The whole right to be forgotten thing is asinine to begin with.
It doesn't remove any of the source information - it just makes it harder to find - and makes the net less useful.
There is not enough money to properly secure enough voting machines for everyone to vote.
Seriously. Why are we throwing money at this. Paper ballots are auditable and have been good enough for hundreds of years. Quit trying to fix EVERYTHING with technology.
I've always though the solution was *incredibly simple.
Have an electronic voting machine that *also prints out a paper copy of the voter's selections.
The voter verifies the paper ballot and drops in a slot at the machine to register the vote.
So you now have complete paper ballots and complete electronic ballots.
Randomly check some number of precincts in every election to verify the counts match.
If there's a discrepancy then count the paper from all the precincts and use that total.
So now you've gained ~85% of the benefit offered by electronic voting (speed, accuracy, etc. etc) and lost none of the accountability.
This seems incredibly simple and workable.
Which is probably why it will never happen.
The kneejerk reaction of dismissing any suggestion of election meddling to "looking for excuses" for Clinton's loss is less than useful.
Clinton lost. It's over.
That doesn't mean we shouldn't be extremely concerned about the implications of some of the allegations.
One of the better articles I found on this subject is here:
https://www.pastemagazine.com/...
I had the opposite experience in the bay area.
The local liberal ideology in Santa Cruz had latched onto electronic voting machines being all bad all the time.
Very few people understood that the 'bad' was mostly a matter of poor implementation rather than the tech.
If you provide open wireless access to anybody who gets in range then attributing ISP records to *your machines is no longer a reasonable assumption.
I've even seen a segregated open/guest wifi as a part of setup options on some routers.
Grew up in LA then lived in the Bay Area for 20 years... never realized the prepending of freeway number with "the" until I heard a discussion about it.
I started to pay attention to my speech and realized that I already only referred to *socal freeways with "the".
"Take the 101 to the 405 the go all the way to the 210"
"Take 280 to 85 then get on 17"
The exploit is specific to ASA software versions 8.0 - 8.4
8.5 was released in March of 2012.
The current version of ASA software is 9.6 http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/t...
I'm in the US.
I've been to a few places that do chip and sign. These are mostly small coffee shops type places using Square or something similar.
All the major stores that I've used a chip at are chip and pin.
That said... the usage is hit and miss.
Maybe 70% of the places I go use chip, the others still swipe. (even when they *have a chip reader)
Why would it make sense to lump the US with any of the countries you name but Canada? None of them are anything like the US
We could start with all except Mexico having nearly universal municipal sewage and clean water.
Outside of a big city you don't either of these things in Mexico - and even in one it's unlikely you have both.
Even *in a big city you don't drink the water that comes out of the pipes... and it has nothing to do with the garbage you were taught as a kid that it's because we don't have the same gut bacteria; the LOCALS don't drink the water.
Everybody either gets bottled water at the store, takes jugs to the big water purification joints you find all over Mexico, or filters their own well water.
If you had ever traveled through Mexico you'd understand just how ludicrous it is to call it a 'developed' country.
there are far fewer gun nuts in America than the NRA wants everybody to believe.
At some point the rest of the country will call their bluff and demand sane gun control laws.
The gun nut lobby will end up being a paper tiger just like the confederate flag loons in SC.
The intent isn't to actually remove it... just make it more 'difficult' to find.
People who really want to find it still can by either paying to search something like Lexus Nexus, paying to have somebody research beyond what's available on a quick google search, or by paying for one of the apps that are coming out to do this for you.
Can't have the poors getting the same access information as the wealthy.
Regardless if it's the intent, this will ensure the internet won't allow people to bypass the economic stratification that we've all come to know and love in the physical world.
> (1) They haven't judicially defined what constitutes public interest -- because they can't because it's subjective, and making such a decision would piss everyone off and demonstrate the absurdity of the law. So there's no legal test for yes/no.
It's decided by a court, so yes there is a legal test.
Since May 29 2014 there have been 318,560 requests covering 1,130,431 URLs.
41.6% - 470,259 - of those URLs have been delisted.
Are you honestly suggesting that a court reviewed all 318,560 requests?
Discounting weekends there have been 386 non weekend days since this started.
That's 185280 minutes assuming a full 8 hours day.
To process 318,560 cases a single court would have to do 1.71 cases/minutes every minute they've been open since this started.
If you factor in holidays etc this number likely going to go over 2 cases/minute.
And if you see it as something that should be classified is subjective interpretation.
What you see as benign I see as outrageous... or vice versa.
Since we don't have the emails in question we don't know if they divulge troop intended movements or recipes for anal nutrient mixture.
no, they weren't. It appears you've just made a different selection of the 'news' to pay attention to.
“None of the emails we reviewed had classification or dissemination markings, but some included IC-derived classified information and should have been handled as classified, appropriately marked, and transmitted via a secure network,” wrote Inspector General I. Charles McCullough in the letter to Congress.
“None of the emails we reviewed had classification or dissemination markings, but some included IC-derived classified information and should have been handled as classified, appropriately marked, and transmitted via a secure network,” wrote Inspector General I. Charles McCullough in the letter to Congress.
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The whole right to be forgotten thing is asinine to begin with.
It doesn't remove any of the source information - it just makes it harder to find - and makes the net less useful.
I've got emails going back over 20 years.
I bet a lot of other people here do as well.
Being able to pull up an email thread from years ago has been useful on numerous occasions.
Here are just two of many recent examples:
anecdotes != data
There is not enough money to properly secure enough voting machines for everyone to vote.
Seriously. Why are we throwing money at this. Paper ballots are auditable and have been good enough for hundreds of years. Quit trying to fix EVERYTHING with technology.
I've always though the solution was *incredibly simple. Have an electronic voting machine that *also prints out a paper copy of the voter's selections.
The voter verifies the paper ballot and drops in a slot at the machine to register the vote.
So you now have complete paper ballots and complete electronic ballots.
Randomly check some number of precincts in every election to verify the counts match.
If there's a discrepancy then count the paper from all the precincts and use that total.
So now you've gained ~85% of the benefit offered by electronic voting (speed, accuracy, etc. etc) and lost none of the accountability.
This seems incredibly simple and workable.
Which is probably why it will never happen.
The kneejerk reaction of dismissing any suggestion of election meddling to "looking for excuses" for Clinton's loss is less than useful. Clinton lost. It's over. That doesn't mean we shouldn't be extremely concerned about the implications of some of the allegations. One of the better articles I found on this subject is here: https://www.pastemagazine.com/...
I had the opposite experience in the bay area. The local liberal ideology in Santa Cruz had latched onto electronic voting machines being all bad all the time. Very few people understood that the 'bad' was mostly a matter of poor implementation rather than the tech.
1.7% is "so much dishonesty" ?
If you provide open wireless access to anybody who gets in range then attributing ISP records to *your machines is no longer a reasonable assumption.
I've even seen a segregated open/guest wifi as a part of setup options on some routers.
pretty sure if there'd been a band of people looking to take my head for the last 20 odd years I'd answer just about everything with "I don't recall"
Grew up in LA then lived in the Bay Area for 20 years ... never realized the prepending of freeway number with "the" until I heard a discussion about it.
I started to pay attention to my speech and realized that I already only referred to *socal freeways with "the".
"Take the 101 to the 405 the go all the way to the 210"
"Take 280 to 85 then get on 17"
I hate this trope
Govt *isn't* a business in the traditional sense of the word and we shouldn't expect it to be
The exploit is specific to ASA software versions 8.0 - 8.4
8.5 was released in March of 2012.
The current version of ASA software is 9.6
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/t...
Why would anybody still be running 8.0 - 8.4 ??
I'm in the US.
... the usage is hit and miss.
I've been to a few places that do chip and sign. These are mostly small coffee shops type places using Square or something similar.
All the major stores that I've used a chip at are chip and pin.
That said
Maybe 70% of the places I go use chip, the others still swipe. (even when they *have a chip reader)
>Apple paid seven BILLION dollars in U.S. taxes for just six months ending in March 2015 for example.
source?
It's over 99% in Japan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Why would it make sense to lump the US with any of the countries you name but Canada? None of them are anything like the US
We could start with all except Mexico having nearly universal municipal sewage and clean water. ... and it has nothing to do with the garbage you were taught as a kid that it's because we don't have the same gut bacteria; the LOCALS don't drink the water.
Outside of a big city you don't either of these things in Mexico - and even in one it's unlikely you have both.
Even *in a big city you don't drink the water that comes out of the pipes
Everybody either gets bottled water at the store, takes jugs to the big water purification joints you find all over Mexico, or filters their own well water.
If you had ever traveled through Mexico you'd understand just how ludicrous it is to call it a 'developed' country.
Mexico is literally a 3rd world country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
there are far fewer gun nuts in America than the NRA wants everybody to believe.
At some point the rest of the country will call their bluff and demand sane gun control laws.
The gun nut lobby will end up being a paper tiger just like the confederate flag loons in SC.
incorrect
~ 32% of Americans live in a house where *somebody owns a gun.
~22% of Americans actually own a gun.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nu...
if you consider Mexico 'developed' you haven't spent much time there
The intent isn't to actually remove it ... just make it more 'difficult' to find.
People who really want to find it still can by either paying to search something like Lexus Nexus,
paying to have somebody research beyond what's available on a quick google search,
or by paying for one of the apps that are coming out to do this for you.
Can't have the poors getting the same access information as the wealthy.
Regardless if it's the intent, this will ensure the internet won't allow people to bypass the economic stratification that we've all come to know and love in the physical world.
> (1) They haven't judicially defined what constitutes public interest -- because they can't because it's subjective, and making such a decision would piss everyone off and demonstrate the absurdity of the law. So there's no legal test for yes/no.
It's decided by a court, so yes there is a legal test.
Since May 29 2014 there have been 318,560 requests covering 1,130,431 URLs.
41.6% - 470,259 - of those URLs have been delisted.
Are you honestly suggesting that a court reviewed all 318,560 requests?
Discounting weekends there have been 386 non weekend days since this started.
That's 185280 minutes assuming a full 8 hours day.
To process 318,560 cases a single court would have to do 1.71 cases/minutes every minute they've been open since this started.
If you factor in holidays etc this number likely going to go over 2 cases/minute.
This very clearly is NOT what's happening.
http://www.google.com/transpar...
The topic of whether it's human-caused or not is so controversial that even mentioning this will probably get my post modded down.
And if you see it as something that should be classified is subjective interpretation. ... or vice versa.
What you see as benign I see as outrageous
Since we don't have the emails in question we don't know if they divulge troop intended movements or recipes for anal nutrient mixture.
It appears you've just made a different selection of the 'news' to pay attention to.
“None of the emails we reviewed had classification or dissemination markings, but some included IC-derived classified information and should have been handled as classified, appropriately marked, and transmitted via a secure network,” wrote Inspector General I. Charles McCullough in the letter to Congress.
oh wait
http://www.wsj.com/articles/in...
“None of the emails we reviewed had classification or dissemination markings, but some included IC-derived classified information and should have been handled as classified, appropriately marked, and transmitted via a secure network,” wrote Inspector General I. Charles McCullough in the letter to Congress.