Short answer is we need to hold people accountable. This is a case where there absolutely should be not quite a strict liability situation but maybe negligence level where you are responsible for shit that a computer you own does unless you can show you took appropriate and reasonable precautions.
Once that is True people will install patches, they will learn to install and configure firewalls, or they will turn the shit off and unplug the Ethernet wire from the smart tv because its to much hassle to deal with.
Once that happens people will stop buying shit for the manufacturers who A) don't bother with security and B) abandon products well inside their useful lives. Nobody is going to want drop 1K on a fancy TV and then be afraid to use it lest they get sued or prosecuted because it became a bot and they had no idea.
Laptops were never really terribly upgradable but you could also add some RAM and storage. Sometimes this was worth while but unless you cheaped out on those things at the start to get a more powerful chassis/cpu/motherboard to defer some initial cost it was often not worth while to do so. CPU's were doubling in performance, things like PCMCIA were being phased out for cardbus/minpci/usb1/firewire/usb2/thunderbolt/etc. The basic platform technology was evolving so rapidly it made more sense to forklift the system.
Now we have really hit the wall on CPU and for some users GPU. You can have a perfectly comfortable computing experience with a 4 years CPU and motherboard (provided things were the top shelf variety that go into MacBooks anyway) if you have enough RAM and fast storage attached to it. With the exception of USB3C business the expansion interfaces have stabilized quite a bit. Most of us don't really need a whole lot more single core performance. It probably makes more sense than ever to be looking at laptops as things you might add memory or storage to in the future, yet manufacturers seem to be in a rush to make this impossible.
I agree except for the 'deteriorated' part. Honestly we are not far removed from Jacksonian politics. Burr and Hamilton hated each other so much they fought a duel before that. After Jackson we moved to race baiting, and then to muckraker journalism. We took a little timeout to fight WWII and had a little second era of good feelings post war where things were somewhat more civil for 16ish years. We next promptly returned to race baiting, from their we segwayed into fear and nationalism. Which brings us to today. Where economic fears are pretty much the order of the day and the opposition party is trying to 'trump' the fear by resorting to race baiting and identity politic.
Frankly I don't think much of anything has changed at all, other than in relatively superficial ways.
Than you are idiot or uniformed. One post might be a joke, a second post about how very serious you are after multiple people advised you to calm down, isn't.
The solution isn't really never use facebook. Its remember the advice your mother gave you, "never write something down unless you want others to read it."
It does not matter privacy settings, or if its your private journal. If you put pen to paper or keys to a computer assume someone somewhere sometime you did not intend will read it.
Well in the case of the FBI we were able to run the country for 100 years without a 'national police force' so I don't really see why they have to be a hard requirement. We have state and local police the Justice department could just coordinate between agencies and rely on the Marshall service for extreme situations were the local agency might be the problem.
As far as the CIA goes, we probably need a foreign intelligence service. We really have always had espionage capability going back the revolution. I think there would be a solid argument for placing that as a military branch rather than a direct state department organ. Oh wait we have that, its called the NSA. Yes I get that NSA is SIGINT focused but it does not have to stay that way purely. We could get rid of both and recreate the OSS. It would probably be much more accountable and still effective.
That all might be true but Trump does seems to be sticking somewhat to his guns. When the indictments came down on Chris Cristy's people over bridgegae and it was not longer deniable that Cristy reasonably must have or should have known; Trump pretty promptly demoted him.
That is encouraging. Give people a chance until they show they are not loyal or swap things. When they let him down he cuts them loose. Hopefully it stays that way.
The wonderful thing about that is we can default! If you are worried about what that does to American debt holders, default on forging debt only and might it a felony with a mandatory minimum of life without parole for anyone trying to purchase or convert and US government debt instrument held by a non US citizen.
At its core the reason Trump is going to be #45 is that most of this countries liberals and bunch of people who normally consider themselves conservatives consider the wealth distribution to be a problem.
I suspect its an optimization problem. Globalism and free-trade policy optimize for maximum economic output but not necessarily for equitable distribution. So they leave you with two options heavy handed policy of direct redistribution, which America has never been about or potentially looking at a return to some form of mercantilism abroad.
The reality is Apple isn't going to get out of the iPhone business if they can't make them in China they will either find somewhere else like Vietnam to do (depending on how the trade policies get implemented) it or they will make them here. The cost of a iPhone (or any smart phone) probably goes up, and therefore the median standard of living probably declines somewhat. On the other hand some jobs come back to the states and the mean distribution of income levels out a little.
The truth is China isn't actually in all that great a position when it comes to trade war. We can tariff imports but not exports (Constitutionally) an import tariff on our side had a similar economic impact as an export tariff on theirs it makes their goods more expensive for the American consumer, and in theory American goods or American alternatives more competitive at the margin. The only difference is to which government the tax revenue flows. We have a trade deficit with China today, yes they can negatively impact some American industries and favor some of their domestic industry but not as broadly as we can that in reverse.
China does not currently have the domestic sink for their economic outputs we have either, that is changing but its not there today. My guess is if we really shut down the China trade today it would trigger a recession here and depression deflation driven death spiral there. The reality is China will quickly learn they have to keep the doors open to sell into the American market as much as possible or they are really screwed.
I think you are correct. My point and I admit I lost track of it a bit in my post was both of the candidates were guilt of the charges the left was leveling at Trump, they simply were not a differentiation in the minds of many votes for that reason. Clearly the Clinton camp was hopeful they could apply these labels to Trump and force people to abandon him out of fear of being tared with that same brush, and it did not work.
Trump did win on platform and he did talk about the things you mention however vaguely. Hillary got more technical on some rare occasions but as you say it was also a double down on the same Obama/Kerry policies many of which she likely originated while Sec State herself. They have not worked for a broad segment of the population who rejected them.
My guess is there was concern the TNT could detonate and spread radioactive uranium over a considerable area, not there would be a nuclear chain reaction. It could have been essentially a dirty bomb if the TNT blew.
yes well a huge part of that is driven by things like imaginary property. Cali is also an agricultural powerhouse and does have a lot of natural resources but if Cali had to exist in isolation and cope with a neighbor that might decide it does not care so strongly about enforcement of Cali's IP rights suddenly SV might be a lot less valuable in terms of economic output.
It depends on how you count. If you include people who died due to things like starvation, disease and lack of medical care ( limited at the time as it was ) due to economic conditions created by the war, I have seen numbers estimated around 1.2 million. The 600K figure is people directly killed in the conflict.
No, I think you have to wait until like year 6 for that. It was "Bush's war and the economy I inherited" from the Obama admin until at least that point.
In other words she is a fully legal citizen and nothing Trump ever proposed would require her to leave. Some leftist asshole grossly misrepresented (lied about) the few details we know about Trump's immigration agenda to a child and its Trump that you are upset with...
A Slave's body is his masters not his, Not the government's. No matter how you feel about the issue nothing in those feelings give you, or the government, any right to tell them what to do with their property or anything physically living on their manor.
Oh wait that is clearly total horse shit, a person is a person no matter what their condition, and its one of the most fundamental roles of government to protect the physical person of the innocent. Women are not entitled to murder because its convenient to do so! What could possibly be more tyrannical than deciding its okay crush someones skull without offering them any recourse?
"Roe v. Wade" is not social progress even if you think abortion should be legal!
Its a shameful decision that isn't much more than a laundry list of things the government can and can't do for 'reasons' with almost no reasoning whatsoever on constitutional grounds. Its one of the least respected decisions of all time by legal scholars for that reason.
If you "social progress' is 9 un-elected individuals making majority unpopular decision from the bench above any law or legal framework, than I am support glad you lost.
The problem is BOTH candidates have displayed a great deal of racism, sexism, and bigotry.
You need only look at many of the positions Hillary held while she ran for senate. How she stood up in front of large crowds and told us all about remorseless super predators, her friendships with clansmen like Byrd that she never disavowed, how many of her former staff claim to have been treated by her and say she even used racial slurs, how the campaign e-mails show she cynically divided people and sought to do so along racial and gender lines. The woman was no saint she just set herself up as the anti-bigot and a complaint media went along with it. They never bothered to ask how can Trump be so sexist when he gives some of the most important positions in his campaign and companies to women? Remember too Bill ultimately settled out of court with at least some of his accusers, because he knew they would prevail if it went to trial therfore we can assume she knew as well. Standing by your man and giving him the benefit of the doubt is a perfectly reasonable thing for a wife to do, but when you really don't have doubt it is it really right to try and destroy those women publicly the way she did?
I did not put that last thing in to apologize for Trump I merely put it in to suggest that you and I have been feed a very biased portal of both of these people. Both of these candidates decided to make this election about name calling because neither was long on substance. Clinton was simply not really a good advocate for women she just put on the mantle thinking it would be politically useful. The only way to spin things for H being any less sexist and bigoted than Trump is to suggest she treated everyone more equally badly. Oh boy that sure is a win.
It makes a lot of sense. A huge part of the cost of a modern laptop is case materials, as compared with the guts.
I need my business laptop (Macbook Pro) to stand up to being open and closed at a minimum of several times a day. It needs to be able to be shoved in a messenger bag that gets banged around in rental cars etc. It needs to do all this without the display hinges failing or the case fatiguing, it needs to say looking nice so clients don't think we use some old beater hardware for our work etc.
My home PC needs to do none of these things. It might need to have the lid open and close once per day tops, and almost never leaves my desk. Its not nearly as important what it weighs in at, etc.
Come on you know that isn't the least bit true. Tesla publishes the number of miles auto pilot has safely driven. Its impressive but those are largely the 'easy' miles.
People unlike auto pilot don't get hand off the responsible for controlling the vehicle to someone/something else when the conditions get hard. I wonder in what situations do human drivers experience more accidents, conditions where you can use auto pilot today or in situations where you can't?
And you can damn well be sure that NASA has developed and spun off far more useful and groundbreaking technologies than the military ever has
That is an extraordinary claim given such are large part of the technology for the moon shot was Military technology the NASA leveraged. You might be right but you're going to have get specific and show your work here.
There is no advantage to the metric system. Any advantage it offered evaporated the moment we all started carrying a device in pockets that can do easy unit conversions, hint every cellphone since about 1998.
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Short answer is we need to hold people accountable. This is a case where there absolutely should be not quite a strict liability situation but maybe negligence level where you are responsible for shit that a computer you own does unless you can show you took appropriate and reasonable precautions.
Once that is True people will install patches, they will learn to install and configure firewalls, or they will turn the shit off and unplug the Ethernet wire from the smart tv because its to much hassle to deal with.
Once that happens people will stop buying shit for the manufacturers who A) don't bother with security and B) abandon products well inside their useful lives. Nobody is going to want drop 1K on a fancy TV and then be afraid to use it lest they get sued or prosecuted because it became a bot and they had no idea.
Seriously quoting Jefferson, you must be some crazy white supremacist that condones slavery!
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Laptops were never really terribly upgradable but you could also add some RAM and storage. Sometimes this was worth while but unless you cheaped out on those things at the start to get a more powerful chassis/cpu/motherboard to defer some initial cost it was often not worth while to do so. CPU's were doubling in performance, things like PCMCIA were being phased out for cardbus/minpci/usb1/firewire/usb2/thunderbolt/etc. The basic platform technology was evolving so rapidly it made more sense to forklift the system.
Now we have really hit the wall on CPU and for some users GPU. You can have a perfectly comfortable computing experience with a 4 years CPU and motherboard (provided things were the top shelf variety that go into MacBooks anyway) if you have enough RAM and fast storage attached to it. With the exception of USB3C business the expansion interfaces have stabilized quite a bit. Most of us don't really need a whole lot more single core performance. It probably makes more sense than ever to be looking at laptops as things you might add memory or storage to in the future, yet manufacturers seem to be in a rush to make this impossible.
I agree except for the 'deteriorated' part. Honestly we are not far removed from Jacksonian politics. Burr and Hamilton hated each other so much they fought a duel before that. After Jackson we moved to race baiting, and then to muckraker journalism. We took a little timeout to fight WWII and had a little second era of good feelings post war where things were somewhat more civil for 16ish years. We next promptly returned to race baiting, from their we segwayed into fear and nationalism. Which brings us to today. Where economic fears are pretty much the order of the day and the opposition party is trying to 'trump' the fear by resorting to race baiting and identity politic.
Frankly I don't think much of anything has changed at all, other than in relatively superficial ways.
I'm taking him at his word that it was a joke
Than you are idiot or uniformed. One post might be a joke, a second post about how very serious you are after multiple people advised you to calm down, isn't.
The solution isn't really never use facebook. Its remember the advice your mother gave you, "never write something down unless you want others to read it."
It does not matter privacy settings, or if its your private journal. If you put pen to paper or keys to a computer assume someone somewhere sometime you did not intend will read it.
Well in the case of the FBI we were able to run the country for 100 years without a 'national police force' so I don't really see why they have to be a hard requirement. We have state and local police the Justice department could just coordinate between agencies and rely on the Marshall service for extreme situations were the local agency might be the problem.
As far as the CIA goes, we probably need a foreign intelligence service. We really have always had espionage capability going back the revolution. I think there would be a solid argument for placing that as a military branch rather than a direct state department organ. Oh wait we have that, its called the NSA. Yes I get that NSA is SIGINT focused but it does not have to stay that way purely. We could get rid of both and recreate the OSS. It would probably be much more accountable and still effective.
That all might be true but Trump does seems to be sticking somewhat to his guns. When the indictments came down on Chris Cristy's people over bridgegae and it was not longer deniable that Cristy reasonably must have or should have known; Trump pretty promptly demoted him.
That is encouraging. Give people a chance until they show they are not loyal or swap things. When they let him down he cuts them loose. Hopefully it stays that way.
The wonderful thing about that is we can default! If you are worried about what that does to American debt holders, default on forging debt only and might it a felony with a mandatory minimum of life without parole for anyone trying to purchase or convert and US government debt instrument held by a non US citizen.
Problem solved.
At its core the reason Trump is going to be #45 is that most of this countries liberals and bunch of people who normally consider themselves conservatives consider the wealth distribution to be a problem.
I suspect its an optimization problem. Globalism and free-trade policy optimize for maximum economic output but not necessarily for equitable distribution. So they leave you with two options heavy handed policy of direct redistribution, which America has never been about or potentially looking at a return to some form of mercantilism abroad.
The reality is Apple isn't going to get out of the iPhone business if they can't make them in China they will either find somewhere else like Vietnam to do (depending on how the trade policies get implemented) it or they will make them here. The cost of a iPhone (or any smart phone) probably goes up, and therefore the median standard of living probably declines somewhat. On the other hand some jobs come back to the states and the mean distribution of income levels out a little.
The truth is China isn't actually in all that great a position when it comes to trade war. We can tariff imports but not exports (Constitutionally) an import tariff on our side had a similar economic impact as an export tariff on theirs it makes their goods more expensive for the American consumer, and in theory American goods or American alternatives more competitive at the margin. The only difference is to which government the tax revenue flows. We have a trade deficit with China today, yes they can negatively impact some American industries and favor some of their domestic industry but not as broadly as we can that in reverse.
China does not currently have the domestic sink for their economic outputs we have either, that is changing but its not there today. My guess is if we really shut down the China trade today it would trigger a recession here and depression deflation driven death spiral there. The reality is China will quickly learn they have to keep the doors open to sell into the American market as much as possible or they are really screwed.
I think you are correct. My point and I admit I lost track of it a bit in my post was both of the candidates were guilt of the charges the left was leveling at Trump, they simply were not a differentiation in the minds of many votes for that reason. Clearly the Clinton camp was hopeful they could apply these labels to Trump and force people to abandon him out of fear of being tared with that same brush, and it did not work.
Trump did win on platform and he did talk about the things you mention however vaguely. Hillary got more technical on some rare occasions but as you say it was also a double down on the same Obama/Kerry policies many of which she likely originated while Sec State herself. They have not worked for a broad segment of the population who rejected them.
My guess is there was concern the TNT could detonate and spread radioactive uranium over a considerable area, not there would be a nuclear chain reaction. It could have been essentially a dirty bomb if the TNT blew.
yes well a huge part of that is driven by things like imaginary property. Cali is also an agricultural powerhouse and does have a lot of natural resources but if Cali had to exist in isolation and cope with a neighbor that might decide it does not care so strongly about enforcement of Cali's IP rights suddenly SV might be a lot less valuable in terms of economic output.
The numbers alone don't really tell the story.
It depends on how you count. If you include people who died due to things like starvation, disease and lack of medical care ( limited at the time as it was ) due to economic conditions created by the war, I have seen numbers estimated around 1.2 million. The 600K figure is people directly killed in the conflict.
No, I think you have to wait until like year 6 for that. It was "Bush's war and the economy I inherited" from the Obama admin until at least that point.
In other words she is a fully legal citizen and nothing Trump ever proposed would require her to leave. Some leftist asshole grossly misrepresented (lied about) the few details we know about Trump's immigration agenda to a child and its Trump that you are upset with...
And I find your moral reasoning appalling.
A Slave's body is his masters not his, Not the government's. No matter how you feel about the issue nothing in those feelings give you, or the government, any right to tell them what to do with their property or anything physically living on their manor.
Oh wait that is clearly total horse shit, a person is a person no matter what their condition, and its one of the most fundamental roles of government to protect the physical person of the innocent. Women are not entitled to murder because its convenient to do so! What could possibly be more tyrannical than deciding its okay crush someones skull without offering them any recourse?
"Roe v. Wade" is not social progress even if you think abortion should be legal!
Its a shameful decision that isn't much more than a laundry list of things the government can and can't do for 'reasons' with almost no reasoning whatsoever on constitutional grounds. Its one of the least respected decisions of all time by legal scholars for that reason.
If you "social progress' is 9 un-elected individuals making majority unpopular decision from the bench above any law or legal framework, than I am support glad you lost.
The problem is BOTH candidates have displayed a great deal of racism, sexism, and bigotry.
You need only look at many of the positions Hillary held while she ran for senate. How she stood up in front of large crowds and told us all about remorseless super predators, her friendships with clansmen like Byrd that she never disavowed, how many of her former staff claim to have been treated by her and say she even used racial slurs, how the campaign e-mails show she cynically divided people and sought to do so along racial and gender lines. The woman was no saint she just set herself up as the anti-bigot and a complaint media went along with it. They never bothered to ask how can Trump be so sexist when he gives some of the most important positions in his campaign and companies to women? Remember too Bill ultimately settled out of court with at least some of his accusers, because he knew they would prevail if it went to trial therfore we can assume she knew as well. Standing by your man and giving him the benefit of the doubt is a perfectly reasonable thing for a wife to do, but when you really don't have doubt it is it really right to try and destroy those women publicly the way she did?
I did not put that last thing in to apologize for Trump I merely put it in to suggest that you and I have been feed a very biased portal of both of these people. Both of these candidates decided to make this election about name calling because neither was long on substance. Clinton was simply not really a good advocate for women she just put on the mantle thinking it would be politically useful. The only way to spin things for H being any less sexist and bigoted than Trump is to suggest she treated everyone more equally badly. Oh boy that sure is a win.
It makes a lot of sense. A huge part of the cost of a modern laptop is case materials, as compared with the guts.
I need my business laptop (Macbook Pro) to stand up to being open and closed at a minimum of several times a day. It needs to be able to be shoved in a messenger bag that gets banged around in rental cars etc. It needs to do all this without the display hinges failing or the case fatiguing, it needs to say looking nice so clients don't think we use some old beater hardware for our work etc.
My home PC needs to do none of these things. It might need to have the lid open and close once per day tops, and almost never leaves my desk. Its not nearly as important what it weighs in at, etc.
Come on you know that isn't the least bit true. Tesla publishes the number of miles auto pilot has safely driven. Its impressive but those are largely the 'easy' miles.
People unlike auto pilot don't get hand off the responsible for controlling the vehicle to someone/something else when the conditions get hard. I wonder in what situations do human drivers experience more accidents, conditions where you can use auto pilot today or in situations where you can't?
I am going to start measuring stuff in centimiles
And you can damn well be sure that NASA has developed and spun off far more useful and groundbreaking technologies than the military ever has
That is an extraordinary claim given such are large part of the technology for the moon shot was Military technology the NASA leveraged. You might be right but you're going to have get specific and show your work here.
better is a subjective term. That could mean a lot of things. Armor piercing capability, Total force of impact, accuracy over target, or even fun!
Senators would definitely be more fun!
There is no advantage to the metric system. Any advantage it offered evaporated the moment we all started carrying a device in pockets that can do easy unit conversions, hint every cellphone since about 1998.