In particular, humans have done the best in countries that have automated the most.
Which countries? What is their tax rate? How much socialism (aka social support) is mixed into their social structure?
The "cost of automation" has been declining for centuries, and humans have been doing better and better.
This is a bit of a red herring, in that for centuries, the declining cost of automation mostly served to free up huge amounts agricultural laborers to do other work.
The issue at hand is that now automation is taking over much of the "other work."
I'd be interested in knowing the details of the attack. Was it a "social engineering" attack of some kind (ie. a virus-laden email that someone with high privileges opened)? Was it a vulnerability in their networks? I've heard someone with high level admin privileges had their account hacked, but in what way was it done?
I can't find the story, but if i recall correctly, the short version is that the hackers probed Sony, couldn't get in, then started targeting affiliated companies until they found a remotely exploitable vulnerability.
Once they breached that company's network, they found cached(?) credentials for a top Sony sys admin account and used that to access the US Sony intranet.
They mapped the intranet, spread malware all over the place, exfiltrated ~100TB over the course of a ~year, then changed everyone's screensaver and went nuclear with the wiper attack.
Without knowing why these movements are happening, raw market cap numbers are meaningless.
IIRC, most of the XRP (ripple's currency) are in the hands of the creators. As a result of this large pool of illiquid XRP, even small market movements can have outsized effects on its price.
The FCC was formed by the Communications Act of 1934 to replace the radio regulation functions of the Federal Radio Commission.
The FCC exists because 100+ years ago, assclowns with radios were making false distress calls, cursing at people on the airwaves, and faking naval messages.
You could call it the Greater Radio Fuckwad Theory. /And yes, 100+ years ago, foul language was a legitimate moral issue that the government felt compelled to regulate and punish on the shared airwaves.
This is the very bottom of the airspace used by commercial jets so it's not a problem. Below 10,000 feet you have possible uncontrolled aircraft operating VFR without communications equipment to talk to ATC. Above 10,000, you have to have a minimum set of equipment and be talking to ATC.
More importantly, if you RTFA, this spy balloon is being stationed at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland, which is already restricted airspace.
The FAA is amending 14 CFR part 73 by creating a new restricted area, designated R-4001C, within a part of existing restricted areas R-4001A and R-4001B at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. R-4001C is a rectangular area, approximately 4.5 nautical miles (NM) by 2 NM in size, that extends from the surface to 10,000 feet MSL. The time of designation for R-4001C is "continuous." Because the moored balloons contained in the area will be airborne 24 hours per day (except for periods when maintenance is required, or the winds exceed 60 knots), R-4001C is not a joint-use restricted area. R-4001A and R-4001B continue to be joint-use areas, meaning that they may be released, in whole or in part, to the FAA controlling agency when the airspace is not needed by the using agency. During times when the airspace is released to the controlling agency, air traffic may be cleared through R-4001A and/or R-4001B. In addition, an editorial change is made to the using agency name for R-4001A and R-4001B by adding "U.S. Army" at the beginning of the agency name for format standardization purposes.
TLDR: The airspace will be marked on aviation charts as restricted airspace for the duration of the balloon's deployment.
This labor reduction by efficiency improvements includes far more than automation; for example, Toyota saved 45 seconds from a 65-second process building seats by using a shorter hose (raises the steam temperature) and installing the bolts in a different order (easier, faster access by the tech, who installs bolts and then steams the seats to drive out volatile manufacture chemicals). Many such optimizations allow the same humans to use the same tools to build the same things, but in 80% of the time overall, or 60%, or 40%; thus you only need half as many humans to build as many things in as much time.
And yet labor isn't getting paid proportionate to their improved productivity. That is a problem if you want an economy that isn't built on credit card debt.
But does anyone in the debate consider the possibility that ER visits only represent a very small percentage of the overall costs to the health care system? Does anyone consider the possibility of perhaps just socializing the costs for ER visits--by using taxpayer dollars to implicitly insure the uninsured who use an ER, while leaving the rest of the system alone?
It may be "a very small percentage of the overall costs to the health care system," but it's a large cost to many hospitals.
The best (and cheapest) solution is not to have the government pick up the ER tab, it's to get those frequent fliers into a place where they can (1) regularly see a doctor or specialists, (2) consistently manage their chronic condition(s), and (3) not have to use the ER for basic medical care.
Some hospitals have proactively set up programs to do exactly this. They were eating the ER cost anyways and it costs them less to pay for normal medical care for those patients.
According to the article, the issue is that doctors in many areas are not allowed to prescribe generics directly. They must prescribe the name brand, and a generic may be substituted if it is identical to the name brand. In this case, the name brand would no longer be offered, meaning the generics may no longer be offered.
You might want to re-read TFA.
Most generic drugs are dispensed because state laws allow or require pharmacists to substitute a cheaper generic when a doctor prescribes the brand-name drug. But if the brand-name version is different from the generic, then the substitution cannot be made.
Nothing about not-prescribing generics directly. That would be ridiculous and insane.
How do they insulate themselves from generic competition by stopping sales of their own brand name?
Step 1. Make a slightly new formulation (tweaked molecule, prodrug, extended release) Step 2. Blanket the information channels with advertising for the NEW BETTER product Step 3. Drop the price of your original drug to screw with the generic manufacturers ---They preempted this step by ending production entirely Step 4. Profit because everyone has moved to your NEW BETTER product, which has no competition.
I personally take a XR medication, even though there are cheap generics for the older two-a-day formulation. If my insurance situation changed for the worse, I'd switch in a heartbeat, even though b.i.d. requires more discipline to take.
If it isn't based on the "Blade Runner 2" novel, I'll give it a shot. The BR2 novel was one of the worst written messes I've ever seen
Wait till you read Blade Runner 3! Spoiler Alerts for Blade Runner 2:
Rick Deckard had left his career as a blade runner and the gritty, neon-lit labyrinth of L.A. behind, going to the emigrant colony of Mars to live incognito with Sarah Tyrell. But when a movie about Deckard's life begins shooting, old demons start to surface. The most bizarre and mysterious is a talking briefcase--the voice belonging to Deckard's most feared adversary. The briefcase tells Deckard that he's the key to a replicant revolution back on Earth. Deckard must deliver the briefcase--the secret contents--to the replicants of the outer colonies before he is tracked down and killed. Is the briefcase lying? Who is really after Deckard? And who is the little girl who claims her name is Rachael? Once again Deckard is on the run from a sinister force determined to destroy him--and already closing in.
As the article points out, the only reason this was able to work was because one of the upstreams didn't filter announcements correctly. So instead of one provider doing something simple, the "fix" is for the rest of the world to do something complex?
Yes.
If the entire BGP system is reliant on any 1 participant to properly implement security, then you can be assured there will be at least 1 participant who does not properly implement security.
We should assume the entire network is hostile and full of bad actors, then "fix" accordingly. That's how you build robust networks.
For example: assuming everyone will play nicely is why the NSA got to tap datacenter-to-datacenter x-fers for the major internet companies. Once this came to light, each and every company did something complex, instead of the "simple" solution of the NSA not spying on them.
SEC. 309. PROCEDURES FOR THE RETENTION OF INCIDENTALLY ACQUIRED
COMMUNICATIONS.
(a) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Covered communication.--The term ``covered communication''
means any nonpublic telephone or electronic communication acquired
without the consent of a person who is a party to the
communication, including communications in electronic storage. [...] (b) Procedures for Covered Communications.--
(1) Requirement to adopt.--Not later than 2 years after the
date of the enactment of this Act each head of an element of the
intelligence community shall adopt procedures approved by the
Attorney General for such element that ensure compliance with the
requirements of paragraph (3).
(3) Procedures.--
(A) Application.--The procedures required by paragraph (1) shall apply to any intelligence collection activity not
otherwise authorized by court order (including an order or
certification issued by a court established under subsection
(a) or (b) of section 103 of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1803)), subpoena, or
similar legal process that is reasonably anticipated to result
in the acquisition of a covered communication to or from a
United States person and shall permit the acquisition,
retention, and dissemination of covered communications subject
to the limitation in subparagraph (B).
(B) Limitation on retention.--A covered communication shall
not be retained in excess of 5 years, unless--
The key words here are "shall apply to any intelligence collection activity not otherwise authorized by court order"
If you control the definition of "unreasonable," probable cause never enters into the equation. The only recourse is to get a lawsuit through to the Supreme Court and have them decide how reasonable the law is.
Government forcing medical procedures on anyone is really not something we want, especially since government won't take responsibility for the (admittedly unlikely) consequences of a bad result.
Under the NCVIA, the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) was created [in 1986] to provide a federal no-fault system for compensating vaccine-related injuries or death by establishing a claim procedure involving the United States Court of Federal Claims and special masters.
This regime was created because (later discredited) fears over the DPT vaccine led to lawsuits, which caused all but one DPT vaccine manufacturer to end production... and that final manufacturer was also threatening to halt production.
We need better education to counteract the Jenny McCarthys.
I'm not trying to compare you to Jenny McCarthy, but I hope you learned something new by reading about the NCVIA and NVICP.
As we have increased the number of vaccines being given to children, we have also seen an increase in debilitating illnesses.
We can't have a rational dialogue because you make statements like that one.
Which debilitating illnesses? Is it possible that those "debilitating illnesses" have existed all along, but medicine didn't have a specific names for them and threw them into catchall categories?
Yeah yeah, correlation does not prove causation but we can't even study at this point because anyone questioning is an "Anti Vac Whacko".
Which correlations? Lots of time, money, and effort has been spent studying vaccines in the wake of Dr. Andrew "brought the medical profession into disrepute" Wakefield's original paper (which has since been retracted along with his UK license to practice medicine).
How about, if you come down with something, it's your problem for not getting yourself vaccinated.
FFS, the problem isn't the unvaccinated getting sick. It's the unvaccinated getting those who cannot be vaccinated, have compromised immune systems, or whose vaccination was less than100% effective sick.
if the public good is really being served here by improving safety of citizens, why isn't the discussion framed more along these lines?
Because property owners have a really good lobby and are very active in local politics. They donate lots of money and generate lots of property taxes.
The mayor can't afford to piss them off, so the end result will be State subsidies for safety costs that would otherwise exclusively belong to the owners.
Pretty sure grocery stores do pay for repairs/stock loss/insurance through increasing the price of their goods. How else would they do it?
This might come as a shock to you, but sometimes companies will eat a cost and accept lower profit margins.
Sometimes it's a matter of image "we don't want to be perceived as raising prices" and sometimes it's just a matter of market share "if we raise prices, we lose customers"
Grocery stores have less margin than most business, but they generally absorb short term price spikes to maintain customer loyalty.
On the other hand, utilities are complete bastards and ask for rate hikes every chance they get, regardless of any economic or business needs.
Also, waterboarding was done on 3 prisoners, though the media would have you believe every single prisoner in gitmo had it done to them.
FTFA:
The CIA has maintained that only three prisoners were ever subjected to waterboarding, but the report alludes to evidence that it may have been used on others, including photographs of a well-worn waterboard at a black site where its use was never officially recorded. The committee said the agency could not explain the presence of the board and water-dousing equipment at the site, which is not named in the report, but is believed to be the âoeSalt Pitâ in Afghanistan.
Who are you going to believe, the CIA or your own lying eyes?
I'm sorry, I don't rent my operating systems. Or my applications for that matter.
I wonder how this could possibly work in the retail channel. Do you buy a PC with a free 1 year subscription to Windows 10 and Office? And then after that year it runs in safe mode 640x480 until you pony up?
and "Net Neutrality" strikes me as an intrusive shell game... Hoping I'm wrong.
You're wrong, probably because you have some wrong notion of what "Net Neutrality" is. I won't rehash the explanation, look it up or just check this thread later in the day.
How do we get back to real competition and value for our money?
End local franchise monopolies. -This might have to be done State by State Force cable companies to open their infrastructure to (cable ISP) competitors. Enhance build out requirements so that the infrastructure will reach under served populations.
The basics of creating competitive markets are not news to anyone. The problem is that national ISPs/TV providers have enormous influence in shaping the local State regulatory environment. Consequently, government is the problem, insofar as it has been captured by corporate interests and is not working to benefit the citizenry.
And before anyone says "deregulation!!1" free markets != competitive markets
You can see the whitelist of allowed sites here: https://easylist-downloads.adb... - along with Google and it's Doubleclick network, other notables and other publishers and trackers not easily recognized have paid up. Adblock Plus got the install base and trust, then they change the arrangement.
There's a little box in the settings. Next to it is the text "Allow some non-intrusive advertising"
I unchecked that box a long time ago and haven't thought about it until just now.
Seems like it would take some careful calibration to make a laser that would burn off wet leaves plastered to the rail and yet not soften the hardened steel of the rail that's going to have a multi-ton train passing over it in seconds.
If you RTFA, they use a laser wavelength that reflects off the steel instead of being absorbed.
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In particular, humans have done the best in countries that have automated the most.
Which countries?
What is their tax rate?
How much socialism (aka social support) is mixed into their social structure?
The "cost of automation" has been declining for centuries, and humans have been doing better and better.
This is a bit of a red herring, in that for centuries, the declining cost of automation mostly served to free up huge amounts agricultural laborers to do other work.
The issue at hand is that now automation is taking over much of the "other work."
Really? Apparently they quickly took control of almost every one one of Sony's servers and workstations.
Wired mentions (without giving a source) an interview with a self-proclaimed member of GoP who claims Sony's network was infiltrated for a year.
I'm not sure what you consider "quickly," but a year is a long time, even while rooting around in a corporate network as large as Sony's.
I'd be interested in knowing the details of the attack. Was it a "social engineering" attack of some kind (ie. a virus-laden email that someone with high privileges opened)? Was it a vulnerability in their networks? I've heard someone with high level admin privileges had their account hacked, but in what way was it done?
I can't find the story, but if i recall correctly, the short version is that the hackers probed Sony, couldn't get in, then started targeting affiliated companies until they found a remotely exploitable vulnerability.
Once they breached that company's network, they found cached(?) credentials for a top Sony sys admin account and used that to access the US Sony intranet.
They mapped the intranet, spread malware all over the place, exfiltrated ~100TB over the course of a ~year, then changed everyone's screensaver and went nuclear with the wiper attack.
Without knowing why these movements are happening, raw market cap numbers are meaningless.
IIRC, most of the XRP (ripple's currency) are in the hands of the creators.
As a result of this large pool of illiquid XRP, even small market movements can have outsized effects on its price.
The FCC was formed by the Communications Act of 1934 to replace the radio regulation functions of the Federal Radio Commission.
The FCC exists because 100+ years ago, assclowns with radios were making false distress calls, cursing at people on the airwaves, and faking naval messages.
You could call it the Greater Radio Fuckwad Theory.
/And yes, 100+ years ago, foul language was a legitimate moral issue that the government felt compelled to regulate and punish on the shared airwaves.
This is the very bottom of the airspace used by commercial jets so it's not a problem. Below 10,000 feet you have possible uncontrolled aircraft operating VFR without communications equipment to talk to ATC. Above 10,000, you have to have a minimum set of equipment and be talking to ATC.
More importantly, if you RTFA, this spy balloon is being stationed at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland, which is already restricted airspace.
The FAA is amending 14 CFR part 73 by creating a new restricted area, designated R-4001C, within a part of existing restricted areas R-4001A and R-4001B at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. R-4001C is a rectangular area, approximately 4.5 nautical miles (NM) by 2 NM in size, that extends from the surface to 10,000 feet MSL. The time of designation for R-4001C is "continuous." Because the moored balloons contained in the area will be airborne 24 hours per day (except for periods when maintenance is required, or the winds exceed 60 knots), R-4001C is not a joint-use restricted area. R-4001A and R-4001B continue to be joint-use areas, meaning that they may be released, in whole or in part, to the FAA controlling agency when the airspace is not needed by the using agency. During times when the airspace is released to the controlling agency, air traffic may be cleared through R-4001A and/or R-4001B. In addition, an editorial change is made to the using agency name for R-4001A and R-4001B by adding "U.S. Army" at the beginning of the agency name for format standardization purposes.
TLDR: The airspace will be marked on aviation charts as restricted airspace for the duration of the balloon's deployment.
This labor reduction by efficiency improvements includes far more than automation; for example, Toyota saved 45 seconds from a 65-second process building seats by using a shorter hose (raises the steam temperature) and installing the bolts in a different order (easier, faster access by the tech, who installs bolts and then steams the seats to drive out volatile manufacture chemicals). Many such optimizations allow the same humans to use the same tools to build the same things, but in 80% of the time overall, or 60%, or 40%; thus you only need half as many humans to build as many things in as much time.
And yet labor isn't getting paid proportionate to their improved productivity.
That is a problem if you want an economy that isn't built on credit card debt.
But does anyone in the debate consider the possibility that ER visits only represent a very small percentage of the overall costs to the health care system? Does anyone consider the possibility of perhaps just socializing the costs for ER visits--by using taxpayer dollars to implicitly insure the uninsured who use an ER, while leaving the rest of the system alone?
It may be "a very small percentage of the overall costs to the health care system," but it's a large cost to many hospitals.
The best (and cheapest) solution is not to have the government pick up the ER tab, it's to get those frequent fliers into a place where they can (1) regularly see a doctor or specialists, (2) consistently manage their chronic condition(s), and (3) not have to use the ER for basic medical care.
Some hospitals have proactively set up programs to do exactly this.
They were eating the ER cost anyways and it costs them less to pay for normal medical care for those patients.
According to the article, the issue is that doctors in many areas are not allowed to prescribe generics directly. They must prescribe the name brand, and a generic may be substituted if it is identical to the name brand. In this case, the name brand would no longer be offered, meaning the generics may no longer be offered.
You might want to re-read TFA.
Most generic drugs are dispensed because state laws allow or require pharmacists to substitute a cheaper generic when a doctor prescribes the brand-name drug. But if the brand-name version is different from the generic, then the substitution cannot be made.
Nothing about not-prescribing generics directly.
That would be ridiculous and insane.
How do they insulate themselves from generic competition by stopping sales of their own brand name?
Step 1. Make a slightly new formulation (tweaked molecule, prodrug, extended release)
Step 2. Blanket the information channels with advertising for the NEW BETTER product
Step 3. Drop the price of your original drug to screw with the generic manufacturers ---They preempted this step by ending production entirely
Step 4. Profit because everyone has moved to your NEW BETTER product, which has no competition.
I personally take a XR medication, even though there are cheap generics for the older two-a-day formulation.
If my insurance situation changed for the worse, I'd switch in a heartbeat, even though b.i.d. requires more discipline to take.
If it isn't based on the "Blade Runner 2" novel, I'll give it a shot. The BR2 novel was one of the worst written messes I've ever seen
Wait till you read Blade Runner 3!
Spoiler Alerts for Blade Runner 2:
Rick Deckard had left his career as a blade runner and the gritty, neon-lit labyrinth of L.A. behind, going to the emigrant colony of Mars to live incognito with Sarah Tyrell. But when a movie about Deckard's life begins shooting, old demons start to surface. The most bizarre and mysterious is a talking briefcase--the voice belonging to Deckard's most feared adversary. The briefcase tells Deckard that he's the key to a replicant revolution back on Earth. Deckard must deliver the briefcase--the secret contents--to the replicants of the outer colonies before he is tracked down and killed. Is the briefcase lying? Who is really after Deckard? And who is the little girl who claims her name is Rachael? Once again Deckard is on the run from a sinister force determined to destroy him--and already closing in.
As the article points out, the only reason this was able to work was because one of the upstreams didn't filter announcements correctly. So instead of one provider doing something simple, the "fix" is for the rest of the world to do something complex?
Yes.
If the entire BGP system is reliant on any 1 participant to properly implement security, then you can be assured there will be at least 1 participant who does not properly implement security.
We should assume the entire network is hostile and full of bad actors, then "fix" accordingly.
That's how you build robust networks.
For example: assuming everyone will play nicely is why the NSA got to tap datacenter-to-datacenter x-fers for the major internet companies. Once this came to light, each and every company did something complex, instead of the "simple" solution of the NSA not spying on them.
As I said above, this does not prove causation but sure as hell does indicate a link.
That's not how science works. Find some peer reviewed research that supports your theories
I really don't get why people are against science when it comes to vaccines. Against it to irrational religious levels.
or admit you are exactly the person that you "really don't get"
SEC. 309. PROCEDURES FOR THE RETENTION OF INCIDENTALLY ACQUIRED
COMMUNICATIONS.
(a) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Covered communication.--The term ``covered communication''
means any nonpublic telephone or electronic communication acquired
without the consent of a person who is a party to the
communication, including communications in electronic storage.
[...]
(b) Procedures for Covered Communications.--
(1) Requirement to adopt.--Not later than 2 years after the
date of the enactment of this Act each head of an element of the
intelligence community shall adopt procedures approved by the
Attorney General for such element that ensure compliance with the
requirements of paragraph (3).
(3) Procedures.--
(A) Application.--The procedures required by paragraph (1)
shall apply to any intelligence collection activity not
otherwise authorized by court order (including an order or
certification issued by a court established under subsection
(a) or (b) of section 103 of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1803)), subpoena, or
similar legal process that is reasonably anticipated to result
in the acquisition of a covered communication to or from a
United States person and shall permit the acquisition,
retention, and dissemination of covered communications subject
to the limitation in subparagraph (B).
(B) Limitation on retention.--A covered communication shall
not be retained in excess of 5 years, unless--
The key words here are "shall apply to any intelligence collection activity not otherwise authorized by court order"
If you control the definition of "unreasonable," probable cause never enters into the equation.
The only recourse is to get a lawsuit through to the Supreme Court and have them decide how reasonable the law is.
Government forcing medical procedures on anyone is really not something we want, especially since government won't take responsibility for the (admittedly unlikely) consequences of a bad result.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Childhood_Vaccine_Injury_Act
Under the NCVIA, the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) was created [in 1986] to provide a federal no-fault system for compensating vaccine-related injuries or death by establishing a claim procedure involving the United States Court of Federal Claims and special masters.
Since 1988, the The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has been funded by an excise tax of 75 cents on every purchased dose of covered vaccine.
This regime was created because (later discredited) fears over the DPT vaccine led to lawsuits, which caused all but one DPT vaccine manufacturer to end production... and that final manufacturer was also threatening to halt production.
We need better education to counteract the Jenny McCarthys.
I'm not trying to compare you to Jenny McCarthy, but I hope you learned something new by reading about the NCVIA and NVICP.
As we have increased the number of vaccines being given to children, we have also seen an increase in debilitating illnesses.
We can't have a rational dialogue because you make statements like that one.
Which debilitating illnesses?
Is it possible that those "debilitating illnesses" have existed all along, but medicine didn't have a specific names for them and threw them into catchall categories?
Yeah yeah, correlation does not prove causation but we can't even study at this point because anyone questioning is an "Anti Vac Whacko".
Which correlations?
Lots of time, money, and effort has been spent studying vaccines in the wake of Dr. Andrew "brought the medical profession into disrepute" Wakefield's original paper (which has since been retracted along with his UK license to practice medicine).
How about, if you come down with something, it's your problem for not getting yourself vaccinated.
FFS, the problem isn't the unvaccinated getting sick.
It's the unvaccinated getting those who cannot be vaccinated, have compromised immune systems, or whose vaccination was less than100% effective sick.
if the public good is really being served here by improving safety of citizens, why isn't the discussion framed more along these lines?
Because property owners have a really good lobby and are very active in local politics.
They donate lots of money and generate lots of property taxes.
The mayor can't afford to piss them off, so the end result will be State subsidies for safety costs that would otherwise exclusively belong to the owners.
Pretty sure grocery stores do pay for repairs/stock loss/insurance through increasing the price of their goods. How else would they do it?
This might come as a shock to you, but sometimes companies will eat a cost and accept lower profit margins.
Sometimes it's a matter of image "we don't want to be perceived as raising prices"
and sometimes it's just a matter of market share "if we raise prices, we lose customers"
Grocery stores have less margin than most business, but they generally absorb short term price spikes to maintain customer loyalty.
On the other hand, utilities are complete bastards and ask for rate hikes every chance they get, regardless of any economic or business needs.
Also, waterboarding was done on 3 prisoners, though the media would have you believe every single prisoner in gitmo had it done to them.
FTFA:
The CIA has maintained that only three prisoners were ever subjected to waterboarding, but the report alludes to evidence that it may have been used on others, including photographs of a well-worn waterboard at a black site where its use was never officially recorded. The committee said the agency could not explain the presence of the board and water-dousing equipment at the site, which is not named in the report, but is believed to be the âoeSalt Pitâ in Afghanistan.
Who are you going to believe, the CIA or your own lying eyes?
I'm sorry, I don't rent my operating systems. Or my applications for that matter.
I wonder how this could possibly work in the retail channel.
Do you buy a PC with a free 1 year subscription to Windows 10 and Office?
And then after that year it runs in safe mode 640x480 until you pony up?
and "Net Neutrality" strikes me as an intrusive shell game... Hoping I'm wrong.
You're wrong, probably because you have some wrong notion of what "Net Neutrality" is.
I won't rehash the explanation, look it up or just check this thread later in the day.
How do we get back to real competition and value for our money?
End local franchise monopolies.
-This might have to be done State by State
Force cable companies to open their infrastructure to (cable ISP) competitors.
Enhance build out requirements so that the infrastructure will reach under served populations.
The basics of creating competitive markets are not news to anyone.
The problem is that national ISPs/TV providers have enormous influence in shaping the local State regulatory environment.
Consequently, government is the problem, insofar as it has been captured by corporate interests and is not working to benefit the citizenry.
And before anyone says "deregulation!!1"
free markets != competitive markets
You can see the whitelist of allowed sites here: https://easylist-downloads.adb... - along with Google and it's Doubleclick network, other notables and other publishers and trackers not easily recognized have paid up. Adblock Plus got the install base and trust, then they change the arrangement.
There's a little box in the settings.
Next to it is the text "Allow some non-intrusive advertising"
I unchecked that box a long time ago and haven't thought about it until just now.
Seems like it would take some careful calibration to make a laser that would burn off wet leaves plastered to the rail and yet not soften the hardened steel of the rail that's going to have a multi-ton train passing over it in seconds.
If you RTFA, they use a laser wavelength that reflects off the steel instead of being absorbed.