"We are the law."? No! They invent the law out of thin air. Plus legislators can't be held liable for what they say or vote for in Congress (unless you can prove a bribe or conflict of interest.)
This is the sort of attitude that eventually destroys institutions from within, though it takes awhile.
I do tend to agree that secession is inevitable in the US, just as it seems heading in that direction in the EU. What that will do is return some semblance (notice I said some) to States rights and hopefully smaller government, which currently redistributes about 50% of all earnings in the US. That is double what serfs paid in around a thousand years ago.
Library of Congress seems like the logical place to set up to archive old OS's, hardware, emulation and other items needed to read, archive, restore & recover old media. That is what the LoC does for 'documents.'
But then Correlation vs Causation doesn't often exist. Since mankind was not causing mega-droughts in the 1100-1300 era, what leads us to think it is now carbon emissions causing droughts? Could it be other long term Solar variation & then seawater circulation issues that reappear regularly on long cycles.
Then when data appears to be tweaked in some field measurements or too sparse, it seems that unjustified claims are being made that can't be backed by solid science.
Do you work for the FDA for a government civil servant wage reviewing other company's work or do you go to work for industry and earn the wage you trained for?
Same thing at the US Patent & Trademark office. Patent examiners come in, learn the ropes and go out to become patent attorneys in the private sector.
Same thing happens at the IRS.
Government doesn't keep the brightest bulbs because of pay and bureaucracy.
Put a drone at 300 feet up or more and first of all, you won't likely see it and second it will be able to be over the neighboring property and still "surveil" you place even though it is not within the 'geo-fence.'
What is worse, a PI with a remote blimp and good cameras could do it for a long time at 500-1000 feet and you wouldn't have a clue if he was right over your house.
Both the software and hardware available for small devices from phones to access panels to laptops now allow east use of biometrics.
I predict banks and other online merchants will quickly move to biometrics, or face financial ruin. Biometrics can now be based on not just a single factor because we have video. Thus a video of a person who moves closer to his camera can identify first the facial features, then voice & ultimately iris, so you can't fake a person with a simple high res. photo.
Fingerprint readers have been criticized as being able to be circumvented, but they will likely soon have temperature/electrical signal sensing to detect a live finger. We're ramping up sensing.
Between eyes, voice, nose, ears, face and fingerprints, we can identify people 100%. Even if we only get to 99.9% identification we can likely destroy the viability of hacking for account access.
Can't keep people if there is not enough work for them to do. My experience tells me that when people have time to doodle and hang out in large numbers it is time to refresh the resume and start calling friends in high places.
A particularly corrupt oligarchy populated with a supermajority of attorneys like Silver in NYC & Pelosi in the Senate who make sure friends and spouses "get theirs."
Because once you pass the half way point, you realize you need to start eliminating the trivial and the bullshit big time, as there is little time left.
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No other rational choice.
"We are the law."? No! They invent the law out of thin air. Plus legislators can't be held liable for what they say or vote for in Congress (unless you can prove a bribe or conflict of interest.)
This is the sort of attitude that eventually destroys institutions from within, though it takes awhile.
I do tend to agree that secession is inevitable in the US, just as it seems heading in that direction in the EU. What that will do is return some semblance (notice I said some) to States rights and hopefully smaller government, which currently redistributes about 50% of all earnings in the US. That is double what serfs paid in around a thousand years ago.
I simply don't any long term value in selling out your customers to other unknown companies.
How many drones will be lost to dogs?
Library of Congress seems like the logical place to set up to archive old OS's, hardware, emulation and other items needed to read, archive, restore & recover old media. That is what the LoC does for 'documents.'
But then Correlation vs Causation doesn't often exist. Since mankind was not causing mega-droughts in the 1100-1300 era, what leads us to think it is now carbon emissions causing droughts? Could it be other long term Solar variation & then seawater circulation issues that reappear regularly on long cycles.
Then when data appears to be tweaked in some field measurements or too sparse, it seems that unjustified claims are being made that can't be backed by solid science.
Do you work for the FDA for a government civil servant wage reviewing other company's work or do you go to work for industry and earn the wage you trained for?
Same thing at the US Patent & Trademark office. Patent examiners come in, learn the ropes and go out to become patent attorneys in the private sector.
Same thing happens at the IRS.
Government doesn't keep the brightest bulbs because of pay and bureaucracy.
No company, NOBODY, can achieve 20% per year for very long. 20% for 10 years = 6 times what it is today.
Put a drone at 300 feet up or more and first of all, you won't likely see it and second it will be able to be over the neighboring property and still "surveil" you place even though it is not within the 'geo-fence.'
What is worse, a PI with a remote blimp and good cameras could do it for a long time at 500-1000 feet and you wouldn't have a clue if he was right over your house.
Buy bitcoin, otherwise his stash will not grow in value.
Both the software and hardware available for small devices from phones to access panels to laptops now allow east use of biometrics.
I predict banks and other online merchants will quickly move to biometrics, or face financial ruin. Biometrics can now be based on not just a single factor because we have video. Thus a video of a person who moves closer to his camera can identify first the facial features, then voice & ultimately iris, so you can't fake a person with a simple high res. photo.
Fingerprint readers have been criticized as being able to be circumvented, but they will likely soon have temperature/electrical signal sensing to detect a live finger. We're ramping up sensing.
Between eyes, voice, nose, ears, face and fingerprints, we can identify people 100%. Even if we only get to 99.9% identification we can likely destroy the viability of hacking for account access.
They do NOT get a free pass. They contribute heavily to PACs!
Going to have to be a lot of error checking to get fault tolerant.
Can't keep people if there is not enough work for them to do. My experience tells me that when people have time to doodle and hang out in large numbers it is time to refresh the resume and start calling friends in high places.
Surprise? No!
Commercial test labs do this type of work on a daily basis. Not rocked sciense, so don't know what a University offers.
Fancy lithium battery powered nut drivers work, but Crescent wrenches do just fine without anything but your hand.
Use what works.
BlackPhone is TOTALLY 100% SECURE, when it is turned off
After all, you might break something.
A particularly corrupt oligarchy populated with a supermajority of attorneys like Silver in NYC & Pelosi in the Senate who make sure friends and spouses "get theirs."
Rarely works out well.
What this says is no long term vision/planning/execution at Microsoft.
Because once you pass the half way point, you realize you need to start eliminating the trivial and the bullshit big time, as there is little time left.
We just are not sure of what cause any change, other than the Sun and volcanoes.
FBI, CIA and 50 other government agencies need this to spy on the citizens that don't trust them.