The Amish are still around and seem to be doing well enough for themselves. "20th century Amishes" isn't nearly as bad as you make it out to be.
This is ridiculous since their kids will access anyway 21st century technologies in their friends' houses and at school. They will suffer being put aside from the 21st century society and become technology illettrates.
A. You misspelled illiterate. B. The kids are 5 and 2. It's okay for them to be technologically illiterate.
Just because the rendering looks good doesn't mean that's what will end up in the developing world. And at its most basic, that design can be stamped out, wholesale, from sheet metal.
Verizon argues that the FCC doesnâ(TM)t have authority to regulate an information service, a class of communications that the agency has previously exempted from most regulation. The net neutrality rules are a violation of Verizonâ(TM)s First Amendment free speech rights and its Fifth Amendment property rights, the company has argued.
Well, we could just convince congress to give the FCC the necessary authority. That has about as much chance as getting the cable co's labeled as common carriers
That means that most users of the service end up paying way above what they otherwise would to subsidise a small minority who choose to live in the middle of nowhere. If privatisation ends that, then fantastic.
You need to seriously examine the assumptions that lead you to make the declaration that people "choose to live in the middle of nowhere".
You might also want to reconsider what the purpose of government is, if it isn't to provide service and protection to its citizens.
The proposals I have seem for extreme term limits seem good at a glance, but none of them address the fact that it would in practice hand massive power to lobbyists.
This is complete crap. There are plenty of scientific, educational, and non-corporate-affiliated public advocacy groups/individuals that are more than happy to provide unbiased information and balanced solutions.
The reasons are many and varied as to why those groups or individuals don't get to provide much input... But those people exist and could easily help us shape sane public policy.
Hell, the election of Senator Warren is a prime example. The Chamber of Commerce called her the greatest "threat to free enterprise" and she only ran for office because entrenched banking interests prevented her from heading the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Before all this, she was an academic and consumer advocate. Now she's the terror of the Senate banking committee and 3 of 5 subcommittees.
Government can be fixed. Banking can be fixed. The Debt can be fixed. The NSA can be fixed. But the fixers must be willing to expend enormous political capital to overturn existing power structures.
The enemy is a lack of meaningful oversight and regulation. It doesn't matter if you're talking about the NSA, worker safety in mines, or the banking industry.
So, call me crazy, but didn't they do exactly what they are supposed to do? Also, AWS quite clearly states that any given AZ *might* fail. Hence, if you want any sort of high-availability, you replicate across different AZs.
For whatever reason, many of AWS's biggest flameouts have happened at the Virginia datacenter. Between bad weather, rickety power infrastructure, bad hardware components, poorly configured software/hardware, etc etc etc It's like setting up your data center in the Bermuda Triangle.
Don't assume that civil law suits will be treated how they are in the US or in any other provinces in Canada. Quebec treats civil suits under French civil law.... a complex different system that we are used to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Louisiana They don't use English Common Law as the basis for their system either. Must make life interesting for the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
CIA officials said they closed the Historical Collections Division to accommodate federal budget cuts that the White House and Congress proposed last year to create pressure for a deficit reduction deal. No deal materialized, so across-the-board budget cuts known as the sequester were imposed.
The real problem isn't that they're rolling this into their FOIA office, it's that they'll undoubtedly not move the personnel too. Institutional knowledge is incredibly important in any organization and even more so for a group that deals with history.
Not to mention the fact that FOIA requests are always backlogged, 30 day response requirements be damned.
but simply scaring the birds by flying into the midst of them as they are eating and pooping and doing other bird things wouldn't break the treaty, as far as I can tell.
It's considered harassing wildlife and is illegal almost everywhere as part of normal wildlife protection laws.
These guys all have very high level security clearances. If they're government workers, they'll be moved to another job, not "made redundant" If they're contractors, they'll either get put on another contract, or they'll go work for someone else and get paid more.
People with security clearances are always in high demand.
He got busted for violating the terms of his probation, pled guilty to 4 charges, and accepted 1 year in jail + 5 years of probation. I don't think this is the example you should have used.
with all kinds of regulations and safety cases that have to be complied with... things they can cope with because they're so large, but little upstart companies can't afford to comply with...
You have no idea WTF you're talking about. Generic "zomg too much regulation comments" almost always get upmodded and are almost always full of shit. Prostheses are more or less exempt from any FDA regulation that would make them expensive.
(b)Classification. Class I (general controls). The device is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter, subject to the limitations in 890.9. The device is also exempt from the current good manufacturing practice requirements of the quality system regulation in part 820 of this chapter, with the exception of 820.180, regarding general requirements concerning records and 820.198, regarding complaint files.
Sec. 890.9 Limitations of exemptions from section 510(k) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the act).
The exemption from the requirement of premarket notification (section 510(k) of the act) for a generic type of class I or II device is only to the extent that the device has existing or reasonably foreseeable characteristics of commercially distributed devices within that generic type or, in the case of in vitro diagnostic devices, only to the extent that misdiagnosis as a result of using the device would not be associated with high morbidity or mortality. [...]
[A list of reasons when your product is not exempt]
There's someone, somewhere, who had to spend money for the FDA to approve the first brain--computer--limb interface, but after that, everyone gets a free ride.
Recently I got a much better price for renting a car via a specialist site than I could on the renter's own website, and it's often the same for hotels.
The kicker is that the specialist site keeps up to 25% of that better price. You can almost always call up [company] and ask them to beat the price you found on [website] and they'll do it, because they'll make more money that way.
During a coffee break at an intelligence conference held in The Netherlands a few years back, a senior Scandinavian counterterrorism official regaled me with a story. One of his service's surveillance teams was conducting routine monitoring of a senior militant leader when they suddenly noticed through their high-powered surveillance cameras two men breaking into the militant's apartment. The target was at Friday evening prayers at the local mosque. But rather than ransack the apartment and steal the computer equipment and other valuables while he was away -- as any right-minded burglar would normally have done -- one of the men pulled out a disk and loaded some programs onto the resident's laptop computer while the other man kept watch at the window. The whole operation took less than two minutes, then the two trespassers fled the way they came, leaving no trace that they had ever been there.
It did not take long for the official to determine that the two men were, in fact, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operatives conducting what is known in the U.S. intelligence community as either a "black bag job" or a "surreptitious entry" operation. Back in the Cold War, such a mission might have involved cracking safes, stealing code books, or photographing the settings on cipher machines. Today, this kind of break-in is known inside the CIA and National Security Agency as an "off-net operation," a clandestine human intelligence mission whose specific purpose is to surreptitiously gain access to the computer systems and email accounts of targets of high interest to America's spies.
Stealing passwords with a key logger or phishing e-mail undoubtedly involves less paperwork than using the rubber hose.
"If you require encryption for your data, this functionality frees you from the hassle and risk of managing your own encryption and decryption keys," Barth wrote. "We manage the cryptographic keys on your behalf using the same hardened key management systems that Google uses for our own encrypted data, including strict key access controls and auditing."
That sounds meaningless. All that it prevents is interception of data to/from your computer. It does nothing to stop the NSA from requesting your data from Google, who would control your encryption keys.
A Google spokeswoman said via email the company does not provide encryption keys to any government and provides user data only in accordance with the law.
Which is exactly my point. If they control your key, they have access to your data.
A little postscript: This time around it was the US that got busted, I'm hoping for similar leaks in the whole world. We need more transparancy.
http://wikileaks.org/syria-files/ "The data is more than eight times the size of 'Cablegate' in terms of number of documents, and more than 100 times the size in terms of data."
So yeah, reality shows a pretty objective picture, its just that people dont want the truth, they want to show that cops and the government are racist institutions as justifications for doing whatever it is people want to do.
Either you haven't looked very hard for data, or you've done an interesting job cherry picking information to reflect the reality you want to portray. Here's the results of what I found, it took all of like 5 minutes of googling to find it, so basically anyone with a strong opinion on the subject supporting the NY Police is being intellectually dishonest.
The likelihood a stop of an African American New Yorker yielded a weapon was half that of white New Yorkers stopped. The NYPD uncovered a weapon in one out every 49 stops of white New Yorkers. By contrast, it took the Department 71 stops of Latinos and 93 stops of African Americans to find a weapon.
The likelihood a stop of an African American New Yorker yielded contraband was one-third less than that of white New Yorkers stopped. The NYPD uncovered contraband in one out every 43 stops of white New Yorkers. By contrast, it took the Department 57 stops of Latinos and 61 stops of African Americans to find contraband.
It's unlikely that the appropriate lesson to take from these findings is that stops of white people should increase because they are more likely to carry weapons and drugs. Rather, they suggest that police are excessively targeting minorities. Officers may be netting more successful stops of white New Yorkers because they are only likely to stop a white person when they actually suspect that person of committing a crime
89% of stops result in no action. That's hundreds of thousands of people who are harassed by the NYPD for no reason other than being young and not-white.
A. This has nothing to do with fear mongering against Muslims, in exactly the same way that reporting on SARS had nothing to do with fear mongering against China. I say this even though China and Saudi Arabia went about managing their outbreaks in exactly the same way: pretending it wasn't happening.
C. This isn't a flu virus, this is a deadlier cousin of SARS, which spread to ~3 dozen countries in a matter of weeks
This is the promotion of unrealistic fear, nothing more.
You sound like the boy who wouldn't cry wolf. A novel respiratory virus that's killed 50% of known patients is extremely deserving of "the promotion of [del]unrealistic[/del] fear" The sooner we can figure out where it originates, the sooner we can wipe out that animal reservoir and rely on human quarantines to prevent further spread.
For the Hajj, the Saudis screen everyone coming into the country for visible sickness. And you can't even get a visa without providing proof of vaccinations.
They may have backwards laws, but they are well aware of the risks surrounding outbreaks of disease. That said, they haven't been very cooperative with the global medical community in addressing MERS.
The researchers discovered that the genome of the HeLa cell line, which has been replicated millions, if not billions of times, has remained relatively stable."
The key word here is "relatively"
The fact is that mutations have arisen over the years and most scientists working with this cell line are using a variant of the original cells (and most likely a different variant than other scientists).
This cell line is the "white lab rat" of the genetics world, but like the white lab rat, it's not necessarily representative of anything except itself.
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Kind of 20th century Amishes.
The Amish are still around and seem to be doing well enough for themselves.
"20th century Amishes" isn't nearly as bad as you make it out to be.
This is ridiculous since their kids will access anyway 21st century technologies in their friends' houses and at school. They will suffer being put aside from the 21st century society and become technology illettrates.
A. You misspelled illiterate.
B. The kids are 5 and 2. It's okay for them to be technologically illiterate.
Just because the rendering looks good doesn't mean that's what will end up in the developing world.
And at its most basic, that design can be stamped out, wholesale, from sheet metal.
Verizon argues that the FCC doesnâ(TM)t have authority to regulate an information service, a class of communications that the agency has previously exempted from most regulation. The net neutrality rules are a violation of Verizonâ(TM)s First Amendment free speech rights and its Fifth Amendment property rights, the company has argued.
Well, we could just convince congress to give the FCC the necessary authority.
That has about as much chance as getting the cable co's labeled as common carriers
That means that most users of the service end up paying way above what they otherwise would to subsidise a small minority who choose to live in the middle of nowhere. If privatisation ends that, then fantastic.
You need to seriously examine the assumptions that lead you to make the declaration that people "choose to live in the middle of nowhere".
You might also want to reconsider what the purpose of government is, if it isn't to provide service and protection to its citizens.
The proposals I have seem for extreme term limits seem good at a glance, but none of them address the fact that it would in practice hand massive power to lobbyists.
This is complete crap.
There are plenty of scientific, educational, and non-corporate-affiliated public advocacy groups/individuals that are more than happy to provide unbiased information and balanced solutions.
The reasons are many and varied as to why those groups or individuals don't get to provide much input...
But those people exist and could easily help us shape sane public policy.
Hell, the election of Senator Warren is a prime example.
The Chamber of Commerce called her the greatest "threat to free enterprise" and
she only ran for office because entrenched banking interests prevented her from heading the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Before all this, she was an academic and consumer advocate.
Now she's the terror of the Senate banking committee and 3 of 5 subcommittees.
Government can be fixed. Banking can be fixed. The Debt can be fixed. The NSA can be fixed.
But the fixers must be willing to expend enormous political capital to overturn existing power structures.
Going to need a copy of the VM's memory and some skill at finding the crypto keys in there in addition to the volume if you use TrueCrypt.
If the key was ever written to your hard drive, the fine folks at Elcomsoft will find it for you
http://www.elcomsoft.com/efdd.html
And he is us.
The enemy is a lack of meaningful oversight and regulation.
It doesn't matter if you're talking about the NSA, worker safety in mines, or the banking industry.
So, call me crazy, but didn't they do exactly what they are supposed to do? Also, AWS quite clearly states that any given AZ *might* fail. Hence, if you want any sort of high-availability, you replicate across different AZs.
For whatever reason, many of AWS's biggest flameouts have happened at the Virginia datacenter.
Between bad weather, rickety power infrastructure, bad hardware components, poorly configured software/hardware, etc etc etc
It's like setting up your data center in the Bermuda Triangle.
Don't assume that civil law suits will be treated how they are in the US or in any other provinces in Canada. Quebec treats civil suits under French civil law.... a complex different system that we are used to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Louisiana
They don't use English Common Law as the basis for their system either.
Must make life interesting for the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
CIA officials said they closed the Historical Collections Division to accommodate federal budget cuts that the White House and Congress proposed last year to create pressure for a deficit reduction deal. No deal materialized, so across-the-board budget cuts known as the sequester were imposed.
The real problem isn't that they're rolling this into their FOIA office, it's that they'll undoubtedly not move the personnel too.
Institutional knowledge is incredibly important in any organization and even more so for a group that deals with history.
Not to mention the fact that FOIA requests are always backlogged, 30 day response requirements be damned.
but simply scaring the birds by flying into the midst of them as they are eating and pooping and doing other bird things wouldn't break the treaty, as far as I can tell.
It's considered harassing wildlife and is illegal almost everywhere as part of normal wildlife protection laws.
These guys all have very high level security clearances.
If they're government workers, they'll be moved to another job, not "made redundant"
If they're contractors, they'll either get put on another contract, or they'll go work for someone else and get paid more.
People with security clearances are always in high demand.
The U.K. thinks it can join the fascism club just because it smashes a computer or two?
The U.S. arrested a filmmaker a year ago just for making a movie.
Are you talking about Nakoula Basseley aka Sam Bacile?
He got busted for violating the terms of his probation, pled guilty to 4 charges, and accepted 1 year in jail + 5 years of probation.
I don't think this is the example you should have used.
with all kinds of regulations and safety cases that have to be complied with... things they can cope with because they're so large, but little upstart companies can't afford to comply with...
You have no idea WTF you're talking about.
Generic "zomg too much regulation comments" almost always get upmodded and are almost always full of shit.
Prostheses are more or less exempt from any FDA regulation that would make them expensive.
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/cfrsearch.cfm?fr=890.3420
Sec. 890.3420 External limb prosthetic component.
(b)Classification. Class I (general controls). The device is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter, subject to the limitations in 890.9. The device is also exempt from the current good manufacturing practice requirements of the quality system regulation in part 820 of this chapter, with the exception of 820.180, regarding general requirements concerning records and 820.198, regarding complaint files.
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/cfrsearch.cfm?fr=890.9
Sec. 890.9 Limitations of exemptions from section 510(k) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the act).
The exemption from the requirement of premarket notification (section 510(k) of the act) for a generic type of class I or II device is only to the extent that the device has existing or reasonably foreseeable characteristics of commercially distributed devices within that generic type or, in the case of in vitro diagnostic devices, only to the extent that misdiagnosis as a result of using the device would not be associated with high morbidity or mortality. [...]
[A list of reasons when your product is not exempt]
There's someone, somewhere, who had to spend money for the FDA to approve the first brain--computer--limb interface, but after that, everyone gets a free ride.
Recently I got a much better price for renting a car via a specialist site than I could on the renter's own website, and it's often the same for hotels.
The kicker is that the specialist site keeps up to 25% of that better price.
You can almost always call up [company] and ask them to beat the price you found on [website] and they'll do it, because they'll make more money that way.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/07/16/the_cias_new_black_bag_is_digital_nsa_cooperation
During a coffee break at an intelligence conference held in The Netherlands a few years back, a senior Scandinavian counterterrorism official regaled me with a story. One of his service's surveillance teams was conducting routine monitoring of a senior militant leader when they suddenly noticed through their high-powered surveillance cameras two men breaking into the militant's apartment. The target was at Friday evening prayers at the local mosque. But rather than ransack the apartment and steal the computer equipment and other valuables while he was away -- as any right-minded burglar would normally have done -- one of the men pulled out a disk and loaded some programs onto the resident's laptop computer while the other man kept watch at the window. The whole operation took less than two minutes, then the two trespassers fled the way they came, leaving no trace that they had ever been there.
It did not take long for the official to determine that the two men were, in fact, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operatives conducting what is known in the U.S. intelligence community as either a "black bag job" or a "surreptitious entry" operation. Back in the Cold War, such a mission might have involved cracking safes, stealing code books, or photographing the settings on cipher machines. Today, this kind of break-in is known inside the CIA and National Security Agency as an "off-net operation," a clandestine human intelligence mission whose specific purpose is to surreptitiously gain access to the computer systems and email accounts of targets of high interest to America's spies.
Stealing passwords with a key logger or phishing e-mail undoubtedly involves less paperwork than using the rubber hose.
"If you require encryption for your data, this functionality frees you from the hassle and risk of managing your own encryption and decryption keys," Barth wrote. "We manage the cryptographic keys on your behalf using the same hardened key management systems that Google uses for our own encrypted data, including strict key access controls and auditing."
That sounds meaningless.
All that it prevents is interception of data to/from your computer.
It does nothing to stop the NSA from requesting your data from Google, who would control your encryption keys.
A Google spokeswoman said via email the company does not provide encryption keys to any government and provides user data only in accordance with the law.
Which is exactly my point. If they control your key, they have access to your data.
http://i.imgur.com/CCvbPFE.jpg
Google are the new Doubleclick, and claiming they do no evil is ridiculous, but so is your post.
Why we're buying DoubleClick
Posted: Tuesday, June 26, 2007
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/why-were-buying-doubleclick.html
A little postscript: This time around it was the US that got busted, I'm hoping for similar leaks in the whole world. We need more transparancy.
http://wikileaks.org/syria-files/
"The data is more than eight times the size of 'Cablegate' in terms of number of documents,
and more than 100 times the size in terms of data."
So yeah, reality shows a pretty objective picture, its just that people dont want the truth, they want to show that cops and the government are racist institutions as justifications for doing whatever it is people want to do.
Either you haven't looked very hard for data, or you've done an interesting job cherry picking information to reflect the reality you want to portray.
Here's the results of what I found, it took all of like 5 minutes of googling to find it, so basically anyone with a strong opinion on the subject supporting the NY Police is being intellectually dishonest.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/22/2046451/white-people-stopped-by-new-york-police-are-more-likely-to-have-guns-or-drugs-than-minorities/
It's unlikely that the appropriate lesson to take from these findings is that stops of white people should increase because they are more likely to carry weapons and drugs. Rather, they suggest that police are excessively targeting minorities. Officers may be netting more successful stops of white New Yorkers because they are only likely to stop a white person when they actually suspect that person of committing a crime
89% of stops result in no action.
That's hundreds of thousands of people who are harassed by the NYPD for no reason other than being young and not-white.
WTF are you talking about.
A. This has nothing to do with fear mongering against Muslims, in exactly the same way that reporting on SARS had nothing to do with fear mongering against China. I say this even though China and Saudi Arabia went about managing their outbreaks in exactly the same way: pretending it wasn't happening.
B. http://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/mers/
Total Cases: 94
Deaths: 46
C. This isn't a flu virus, this is a deadlier cousin of SARS, which spread to ~3 dozen countries in a matter of weeks
This is the promotion of unrealistic fear, nothing more.
You sound like the boy who wouldn't cry wolf.
A novel respiratory virus that's killed 50% of known patients is extremely deserving of "the promotion of [del]unrealistic[/del] fear"
The sooner we can figure out where it originates, the sooner we can wipe out that animal reservoir and rely on human quarantines to prevent further spread.
For the Hajj, the Saudis screen everyone coming into the country for visible sickness.
And you can't even get a visa without providing proof of vaccinations.
They may have backwards laws, but they are well aware of the risks surrounding outbreaks of disease.
That said, they haven't been very cooperative with the global medical community in addressing MERS.
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals is not a "secret shadow court."
The researchers discovered that the genome of the HeLa cell line, which has been replicated millions, if not billions of times, has remained relatively stable."
The key word here is "relatively"
The fact is that mutations have arisen over the years and most scientists working with this cell line are using a variant of the original cells (and most likely a different variant than other scientists).
This cell line is the "white lab rat" of the genetics world, but like the white lab rat, it's not necessarily representative of anything except itself.