Voter Registration information is public information, not private.
Apparently GA state law obligates the Secretary of State to make absentee ballot information available, if that's the case, the law should probably better specify the manner to make that information available, if that's not the case then he broke the law.
When reached, Georgia secretary of state's press secretary Candice Broce told TechCrunch that all of the data "is clearly designated as public information under state law," and denied that the data was "confidential or sensitive." "State law requires the public availability of voter lists, including names and address of registered voters," she said in an email.
The Alaskan payments to all residents aren't a UBI program, it is a direct payment to residents by the state funded by oil production within the state of Alaska. Rather than the state keeping the money for general programs they pass the money on to every resident equally.
Every UBI scheme previously discussed here was a ponzu scheme funded by taxpayers who funded their own payment through taxes, and intended to create a financial cushion in lieu of other social welfare programs.
The Alaska program is 100% funded by oil production companies, and includes $0 taxpayer dollars.
That anyone would even consider calling $1-2K/yr comparable to other programs that dole out $6-12K/year is asinine.
The evidence that supports claims of Russian collusion in the 2016 election don't point to the Republicans, but you knew that, right?
One group involved in the 2016 election passed payments thru a law firm to an opposition research group to fund an investigation of a presidential candidate based *exclusively* on uncorroborated claims made by Russian operatives with ties to Putin Admin and paid for those stories with money from a presidential campaign.
We've known for a year about Democrat payments to buy intel from Russian intelligence officers, we have yet to hear of evidence the trump campaign colluded with the Russians.
It's been 8 years since Democrats held the House, 4 since they held the Senate - they lost both under the previous democrat administration. Maybe - MAYBE - Democrats will take the house, big whoop. That's what normally happens in a new administration's first midterm.
This agreement isn't about buying more chromebooks or shedding current windows/Mac computers, it's about a license to allow schools to better manage their chromebooks.
Windows users get the tools to do this for free with their windows desktop and server licenses (Active Directory/Group Policy), the Australian govt is simply buying a tool to provide a somewhat similar suite of tools for their chromebooks.
U-Verse had redundant power, the problem was the place where those two diverse power sources converged is where the fire was. Absent investing in a fully-redundant facility outside the disaster zone of the first facility this type of problem is unavoidable.
This wasnâ(TM)t a classical âdatacenterâ(TM), where itâ(TM)s actual location is irrelevant, this was a facility where multiple access points converged. This facility had connections to community-level distribution (head) points, which in turn fed neighborhood pedestals. To create a redundant facility would require a second building with another set of fiber connections to each community head office, and each community head office would need additional hardware to select between either central office.
This isnâ(TM)t a classical data center like google or amazon, this is for local access - by definition it has to be near itâ(TM)s customers/users. I live in the impacted area, and my internet service was restored by midnight, perfectly acceptable for consumer internet service IMHO.
For those running businesses on a consumer ISP like this, this is why you should invest in business class service.
I like on DFW, and I've had inverse for a year, and so far this outage has gone 12 hours, or half a day.
Network reliability is measured in "nines", as in "5 nines", which means the network is available 99.999% of the time.
2 nines is 99%, or about 90 hours of downtime per year.
3 nines is 99.9%, or about 9 hours of down time per year.
4 nines is 99.99%, or about 1 hour of downtime per year.
5 nines, the holy grail of availability is about 5 minutes of downtime per year.
Right now, U-Verse is at about "3 nines", perfectly acceptable for consumer internet service. Few consumers are willing to pay what would be required to deliver 4 nines availability.
Right, they should have had completely redundant wiring for the two power sources, not just two power sources for the facility.
At some point your redundant systems have to converge.
If your company has two ISP connections, diversity of service, they likely have both routers in the same rack in the same closet.
But no, you're right, they need to put two power rooms on alternate sides of the building, with both running to a third room, where there is a cutover in case one fails... oh wait, what if that room catches on fire? I guess they need to run parallel wiring to every outlet....
Your fantasy of how to set up a redundant system has no place in the IT industry.
Really? Not every device has a serial number, and typically the serial number is on the outside of the box, which means find the box a unit came in, you've got the device password.
Learn the mfg uses serial number as default password, and if you can lay hands on the device, you can see serial number and voila you have the password.
If you ask a consumer to type in a random serial number in as their password, they'll likely not change the password, thinking it secure. Give them a device with a default password of "change_me" and they just might.
Consider recent liberal issues: Police Brutality (Black lives matter), legalization of marijuana use, releasing government restrictions on who can get married (IE, Homosexuals with each other). Can you, with a straight face, frame these as centralizing power?
Odd you left out the defining liberal issue of the past ten years, Healthcare, which is, at itâ(TM)s core, about centralizing power by defining what must be covered, what premiums can be charged, and how profitable insurance companies can be.
The FCC set the lease prices RBOCs (Regional Bell Operating Companies) could charge competitors to lease their DSLAM ports and other network elements, in fact it required them to make this hardware available to their competitors - they had no choice.
I suspect this falls under the same legal authority.
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You have no right to my private data, only public data - voting records are public, my "information" is private.
Comment directed at parent, not you.
Voter Registration information is public information, not private.
Apparently GA state law obligates the Secretary of State to make absentee ballot information available, if that's the case, the law should probably better specify the manner to make that information available, if that's not the case then he broke the law.
When reached, Georgia secretary of state's press secretary Candice Broce told TechCrunch that all of the data "is clearly designated as public information under state law," and denied that the data was "confidential or sensitive." "State law requires the public availability of voter lists, including names and address of registered voters," she said in an email.
Public information being made public isn't an "attack".
Not quite sure how adopting 'full-time' Daylight Savings Time is the first step in abandoning Daylight Savings Time...
That's like telling some that the first step towards adopting a vegetarian diet is to start eating bacon cheese burgers at every meal.
The Alaskan payments to all residents aren't a UBI program, it is a direct payment to residents by the state funded by oil production within the state of Alaska. Rather than the state keeping the money for general programs they pass the money on to every resident equally.
Every UBI scheme previously discussed here was a ponzu scheme funded by taxpayers who funded their own payment through taxes, and intended to create a financial cushion in lieu of other social welfare programs.
The Alaska program is 100% funded by oil production companies, and includes $0 taxpayer dollars.
That anyone would even consider calling $1-2K/yr comparable to other programs that dole out $6-12K/year is asinine.
The evidence that supports claims of Russian collusion in the 2016 election don't point to the Republicans, but you knew that, right?
One group involved in the 2016 election passed payments thru a law firm to an opposition research group to fund an investigation of a presidential candidate based *exclusively* on uncorroborated claims made by Russian operatives with ties to Putin Admin and paid for those stories with money from a presidential campaign.
We've known for a year about Democrat payments to buy intel from Russian intelligence officers, we have yet to hear of evidence the trump campaign colluded with the Russians.
It's been 8 years since Democrats held the House, 4 since they held the Senate - they lost both under the previous democrat administration. Maybe - MAYBE - Democrats will take the house, big whoop. That's what normally happens in a new administration's first midterm.
This agreement isn't about buying more chromebooks or shedding current windows/Mac computers, it's about a license to allow schools to better manage their chromebooks.
Windows users get the tools to do this for free with their windows desktop and server licenses (Active Directory/Group Policy), the Australian govt is simply buying a tool to provide a somewhat similar suite of tools for their chromebooks.
Outdated notions about what you can do with a chromebook need to go in the dustbin.
Right, the great thing about chromebooks is that you can run Linux, Windows applications on them?
U-Verse had redundant power, the problem was the place where those two diverse power sources converged is where the fire was. Absent investing in a fully-redundant facility outside the disaster zone of the first facility this type of problem is unavoidable.
This wasnâ(TM)t a classical âdatacenterâ(TM), where itâ(TM)s actual location is irrelevant, this was a facility where multiple access points converged. This facility had connections to community-level distribution (head) points, which in turn fed neighborhood pedestals. To create a redundant facility would require a second building with another set of fiber connections to each community head office, and each community head office would need additional hardware to select between either central office.
Nonsense.
This isnâ(TM)t a classical data center like google or amazon, this is for local access - by definition it has to be near itâ(TM)s customers/users. I live in the impacted area, and my internet service was restored by midnight, perfectly acceptable for consumer internet service IMHO.
For those running businesses on a consumer ISP like this, this is why you should invest in business class service.
It was resolved (for me, anyway) by midnight Monday - about 15 hours downtime.
The problem is a large "tech" company thinks it can shove all of their services for a large population into one building.
This is how telcos achieve 'economy of scale', they have done this for about a century - same for municipal water and electricity
I like on DFW, and I've had inverse for a year, and so far this outage has gone 12 hours, or half a day.
Network reliability is measured in "nines", as in "5 nines", which means the network is available 99.999% of the time.
2 nines is 99%, or about 90 hours of downtime per year.
3 nines is 99.9%, or about 9 hours of down time per year.
4 nines is 99.99%, or about 1 hour of downtime per year.
5 nines, the holy grail of availability is about 5 minutes of downtime per year.
Right now, U-Verse is at about "3 nines", perfectly acceptable for consumer internet service. Few consumers are willing to pay what would be required to deliver 4 nines availability.
there likely was a failure to to ground something, and the lightning came in on whatever that was. Probably a wireless antenna.
Seriously? Why would there be a wireless antenna there?
I'm in DFW, my U-Verse Internet is down, yet my AT&T cellphone works fine - it acts as a backup WiFi via hotspot service.
Right, they should have had completely redundant wiring for the two power sources, not just two power sources for the facility.
At some point your redundant systems have to converge.
If your company has two ISP connections, diversity of service, they likely have both routers in the same rack in the same closet.
But no, you're right, they need to put two power rooms on alternate sides of the building, with both running to a third room, where there is a cutover in case one fails... oh wait, what if that room catches on fire? I guess they need to run parallel wiring to every outlet....
Your fantasy of how to set up a redundant system has no place in the IT industry.
The issue was a lightning strike that took out the redundant power feed for the facility when a fire started in the power room.
Sure, they should have had two power rooms, but at some point there is diminishing return on the redundancy.
The FTC has jurisdiction, not FCC.
Really? Not every device has a serial number, and typically the serial number is on the outside of the box, which means find the box a unit came in, you've got the device password.
Learn the mfg uses serial number as default password, and if you can lay hands on the device, you can see serial number and voila you have the password.
If you ask a consumer to type in a random serial number in as their password, they'll likely not change the password, thinking it secure. Give them a device with a default password of "change_me" and they just might.
"Costs almost...nothing"?
Generating unique passwords for every device they produce incurs a cost, assigning each device a default password costs almost nothing.
I eagerly await California prohibiting "1234" as the combination on a lock.
Consider recent liberal issues: Police Brutality (Black lives matter), legalization of marijuana use, releasing government restrictions on who can get married (IE, Homosexuals with each other). Can you, with a straight face, frame these as centralizing power?
Odd you left out the defining liberal issue of the past ten years, Healthcare, which is, at itâ(TM)s core, about centralizing power by defining what must be covered, what premiums can be charged, and how profitable insurance companies can be.
The FCC set the lease prices RBOCs (Regional Bell Operating Companies) could charge competitors to lease their DSLAM ports and other network elements, in fact it required them to make this hardware available to their competitors - they had no choice.
I suspect this falls under the same legal authority.
Make it expensive enough and they'll stop
Or raise your taxes.