If I was a terrorist entering a country with the intent of collecting information in support of an attack, I'd be coming in with a clean laptop, phone and camera. On my way out, I'd have plans and photographs of potential targets. But I've never been checked on my way out. I could be carrying the blueprints for the latest top secret radar and border protection would never know.
Searching people on their way in is for one of three purposes: Harassment, in support of economic barriers (can't have people sneaking cheap videos across borders) and economic espionage (your bidding strategy and cost data will be handed to your domestic competition).
Never mind your submarine. Maybe now we can get optical broadband to our neighborhood without having to dig up the sidewalks and bury fiber.
If this does in fact work, it's going to be buried so deep by the three letter agencies that we'll never see it. Imagine me having essentially what are a pair of optical modems linked by quantum entanglement. One in my house and one in a rack at an ISP in a country with the power to say "Fuck you!" to the NSA. And nothing they can tap between the two.
Define "excess regulations". Regulations (implementations of legislation) have been added incrementally as problems arose. Don't like it? Have Congress rescind those laws. But be careful what you wish for, because businesses can't operate in a lawless environment
Just thinking out loud: I wonder if this kill switch URL was distributed to gov't agencies, contractors and other insiders when the tools were originally written. Just to keep certain intranets 'clean'.
I am right near the Kirkland, Bothell, Woodinville boundaries. I have Frontier FiOS (which was installed by Verizon just before they unloaded the system onto Frontier). I pay for 30 Mbps and get around 24 up and down. So, not too bad.
Verizon, Comcast, Centurylink and all fought dirty over what they considered to be 'valuable' neighborhoods and managed to screw each other over. Where I live used to be unincorporated (now Kirkland) and therefore a shit-hole to the providers. So nobody played politics keeping fiber out.
... trash all the software-controlled life critical systems and put in a 5 point harness. Face it. If someone wants to maliciously hack your car, they won't just hack the brakes and steering. They'll take out the safety systems as well.
That episode of The Mechanical Universe certainly was engaging and interesting. But educational? It was a bit light on content. At the end of the episode, I'd come away entertained. But not so much educated. And should some poor student get lost halfway through on some detail, how would they go about asking a question?
Perhaps episode #1 wasn't the best example of this series, it only being the introduction. But I get the feeling that this series is targeted at people who need the Hollywood production values to think that something is valuable.
ISIS consider it their responsibility to feed, house, and clothe anyone in their territory who is unable to do it themselves.
But you know what they do with their booze/meth/heroin users? Seattle's streets would be cleaned up pretty quickly if we used the machete method. Heck, we'd make serious inroads into the problem if we just forgot to restock the Naloxone.
You don't understand our priorities. $3.5bn is a lot of money until it's time to declare war on something. Then, money is no object. We've got to declare war on Mars. Convince Trump that ISIS has a secret base hidden on Mars and we'll have boots on the ground there in no time. Cost be damned.
200 people every night? Like they have to stand in line every night to get a bed? This is one reason that all the temporary shelter solutions don't work. Every evening, the homeless have to stand in line for the chance at getting a place. And every morning they get tossed back out on the street. And maybe they don't get one, so they have to find a warm doorway quickly. Pretty soon they just say, "Fuck it. Not worth the trouble." And move back under the freeway where they can stake out a (relatively) permanent campsite.
A friend of mine went to law school at NYU. Near where she lived, there was a park where the drug dealers did business. Drugs aside, it was the safest place in town. Because the dealers didn't want any shit going down that would attract the police.
Big Cable is pissed at Cable One because they don't want hearings on the industries business practices.
It appears to be a case of dithering used to reduce quantization errors. If a system exhibits self-oscillation (Parkinsons tremors), adding random noise in the feedback loop can break that up.
This technique has been used in numerous systems, including one prototyped on the XB-70 and in use on the B-1B. Small nose mounted winglets oscillate to introduce a small amount of 'noise' in the fuselage that interferes with tendencies of the automated flight controls to induce oscillations.
Best system I've ever seen is plain old timed intersections. Pick a speed and synchronize the lights to keep traffic flowing through greens. My brother lives north of Chicago and his neighborhood arterials have this. It's a dream to drive there even during rush hour. So one day I was walking through the neighborhood and waiting at an intersection when I heard the clockwork switch on the signal go 'clunk' as the lights changed. They've never even bought into the microprocessor-controlled bullshit that I'm sure the vendors have been pushing. Did I mention that driving there is great compared to other cities?
So 12% that were judged high risk were in fact not.
"It is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer." - Benjamin Franklin
Of course, this is the British we are talking about now. Blackstone put that error rate at around 1 in 10. So this app is statistically close enough for them.
"No feedback," means something different to every relationship at work
This.
In one of my past jobs, I was pretty visible to people in engineering and on the shop floor (both of our group's customers). They knew when I was delivering and when I was fucking up. Meanwhile, my boss was the son-in-law of someone high up in management and he had no clue what was going on. As long as our customers were happy, his job was cake. He left me alone and I got the extra merit raises every year.
Who stood to gain by blocking what were most likely pro net neutrality commenters from accessing the FCC site? And who has infrastructure available to mount a DDoS attack this soon following Oliver's broadcast? Without even needing to build or recruit a bot-net.
Lets see the ISPs' logs of all that incoming traffic and find the source.
Usually not. It's like the incorrect advice that is passed around by prostitutes: Police officers can't lie about being cops when asked. Yes, they can. But all the hookers I've met still ask, thinking that if I was a cop I'd have to admit it.
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If I was a terrorist entering a country with the intent of collecting information in support of an attack, I'd be coming in with a clean laptop, phone and camera. On my way out, I'd have plans and photographs of potential targets. But I've never been checked on my way out. I could be carrying the blueprints for the latest top secret radar and border protection would never know.
Searching people on their way in is for one of three purposes: Harassment, in support of economic barriers (can't have people sneaking cheap videos across borders) and economic espionage (your bidding strategy and cost data will be handed to your domestic competition).
I try to avoid devices with displays while sleeping. But the boss insists on showing PowerPoint presentations during staff meetings.
Never mind your submarine. Maybe now we can get optical broadband to our neighborhood without having to dig up the sidewalks and bury fiber.
If this does in fact work, it's going to be buried so deep by the three letter agencies that we'll never see it. Imagine me having essentially what are a pair of optical modems linked by quantum entanglement. One in my house and one in a rack at an ISP in a country with the power to say "Fuck you!" to the NSA. And nothing they can tap between the two.
Define "excess regulations". Regulations (implementations of legislation) have been added incrementally as problems arose. Don't like it? Have Congress rescind those laws. But be careful what you wish for, because businesses can't operate in a lawless environment
Just thinking out loud: I wonder if this kill switch URL was distributed to gov't agencies, contractors and other insiders when the tools were originally written. Just to keep certain intranets 'clean'.
I am right near the Kirkland, Bothell, Woodinville boundaries. I have Frontier FiOS (which was installed by Verizon just before they unloaded the system onto Frontier). I pay for 30 Mbps and get around 24 up and down. So, not too bad.
Verizon, Comcast, Centurylink and all fought dirty over what they considered to be 'valuable' neighborhoods and managed to screw each other over. Where I live used to be unincorporated (now Kirkland) and therefore a shit-hole to the providers. So nobody played politics keeping fiber out.
That episode of The Mechanical Universe certainly was engaging and interesting. But educational? It was a bit light on content. At the end of the episode, I'd come away entertained. But not so much educated. And should some poor student get lost halfway through on some detail, how would they go about asking a question?
Perhaps episode #1 wasn't the best example of this series, it only being the introduction. But I get the feeling that this series is targeted at people who need the Hollywood production values to think that something is valuable.
Move along now. It's just the Setec Astronomy server.
ISIS consider it their responsibility to feed, house, and clothe anyone in their territory who is unable to do it themselves.
But you know what they do with their booze/meth/heroin users? Seattle's streets would be cleaned up pretty quickly if we used the machete method. Heck, we'd make serious inroads into the problem if we just forgot to restock the Naloxone.
You don't understand our priorities. $3.5bn is a lot of money until it's time to declare war on something. Then, money is no object. We've got to declare war on Mars. Convince Trump that ISIS has a secret base hidden on Mars and we'll have boots on the ground there in no time. Cost be damned.
200 people every night? Like they have to stand in line every night to get a bed? This is one reason that all the temporary shelter solutions don't work. Every evening, the homeless have to stand in line for the chance at getting a place. And every morning they get tossed back out on the street. And maybe they don't get one, so they have to find a warm doorway quickly. Pretty soon they just say, "Fuck it. Not worth the trouble." And move back under the freeway where they can stake out a (relatively) permanent campsite.
A friend of mine went to law school at NYU. Near where she lived, there was a park where the drug dealers did business. Drugs aside, it was the safest place in town. Because the dealers didn't want any shit going down that would attract the police.
Big Cable is pissed at Cable One because they don't want hearings on the industries business practices.
It appears to be a case of dithering used to reduce quantization errors. If a system exhibits self-oscillation (Parkinsons tremors), adding random noise in the feedback loop can break that up.
This technique has been used in numerous systems, including one prototyped on the XB-70 and in use on the B-1B. Small nose mounted winglets oscillate to introduce a small amount of 'noise' in the fuselage that interferes with tendencies of the automated flight controls to induce oscillations.
most modern cars shut down at intersections rather than idling
So how do you rev your engine when some poor old lady with a walker is only half way across the intersection when the lights change?
AI to control traffic has been around for years.
And it's not worth shit.
Best system I've ever seen is plain old timed intersections. Pick a speed and synchronize the lights to keep traffic flowing through greens. My brother lives north of Chicago and his neighborhood arterials have this. It's a dream to drive there even during rush hour. So one day I was walking through the neighborhood and waiting at an intersection when I heard the clockwork switch on the signal go 'clunk' as the lights changed. They've never even bought into the microprocessor-controlled bullshit that I'm sure the vendors have been pushing. Did I mention that driving there is great compared to other cities?
On the other hand, the hobos in Seattle don't pay any attention to signals anyway. So lets go ahead with this.
So 12% that were judged high risk were in fact not.
"It is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer." - Benjamin Franklin
Of course, this is the British we are talking about now. Blackstone put that error rate at around 1 in 10. So this app is statistically close enough for them.
I want Windows 10S to succeed. I also want a flying car.
Neither are likely, so I'll continue to use Linux and repair my shitbox truck.
"No feedback," means something different to every relationship at work
This.
In one of my past jobs, I was pretty visible to people in engineering and on the shop floor (both of our group's customers). They knew when I was delivering and when I was fucking up. Meanwhile, my boss was the son-in-law of someone high up in management and he had no clue what was going on. As long as our customers were happy, his job was cake. He left me alone and I got the extra merit raises every year.
Who stood to gain by blocking what were most likely pro net neutrality commenters from accessing the FCC site? And who has infrastructure available to mount a DDoS attack this soon following Oliver's broadcast? Without even needing to build or recruit a bot-net.
Lets see the ISPs' logs of all that incoming traffic and find the source.
Well, now we know that doesn't work.
Usually not. It's like the incorrect advice that is passed around by prostitutes: Police officers can't lie about being cops when asked. Yes, they can. But all the hookers I've met still ask, thinking that if I was a cop I'd have to admit it.