Nuclear Power, in current form, is an expensive and potentially dangerous hot water heater. ( Hahaha the nuke folks hated it when we called their toy a hot water heater:) )
Go with Solar, Hydro, GeoThermal or Wind instead. If a turbine blows apart it doesn't render the immediate area uninhabitable for the next 500 years.
The tech is safe enough, just not the people and / or policies running them. One f*ck up or short sighted vision and we end up with another Chernobyl or Fukishima.
Welcome to the club. Here is your tin-foil hat and badge to wear when you attend the meetings.
This is the reality that greed and power bring about. No matter what we use, we all have to consider the very real possibility that the hardware or software is already compromised. Either by malice or incompetence. That feeling sucks doesn't it ? Makes you rethink about what sorts of information you're willing to entrust to the devices in question or if you're going to trust the devices at all.
The masses, in general, are typically blind to the nefarious possibilities of the devices they utilize on a daily basis. Those that do understand how powerful information can be try to guard it as best they can.
This is the thought process I have to go through every time I consider buying something. If I do end up buying it, I now have to become a detective to both spot and deal with any behaviors the device is exhibiting that I consider questionable.
To be fair, it's not just your products. It's everyone's product.
The computer I use. The software it runs. The routers and switches that connect them. The car I drive. The phone. My ISP. The list is nearly endless.
Everything that is network connected at any point in its life is a risk and thus, subject to the question of " How much do I trust it ? "
The sad answer is usually, " Very little. "
I do what I can to limit what the devices can do, but I always wonder if I've done enough.
Leviticus 24:16, "And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death."
Granted, it's Old Testament but, in my opinion, Islam is pretty similar to Old Testament Christianity anyway. They never really evolved to the kinder / gentler version like everyone else did. They're all still fire and brimstone.
If you go back in history far enough, you'll likely find that most religions have an era of stupidity where followers of said religions committed all sorts of atrocities in the name of some Deity.
Islam really doesn't differ much from Old Testament Christianity. Same stupidity, different point in time.
This is going to sound terrible I know but it's just my open thoughts on the matter at hand.
I'm going to pick on Islam here, but the same ideas can be applied to any violent religion these days.
If you're unable to differentiate between normal and radical followers, we'll forever be seeing news broadcasts about some idiot that blew themselves up or gunned down a mall taking a whole bunch of folks with them. They thrive in the politically correct environment we have setup at the moment. That being we want to prevent the zealots from getting in, but not offend anyone:|
It potentially offensive to ban everyone, but since we're incapable of figuring out which ones are which, we really may not have a choice. Unless you enjoy watching idiots blow themselves ( and everyone around them ) up on the news periodically.
Of course, this also assumes the other Governments of the world WANT to stop such silliness. They'll decry my statement as baseless and sheer nonsense, but everyone understands nothing gets police / surveillance state laws signed faster than an environment of fear. Terrorism is basically a blank check for the government. It's not something they'll give up easily.
However, back on subject:
An analogy would be the food industry. If a hundred folks get sick or die from eating something, we go through a recall to pull all of that particular food item off the shelves so no further harm can come from it. ( same for many other industries ) We can't identify which ones specifically are bad, so we pull them all just to be on the safe side. This, in turn, puts pressure on the company who makes the product to do a better job inspecting their products prior to distribution.
I would think that by doing the same to a group of folks who identify with a certain radical religion, it would put pressure on those countries to weed out their own bad apples, so to speak. Otherwise, with no consequences, the countries who harbor such extremists could care less if their citizens roam the world blowing shit up at random. When asked about it, they simply respond "Islam is a religion of peace":|
Perhaps we if close the borders to all of Islam until they get with the program, they might pull their head out of the sand and help deal with the problem.
" allow buses to drive 25mph on the shoulder of the highway in traffic jams where the main lanes are averaging below 10mph "
I'm guessing this guy doesn't get out much. One of the biggest reasons that the main lanes are crawling along is due to something happening ON the shoulder itself.
Someone changing a tire, a stall, police have someone pulled over, etc.
The shoulder is also usually a magnet for all sorts of debris which tends to get thrown everywhere when some idiot drifts out of their lane.
On a positive note, if Fast Food switches over to a non-human workforce, the possibility of getting a burger that looks like the one they advertise gets better:)
In the rare event I have to eat at one of these places, it seems the ability to assemble the "food" into something that remotely resembles their advertised product isn't a requirement to work there.
One of them you can choose not to install and / or use. The other is forced upon you without your knowledge or consent. Usually, I'll consider an app right up to the point where it tells me what it will have access to if I install it. Once I see how over-reaching the apps permissions are, I'll change my mind and that's that.
What is the same is that, in both cases, the lack of public acceptance will force a change. If the app builder wants to continue selling their product, they will need to reign in their demands for access to data they have no need of to operate the app. If they don't, they'll cease to be relevant and a competitor will happily take their place.
Government is the same way. Thanks to Snowden, we now have evidence of how intrusive the Government really is in our daily lives. This new knowledge now allows us to apply the same principles to them as we do the app builder. Folks are ( slowly ) realizing that Big Government doesn't need access to every detail of our lives to work as intended.
Eventually, we'll treat them the same way and force their behavior to change or risk becoming irrelevant as well.
The ONLY way things will ever have a chance of changing is if you quit voting for the Status Quo. ( I believe Slashdot, as a whole, is a very vocal supporter of this concept )
However, it seems that voting against the Status Quo is only acceptable as long as you vote for the local favorite candidate.:| Vote for anyone else and you must be an idiot or something. As evidenced by the sheer amount of Trump bashing that goes on in here.
Personally, I'll give him his chance to prove everyone wrong. I don't want someone who is politically correct. I want someone who tells you what they think and acts the same way. I'm tired of the two-faced kowtowing mindset that our leadership seems to embrace.
Hillary is THE poster child for the same old shit camp. Sanders has some decent ideas but he also wants to tax the hell out of everyone to pay for them. Better idea there Bernie, quit playing World Police and cut the defense budget in HALF ( to start ) and you should have more than enough to pay for your little projects.
I'm sorry, but I cannot vote for someone who wants to take even more money from me without first looking at how wasteful their spending already is. No matter how grand his ideas may be.
Since Hillary ( pathological liar, suspected criminal, entitlement attitude ) is absolutely out of the question, I simply think Trump is the best choice of the current candidate field. My opinion of course, yours will likely vary and that is how it's supposed to work.
None of the existing power structure wants Trump to win because they know he's not going to play ball according to their rules. You know the saying: " The enemy of my enemy is my friend. "
I AM TIRED of the same old bullshit, year after year, that we get in our elected leadership. Obama was supposed to be THE CHOSEN ONE who finally broke the mold and young voters got a good taste of how politics truly works in this country. Hopefully, they remember how sour that taste is when they vote in the future.
I can only hope that no matter who wins in the end, something changes for the better in this Country. It has to. I don't know how much longer we will survive our current rate of decent to the bottom.
Before someone counters with " omgthinkoftheplanes " the only reason this is even IN the news is because it contains the word " Drone " somewhere within it.
How many photos have you seen of folks strapping various items to balloons with a Go-Pro attached taking selfies of said items with the Earths curvature as the backdrop ?
I would think they are just as much a hazard to aircraft as any drone, yet no one is running about in a panic or demanding legislation requiring folks register their balloons when purchased:|
Seriously news types, drones are nothing new. RC craft have been around quite a while so find somthing else to sensationalize if you wouldn't mind.
When that one person has the financial capability to go up against, and overcome, the entire TEAM of lawyers that the company will deploy against them.
Lawsuits are all about the money. Typically, he who has more of it, wins.
If you aren't already familiar with them, it would be prudent to learn how to utilize a packet sniffer to watch what your shiny new devices are doing once connected to a network. You may think twice about blindly connecting it to the same network your other systems reside upon.
" Perpetually understaffed, underpaid long-haul tractor-trailer drivers that get no vacation, sick leave, or retirement fund yet are in such ridiculous demand that most trucking companies like Dart or Swift will pay the driver to finish their CDL education. The demand is so high, drivers with a good record can quit a job and be hired at another in the same day. "
No worries. Once the self-drive technology matures, this industry will be the first to adopt it. If you're currently in the Trunk Driving industry, it is highly recommended to start prepping for this unavoidable reality in the near future. This goes for all driving based jobs ( Taxis, delivery, etc. )
The only reason Math is hard is because if you don't grasp the early concepts, you'll be forever lost in the advanced ones.
If you want the kiddos to do well in Math, you need to make sure they understand the basics early on. Put the effort it early, and the rest will fall into place much more easily.
At the rate the United States is allowing H1-B Visa holders to replace local technology employees, I would dare say that a foreign language requirement for engineers and IT staff in general needs to stand.
Hindi would probably be your best choice to make it easier to train your replacement:|
The financial payoff is likely to be several orders of magnitude higher if you figure out how to hack ANY Department of Defense network and sell it on the black market vs working for the USG and pointing out the same flaws.
If the USG is serious about such a program, they might want to take this into consideration.
He is hated by both Democrat and Republicans alike. That alone should tell you all you need to know. ( beware any candidate that is championed by either the Red or Blue teams )
I'll vote for Trump just to get away from the status quo of the past few decades. I'll vote for Trump to help ensure " You owe me " and " The rules don't apply to me " Clinton doesn't get elected. This country can use a serious shake-up of its leadership.
Do I believe everything Trump says ? Of course not, only a fool would. Then again, the same can be said for ANY of the candidates. Delusions of Grandeur and / or telling you what you want to hear is all it is. It's how every single President in memory has been elected. They can use all the flowery language they want, but the message is the same:
"I promise to fix all the problems the recent administration(s) have caused. "
It's either an outright lie or the candidate being naive about what they can accomplish without Congressional support.
All talk and no follow through.
So again, I'm going with Trump only to keep Hillary out, but have no more expectations from him than I would with any other candidate. He gets the nod from me because if you're hated by both the Democrats and the Republican elites, then you must be doing something right.
TERCOM / GPS flys along a preprogrammed path, DSMAC takes over for final target comparison / verification.
Overwater flight is static planned just prior to launch to route around known vessels / structures. Once it reaches the shoreline, the pre-planned mission takes over.
If an anti-ship variant, once the platform reaches the final static waypoint, it fires up the active seeker and starts looking for a target within the AOU. ( it is here EW gear goes into holy shit mode ) Bad thing is, the Block III wasn't able to differentiate between targets within the AOU, so the first one it found within its search area is going to have a bad day. Even more amusing is we will never launch just one at an enemy ship. The ship class and known defenses are taken into account to determine how many we'll throw at it to over-saturate its defensive capabilities to ensure a kill.
Thats kind of why we don't like throwing long range AS cruise missiles out there. Put a dozen into an AOU and there isn't much telling what they'll decide is a valid target when they arrive a half hour later.
The LRASM platform does all this but will probably add some sort of passive target comparison / verification before the seeker goes active during its terminal run. It will also have the ability to route around unknown or pop-up threats though I'm not clear on how that will work without an active seeker running.
The Democrat Team has a big dilemma at the moment.
They have to consider the very real possibility of the DOJ bringing the hammer down on their favorite candidate. It is no surprise it hasn't happened yet, they're waiting to see if she gets the nomination or not.
If she does, then you bring the inditement and watch the Democrat hopes for the Presidency go down like a ship who just tangled with an iceberg.
They KNOW this is a very good possibility so they have a difficult decision to make. Their favorite candidate ( Hillary ) comes with a lot of risk. Their secondary ( Bernie ) may not be able to overcome Trump.
My guess is Hillary will get the nod, the DOJ will play their ace and it will get real stupid real fast.
Ultimately, it will probably be Bernie vs Trump in the end. Bernie has some great ideas but:
Without congressional support they'll never come to pass and I really don't want to pay more taxes than I already do to fund them. If they can find other ways to pay for them then great. ( back off that defence budget a bit would be a great start )
Pushing me into paying 1/3 of my salary into a bloated and inefficient system without some serious oversight on their wasteful spending isn't going to win a vote from me anytime soon.
As it stands, I might have enough to retire on. Maybe. Voting for someone who wants to take even more money from me makes no sense at all as I prefer not to work until I die.
A better way to fix this is to forgo legislation ( think of the level of tech expertise within Congress for just a moment ) and start teaching the average user about the security concerns that comes with convenience.
Easy for the typical/. reader perhaps, not so much for your everyday consumer. Go ask random folks what a Vlan is and you'll understand pretty quickly.
The typical user isn't even aware of the possibility of this sort of thing.
I trust my debit card far more than I trust a mobile software application to interface with my financial accounts.
Under no circumstances will I use a mobile platform ( regardless of vendor, MS / Google, Apple ) to access my bank accounts.
Financial transaction alerts are pushed to the phone based on triggers I have setup, but I would never use a smartphone platform to log into nor perform a financial transaction.
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Nuclear Power, in current form, is an expensive and potentially dangerous hot water heater. ( Hahaha the nuke folks hated it when we called their toy a hot water heater :) )
Go with Solar, Hydro, GeoThermal or Wind instead. If a turbine blows apart it doesn't render the immediate area uninhabitable for the next 500 years.
The tech is safe enough, just not the people and / or policies running them. One f*ck up or short sighted vision and we end up with another Chernobyl or Fukishima.
Welcome to the club. Here is your tin-foil hat and badge to wear when you attend the meetings.
This is the reality that greed and power bring about. No matter what we use, we all have to consider the very real possibility that the hardware or software is already compromised. Either by malice or incompetence. That feeling sucks doesn't it ? Makes you rethink about what sorts of information you're willing to entrust to the devices in question or if you're going to trust the devices at all.
The masses, in general, are typically blind to the nefarious possibilities of the devices they utilize on a daily basis. Those that do understand how powerful
information can be try to guard it as best they can.
This is the thought process I have to go through every time I consider buying something. If I do end up buying it, I now have to become a detective to both
spot and deal with any behaviors the device is exhibiting that I consider questionable.
To be fair, it's not just your products. It's everyone's product.
The computer I use.
The software it runs.
The routers and switches that connect them.
The car I drive.
The phone.
My ISP.
The list is nearly endless.
Everything that is network connected at any point in its life is a risk and thus, subject to the question of " How much do I trust it ? "
The sad answer is usually, " Very little. "
I do what I can to limit what the devices can do, but I always wonder if I've done enough.
Here's an Old Testament one for you :D
Leviticus 24:16, "And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death."
Granted, it's Old Testament but, in my opinion, Islam is pretty similar to Old Testament Christianity anyway. They never really evolved to the kinder / gentler version like everyone else did. They're all still fire and brimstone.
If you go back in history far enough, you'll likely find that most religions have an era of stupidity where followers of said religions committed all sorts of atrocities in the name of some Deity.
Islam really doesn't differ much from Old Testament Christianity. Same stupidity, different point in time.
This is going to sound terrible I know but it's just my open thoughts on the matter at hand.
I'm going to pick on Islam here, but the same ideas can be applied to any violent religion these days.
If you're unable to differentiate between normal and radical followers, we'll forever be seeing news broadcasts about some idiot that blew themselves up or gunned down a mall taking a whole bunch of folks with them. They thrive in the politically correct environment we have setup at the moment. That being we want to prevent the zealots from getting in, but not offend anyone :|
It potentially offensive to ban everyone, but since we're incapable of figuring out which ones are which, we really may not have a choice. Unless you enjoy watching idiots blow themselves ( and everyone around them ) up on the news periodically.
Of course, this also assumes the other Governments of the world WANT to stop such silliness. They'll decry my statement as baseless and sheer nonsense, but everyone understands nothing gets police / surveillance state laws signed faster than an environment of fear. Terrorism is basically a blank check for the government. It's not something they'll give up easily.
However, back on subject:
An analogy would be the food industry. If a hundred folks get sick or die from eating something, we go through a recall to pull all of that particular food item off the shelves so no further harm can come from it. ( same for many other industries ) We can't identify which ones specifically are bad, so we pull them all just to be on the safe side. This, in turn, puts pressure on the company who makes the product to do a better job inspecting their products prior to distribution.
I would think that by doing the same to a group of folks who identify with a certain radical religion, it would put pressure on those countries to weed out their own bad apples, so to speak. Otherwise, with no consequences, the countries who harbor such extremists could care less if their citizens roam the world blowing shit up at random. When asked about it, they simply respond "Islam is a religion of peace" :|
Perhaps we if close the borders to all of Islam until they get with the program, they might pull their head out of the sand and help deal with the problem.
It won't become an issue until some fifteen year old hacks into some Senators $IOT and releases some scandalous information on the Web.
You can bet your ass that security for IOT will become priority numero uno afterwards.
" allow buses to drive 25mph on the shoulder of the highway in traffic jams where the main lanes are averaging below 10mph "
I'm guessing this guy doesn't get out much. One of the biggest reasons that the main lanes are crawling along is due to something happening ON the shoulder itself.
Someone changing a tire, a stall, police have someone pulled over, etc.
The shoulder is also usually a magnet for all sorts of debris which tends to get thrown everywhere when some idiot drifts out of their lane.
On a positive note, if Fast Food switches over to a non-human workforce, the possibility of getting a burger that looks like the one they advertise gets better :)
In the rare event I have to eat at one of these places, it seems the ability to assemble the "food" into something that remotely resembles their advertised product isn't a requirement to work there.
Hmm.
There is a minor difference.
One of them you can choose not to install and / or use. The other is forced upon you without your knowledge or consent.
Usually, I'll consider an app right up to the point where it tells me what it will have access to if I install it. Once I see how
over-reaching the apps permissions are, I'll change my mind and that's that.
What is the same is that, in both cases, the lack of public acceptance will force a change. If the app builder wants to continue
selling their product, they will need to reign in their demands for access to data they have no need of to operate the app. If they
don't, they'll cease to be relevant and a competitor will happily take their place.
Government is the same way. Thanks to Snowden, we now have evidence of how intrusive the Government really is in our daily
lives. This new knowledge now allows us to apply the same principles to them as we do the app builder. Folks are ( slowly ) realizing
that Big Government doesn't need access to every detail of our lives to work as intended.
Eventually, we'll treat them the same way and force their behavior to change or risk becoming irrelevant as well.
The ONLY way things will ever have a chance of changing is if you quit voting for the Status Quo.
( I believe Slashdot, as a whole, is a very vocal supporter of this concept )
However, it seems that voting against the Status Quo is only acceptable as long as you vote for the :| Vote for anyone else and you must be an idiot or something. As evidenced
local favorite candidate.
by the sheer amount of Trump bashing that goes on in here.
Personally, I'll give him his chance to prove everyone wrong. I don't want someone who is politically correct.
I want someone who tells you what they think and acts the same way. I'm tired of the two-faced kowtowing
mindset that our leadership seems to embrace.
Hillary is THE poster child for the same old shit camp. Sanders has some decent ideas but he also wants to
tax the hell out of everyone to pay for them. Better idea there Bernie, quit playing World Police and cut the
defense budget in HALF ( to start ) and you should have more than enough to pay for your little projects.
I'm sorry, but I cannot vote for someone who wants to take even more money from me without first looking at
how wasteful their spending already is. No matter how grand his ideas may be.
Since Hillary ( pathological liar, suspected criminal, entitlement attitude ) is absolutely out of the question, I simply
think Trump is the best choice of the current candidate field. My opinion of course, yours will likely vary and that
is how it's supposed to work.
None of the existing power structure wants Trump to win because they know he's not going to play ball according to
their rules. You know the saying: " The enemy of my enemy is my friend. "
I AM TIRED of the same old bullshit, year after year, that we get in our elected leadership. Obama was supposed
to be THE CHOSEN ONE who finally broke the mold and young voters got a good taste of how politics truly works in
this country. Hopefully, they remember how sour that taste is when they vote in the future.
I can only hope that no matter who wins in the end, something changes for the better in this Country. It has to. I
don't know how much longer we will survive our current rate of decent to the bottom.
Before someone counters with " omgthinkoftheplanes " the only reason this is even IN the news is because it contains the word " Drone " somewhere within it.
How many photos have you seen of folks strapping various items to balloons with a Go-Pro attached taking selfies of said items with the Earths curvature as the backdrop ?
I would think they are just as much a hazard to aircraft as any drone, yet no one is running about in a panic or demanding legislation requiring folks register their balloons when purchased :|
Seriously news types, drones are nothing new. RC craft have been around quite a while so find somthing else to sensationalize if you wouldn't mind.
Easy answer.
When that one person has the financial capability to go up against, and overcome, the entire TEAM of lawyers that the company will deploy against them.
Lawsuits are all about the money. Typically, he who has more of it, wins.
If you aren't already familiar with them, it would be prudent to learn how to utilize a packet sniffer to watch what your shiny new devices are doing once connected to a network. You may think twice about blindly connecting it to the same network your other systems reside upon.
" Perpetually understaffed, underpaid long-haul tractor-trailer drivers that get no vacation, sick leave, or retirement fund yet are in such ridiculous demand that most trucking companies like Dart or Swift will pay the driver to finish their CDL education. The demand is so high, drivers with a good record can quit a job and be hired at another in the same day. "
No worries. Once the self-drive technology matures, this industry will be the first to adopt it. If you're currently in the Trunk Driving industry, it is highly recommended to start prepping for this unavoidable reality in the near future. This goes for all driving based jobs ( Taxis, delivery, etc. )
The only reason Math is hard is because if you don't grasp the early concepts, you'll be forever lost in the advanced ones.
If you want the kiddos to do well in Math, you need to make sure they understand the basics early on. Put the effort it early, and the rest will fall into place
much more easily.
At the rate the United States is allowing H1-B Visa holders to replace local technology employees, I would dare say that a foreign language requirement for engineers and IT staff in general needs to stand.
Hindi would probably be your best choice to make it easier to train your replacement :|
The financial payoff is likely to be several orders of magnitude higher if you figure out how to hack ANY Department of Defense network and sell it on the black market vs working for the USG and pointing out the same flaws.
If the USG is serious about such a program, they might want to take this into consideration.
is a relatively simple one.
He is hated by both Democrat and Republicans alike. That alone should tell you all you need to know.
( beware any candidate that is championed by either the Red or Blue teams )
I'll vote for Trump just to get away from the status quo of the past few decades. I'll vote for Trump to help
ensure " You owe me " and " The rules don't apply to me " Clinton doesn't get elected. This country can
use a serious shake-up of its leadership.
Do I believe everything Trump says ? Of course not, only a fool would. Then again, the same can be said
for ANY of the candidates. Delusions of Grandeur and / or telling you what you want to hear is all it is. It's
how every single President in memory has been elected. They can use all the flowery language they want,
but the message is the same:
"I promise to fix all the problems the recent administration(s) have caused. "
It's either an outright lie or the candidate being naive about what they can accomplish without Congressional support.
All talk and no follow through.
So again, I'm going with Trump only to keep Hillary out, but have no more expectations from him than I would
with any other candidate. He gets the nod from me because if you're hated by both the Democrats and the
Republican elites, then you must be doing something right.
It's not anything nearly as fancy as AI.
For the land attack flavors:
TERCOM / GPS flys along a preprogrammed path, DSMAC takes over for final target comparison / verification.
Overwater flight is static planned just prior to launch to route around known vessels / structures. Once it reaches the shoreline, the pre-planned mission takes over.
If an anti-ship variant, once the platform reaches the final static waypoint, it fires up the active seeker and starts looking for a target within the AOU. ( it is here EW gear goes into holy shit mode ) Bad thing is, the Block III wasn't able to differentiate between targets within the AOU, so the first one it found within its search area is going to have a bad day. Even more amusing is we will never launch just one at an enemy ship. The ship class and known defenses are taken into account to determine how many we'll throw at it to over-saturate its defensive capabilities to ensure a kill.
Thats kind of why we don't like throwing long range AS cruise missiles out there. Put a dozen into an AOU and there isn't much telling what they'll decide is a valid target when they arrive a half hour later.
The LRASM platform does all this but will probably add some sort of passive target comparison / verification before the seeker goes active during its terminal run. It will also have the ability to route around unknown or pop-up threats though I'm not clear on how that will work without an active seeker running.
The Democrat Team has a big dilemma at the moment.
They have to consider the very real possibility of the DOJ bringing the hammer down on their favorite candidate. It is no surprise it hasn't happened yet, they're waiting to see if she gets the nomination or not.
If she does, then you bring the inditement and watch the Democrat hopes for the Presidency go down like a ship who just tangled with an iceberg.
They KNOW this is a very good possibility so they have a difficult decision to make. Their favorite candidate ( Hillary ) comes with a lot of risk. Their secondary ( Bernie ) may not be able to overcome Trump.
My guess is Hillary will get the nod, the DOJ will play their ace and it will get real stupid real fast.
Ultimately, it will probably be Bernie vs Trump in the end. Bernie has some great ideas but:
Without congressional support they'll never come to pass and I really don't want to pay more taxes than I already do to fund them. If they can find other ways to pay for them then great. ( back off that defence budget a bit would be a great start )
Pushing me into paying 1/3 of my salary into a bloated and inefficient system without some serious oversight on their wasteful spending isn't going to win a vote from me anytime soon.
As it stands, I might have enough to retire on. Maybe. Voting for someone who wants to take even more money from me makes no sense at all as I prefer not to work until I die.
A better way to fix this is to forgo legislation ( think of the level of tech expertise within Congress for just a moment ) and start teaching the average user about the security concerns that comes with convenience.
Setup a VPN.
Connect to VPN, check your camera, disconnect from VPN. Tada. Want to go a step further ? Configure VPN to only allow access to camera.
No open ports on the edge router, can easily route outbound traffic from suspect device to a black hole or just deny it completely.
Same reason you lock down everything. Especially those things which are dual network capable. ( eg cellular equipped )
There is a very good reason the smartphones and the alarm system reside on Private vlans.
They can easily be utilized as a " beach head " or jump server into your network bypassing your firewall completely.
Easy for the typical /. reader perhaps, not so much for your everyday consumer. Go ask random folks what a Vlan is and you'll understand pretty quickly.
The typical user isn't even aware of the possibility of this sort of thing.
Yet, they all willingly carry a cell phone.
The " Mark of the Beast " is easily the Mac address or ipv6 address of your phone. :|
I trust my debit card far more than I trust a mobile software application to interface with my financial accounts.
Under no circumstances will I use a mobile platform ( regardless of vendor, MS / Google, Apple ) to access my bank accounts.
Financial transaction alerts are pushed to the phone based on triggers I have setup, but I would never use a smartphone platform to log into nor perform a financial transaction.