It's nothing new, just business as usual since the end of WW2, it was so common during the Cold War that it was pretty much ignored.
Yes, it's only brought up here to score partisan political debate points when it's totally bi-partisan, having gone on for decades.
It's just another sign of the corruption that accompanies nations and empires into decadence and decline before their collapse. If one looks back through history, the pattern is quite clear and has a period of about 250 years.
An excellent (and short) read on the subject is a book named "The Fate Of Empires" by John Glubb
The US and most of the rest of the West is already well down the path to decadence, corruption, and eventual collapse complete with bread & circuses, just in different forms.
When the user of a press prints and distributes a pamphlet, everyone knows it is a pamphlet.
When a user runs a bot to distribute a text message, everyone knows it is a text message.
Ah, but that interferes with the ability to identify, harass, de-platform, and place those with the "wrong" ideas and opinions on "watch lists" and "do not fly lists".
Cant have that now, can we? It might lead to an outbreak of (gasp!) liberty!
Because the object of the article is to vilify encryption so the public demands that it be outlawed. It's a pretty old trick
Ding, ding, ding! A winner!
Also, child porn is a societal problem and one that's awkward to address for those who want to insist all moral belief structures, particularly those surrounding sexual behaviors and attitudes, are equal. Much better and easier to scapegoat encryption. Widespread adoption of strong crypto scares the pants off of TPTB. It's also another "this is a thing and we're dong something, so reelect us and give us money!" soundbite opportunity to spam the 24hr news cycle.
I'd rather live in a nanny state than one in which people can prevent me from travelling.
Except that the nanny state will prevent you from flying if they don't like your politics and place you on a secret list or even manufacture a reason to imprison you, the drone guy will just delay your travel at worst.
But extrapolating consequences more than a step or two ahead is *hard*.
The rule you may know as "nothing can go faster than light" is actually "information can't be transmitted at more than light speed"
There's another "rule" closer to home that will limit any widespread adoption and/or use by the masses.
it is believed that such networks will be safe from hacking or eavesdropping due to their very nature.
The rule is "no un-hackable, secure against government snooping, communications technologies are allowed for the proles."
If quantum technology can provide individuals with communications that government cannot intercept, track, decrypt, etc, the old "munitions" label for crypto tech in the '80s and '90s will see new life and include bans on domestic use, possession, etc. The US government will never tolerate it's citizens being able to say anything to anyone else that they cannot eavesdrop upon. The very idea scares them to death as it would allow people to organize sufficiently to significantly alter the status quo and therefor it threatens their place in the power structure. They might even get kicked out of the Oligarch's Club! Horrors!
I will no longer hand my identifying documents to anyone who isn't law enforcement.
If the officer cannot articulate a specific law you've broken or crime he reasonably suspects you've committed, you are not legally required to produce ID, but in most places you are required to truthfully state your full name and address if asked by police. This non-legal (IANAL etc) advice does not apply when operating a motor vehicle on public roadways, although you do still have rights even then, however. It's sort of like answering questions from police...generally not advised by all the lawyers I've heard/read speak on the subject. Police cannot just walk up and demand you produce ID because you make them feel some kind of way.
There are a number of good videos on YT about when police may legally demand you produce ID. Know your rights. The police will lie to you, evem about the law and your rights. It's up to each of us to know and exercise our rights or they will most assuredly disappear.
That doesn't explain "a chain of supernovae bursts". We write "truck accidents" not "trucks accidents". It should be the same for supernova bursts.
From the way TFS is worded, it could be trying to say that a single supernova can trigger a burst of cosmic radiation from the impact with the particles comprising the "local bubble" clouds it mentioned that bathed the Earth in higher levels of high-energy radiation and particles, and multiple supernovas/sipernovae resulted in a series of bursts from the clouds.
Naturally, this being Slashdot, for all we know it could be talking about Beanie Babies, dinosaurs, or nuclear fusion...or nuclear fusion using Beanie Babies and dinosaurs. I don't think even Vegas would make odds on that.
Maybe there's something I'm missing, but this appears to be one of the stupidest ideas I've read about all year.
Oh no, you've got it all wrong! This was very well thought out.
You see, corrupt DMV workers and LEOs were not capable of selling personal data fast enough to meet demand the old way, now they can receive far more in payoffs and can blame the loss of confidential data on "hackers"...probably Russian./s
The smart kids have dropped FB and "smart" phones as well. Their internet is on one device in one room at home. They carry a "dumb" 3G "burner" phone with the battery removed and taped to the back, if they feel they need to carry a cell phone at all.
They've realized that paying to have one's privacy, security, and freedom violated by both corporations and government in exchange for convenience and "cool" is a very, very bad deal.
That's one of the reasons why they're the smart kids.
No need to amend the Constitution, it's already in there:
"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"
Here is the argument they make.
"Hate speech is violence, not speech, so is not protected anywhere in the US Constitution."
The scariest part is that there are many people, including those in the judiciary, who are willing to ignore reality and go along with such disingenuous, broken logic.
Sorry, no. Fascism is on the Left along with Socialism and Communism. Hitler used National Socialism as a means to power and then went relatively straight into a military dictatorship
When Mussolini turned Italy Fascist, Lenin congratulated him as a fellow leader of a Marxism-based nation. Communism, Fascism, and Socialism are all Collectivist-based, central-command-and-control societies where the desires and agendas of "The State"/"The People" (as defined by a few powerful people or person in charge) are paramount over the needs, wants, dreams, and desires of the individual. Everything and everyone exists within the State, nothing exists outside the State.
The only difference between Socialism and Fascism is that where Socialist governments directly control the means of production, Fascists leave figureheads ostensibly "running" things like factories and rail companies so they have scapegoats to throw to the wolves when their central-command-and-control agendas for the economy and society causes collapses, increasing tyranny, and violence as they always do and always have done.
Like everything else related to the Pacific Northwest, this sounds utterly terrible. Perhaps some hipsters should be sacrificed to improve the situation.
My questions are practical, engineering-types...will these tricycles be equipped with discarded-dope-needle-proof tires? Will they also have wide, full-coverage, flared fenders so as to not "fling poo" when they cycle through the human feces on the streets from all the homeless drug addicts?
Such a lack of important engineering specifications and technical details is shameful for a tech site!
As I mentioned in a different comment, one thing the Title-II regulation did do is saddle ISP's with a lot of paperwork and regulatory hurdles, increasing costs. For a carrier like the large companies which dominate the landscape this wasn't a big deal. For those smaller companies trying to bring another option to the mix, this was much more difficult, and could mean the difference between a viable business and bankruptcy. So the Title-II style network neutrality actually helped prevent the breaking of the oligopoly.
To those in power, this is a feature not a bug. To them an oligopoly is a good thing, as it makes it easier for government to exert control and maintain mass surveillance when there are only a handful of carriers/hosters to control, and it makes "de-platforming" inconvenient people, opinions, and news from the internet, along with controlling the spread dangerous (to their continued power/wealth) new ideas and concepts, an easier and more effective social manipulation tactic.
The first part of that is very similar to inflation theories, but different space-time bubbles "not yet merged" wouldn't affect our own in any way
That's the point, it's where all the missing "dark matter" is at and why we've not found it. When a bubble merges you get things like a quasar suddenly (over about a decade, more or less) appearing to turn into a galaxy
A galaxy here, a galaxy there, and pretty soon you're talking about some real mass.
For starters I think foreign governments should have to disclose that in the adverts.
Yeah that would be nice but obviously they will not, but Facebook of all people is probably in the best position to find that out., and reveal if that is the case.
That's all true, however from Facebook's perspective, they'd be turning paying customers (governments/political orgs that pay them for data and influence) into opponents that would stand in the way of furthering their growth and increasing their profits. It would literally require an Act of Congress to force them to do as you suggest as it's not in their best corporate interests. They want the status quo, or ideally even a rollback of legal protections and limits currently in place.
Facebook is straddling the fence and working both ends against the middle in many areas, for example, are they a platform or a publisher? They want it both ways on everything.
Entire gravity is one big phenomenon that we can't explain. Negative mass fluid sounds like the same as Luminiferous Aether, something we made up on analogy with our lower level phenomena. Occam's razor suggests that it's better to expect an explanation for metric expansion of space in future improved versions of existing theories. Perhaps quantization of gravity will help?
Rather than an "expanding universe", it's possible the universe is coalescing from separate "bubbles" of space-time.
Maybe when the "Big Bang" occurred, the universe began to coalesce into bubbles of space-time and matter, which then eventually began merging. Maybe the "missing" matter resides in these separate space-time bubbles that have yet to merge with ours and which we have no means to see or detect from within our own bubble.
There was a recent Slashdot article discussing how scientists were at a loss to explain how they've observed quasars suddenly turn into galaxies within the space of a decade or two, something which should not be possible. If such quasars are a point where another bubble of space-time (along with whatever mass it contains) is merging with our own space-time bubble, that could explain a lot.
Competition only works if the wages are comparable.
In order for that to be possible, the production quality, turnaround times, and productivity levels, among many other factors, of the different workforces in question must be roughly comparable. That is nowhere near true at this point in time. The actual value labor produces varies widely among workforces in various parts of the world and also depends on the particular labor type, all for a whole host of reasons.
Ycu cannot pay a man more than the value his labor produces and call what you're doing a business, that's charity.
Of course they fucking talked about them, each time. If you had UPnP running after 2002 YOU ARE A MORON.
They talked about them on tech sites and blogs. Not in places where mom, dad, or grandpa & grandma would notice. The most they would have seen is some newsreader mentioning something about NSA leaks and exploits by "hackers" in a fact- and detail-free one or two line blurb/filler in between the local news and the weather forecast.
The vast majority of non-tech-savvy "normies" have still never heard of any of it. The MSM doesn't try to inform anyone because such tech-heavy articles with enough info to be useful don't drive many advertising views or clicks on articles.
The directors of the ACLU need to be locked up. They are trators to america who put rights of violent foriners above safety and security of the real americans.
Yes of course, because we all know those in government would never abuse their surveillance powers to spy on political opponents, congresscritters, and journalists.
In a field where personal opinions are as important as they are in HR, its going to be difficult to find an unbiased training set. The resulting AI could easily make strongly biased decisions.
Amazon scrapped theirs recently because of bias, IBM have solved this, how?
No, sorry, you've both got it totally backwards.
The problem was that the system DID NOT engage in *politically-correct* bias. Having too many white, male, or Asian employees can get you investigated and punished by the government and demonized by the MSM and NGOs in our "free and open society".
High energy consumption = people doing stuff. Working, making, playing, living.
Low energy consumption = people living like misers, feeling guilty about using a light bulb or - worse - thinking they're acting "for the common good" by sitting idle in the dark.
I want a civilization where there's energy to waste, with everyone free to maximize their lives. Not some guilt-ridden depression where maximum work & play is shamed.
The problem is that the wealthier and more prosperous a population is, the harder it is for the authoritarians to exercise power over the population. It's also much harder to stir up a wealthy and prosperous population into a socialist/communist/fascist revolution.
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It's nothing new, just business as usual since the end of WW2, it was so common during the Cold War that it was pretty much ignored.
Yes, it's only brought up here to score partisan political debate points when it's totally bi-partisan, having gone on for decades.
It's just another sign of the corruption that accompanies nations and empires into decadence and decline before their collapse. If one looks back through history, the pattern is quite clear and has a period of about 250 years.
An excellent (and short) read on the subject is a book named "The Fate Of Empires" by John Glubb
The US and most of the rest of the West is already well down the path to decadence, corruption, and eventual collapse complete with bread & circuses, just in different forms.
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Ah, but that interferes with the ability to identify, harass, de-platform, and place those with the "wrong" ideas and opinions on "watch lists" and "do not fly lists".
Cant have that now, can we? It might lead to an outbreak of (gasp!) liberty!
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They'll be able to use the microgravity "pull" exerted by the spacecraft to gradually steer the object clear of Earth
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Oh this is literally a comedians dream. Where to begin? Should we starrt with the requisite IÃ(TM)m Mark Zuckerberg and your not joke?
I think I'll just go with a tried-and-true classic.
https://youtu.be/s2NNZdigSXg
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Because the object of the article is to vilify encryption so the public demands that it be outlawed. It's a pretty old trick
Ding, ding, ding! A winner!
Also, child porn is a societal problem and one that's awkward to address for those who want to insist all moral belief structures, particularly those surrounding sexual behaviors and attitudes, are equal. Much better and easier to scapegoat encryption. Widespread adoption of strong crypto scares the pants off of TPTB. It's also another "this is a thing and we're dong something, so reelect us and give us money!" soundbite opportunity to spam the 24hr news cycle.
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I'd rather live in a nanny state than one in which people can prevent me from travelling.
Except that the nanny state will prevent you from flying if they don't like your politics and place you on a secret list or even manufacture a reason to imprison you, the drone guy will just delay your travel at worst.
But extrapolating consequences more than a step or two ahead is *hard*.
Strat
The rule you may know as "nothing can go faster than light" is actually "information can't be transmitted at more than light speed"
There's another "rule" closer to home that will limit any widespread adoption and/or use by the masses.
it is believed that such networks will be safe from hacking or eavesdropping due to their very nature.
The rule is "no un-hackable, secure against government snooping, communications technologies are allowed for the proles."
If quantum technology can provide individuals with communications that government cannot intercept, track, decrypt, etc, the old "munitions" label for crypto tech in the '80s and '90s will see new life and include bans on domestic use, possession, etc. The US government will never tolerate it's citizens being able to say anything to anyone else that they cannot eavesdrop upon. The very idea scares them to death as it would allow people to organize sufficiently to significantly alter the status quo and therefor it threatens their place in the power structure. They might even get kicked out of the Oligarch's Club! Horrors!
Strat
I will no longer hand my identifying documents to anyone who isn't law enforcement.
If the officer cannot articulate a specific law you've broken or crime he reasonably suspects you've committed, you are not legally required to produce ID, but in most places you are required to truthfully state your full name and address if asked by police. This non-legal (IANAL etc) advice does not apply when operating a motor vehicle on public roadways, although you do still have rights even then, however. It's sort of like answering questions from police...generally not advised by all the lawyers I've heard/read speak on the subject. Police cannot just walk up and demand you produce ID because you make them feel some kind of way.
There are a number of good videos on YT about when police may legally demand you produce ID. Know your rights. The police will lie to you, evem about the law and your rights. It's up to each of us to know and exercise our rights or they will most assuredly disappear.
Strat
That doesn't explain "a chain of supernovae bursts". We write "truck accidents" not "trucks accidents". It should be the same for supernova bursts.
From the way TFS is worded, it could be trying to say that a single supernova can trigger a burst of cosmic radiation from the impact with the particles comprising the "local bubble" clouds it mentioned that bathed the Earth in higher levels of high-energy radiation and particles, and multiple supernovas/sipernovae resulted in a series of bursts from the clouds.
Naturally, this being Slashdot, for all we know it could be talking about Beanie Babies, dinosaurs, or nuclear fusion...or nuclear fusion using Beanie Babies and dinosaurs. I don't think even Vegas would make odds on that.
Strat
Maybe there's something I'm missing, but this appears to be one of the stupidest ideas I've read about all year.
Oh no, you've got it all wrong! This was very well thought out.
You see, corrupt DMV workers and LEOs were not capable of selling personal data fast enough to meet demand the old way, now they can receive far more in payoffs and can blame the loss of confidential data on "hackers"...probably Russian. /s
Strat
The smart kids have dropped FB and "smart" phones as well. Their internet is on one device in one room at home. They carry a "dumb" 3G "burner" phone with the battery removed and taped to the back, if they feel they need to carry a cell phone at all.
They've realized that paying to have one's privacy, security, and freedom violated by both corporations and government in exchange for convenience and "cool" is a very, very bad deal.
That's one of the reasons why they're the smart kids.
Strat
No need to amend the Constitution, it's already in there:
"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"
Here is the argument they make.
"Hate speech is violence, not speech, so is not protected anywhere in the US Constitution."
The scariest part is that there are many people, including those in the judiciary, who are willing to ignore reality and go along with such disingenuous, broken logic.
Strat
Hitler was a right wing fascist.
Sorry, no. Fascism is on the Left along with Socialism and Communism. Hitler used National Socialism as a means to power and then went relatively straight into a military dictatorship
When Mussolini turned Italy Fascist, Lenin congratulated him as a fellow leader of a Marxism-based nation. Communism, Fascism, and Socialism are all Collectivist-based, central-command-and-control societies where the desires and agendas of "The State"/"The People" (as defined by a few powerful people or person in charge) are paramount over the needs, wants, dreams, and desires of the individual. Everything and everyone exists within the State, nothing exists outside the State.
The only difference between Socialism and Fascism is that where Socialist governments directly control the means of production, Fascists leave figureheads ostensibly "running" things like factories and rail companies so they have scapegoats to throw to the wolves when their central-command-and-control agendas for the economy and society causes collapses, increasing tyranny, and violence as they always do and always have done.
Strat
Like everything else related to the Pacific Northwest, this sounds utterly terrible. Perhaps some hipsters should be sacrificed to improve the situation.
My questions are practical, engineering-types...will these tricycles be equipped with discarded-dope-needle-proof tires? Will they also have wide, full-coverage, flared fenders so as to not "fling poo" when they cycle through the human feces on the streets from all the homeless drug addicts?
Such a lack of important engineering specifications and technical details is shameful for a tech site!
Strat
As I mentioned in a different comment, one thing the Title-II regulation did do is saddle ISP's with a lot of paperwork and regulatory hurdles, increasing costs. For a carrier like the large companies which dominate the landscape this wasn't a big deal. For those smaller companies trying to bring another option to the mix, this was much more difficult, and could mean the difference between a viable business and bankruptcy. So the Title-II style network neutrality actually helped prevent the breaking of the oligopoly.
To those in power, this is a feature not a bug. To them an oligopoly is a good thing, as it makes it easier for government to exert control and maintain mass surveillance when there are only a handful of carriers/hosters to control, and it makes "de-platforming" inconvenient people, opinions, and news from the internet, along with controlling the spread dangerous (to their continued power/wealth) new ideas and concepts, an easier and more effective social manipulation tactic.
Strat
The first part of that is very similar to inflation theories, but different space-time bubbles "not yet merged" wouldn't affect our own in any way
That's the point, it's where all the missing "dark matter" is at and why we've not found it. When a bubble merges you get things like a quasar suddenly (over about a decade, more or less) appearing to turn into a galaxy
A galaxy here, a galaxy there, and pretty soon you're talking about some real mass.
Strat
For starters I think foreign governments should have to disclose that in the adverts.
Yeah that would be nice but obviously they will not, but Facebook of all people is probably in the best position to find that out., and reveal if that is the case.
That's all true, however from Facebook's perspective, they'd be turning paying customers (governments/political orgs that pay them for data and influence) into opponents that would stand in the way of furthering their growth and increasing their profits. It would literally require an Act of Congress to force them to do as you suggest as it's not in their best corporate interests. They want the status quo, or ideally even a rollback of legal protections and limits currently in place.
Facebook is straddling the fence and working both ends against the middle in many areas, for example, are they a platform or a publisher? They want it both ways on everything.
Strat
Entire gravity is one big phenomenon that we can't explain. Negative mass fluid sounds like the same as Luminiferous Aether, something we made up on analogy with our lower level phenomena. Occam's razor suggests that it's better to expect an explanation for metric expansion of space in future improved versions of existing theories. Perhaps quantization of gravity will help?
Rather than an "expanding universe", it's possible the universe is coalescing from separate "bubbles" of space-time.
Maybe when the "Big Bang" occurred, the universe began to coalesce into bubbles of space-time and matter, which then eventually began merging. Maybe the "missing" matter resides in these separate space-time bubbles that have yet to merge with ours and which we have no means to see or detect from within our own bubble.
There was a recent Slashdot article discussing how scientists were at a loss to explain how they've observed quasars suddenly turn into galaxies within the space of a decade or two, something which should not be possible. If such quasars are a point where another bubble of space-time (along with whatever mass it contains) is merging with our own space-time bubble, that could explain a lot.
Strat
Competition only works if the wages are comparable.
In order for that to be possible, the production quality, turnaround times, and productivity levels, among many other factors, of the different workforces in question must be roughly comparable. That is nowhere near true at this point in time. The actual value labor produces varies widely among workforces in various parts of the world and also depends on the particular labor type, all for a whole host of reasons.
Ycu cannot pay a man more than the value his labor produces and call what you're doing a business, that's charity.
Strat
No excuse for your illiteracy.
LOL! Found the NPC!
I build my own shit, including the computer and an old PC that serves as a router with NETBSD and PF.
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(signed just because it annoys NPCs like yourself)
Of course they fucking talked about them, each time. If you had UPnP running after 2002 YOU ARE A MORON.
They talked about them on tech sites and blogs. Not in places where mom, dad, or grandpa & grandma would notice. The most they would have seen is some newsreader mentioning something about NSA leaks and exploits by "hackers" in a fact- and detail-free one or two line blurb/filler in between the local news and the weather forecast.
The vast majority of non-tech-savvy "normies" have still never heard of any of it. The MSM doesn't try to inform anyone because such tech-heavy articles with enough info to be useful don't drive many advertising views or clicks on articles.
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The directors of the ACLU need to be locked up. They are trators to america who put rights of violent foriners above safety and security of the real americans.
Yes of course, because we all know those in government would never abuse their surveillance powers to spy on political opponents, congresscritters, and journalists.
Oh, wait....
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No, sorry, you've both got it totally backwards.
The problem was that the system DID NOT engage in *politically-correct* bias. Having too many white, male, or Asian employees can get you investigated and punished by the government and demonized by the MSM and NGOs in our "free and open society".
War is peace, freedom is slavery, etc etc.
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Oh no, Elon Musk is such a genius he can't do basic paperwork
Musk's mistake was attempting any major project in Californiastan, full stop. I could have told him that this sort of thing would happen.
There are reasons why people and businesses are fleeing the State in droves. This is but one of countless others.
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High energy consumption = people doing stuff. Working, making, playing, living.
Low energy consumption = people living like misers, feeling guilty about using a light bulb or - worse - thinking they're acting "for the common good" by sitting idle in the dark.
I want a civilization where there's energy to waste, with everyone free to maximize their lives. Not some guilt-ridden depression where maximum work & play is shamed.
The problem is that the wealthier and more prosperous a population is, the harder it is for the authoritarians to exercise power over the population. It's also much harder to stir up a wealthy and prosperous population into a socialist/communist/fascist revolution.
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