Someone like Bezos, Nadella, Zuckerburg or a few others could easily overpower either of the two parties and simply provide crowd sourcing platforms for alternative candidates with no party ties.
Uh, last I checked, both parties rely on countless millions of "small" donations - in effect, they already crowd source their campaign funding, how would a "Bezos, Nadella, Zuckerburg" alternative be any different? Because you believe them to be apolitical?
The internet democratized the funding of elections already, the problem is you need to herd supporters into a situation where they choose to donate - Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein (as well as every other presidential candidate in 2016) had websites that made it trivial to donate money, the problem was convincing people to go to those sites and do so.
The research was conducted in China but is relevant across the world, with 95% of the global population breathing unsafe air.
Define "unsafe", the vast majority of the people breathing in this "unsafe air" living into their 70s and beyond...
It found that high pollution levels led to significant drops in test scores in language and arithmetic, with the average impact equivalent to having lost a year of the person's education. "Polluted air can cause everyone to reduce their level of education by one year, which is huge," said Xi Chen at Yale School of Public Health in the US, a member of the research team. "But we know the effect is worse for the elderly, especially those over 64, and for men, and for those with low education. If we calculate [the loss] for those, it may be a few years of education."
Losing years(s) of "education" is not the same as losing "intelligence". Ever since I learned of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Quotient test I understood the difference between "intelligence" and "education".
"Living wage" advocates in the US say $15/he is the living wage. This experiment will be taking place in America, not one of the many countries with lower standards of living.
In a.erica, our poor have refrigerators, air conditioning, internet access, satellite TV, and a cellular phone. We also give them free foid, free college tuition, and free healthcare (if they can bother to fill out the forms).
Read my comment again - the person funding this effort thinks $1K/month meets all of a person's needs - it removed the worry of providing for yourself... That was my isdue.
Minimum wage is $8 or $9 in most places, working 2,000 hrs/year (classic "full-time", 50 weeks x 40 hrs/wk) is $16,000 - $18,000, or about half the so-called 'living wage" of $15/hr.
Under the plan, a thousand people would get $1,000 per month and the other 2,000 would get $50 per month to serve as a control group.
Sam Altman, CEO of Y Combinator, a highly successful startup accelerator that helped give rise to companies like Dropbox, Airbnb, and Reddit, announced the company's plans to research universal basic income -- or as he put it, "giving people enough money to live on with no strings attached"
The news is you can unlock a phone via the usb port, and presumably gain access to an encrypted phone without the passcode.
So the user has to dock their device into an insecure device and the phone is unlocked by injecting some AT commands? What smartmodem AT command unlocks a cellphone? And once it is supposedly unlocked though this magical AT command, there are other magical AT commands to emulate touch events?
Why was the AT smartmodem expanded to include "smartphone unlock" and "touch event" commands?
I understand that through careful use of AT commands through a device a user would have to physically dock into you can trigger the device to perform certain actions (like dial a call), but the claims in the summary are nothing short of fantastical:
These AT commands are all exposed via the phone's USB interface, meaning an attacker would have to either gain access to a user's device, or hide a malicious component inside USB docks, chargers, or charging stations. Once an attacker is connected via the USB to a target's phone, s/he can use one of the phone's secret AT commands to rewrite device firmware, bypass Android security mechanisms, exfiltrate sensitive device information, perform screen unlocks, or even inject touch events solely through the use of AT commands.
Exactly what AT command from the 1980s Hayes smartmodems does one use to "perform screen unlocks" or "inject touch events" into a device, let alone "exfiltrate sensitive device information"?
Paying taxes is a joy shared by citizens and non-citizens. Are you saying that every illegal immigrant that steals someone's identity and pays payroll taxes should also get a vote?
Intel successfully pitched their processor against an under-powered and unsuitable alternative? That's amazing! Perhaps Microsoft deigned interest in an WEB-based design to Win a better deal from Intel?
This entire article boils down to this: Microsoft chose an Intel processor for their product over an ARM-based alternative - discuss.
What most of us advocate is that the electronic machines print a paper receipt which the voter verifies, then drops in a secure ballot box.
This is called a paper ballot - what is the purpose of the machine?
That way even if a 100% reliable and undetectable hack occurs, there's an audit trail which will reveal the fraud and provide an accurate vote count.
So, you take the electronic results, tally up your "audit trail" (paper ballots) and compare the numbers, and if there is a discrepancy always trust the "audit trail" (paper ballot)? WTF? Why bother with the voting machines at all, just hand out paper ballots and count them up?
I don't think you quite grasp the degree to which how many Americans have literally no voice in things.
Gerrymandering only impacts House elections and state assembly and other local elections, gerrymandering has no impact on Senate or Presidential races, where state electoral votes are assigned based on the state-wide totals each candidate receives.
Your willingness to declare your vote meaningless in all elections is interesting, I suspect it is you that doesn't quite grasp how the election process works.
It was "Day of Code" meets "Election Hacking" - the kids were all but handed step-by-step instructions on how to "compromise" the websites in question - websites which apparently were little more that public results websites, the hacking of which proves nothing.
Sometimes people feel so strongly about a cause, for example the dangers of electronic voting, that they think its ok to distort information or even outright lie for that cause.
We see this play out all the time in the mainstream press, how many "racist/homophobic/sexist customer" insulted me on the CC receipt claims have proven to be false? How about the black students that put nooses around campus to alert everyone to the rampant racism on campus? Or the lesbian couple that wrote anti-homosexual slurs on their own garage door, to prove their neighbors were anti-gay? The list, literally goes on and on.
The latest trend is for elected officials to claim police harassment/mistreatment, only to be proven wrong with the officers body cam or dash cam footage?
Stop the PR effort against auditability, and help get the last of the states still using non-auditable voting machines to get their shit together.
Simple question - Imagine you are running an election, and you have electronic polls that create and audit trail and a tally. What do you do when the total and the audit trail don't match?
If you always trust the audit trail, then why have the automated tally?
You have evidence it was? Please share, I have seen no evidence in the mainstream press, just speculation.
those hacked emails were all nothingburgers
Hacking into the email of a political party is not "hacking the election", see, the elections are run by the states, and a political party has no part in the running of an election.
Your spewage on Windows XP, paper trails, and Russian Asbestos don't merit a response.
The Hillary Campaign tried to run a very different, data-driven campaign in 2016 than candidates had previously employed, and her campaign's data told her there was no need to visit several "blue wall states" in the general election, that she should instead maximize her fund-raising on either coast.
Hillary lost (or Trump won) because of simple mistakes made by her campaign, nothing more - but rather than accept that simple fact, we are spending countless millions of dollars investigating opposition research put together by the losing candidate in the last election (at a cost of millions of dollars) because her supporters are too butt-hurt to accept that "the smartest, most prepared woman" ran a lousy campaign and lost.
it's the contact and donation histories of party members
You mean the donations that the DNC reported to the FEC and are available to anyone interested in learning about by simply accessing their public website?
The hacking of the DNC really ought to be a bigger scandal than it was, and if our media was doing it's job of investigative journalism it would be.
Why? The DNC is a private organization, hacking the DNC did little more than embarrass people that claimed one thing but did another.
There's strong evidence that the Russians got ahold of voter rolls and send them on to the Republican party and/or the Trump campaign.
Do you know how dumb that sounds? The "voter rolls" are freely available to anyone that is willing to pay the local registrar of voters the reproduction fee, there's no need to set up an elaborate cyber attack to "steal' another party's private copy of public information.
There was a sudden shift in the Trump campaign's ad buys and campaigning where it became highly effective for no discernible reason, and it was right around when the hack happened....
Right, the only way the Trump campaign could gain traction is by working with the Russians, stealing the DNC's "private" copy of the voter rolls, and effectively used them to target swing voters. What a dastardly plan!
One question - why didn't the Democrats use their own information to target their ads more effectively and win the election?
This has nothing to do with anything relating to the election, this is a contact database of registered voters - if hackers managed to delete any/all the records in the database it wouldn't impact a single voter, it wouldn't prevent anyone from voting.
The DNC is a private organization, not a branch of government.
It's nothing new, it's hardly newsworthy, it's just something that happens.
The claim isn't that they were hacked, it's that someone created a clone of their login page on a common typo of their website URL.
It's like your local newspaper putting a headline on the front page: "Bank break-in attempted" when their security cameras show someone walked past the bank front door and 'tested the lock'.
The page was designed to look like the access page Democratic Party officials and campaigns across the country use to log into a service called Votebuilder, which hosts the database, the source said, adding the DNC believed it was designed to trick people into handing over their login details.
As recent history shows, Democratic operatives choose weak passwords ('password') and offer them up readily when asked for them via email from strangers...
I'm looking at you, Jon Podesta, former campaign director of Hillary 2016.
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Someone like Bezos, Nadella, Zuckerburg or a few others could easily overpower either of the two parties and simply provide crowd sourcing platforms for alternative candidates with no party ties.
Uh, last I checked, both parties rely on countless millions of "small" donations - in effect, they already crowd source their campaign funding, how would a "Bezos, Nadella, Zuckerburg" alternative be any different? Because you believe them to be apolitical?
The internet democratized the funding of elections already, the problem is you need to herd supporters into a situation where they choose to donate - Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein (as well as every other presidential candidate in 2016) had websites that made it trivial to donate money, the problem was convincing people to go to those sites and do so.
It explained crime in many cities and how it was reduced after lead was removed from fuel.
Don't forget the lead-based paint chips inner-city kids used to eat, lord that was such a big thing in the 70s and 80s...
The research was conducted in China but is relevant across the world, with 95% of the global population breathing unsafe air.
Define "unsafe", the vast majority of the people breathing in this "unsafe air" living into their 70s and beyond...
It found that high pollution levels led to significant drops in test scores in language and arithmetic, with the average impact equivalent to having lost a year of the person's education. "Polluted air can cause everyone to reduce their level of education by one year, which is huge," said Xi Chen at Yale School of Public Health in the US, a member of the research team. "But we know the effect is worse for the elderly, especially those over 64, and for men, and for those with low education. If we calculate [the loss] for those, it may be a few years of education."
Losing years(s) of "education" is not the same as losing "intelligence". Ever since I learned of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Quotient test I understood the difference between "intelligence" and "education".
When you say 'fair tax' you mean what, exactly?
Is the fair tax a VAT or consumption tax?
Is the fair tax a flat tax paid by all on income over a certain threshold?
A consumption-based tax is regressive, but a flat tax is not.
"Living wage" advocates in the US say $15/he is the living wage. This experiment will be taking place in America, not one of the many countries with lower standards of living.
In a.erica, our poor have refrigerators, air conditioning, internet access, satellite TV, and a cellular phone. We also give them free foid, free college tuition, and free healthcare (if they can bother to fill out the forms).
Read my comment again - the person funding this effort thinks $1K/month meets all of a person's needs - it removed the worry of providing for yourself... That was my isdue.
Minimum wage is $8 or $9 in most places, working 2,000 hrs/year (classic "full-time", 50 weeks x 40 hrs/wk) is $16,000 - $18,000, or about half the so-called 'living wage" of $15/hr.
Under the plan, a thousand people would get $1,000 per month and the other 2,000 would get $50 per month to serve as a control group.
Sam Altman, CEO of Y Combinator, a highly successful startup accelerator that helped give rise to companies like Dropbox, Airbnb, and Reddit, announced the company's plans to research universal basic income -- or as he put it, "giving people enough money to live on with no strings attached"
So $12K is a living wage?
The news is you can unlock a phone via the usb port, and presumably gain access to an encrypted phone without the passcode.
So the user has to dock their device into an insecure device and the phone is unlocked by injecting some AT commands? What smartmodem AT command unlocks a cellphone? And once it is supposedly unlocked though this magical AT command, there are other magical AT commands to emulate touch events?
Why was the AT smartmodem expanded to include "smartphone unlock" and "touch event" commands?
I understand that through careful use of AT commands through a device a user would have to physically dock into you can trigger the device to perform certain actions (like dial a call), but the claims in the summary are nothing short of fantastical:
These AT commands are all exposed via the phone's USB interface, meaning an attacker would have to either gain access to a user's device, or hide a malicious component inside USB docks, chargers, or charging stations. Once an attacker is connected via the USB to a target's phone, s/he can use one of the phone's secret AT commands to rewrite device firmware, bypass Android security mechanisms, exfiltrate sensitive device information, perform screen unlocks, or even inject touch events solely through the use of AT commands.
Exactly what AT command from the 1980s Hayes smartmodems does one use to "perform screen unlocks" or "inject touch events" into a device, let alone "exfiltrate sensitive device information"?
Paying taxes is a joy shared by citizens and non-citizens. Are you saying that every illegal immigrant that steals someone's identity and pays payroll taxes should also get a vote?
That isn't a widely-held opinion.
Intel successfully pitched their processor against an under-powered and unsuitable alternative? That's amazing! Perhaps Microsoft deigned interest in an WEB-based design to Win a better deal from Intel?
This entire article boils down to this: Microsoft chose an Intel processor for their product over an ARM-based alternative - discuss.
What most of us advocate is that the electronic machines print a paper receipt which the voter verifies, then drops in a secure ballot box.
This is called a paper ballot - what is the purpose of the machine?
That way even if a 100% reliable and undetectable hack occurs, there's an audit trail which will reveal the fraud and provide an accurate vote count.
So, you take the electronic results, tally up your "audit trail" (paper ballots) and compare the numbers, and if there is a discrepancy always trust the "audit trail" (paper ballot)? WTF? Why bother with the voting machines at all, just hand out paper ballots and count them up?
I don't think you quite grasp the degree to which how many Americans have literally no voice in things.
Gerrymandering only impacts House elections and state assembly and other local elections, gerrymandering has no impact on Senate or Presidential races, where state electoral votes are assigned based on the state-wide totals each candidate receives.
Your willingness to declare your vote meaningless in all elections is interesting, I suspect it is you that doesn't quite grasp how the election process works.
It was "Day of Code" meets "Election Hacking" - the kids were all but handed step-by-step instructions on how to "compromise" the websites in question - websites which apparently were little more that public results websites, the hacking of which proves nothing.
Sometimes people feel so strongly about a cause, for example the dangers of electronic voting, that they think its ok to distort information or even outright lie for that cause.
We see this play out all the time in the mainstream press, how many "racist/homophobic/sexist customer" insulted me on the CC receipt claims have proven to be false? How about the black students that put nooses around campus to alert everyone to the rampant racism on campus? Or the lesbian couple that wrote anti-homosexual slurs on their own garage door, to prove their neighbors were anti-gay? The list, literally goes on and on.
The latest trend is for elected officials to claim police harassment/mistreatment, only to be proven wrong with the officers body cam or dash cam footage?
Stop the PR effort against auditability, and help get the last of the states still using non-auditable voting machines to get their shit together.
Simple question - Imagine you are running an election, and you have electronic polls that create and audit trail and a tally. What do you do when the total and the audit trail don't match?
If you always trust the audit trail, then why have the automated tally?
Yeh sure, the election wasn't hacked
You have evidence it was? Please share, I have seen no evidence in the mainstream press, just speculation.
those hacked emails were all nothingburgers
Hacking into the email of a political party is not "hacking the election", see, the elections are run by the states, and a political party has no part in the running of an election.
Your spewage on Windows XP, paper trails, and Russian Asbestos don't merit a response.
The Hillary Campaign tried to run a very different, data-driven campaign in 2016 than candidates had previously employed, and her campaign's data told her there was no need to visit several "blue wall states" in the general election, that she should instead maximize her fund-raising on either coast.
Hillary lost (or Trump won) because of simple mistakes made by her campaign, nothing more - but rather than accept that simple fact, we are spending countless millions of dollars investigating opposition research put together by the losing candidate in the last election (at a cost of millions of dollars) because her supporters are too butt-hurt to accept that "the smartest, most prepared woman" ran a lousy campaign and lost.
it's the contact and donation histories of party members
You mean the donations that the DNC reported to the FEC and are available to anyone interested in learning about by simply accessing their public website?
And he deserves life in prison, if not the gallows for treason
For the crime of, what, exactly?
The hacking of the DNC really ought to be a bigger scandal than it was, and if our media was doing it's job of investigative journalism it would be.
Why? The DNC is a private organization, hacking the DNC did little more than embarrass people that claimed one thing but did another.
There's strong evidence that the Russians got ahold of voter rolls and send them on to the Republican party and/or the Trump campaign.
Do you know how dumb that sounds? The "voter rolls" are freely available to anyone that is willing to pay the local registrar of voters the reproduction fee, there's no need to set up an elaborate cyber attack to "steal' another party's private copy of public information.
There was a sudden shift in the Trump campaign's ad buys and campaigning where it became highly effective for no discernible reason, and it was right around when the hack happened....
Right, the only way the Trump campaign could gain traction is by working with the Russians, stealing the DNC's "private" copy of the voter rolls, and effectively used them to target swing voters. What a dastardly plan!
One question - why didn't the Democrats use their own information to target their ads more effectively and win the election?
Yeah, except the integrity of an election
This has nothing to do with anything relating to the election, this is a contact database of registered voters - if hackers managed to delete any/all the records in the database it wouldn't impact a single voter, it wouldn't prevent anyone from voting.
The DNC is a private organization, not a branch of government.
It's nothing new, it's hardly newsworthy, it's just something that happens.
The claim isn't that they were hacked, it's that someone created a clone of their login page on a common typo of their website URL.
It's like your local newspaper putting a headline on the front page: "Bank break-in attempted" when their security cameras show someone walked past the bank front door and 'tested the lock'.
Back in 2015 and 2016 the DNC poo-poo'd FBI and other agencies that tried to alert them that they were the targets of concerted hacking efforts.
The page was designed to look like the access page Democratic Party officials and campaigns across the country use to log into a service called Votebuilder, which hosts the database, the source said, adding the DNC believed it was designed to trick people into handing over their login details.
As recent history shows, Democratic operatives choose weak passwords ('password') and offer them up readily when asked for them via email from strangers...
I'm looking at you, Jon Podesta, former campaign director of Hillary 2016.
But when it comes to the nuts and bolds of voting, the Feds don't really have a say.
Yes, they do - see Helping America Vote Act of 2003, it says any state that accepts federal money conduct their elections as proscribed in HAVA.