"All lives matter" was is a rebuttal, saying that there is no particularly bad problem with black people being treated differently, and that the cops who kill unarmed black people are justified in doing so. To oppose it does not suggest you don't think that all lives matter, or that you are a black supremacist, it just means you understand why people are saying it, i.e. to undermine BLM.
Of course people are saying to undermine BLM because BLM is wrong! All the statistics show cops do not as a rule kill unarmed black people with any greater frequency than they kill any other unarmed group and actually less. BLM was and continues to actively push narratives like 'hands up don't shoot' that don't reflect what actually happened at all. Is your position a group like BLM should be able to 1) make unsubstantiated claims. 2) be excused for resorting to violence when their lies are challenged?
Clear its time for some "Common Sense Smart Phone Control Legislation"
Exsiting prohibitions on texting while driving etc are not enough. There should be background checks. Limitations on high capacity storage, being able to send or consume data at rates higher than 3G should require a federal license!
Why not just back the existing one everyone is familiar with until more pressing issues are settled?
Precisely because everyone is familiar with it. It takes people a long time let go of their value perceptions tied to money. The situation would require a major re-valuing in dollar terms of every day basic items. A sealed bottle of bottled water for instance might be very valuable. Its treated, germ free, etc very valuable if you need an aseptic environment for treating injuries etc. If you demand the $200 that might be worth in that situation people will get angry about being gouged etc. The same people that might recognize the need for it and be willing to trade a several gallons of gas to get it, which would also suddenly be very pricey in dollar terms.
I think attempting to use the existing currency might prove to be more of a threat to order than a useful medium of exchange.
There may not be any backdoor code or exploit. The software sends malware samples home, it tells you that much.
What the NSA created really was malware and the product correctly identified that, and sent the sample.
Now here is where it gets problematic. Any company of any size in Russia has its government minders. They are probably just sharing their data with Russian intelligence, because no doing so means they end up drinking sugar laced with heavy radioactive isotopes in their morning tea.
The only real answer is fully MAC (Mandatory Access Control) model that is very fined grained. The result of that unfortunately is a computer system nobody really wants to use.
The more immediate reality with A/V software is that its probably something that requires the highest level of trust. This is software that literally hooks into the I/O layers on your system and is allowed to bypass essentially every other kind of access control check. At the same time its hard to put a lot of instrumentation around it because so much of what it does isn't thru the usual OS channels. So you can't know if its misbehaving or doing things it ought not to easily. External network hardware should be able to tell you if its phoning home but that might even be complicated. We are talking about software that after all could stash whatever it wants to send some unused place on the disk and wait three weeks until your not at home but connected to the wifi in some airport and phone home at that time.
Frankly after this and a few past issues, I am not sure any third party A/V solution is advisable. In the Windows world Microsoft should probably just stop even allowing third party kernel modules they have not fully audited. Which would basically kill the A/V industry.
The fact is that the more tightly integrated our society become the more brittle it gets. Specialization is more efficient but it also means "no man is an island."
Skipping intermediary exchange mechanisms like cash and doing direct transfers between accounts is faster but it also means you can't conduct exchanges when the machines that handle the accounting are not available. With cash, and even paper checks, you pay me now and I have some reasonable assurance that the money will be available for my use some time in the future.
Here is the thing though. If we have another 3-7 day blackout like the 2003 one, cash and checks will let everyone muddle thru. Where as all electronic payments being the only means would basically cause the economy to grind to a halt. If the mainland US experienced devastation like Puerto Rico just did and it was national not regional. I don't know super volcano, DPRK EMP delivery, some kind of freak mega storm, than nobody smart is going to be interested in cash!
Face it we would NOT come back from those events as a nation. No matter how big government gets there is no way a coordinated response could be manged on that scale, which means people would have to take matters entirely into their own hands. At that point its barter system at best and that is assuming local leadership/law enforcement can keep some kind of order. I actually think there is a possibility that would occur in a lot places. I suspect most sensible folks would realize that our survival is best served by at least regional cooperation. On the other hand I can see things going pretty mad max too.
Yes that is an element that isnt getting enough discussion in all this. How exactly did the attackers make off with quite so much data. We are talking 100TB plus at this point. I mean did they send small amounts of it to 10000000's of bots and than collate from there?
How did they not have any correlation and event monitoring that could not spot a dataflow orders of magnitude larger than anything else that usually happens on their network?
or satellite images, or traditional photos taken by people on the ground, or a panoramic shot taken with a smart phone that someone on the scene is sure to have.
While Occulus like VR *might* be a good way to help someone like a politician appreciate a situation on an emotional level, its unlikely to provide an additional information useful in planning a response.
At this time, it is not even clear whether computing hardware can do it.
Sure it is. We have OCR, computers can read signs. We have face recognition computers recognize patters of object like people, critters and stuff that might obstruct road ways. We already have cars using cameras to detect lane markers, edges of road ways, stop lines etc.
Its all there. Its just a question of putting it together fast enough and reliably enough to feed into the planning algorithms for driving that have mostly already been developed. Can you roll this out tomorrow using today's technology, nope but the precursors really are all here.
But the statement makes little sense on its face. Humans manage to operate cars with an 'acceptable' error rate using essentially the same senses as cameras and radar, eyes and ears.
If we can drive based on those inputs obviously they are sufficient. So its now a question of image processing and logic. Can a computer do those quickly an accurately enough to drive a car today, perhaps not but at some point in the future it must be possible. All the technological precursors are in place, and we have working proof of concept in the form of every meat bag behind the wheel today.
"However, users won't be able to export or save their Buddy List
The point of being able to export or save a list of "screen names" for a service that no longer exists would be what exactly anyway? People who had contacts that were actual AOL users probably have them as e-mail contacts anyway in whatever e-mail app they use.
I mean I guess take a screenshot for posterity, if you feel like waxing nostalgic about all those conversations you had on AIM at some point in the future.
Its not racism. Its simply politics has become a team a team sport. There are plenty of people who are against every position Trump takes simply because he is Trump.
The next problem with much of the issues you cite is Trump and the traditional GOP differ on them. Trump isn't as reckless and stupid as people make him out to be. He should torpedo NAFTA, blow up the Iran "deal" and tariff the crap out China, but those are steps that achieving any positive outcome from require subsequent action by congress to capitalize on. Action he knows he can't probably get.
Heck Trump can't even exercise legal rule making authority congress already has given the POTUS. Some lefty group who had not problem when Obama put in various immigration controls will sue and some lefty judges will find reasons to block actions based on standards and suppositions about the presidents racial prejudices that law in no way specifics.
Essentially there is no respect for the law on either side of the main line DNC/RNC types. Actually in terms of obeying the letter of the law and NOT exceeding authority of the office Trump has a way better record than Obama so far. Consider all the illegal unmaksing of Americans in intelligence gathering the left has no problem with Obama and his admin having done? If Trump or his people did anything remotely like that he'd be denounced as a fascist before the ink on the orders was wet.
So, and I think you fellow slash dotters, have to SERIOUSLY ask yourself this question. Spend some time, don't jump to conclusions and weigh the evidence. Are Trumps opponents largely a group of sore losers who are willing to make cynical claims of racism and bigotry because they know it hurt the president regardless of the truth or are they mostly just stupid?
I think a lot of both:(
As far as going to the moon or not, that's for another post. However the Chinese:( or Elon Musk:) will probably get there first
Hmm lets see, getting small children accustomed to having unwavering attention and a 'presence' that is always willing to immediate drop whatever its doing an react to them....
That is tough order, some of this stuff really kinda does need the cloud to do what it does.
Yes you can do crude natural language parsing on affordable hardware these days but out a lot of storage and a huge database its hard to provide answers to generic questions. Its also hard to keep up with current information.
I agree though there is a lot of 'gratuitously connected stuff' It should not require the cloud to tell my light bulbs to dim 50% or my DVR to record CBS at 6pm for 1 hour.
The thing is many of us that have been around awhile have a good size library. The thing about my library is its mostly about sharing things I especially enjoyed with others. I very rarely plop down in front of any of that stuff on my own. "I have seen it."
The trouble with your model is adding a single new item to your library costs 1/2 the price of month subscription to Netflix assuming you are buying off the used rack! You get what 4 hours of new (to you) content a month for $8? Not the model most of us want to use.
I have not looked into it recently but for loooong time Apple would not allow anything in the app store that rendered web pages with something other than their own APIs.
So you could install another browser but it was essentially just a different UI on IOS-Webkit. Has something changed?
Is Apple going to allow Microsoft to actually release this in the app store, or is this really just and "Edge UI" wrapped around the native web view APIs?
Its called price discrimination. You create tiered offerings because you want to get charge the people the most who are willing to pay the most, while not being forced to turn away still profitable but lower contribution margin business.
If you don't like it the correct way to protest is go down to the 7.99 tier. That is how you tell NetFlix you like the service overall but don't place the same premium on premium service that they do. If enough people do it; the result will be they either raise rates on the bottom tier to hit the revenue goals while making a perhaps slightly cheaper premium tier seem like a better decision at the margin for consumers, or go back to a single class of service.
I am not a parent yet, but my wife and I are currently trying. I totally agree with what you have to say. I was speaking more in the sense of as to if these things should be regulated, or restricted in some way.
I do see technology having a place in helping raise at least very small children. We have done enough baby sitting for friends and family to know for example that Baby monitors are useful! Could you raise a kid without one sure, but being able to put the child down for a nap upstairs while you go on about your activity downstairs where you won't wake them is a good thing.
I can see being able to power on a night light or mobile without mom or day entering the room might be positive thing too. Entering the room your self might be more stimulation than you want to provide when you hope to get the kid to go back to sleep. The question is where is the line of abdication responsibility to technology and using technology to be a better parent? That might not even be the same place in every family.
Just dealing with it at all is becoming a PITA. I installed XP the other day on VM to test something for a client.
Guess what not TLS support OOB. I could not even use IE to go download Firefox/Chrome. As it was a VM it was not much of problem. I just went and grabbed the windows installer from the host machine, put it into a ISO image with mkisofs and than mounted it on the XP vm, than installed..but while not difficult. It was not simple either.
Because adults are presumed to be experienced and rational decision makers. (not always true but a free society sorta requires some degree of this).
If you say "ok google, how long should my penis be" and the response is "according to penisPumpsRUs women prefer a length of 11 inches or more" As an adult you'd question the source, and you'd probably question how reasonable that statement can be based on other experience.
If your 8 year old asks that questions and gets that response...Well the outcome might not be what you'd want as a parent. The fact is we probably don't want a generation of people raised by search results. If the use of television as a baby sitter is any indication parents and teachers will grow complacent and leave kids to be monitored by these devices, and likely won't do much checking up on how those interactions go...
I don't have a policy proposal here, or an opinion about what should or should not be done, but I do understand the concern.
I'll totally support a HIPPA like law that says if you aggregate any PII you have to take appropriate steps and precautions to protect it.
So that in the future Equifax like incidents can be punished. All I am saying is that we don't have that law today. We have a Constitutional protection against post facto law making for good reason. Don't let that get eroded because you're mad at Equifax today. That will make a bad situation worse. Pass a new regulation and hold future persons/corporations to account.
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"All lives matter" was is a rebuttal, saying that there is no particularly bad problem with black people being treated differently, and that the cops who kill unarmed black people are justified in doing so. To oppose it does not suggest you don't think that all lives matter, or that you are a black supremacist, it just means you understand why people are saying it, i.e. to undermine BLM.
Of course people are saying to undermine BLM because BLM is wrong! All the statistics show cops do not as a rule kill unarmed black people with any greater frequency than they kill any other unarmed group and actually less. BLM was and continues to actively push narratives like 'hands up don't shoot' that don't reflect what actually happened at all. Is your position a group like BLM should be able to 1) make unsubstantiated claims. 2) be excused for resorting to violence when their lies are challenged?
Don't forget we'd between make sure laptops and tablets have the same restrictions!
Clear its time for some "Common Sense Smart Phone Control Legislation"
Exsiting prohibitions on texting while driving etc are not enough. There should be background checks. Limitations on high capacity storage, being able to send or consume data at rates higher than 3G should require a federal license!
Why not just back the existing one everyone is familiar with until more pressing issues are settled?
Precisely because everyone is familiar with it. It takes people a long time let go of their value perceptions tied to money. The situation would require a major re-valuing in dollar terms of every day basic items. A sealed bottle of bottled water for instance might be very valuable. Its treated, germ free, etc very valuable if you need an aseptic environment for treating injuries etc. If you demand the $200 that might be worth in that situation people will get angry about being gouged etc. The same people that might recognize the need for it and be willing to trade a several gallons of gas to get it, which would also suddenly be very pricey in dollar terms.
I think attempting to use the existing currency might prove to be more of a threat to order than a useful medium of exchange.
There may not be any backdoor code or exploit. The software sends malware samples home, it tells you that much.
What the NSA created really was malware and the product correctly identified that, and sent the sample.
Now here is where it gets problematic. Any company of any size in Russia has its government minders. They are probably just sharing their data with Russian intelligence, because no doing so means they end up drinking sugar laced with heavy radioactive isotopes in their morning tea.
The only real answer is fully MAC (Mandatory Access Control) model that is very fined grained. The result of that unfortunately is a computer system nobody really wants to use.
The more immediate reality with A/V software is that its probably something that requires the highest level of trust. This is software that literally hooks into the I/O layers on your system and is allowed to bypass essentially every other kind of access control check. At the same time its hard to put a lot of instrumentation around it because so much of what it does isn't thru the usual OS channels. So you can't know if its misbehaving or doing things it ought not to easily. External network hardware should be able to tell you if its phoning home but that might even be complicated. We are talking about software that after all could stash whatever it wants to send some unused place on the disk and wait three weeks until your not at home but connected to the wifi in some airport and phone home at that time.
Frankly after this and a few past issues, I am not sure any third party A/V solution is advisable. In the Windows world Microsoft should probably just stop even allowing third party kernel modules they have not fully audited. Which would basically kill the A/V industry.
The fact is that the more tightly integrated our society become the more brittle it gets. Specialization is more efficient but it also means "no man is an island."
Skipping intermediary exchange mechanisms like cash and doing direct transfers between accounts is faster but it also means you can't conduct exchanges when the machines that handle the accounting are not available. With cash, and even paper checks, you pay me now and I have some reasonable assurance that the money will be available for my use some time in the future.
Here is the thing though. If we have another 3-7 day blackout like the 2003 one, cash and checks will let everyone muddle thru. Where as all electronic payments being the only means would basically cause the economy to grind to a halt. If the mainland US experienced devastation like Puerto Rico just did and it was national not regional. I don't know super volcano, DPRK EMP delivery, some kind of freak mega storm, than nobody smart is going to be interested in cash!
Face it we would NOT come back from those events as a nation. No matter how big government gets there is no way a coordinated response could be manged on that scale, which means people would have to take matters entirely into their own hands. At that point its barter system at best and that is assuming local leadership/law enforcement can keep some kind of order. I actually think there is a possibility that would occur in a lot places. I suspect most sensible folks would realize that our survival is best served by at least regional cooperation. On the other hand I can see things going pretty mad max too.
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Yes that is an element that isnt getting enough discussion in all this. How exactly did the attackers make off with quite so much data. We are talking 100TB plus at this point. I mean did they send small amounts of it to 10000000's of bots and than collate from there?
How did they not have any correlation and event monitoring that could not spot a dataflow orders of magnitude larger than anything else that usually happens on their network?
or satellite images, or traditional photos taken by people on the ground, or a panoramic shot taken with a smart phone that someone on the scene is sure to have.
While Occulus like VR *might* be a good way to help someone like a politician appreciate a situation on an emotional level, its unlikely to provide an additional information useful in planning a response.
bullets don't kill people physics kills people ban phyiscs
At this time, it is not even clear whether computing hardware can do it.
Sure it is. We have OCR, computers can read signs. We have face recognition computers recognize patters of object like people, critters and stuff that might obstruct road ways. We already have cars using cameras to detect lane markers, edges of road ways, stop lines etc.
Its all there. Its just a question of putting it together fast enough and reliably enough to feed into the planning algorithms for driving that have mostly already been developed. Can you roll this out tomorrow using today's technology, nope but the precursors really are all here.
But the statement makes little sense on its face. Humans manage to operate cars with an 'acceptable' error rate using essentially the same senses as cameras and radar, eyes and ears.
If we can drive based on those inputs obviously they are sufficient. So its now a question of image processing and logic. Can a computer do those quickly an accurately enough to drive a car today, perhaps not but at some point in the future it must be possible. All the technological precursors are in place, and we have working proof of concept in the form of every meat bag behind the wheel today.
"However, users won't be able to export or save their Buddy List
The point of being able to export or save a list of "screen names" for a service that no longer exists would be what exactly anyway? People who had contacts that were actual AOL users probably have them as e-mail contacts anyway in whatever e-mail app they use.
I mean I guess take a screenshot for posterity, if you feel like waxing nostalgic about all those conversations you had on AIM at some point in the future.
Its not racism. Its simply politics has become a team a team sport. There are plenty of people who are against every position Trump takes simply because he is Trump.
The next problem with much of the issues you cite is Trump and the traditional GOP differ on them. Trump isn't as reckless and stupid as people make him out to be. He should torpedo NAFTA, blow up the Iran "deal" and tariff the crap out China, but those are steps that achieving any positive outcome from require subsequent action by congress to capitalize on. Action he knows he can't probably get.
Heck Trump can't even exercise legal rule making authority congress already has given the POTUS. Some lefty group who had not problem when Obama put in various immigration controls will sue and some lefty judges will find reasons to block actions based on standards and suppositions about the presidents racial prejudices that law in no way specifics.
Essentially there is no respect for the law on either side of the main line DNC/RNC types. Actually in terms of obeying the letter of the law and NOT exceeding authority of the office Trump has a way better record than Obama so far. Consider all the illegal unmaksing of Americans in intelligence gathering the left has no problem with Obama and his admin having done? If Trump or his people did anything remotely like that he'd be denounced as a fascist before the ink on the orders was wet.
So, and I think you fellow slash dotters, have to SERIOUSLY ask yourself this question. Spend some time, don't jump to conclusions and weigh the evidence. Are Trumps opponents largely a group of sore losers who are willing to make cynical claims of racism and bigotry because they know it hurt the president regardless of the truth or are they mostly just stupid?
I think a lot of both :(
As far as going to the moon or not, that's for another post. However the Chinese :( or Elon Musk :) will probably get there first
Hmm lets see, getting small children accustomed to having unwavering attention and a 'presence' that is always willing to immediate drop whatever its doing an react to them....
Sure I see that ending well.
That is tough order, some of this stuff really kinda does need the cloud to do what it does.
Yes you can do crude natural language parsing on affordable hardware these days but out a lot of storage and a huge database its hard to provide answers to generic questions. Its also hard to keep up with current information.
I agree though there is a lot of 'gratuitously connected stuff'
It should not require the cloud to tell my light bulbs to dim 50% or my DVR to record CBS at 6pm for 1 hour.
The thing is many of us that have been around awhile have a good size library. The thing about my library is its mostly about sharing things I especially enjoyed with others. I very rarely plop down in front of any of that stuff on my own. "I have seen it."
The trouble with your model is adding a single new item to your library costs 1/2 the price of month subscription to Netflix assuming you are buying off the used rack! You get what 4 hours of new (to you) content a month for $8? Not the model most of us want to use.
I have not looked into it recently but for loooong time Apple would not allow anything in the app store that rendered web pages with something other than their own APIs.
So you could install another browser but it was essentially just a different UI on IOS-Webkit. Has something changed?
Is Apple going to allow Microsoft to actually release this in the app store, or is this really just and "Edge UI" wrapped around the native web view APIs?
Its called price discrimination. You create tiered offerings because you want to get charge the people the most who are willing to pay the most, while not being forced to turn away still profitable but lower contribution margin business.
If you don't like it the correct way to protest is go down to the 7.99 tier. That is how you tell NetFlix you like the service overall but don't place the same premium on premium service that they do. If enough people do it; the result will be they either raise rates on the bottom tier to hit the revenue goals while making a perhaps slightly cheaper premium tier seem like a better decision at the margin for consumers, or go back to a single class of service.
I am not a parent yet, but my wife and I are currently trying. I totally agree with what you have to say. I was speaking more in the sense of as to if these things should be regulated, or restricted in some way.
I do see technology having a place in helping raise at least very small children. We have done enough baby sitting for friends and family to know for example that Baby monitors are useful! Could you raise a kid without one sure, but being able to put the child down for a nap upstairs while you go on about your activity downstairs where you won't wake them is a good thing.
I can see being able to power on a night light or mobile without mom or day entering the room might be positive thing too. Entering the room your self might be more stimulation than you want to provide when you hope to get the kid to go back to sleep. The question is where is the line of abdication responsibility to technology and using technology to be a better parent? That might not even be the same place in every family.
Just dealing with it at all is becoming a PITA. I installed XP the other day on VM to test something for a client.
Guess what not TLS support OOB. I could not even use IE to go download Firefox/Chrome. As it was a VM it was not much of problem. I just went and grabbed the windows installer from the host machine, put it into a ISO image with mkisofs and than mounted it on the XP vm, than installed..but while not difficult. It was not simple either.
Because adults are presumed to be experienced and rational decision makers. (not always true but a free society sorta requires some degree of this).
If you say "ok google, how long should my penis be" and the response is "according to penisPumpsRUs women prefer a length of 11 inches or more" As an adult you'd question the source, and you'd probably question how reasonable that statement can be based on other experience.
If your 8 year old asks that questions and gets that response...Well the outcome might not be what you'd want as a parent. The fact is we probably don't want a generation of people raised by search results. If the use of television as a baby sitter is any indication parents and teachers will grow complacent and leave kids to be monitored by these devices, and likely won't do much checking up on how those interactions go...
I don't have a policy proposal here, or an opinion about what should or should not be done, but I do understand the concern.
I'll totally support a HIPPA like law that says if you aggregate any PII you have to take appropriate steps and precautions to protect it.
So that in the future Equifax like incidents can be punished. All I am saying is that we don't have that law today. We have a Constitutional protection against post facto law making for good reason. Don't let that get eroded because you're mad at Equifax today. That will make a bad situation worse. Pass a new regulation and hold future persons/corporations to account.
Equifax is the only company deemed capable ...
In other news IRS procurement and partner evaluation procedures revealed to be incapable.