well, they were just concerned that people are really, really, really stupid.
which is fair. I mean, look at youtube now. full of newage idiots babbling about how we're moving to a new age and all that stuff. luckily the people who believe in that kind of crap and conspiracy theories about the government suppressing information about crystals usually just stick to their homes(and to scamming money out of other idiots, seriously, look at any youtube channel about newage/conspiracy stuff. if they have more than 2 hours of content they want to sell you something, even if they're babbling about the end of the monetary system).
This. It seems really stupid to think that these shows will lead someone down those roads--notably, if these shows will, so will almost anything. But sometimes people are really, really stupid. See, e.g.: anti-vaxxer movement. There probably actually *should* be a government conspiracy to silent the anti-vaxxer movement because it presents a serious threat to public health.
We could call the conspiracy the "NIH" and ask it to do "peer-reviewed research.":)
But a good propaganda machine designed to promote research over stupid ideas that threaten public safety, scary as it is, might actually be called for on occasion... be a bit transparent about it, but still.
Sounds like a way to hack a computer with audio. Even the isolated can be gotten.
I have a vague recollection of reading about an acoustic attack to get around airgapping, but don't remember if it was theoretical at the time.
In college a friend of mine implemented "TCP Over Voice" for a project in his operating systems course. Another friend who had perfect pitch sang a dollar sign to the computer...
This is Security 101 stuff... as in, you read a good book on security and you know simple header changes should never be enough to reveal data of another customer. IIRC David LeBlanc's book mentioned a story where he pointed out the problem for a bank once...
Fundamentally security for most companies is still a "don't invest unless we get caught not investing" type of expense. Like landlords who don't worry about providing... electricity...
If I were the US military, I would look at space weapons. Sure they aren't legal, but Soviet Russia wasn't supposed to build biological or chemical weapons, and yet they did. They were supposed to limit nuclear weapons according to the treaty, and they never did. They weren't supposed to invade Georgia, and they did. They weren't supposed to invade Ukraine, and they did. They keep claiming "its not our guys" and yet there are at least 250 known trained Russian special forces in Ukraine. They have captured many with their Russian passports and identity cards. Putin keeps on ratcheting up the military, sending destroyers to peace conferences, using the Russian air force to "probe" other countries air space. If other countries did it to Russia, Putin would call it a provocation to war. Trust but verify is the word. But you can't trust Putin, and there is no verify, so you get another arms race, started by Putin.
The solution to these things is to kill or diminish the power of putin. The Space Arms race is different.
Of course major powers all have satellite killers. Nobody in their right mind wants to use them because they make space unusable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But if there's a way between major powers, the world is pretty much fucked anyway.
However, if there is racism, it is presumably systemic bias that is inadvertent and unconscious and there is no single person who is actually acting in a prejudiced way. Telling them 'cease and desist' is ineffective.
Not necessarily. Admissions as a practical matter are often done in a whole-person type way which is nevertheless guided *Strongly* by what the people involved think the ideal class should look like demographically, including race.
Don't forget on the fly maintenance. Anyone who thinks that it should just "work" is probably the regular mechanic. Important guys to be sure but sometimes things need to happen on the road to get things done on time.
Think of this as a function of time. Probably a lot cheaper to have a network of people able to service big rigs available throughout the country on short notice than to pay them to sit in the truck all day, except where the cost of a delay exceeds a certain threshold--i.e. the cost of paying to have a mechanic sit in the self-driving truck adjusted by the probability of it breaking down.
In NJ, you aren't allowed to pump your own gas so that you will keep the guy who pumps it employed. They *could* have employed him dong something useful--thing TVA-type programs where he's doing a job to improve the environment, for example--but this is what they picked. There will be pushback against automated trucks in a similar fashion, although of course they're so much more proficient that they will prevail in the end.
There are a lot of trucks where liability or small tasks that still require human judgment will keep with human drivers for a good long while yet. Fuel Trucks delivering to local gas stations, septic trucks and heating oil trucks that have to find a port in every person's yard, etc...
I do wonder whether the amount of stuff that falls off the back of the truck will go up or down. Less oversight of the stuff, but less chance for a driver to be in collusion with the people who fall things off the back of trucks.
You're kidding, right? They fix cracks in concrete now by injecting hydraulic cement. Exactly the same delivery process, except the crack is then sealed as soon as the cement dries, and it uses an existing, inexpensive substance.
I don't think anyone is complaining that injected hydraulic cement is not strong enough, or doesn't fill all of the gaps.
But can reopen.
Think plaster walls and ceilings. You can repair cracks, but just get new ones.
...you can't beat bamboo strips. The oldest original versions of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching are written on rolls of bamboo strips. Not sure how they scan electronically, and you will have to keep your pet pandas away from them, but for document durability, you can't beat that format...
Chisel it into stone tablets, then find an ignorant local. Set up a natural gas line to a nearby bush and hide behind a rock. Cub your hands to add a slight reverb effect and tell him to preach the chiselled word, then break the tablets and hide them in a box and trick nazis into looking at them.
Parents can't help with homework? I took trig, calculus, physics, chemistry and biology in high school. My parents couldn't help me with any of it. You can't limit teaching to what your parents know. The world won't progress.
I am assuming the problem is the one you ALWAYS have--that they change the terms and it's pretty ridiculous. Back in the 80s every math book for grade school made up lots of terms that no parents would know, so you had to learn a whole new language if you wanted to teach your kids. But at the end of the day it's just math and those definitions usually hurt more than they help. They could easily pick one set of definitions and stick with them--ideally a set that is empirically verified as the one that students have the least trouble learning or remembering, for example.
charitable pursuits of providing accessible healthcare, education and reducing poverty for millions!
Prove any one of these to actually have been first successful and then validate that it was charitable.
With great respect for the place of civil debate and mutual respect in our society, I ask, "What the flying fuck is wrong with you?"
I mean, maybe you just rolled out of bed, but the next time someone drops tens of billions trying to fix some of the biggest and most complicated problems in the world, please don't act like they're a first-year coder who forgot to run a test suite on strcmp().
One thing I definitely don't agree with Bill Gates on is his love of charter schools. These just suck more money away from the public system and funnel it into corporate interests' pockets, making the public system weaker.
Supply and demand. We would probably be better making the public schools open to all certified teachers to teach their subject--more of a community learning center. But charter schools are another market-based solution that makes more sense than the current system. Subsidizing a supplier is just a bad idea from an economics perspective and prevents *choice* from shaping better education. The public schools are so terrified of lawsuits anyway that they really don't bring a lot more to the table, it's just that the teacher's union has very effectively made any threat to them seem like it's hate or an attack on family values or the like rather than what it is--a concern that the single most important role in our society is being terribly mismanaged.
Your FEDGOV already knows where everyone is from cellphones.
One of the advantages to uber is the Cabbie has a strong disincentive to waste your time trying to pry cash out of you. Regular cabbies in the US commonly pretend their credit card readers aren't working so that they can collect off-books income.
Those same people also passed the Alien and Sedition Acts. Saying "The first Congress did it" is not generally a good argument for interpreting the Constitution.
It is nevertheless the doctrinal origin of the border search exception. Personally I find much better arguments lie in the massive harm that can be done by importing contraband today--post WW-1, you have weapons like the machine gun. Post WW-2, you have the atomic bomb. Today you have highly developed bio-threats.
Of course, a search of your *computer* doesn't help much with those...
TSA et al have done the exact same thing with the laptops of people who aren't suspected of any criminal activity.
TSA doesn't conduct border searches; you fail on the very first sentence of your post. Border searches are typically conducted by ICE.
Actually, it's really irrelevant *which* agency does the search for these purposes. The question is the permissible scope of the border search exception, which is the same regardless of agency.
Fundamentally, arguments against the border search exception are usually weak. The Fourth Amendment was written largely by the same people who sat in the First Congress, and the First Congress explicitly granted customs officials the power to do thorough searches of ships, etc... in order to regulate contraband coming into the United States. Therefore we *know* that they considered such warrantless searches to be "reasonable" under the Fourth Amendment.
Laptops present a somewhat new issue because of how much of an intrusion a search of them represents, and there has been a little bit of pushback against *destructive* searches of people's property absent at least reasonable suspicion, but as a general rule the United States can do pretty much whatever it wants at its own border.
Microsoft continues to have vast amounts of cash; that some of it is going to be used to build some useful infrastructure is a good thing. However the idea that this is best value for shareholders, who surely invested in a software company, is less obvious.
Fundamentally, a large part of what MS is selling today is its cloud services. Software subscriptions, OneDrive, MS hosted Exchange, Cloud computing, etc...
Better data links can be helpful with that. Think load-balancing or parallel processing or insurance against depletion of resources. If someone makes a bad call or an unexpected load comes up rapidly beyond their planned needs, low-latency connections let them offshore the needed resources for a day or two while they work to bring in a few thousand new machines locally, for example.
Data links they control also improve security. MS actually has pretty good privacy policies, people, and security compared to other providers; the more third-party companies involved in that, the less secure it is.
But seriously between this, and the moves that the FCC will actually implement Title 2 protections to uphold Net Neutrality, my hopes for humanity (and the US Govt in general) have gone up a bit.
Fingers crossed...
It's basically the time post-second-election when the Pres starts to worry less about election of his party in the future and more about doing the right thing. So we're had more DoJ civil rights investigations, more support for net neutrality, etc...
For moves of significance, should be requiring $1M insurance and webcams in the trucks. Stealing shipments from moving companies (sometimes with inside men) is big business.
For moves of one piece of furniture with value $1K, should be requiring a photo of the vehicle and guy be texted to law enforcement before loading. Done.
It's as much about PR as anything. Maybe it's actually about telling the NSA et al to piss off.
But sooner or later, a nice government official will show up and say "now gimme".
I'm no sure there really is a way to take data outside of jurisdictions now. Courts seem to think they aren't constrained in their decisions, any more... and all the governments are trading the data.
It probably actually helps the NSA. European privacy laws still apply to the company's actions, but the NSA is completely freed from the laws (and constitution) that restrain it from spying on US citizens. The NSA actually does have some limits on how it spies on US Citizens.
It sucks up pretty much every other signal on the planet.
Yeah, he lied. Why not? Congress is a bunch of spineless whores, there to grub up the money and do what they're told by whichever puppetmaster has his hand shoved up their ass at the moment.
Besides, what are they going to do about it? Make another speech? So what?
They can defund the CIA or particular CIA programs if they want. If there's one thing the CIA hates about Congress, it's the fact that they have to get a new budget from them every year--they can't plan multi-year operations without having contingencies for different funding levels, etc...
Most of Congress may be spineless, and all of it pretends to be spineless, but it is not powerless.
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Care First is a not for profit company. No shares. No investors. It's member owned.
You are aware that perhaps a majority of nonprofits are shams designed to pull money out as salary and the like, right?
well, they were just concerned that people are really, really, really stupid.
which is fair. I mean, look at youtube now. full of newage idiots babbling about how we're moving to a new age and all that stuff. luckily the people who believe in that kind of crap and conspiracy theories about the government suppressing information about crystals usually just stick to their homes(and to scamming money out of other idiots, seriously, look at any youtube channel about newage/conspiracy stuff. if they have more than 2 hours of content they want to sell you something, even if they're babbling about the end of the monetary system).
This. It seems really stupid to think that these shows will lead someone down those roads--notably, if these shows will, so will almost anything. But sometimes people are really, really stupid. See, e.g.: anti-vaxxer movement. There probably actually *should* be a government conspiracy to silent the anti-vaxxer movement because it presents a serious threat to public health.
We could call the conspiracy the "NIH" and ask it to do "peer-reviewed research." :)
But a good propaganda machine designed to promote research over stupid ideas that threaten public safety, scary as it is, might actually be called for on occasion... be a bit transparent about it, but still.
Sounds like a way to hack a computer with audio. Even the isolated can be gotten.
I have a vague recollection of reading about an acoustic attack to get around airgapping, but don't remember if it was theoretical at the time.
In college a friend of mine implemented "TCP Over Voice" for a project in his operating systems course. Another friend who had perfect pitch sang a dollar sign to the computer...
This is Security 101 stuff... as in, you read a good book on security and you know simple header changes should never be enough to reveal data of another customer. IIRC David LeBlanc's book mentioned a story where he pointed out the problem for a bank once...
Fundamentally security for most companies is still a "don't invest unless we get caught not investing" type of expense. Like landlords who don't worry about providing... electricity...
If I were the US military, I would look at space weapons. Sure they aren't legal, but Soviet Russia wasn't supposed to build biological or chemical weapons, and yet they did. They were supposed to limit nuclear weapons according to the treaty, and they never did. They weren't supposed to invade Georgia, and they did. They weren't supposed to invade Ukraine, and they did. They keep claiming "its not our guys" and yet there are at least 250 known trained Russian special forces in Ukraine. They have captured many with their Russian passports and identity cards. Putin keeps on ratcheting up the military, sending destroyers to peace conferences, using the Russian air force to "probe" other countries air space. If other countries did it to Russia, Putin would call it a provocation to war. Trust but verify is the word. But you can't trust Putin, and there is no verify, so you get another arms race, started by Putin.
The solution to these things is to kill or diminish the power of putin. The Space Arms race is different.
Of course major powers all have satellite killers. Nobody in their right mind wants to use them because they make space unusable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But if there's a way between major powers, the world is pretty much fucked anyway.
However, if there is racism, it is presumably systemic bias that is inadvertent and unconscious and there is no single person who is actually acting in a prejudiced way. Telling them 'cease and desist' is ineffective.
Not necessarily. Admissions as a practical matter are often done in a whole-person type way which is nevertheless guided *Strongly* by what the people involved think the ideal class should look like demographically, including race.
Don't forget on the fly maintenance. Anyone who thinks that it should just "work" is probably the regular mechanic. Important guys to be sure but sometimes things need to happen on the road to get things done on time.
Think of this as a function of time. Probably a lot cheaper to have a network of people able to service big rigs available throughout the country on short notice than to pay them to sit in the truck all day, except where the cost of a delay exceeds a certain threshold--i.e. the cost of paying to have a mechanic sit in the self-driving truck adjusted by the probability of it breaking down.
In NJ, you aren't allowed to pump your own gas so that you will keep the guy who pumps it employed. They *could* have employed him dong something useful--thing TVA-type programs where he's doing a job to improve the environment, for example--but this is what they picked. There will be pushback against automated trucks in a similar fashion, although of course they're so much more proficient that they will prevail in the end.
There are a lot of trucks where liability or small tasks that still require human judgment will keep with human drivers for a good long while yet. Fuel Trucks delivering to local gas stations, septic trucks and heating oil trucks that have to find a port in every person's yard, etc...
I do wonder whether the amount of stuff that falls off the back of the truck will go up or down. Less oversight of the stuff, but less chance for a driver to be in collusion with the people who fall things off the back of trucks.
You're kidding, right? They fix cracks in concrete now by injecting hydraulic cement. Exactly the same delivery process, except the crack is then sealed as soon as the cement dries, and it uses an existing, inexpensive substance.
I don't think anyone is complaining that injected hydraulic cement is not strong enough, or doesn't fill all of the gaps.
But can reopen.
Think plaster walls and ceilings. You can repair cracks, but just get new ones.
...you can't beat bamboo strips. The oldest original versions of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching are written on rolls of bamboo strips. Not sure how they scan electronically, and you will have to keep your pet pandas away from them, but for document durability, you can't beat that format...
Chisel it into stone tablets, then find an ignorant local. Set up a natural gas line to a nearby bush and hide behind a rock. Cub your hands to add a slight reverb effect and tell him to preach the chiselled word, then break the tablets and hide them in a box and trick nazis into looking at them.
Parents can't help with homework? I took trig, calculus, physics, chemistry and biology in high school. My parents couldn't help me with any of it. You can't limit teaching to what your parents know. The world won't progress.
I am assuming the problem is the one you ALWAYS have--that they change the terms and it's pretty ridiculous. Back in the 80s every math book for grade school made up lots of terms that no parents would know, so you had to learn a whole new language if you wanted to teach your kids. But at the end of the day it's just math and those definitions usually hurt more than they help. They could easily pick one set of definitions and stick with them--ideally a set that is empirically verified as the one that students have the least trouble learning or remembering, for example.
charitable pursuits of providing accessible healthcare, education and reducing poverty for millions!
Prove any one of these to actually have been first successful and then validate that it was charitable.
With great respect for the place of civil debate and mutual respect in our society, I ask, "What the flying fuck is wrong with you?"
I mean, maybe you just rolled out of bed, but the next time someone drops tens of billions trying to fix some of the biggest and most complicated problems in the world, please don't act like they're a first-year coder who forgot to run a test suite on strcmp().
Excuse me, Im looking for strawmen and someone told me this thread would be a great place to find them.
LordLimeCat, I see you have procured the strawmen, but don't forget the margarita salt.
Funny, if they can steal your card along with the codes (you have to pay, right?), this means that all your money can be stolen.
You know that most credit card companies can be set up to alert you to extraordinary spending and don't charge you for fraud, right?
One thing I definitely don't agree with Bill Gates on is his love of charter schools. These just suck more money away from the public system and funnel it into corporate interests' pockets, making the public system weaker.
Supply and demand. We would probably be better making the public schools open to all certified teachers to teach their subject--more of a community learning center. But charter schools are another market-based solution that makes more sense than the current system. Subsidizing a supplier is just a bad idea from an economics perspective and prevents *choice* from shaping better education. The public schools are so terrified of lawsuits anyway that they really don't bring a lot more to the table, it's just that the teacher's union has very effectively made any threat to them seem like it's hate or an attack on family values or the like rather than what it is--a concern that the single most important role in our society is being terribly mismanaged.
Your FEDGOV already knows where everyone is from cellphones.
One of the advantages to uber is the Cabbie has a strong disincentive to waste your time trying to pry cash out of you. Regular cabbies in the US commonly pretend their credit card readers aren't working so that they can collect off-books income.
Those same people also passed the Alien and Sedition Acts. Saying "The first Congress did it" is not generally a good argument for interpreting the Constitution.
It is nevertheless the doctrinal origin of the border search exception. Personally I find much better arguments lie in the massive harm that can be done by importing contraband today--post WW-1, you have weapons like the machine gun. Post WW-2, you have the atomic bomb. Today you have highly developed bio-threats.
Of course, a search of your *computer* doesn't help much with those...
TSA et al have done the exact same thing with the laptops of people who aren't suspected of any criminal activity.
TSA doesn't conduct border searches; you fail on the very first sentence of your post. Border searches are typically conducted by ICE.
Actually, it's really irrelevant *which* agency does the search for these purposes. The question is the permissible scope of the border search exception, which is the same regardless of agency.
Fundamentally, arguments against the border search exception are usually weak. The Fourth Amendment was written largely by the same people who sat in the First Congress, and the First Congress explicitly granted customs officials the power to do thorough searches of ships, etc... in order to regulate contraband coming into the United States. Therefore we *know* that they considered such warrantless searches to be "reasonable" under the Fourth Amendment.
Laptops present a somewhat new issue because of how much of an intrusion a search of them represents, and there has been a little bit of pushback against *destructive* searches of people's property absent at least reasonable suspicion, but as a general rule the United States can do pretty much whatever it wants at its own border.
Microsoft continues to have vast amounts of cash; that some of it is going to be used to build some useful infrastructure is a good thing. However the idea that this is best value for shareholders, who surely invested in a software company, is less obvious.
Fundamentally, a large part of what MS is selling today is its cloud services. Software subscriptions, OneDrive, MS hosted Exchange, Cloud computing, etc...
Better data links can be helpful with that. Think load-balancing or parallel processing or insurance against depletion of resources. If someone makes a bad call or an unexpected load comes up rapidly beyond their planned needs, low-latency connections let them offshore the needed resources for a day or two while they work to bring in a few thousand new machines locally, for example.
Data links they control also improve security. MS actually has pretty good privacy policies, people, and security compared to other providers; the more third-party companies involved in that, the less secure it is.
I'm more amazed that Ed signed up.
But seriously between this, and the moves that the FCC will actually implement Title 2 protections to uphold Net Neutrality, my hopes for humanity (and the US Govt in general) have gone up a bit.
Fingers crossed...
It's basically the time post-second-election when the Pres starts to worry less about election of his party in the future and more about doing the right thing. So we're had more DoJ civil rights investigations, more support for net neutrality, etc...
" guy be texted to law enforcement before loading"
This is NOT the role of the police....
There is no role here at all unless the guy breaks a law. If he breaks a law, it's the role of the police.
For moves of significance, should be requiring $1M insurance and webcams in the trucks. Stealing shipments from moving companies (sometimes with inside men) is big business.
For moves of one piece of furniture with value $1K, should be requiring a photo of the vehicle and guy be texted to law enforcement before loading. Done.
The CIA would not have a foreign power search US Senate computers even for plausible deniability.
It's as much about PR as anything. Maybe it's actually about telling the NSA et al to piss off.
But sooner or later, a nice government official will show up and say "now gimme".
I'm no sure there really is a way to take data outside of jurisdictions now. Courts seem to think they aren't constrained in their decisions, any more ... and all the governments are trading the data.
It probably actually helps the NSA. European privacy laws still apply to the company's actions, but the NSA is completely freed from the laws (and constitution) that restrain it from spying on US citizens. The NSA actually does have some limits on how it spies on US Citizens.
It sucks up pretty much every other signal on the planet.
Yeah, he lied. Why not? Congress is a bunch of spineless whores, there to grub up the money and do what they're told by whichever puppetmaster has his hand shoved up their ass at the moment.
Besides, what are they going to do about it? Make another speech? So what?
They can defund the CIA or particular CIA programs if they want. If there's one thing the CIA hates about Congress, it's the fact that they have to get a new budget from them every year--they can't plan multi-year operations without having contingencies for different funding levels, etc...
Most of Congress may be spineless, and all of it pretends to be spineless, but it is not powerless.