They prove who did what when the bullets fly, keep the police honest,...
Funny how, quite often, there's a sudden mass failure of police body cams and audio recording when there's a situation where the cops may look like criminals. Or, there's suddenly a 'computer problem' that loses all the video/audio and gee, backups? What are those? Sorry, we either A: didn't have the budget to implement backups, give us more money, or B: surprise, there was a sudden system failure that lost just that particular stored evidence but strangely didn't lose any other data on the same server/HDD.
You could file a complaint against the officers in question, but that may not go well for you.
Welcome to the American police state. Legal complaints not allowed against enforcement forces (they've lost both the 'police' and 'law' adjectives/descriptors by their actions...they're now simply 'enforcers').
AFAIK this was totally a Democrat thing. They were targeting (heh) perfectly-legal gun stores, after all. Don't know of many (R)'s who would favor the government attacking gun stores.
That's just at the federal level and at a guesstimate is close to 8% of the economy. It would be great to eliminate that and get the number down to 5%
In the US? Ha!
I guarantee you a UBI would be in addition to SS/unemployment insurance/etc. They can't even eliminate the mortgage deduction from federal taxes nor restructure social security so it doesn't go broke, what makes you think that politicians would even attempt to touch those 'third rails' of "Social Security Unemployment and Labor"?
The US would be in extreme danger of defaulting on interest payments on the national debt, and taxes for anyone actually working/producing would necessarily skyrocket, so those people will eventually cease to create value/wealth and then the system will collapse when it runs out of other people's money (or, if the Fed loans itself even more trillions to cover it, when people lose faith in the US dollar and the currency tanks).
Need to update your partisan copypastas dude. The Obama administration doesn't like or dislike anything.
Apparently the Obama administration did like it when they created 'Operation Chokepoint'. And whine to the Wiki curators not me, that quote was directly from the Wiki entry.
Getting a CC authority is expensive and hard for many.
Particularly hard when the US federal government 'discourages' CC companies from doing business with perfectly legal but currently politically/ideologically-unpopular businesses/industries.
"it's a thinly veiled ideological attack on industries the Obama administration doesn't like, such as gun sellers and coal producers."
Add medical marijuana dispensaries to that list as well.
Those things with 18 wheels also reach a lot of places that aren't practical for a train. This is quite similar to why your circulatory system has both capillaries and arteries.
Usually it's a Warren Buffet backed organization trying to mess with anything that could interfere with his rail investments. Automated trucks would fit the bill.
Funny how it's the *other* guys that are the crony-capitalists, though, eh?
My Other Computer Is A Data General Nova III
Heh, mine's a bit newer. An SGI Octane system running SGI's IRIX 6.5 desktop version of UNIX.:P
All without realizing that their support for overweening government is what gives the government the power and resources to actually perform such surveillance of everyone.
"But, we want an all-powerful government that will give us anything we want or need but we don't want it to affect us personally in a negative way, and/or have the power to take anything away from us! (just those other people we don't like!)"/sarc
The primary thing governments do domestically is enact laws and enforce them. Governments are a necessary evil, and are evil precisely because governments are made up of people with power over others. Human nature comes into play. People just don't get that it means that big governments enact many laws and do a lot of enforcement because they have the manpower & resources. It leads to a 'soft tyranny' until a watershed event triggers either a revolution or a police state.
"That government is best which governs least" - Henry David Thoreau: 'Civil Disobedience'
Your mail program would use a protocol called POP3 to download the new email from the server, then the server would delete it. You can still do it that way.
The problem is that in many places and with many services, when you supposedly "delete" email off of an ISP's or other email service's servers, they will still retain a copy for some period of time, in some places mandated by law, for the express purpose of use by law enforcement and the TLAs. Many are dropping POP3 support entirely for IMAP.
I dunno, man...I'm a musician that's played a lot of bars and clubs in college towns and seen how people act when you add booze (often other chemical enhancement too)...the Borg Queen was almost kinda hawt, and you know how 'beer goggles' work for young guys at last-call, right? I think the biggest obstacle would be the willingness of the AI to stand still long enough!:D
Much of the "sharing economy" comes at the expense of those that are following the rules.
The problem and the reason why ABnB, Uber, Lyft, etc were created and what drives them are those rules being more about protecting incumbent players from competition and as a way to funnel money to politicians and city governments while protecting union jobs.
It's not just that ABnB et al are cheaper, it's that they're also *better*!
The fix is changing the laws/rules/ordinances, IOW the system, not punishing people trying to provide a needed service that is not being well-served at all by the current system. Do that, and magically all these ABnB/Uber type businesses go away because the demand will go away.
Microsoft is asking U.S. officials to grant exceptions for law-abiding, visa-holding workers and students from President Donald Trump's immigration order, channeling the outrage expressed by many in the technology industry with a proposed solution. From a report:
Such individuals are low-risk -- having already undergone a rigorous vetting process
Yeah, like the San Bernadino shooters or the Tsarnaev brothers.
How many lives is MS willing to risk to save a few percent on labor costs?
A very large proportion of many voluntary activities/behaviors that can affect health in the U.S. falls to Medicaid and Medicare, i.e. you and me.
FTFY
We need a government list of approved and non-approved activities, diets/foods, and behaviors (default unapproved until/unless reviewed & approved) legislated into law.
After all, if something negatively affects a person's health it puts a burden on everyone. We could put all the people unemployed due to automation, high minimum wages, and bad economies to work monitoring individuals for compliance.
What could possibly go wrong?
Or, maybe we could make health care costs a mostly individual responsibility for all but the poorest so that we don't have to try to control individual behaviors & activities and/or suffer when someone else acts irresponsibly.
But the first step to not having companies build facial recognition of you is to not decide to scan your face and give it to them.
The problem here is that you're asking people to take personal responsibility for their own decisions and actions. That is anathema in the US for a large percentage of the population. 'It's somebody else's fault' is the default fallback for far too many people regarding far too many areas in life when they choose poorly of their own free will.
Strat, brainless lying right wing cunt. Who gives a fuck what a useless mouth breathing moron thinks. You wouldnt know a fact if it bit you on the leg.
Now Tostitos will get boycotted by the organized anti-Trump protest groups because they hate Uber for supplying rides to travelers at JFK when taxi unions called for a boycott at JFK over the two Iraqis detained because of Trumps EO regarding people coming into the US from certain majority-Muslim nations & regions.
That's going to leave a lot of pasty nerd/geek basement-dwellers heavily conflicted!
Except a trucker delivering a load of solar panels is, in fact, relevant to the solar power industry. You can't produce electricity until the solar panels are installed, and to install them you need to transport them from the factory to the installation site. Therefore, the process of delivery is directly relevant.
A gas station is not even remotely relevant to electricity generation. None of the materials, processes or services a gas station provides are directly necessary for the generation of power; at best it's a tertiary contributor.
You also need to transport petroleum of any sort for any purpose as well, whether it's gasoline for cars or natural gas for electricity generation. It's all energy, just in different forms. The end use, as far as the relevance of labor/jobs, which is what TFS/TFA concerns, is meaningless.
The point being that unless one counts labor in nearly identical ways any talk of 'jobs created' is meaningless.
Just as much as semi-truck drivers who happen to have, among the other unrelated items to be delivered in their trailer, a couple skids of PV cells, but are counted as 'solar energy' jobs.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Politics & ideology has muddied the waters so much that there's really no telling what is true or false anymore regarding such hot-button issues.
The no-communication theorem may also fall to further research. Heck, if you'd asked scientists 20-30 years ago if it was possible to make the 'time-crystals' TFS/TFA discusses they would have told you it was almost impossible too. I you'd asked scientists 60-80 years ago the same question they'd have likely recommended you be committed to a mental institution.
Human understanding of our planet, our universe, and what is possible & impossible is still in its infancy.
I remember reading about some sci-fi author who wanted a huge interstellar space ship millions of miles long but the control system would take hours to affect a course correction so some physicist postulated a cable made of a material with a 4th dimensional component thus cutting communication time way down.
I think that problem is already solved using quantum-based systems. Heck, with quantum-connected controls and sensors, it would theoretically be possible to control a ship orbiting a distant star in real time from a 'cockpit' on Earth.
Just too bad that they don't have it regulate and limit the current.
It would not be that difficult or that much more expensive to make a device that, in addition to displaying voltage/current when plugged into a USB-C cable/device, simply auto-steps the system through the voltage ranges to check for proper operation without requiring $SHINY that you want to protect to be connected.
This device sounds like somebody had acquired a crap-load of very basic bargain-bin voltage/current sensor/digital-readout ICs and looked for the easiest and cheapest way to design something to sell using them requiring the least amount of additional parts/labor.
"Junk-box engineering"..."what can I make out of this pile of parts with the least amount of additional cost that I could get people to buy?"
Slashdot Mirror
They prove who did what when the bullets fly, keep the police honest,...
Funny how, quite often, there's a sudden mass failure of police body cams and audio recording when there's a situation where the cops may look like criminals. Or, there's suddenly a 'computer problem' that loses all the video/audio and gee, backups? What are those? Sorry, we either A: didn't have the budget to implement backups, give us more money, or B: surprise, there was a sudden system failure that lost just that particular stored evidence but strangely didn't lose any other data on the same server/HDD.
You could file a complaint against the officers in question, but that may not go well for you.
https://youtu.be/jfLwdyMbSHE
https://youtu.be/FLpiK8JJJKQ
https://youtu.be/Tt_pMgGaekU
There are many, many more.
Welcome to the American police state. Legal complaints not allowed against enforcement forces (they've lost both the 'police' and 'law' adjectives/descriptors by their actions...they're now simply 'enforcers').
Strat
So you concede my point.
Thank you.
Strat
Sadly it's just as much a republican thing too
'citation needed'
AFAIK this was totally a Democrat thing. They were targeting (heh) perfectly-legal gun stores, after all. Don't know of many (R)'s who would favor the government attacking gun stores.
Strat
That's just at the federal level and at a guesstimate is close to 8% of the economy. It would be great to eliminate that and get the number down to 5%
In the US? Ha!
I guarantee you a UBI would be in addition to SS/unemployment insurance/etc. They can't even eliminate the mortgage deduction from federal taxes nor restructure social security so it doesn't go broke, what makes you think that politicians would even attempt to touch those 'third rails' of "Social Security Unemployment and Labor"?
The US would be in extreme danger of defaulting on interest payments on the national debt, and taxes for anyone actually working/producing would necessarily skyrocket, so those people will eventually cease to create value/wealth and then the system will collapse when it runs out of other people's money (or, if the Fed loans itself even more trillions to cover it, when people lose faith in the US dollar and the currency tanks).
Strat
Need to update your partisan copypastas dude. The Obama administration doesn't like or dislike anything.
Apparently the Obama administration did like it when they created 'Operation Chokepoint'. And whine to the Wiki curators not me, that quote was directly from the Wiki entry.
And BTW, I didn't vote for Trump.
Strat
Getting a CC authority is expensive and hard for many.
Particularly hard when the US federal government 'discourages' CC companies from doing business with perfectly legal but currently politically/ideologically-unpopular businesses/industries.
"it's a thinly veiled ideological attack on industries the Obama administration doesn't like, such as gun sellers and coal producers."
Add medical marijuana dispensaries to that list as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Strat
Those things with 18 wheels also reach a lot of places that aren't practical for a train. This is quite similar to why your circulatory system has both capillaries and arteries.
Constrict capillaries!
(C'mon, *some*body was gonna say it!)
Strat
Usually it's a Warren Buffet backed organization trying to mess with anything that could interfere with his rail investments. Automated trucks would fit the bill.
Funny how it's the *other* guys that are the crony-capitalists, though, eh?
My Other Computer Is A Data General Nova III
Heh, mine's a bit newer. An SGI Octane system running SGI's IRIX 6.5 desktop version of UNIX. :P
Strat
All without realizing that their support for overweening government is what gives the government the power and resources to actually perform such surveillance of everyone.
"But, we want an all-powerful government that will give us anything we want or need but we don't want it to affect us personally in a negative way, and/or have the power to take anything away from us! (just those other people we don't like!)" /sarc
The primary thing governments do domestically is enact laws and enforce them. Governments are a necessary evil, and are evil precisely because governments are made up of people with power over others. Human nature comes into play. People just don't get that it means that big governments enact many laws and do a lot of enforcement because they have the manpower & resources. It leads to a 'soft tyranny' until a watershed event triggers either a revolution or a police state.
"That government is best which governs least" - Henry David Thoreau: 'Civil Disobedience'
Strat
Your mail program would use a protocol called POP3 to download the new email from the server, then the server would delete it. You can still do it that way.
The problem is that in many places and with many services, when you supposedly "delete" email off of an ISP's or other email service's servers, they will still retain a copy for some period of time, in some places mandated by law, for the express purpose of use by law enforcement and the TLAs. Many are dropping POP3 support entirely for IMAP.
Strat
...we will never breed with machines.
I dunno, man...I'm a musician that's played a lot of bars and clubs in college towns and seen how people act when you add booze (often other chemical enhancement too)...the Borg Queen was almost kinda hawt, and you know how 'beer goggles' work for young guys at last-call, right? I think the biggest obstacle would be the willingness of the AI to stand still long enough! :D
Strat
Much of the "sharing economy" comes at the expense of those that are following the rules.
The problem and the reason why ABnB, Uber, Lyft, etc were created and what drives them are those rules being more about protecting incumbent players from competition and as a way to funnel money to politicians and city governments while protecting union jobs.
It's not just that ABnB et al are cheaper, it's that they're also *better*!
The fix is changing the laws/rules/ordinances, IOW the system, not punishing people trying to provide a needed service that is not being well-served at all by the current system. Do that, and magically all these ABnB/Uber type businesses go away because the demand will go away.
Strat
Shit happens.
I'd like to see you walk up to those victim's family members and tell them that.
You're a sociopathic monster.
Strat
Never mind that the chance an American will be killed by a foreign-born refugee is 1 in 3.64 billion.
How much do those odds mean to the victims and their families of the WTC, San Bernadino, the Boston Marathon attacks, and others?
Strat
Microsoft is asking U.S. officials to grant exceptions for law-abiding, visa-holding workers and students from President Donald Trump's immigration order, channeling the outrage expressed by many in the technology industry with a proposed solution. From a report:
Such individuals are low-risk -- having already undergone a rigorous vetting process
Yeah, like the San Bernadino shooters or the Tsarnaev brothers.
How many lives is MS willing to risk to save a few percent on labor costs?
Strat
A very large proportion of many voluntary activities/behaviors that can affect health in the U.S. falls to Medicaid and Medicare, i.e. you and me.
FTFY
We need a government list of approved and non-approved activities, diets/foods, and behaviors (default unapproved until/unless reviewed & approved) legislated into law.
After all, if something negatively affects a person's health it puts a burden on everyone. We could put all the people unemployed due to automation, high minimum wages, and bad economies to work monitoring individuals for compliance.
What could possibly go wrong?
Or, maybe we could make health care costs a mostly individual responsibility for all but the poorest so that we don't have to try to control individual behaviors & activities and/or suffer when someone else acts irresponsibly.
Strat
But the first step to not having companies build facial recognition of you is to not decide to scan your face and give it to them.
The problem here is that you're asking people to take personal responsibility for their own decisions and actions. That is anathema in the US for a large percentage of the population. 'It's somebody else's fault' is the default fallback for far too many people regarding far too many areas in life when they choose poorly of their own free will.
Strat
Strat, brainless lying right wing cunt. Who gives a fuck what a useless mouth breathing moron thinks. You wouldnt know a fact if it bit you on the leg.
Boy, that escalated quickly!
Look, I didn't know she was your mom, OK?
Strat
We could get by completely without any electricity or fossil fuels at all. We could even live happy lives like that.
"No phone, no lights, no motor car,
Not a single luxury,
Like Robinson Crusoe,
It's primitive as can be.
So join us here each week my friend,
You're sure to get a smile,
From seven stranded castaways,
Here on "Gilligan's Isle."
Umm, no thanks?
Strat
Now Tostitos will get boycotted by the organized anti-Trump protest groups because they hate Uber for supplying rides to travelers at JFK when taxi unions called for a boycott at JFK over the two Iraqis detained because of Trumps EO regarding people coming into the US from certain majority-Muslim nations & regions.
That's going to leave a lot of pasty nerd/geek basement-dwellers heavily conflicted!
Strat
Except a trucker delivering a load of solar panels is, in fact, relevant to the solar power industry. You can't produce electricity until the solar panels are installed, and to install them you need to transport them from the factory to the installation site. Therefore, the process of delivery is directly relevant.
A gas station is not even remotely relevant to electricity generation. None of the materials, processes or services a gas station provides are directly necessary for the generation of power; at best it's a tertiary contributor.
You also need to transport petroleum of any sort for any purpose as well, whether it's gasoline for cars or natural gas for electricity generation. It's all energy, just in different forms. The end use, as far as the relevance of labor/jobs, which is what TFS/TFA concerns, is meaningless.
The point being that unless one counts labor in nearly identical ways any talk of 'jobs created' is meaningless.
Strat
Gas stations produce electricity?
Just as much as semi-truck drivers who happen to have, among the other unrelated items to be delivered in their trailer, a couple skids of PV cells, but are counted as 'solar energy' jobs.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Politics & ideology has muddied the waters so much that there's really no telling what is true or false anymore regarding such hot-button issues.
Strat
The no-communication theorem may also fall to further research. Heck, if you'd asked scientists 20-30 years ago if it was possible to make the 'time-crystals' TFS/TFA discusses they would have told you it was almost impossible too. I you'd asked scientists 60-80 years ago the same question they'd have likely recommended you be committed to a mental institution.
Human understanding of our planet, our universe, and what is possible & impossible is still in its infancy.
Strat
I remember reading about some sci-fi author who wanted a huge interstellar space ship millions of miles long but the control system would take hours to affect a course correction so some physicist postulated a cable made of a material with a 4th dimensional component thus cutting communication time way down.
I think that problem is already solved using quantum-based systems. Heck, with quantum-connected controls and sensors, it would theoretically be possible to control a ship orbiting a distant star in real time from a 'cockpit' on Earth.
Interesting times, indeed.
Strat
Just too bad that they don't have it regulate and limit the current.
It would not be that difficult or that much more expensive to make a device that, in addition to displaying voltage/current when plugged into a USB-C cable/device, simply auto-steps the system through the voltage ranges to check for proper operation without requiring $SHINY that you want to protect to be connected.
This device sounds like somebody had acquired a crap-load of very basic bargain-bin voltage/current sensor/digital-readout ICs and looked for the easiest and cheapest way to design something to sell using them requiring the least amount of additional parts/labor.
"Junk-box engineering"..."what can I make out of this pile of parts with the least amount of additional cost that I could get people to buy?"
Strat