Oh dear god really? you are pissing and moaning about having to not upgrade a 8 year old computer?
Well, as a Mac user since the 80's, I can say that I'd complain about having to upgrade my 8 year old Mac when the best I can buy for a desktop is a 4 year old Mac. I've been in the market for a new Mac for a couple of years now, but am still waiting for a new model to show up and MacRumors Buyer's Guide to change to "Buy Now" rather than "Do Not Buy, New Models Soon".
Possibly thought that anybody in infosec sending them this stuff would have already thought of that and cleaned or otherwise created a false trail. Still, i wonder if there is something they could get stuck with by destroying the originals that they get after transcribing them.
So far this is the first of these leaks to actually result in an arrest. Several well known leaks came when only a small handful of high level people could have gotten the data to begin with. The FBI needs to arrest all of the people doing the leaking, not just low level contractors. Perhaps this arrest is just the first in series, can it really be that hard to track down these leaks?
Probably a lot more harder than this one. She looked at the document, printed it out, then apparently emailed the people who got it, and when questioned, admitted to doing it. I figure the intelligence industry is probably more secure than the healthcare industry, and the healthcare industry has records of who looked at what and everybody know it. Those high level leakers probably took steps to not do stupid things to begin with that would immediately lead back to them. If they were one of many people to look at the leaked data, it was part of their job to look at that data, transcribed the info by hand or from memory, and took a little bit of caution in sending it to who they leaked it to, there can be little to no evidence as to who did it.
Relevance is measured in eyeballs, not subscribers. Back in the days when I was riding the train into the city, you could tell the serious people from the unserious ones by what paper they were reading. With online, it's word of mouth, not the paper you see people with.
It's a long term death sentence to put up a paywall.
I disagree, because I think you don't understand the relevance of the WSJ. They are not a website, or a paper, they are a news service for people who want to invest their money based on what is going on in the world. Such people need such a service and need it to be fact checked and reliable, because they could lose millions or even billions if based on biased or false news. If the WSJ does die, then a similar service will takes its place, and still charge money because reporting, journalism, and fact checking take money. That said, skip their editorials and never read the comments.
Let it die. We are terrified of letting the archive filter itself out, but really it is ok to let a billion VHS tapes go.
I'd disagree. I'll agree that 90% of everything is crap, but there is still that 10% that will stand the test of time. Due to the legal issues around media formats, music, and other issues, a sizable fraction of even that 10% will be lost because it can only be published on VHS. There will probably be no (legal) DVD, Blue-Ray, or other newer media formatting to ever view those movies or shows. Perhaps with some sort of proper archiving, it might last till it falls out of copyright or issues are settled and can be republished, but that will take work on somebodies part.
In fact, I'm not exactly sure why anyone would want something like this. I really don't want something in my home that's always listening and potentially sending my speech out to computers that I don't control.
Of the people I know who have devices like this, they typically use them to control their thermostat, lighting, and music through voice commands. When pointed out they could easily get up and change all these things, they will pretty much reply "Fuck that, I'm a blue collar worker who has been working hard all day and am going to collapse into my couch and read my book/watch tv/play video games without having to get up again till I have to pee."
The WSJ generally manages to retain some semblance of journalistic integrity. Doesn't mean they are always correct or above reproach but they have a solid track record of mostly rational discourse and doing actual research to determine real facts. This differs sharply from companies like Fox News and Brietbart which have no discernible regard for truth unless it supports their existing ideology.
Hunter S. Thompson summed it up decades ago, the WSJ is what people, from all over the world, read when they decide what to do with their money. If the WSJ didn't fact check or spun their news, somebody might end up losing millions or even billions of dollars because they were making business decisions based on false news. If that happened, the people with millions or billions to spend would have to find a new new source. This is why WSJ can be subscription only and float, they have the info people willing to pay money need. This list used to also include the New York Times, but they have fallen in reliability since when HST was talking about the media. I'm sure the WSJ picked up those lost readers.
That being said, skip the editorials and never read the comments.
What does Domino's or Pizza Hut do for delivery drivers? Should be an apples to apples comparison. Except for business hours. Plus most WalMarts can deliver groceries and will pay the local sales tax.
Pizza delivery drivers get tips, a percentage of what is delivered, and free food.
So when's the impeachment of the POTUS coming? I don't think anyone in their right mind in the US appreciates the fact that Trump has been actively sabotaging the US economy ever since his inauguration.
First, there has to be evidence that he actually has committed a "high crime or misdemeanor" and then the process can begin. There is suspicion that something might have gone on, and if he is trying to obstruct justice in the current investigation, that would probably count. Still, they're collecting evidence and that will take months. Next, it has to be something sufficiently bad that his own party will want him out or at least be willing to begin impeachment. Then it will take some time for the impeachment proceedings. So, even if his Russian ties turn out true and he has been obstructing justice, and his own party (and presumably the public) have turned against him, you're still looking at months or years. Still, for most of what he's done, like withdrawing from the Paris Accord, are not impeachable reasons. It's his job and unless he performs his job so badly that his own cabinet decides to declare him unfit for service, he'll be there to make bad decisions his entire term.
1. Ask for passcode
2. Unlock phone, find no incriminating evidence, change passcode and lock phone again
3. Claim wrong code was provided
Voila, guilty until proven innocent. Which the accused cannot do.
That would never happen, here is the actual sequence of events in today's legal system.
1. Ask for passcode
2. Unlock phone, find no incriminating evidence
3. Plant child porn downloaded from the FBI
4. Change passcode and lock phone again
5. Have a "clean" officer (who does not know about steps 1 through 4) use the Israeli law enforcement hacking tool to re-unlock the phone
6. Prosecute suspect for child pornography
I don't think we're talking about a case where the FBI or Israeli law enforcement might be involved. We're talking about a single cop who thinks the guy is guilty, like the ones that claim they were being attacked by a suspect and shot him, till it's revealed their's video that disproves their testimony, simply doing this because it's a quick fix. Hopefully, we'd have an evidence system that would prevent such actions, but then again, doubtful.
it has no temperature... so the shield material will get that hot... but what's going to protect what's behind that shield from that temperature?
Honestly, another shield. Since this is radiative heat, that means a mirror. From there, it's turtles (or mirrors anyway) all the way down (or as many as you can fit into the space given for the weight allowance). Each mirror will hopefully reflect most of the radiation and what it does absorb, only half will radiate on towards what is behind the shield. Put a few layers of that and hopefully, only a percent of a percent of a percent will make it to the probe itself. In my physics labs, to shield our our vacuum experiments from a heat source, we'd wrap the heat source in metal foil as each wrap would basically act as an insulator. Still, heat will build up as there will probably be a physical connection and radiant heat is a really hard way to get rid of heat, so I bet the experiment will probably be built in such a way to simply last long enough to get the data they need.
The electoral college is a horrible design. I fail to see how the electoral college prevents CA and NY from deciding the election. It actually causes 100% of their votes to go to a single candidate.
That really doesn't have anything to do with the electoral college. How the votes are divided depends on each individual state. Some states do have proportional representation.
Let's see.... MTV used to play music videos, then got into reality tv.
Thing is, in this example and probably the most, that their change ends up making them more money. Reality TV had less costs and brought in more viewers and money for MTV than playing music videos even if they were a juggernaut in the music industry. In many cases, providing easily digestible media content to the general population pays better than their core business of niche media.
C'mon, people! That behavior from an "audience" is downright soul-killing! We've literally spent decades and invested our souls into learning to perform for you, at least show a bare minimum of respect!
Well, realize that I'm only there because I'm friends with one of the other bands that are playing, just want to see the headliner, or because I want to eat and have some drinks. Perhaps I even want to speak to my friends which I can't do with a live band playing too loudly in the place we happened to choose to go to, so we text each other instead. Still, I'm old and have fairly esoteric musical tastes so my impression of what the current live music scene is like probably doesn't fit what I expect.
There are significant costs to produce TV shows. You cheap bastards are ruining TV and driving networks out of business. All cord-cutters are cheapskate assholes who are ruining TV for the rest of us.
Oh woe is us! However did television exist before Cable TV? However will television survive?
Hopefully by putting out TV shows I actually want to watch.
This particular attacker was born in the UK, in Manchester, and therefore not a foreigner.
Legally, yes.
Culturally, morally, and ideologically?
He might as well have had blue skin and spoke Betelgeusean.
Couldn't the same thing be said of the National Front skinhead that hates WOGs and multiculturalism and wants to return to a Britain that has never existed? Couldn't it be applied also to those on either side of the Irish Troubles? How about 75 years ago with regards to sexual introverts?
A Dyson sphere, much less a partial Dyson sphere with sporadic orbit makes no sense. Why build such huge things? With technology so advanced, there are plenty other ways to gets lots of energy.
Not really. Earth is probably unusual for it's amount of fissile material and it would be trivial. Even then, solar energy will be of greater use in space. Eventually, their planet will reach capacity and they'll have to move energy gathering resources off planet.They might be able to try and colonize another planet, which would take percentage of their star's energy over lifetimes to do, which would be about right for large collectors capable of dimming their sun to an observer like ourselves. Even that amount of energy probably wouldn't allow them to escape their solar system for anything but perhaps a small bit of research.
Now, if you really wanted a gedanken experiment of extreme explanations, let's assume we have a T-machine circling and occulting the star. Then not only would it occult the star, but also light form the star would exit at other times as it possible followed rotating acausal light-like pathways. If I was still a physic grad student, I might break out the GTR and see what a path through such a frame dragging gravity well that is rotating around a point in cyclindrical coordinates would be like, but these days the math just makes my head swim.
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Oh dear god really? you are pissing and moaning about having to not upgrade a 8 year old computer?
Well, as a Mac user since the 80's, I can say that I'd complain about having to upgrade my 8 year old Mac when the best I can buy for a desktop is a 4 year old Mac. I've been in the market for a new Mac for a couple of years now, but am still waiting for a new model to show up and MacRumors Buyer's Guide to change to "Buy Now" rather than "Do Not Buy, New Models Soon".
Possibly thought that anybody in infosec sending them this stuff would have already thought of that and cleaned or otherwise created a false trail. Still, i wonder if there is something they could get stuck with by destroying the originals that they get after transcribing them.
Some parents are cruel.
So far this is the first of these leaks to actually result in an arrest. Several well known leaks came when only a small handful of high level people could have gotten the data to begin with. The FBI needs to arrest all of the people doing the leaking, not just low level contractors. Perhaps this arrest is just the first in series, can it really be that hard to track down these leaks?
Probably a lot more harder than this one. She looked at the document, printed it out, then apparently emailed the people who got it, and when questioned, admitted to doing it. I figure the intelligence industry is probably more secure than the healthcare industry, and the healthcare industry has records of who looked at what and everybody know it. Those high level leakers probably took steps to not do stupid things to begin with that would immediately lead back to them. If they were one of many people to look at the leaked data, it was part of their job to look at that data, transcribed the info by hand or from memory, and took a little bit of caution in sending it to who they leaked it to, there can be little to no evidence as to who did it.
Two news sites equal in terms of reporting etc.
Except there really is nobody equal to WSJ for reporting. Thus why they can survive as a subscription site.
Relevance is measured in eyeballs, not subscribers. Back in the days when I was riding the train into the city, you could tell the serious people from the unserious ones by what paper they were reading. With online, it's word of mouth, not the paper you see people with.
It's a long term death sentence to put up a paywall.
I disagree, because I think you don't understand the relevance of the WSJ. They are not a website, or a paper, they are a news service for people who want to invest their money based on what is going on in the world. Such people need such a service and need it to be fact checked and reliable, because they could lose millions or even billions if based on biased or false news. If the WSJ does die, then a similar service will takes its place, and still charge money because reporting, journalism, and fact checking take money. That said, skip their editorials and never read the comments.
Probably because they only run things they can fact check.
Let it die. We are terrified of letting the archive filter itself out, but really it is ok to let a billion VHS tapes go.
I'd disagree. I'll agree that 90% of everything is crap, but there is still that 10% that will stand the test of time. Due to the legal issues around media formats, music, and other issues, a sizable fraction of even that 10% will be lost because it can only be published on VHS. There will probably be no (legal) DVD, Blue-Ray, or other newer media formatting to ever view those movies or shows. Perhaps with some sort of proper archiving, it might last till it falls out of copyright or issues are settled and can be republished, but that will take work on somebodies part.
In fact, I'm not exactly sure why anyone would want something like this. I really don't want something in my home that's always listening and potentially sending my speech out to computers that I don't control.
Of the people I know who have devices like this, they typically use them to control their thermostat, lighting, and music through voice commands. When pointed out they could easily get up and change all these things, they will pretty much reply "Fuck that, I'm a blue collar worker who has been working hard all day and am going to collapse into my couch and read my book/watch tv/play video games without having to get up again till I have to pee."
The WSJ generally manages to retain some semblance of journalistic integrity. Doesn't mean they are always correct or above reproach but they have a solid track record of mostly rational discourse and doing actual research to determine real facts. This differs sharply from companies like Fox News and Brietbart which have no discernible regard for truth unless it supports their existing ideology.
Hunter S. Thompson summed it up decades ago, the WSJ is what people, from all over the world, read when they decide what to do with their money. If the WSJ didn't fact check or spun their news, somebody might end up losing millions or even billions of dollars because they were making business decisions based on false news. If that happened, the people with millions or billions to spend would have to find a new new source. This is why WSJ can be subscription only and float, they have the info people willing to pay money need. This list used to also include the New York Times, but they have fallen in reliability since when HST was talking about the media. I'm sure the WSJ picked up those lost readers.
That being said, skip the editorials and never read the comments.
What does Domino's or Pizza Hut do for delivery drivers? Should be an apples to apples comparison. Except for business hours. Plus most WalMarts can deliver groceries and will pay the local sales tax.
Pizza delivery drivers get tips, a percentage of what is delivered, and free food.
So when's the impeachment of the POTUS coming? I don't think anyone in their right mind in the US appreciates the fact that Trump has been actively sabotaging the US economy ever since his inauguration.
First, there has to be evidence that he actually has committed a "high crime or misdemeanor" and then the process can begin. There is suspicion that something might have gone on, and if he is trying to obstruct justice in the current investigation, that would probably count. Still, they're collecting evidence and that will take months. Next, it has to be something sufficiently bad that his own party will want him out or at least be willing to begin impeachment. Then it will take some time for the impeachment proceedings. So, even if his Russian ties turn out true and he has been obstructing justice, and his own party (and presumably the public) have turned against him, you're still looking at months or years. Still, for most of what he's done, like withdrawing from the Paris Accord, are not impeachable reasons. It's his job and unless he performs his job so badly that his own cabinet decides to declare him unfit for service, he'll be there to make bad decisions his entire term.
1. Ask for passcode 2. Unlock phone, find no incriminating evidence, change passcode and lock phone again 3. Claim wrong code was provided
Voila, guilty until proven innocent. Which the accused cannot do.
That would never happen, here is the actual sequence of events in today's legal system. 1. Ask for passcode 2. Unlock phone, find no incriminating evidence 3. Plant child porn downloaded from the FBI 4. Change passcode and lock phone again 5. Have a "clean" officer (who does not know about steps 1 through 4) use the Israeli law enforcement hacking tool to re-unlock the phone 6. Prosecute suspect for child pornography
I don't think we're talking about a case where the FBI or Israeli law enforcement might be involved. We're talking about a single cop who thinks the guy is guilty, like the ones that claim they were being attacked by a suspect and shot him, till it's revealed their's video that disproves their testimony, simply doing this because it's a quick fix. Hopefully, we'd have an evidence system that would prevent such actions, but then again, doubtful.
it has no temperature... so the shield material will get that hot... but what's going to protect what's behind that shield from that temperature?
Honestly, another shield. Since this is radiative heat, that means a mirror. From there, it's turtles (or mirrors anyway) all the way down (or as many as you can fit into the space given for the weight allowance). Each mirror will hopefully reflect most of the radiation and what it does absorb, only half will radiate on towards what is behind the shield. Put a few layers of that and hopefully, only a percent of a percent of a percent will make it to the probe itself. In my physics labs, to shield our our vacuum experiments from a heat source, we'd wrap the heat source in metal foil as each wrap would basically act as an insulator. Still, heat will build up as there will probably be a physical connection and radiant heat is a really hard way to get rid of heat, so I bet the experiment will probably be built in such a way to simply last long enough to get the data they need.
The problem with your line of thinking is that you're saying she should have blatantly lied about policy choices in order to win.
Why not? It seems to work for the Republicans.
"Red my lips, 'No new taxes!.'"
The electoral college is a horrible design. I fail to see how the electoral college prevents CA and NY from deciding the election. It actually causes 100% of their votes to go to a single candidate.
That really doesn't have anything to do with the electoral college. How the votes are divided depends on each individual state. Some states do have proportional representation.
Let's see.... MTV used to play music videos, then got into reality tv.
Thing is, in this example and probably the most, that their change ends up making them more money. Reality TV had less costs and brought in more viewers and money for MTV than playing music videos even if they were a juggernaut in the music industry. In many cases, providing easily digestible media content to the general population pays better than their core business of niche media.
C'mon, people! That behavior from an "audience" is downright soul-killing! We've literally spent decades and invested our souls into learning to perform for you, at least show a bare minimum of respect!
Well, realize that I'm only there because I'm friends with one of the other bands that are playing, just want to see the headliner, or because I want to eat and have some drinks. Perhaps I even want to speak to my friends which I can't do with a live band playing too loudly in the place we happened to choose to go to, so we text each other instead. Still, I'm old and have fairly esoteric musical tastes so my impression of what the current live music scene is like probably doesn't fit what I expect.
Oddly, whenever I hear Woz he sounds like the fox with sour grapes just out of his reach.
I always wonder if that is because it's what he is always saying, or that is what publications tend to quote.
No mention of their state of health. Only the ones enslaved by keepers.
Hey everybody! I found the vegan!
There are significant costs to produce TV shows. You cheap bastards are ruining TV and driving networks out of business. All cord-cutters are cheapskate assholes who are ruining TV for the rest of us.
Oh woe is us! However did television exist before Cable TV? However will television survive?
Hopefully by putting out TV shows I actually want to watch.
Time to hire some in house hackers and install the black ICE on the servers.
This particular attacker was born in the UK, in Manchester, and therefore not a foreigner.
Legally, yes.
Culturally, morally, and ideologically?
He might as well have had blue skin and spoke Betelgeusean.
Couldn't the same thing be said of the National Front skinhead that hates WOGs and multiculturalism and wants to return to a Britain that has never existed? Couldn't it be applied also to those on either side of the Irish Troubles? How about 75 years ago with regards to sexual introverts?
A Dyson sphere, much less a partial Dyson sphere with sporadic orbit makes no sense. Why build such huge things? With technology so advanced, there are plenty other ways to gets lots of energy.
Not really. Earth is probably unusual for it's amount of fissile material and it would be trivial. Even then, solar energy will be of greater use in space. Eventually, their planet will reach capacity and they'll have to move energy gathering resources off planet.They might be able to try and colonize another planet, which would take percentage of their star's energy over lifetimes to do, which would be about right for large collectors capable of dimming their sun to an observer like ourselves. Even that amount of energy probably wouldn't allow them to escape their solar system for anything but perhaps a small bit of research.
Now, if you really wanted a gedanken experiment of extreme explanations, let's assume we have a T-machine circling and occulting the star. Then not only would it occult the star, but also light form the star would exit at other times as it possible followed rotating acausal light-like pathways. If I was still a physic grad student, I might break out the GTR and see what a path through such a frame dragging gravity well that is rotating around a point in cyclindrical coordinates would be like, but these days the math just makes my head swim.