of them are stupid.
I am not sure facebook is the answer by any means but capitalism isn't being chaotic here its potentially purging a mixture of dinosaurs and "clickbait-spewing" crapola we have no need of and might be best compared to an algae bloom. I mass of toxic crap we should all rejoice in dying off and it only exists because we tampered with markets in the first place.
Yes. I think a lot of people are to committed to things never changing. Life adapts its what life does, people adapt its what people do. However I think we should still watch, think, and act carefully.
Things will change, they may change in ways we will like and ways we wont. A lot produce will be larger and more energy dense as C02 levels go up. That might actually help us feed larger populations. Other things are happening we might not like so well.
Chernobyl is a fine example. Overall the biome might have more life and be more diverse. However smaller shorter lived animals have been favored. The same seems to be true of plants. We are not small short lived creaters and as a species I don't think we'd want to be smaller and have shorter life spans as an adaptation. The same goes for plants. We want things like big long lived trees for hardwood timber. Fast growing soft wood isn't as useful for some applications we care about. Some exceptions exist; groups of wolves for example are doing very well but the aspect of the radiation that is helping them is increased small prey; but mostly keep us away so we don't compete with or hunt them.
More broadly looking at the world in general we are seeing a decrease in diversity. That is probably dangerous. I will allow for the possibility that might not be true; there could have been an explosion of new microbial specie that we simply are not counting and haven't noticed. I don't think we really want to return to world of sludge really. The reality is the climate is changing. I think we should probably drop the hubris that 'we' are the prime movers but we can acknologe we have more than enough influence to impact the time horizons and we might be able to nudge certain things in one direction or another. It would be good to nudge things in directions we want to go.
"Introduce a random time error into thermostats for things like HVAC systems" Might solve the grid loading problem but would not save energy. People are not stupid If they know the HVAC settings might go upto 15min one way or the other they will have them kick on 15min earlier. My heat comes up in Winter around 5:30 because I want my fingers and toes not be cold when I get out of bed at 6. I already know its going to take 1/2 hour for floors and such to warm up to the air temp. If I know the heat might come on 15min later I'd set it 15 earlier. That means on days when the random value is nearer to 0 it runs longer...
if there's no hot water flow, the water stays hot in a well-insulated tank
Because Newton's Law of Cooling.
Although the tank is well insulated the greater the temperature differential between the water inside and the surrounding environment the greater the energy lossless will be. To simplify its nonlinear. Assuming its 60F in the crawl space under you house and you want the water to be 120F it will require the input of additional energy to keep it around there periodically. Insulated or not. It would require less energy to keep the water around 90F.
Lets assume you work from 8a - 5p most days and so does the rest of your household. You certainly want to have nice hot showers available from 6a - 7:30 after that there is probably little demand for hot water. Around 6:30p - 9p you might want hot water handy for dishes laundry etc. After 11p there is probably little demand until 6a again. 90 would be hot enough for hand washing...
So there are some largish windows in there where a smart water heater could allow the tank temperature to drop and nobody would care. It a chance to save some energy. Sure a simple time like a set back thermostat could do this. SMART is better though because it could integrate with other stuff like lights and things to determine, "you stayed home today" and keep the water hot. Or notice you changed your pattern and started turning on the dishwasher when you leaving in the AM and adjust.
The hotel staff gives the key to the wrong room. I don't know how it happens either. You'd think the reservation system would prevent that sort of thing but I do a lot of business travel. Probably 25 or more discrete hotel stays per year. At least three times I have checked in been given room keys and told a given room number only to find - someone is already in there!
I have had this happen to me as well. Moral of the story here is 1) knock as you suggest at least the first time your are entering your new room, 2) when you are in the room use the bolt / chain. This will prevent anyone card, key or not from just entering the room.
If someone is so aggressive about entering your room they tear door form its hinges, snap the chain, etc than you may feel justifiably so threaten that I will be sympathetic if serving on your jury and we are to determine if your shooting them was self defense.
I agree with you that switching to robot mechanical weed control is probably going to be the safest long term answer. We still need to solve pest control though and the robots are a long way from being able to do that.
I think the though that this judgement shows that there are some types of civil cases where a jury just isnt appropriate. We probably need a constitutional amendment; restricting jury trials in civil cases where the proximate cause of the alleged damage isn't expected to be 100% certain.
Did round up cause this guys cancer or was he always cancern prone? We will never know and we probably can't ever know not in his lifetime.
All the information seems to suggest that round up is cancer causing in the way just about everything that isn't water is carcinogenic, maybe even water, if you spend every day of your life slathering your self in some chemical sure it probably increases your cancer risk.
Notes was never the best solution for E-mail but it absolutely was genius at everything else it did; but like any powerful tool you did need to learn how to use it. Oh it was also secure too. Beyond that offline replication meant you actually could do meaningful work on your portable while traveling. To this day I can't do as much with my laptop on plane for example because without VPN access so I can hit swarepoint - I have no current information, have to make manual list of the all the documents I have updated and need to push, etc.
People who dump on Notes fall into two main categories. 1) People who only ever used it for E-mail and 2) People who never took the time to understand it.
But Notes was/is actually secure. Some guy with kali VM isn't going to be just accessing everyone's mailbox in 10min like up until very recently was the situation on most AD/Echange/Outlook environments.
But hey who care right. Having the entire company bent over because someone clicked a phish mail was totally worth it so you could avoid 30min waiting for helpdesk to get you a new id file or and because you are to dumb to remember your password.
Or if you are cynical it suggests Apple wants to have it both ways. They want to show the public they are not kowtowing to anyone and offering consumers good privacy protection. At the same time they don't want to make the devices so secure LEOs can't get into them when the crimes get serious enough to justify paying some security "researchers" a few hundred thousand dollars. I for one think Tim Cook is not dumb.
I suspect he was pretty confident for example that the FBI was going be able to get into the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone without Apple's help. I suspect strongly Apple would have cooperated and assisted in unlocking the phone if they had believed that was the only way the FBI was going to get access in a timely fashion. If the FBI had not got access to that phone what do think the mainline political conversation pushed by the news outlets and repeated congressional caucus talking points would have been? Face facts they public values privacy but they are more scared of 'teh terrorists..' had the situation come to a head and the conversation about the iPhone angle moved out the technical press and into the main headlines the outcome would have been different. The regulators would have had their excuse...
Yes there is a problem with this model though. Eventually HQ moves somewhere else. Ask the folks in Wilkesboro about the impact of Lowe's moving to Moresville for example.
When you have one player representing to big a slice of your towns economy you have a recipe for implosion. Property values spike and existing owners make out until said corp leaves. Than you have a lot of people left holding property they can't sell. Nobody will buy a home in a place they can't get a job. In the mean time the town is left with large areas they need to keep under fireprotection, lots of roads, out sized school buildings etc; that they no longer have the tax base to support. So tax rates stay high putting even more downward pressure on the property values.
Okay but the original statement was its a GOP problem. Clearly its not - the facts don't fit. Reid a democrat has done more than anyone to stop it.
Sure nobody their wants it. Hence I offered the possibility that maybe it was a strait up NIMBY problem that was not tied to party politics.
I am not so sure. There are lots of problems with moving military applications to the cloud. I don't think those can be understated. However one of the biggest problems our government has today is there are to many players in literally every activity it performs. Two men can keep a secret when one of them is dead! Not having this go to all one vendor means multiple parties will have access to the hardware that has tokens and authentication information. Multiple parties will be in a position to observe and gather sigint etc. Frankly Every single one of those parties is already to big and to international IMHO to be able to partner with the DOD in something like this! That said I am with the DOD on this one multiple party would be worse in terms of being able to monitor and control data.
Exactly wth is wrong with the current absentee ballot system?
It destroys the integrity of elections because it makes it super easy for people to fill out a ballot for you. Did granny fill out and mail that ballot or did her home health aide? How can we ever know?
It leaves the door open for vote swapping because although it generally illegal to photo or show your ballot to other etc - people can still do it which allows for swaps, sales, and trades.
I think absentee ballots are needed but we should do a few things - require it be post marked the DAY of the election! Not before and not after. Require it be post marked from a location not less than 20 miles from your otherwise assigned polling place or accompanied by a written statement on pain of purgery that you were physically unable to travel to the polling place (hospitalized, deployed as a member of the armed forces etc).
some communities are centered around the religion and really put the pressure to vote for the guy without actually saying so.
Which is why we have a secret ballot. You still vote your conscience and tell your friends and family you voted for whoever meets with their approval.
I think a better question is how in the world can you expect to belong to faith group and NOT be pressured to vote a certain way. Lets face it while no candidate in any given election might happen to be a model member of your group; its pretty unusual that one party platform or the other won't substantively better align or that one candidate wont come down on one side of an issue or other that is of greater import as far as your faith is concerned.
Frankly if you are not prepared to even vote your faith - you don't have any! Why are even bothering going to that Church or religious group? What place do you have in that community? Perhaps you should just move on!
There are two sides to that coin. How do you move a mountain? Answer one shovel full at a time.
Those things COULD be starts but they can never be more than that. It should be obvious to any thinking person that a whole lot of things have to happen after that to achieve the stated desired ends. The problem of course is there isn't (Thank God for that) the political will to take the next steps. Most of the left won't even talk about the next steps because they know how unpalatable they really are. They hope to turn the heat up slow so us frogs wont realize they are boiling us.
In the mean time they hope they can get a lot of useful idiots on board by letting them feel like they are doing something. Never mind these half measures might be more harmful than doing nothing.
Right - that explains them sending Harry Reid to the Senate over and over and over again; despite his caucusing with the Democrats; and despite being one of the biggest obstacles to Yucca development over his entire career.
Either its Democrat problem -OR- maybe its a strait up NIMBY problem that has little to do with party. Its most certainly NOT a GOP problem though. Unless you cool-aide guzzling lefty-looney voter. The facts just don't fit your claim. Try again.
Black hats would find them when scanning the code
unless we are talking about open source that someone might feed to an static analysis tool that is pretty unlikely.
Blackhats don't "scan" binaries they fuzz them - in other words they feed data to "ui level" inputs and than watch where those patterns land in memory. If you are talking about buffer over flow type bug where they can run software locally.
Logic bugs probably much more common today that over flows given the languages being used and the fact that everything is on the web again get exercised by things like crawlers and maybe directly parameter tampering. They key here again is the process STARTS by identifing inputs the application takes.
So if you stuff a bunch of unreachable code in the application odds are the blackhats won't ever see it and won't therefore spend any time on it. If someone does scan a binary tools like IDA are pretty good at identifying unreachable code too so its unlikely to be anything but a short lived arms race.
Now if you put 'fake bugs' like say change all the strncpy calls back to old strcpy calls and than somehow move the bounds check to some far away part of the program while you write into a buffer inside an larger data structure you don't than use for anything you 1) risk screwing it up and creating an bug that is still exploitable 2) leave a useful gadget (code someone who has exploited an actual bug can now lever to help them gain even more control of execution 3) leave a nice hunk of process that can safely be replaced with larger shell codes 4) fail to fool anyone because you are dealing with people who will be able to spot the tells and won't be taken in.
That's only if it works and it probably doesn't. It takes a lot more than just VPN to provide any reasonable level of privacy or defense against ad tracking these days.
So basically its sounds like a way for VZ to charge you an extra $4/mo to do something that costs them darn near nothing but provides users with a false sense of security. I'd not be surprised if in a week or two we will learn they used a null cipher for 'performance' as well .
The banks make money on every transaction - well if they are also the card issuers anyway - they usually are. Why do think the industry is always talking about a cashless society. Retailers lover it. Take a way the pain people feel counting out cash which they can intrinsically see dwindle in quantity and replace it with waiving this unchanging plastic card around. Card issuers love it - less cash more transactions; so they can now profit even on those little $2 purchases. Sure %2 of $2 isnt much but multiple that by every candy bar and soda sold across the nation and its a pretty chunk of change.
The next step in the game of ensuring consumers are separated from every last cent they earn is to take over thinking for then, You already see money and budget management web sites and services that aggregate all your accounts. Personally for security and privacy reasons I would anyone who chooses to use one of these things really should be classified as a danger to themselves and others and committed but its happening anyway. One of the features of these sites is they basically give people a "traffic signal" view of the monthly finances. Are they on budge? Green, nearing budget Yellow, over budget red etc.
What FB wants to do here is move that kind of site of opt-in to opt-out so they will sweep up a lot of uses who were not interested or even actively objected to but did not read all the way to the last page of the most recent privacy mailing their bank sent. So they will get a lot people. The next they will do is they will put that green traffic light image right next to the "sponsored content" basically they will run the ads right a long side a statement of "see you can afford to indulge in this this month!"
See they want to destroy the last vestiges of the physiology of saving. Today if you or I have a good month, we spend less on auto maintenance than anticipated, maybe the weather is nice and our energy costs or much lower than usual etc, we do crazy things like make an extra retirement savings contribution or just set it aside in our general rainy day funds. The retailers of the world, facebook, and even your bank don't want you doing that though - they'd rather convince you that you should buy some more Chinese plastic BS and have another $10 cup of coffee because a little circle is green...
Yes - that's called being a sovereign nation.