Actually, slander and libel ARE protected speech. If you know that a newspaper is planning to publish a libelous article, and you go to a judge to request a restraining order, that request for prior restraint will almost certainly be denied.
The newspaper has a right to publish, even when it is printing libel. You can only sue after the fact.
If you try to speak, and the government stops you and threatens to arrest you if you speak without identifying yourself, then that is an abridgment of your right to free speech.
Over the last decade batteries have improved dramatically in capacity, reliability, charging speed, and (especially) cost. This is a result of the very breakthroughs that you so flippantly denigrate.
If you aren't interested in reading about leading edge research, then what are you doing on Slashdot?
In no way is any of these requirements a violation of 1st Amendment protections.
This law does what the Constitution says "no law" can do. So how is that not a violation?
Companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google are not bound by the 1st Amendment
They are not bound by the 1st Amendment, but they are protected by it.
If TV and Radio media channels fall under the FCC why not the companies who dominate the online communication channels?
TV and radio use limited broadcast spectrum that is licensed to them in return for restrictions on what they can use if for. Facebook, and cable TV, do not use licensed RF spectrum, and the government has no right to regulate what they say.
Are you going to tell me that Facebook can't generate a popup
Of course they can, but that isn't the point. Their objection is not that it is difficult, but that it is wrong. The law does not require them to disclose the source. Nor should it. Here is the 1st Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Please explain where in the phrase "no law" you can fit a law requiring the disclosure of the source of political speech.
Witholding access to firearms from unstable people is too much to ask?
That sounds good in theory, but there was no reason to believe that this guy was "unstable". Stephen Paddock had no criminal record, was not diagnosed with any mental disorder, did not express politically extreme views. There was no reason to believe that he would do something like this.
Mass shootings of strangers are only about 0.1% of shootings in America. It might make more sense to focus on the other 99.9% that don't often make the headlines. Mass shootings are very different, and are the most difficult to prevent. They tend to be committed by people with no prior record of violence, they are meticulously planned, and they tend to use rifles. The other 99.9% are 55% suicides, 5% accidents, and the other 40% tend to be committed by people with violent records, are spur-of-the-moment and driven by emotion, and are mostly done with handguns.
I know they're not cheap but under the circumstances I'd hope he's giving them away for free.
I hope he is not. It is better to loan them to cover the crisis, and then take them back so they are available for the NEXT crisis somewhere else.
The last thing Puerto Rico needs is more permanent handouts. They really need to figure out how to create a sustainable functional economy, and more charity isn't the answer.
Though I suppose hospitals probably need more power than these could provide
The Powerwalls can be used for load leveling. If a hospital has a 10kw generator and has power needs that fluctuate between 6kw and 12kw, then that is not going to work. But stick in a Powerwall, and it can recharge from the generator when the demand is at 6kw, and supply supplement power to handle the peaks.
Would be better if Tesla would pay all the Puerto Rican truck drivers who are on strike and refuse to make deliveries of the thousands of containers of supplies until they are paid better.
This contraption works the same as quadcopter drone. My ten year old kid was flying one of those 5 minutes after he took it out of the box. You don't need to stabilize or balance it, you just tell it where to go.
It rules out simulations that anything within this universe, no matter how advanced, could come up with.
There is no reason to believe that our Universe has the same physical laws as the "higher" Universe that is simulating us. Video game simulations do not rigorously recreate physics, and focus more on entertainment than accuracy.
The study in TFA actually is a evidence FOR a simulation, since obviously the simulators added this constraint to prevent "nested" simulations from overloading their servers.
So you want to say, you did not post that, but my mind only thinks you have posted it?
Most likely, he doesn't even exist. Only his simulated interactions with you exist. Which is more efficient: 1) Simulate an online interaction by putting some pixels on a screen. 2) Generate an entire human with a brain, billions of neurons, uncountable molecules and quantum states, just to type on a keyboard in a distant city to compose a post for you to see... as some pixels on a screen.
If I was simulating a Universe, and couldn't afford a better GPU, I would certainly go with option #1.
If you've not already watched the movie, then go watch The Thirteenth Floor.
That movie seemed silly to me. It simulated only part of the Universe, and chose what to simulate based on "how likely someone will go there". That is silly. Instead it should look at the viewport of each active participant, and simulate anything visible. This would not only be less detectable, it would also require WAY less computation. Geez, even video games get this right.
some serious equipment (or at least a good scope.)
You can get a USB oscilloscope on Amazon for $20.
Then get some discrete transistors, caps, resistors, and some LEDs. Build an inverter, then an oscillator, and an adder.
After that, breadboard a microcontroller, then add an FPGA and use Verilog to implement a state machine, a serial port, and then a "soft" 8 bit CPU. Whip up an assembler for your custom CPU, and bootstrap an event loop driven mini-OS.
Once you do all of that, give me a call, and I will give you a job.
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Sorry, but Uber's business model is pretty much end to end "be colossal assholes ..."
Of course. But the real issue is not that Uber is unethical (we already knew that) but that Apple gave them full access.
If my landlord gave a burglar the key to my door, his behavior would be more noteworthy than the behavior of the burglar.
slander and libel are not protected speech.
Actually, slander and libel ARE protected speech. If you know that a newspaper is planning to publish a libelous article, and you go to a judge to request a
restraining order, that request for prior restraint will almost certainly be denied.
The newspaper has a right to publish, even when it is printing libel. You can only sue after the fact.
I don't see how political add disclosure curtails or reduces a corporations' ability to speak.
The laws on disclosure do not contain the word "corporation" and apply to individuals as well as companies.
If disclosure is not an abridgment of speech, then please post your real name and address.
It's not "no law". It's "no law [...] abridging".
If you try to speak, and the government stops you and threatens to arrest you if you speak without identifying yourself, then that is an abridgment of your right to free speech.
Over the last decade batteries have improved dramatically in capacity, reliability, charging speed, and (especially) cost. This is a result of the very breakthroughs that you so flippantly denigrate.
If you aren't interested in reading about leading edge research, then what are you doing on Slashdot?
It provides no constitutional guarantee of anonymity
Anonymity is not "guaranteed" but laws prohibiting anonymity clearly violate the "no laws" clause.
nor does it prohibit laws requiring disclosure in regard to political advertising.
How do those laws fit in the "no laws" requirement?
In no way is any of these requirements a violation of 1st Amendment protections.
This law does what the Constitution says "no law" can do. So how is that not a violation?
Companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google are not bound by the 1st Amendment
They are not bound by the 1st Amendment, but they are protected by it.
If TV and Radio media channels fall under the FCC why not the companies who dominate the online communication channels?
TV and radio use limited broadcast spectrum that is licensed to them in return for restrictions on what they can use if for. Facebook, and cable TV, do not use licensed RF spectrum, and the government has no right to regulate what they say.
It is against the law for foreign nationals to spend money to try to influence US elections. Russia did this en masse in 2016. So yes, crisis.
It may have been a crime, but it is ridiculous to call it a "crisis". A lost puppy is a crisis. Last year's ads are not.
Are you going to tell me that Facebook can't generate a popup
Of course they can, but that isn't the point. Their objection is not that it is difficult, but that it is wrong. The law does not require them to disclose the source. Nor should it. Here is the 1st Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Please explain where in the phrase "no law" you can fit a law requiring the disclosure of the source of political speech.
Tesla Autopilot has already killed several people. Yet Tesla owners continue to use it. Statistically, it is still safer than a human driver.
"Ultimately you need the TID to be unique to each taxpayer"
Uh, it is.
Nope. SSNs are not unique. SSN+DOB is unique.
I highly doubt 3B humans have ever signed up an account with Yahoo.
They said 3B accounts, not 3B people. Nobody is claiming that these are unique individuals.
Other than the one that I own, I've never seen another electric car on the road.
That depends on where you live. In the South Bay, I see dozens every day.
San Jose has the most of any major city in America.
McAllen, TX has the least.
They are even less common in rural areas where the range can be a problem.
electric cars still have other limitations: short range and slow charge time.
The range is good enough for 99% of the time. For the other 1%, I can rent a gas car.
The charge time doesn't matter because my car charges at 2 AM while I am sleeping.
In total, I spend a lot less time waiting for my car to charge than you spend at gas stations.
I remember the old Fujitsu 4 bit parts. No C compiler of course, you had to use assembly and it was a right bigger. Good times.
I had a friend who worked for a toy company, and they used these in many of their products. 4 bit registers. 32 bytes of RAM. Ten cents each.
Witholding access to firearms from unstable people is too much to ask?
That sounds good in theory, but there was no reason to believe that this guy was "unstable". Stephen Paddock had no criminal record, was not diagnosed with any mental disorder, did not express politically extreme views. There was no reason to believe that he would do something like this.
Mass shootings of strangers are only about 0.1% of shootings in America. It might make more sense to focus on the other 99.9% that don't often make the headlines. Mass shootings are very different, and are the most difficult to prevent. They tend to be committed by people with no prior record of violence, they are meticulously planned, and they tend to use rifles. The other 99.9% are 55% suicides, 5% accidents, and the other 40% tend to be committed by people with violent records, are spur-of-the-moment and driven by emotion, and are mostly done with handguns.
one vocal mayor who couldn't be bothered to attend logistics meetings
That is Carmen Yulin Cruz, the mayor of San Juan.
1. She criticized the Trump administration for its inefficiency.
2. Trump attacked her as incompetent.
3. Democrats and the media attacked Trump for picking on her.
4. Other mayors in PR said that she is indeed incompetent.
I don't know what happened after that because I ran out of popcorn.
I know they're not cheap but under the circumstances I'd hope he's giving them away for free.
I hope he is not. It is better to loan them to cover the crisis, and then take them back so they are available for the NEXT crisis somewhere else.
The last thing Puerto Rico needs is more permanent handouts. They really need to figure out how to create a sustainable functional economy, and more charity isn't the answer.
Though I suppose hospitals probably need more power than these could provide
The Powerwalls can be used for load leveling. If a hospital has a 10kw generator and has power needs that fluctuate between 6kw and 12kw, then that is not going to work. But stick in a Powerwall, and it can recharge from the generator when the demand is at 6kw, and supply supplement power to handle the peaks.
Would be better if Tesla would pay all the Puerto Rican truck drivers who are on strike and refuse to make deliveries of the thousands of containers of supplies until they are paid better.
This has been debunked as fake news. It didn't happen. Stop spreading lies.
This contraption works the same as quadcopter drone. My ten year old kid was flying one of those 5 minutes after he took it out of the box. You don't need to stabilize or balance it, you just tell it where to go.
It rules out simulations that anything within this universe, no matter how advanced, could come up with.
There is no reason to believe that our Universe has the same physical laws as the "higher" Universe that is simulating us. Video game simulations do not rigorously recreate physics, and focus more on entertainment than accuracy.
The study in TFA actually is a evidence FOR a simulation, since obviously the simulators added this constraint to prevent "nested" simulations from overloading their servers.
So you want to say, you did not post that, but my mind only thinks you have posted it?
Most likely, he doesn't even exist. Only his simulated interactions with you exist. Which is more efficient: 1) Simulate an online interaction by putting some pixels on a screen. 2) Generate an entire human with a brain, billions of neurons, uncountable molecules and quantum states, just to type on a keyboard in a distant city to compose a post for you to see ... as some pixels on a screen.
If I was simulating a Universe, and couldn't afford a better GPU, I would certainly go with option #1.
If you've not already watched the movie, then go watch The Thirteenth Floor.
That movie seemed silly to me. It simulated only part of the Universe, and chose what to simulate based on "how likely someone will go there". That is silly. Instead it should look at the viewport of each active participant, and simulate anything visible. This would not only be less detectable, it would also require WAY less computation. Geez, even video games get this right.
some serious equipment (or at least a good scope.)
You can get a USB oscilloscope on Amazon for $20.
Then get some discrete transistors, caps, resistors, and some LEDs. Build an inverter, then an oscillator, and an adder.
After that, breadboard a microcontroller, then add an FPGA and use Verilog to implement a state machine, a serial port, and then a "soft" 8 bit CPU. Whip up an assembler for your custom CPU, and bootstrap an event loop driven mini-OS.
Once you do all of that, give me a call, and I will give you a job.