I agree with most of what you say. Dude, get noscript and ABP for your browser and MIMEDefang for your mail.
But BK did not misuse your computer here. BK did not connect to your device.You did.
(And I don't mean "you" personally. I have no idea if you-personally are in the you-group that I'm talking about.)
But you turned on the TV. You caused the ad the play in your house. You caused Google to listen to every sound near your phone. In short, you presented the offending command.
If a friend was in your house telling you about this incident and said "They had a commercial where they said 'Google, tell me about whatever'". Would you call the cops to come arrest and charge your friend? How about if he sent you the audio clip in an email? What if you watch the thing on youtube? What if you were listening to a podcast where a google engineer is describing the phrases it can understand?
Fixed this for you:
Mark my words: Whether or not BK and its ad agency get smacked for this, it will get worse very quickly. Every media source is an attack vector. And sophists such as you will dryly intone, "Get better laws," fully aware that that aphorism will solve nothing.
The problem is batteries. Choosing the right type isn't hard, and despite what someone lower in this thread said, there are lithium batteries that can safely source huge currents. Probably not a dead short, but >20 watts for sure.
The problem is getting the right batteries. Say you've selected a high current UR18650WX battery - where do you get it? Amazon? Good luck, half of those are counterfeits. eBay? Same, but maybe 75%. Random internet store? Eww. Local vape shop? Ha!
Oh, did I mention that for most of these batteries, even the genuine ones have just a heat-shrink tube with some black letters printed on it. They also don't have any retail packaging. Not exactly hard to duplicate.
I don't have the resources to get my hands on genuine batteries more than about half of the time. But the Navy could send a carrier group to Japan or Taiwan to pick up a crate of the real thing to sell/issue to crews. That would eliminate at least 90% of their incidents, probably all of them that aren't caused by physical damage.
It is actually a pretty common usage. It came up a lot around the crash of 2008. The banks had, for years, kept profits for their investors, but when they were faced with losses, they wanted those losses socialized - spread around to everyone (or to "society").
It isn't, strictly speaking, a reference to Marxist "socialism".
I just burn a new SD card and/or USB stick, power down my PI, swap the storage and plug it back in. The script I use even drops in my database credentials, network map, configuration values and even a plugin or two that I like.
Of course, I detest the metadata plugins in Kodi, so I upgrade my office PI first, then I spend a few days checking and updating the list of maps that my scripts use to translate my crappy fields like "movie_title" and "episode_summary" into intuitive Kodi fields like "c01" and "c14". When that is done, then I can upgrade the PI that runs the TV my girlfriend uses.
Hmm. Actually, that is a bit of a pain in the ass, now that I think about it.
How much improved is the IR stuff? I gave up a few versions ago and just got one of those MCE USB IR receivers that sends keystrokes. Much easier to teach my learning remote the MCE IR codes than to teach Kodi anything.
Presumably, they did not work for companies fighting tooth and nail to keep the borders open.
It sucks that he died, sucks that they all died. It was, however, predictable (and predicted) and preventable. The last one was too, and the next one will be, and the next, etc.
So, the red pills will flow. And when one of the victims was not spared despite working for a company that thinks that "diversity is our strength", well, like it or not, but that sort of thing makes the red pills flow that much faster.
When you get done shaking, go read up on how the FBI busts "terrorists". The legal mechanism is exactly the same, and it often smells like entrapment. The details, of course, are different, which probably comes as a big surprise to people who aren't aware that the people and situations are totally different.
Holy fuck. Speaking of misrepresenting, here's some context:
Yes. If you had some variant of Condorcet as the voting process, you would have cast a valid first choice for Stein and a second choice for Clinton, and perhaps Clinton would have gotten the same number of votes overall but not more, and Stein would have had a fair chance
The proposition here that I have a problem with, however, is that Trump would have gotten more votes if some people were convinced that those votes did not matter. He would at best have gotten the same amount of votes, and other conservative candidates would have had at least a fair chance against him if they didn't win.
I bolded the part that you left out. You will note that this entire post is alien to the conversation that I was having with him. It was a reply to a different user and the context that I restored makes it entirely fucking clear that he is talking about some ghetto voting system and not the de-electoral-ized system that I was discussing with him.
Fans of Bruce Perens should read that entire topic. My favorite part, by far, is the part where I rebooted his brain.
Note that this is a different scenario than the hypothetical question asked in the article/summary. The key is "knowing that individual intended to use the Limitless key logger for the purpose of committing unlawful and unauthorized computer intrusions". This is the standard FBI quasi-entrapment operation.
In my opinion, no tool should be illegal to make or sell as long as some legal use is possible, however improbable. Selling it to someone after you know that they intend to use it illegally, however, I'm willing to let law enforcement do their thing. (But I'd like to see some more public scrutiny of their methods, which smell like bullshit a bit more often than I'd like.)
Some times, the only thing you can do is thank them for their tireless campaigning towards Trump's re-election. They hate to admit it, but deep down inside they know that they are doubling down on the exact same shit they did last time.
Left and Right do not mean the same thing in America as they do in Europe. In fact, they often mean nearly the opposite. The right in Europe tends to be pro-class and pro-hierarchy, while the right in America is pro-individual.
Probably closer to 7 million. Wikipedia reports 5 million in 2013. Considering that Obama sold more guns than Tony Stark, it isn't hard to imagine a half million added per year since then.
A while back I had Bruce Perens swearing up and down that the turnout and composition of the election would have been exactly the same if the election had been held under different rules. He has, somehow, a reputation for being smart. If he is among their best, what chance do the rank and file Democrats have of understanding this?
Also, the part of FOPA that prevents new numbers from being added to the registry of class 3 weapons needs to go. Pre-'86 lightning links sell for thousands of dollars today and they are literally two pieces of metal that you could make with pliers and a dremel in 5 minutes.
I could also make a good argument for nuking parts of the 30s era law.
The Democrats really thought that we'd accept a 60-vote threshold for our candidates and a 51-vote threshold for theirs. Maybe if JEB! had won, but it appears that Trump's fighting spirit is spreading. It is catching on in unexpected places, like Congress.
So please, tell me more about how this is a "stolen seat". I need something to laugh at while I wait for Kennedy and Ginsburg to retire.
The likely suspect is ISIS, aka the "moderate rebels" that John McCain is so fond of. They are the ones with the capability to do this, and the most to gain from it. Check out the link I posted earlier, and watch the video at the end.
Reports indicate that Russia was warned in advance.
The targets were facilities at the airbase: runways, aircraft shelters, fuel depots, etc.
this was the airbase that launched the alleged chemical attack - and/or - this is an airbase that could be used to launch a future attack
T-Rex suggested that there is no intention to oust Assad militarily
Put those together and this is a very limited way to "must do something" that so many people have been calling for. It also sent a message to North Korea and China. Hopefully nothing more comes of it.
Personally, I find it implausible that Assad ordered a chemical attack now. Also, I'm pretty sure that John Kerry told us that Assad had handed over his entire chemical arsenal a while back. The US news about the chemical attack has been full-blown Pallywood, and now they are trying to spin this missile strike into the opening blow of WWIII.
As a long-time Trump supporter, I really, really hope that he hasn't been neo-conned by holdovers in the intelligence community, but even if he was, this limited attack is certainly not what they were hoping for.
I'm imagining an alternate history version of this story, in a world where cannibalism is common. The same researchers, studying the same history, trying to figure out how the same practice started long ago, but from a different perspective.
Result: "Ancient Cannibals Didn't Turn to Cannibalism Just To Consume the Spirits of the Vanquished".
It depends. Legal tender laws only apply to debts. If you purchase the meal in an instant transaction (fast food), they can accept whatever they want to accept in trade. If they don't want to accept cash at that point, they don't have to.
For a full service restaurant where the bill comes at the end, the question is: Is that bill a debt?
Most likely, regardless of the answer to that question, they'll take cash if you raise a fuss. Can you imagine if that escalated to a police call? Cops already have to put up with all sorts of strange shit, but I'm imagining the restaurant manager rethinking a big part of his life when a cop asks him "You really want me to arrest him? For trying to pay his bill? With cash?"
Ooh, or a judge. Judges love cases that waste their time.
FYI, "legal tender" means that people are obligated to accept it in repayment of debts. If I owe you 10 ounces of silver, and I try to give you an equal "value" of Federal Reserve Notes instead, you can't refuse to accept it and then sue me for nonpayment. The courts will consider my offer of the legally-privileged notes as a full defense against that suit.
Merely having the option to accept something doesn't make it legal tender.
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I agree with most of what you say. Dude, get noscript and ABP for your browser and MIMEDefang for your mail.
But BK did not misuse your computer here. BK did not connect to your device.You did.
(And I don't mean "you" personally. I have no idea if you-personally are in the you-group that I'm talking about.)
But you turned on the TV. You caused the ad the play in your house. You caused Google to listen to every sound near your phone. In short, you presented the offending command.
If a friend was in your house telling you about this incident and said "They had a commercial where they said 'Google, tell me about whatever'". Would you call the cops to come arrest and charge your friend? How about if he sent you the audio clip in an email? What if you watch the thing on youtube? What if you were listening to a podcast where a google engineer is describing the phrases it can understand?
Fixed this for you:
The problem is batteries. Choosing the right type isn't hard, and despite what someone lower in this thread said, there are lithium batteries that can safely source huge currents. Probably not a dead short, but >20 watts for sure.
The problem is getting the right batteries. Say you've selected a high current UR18650WX battery - where do you get it? Amazon? Good luck, half of those are counterfeits. eBay? Same, but maybe 75%. Random internet store? Eww. Local vape shop? Ha!
Oh, did I mention that for most of these batteries, even the genuine ones have just a heat-shrink tube with some black letters printed on it. They also don't have any retail packaging. Not exactly hard to duplicate.
I don't have the resources to get my hands on genuine batteries more than about half of the time. But the Navy could send a carrier group to Japan or Taiwan to pick up a crate of the real thing to sell/issue to crews. That would eliminate at least 90% of their incidents, probably all of them that aren't caused by physical damage.
Stop getting upset when they remind you.
It is actually a pretty common usage. It came up a lot around the crash of 2008. The banks had, for years, kept profits for their investors, but when they were faced with losses, they wanted those losses socialized - spread around to everyone (or to "society").
It isn't, strictly speaking, a reference to Marxist "socialism".
I just burn a new SD card and/or USB stick, power down my PI, swap the storage and plug it back in. The script I use even drops in my database credentials, network map, configuration values and even a plugin or two that I like.
Of course, I detest the metadata plugins in Kodi, so I upgrade my office PI first, then I spend a few days checking and updating the list of maps that my scripts use to translate my crappy fields like "movie_title" and "episode_summary" into intuitive Kodi fields like "c01" and "c14". When that is done, then I can upgrade the PI that runs the TV my girlfriend uses.
Hmm. Actually, that is a bit of a pain in the ass, now that I think about it.
How much improved is the IR stuff? I gave up a few versions ago and just got one of those MCE USB IR receivers that sends keystrokes. Much easier to teach my learning remote the MCE IR codes than to teach Kodi anything.
Presumably, they did not work for companies fighting tooth and nail to keep the borders open.
It sucks that he died, sucks that they all died. It was, however, predictable (and predicted) and preventable. The last one was too, and the next one will be, and the next, etc.
So, the red pills will flow. And when one of the victims was not spared despite working for a company that thinks that "diversity is our strength", well, like it or not, but that sort of thing makes the red pills flow that much faster.
When you get done shaking, go read up on how the FBI busts "terrorists". The legal mechanism is exactly the same, and it often smells like entrapment. The details, of course, are different, which probably comes as a big surprise to people who aren't aware that the people and situations are totally different.
Holy fuck. Speaking of misrepresenting, here's some context:
I bolded the part that you left out. You will note that this entire post is alien to the conversation that I was having with him. It was a reply to a different user and the context that I restored makes it entirely fucking clear that he is talking about some ghetto voting system and not the de-electoral-ized system that I was discussing with him.
Fans of Bruce Perens should read that entire topic. My favorite part, by far, is the part where I rebooted his brain.
Good post - insightful and informative.
Note that this is a different scenario than the hypothetical question asked in the article/summary. The key is "knowing that individual intended to use the Limitless key logger for the purpose of committing unlawful and unauthorized computer intrusions". This is the standard FBI quasi-entrapment operation.
In my opinion, no tool should be illegal to make or sell as long as some legal use is possible, however improbable. Selling it to someone after you know that they intend to use it illegally, however, I'm willing to let law enforcement do their thing. (But I'd like to see some more public scrutiny of their methods, which smell like bullshit a bit more often than I'd like.)
Some times, the only thing you can do is thank them for their tireless campaigning towards Trump's re-election. They hate to admit it, but deep down inside they know that they are doubling down on the exact same shit they did last time.
Left and Right do not mean the same thing in America as they do in Europe. In fact, they often mean nearly the opposite. The right in Europe tends to be pro-class and pro-hierarchy, while the right in America is pro-individual.
Probably closer to 7 million. Wikipedia reports 5 million in 2013. Considering that Obama sold more guns than Tony Stark, it isn't hard to imagine a half million added per year since then.
A while back I had Bruce Perens swearing up and down that the turnout and composition of the election would have been exactly the same if the election had been held under different rules. He has, somehow, a reputation for being smart. If he is among their best, what chance do the rank and file Democrats have of understanding this?
Also, the part of FOPA that prevents new numbers from being added to the registry of class 3 weapons needs to go. Pre-'86 lightning links sell for thousands of dollars today and they are literally two pieces of metal that you could make with pliers and a dremel in 5 minutes.
I could also make a good argument for nuking parts of the 30s era law.
Yes, Obama didn't want to offend one of the largest foreign donors to Obama's party. That's why Obama didn't put Saudi Arabia on Obama's list.
The Democrats really thought that we'd accept a 60-vote threshold for our candidates and a 51-vote threshold for theirs. Maybe if JEB! had won, but it appears that Trump's fighting spirit is spreading. It is catching on in unexpected places, like Congress.
So please, tell me more about how this is a "stolen seat". I need something to laugh at while I wait for Kennedy and Ginsburg to retire.
The likely suspect is ISIS, aka the "moderate rebels" that John McCain is so fond of. They are the ones with the capability to do this, and the most to gain from it. Check out the link I posted earlier, and watch the video at the end.
Put those together and this is a very limited way to "must do something" that so many people have been calling for. It also sent a message to North Korea and China. Hopefully nothing more comes of it.
Personally, I find it implausible that Assad ordered a chemical attack now. Also, I'm pretty sure that John Kerry told us that Assad had handed over his entire chemical arsenal a while back. The US news about the chemical attack has been full-blown Pallywood, and now they are trying to spin this missile strike into the opening blow of WWIII.
As a long-time Trump supporter, I really, really hope that he hasn't been neo-conned by holdovers in the intelligence community, but even if he was, this limited attack is certainly not what they were hoping for.
I'm imagining an alternate history version of this story, in a world where cannibalism is common. The same researchers, studying the same history, trying to figure out how the same practice started long ago, but from a different perspective.
Result: "Ancient Cannibals Didn't Turn to Cannibalism Just To Consume the Spirits of the Vanquished".
Sorry, were you expecting Bitcoin to spring fully formed upon the world, like Athena from the forehead of Zeus?
It is new, and it takes time for new things to catch on, so it is still small. Small markets swing - they have less mass with which to resist.
True story, according to credible sources.
I hate to have to say this, but "The courts will save us!" is the fool's cry. It rarely works out.
It depends. Legal tender laws only apply to debts. If you purchase the meal in an instant transaction (fast food), they can accept whatever they want to accept in trade. If they don't want to accept cash at that point, they don't have to.
For a full service restaurant where the bill comes at the end, the question is: Is that bill a debt?
Most likely, regardless of the answer to that question, they'll take cash if you raise a fuss. Can you imagine if that escalated to a police call? Cops already have to put up with all sorts of strange shit, but I'm imagining the restaurant manager rethinking a big part of his life when a cop asks him "You really want me to arrest him? For trying to pay his bill? With cash?"
Ooh, or a judge. Judges love cases that waste their time.
You do know that bitcoin doesn't need to take over all transactions in order to be successful, right?
Wait for the price to rise another order of magnitude or two and the world will be scrambling to move all of their settlement activity to it.
FYI, "legal tender" means that people are obligated to accept it in repayment of debts. If I owe you 10 ounces of silver, and I try to give you an equal "value" of Federal Reserve Notes instead, you can't refuse to accept it and then sue me for nonpayment. The courts will consider my offer of the legally-privileged notes as a full defense against that suit.
Merely having the option to accept something doesn't make it legal tender.