It isn't important that it be done, it is important that it is said to be done. It will happen like everything else in Russia, half-assed and boneheaded. That's not what Tsar Putin will hear though. He will hear, "'tis a wonder and increaseth growth, verily the West will cower to our enlarged secure internet". The Tsar will declare to the Russian people they are now even better protected than they were before from Western conspiracies designed to lay waste the Soviet...errr...Russian people.
For once I'd like to see the Western leaders issue a proclamation that there's nothing in Russia that the West wants to own, Russia doesn't really count in the world, and would they please stop banging on about size of their missiles.
If MS goes down that long hard road, the federal government will find a way not to use MS software. Already they are preventing use of Acrobat DC (Dick Cloud...or something). Turns out information really doesn't want to be free and keeping it on Adobe's servers violates a lot of security and privacy rules.
What happened? Did he give Daesh too many weapons and is now upset they are biting the hand that fed them during their formative years? Since the enemy of my enemy is my lover, shouldn't Erdogan be embracing the Kurds. If he had a strong, friendly Kurdestan on his border instead of those naughty Daesh, he'd have less to worry about. Erdogan doesn't want that because then he'd not have a reason to kill off democracy in Turkey. If we took off his skin, we'd find Putin underneath. And underneath Putin's skin we'd find Erdogan....an infinite descending chain of Russian matryoshka dolls that would end in Dante's 7th level for the Turks and the Russians.
I believe that AI can give us pink unicorns and we should work towards that...preserving everyone's humanity, transparency (I want us all to be clear like cellophane), dignity, no undo harm (that leaves out alleged MS software), no biases (these are easy to spot and stop), empathy, increasing education, creativity, and multi-culti decision making taking into account every minority sensitivity and no micro-agressions.
From a security standpoint, doing those data intensive checks shouldn't be in the kernel (separation kernels were designed for this). However, having to do process swaps to do the security checks is going to raise the hit on the processor. Security will always cost something.
Yes, because Americans wouldn't think twice about hiding their income to get under the $50,000. The already skip out on about $450 Billion a year they should be paying, Bam-Bam and his pseudo-policy isn't going to change that.
You are blaming the wrong party, Einstein. Congress created the Swiss cheese that is the U.S. tax code. And the latest estimate is the sainted American people are skipping out on about $450 Billion in taxes they should be paying. That's enough to cover the yearly deficit.
By the way, the IRS does not have all the data they need and they don't even have enough compute power to process what they do get. Congress has seen fit to starve them for the same idiot reasons you think they are to be held to account. If they did have all the info they needed, the tax cheats would be filing up for their court dates to explain to a judge why they skipped out on their taxes.
You are giving Bam-Bam too much credit. He was always a shoot-from-the-hip kind of guy with a blunderbuss and always amazed he's hit anything. He wouldn't have the foresight to predict what would happen with a Brexit. He mostly just saw it as a vehicle for self-promotion of his world view that the elites are always against him because he's successful in his own mind.
It is good to see him latch on to Brexit with both hands. If it turns out badly as I suspect it will, he'll have to find a way to back out of his support. That shouldn't won't be hard since he doesn't really hold any of his positions with intellectual analysis. However, it would make his chances to do to the U.S. what he's done to his investors a bit less favorable.
You mean what economic meltdown if it doesn't continue. Because if it does continue and England loses Scotland, N. Ireland, and its young people, as well as jobs and an export market to the EU, then it will be a gift that never stops giving. You'd better hope I'm wrong.
Besides losing N. Ireland and Scotland, the biggest loss England might face is their young people leaving because they see no future in an island fortress wallowing in Great British nostalgia about a false past that only existed because of English colonies abroad.
Personally, I hope the rest of the EU gives England a swift kick in the teeth for being such buttheads. The pop. of the EU also needs to give their EU bureaucracy its walking papers as well.
Unless that money was also what kept the other countries in the EU from raising import duties on English goods. In that case, it might be wash or a net loss for England to be out of the EU.
Another result might also be Scotland finally waving goodbye, followed shortly by N. Ireland. Hell, I think Wales should be free as well.
Your argument is specious because neither you nor I have any idea what would have happened without NAFTA or WTO free trade agreements. It might very well have been the case that the rest of the world moved on and left the U.S. to sink into an island fortress getting steadily poorer.
"My ultimate position is that there should be no governments" Oh, so Grandma can come and live with your bringing her medical bills with her? And the legions of low income people can also come to live with you when they retire since they won't have been able to save enough on their own?
While we're at it, maybe you'd like to buy your meds from Joe's Bait and Drug Emporium since there'll be nothing stopping them from opening up shop. Your airlines do not need no stinkin' regulation either because losing a few planes per year is cheaper than complying with government regulators. Maybe they'll promise to be really safe so you won't mind flying on them. Let's also get rid of immigration authorities, most of Africa wouldn't mind moving to the UK and you'd be happy to open your home for them along with Grandma and the low-income retirees you'd said you take.
You'll be wanting an insurance company to cover your own medical bills. They won't mind any of your previous conditions and be happy to accept you, yes? You could also buy insurance from Joe's Bait and Drug Emporium, it turns out they have a sideline in medical insurance.
Food is important for you to live, yes? Untainted by pesticides, yes? Adhering to what the packaging says it is, yes? It turns out Joe's Bait and Drug Emporium has another sideline on producing healthy food for you, the pesticides they use to farm it are there for your health, just learn to live with them.
And while we're whacking government, let's get rid of science and technology grants because no self-respecting anti-government nut needs science...it just happens....by Joe's Bait and Drug Emporium, they have another sideline on science projects they run for your benefit...errr...especially the one attempting to counter that disease you just managed to acquire.
Yeah, they should just whack away at the physics until the mathematics springs forth unbidden, something like strawberries in a field...you just add water and sunshine and they'll miraculously appear.
Yeah, if only those morons who were working on quantum mechanics in the 1920's and 1930s had some understand of how little practical value their work had, we wouldn't be saddled with computers, lasers, GPS, etc. now.
Yep, because all federal agencies are the same, right? And if some agency of the fed. gov. was given the task of writing the regs and enforcing them for security, Congress would take years to write the legislation to make it happen because the Conservatives would be screeching about fed. overreach, the right of people to be insecure, etc. The Liberals would get their panties in a knot over privacy and making sure it was multi-culti. Then the agency would be burdened with several Congressional committees' oversight because every two-bit committee chair would think they should have a say. Once enacted, special interest groups would sue on whatever grounds makes them happy. Several years later, the fed. agency is now tasked.
Now let's say the first company to get the shaft over bad security by our fed. agency decides its legal team should have a go. That's several more years of legal fees. The outcome is uncertain and companies would quickly realize it is cheaper to pay their legal dept (they are there all the time anyhow) than actually fix security.
Now...about the federal gov's security, it really has nothing to do with how it would enforce security, does it?
Bzzzzt, wrong, there was an armed guard but he couldn't figure out who was shooting...you know, the lights, the dancing people, the noise.
Alcohol and firearms...nothing could go wrong with that combination yes? Guns for everyone, everywhere, and woe betide the poor motherfucker who pisses off that guy packing his penis substitute and an attitude.
NSA started as signals intelligence and that is its primary focus today. The human intelligence work is CIA.
And just how will the U.S. infiltrate spies into Daesh? They are not unlike a motorcycle gang or the Mafia. To get in, one has to make one's bones. So you expect the U.S. to tell its agents it is okay to knock off a few heads to gain access? Once you figure out how to clear the Geneva conventions on this, get back to us.
Okay, so maybe you want lower level access, not big shot access. Daesh's best use of you will be a bot attached to suicide vest or driving a car bomb. That's probably bodes ill for getting actual live agents into Daesh, no?
While we're on the subject of infiltrating Daesh, I feel you have what it takes to do this. Please volunteer your services. I hear it isn't hard to get to Syria via Turkey, they'd love to have you.
Okay, from henceforth forward, all U.S. financial support for Daesh will cease. There...doesn't appear to have stopped anything just yet, maybe they aren't on the cc list for the memo.
It isn't official Saudi foreign policy that is the problem, it is the implicit deal they struck with their Wahhabi nutjob clerics. The deal was the clerics get to run their Stazi internally looking for "vice" and to export their poison elsewhere with madrassas, all in return for letting the fat boys in the robes run what's leftover. The classical current example is Albania, now that they have their Wahhabi madrassas, they also have a militant Islam problem with their youth.
Tapping the Saudi embassies will turn up nothing. And, if they have any brains, they'd assume their phones lines are being tapped and will only allow stuff they want the U.S. to hear over them.
According to the Saudis, there's an Iranian hiding behind every grain of sand. That's another reason not to tap them, what passes for Saudi "intelligence" is really more Saudi bedwetting over the Iranians (not that the Iranians are fluffy bunnies, but we shouldn't believe just anything from Saudi Arabia about them).
Maduro would have just claimed it was another gringo plot to unstablize his workers paradise. Then he'll claim anyone accepting one of these Yankee chickens would be investigated for terrorist leanings.
Venezuela is best left to the Venezuelans. I think of it as a drug addict, it must hit rock bottom before it will accept any sort change.
"private industry doing it better than government" The thing about private industry is they get to decide who will be their clients. Government has to take everyone as client. Ever listen to CSPAN's call in show? Grandma the gun-nut is sure the Jews are behind Islamic terrorism and taking her tax money...and she regularly calls the IRS to explain to them the depth of her problems.
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He's not pretending.
Come now. If Trump wins, he'll put Putin to shame on how dumb a Western leader can actually be.
It isn't important that it be done, it is important that it is said to be done. It will happen like everything else in Russia, half-assed and boneheaded. That's not what Tsar Putin will hear though. He will hear, "'tis a wonder and increaseth growth, verily the West will cower to our enlarged secure internet". The Tsar will declare to the Russian people they are now even better protected than they were before from Western conspiracies designed to lay waste the Soviet...errr...Russian people.
For once I'd like to see the Western leaders issue a proclamation that there's nothing in Russia that the West wants to own, Russia doesn't really count in the world, and would they please stop banging on about size of their missiles.
If MS goes down that long hard road, the federal government will find a way not to use MS software. Already they are preventing use of Acrobat DC (Dick Cloud...or something). Turns out information really doesn't want to be free and keeping it on Adobe's servers violates a lot of security and privacy rules.
What happened? Did he give Daesh too many weapons and is now upset they are biting the hand that fed them during their formative years? Since the enemy of my enemy is my lover, shouldn't Erdogan be embracing the Kurds. If he had a strong, friendly Kurdestan on his border instead of those naughty Daesh, he'd have less to worry about. Erdogan doesn't want that because then he'd not have a reason to kill off democracy in Turkey. If we took off his skin, we'd find Putin underneath. And underneath Putin's skin we'd find Erdogan....an infinite descending chain of Russian matryoshka dolls that would end in Dante's 7th level for the Turks and the Russians.
I believe that AI can give us pink unicorns and we should work towards that...preserving everyone's humanity, transparency (I want us all to be clear like cellophane), dignity, no undo harm (that leaves out alleged MS software), no biases (these are easy to spot and stop), empathy, increasing education, creativity, and multi-culti decision making taking into account every minority sensitivity and no micro-agressions.
From a security standpoint, doing those data intensive checks shouldn't be in the kernel (separation kernels were designed for this). However, having to do process swaps to do the security checks is going to raise the hit on the processor. Security will always cost something.
Yes, because Americans wouldn't think twice about hiding their income to get under the $50,000. The already skip out on about $450 Billion a year they should be paying, Bam-Bam and his pseudo-policy isn't going to change that.
You are blaming the wrong party, Einstein. Congress created the Swiss cheese that is the U.S. tax code. And the latest estimate is the sainted American people are skipping out on about $450 Billion in taxes they should be paying. That's enough to cover the yearly deficit.
By the way, the IRS does not have all the data they need and they don't even have enough compute power to process what they do get. Congress has seen fit to starve them for the same idiot reasons you think they are to be held to account. If they did have all the info they needed, the tax cheats would be filing up for their court dates to explain to a judge why they skipped out on their taxes.
You are giving Bam-Bam too much credit. He was always a shoot-from-the-hip kind of guy with a blunderbuss and always amazed he's hit anything. He wouldn't have the foresight to predict what would happen with a Brexit. He mostly just saw it as a vehicle for self-promotion of his world view that the elites are always against him because he's successful in his own mind.
It is good to see him latch on to Brexit with both hands. If it turns out badly as I suspect it will, he'll have to find a way to back out of his support. That shouldn't won't be hard since he doesn't really hold any of his positions with intellectual analysis. However, it would make his chances to do to the U.S. what he's done to his investors a bit less favorable.
You mean what economic meltdown if it doesn't continue. Because if it does continue and England loses Scotland, N. Ireland, and its young people, as well as jobs and an export market to the EU, then it will be a gift that never stops giving. You'd better hope I'm wrong.
Besides losing N. Ireland and Scotland, the biggest loss England might face is their young people leaving because they see no future in an island fortress wallowing in Great British nostalgia about a false past that only existed because of English colonies abroad.
Personally, I hope the rest of the EU gives England a swift kick in the teeth for being such buttheads. The pop. of the EU also needs to give their EU bureaucracy its walking papers as well.
Unless that money was also what kept the other countries in the EU from raising import duties on English goods. In that case, it might be wash or a net loss for England to be out of the EU.
Another result might also be Scotland finally waving goodbye, followed shortly by N. Ireland. Hell, I think Wales should be free as well.
Your argument is specious because neither you nor I have any idea what would have happened without NAFTA or WTO free trade agreements. It might very well have been the case that the rest of the world moved on and left the U.S. to sink into an island fortress getting steadily poorer.
"My ultimate position is that there should be no governments" Oh, so Grandma can come and live with your bringing her medical bills with her? And the legions of low income people can also come to live with you when they retire since they won't have been able to save enough on their own?
While we're at it, maybe you'd like to buy your meds from Joe's Bait and Drug Emporium since there'll be nothing stopping them from opening up shop. Your airlines do not need no stinkin' regulation either because losing a few planes per year is cheaper than complying with government regulators. Maybe they'll promise to be really safe so you won't mind flying on them. Let's also get rid of immigration authorities, most of Africa wouldn't mind moving to the UK and you'd be happy to open your home for them along with Grandma and the low-income retirees you'd said you take.
You'll be wanting an insurance company to cover your own medical bills. They won't mind any of your previous conditions and be happy to accept you, yes? You could also buy insurance from Joe's Bait and Drug Emporium, it turns out they have a sideline in medical insurance.
Food is important for you to live, yes? Untainted by pesticides, yes? Adhering to what the packaging says it is, yes? It turns out Joe's Bait and Drug Emporium has another sideline on producing healthy food for you, the pesticides they use to farm it are there for your health, just learn to live with them.
And while we're whacking government, let's get rid of science and technology grants because no self-respecting anti-government nut needs science...it just happens....by Joe's Bait and Drug Emporium, they have another sideline on science projects they run for your benefit...errr...especially the one attempting to counter that disease you just managed to acquire.
Shit Fein in N. Ireland is already attempting to use the Brexit as fodder for a campaign to unite all of Ireland under their Fascist ideology.
Yeah, they should just whack away at the physics until the mathematics springs forth unbidden, something like strawberries in a field...you just add water and sunshine and they'll miraculously appear.
Yeah, if only those morons who were working on quantum mechanics in the 1920's and 1930s had some understand of how little practical value their work had, we wouldn't be saddled with computers, lasers, GPS, etc. now.
Yep, because all federal agencies are the same, right? And if some agency of the fed. gov. was given the task of writing the regs and enforcing them for security, Congress would take years to write the legislation to make it happen because the Conservatives would be screeching about fed. overreach, the right of people to be insecure, etc. The Liberals would get their panties in a knot over privacy and making sure it was multi-culti. Then the agency would be burdened with several Congressional committees' oversight because every two-bit committee chair would think they should have a say. Once enacted, special interest groups would sue on whatever grounds makes them happy. Several years later, the fed. agency is now tasked.
Now let's say the first company to get the shaft over bad security by our fed. agency decides its legal team should have a go. That's several more years of legal fees. The outcome is uncertain and companies would quickly realize it is cheaper to pay their legal dept (they are there all the time anyhow) than actually fix security.
Now...about the federal gov's security, it really has nothing to do with how it would enforce security, does it?
Bzzzzt, wrong, there was an armed guard but he couldn't figure out who was shooting...you know, the lights, the dancing people, the noise.
Alcohol and firearms...nothing could go wrong with that combination yes? Guns for everyone, everywhere, and woe betide the poor motherfucker who pisses off that guy packing his penis substitute and an attitude.
NSA started as signals intelligence and that is its primary focus today. The human intelligence work is CIA.
And just how will the U.S. infiltrate spies into Daesh? They are not unlike a motorcycle gang or the Mafia. To get in, one has to make one's bones. So you expect the U.S. to tell its agents it is okay to knock off a few heads to gain access? Once you figure out how to clear the Geneva conventions on this, get back to us.
Okay, so maybe you want lower level access, not big shot access. Daesh's best use of you will be a bot attached to suicide vest or driving a car bomb. That's probably bodes ill for getting actual live agents into Daesh, no?
While we're on the subject of infiltrating Daesh, I feel you have what it takes to do this. Please volunteer your services. I hear it isn't hard to get to Syria via Turkey, they'd love to have you.
Okay, from henceforth forward, all U.S. financial support for Daesh will cease. There...doesn't appear to have stopped anything just yet, maybe they aren't on the cc list for the memo.
It isn't official Saudi foreign policy that is the problem, it is the implicit deal they struck with their Wahhabi nutjob clerics. The deal was the clerics get to run their Stazi internally looking for "vice" and to export their poison elsewhere with madrassas, all in return for letting the fat boys in the robes run what's leftover. The classical current example is Albania, now that they have their Wahhabi madrassas, they also have a militant Islam problem with their youth.
Tapping the Saudi embassies will turn up nothing. And, if they have any brains, they'd assume their phones lines are being tapped and will only allow stuff they want the U.S. to hear over them.
According to the Saudis, there's an Iranian hiding behind every grain of sand. That's another reason not to tap them, what passes for Saudi "intelligence" is really more Saudi bedwetting over the Iranians (not that the Iranians are fluffy bunnies, but we shouldn't believe just anything from Saudi Arabia about them).
Maduro would have just claimed it was another gringo plot to unstablize his workers paradise. Then he'll claim anyone accepting one of these Yankee chickens would be investigated for terrorist leanings.
Venezuela is best left to the Venezuelans. I think of it as a drug addict, it must hit rock bottom before it will accept any sort change.
"private industry doing it better than government" The thing about private industry is they get to decide who will be their clients. Government has to take everyone as client. Ever listen to CSPAN's call in show? Grandma the gun-nut is sure the Jews are behind Islamic terrorism and taking her tax money...and she regularly calls the IRS to explain to them the depth of her problems.