The US has no leverage in the deal anymore, Iran gets the European sanctions removed that actually hurt their economy and the US no longer has an leverage over the deal or enforcement of it's conditions.
Iran wins, USA loses.
The US had no leverage the moment the ink was dry. Trump is absolutely correct the Iran deal was TERRIBLE diplomacy on the part of Obama, Kerry, and Powers. They let the horse out of the barn. What is not at all clear is what value there is in Trump slamming the door shut now.
The Obama admin made a colossal blunder with this deal. Pulling out though does not appear to me to provide any kind of fix. It does not even help us save face, and might very well complicate trade relations with the EU. I don't blame Trump for this situation at all but I also question his judgement here.
Its not that simple. The Iran deal might have been a good arrangement looking at it thru a strictly anti-proliferation lens.
The problem is we have broader concerns in the region than that. Iran is a big factor in why the Syria and Yemen situations can't get resolved. They do continue to fund groups that threaten our actual allies like Israel as opposed to our nominal ones like Turkey, and Egypt. Lifting the sanctions made it easier for Iran to cause more grief in trouble.
Honestly that is probably worse than them having Nukes that 1) they are not likely to use because the world wont tolerate the use of nukes. 2) they can't deliver to us.
First words out of your mouth when talking to law enforcement are as follows, "I want my lawyer."
Then you shut the fuck up till he gets there.
There is ONE exception; if you have just killed someone than its "I was afraid for my life" which keep repeating as if you have no understanding of what is going for 20min or so than switch to "I want my lawyer" and promptly shut up.
As the summary points out very little is done in fixed with fonts anymore. The difference between double spacing and single spacing is visually imperceptible in variable with fonts for a lot of cases. It suspect that it has little impact if any on reading as a result. Its also true that documents are going to continue to exist doing it both ways for a long time even if everyone did come to some kind of agreement. I think we should all just do whatever the heck we like.
Sadly I agree with you I don't see a 'return' to personal computing. I don't edge computing to be much more than hype and buzz either frankly. If anything its going to be edge data-acquisition and ship it back to the cloud. We are mostly already there.
There is to much advantage in 'the network' for Joe Average. Sure you and I can setup DNS and firewall rules and maybe a reverse proxy / dmz, setting up the certificate authorization etc so we can unlock the doors to our smart home or change the hvac settings when we decide to start headed home. Joe Average on the other hand really is better served by that stuff making a few outbound connections back to the cloud and his phone doing the same. All the complexities managed by someone else.
As far as local search and stuff again in some situations like hiking thru the back country where GPS get blocked by mountains, and there is no cellular service etc, its hand to have a GPS unit that stores local maps and can track where you are with accelerators and altimeters between GPS reads but few people need that and for those of us that do; the technology already exists.
yea keep telling yourself that story. Lets say you do decided hey I don't have any EU presence, I'll just ignore this issue. Some EU citizen access your site and complains you violated some GDPR provision. Now the EU fines you. You decided to tell them to politely stick their judgement where the sun don't shine.
All is well until you realize your bank does business in the EU and they demand they freeze your accounts etc. No this BS and our government needs to step up to plate and take steps to protect US citizens and US companies from EU bullying. I would suggest enacting harsh trade penalties on EU companies and travel sanctions against EU leadership if they attempt to enforce digital legislation over seas.
I see because only big business should be able to profit from data. Smaller companies would not like to be able to do things too like say store your browsing history on the site to offer you discounts on products you looked at but did not buy etc.
Sorry your rules are crappy barriers to entire and they are THE REASON THE RICH GET RICHER and nobody else gets a break.
by baking lime in a kiln and emits approximately one ton of carbon dioxide for every ton of cement.
If only there was some way which we could head a kiln without hydrocarbon fuel....Oh wait there are lots of ways we could do that...So Its not really cement manufacture that is the problem is it? Sounds more like an problem of how we are choosing to source the energy for it.
No sounds like regulation having unintended consequences. FDA decided to be super conservative about what chemistry you can put on people; to bad that forced the use of stuff that was a great deal more environmentally destructive.
You want a certificate to mean that you are going to end up at the "right" destination.
No this is exactly what they are designed to do. They make sure that if I ask for www.example.com I really get that - not the site at the DNS reply you spoofed, or the server where you redirected my packets too, etc.
Its true TLS/SSL certs can't protect us from voluntarily connected to bad actors but: 1) It is harder to set up a bunch of scam sites when certs cost money. Sure you can buy them with a stolen CC etc but that too is likely to go a long way toward you being caught and shutdown. 2) Domain validated SHOULD NOT BE A THING. Nobody should be selling certs based on so little or at least browser vendors should not be shipping CAs that do in their default trust chain. You should need a real name backed by proper identification to get one. 3) CAs should really refuse to issue certs likely to be used primarily for fraud. I am sorry if you happen to own g00g.le and want to do something legit with it; to bad.
The manufacturer is not forced to grant their request.
Right.... Think for even a second any corporation isn't going to hand over the keys, when mister three letters does not say "Gosh it would be shame if you made me go get a warrant; we'd have to look at obstruction charges etc..." Apple only kind of did it because they did not themselves have some magic unlock key - the technical information and know how to build it perhaps but no ready working exploit code if you will.
The device first has to come in the possession of the government in the first place, with all the 4th Amendment protections we already have in the law.
Again keep telling yourself that buddy, just do yourself a favor don't go near any airports, boarders, public buildings etc, while failing to smile properly.
Nope real encryption is about the only thing that protects the 4th Amendment rights we have today, the courts won't do it; the integrity of our LEOs does not do it, public opinion won't do it; only math is still willing to step up to the plate.
Looser pays as blanket rule places to much risk on "little people" being able to sue the well to do.
Joe SixPack highers a perfectly competent but not rock star attorney who charges reasonable rates. Wants to sue oh lets say for fun Donald John Trump Development Corporation. Lets also suppose its a legitimate not so clear cut legal question or contract dispute. DJTDC has a fixed legal staff with time on their hands and every incentive to make the case take as long as possible and explore ever legal avenue and option no matter how absurd; you think its fair to stick Joe with ALL of those costs no matter what unless he wins?
Sure frivolous suits are frivolous, which is why you can counter sue for Barratry and recover your costs and in some localities a judge may simple rule the loser should pay court costs if he/she feels the case was without merit. The system as fair as far as civil suits go. There are problems with patent law for sure but don't assume the rest of the legal system is as broken or a lot of really smart people have not already considered the options, and set things up the way they did for solid reasons.
Exactly the 'RL' stands for resource locator almost by definition it should not obscure where something is going or where it will come from.
I know there are some legitimate uses for shorteners; when you need to stuff an URL into a QR code or a SMS message etc. The reality is though its avenue for abuse is greater than its avenue for use.
We tell users think / look before you click and than give them URLs that are opaque. Not good...
Thanks to living in a world where LetsDecrypt has basically destroyed any notion of responsible behavior by certificate issuers these shorteners are even more dangerous. You might have noticed that '0' isn't a capital O or that turkish 'i' in a link you hovered over in my phish mail and you never would have typed it without realizing; but there is virtually no chance you'll catch it in the URL bar (which chrome/FF probably won't even show you!) after you have clicked https://goo.gl/asdf43tjix
#DeleteFacebook is pretty big problem for them actually. Us relics from the late 70s and early 80s probably are not going anywhere but the younger folks just might if enough of the chums also use something else like Signal or whatever.
Its also true that if FB is perceived negatively new people won't sign up when they reach teen/young adulthood. And FB absolutely has to show growth in the teen/ya market place otherwise the advertisers will leave and the investors will follow.
#deletefacebook might not cost them many current users but if it slows key demographic growth that is every bit as bad for them
First off India is actually by most measures modernizing more rapidly than China and growing a pace economically speaking. Second put on your thinking cap here. One child is below the replacement rate.
So it was never really one child it was one child unless you were part of the elite ruling class, in which case it was many children. So the policy was always about using human beings as automatons, you and your family don't matter you exist to serve the sate nothing more. It was not about "we will drown" it was about enriching some at the direct expense of others.
Second poverty not affluence is responsible for most environmental destruction. Affluent people made decisions like "I will pay a higher cost to keep the place around me nice" "I'll invest in more efficient energy sources so I don't deforest the landscape for cooking and heating fuel while dirtying the air". "I'll use birth control because two kids is enough with modern medicine to carry on our family, machines can replace the labor and we can all enjoy a better life style". Those are choices affluent people make, because they have choices. Look at the stats - if certain political forces were not hell bent on letting anyone from anywhere (usually very poor places) immigrate here the US population would be stable today and that is without totalitarian control!
You have to become affluent in the first place though, and Chinese policy was not about lifting all ships, it was about lifting few and still is, the fact that they have allowed a little wealth to trickle down finally is ONLY because they think that will enable the rules to become even more wealthy and even more powerful.
19th and 20th Century American Capitalism is better for people, the planet, and promises a brighter future than any other system ever has been or is ever likely to be. Exponential growth in population isn't possible (but nobody really intended that forever) but exponential growth in wealth probably is possible because with enough cheap energy most things are possible. Don't forget there is giant ball fusion dumping terrawatts on us every day. There is fission we can harness now, probably fusion directly sometime in the next generation or two.
Literally most of societal problems today are the direct impact of 20th century socialist ideas that were allowed to take root here and leftist idiots continue to cling to despite the horror and damage they cause. The Great Society is not the solution to poverty and the wealth gap in America today its the ROOT CAUSE.
Don't be stupid - ALL of that technology is being used to invade your privacy. I never claimed ALL of that technology was ONLY being used to invade your privacy. Yes I do pen testing that is why I understand things like side channels and unintended information disclosures etc. Clearly you don't
if only we could find a way to ensure it was deployed by trustworthy people with adequate safeguards against misuse
Said of every privacy invasive technology ever invented. It has not happened yet. I don't see any evidence whatsoever from any time in history that something privacy invasive has not employed in an abusive fashion at relatively high frequency. I have not even see much evidence to suggest measures to address the abuse after the fact really put an end to it; except in very small examples either geographically or in narrowness of rule. Take HIPPA for example. I do pen-testing - medical industry pretty often - I get PII Medical data almost all the time. Its not safe - even if they follow the rules because the rules are so watered down and their is little real accountability; no matter what the law supposedly is.
I hate to play the role of the Luddite but all the evidence is people just can't be trusted with things like this.
Probably because the biggest Chinese corporations are in fact state run...
What I don't understand is why idiots seem to forget that China is still a totalitarian regime with no real concept of human rights. Slather as much lipstick on that pig as you like, its still a place where if you don't show proper deference to the ruling party you can end up in prison or worse. Heck the forced abortions only stopped in 2k13 and we kinda take their word for it they really have stopped.
Look there is one reason and one reason alone that housing there can sustain million dollar prices, its because people are subsidizing the servant class.
Think about this would anyone of these talent people, who can get jobs elsewhere choose the valley if they could not get their cup of coffee made for them, their lawns mowed, the bagels sliced and smeared? Where there were few restaurants and limited shopping? Answer No! Nobody would want to live in a city with no basic commercial services.
Of course nobody who performs those services can pay the rent on a property will million dollar land values for.1 acre either... So we give them subsidized housing, transportation, and food stamps... Which have to be paid for with insanely high taxes on ever higher professional salaries. Meanwhile the poorer worker never amasses actual capital to buy a home or personal transportation etc. They are tightly controlled as to where they can live (in the housing project) and what they can buy with an increasing proportion of their spending (SNAP etc)..
These things are given to them because it keeps them in the city to serve the wealthy professional class. Which they all vote for because it props up the real-estate assets they hold. If we did not do the welfare madness one of two things would happen. The servant class would be forced to flea the city for green pastures, property values would collapse because obtaining a cup of coffee or getting your lawn mowed; the property otherwise maintained, you kids tutored would be impossible; or wages would rise, until those workers could afford to live. The "Great Society" is the cause of not the solution to the growing wealth gap; Silly Valley is the future of this entire nation if these policies are continued, its a perfect example of how to establish a permeate under class and destroy the American Dream forever.
What is a amazing is its held up instead as the exemplar of entrepreneurial capitalism; there are plenty of useful idiots supporting all this nonsense who have bought the lie; the reality is however its a minority of already highly successful people and their offspring protecting their position of privilege. Establishing a new 21st Century American Nobility.
1) What about the effect it has on productive people. I can tell you I would be MORE interested in working harder if not for graduated tax brackets and taxes in general. I am not against giving to charity; I bet I give a lot more than most too) etc but I absolutely RESENT having things taken from me. To the point where I really don't care to earn more because even though I would get to keep more; I see it at least partly as enabling the thieves.
2) By creating a system that does not have to provide jobs to less 'able' folks its a safe bet it probably won't do so. Solving technical problems are usually easier than solving people problems. How build a robot + AI to do X where X is complex enough that at least a portion of the population would struggle with it is in an increasing number of cases easier and cheaper than solving the problem of identifying the people who are capable motivated and dependable to do it. If you remove the incentive, of not having starving people clogging the streets to keep the less productive employed at something society won't do it. - However human nature is what it is.
If Bob can't get a job, because there is nothing useful for him to do but Ted has a job and the fancier car, bigger house, more meals out etc that come with it Bob will be jealous! Bob will either demand productive people like Ted provide him these things as well leading to an inflationary cycle where UBI must be forever increased -or- Bob will bite the hand the feeds and take all the Teds down with him thru crime and vandalism.
Its really better for all of us if we occupy Bob doing something....
You certainly correct about (1). I am not so sure about (2). The plan is not sink the ship. If it were the board would not bother hiring a new CEO at all they'd do the sensible thing and hire a law firm to sell off the assets and cash out. Probably would not cost them a whole lot more than a couple years CEO salary to do.
The plan when you hire a CEO is obviously to turn the company around and make it profitable. The assumption is a number of presumable smart people think that is possible or they would not be hiring you and the investors would be demanding a liquidation. So if you take on a "sinking ship" you get the opportunity to look like a hero if you fix it. You are still a looser if you fail - Marissa is a bad CEO; that is fact. Yahoo for all its assets and position could have been fixed! She just did not have the vision.
"its GLOBAL" oh that tired old bit. No its not global, YOU are still local the server is still local to some place if there are multiple servers the corporate HQ is still local to some place.
We certainly CAN legislate the Internet. We certainly can and SHOULD block networks that don't comply with our rules. As an example if anyone sincerely believes Russia illegally meddling in political campaigns or DRPK is hacking US corporation the sanction on them should be NULL routing - and anyone forwarding traffic to or for American sites to a sanctioned network should also get NULL routed.
The Internet would be a much better much safer place inside a few weeks; national boarders (a fireWALL if you will) are very much needed.
Amazon - There are still local shops and individual web stores a like. There are even other major everything store - AliExpress for one (dubious as that might be). Don't like AWS Microsoft and a whole tone of other guys like Rackspace offer compute and storage.
facebook - Many tentacles sure but few 'essential services' You can still login pretty much everywhere without a facebook account, you communicate without facebook using e-mail, WWW forums, and for you nerds IRC and news.
On the other hand just try and do anything on the net without Google something or other. If nothing else half the pages you visit probably use googleapis. You have essentially one other smart phone vendor to choose from if you don't want a Google account. Even if you do use another e-mail provider, chances are good your recipient is on GMAIL or Google for Domains. Search is there any serious competition that isn't re-branding Google? Bing? sort of if you don't care about getting terrible results comparatively.
Of the big three Google is nearly impossible to avoid, Amazon and facebook can be avoided with some effort if you desire to do so.
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The US has no leverage in the deal anymore, Iran gets the European sanctions removed that actually hurt their economy and the US no longer has an leverage over the deal or enforcement of it's conditions.
Iran wins, USA loses.
The US had no leverage the moment the ink was dry. Trump is absolutely correct the Iran deal was TERRIBLE diplomacy on the part of Obama, Kerry, and Powers. They let the horse out of the barn. What is not at all clear is what value there is in Trump slamming the door shut now.
The Obama admin made a colossal blunder with this deal. Pulling out though does not appear to me to provide any kind of fix. It does not even help us save face, and might very well complicate trade relations with the EU. I don't blame Trump for this situation at all but I also question his judgement here.
Its not that simple. The Iran deal might have been a good arrangement looking at it thru a strictly anti-proliferation lens.
The problem is we have broader concerns in the region than that. Iran is a big factor in why the Syria and Yemen situations can't get resolved. They do continue to fund groups that threaten our actual allies like Israel as opposed to our nominal ones like Turkey, and Egypt. Lifting the sanctions made it easier for Iran to cause more grief in trouble.
Honestly that is probably worse than them having Nukes that 1) they are not likely to use because the world wont tolerate the use of nukes. 2) they can't deliver to us.
First words out of your mouth when talking to law enforcement are as follows, "I want my lawyer."
Then you shut the fuck up till he gets there.
There is ONE exception; if you have just killed someone than its "I was afraid for my life" which keep repeating as if you have no understanding of what is going for 20min or so than switch to "I want my lawyer" and promptly shut up.
As the summary points out very little is done in fixed with fonts anymore. The difference between double spacing and single spacing is visually imperceptible in variable with fonts for a lot of cases. It suspect that it has little impact if any on reading as a result. Its also true that documents are going to continue to exist doing it both ways for a long time even if everyone did come to some kind of agreement. I think we should all just do whatever the heck we like.
Sadly I agree with you I don't see a 'return' to personal computing. I don't edge computing to be much more than hype and buzz either frankly. If anything its going to be edge data-acquisition and ship it back to the cloud. We are mostly already there.
There is to much advantage in 'the network' for Joe Average. Sure you and I can setup DNS and firewall rules and maybe a reverse proxy / dmz, setting up the certificate authorization etc so we can unlock the doors to our smart home or change the hvac settings when we decide to start headed home. Joe Average on the other hand really is better served by that stuff making a few outbound connections back to the cloud and his phone doing the same. All the complexities managed by someone else.
As far as local search and stuff again in some situations like hiking thru the back country where GPS get blocked by mountains, and there is no cellular service etc, its hand to have a GPS unit that stores local maps and can track where you are with accelerators and altimeters between GPS reads but few people need that and for those of us that do; the technology already exists.
yea keep telling yourself that story. Lets say you do decided hey I don't have any EU presence, I'll just ignore this issue. Some EU citizen access your site and complains you violated some GDPR provision. Now the EU fines you. You decided to tell them to politely stick their judgement where the sun don't shine.
All is well until you realize your bank does business in the EU and they demand they freeze your accounts etc. No this BS and our government needs to step up to plate and take steps to protect US citizens and US companies from EU bullying. I would suggest enacting harsh trade penalties on EU companies and travel sanctions against EU leadership if they attempt to enforce digital legislation over seas.
I see because only big business should be able to profit from data. Smaller companies would not like to be able to do things too like say store your browsing history on the site to offer you discounts on products you looked at but did not buy etc.
Sorry your rules are crappy barriers to entire and they are THE REASON THE RICH GET RICHER and nobody else gets a break.
by baking lime in a kiln and emits approximately one ton of carbon dioxide for every ton of cement.
If only there was some way which we could head a kiln without hydrocarbon fuel....Oh wait there are lots of ways we could do that...So Its not really cement manufacture that is the problem is it? Sounds more like an problem of how we are choosing to source the energy for it.
No sounds like regulation having unintended consequences. FDA decided to be super conservative about what chemistry you can put on people; to bad that forced the use of stuff that was a great deal more environmentally destructive.
You want a certificate to mean that you are going to end up at the "right" destination.
No this is exactly what they are designed to do. They make sure that if I ask for www.example.com I really get that - not the site at the DNS reply you spoofed, or the server where you redirected my packets too, etc.
Its true TLS/SSL certs can't protect us from voluntarily connected to bad actors but:
1) It is harder to set up a bunch of scam sites when certs cost money. Sure you can buy them with a stolen CC etc but that too is likely to go a long way toward you being caught and shutdown.
2) Domain validated SHOULD NOT BE A THING. Nobody should be selling certs based on so little or at least browser vendors should not be shipping CAs that do in their default trust chain. You should need a real name backed by proper identification to get one.
3) CAs should really refuse to issue certs likely to be used primarily for fraud. I am sorry if you happen to own g00g.le and want to do something legit with it; to bad.
The manufacturer is not forced to grant their request.
Right.... Think for even a second any corporation isn't going to hand over the keys, when mister three letters does not say "Gosh it would be shame if you made me go get a warrant; we'd have to look at obstruction charges etc..." Apple only kind of did it because they did not themselves have some magic unlock key - the technical information and know how to build it perhaps but no ready working exploit code if you will.
The device first has to come in the possession of the government in the first place, with all the 4th Amendment protections we already have in the law.
Again keep telling yourself that buddy, just do yourself a favor don't go near any airports, boarders, public buildings etc, while failing to smile properly.
Nope real encryption is about the only thing that protects the 4th Amendment rights we have today, the courts won't do it; the integrity of our LEOs does not do it, public opinion won't do it; only math is still willing to step up to the plate.
Looser pays as blanket rule places to much risk on "little people" being able to sue the well to do.
Joe SixPack highers a perfectly competent but not rock star attorney who charges reasonable rates. Wants to sue oh lets say for fun Donald John Trump Development Corporation. Lets also suppose its a legitimate not so clear cut legal question or contract dispute. DJTDC has a fixed legal staff with time on their hands and every incentive to make the case take as long as possible and explore ever legal avenue and option no matter how absurd; you think its fair to stick Joe with ALL of those costs no matter what unless he wins?
Sure frivolous suits are frivolous, which is why you can counter sue for Barratry and recover your costs and in some localities a judge may simple rule the loser should pay court costs if he/she feels the case was without merit. The system as fair as far as civil suits go. There are problems with patent law for sure but don't assume the rest of the legal system is as broken or a lot of really smart people have not already considered the options, and set things up the way they did for solid reasons.
Exactly the 'RL' stands for resource locator almost by definition it should not obscure where something is going or where it will come from.
I know there are some legitimate uses for shorteners; when you need to stuff an URL into a QR code or a SMS message etc. The reality is though its avenue for abuse is greater than its avenue for use.
We tell users think / look before you click and than give them URLs that are opaque. Not good...
Thanks to living in a world where LetsDecrypt has basically destroyed any notion of responsible behavior by certificate issuers these shorteners are even more dangerous. You might have noticed that '0' isn't a capital O or that turkish 'i' in a link you hovered over in my phish mail and you never would have typed it without realizing; but there is virtually no chance you'll catch it in the URL bar (which chrome/FF probably won't even show you!) after you have clicked https://goo.gl/asdf43tjix
#DeleteFacebook is pretty big problem for them actually. Us relics from the late 70s and early 80s probably are not going anywhere but the younger folks just might if enough of the chums also use something else like Signal or whatever.
Its also true that if FB is perceived negatively new people won't sign up when they reach teen/young adulthood. And FB absolutely has to show growth in the teen/ya market place otherwise the advertisers will leave and the investors will follow.
#deletefacebook might not cost them many current users but if it slows key demographic growth that is every bit as bad for them
If you already know someone and you have romantic feelings toward them maybe you could not be such soyboy and um say something?
Seriously you want "poke" someone on facebook because you are to afraid to speak to them?
This ^^^ so much this!
LetsEncrypt is literally the worst thing to happen to Security on the internet. Its theater and its dangerous.
First off India is actually by most measures modernizing more rapidly than China and growing a pace economically speaking. Second put on your thinking cap here. One child is below the replacement rate.
So it was never really one child it was one child unless you were part of the elite ruling class, in which case it was many children. So the policy was always about using human beings as automatons, you and your family don't matter you exist to serve the sate nothing more. It was not about "we will drown" it was about enriching some at the direct expense of others.
Second poverty not affluence is responsible for most environmental destruction. Affluent people made decisions like "I will pay a higher cost to keep the place around me nice" "I'll invest in more efficient energy sources so I don't deforest the landscape for cooking and heating fuel while dirtying the air". "I'll use birth control because two kids is enough with modern medicine to carry on our family, machines can replace the labor and we can all enjoy a better life style". Those are choices affluent people make, because they have choices. Look at the stats - if certain political forces were not hell bent on letting anyone from anywhere (usually very poor places) immigrate here the US population would be stable today and that is without totalitarian control!
You have to become affluent in the first place though, and Chinese policy was not about lifting all ships, it was about lifting few and still is, the fact that they have allowed a little wealth to trickle down finally is ONLY because they think that will enable the rules to become even more wealthy and even more powerful.
19th and 20th Century American Capitalism is better for people, the planet, and promises a brighter future than any other system ever has been or is ever likely to be. Exponential growth in population isn't possible (but nobody really intended that forever) but exponential growth in wealth probably is possible because with enough cheap energy most things are possible. Don't forget there is giant ball fusion dumping terrawatts on us every day. There is fission we can harness now, probably fusion directly sometime in the next generation or two.
Literally most of societal problems today are the direct impact of 20th century socialist ideas that were allowed to take root here and leftist idiots continue to cling to despite the horror and damage they cause. The Great Society is not the solution to poverty and the wealth gap in America today its the ROOT CAUSE.
Don't be stupid - ALL of that technology is being used to invade your privacy. I never claimed ALL of that technology was ONLY being used to invade your privacy. Yes I do pen testing that is why I understand things like side channels and unintended information disclosures etc. Clearly you don't
if only we could find a way to ensure it was deployed by trustworthy people with adequate safeguards against misuse
Said of every privacy invasive technology ever invented. It has not happened yet. I don't see any evidence whatsoever from any time in history that something privacy invasive has not employed in an abusive fashion at relatively high frequency. I have not even see much evidence to suggest measures to address the abuse after the fact really put an end to it; except in very small examples either geographically or in narrowness of rule. Take HIPPA for example. I do pen-testing - medical industry pretty often - I get PII Medical data almost all the time. Its not safe - even if they follow the rules because the rules are so watered down and their is little real accountability; no matter what the law supposedly is.
I hate to play the role of the Luddite but all the evidence is people just can't be trusted with things like this.
Probably because the biggest Chinese corporations are in fact state run...
What I don't understand is why idiots seem to forget that China is still a totalitarian regime with no real concept of human rights. Slather as much lipstick on that pig as you like, its still a place where if you don't show proper deference to the ruling party you can end up in prison or worse. Heck the forced abortions only stopped in 2k13 and we kinda take their word for it they really have stopped.
Look there is one reason and one reason alone that housing there can sustain million dollar prices, its because people are subsidizing the servant class.
Think about this would anyone of these talent people, who can get jobs elsewhere choose the valley if they could not get their cup of coffee made for them, their lawns mowed, the bagels sliced and smeared? Where there were few restaurants and limited shopping? Answer No! Nobody would want to live in a city with no basic commercial services.
Of course nobody who performs those services can pay the rent on a property will million dollar land values for .1 acre either... So we give them subsidized housing, transportation, and food stamps... Which have to be paid for with insanely high taxes on ever higher professional salaries. Meanwhile the poorer worker never amasses actual capital to buy a home or personal transportation etc. They are tightly controlled as to where they can live (in the housing project) and what they can buy with an increasing proportion of their spending (SNAP etc)..
These things are given to them because it keeps them in the city to serve the wealthy professional class. Which they all vote for because it props up the real-estate assets they hold. If we did not do the welfare madness one of two things would happen. The servant class would be forced to flea the city for green pastures, property values would collapse because obtaining a cup of coffee or getting your lawn mowed; the property otherwise maintained, you kids tutored would be impossible; or wages would rise, until those workers could afford to live. The "Great Society" is the cause of not the solution to the growing wealth gap; Silly Valley is the future of this entire nation if these policies are continued, its a perfect example of how to establish a permeate under class and destroy the American Dream forever.
What is a amazing is its held up instead as the exemplar of entrepreneurial capitalism; there are plenty of useful idiots supporting all this nonsense who have bought the lie; the reality is however its a minority of already highly successful people and their offspring protecting their position of privilege. Establishing a new 21st Century American Nobility.
The concerns are really
1) What about the effect it has on productive people. I can tell you I would be MORE interested in working harder if not for graduated tax brackets and taxes in general. I am not against giving to charity; I bet I give a lot more than most too) etc but I absolutely RESENT having things taken from me. To the point where I really don't care to earn more because even though I would get to keep more; I see it at least partly as enabling the thieves.
2) By creating a system that does not have to provide jobs to less 'able' folks its a safe bet it probably won't do so. Solving technical problems are usually easier than solving people problems. How build a robot + AI to do X where X is complex enough that at least a portion of the population would struggle with it is in an increasing number of cases easier and cheaper than solving the problem of identifying the people who are capable motivated and dependable to do it. If you remove the incentive, of not having starving people clogging the streets to keep the less productive employed at something society won't do it. - However human nature is what it is.
If Bob can't get a job, because there is nothing useful for him to do but Ted has a job and the fancier car, bigger house, more meals out etc that come with it Bob will be jealous! Bob will either demand productive people like Ted provide him these things as well leading to an inflationary cycle where UBI must be forever increased -or- Bob will bite the hand the feeds and take all the Teds down with him thru crime and vandalism.
Its really better for all of us if we occupy Bob doing something....
You certainly correct about (1). I am not so sure about (2). The plan is not sink the ship. If it were the board would not bother hiring a new CEO at all they'd do the sensible thing and hire a law firm to sell off the assets and cash out. Probably would not cost them a whole lot more than a couple years CEO salary to do.
The plan when you hire a CEO is obviously to turn the company around and make it profitable. The assumption is a number of presumable smart people think that is possible or they would not be hiring you and the investors would be demanding a liquidation. So if you take on a "sinking ship" you get the opportunity to look like a hero if you fix it. You are still a looser if you fail - Marissa is a bad CEO; that is fact. Yahoo for all its assets and position could have been fixed! She just did not have the vision.
"its GLOBAL" oh that tired old bit. No its not global, YOU are still local the server is still local to some place if there are multiple servers the corporate HQ is still local to some place.
We certainly CAN legislate the Internet. We certainly can and SHOULD block networks that don't comply with our rules. As an example if anyone sincerely believes Russia illegally meddling in political campaigns or DRPK is hacking US corporation the sanction on them should be NULL routing - and anyone forwarding traffic to or for American sites to a sanctioned network should also get NULL routed.
The Internet would be a much better much safer place inside a few weeks; national boarders (a fireWALL if you will) are very much needed.
Amazon - There are still local shops and individual web stores a like. There are even other major everything store - AliExpress for one (dubious as that might be). Don't like AWS Microsoft and a whole tone of other guys like Rackspace offer compute and storage.
facebook - Many tentacles sure but few 'essential services' You can still login pretty much everywhere without a facebook account, you communicate without facebook using e-mail, WWW forums, and for you nerds IRC and news.
On the other hand just try and do anything on the net without Google something or other. If nothing else half the pages you visit probably use googleapis. You have essentially one other smart phone vendor to choose from if you don't want a Google account. Even if you do use another e-mail provider, chances are good your recipient is on GMAIL or Google for Domains. Search is there any serious competition that isn't re-branding Google? Bing? sort of if you don't care about getting terrible results comparatively.
Of the big three Google is nearly impossible to avoid, Amazon and facebook can be avoided with some effort if you desire to do so.