try to replace Comey with someone who will charge her
This would be literally anyone in the country. Comey already said, on national television, that the FBI has proof of every single element of the felony of mishandling classified material, as Congress wrote the law.
He declined to refer the case for prosecution because he couldn't find evidence of criminal intent. This was an error, because the standard, as written by Congress, is gross negligence.
Either he gets bounced out now and replaced, or all of our strict liability laws are not only null and void, but also irrepairable. I'm fine either way - I detest 99% of strict liability laws.
Quick and crude summary: negligence is when you weren't successful at executing a duty, gross negligence is when you don't even try, knowingly is when you aware that you are committing a felony, and willfully is when the felony is the point.
FYI, "emergency" is not a recognized classification. Considering the press's slavish attention to detail during the last election, I'm amazed that not even a single news report that I've seen so far has got it right.
According to the site's official website this is a Site Area Emergency, which is the higher of the two possible classifications. As shown on the NRC's website, both classifications are filled with weasel words. An event may occur that could lead to a significant release of radioactive materials, and the release, if any, could require off-site help to contain.
Triggering an event classification, or upgrading an ongoing one, causes various agencies and offices to take action. The specifics for this type of event will be in countless binders and charts in dispatch centers and EOCs around the region. On site, the priorities are typically 1) lockdown, 2) deploy survey gear, 3) evacuate non-responder staff when/if safe to do so. Staff are told not to eat or drink during lockdown in case there is any radioactive dust around.
Volunteers have probably been asked not to leave town in case they need to open an evacuee reception center. Local first responders with counterterrorism and radiological training probably picked up their DRDs. HAMs and nerds in the area probably turned on the public access feeds on the Geiger counters they keep in their attics.
From the sounds of things, 8 feet of shielding got moved a bit closer to some waste containers. If someone had thought to put it on the calendar, no one would ever have heard about it, but because the earth decided to do it without asking what the plant management thought, it automatically turns into a shitshow.
I'll raise a glass tonight to the guys in tyvek suits. I know exactly how unpleasant they are to wear, and I'll pray that everyone wearing one this week remains annoyed by them, and never thankful.
You don't think that the guy that devoted his entire life to software freedom should have any say in how we talk about the license that he wrote for the movement he started? Exactly what are you doing to show respect for his contributions if you can't even muster the effort to use language that makes other people aware of the freedoms we all have, largely thanks to his work on our behalf?
We lack the willpower to let those who mismanage their UBI payments die in the streets. Lots of people are poor because they lack the capacity to plan ahead. Not all, of course, but many. Those people are going to waste their UBI payments, and we will not be willing to let them starve or die of exposure. So, we will either add a new government program to spend their money wisely instead of letting them waste it, or we'll recreate the same old system of free housing and food stamps that we have now, just this time with higher taxes.
This isn't News for Most People, this is News For Nerds. This is the one news site that should understand and articulate the difference, even when the hack that wrote the actual article doesn't.
But he also makes the mistake of making it a moral argument in places where it clearly is not. Perhaps worse, he does so in places where a moral argument is unnecessary or even counterproductive. Morals vary from person to person and society to society. This allows people who do not share his moral belief system to dismiss him easily. Much of what RMS argues for can and should be argued from an economic perspective. RMS should explain it to people why it is in their own economic self interest to have free (as in speech) software. It's FAR more likely to be persuasive and the end result is the same - more people using free software. Economic self interest is a much stronger incentive to most people than abstract morals about tools that most people barely understand how to use much less build.
Oh, look, you've reinvented the open source movement, right down to imagining that the most important thing in the world is the number of people using your products.
The Free in Free Software means freedom. It isn't the Popular Software movement. It isn't the Cheap Software movement. It is the Free Software movement, and if freedom isn't your top priority, you are in the wrong place.
The summary keeps talking about "open source license", but also makes it sound like the license in question is GPL, which is the Free Software License.
Perhaps user destinyland and editor EditorDavid missed this earlier story which includes, in the summary that EditorDavid also allegedly edited, this sentence:
Stallman also required that the article describe free software without using the term open source, a phrase he sees as "a way that people who disagree with me try to cause the ethical issues to be forgotten."
I think we can all pretty much agree that Trump is the person that Colbert hates most on this planet. When you compare the person that you hate most of all to group X as an insult, what does that suggest is your opinion of group X?
Was Colbert complementing Trump? Was this a roundabout way of saying "Trump is a beautiful, creative, productive person, just like my token gay friend?"
Of course not. He was saying that Trump is so vile and disgusting that he must suck dicks like a degenerate.
There is a saying that it is very hard to be a liberal, because of all the stuff that you have to pretend that you don't know. It has, however, been a hilarious few days watching people like you pretend that you are having a hard time understanding why a group of people would be upset that their very identity itself is as a slur.
States already impose their laws on companies operating from different states in a bunch of ways, often using far flimsier pretexts.
But this misses the bigger picture. ISPs can't see shit, even less if you encrypt. That is WAY easier than getting the Eye of Google out of your business.
Things desperately needed by another medieval religion I could name.
The problem is that Martin Luther returned the church to the teachings of God. When people wish for an Islamic reformation, they want Islam to move away from Allah. There is no theological basis for a more peaceful Islam - instead, you get ISIS calling Muslims to return to the true Islam. In other words, ISIS is the reformation that you are hoping for.
I realize that the stupid people won't know how to vote "party line" without having a (D) or (R) behind their name, and perhaps that isn't such a bad thing.
Sure they would. I can identify a person's major political leaning with about 3 questions, and from that, I can predict their party preference maybe 75% of the time. 90% if the only parties considered are R and D. I can then also predict that person's answers to political or policy questions with about 90% accuracy. (All steps here assume honest and introspective answers.)
On the left, the different parties and/or subparties have different answers to the question "when?". On the right, the different parties and/or subparties have different answers to the question "seriously?".
It isn't the election system that is polarized, it is the electorate that is polarized. That may change as (or if) we move more and more into identity politics.
IPv6 addresses are allegedly distributed in a way that reduces the routing table bloat seen in IPv4. With no central authority, how do you manage that?
Storage and processing are both getting cheaper sorta fast-ish, so it may be practical now or in the near future to have a routing table with 2^36 entities (or whatever) and 3 or 4 entries per entity. But how do you pass it around? If my westbound link goes down, I'm no longer the fastest relay to half of the world from a not-trivial portion of my region. How many megabytes is that update?
I'm not sure that the problem is unsolvable, but I don't have any reason to believe that someone out there is sitting on a revolutionary global mesh routing algorithm, waiting for the right time to publish.
Erm, the parable is intended to illustrate a point about God and salvation by demonstrating it with a metaphor that the hearer is likely to understand. Jesus is saying that you can be fully saved at any time in your life, even if you aren't working all day - and he is using the local cultural norms of shame and honor to drive it home in a way that it is hard for westerners to really understand.
Parables are not intended to be applied in reverse. Jesus does not support your non-theological argument just because one of the characters in a story he tells says something similar to what you are saying. It is categorically invalid.
This is one of his blog posts that is almost an infomercial for his product, but he does describe the concept well enough that you could roll your own if you wanted to.
If you control more than 50% of the nodes storing the blockchain, you can manipulate the currency to your heart's content.
Except that you can't. If you have more hashing power than the rest of the world combined, you can: change the order of transactions. That's all that you can do.
Sorry Bram, but you are missing the point. Hashing is used in bitcoin precisely because it is useless. It can't be faked, and it can't be stored for later. It is an irrevocable commitment right now.
I wish you luck with monetizing distributed storage, or decentralized distribution, or whatever your new project ends up as. But the design of bitcoin is not a programming challenge for you to solve. It is a carefully interlocked design, made by someone (or some people) who has (or have) a far beyond average understanding of money and cryptography. Many people with less insight have attempted to "improve" things, and all have failed.
I helped a friend set up his new router recently. Common brand, I forget which. The serial number sticker also had a password on it. If you went through the hardware reset process, the default password was the one on the sticker. In most cases, this would require paying an extra couple of cents for a serialized flash chip and a few minutes to add a routine to the reset code to generate the password based on the flash chip's serial number.
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This would be literally anyone in the country. Comey already said, on national television, that the FBI has proof of every single element of the felony of mishandling classified material, as Congress wrote the law.
He declined to refer the case for prosecution because he couldn't find evidence of criminal intent. This was an error, because the standard, as written by Congress, is gross negligence.
Either he gets bounced out now and replaced, or all of our strict liability laws are not only null and void, but also irrepairable. I'm fine either way - I detest 99% of strict liability laws.
Quick and crude summary: negligence is when you weren't successful at executing a duty, gross negligence is when you don't even try, knowingly is when you aware that you are committing a felony, and willfully is when the felony is the point.
While we are at it, can anyone "name one legal thing" that Trump "has been found guilty of in a court of law?"
FYI, "emergency" is not a recognized classification. Considering the press's slavish attention to detail during the last election, I'm amazed that not even a single news report that I've seen so far has got it right.
According to the site's official website this is a Site Area Emergency, which is the higher of the two possible classifications. As shown on the NRC's website, both classifications are filled with weasel words. An event may occur that could lead to a significant release of radioactive materials, and the release, if any, could require off-site help to contain.
Triggering an event classification, or upgrading an ongoing one, causes various agencies and offices to take action. The specifics for this type of event will be in countless binders and charts in dispatch centers and EOCs around the region. On site, the priorities are typically 1) lockdown, 2) deploy survey gear, 3) evacuate non-responder staff when/if safe to do so. Staff are told not to eat or drink during lockdown in case there is any radioactive dust around.
Volunteers have probably been asked not to leave town in case they need to open an evacuee reception center. Local first responders with counterterrorism and radiological training probably picked up their DRDs. HAMs and nerds in the area probably turned on the public access feeds on the Geiger counters they keep in their attics.
From the sounds of things, 8 feet of shielding got moved a bit closer to some waste containers. If someone had thought to put it on the calendar, no one would ever have heard about it, but because the earth decided to do it without asking what the plant management thought, it automatically turns into a shitshow.
I'll raise a glass tonight to the guys in tyvek suits. I know exactly how unpleasant they are to wear, and I'll pray that everyone wearing one this week remains annoyed by them, and never thankful.
You don't think that the guy that devoted his entire life to software freedom should have any say in how we talk about the license that he wrote for the movement he started? Exactly what are you doing to show respect for his contributions if you can't even muster the effort to use language that makes other people aware of the freedoms we all have, largely thanks to his work on our behalf?
I'm almost afraid to ask this, but what do you think science is? And how on earth do you square that definition with the way you keep using it?
We lack the willpower to let those who mismanage their UBI payments die in the streets. Lots of people are poor because they lack the capacity to plan ahead. Not all, of course, but many. Those people are going to waste their UBI payments, and we will not be willing to let them starve or die of exposure. So, we will either add a new government program to spend their money wisely instead of letting them waste it, or we'll recreate the same old system of free housing and food stamps that we have now, just this time with higher taxes.
This isn't News for Most People, this is News For Nerds. This is the one news site that should understand and articulate the difference, even when the hack that wrote the actual article doesn't.
Oh, look, you've reinvented the open source movement, right down to imagining that the most important thing in the world is the number of people using your products.
The Free in Free Software means freedom. It isn't the Popular Software movement. It isn't the Cheap Software movement. It is the Free Software movement, and if freedom isn't your top priority, you are in the wrong place.
Viral nature? Arbitrary fictional concepts? What on earth are you talking about?
The summary keeps talking about "open source license", but also makes it sound like the license in question is GPL, which is the Free Software License.
Perhaps user destinyland and editor EditorDavid missed this earlier story which includes, in the summary that EditorDavid also allegedly edited, this sentence:
I think we can all pretty much agree that Trump is the person that Colbert hates most on this planet. When you compare the person that you hate most of all to group X as an insult, what does that suggest is your opinion of group X?
Was Colbert complementing Trump? Was this a roundabout way of saying "Trump is a beautiful, creative, productive person, just like my token gay friend?"
Of course not. He was saying that Trump is so vile and disgusting that he must suck dicks like a degenerate.
There is a saying that it is very hard to be a liberal, because of all the stuff that you have to pretend that you don't know. It has, however, been a hilarious few days watching people like you pretend that you are having a hard time understanding why a group of people would be upset that their very identity itself is as a slur.
States already impose their laws on companies operating from different states in a bunch of ways, often using far flimsier pretexts.
But this misses the bigger picture. ISPs can't see shit, even less if you encrypt. That is WAY easier than getting the Eye of Google out of your business.
Arabic, sadly.
The problem is that Martin Luther returned the church to the teachings of God. When people wish for an Islamic reformation, they want Islam to move away from Allah. There is no theological basis for a more peaceful Islam - instead, you get ISIS calling Muslims to return to the true Islam. In other words, ISIS is the reformation that you are hoping for.
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Sure they would. I can identify a person's major political leaning with about 3 questions, and from that, I can predict their party preference maybe 75% of the time. 90% if the only parties considered are R and D. I can then also predict that person's answers to political or policy questions with about 90% accuracy. (All steps here assume honest and introspective answers.)
On the left, the different parties and/or subparties have different answers to the question "when?". On the right, the different parties and/or subparties have different answers to the question "seriously?".
It isn't the election system that is polarized, it is the electorate that is polarized. That may change as (or if) we move more and more into identity politics.
The first rule of quantum computing is that everyone talks about scaling their design up to more qubits, but no one actually does it.
I think a few people interpreted it as a sex-for-job comment. Which is odd, because that doesn't usually leave much doubt in either direction.
Even worse, the women who weren't quota hires will never be sure if they earned their spot with their vagina or not.
As a sometimes-Republican with a folder full of Creepy Uncle Joe memes, I beg you, Please, please, nominate Biden.
IPv6 addresses are allegedly distributed in a way that reduces the routing table bloat seen in IPv4. With no central authority, how do you manage that?
Storage and processing are both getting cheaper sorta fast-ish, so it may be practical now or in the near future to have a routing table with 2^36 entities (or whatever) and 3 or 4 entries per entity. But how do you pass it around? If my westbound link goes down, I'm no longer the fastest relay to half of the world from a not-trivial portion of my region. How many megabytes is that update?
I'm not sure that the problem is unsolvable, but I don't have any reason to believe that someone out there is sitting on a revolutionary global mesh routing algorithm, waiting for the right time to publish.
Erm, the parable is intended to illustrate a point about God and salvation by demonstrating it with a metaphor that the hearer is likely to understand. Jesus is saying that you can be fully saved at any time in your life, even if you aren't working all day - and he is using the local cultural norms of shame and honor to drive it home in a way that it is hard for westerners to really understand.
Parables are not intended to be applied in reverse. Jesus does not support your non-theological argument just because one of the characters in a story he tells says something similar to what you are saying. It is categorically invalid.
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This is one of his blog posts that is almost an infomercial for his product, but he does describe the concept well enough that you could roll your own if you wanted to.
Except that you can't. If you have more hashing power than the rest of the world combined, you can: change the order of transactions. That's all that you can do.
Sorry Bram, but you are missing the point. Hashing is used in bitcoin precisely because it is useless. It can't be faked, and it can't be stored for later. It is an irrevocable commitment right now.
I wish you luck with monetizing distributed storage, or decentralized distribution, or whatever your new project ends up as. But the design of bitcoin is not a programming challenge for you to solve. It is a carefully interlocked design, made by someone (or some people) who has (or have) a far beyond average understanding of money and cryptography. Many people with less insight have attempted to "improve" things, and all have failed.
Put a sticker on it.
I helped a friend set up his new router recently. Common brand, I forget which. The serial number sticker also had a password on it. If you went through the hardware reset process, the default password was the one on the sticker. In most cases, this would require paying an extra couple of cents for a serialized flash chip and a few minutes to add a routine to the reset code to generate the password based on the flash chip's serial number.