In a now far-past age, we had a fix for this. Politicians of the "family compact" era fought hard against "responsible government", which made ministers responsible for their departments, and honour-bound to resign from cabinet when they failed in their undertakings.
It was imposed anyway as part of Lord Durhams' reforms, much to their displeasure.
Over time, governments have become more resistant to losing votes and ministers have become very resistant to stepping down for anything other than cheesing off the PM. Just flat lying to the electorate has become popular, here, in the UK and the US.
I think we have a problem involving a lack of negative feedback. If I'm PM, I can do anything I want, and no-one can stop me. If I'm an ill-advised liberal I can do as much damage as an ill-advised conservative and equally as much as a deliberate "Dr Evil". That's probably a bad thing...
I could use high-reliability backup that isn't on some single-point-of-failure company like Kim's.
Alas, law enforcement would be unable to tell me from their worst enemy. OK if it's Canada, they can serve me with a warrant and reassure themselves that I'm not the they're looking for, but I fear the Excited States might not bother staying within the rule of law.
--dave
Hmmn, I owe the blog a discussion about this...
This is Canada, where we engage in somewhat British-sounding understatement. The police or courts may say they are be "speaking" to someone, and the words they speak may be polite, but the import of them may be very unpleasant to the listener. Americans might translate it as "hitting on him with a clue-stick".
Good point, and thanks. I used your characterization about the "aim of the slimy" in a comment in the article we're discussing.
That's different from the courts screwing up, and more like a trick to get away with forum shopping, something that wouldn't happen nearly as well (badly) between states.
You think US courts won't take "judicial notice" of a Canadian suit on the very same crime, and one in which the company had to commence a Canadian action to get the information? You think we don't have treaties with the US? You think countries haven't honoured each other's decisions and court orders since the middle ages?
Well, then we don't need to be breaking our spears over it here on/., do we?
Someone has to tell a whole mass of possibly-terrified individuals and a collection of government and police forces that a crime is being committed. Othewise the criminal walk away with their ill-gotten gains.
The US company would have to sue in Canada first to get the court order to disclose the accused's name. The US court would refuse to proceed if the same suit is already underway in Canada. "Jurisdiction shopping" gets you a pissed-off judge, and possible sanctions.
Fraud is a criminal offence, requiring the person be making a false statement to obtain money, and the false statement not to opinions like "my product is better than his".
In the US, the tradition is to sue folks. In Canada we tend to call the cops. I'm mildly surprised no-one has said they done so already.
If you lie to get someone to give you money, its fraud except for very narrow exceptions.
Saying "Ford is better quality than Chevy" is one of the exceptions.
Similar in principle to the confidentiality problems that lead to the orange book, and at least as hard as the byzantine generals problem.
I suspect one needs a trusted system to make sure only the owner issues commands with the right key, and an independent intelligent system to figure out what happens when you add a device and give it a command. Plus lots of hard work figuring out what basic set of rules you need to preserve...
In the short run, expect to "introduce" things to one another, and select what they can do from a restricted and pretty unintelligible menu. Probably using Windows, and probably hacked soon after release.
It's because the studios sold all possible forms of distribution rights to a "Canadian distributor" who is only physically capable of distributing to movie theatres. They sometimes retained TV rights, sometimes sold them too.
Net result? The studio doesn't get the money you'd like to pay them, and neither does the distributor.
It's easy to cooperate with people who are awake and working at the same time as you. Managing projects up and down the US east coast was easy from Toronto.
If you have people in San Francisco that start 3 hours later, you have to intentionally organize for that time difference. Some people here worked late hours (including at least one night-owl friend who liked to come in at noon), while others cursed the absence of their colleagues. Still other gloried in the absence, and said things like "I get three uninterrupted hours of work!"
If QA was in Ireland (or India, or both) then people learned to hand off discrete chunks, and get the results in the morning. With people across either the Atlantic or Pacific, you get one meeting a day, so make the best of it!
One group did time-critical diagnoses, and had three shifts running: Singapore, Grenoble and San Francisco. They passed the same bug around the world, working continually on it until they got done.
Working in multiple timezones can work well, but only if you plan for it.
If you don't plan for it, you'd better keep your business in the zone you're in.
Amex will provide single-use numbers for untrustworthy vendors. They purportedly will also do single-vendor numbers, so if you give
such a number to a particular vendor, anyone who steals it will have it bounce.
I've tried to confirm the latter, with no particular success.
Indeed: its mostly tactics, reflexes, the ability to "see" the play as it develops and a dab of strategy. All the physical stuff to put those to use on a field instead of a controller are missing. To that you add a really high muscle "twitch" rate, that's probably not seen in the physical game, only in the simulation.
There are people who would love to play FIFA football, and have the talent to do so, but lack legs. They can play sledge hockey, which is at least as good as ordinary hockey, but they can't play kicking games. eSports allow them to kick with their thumbs.
The devices are probably little morer than a circular buffer, so slower equipment can select and process stuff they find interesting without having to run at wire speed. Doing the wire-speed DPI (with a sandvine box) costs way too much money.
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In a now far-past age, we had a fix for this. Politicians of the "family compact" era fought hard against "responsible government", which made ministers responsible for their departments, and honour-bound to resign from cabinet when they failed in their undertakings.
It was imposed anyway as part of Lord Durhams' reforms, much to their displeasure.
Over time, governments have become more resistant to losing votes and ministers have become very resistant to stepping down for anything other than cheesing off the PM. Just flat lying to the electorate has become popular, here, in the UK and the US.
I think we have a problem involving a lack of negative feedback. If I'm PM, I can do anything I want, and no-one can stop me. If I'm an ill-advised liberal I can do as much damage as an ill-advised conservative and equally as much as a deliberate "Dr Evil". That's probably a bad thing...
s/the that/the that/
I could use high-reliability backup that isn't on some single-point-of-failure company like Kim's.
Alas, law enforcement would be unable to tell me from their worst enemy. OK if it's Canada, they can serve me with a warrant and reassure themselves that I'm not the they're looking for, but I fear the Excited States might not bother staying within the rule of law.
--dave
Hmmn, I owe the blog a discussion about this...
Yes, and courts are neuter, so it's a waste of time for them to hit on anyone (;-))
This is Canada, where we engage in somewhat British-sounding understatement. The police or courts may say they are be "speaking" to someone, and the words they speak may be polite, but the import of them may be very unpleasant to the listener. Americans might translate it as "hitting on him with a clue-stick".
I don't like the party in power, but you have to admit they're not slow!
Good point, and thanks. I used your characterization about the "aim of the slimy" in a comment in the article we're discussing.
That's different from the courts screwing up, and more like a trick to get away with forum shopping, something that wouldn't happen nearly as well (badly) between states.
You think US courts won't take "judicial notice" of a Canadian suit on the very same crime, and one in which the company had to commence a Canadian action to get the information? You think we don't have treaties with the US? You think countries haven't honoured each other's decisions and court orders since the middle ages?
IANAL, but suppressing copyright infringement is neither unfair nor unlawful. Whatever else may be wrong about it, fraud it is not.
That claim requires the end justifies the means. Never has, never will.
Well, then we don't need to be breaking our spears over it here on /., do we?
Someone has to tell a whole mass of possibly-terrified individuals and a collection of government and police forces that a crime is being committed. Othewise the criminal walk away with their ill-gotten gains.
The US company would have to sue in Canada first to get the court order to disclose the accused's name. The US court would refuse to proceed if the same suit is already underway in Canada. "Jurisdiction shopping" gets you a pissed-off judge, and possible sanctions.
Fraud is a criminal offence, requiring the person be making a false statement to obtain money, and the false statement not to opinions like "my product is better than his".
In the US, the tradition is to sue folks. In Canada we tend to call the cops. I'm mildly surprised no-one has said they done so already.
If you lie to get someone to give you money, its fraud except for very narrow exceptions. Saying "Ford is better quality than Chevy" is one of the exceptions.
The fraud clause prohibits lies about anything except quality. Extortion is probably more about threats of physical harm.
As noted on the IETF bufferbloat list, they can support streaming, they just screwed it up (;-))
Unregulated monopoly? Aren't they illegal, or was that only in the '30s?
Bluetooth is one example: having a device that creates private and public keys for pairs of devices is another.
Similar in principle to the confidentiality problems that lead to the orange book, and at least as hard as the byzantine generals problem.
I suspect one needs a trusted system to make sure only the owner issues commands with the right key, and an independent intelligent system to figure out what happens when you add a device and give it a command. Plus lots of hard work figuring out what basic set of rules you need to preserve...
In the short run, expect to "introduce" things to one another, and select what they can do from a restricted and pretty unintelligible menu. Probably using Windows, and probably hacked soon after release.
It's because the studios sold all possible forms of distribution rights to a "Canadian distributor" who is only physically capable of distributing to movie theatres. They sometimes retained TV rights, sometimes sold them too.
Net result? The studio doesn't get the money you'd like to pay them, and neither does the distributor.
It's easy to cooperate with people who are awake and working at the same time as you. Managing projects up and down the US east coast was easy from Toronto.
If you have people in San Francisco that start 3 hours later, you have to intentionally organize for that time difference. Some people here worked late hours (including at least one night-owl friend who liked to come in at noon), while others cursed the absence of their colleagues. Still other gloried in the absence, and said things like "I get three uninterrupted hours of work!"
If QA was in Ireland (or India, or both) then people learned to hand off discrete chunks, and get the results in the morning. With people across either the Atlantic or Pacific, you get one meeting a day, so make the best of it!
One group did time-critical diagnoses, and had three shifts running: Singapore, Grenoble and San Francisco. They passed the same bug around the world, working continually on it until they got done.
Working in multiple timezones can work well, but only if you plan for it.
If you don't plan for it, you'd better keep your business in the zone you're in.
Amex will provide single-use numbers for untrustworthy vendors. They purportedly will also do single-vendor numbers, so if you give such a number to a particular vendor, anyone who steals it will have it bounce.
I've tried to confirm the latter, with no particular success.
Indeed: its mostly tactics, reflexes, the ability to "see" the play as it develops and a dab of strategy. All the physical stuff to put those to use on a field instead of a controller are missing. To that you add a really high muscle "twitch" rate, that's probably not seen in the physical game, only in the simulation.
There are people who would love to play FIFA football, and have the talent to do so, but lack legs. They can play sledge hockey, which is at least as good as ordinary hockey, but they can't play kicking games. eSports allow them to kick with their thumbs.
The devices are probably little morer than a circular buffer, so slower equipment can select and process stuff they find interesting without having to run at wire speed. Doing the wire-speed DPI (with a sandvine box) costs way too much money.