Paper mills in the US were doing this in the 80s, using microphones and chart recorders to rack wear in motors and bearings, identifying potential problems, and scheduling repairs. A full size paper machine back then making newsprint would cost a million dollars an hour in lost production due to unplanned maintenance. And lots of mills scheduled that heavy maintenance during holidays.
I knew of several machines that used these measurements in a way to be able to change calendar bearings during production - something I never saw, but that had to be a bit scary.
I also knew of a manufacturer that in the early 90s used computer-driven analysis, including motor current draw and process timing, to determine when wire forming tools and machines were close to failure or not meeting specifications for the job. They moved really quickly from measurement to real-time serial communications to alert maintenance techs and reduce spoilage and waste, sometimes dramatically depending on the materials being formed.
And of course railroads have used microphones along yard tracks to listen for bad trucks, and get the cars scheduled for service. Very inefficient to have bearings fail out in the middle of a tunnel, for instance, with 100+ cars going form Colorado to California. Railroads are models of efficiency because they cannot survive otherwise, and haven't been able to do so for decades.
Mich of this isn't new, and was only waiting for someone to do the math and approve the projects.
You can name a politician that hasn't or doesn't lie? You know better. And it doesn't matter about what or why. Pretending Trump is that much different isn't honest.
"They then got kicked in the nuts by a 3rd party who gained access to the phone contents in under 3 days."
I'm betting that third party spend more than 3 days to develop that ability. And Apple also, but for Apple it was testing, not developing actual tools to do so.
And yes, that's probably wrong. Apple probably does have tools, just to be able to test improved encryption. They know that the current legal climate would force them to do it, despite the constitutional ambiguities, and then of course everyone everywhere would demand they do so for every offense, even overdue parking tickets and selling cigarettes on the street. They kill people for that, you know...
"Well, presumably, he doesn’t condone open terrorist murder."
- The audience can identify the logical errors in this sentence, and its intent.
"But let’s remember, he had to be dragged, kicking and screaming..."
- Ignore the hyperbole. Focus on the obvious opinionated characterization. And then ask if there i evidence of this, as in factual evidence. Fortunately politics is largely opinion. Sadly, much opinion is presented as factual.
"... to the microphone today to finally say something about white supremacy."
- Opinionated hyperbole? You can judge that for yourself.
"Let’s remember, too, that, you know, one of his chief advisers, Sebastian Gorka, his supposed adviser on terrorism, said just a few days ago, six days ago, in fact, that a recent bombing of a mosque in Minneapolis was very likely a fake hate crime."
- Actually, this bombing occurred in March 2018, and the quote attributed to Gorka, in August 2018: “There’s a great rule: All initial reports are false... alleged hate crimes that turned out to actually have been propagated by the left.” Gorka left the White House in August 2017, and may be advising Trump, but does so from outside the WH staff and is not in a known official role. I'm not sure why this quote is attributed to him as from six days ago, nor why the bombing is described as 'recent' when it's about 10 months ago.
"And went on to accuse the left, quote, unquote, of staging all kinds of fake hate crimes."
- There is evidence that this is true. From university professors faking racist graffiti to false claims of threats, it has happened.
"He also went on to say that there had never been — never, ever been a major attack that was not connected to ISIS or Al Qaeda."
- Hard to parse this. Do we go back to Oklahoma City?
"And that is patently false. Of course, we had the attack on Saturday, we had the attack last year. Which Dylan roof in Charleston, South Carolina, and the list is very, very long."
- The logic abuses here aren't so bad as to raise my pulse rate. Feh.
"But this administration has resisted facing that reality, absolutely."
- Not just opinion, but please, citations?
"Let’s remember, too, Donald TRUMP at one point was considering changing the countering violent extremism program, the cve program, to something that would have been called the countering Islamic terrorism program. In other words, the ideas there is no such thing as terrorism from the people who have so vociferously supported Donald TRUMP on the white nationalist right."
- Yes, please, citations. Ignore the attempt to link Trump and "the white nationalist right.", a group both infinitesimally small and without significant influence on the rest of the 'right'.
TDS is comforting, but it's not well grounded in reality. Fortunately for the practitioners, it need not be. It's just opinion.
I run Office 2003 on all my home machines, first because it's good enough. And because I have a valid multi user license. And because Microsoft somehow gave it compatibility updates. And, lastly, because LibreOffice would be my replacement.
Flash and Shockwave I avoid, so those usually are disabled or uninstalled. Problems solved.
And my Surface Pro 3 is in the Windows Insider Program, so I get a lot of updates, back up my data obsessively, and have updates scheduled. So far so good.
Truly, word processing hasn't advanced much since Word 6.0 and Quark, unless you hang on features like formatting preview and dynamic content, and since paper is out of favor, these now make sense. In the day of printing, there were a lot of features not useful to production environments.
But hey,. I missed Minesweeper so much I went and found it.
Somehow it wasn't possible, apparently, to have sites reporting the original, 'full' suspension, to be 'more accurate', lead with the current 'conditional suspension', being more accurate...
Hey, my first concern was that this would result in factual content being removed, insulating people from the genuine and predictable consequences of their actions. Is that happening here? At first glance, it seems not. But is this order going to force removal of all the original charges and/or disciplinary actions?
And your argument is that being compelled by law is somehow different from 'selling out'.
Well, yes, I suppose it is, if you care what the reason is that they give your data out without your knowledge. I don't, much. Really doesn't matter to me to which agency, nor why. We already know that in the US, in the past, AT&T willingly provided the US Government with taps on Internet transmission lines that permitted virtually total surveillance. of Internet traffic in the US. No law was apparently compelling them to do so.
No Chinese software can be trusted. None. And 'Free VPN' software cannot really be trusted.
Actually, thinking it over, no software can be 'trusted'. Not any more. At best they sell whatever they can to whoever they can. At worst, they sell out to LE or intelligence agencies because if they don;t they will have their franchise revoked, or distribution severed, or be found committing suicide with a bullet in the back of the head.
No software or hardware an be trusted. Ever. Again.
But in a discussion of polling you bring up results that aren't just suspicious, they're fabricated. The exact opposite of what you state is true. Trump's support isn't decreasing.
But you might want to cling to your statement. It does give many solace, and might prevent further violence.
And there you have one of the abuses of campaign finance law. But it's usually just a fine, unless you succeed in pissing off someone powerful, then they slap you in jail. To prove you are right...
NO, the third widest margin, but Adams was finally elected by the House, and Hayes won election despite a 3% popular vote deficit v Hillary's 2.09% advantage. 14 prior elections saw the President elected despite not winning a *majority* of the popular vote, only 4 where the winner did not win the popular vote outright.
Among the Presidents who won election despite not winning a *majority* of the popular vote? Bill Clinton. Twice. And Abraham Lincoln.
Like a lot of IT work, they expected to get paid for doing the work, not the results.
You've seen expensive and long term software projects end in failure, right? Bet the bills got paid. Mostly. People other than Trump stiff their partners for work done, even the Government.
"Paying for it... is what constitutes the felony."
Paying for it, and not declaring it as an expense or contribution. Paying for it, with money, and not accounting for it as campaign expense. Not paying for it, and not declaring it as an in-kind contrubution.
Using campaign finance laws like this only suppresses activity. If the activity is illegal, that is enough, but by using campaign finance laws you get to:
- Embarrass (sort of) the perps. - Assess usually meaningless fines. - avoid the unpleasantness of actual criminal proceedings, where the standard of proof is somewhat higher.
Or, more simply, campaign finance laws are becoming preferred tool of the opposition.
"Cohen's admission came shortly after The Wall Street Journal published a story detailing how he retained an information technology company to manipulate a 2014 CNBC online poll identifying the nation's top 100 business leaders to bolster Trump's chances of making that list.
That effort failed. And Trump himself fumed in 2014 on Twitter about his absence from CNBC's poll results."
And then;
"A second similar effort related to rig a Drudge Report poll of potential Republican candidates worked, according to the Journal. Trump placed fifth in that poll, conducted in February 2015, before he announced his candidacy for the White House."
Oh, it got him placed fifth. Wow, big impact. I remember that time. He was higher than fifth in my estimation, but only because there were only two other candidates I was considering as viable and worth my consideration at the time. And one of those got weeded out pretty early. The rest were so milquetoast as to draw my scorn and humor.
And do we doubt every single candidate was also trying this tactic, to scam the polls any way possible, preferably without getting caught? Really? You think that?
I hope not. the only possible exception, AFAIAC, didn't need to, because they fixed their nomination. Done deal.
I'm not sure this is momentous, but it's another reason for those who loathe our President to expand on that. Mind you, his former lawyer, Cohen, is in the vise of a prosecutorial death march, and is paying for that.
100% (or close to it) participation is critical to the business. Having both total access to us, as well as good quality/representational data, is crucial to the business. If the data is reduced by opt-out to any significant degree, the risk of a selection bias that makes the data marginally representational makes it virtually (!) USELESS.
So if you opt-out, and your favorite store knows you shop there but don't show up in their vast and viral marketing subconscious, they don;t know enough about you to expand their marketing, develop reliable trait definitions, and ultimately can't hit you as hard as they were paying for. And so they don't want to pay for semi-useless or less-useful data. The data aggregators lose revenue. And power. And they will fight back.
They will ignore your opt-out. Their surveillance will become even more covert. They will lie, and pay the fines (always insufficient to deter abuse). They will partner up with those who cannot be defied.
There isn't much we can do, short of punish the transgressors by refusing to do business with their willing partners, and that assumes we don't NEED to do business with these partners, some of which we will have to, no matter what.
7.0 is current on most every stable release. Running Raspian Stretch, 7.0 is my best version. Loading a Buster image is costing too much space, and I'm not ready to put the 32GB chip in there just to satisfy some nerdy desire to align with the most current PHP version. This isn't the 90s, and PHP-Nuke isn't a thing so much. Let it go. And forcing me to third-party repos isn't necessarily an improvement to security.
Buster seems ready to freeze in a few months. WordPress should kindly let this go, also. There are greater threats. It's interesting that PHP updates and everyone loses their mind UPGRADE ALL THE PHP NOW!
Exactly. Many courts in the US, realizing that making public records accessible, via the Internet, made them ACTUALLY accessible. And letting these 'public' records be 'public' when you had to trudge down to the courthouse and pay for them kept access to a minimum.
Now, with the Internet,. and electronic documents, plenty of courts (and other governmental entities) have decided to erect similar barriers to easy access. They really didn't want these records to be so available.
If you known anyone involved in local or state government, open meetings laws cause them a great deal of inconvenience. It's a pain to have to refrain from casual discussions with colleagues or others regarding official business. Often they solve that problem by making everything an executive session, or ignoring the law. Which works until something happens that get attention, and then they have to obstruct the inquiries and wait it out...
If your website is accessed form the EU, expect them to demand you obey. How they enforce that will still end up hurting you, no matter who does the enforcement.
Or choose your elected officials more carefully, with an eye towards those who will defend you and not just talk about it.
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Paper mills in the US were doing this in the 80s, using microphones and chart recorders to rack wear in motors and bearings, identifying potential problems, and scheduling repairs. A full size paper machine back then making newsprint would cost a million dollars an hour in lost production due to unplanned maintenance. And lots of mills scheduled that heavy maintenance during holidays.
I knew of several machines that used these measurements in a way to be able to change calendar bearings during production - something I never saw, but that had to be a bit scary.
I also knew of a manufacturer that in the early 90s used computer-driven analysis, including motor current draw and process timing, to determine when wire forming tools and machines were close to failure or not meeting specifications for the job. They moved really quickly from measurement to real-time serial communications to alert maintenance techs and reduce spoilage and waste, sometimes dramatically depending on the materials being formed.
And of course railroads have used microphones along yard tracks to listen for bad trucks, and get the cars scheduled for service. Very inefficient to have bearings fail out in the middle of a tunnel, for instance, with 100+ cars going form Colorado to California. Railroads are models of efficiency because they cannot survive otherwise, and haven't been able to do so for decades.
Mich of this isn't new, and was only waiting for someone to do the math and approve the projects.
And which of these owns Twitter?
You can name a politician that hasn't or doesn't lie? You know better. And it doesn't matter about what or why. Pretending Trump is that much different isn't honest.
"They then got kicked in the nuts by a 3rd party who gained access to the phone contents in under 3 days."
I'm betting that third party spend more than 3 days to develop that ability. And Apple also, but for Apple it was testing, not developing actual tools to do so.
And yes, that's probably wrong. Apple probably does have tools, just to be able to test improved encryption. They know that the current legal climate would force them to do it, despite the constitutional ambiguities, and then of course everyone everywhere would demand they do so for every offense, even overdue parking tickets and selling cigarettes on the street. They kill people for that, you know...
Let's parse this:
"Well, presumably, he doesn’t condone open terrorist murder."
- The audience can identify the logical errors in this sentence, and its intent.
"But let’s remember, he had to be dragged, kicking and screaming..."
- Ignore the hyperbole. Focus on the obvious opinionated characterization. And then ask if there i evidence of this, as in factual evidence. Fortunately politics is largely opinion. Sadly, much opinion is presented as factual.
"... to the microphone today to finally say something about white supremacy."
- Opinionated hyperbole? You can judge that for yourself.
"Let’s remember, too, that, you know, one of his chief advisers, Sebastian Gorka, his supposed adviser on terrorism, said just a few days ago, six days ago, in fact, that a recent bombing of a mosque in Minneapolis was very likely a fake hate crime."
- Actually, this bombing occurred in March 2018, and the quote attributed to Gorka, in August 2018: “There’s a great rule: All initial reports are false... alleged hate crimes that turned out to actually have been propagated by the left.” Gorka left the White House in August 2017, and may be advising Trump, but does so from outside the WH staff and is not in a known official role. I'm not sure why this quote is attributed to him as from six days ago, nor why the bombing is described as 'recent' when it's about 10 months ago.
"And went on to accuse the left, quote, unquote, of staging all kinds of fake hate crimes."
- There is evidence that this is true. From university professors faking racist graffiti to false claims of threats, it has happened.
"He also went on to say that there had never been — never, ever been a major attack that was not connected to ISIS or Al Qaeda."
- Hard to parse this. Do we go back to Oklahoma City?
"And that is patently false. Of course, we had the attack on Saturday, we had the attack last year. Which Dylan roof in Charleston, South Carolina, and the list is very, very long."
- The logic abuses here aren't so bad as to raise my pulse rate. Feh.
"But this administration has resisted facing that reality, absolutely."
- Not just opinion, but please, citations?
"Let’s remember, too, Donald TRUMP at one point was considering changing the countering violent extremism program, the cve program, to something that would have been called the countering Islamic terrorism program. In other words, the ideas there is no such thing as terrorism from the people who have so vociferously supported Donald TRUMP on the white nationalist right."
- Yes, please, citations. Ignore the attempt to link Trump and "the white nationalist right.", a group both infinitesimally small and without significant influence on the rest of the 'right'.
TDS is comforting, but it's not well grounded in reality. Fortunately for the practitioners, it need not be. It's just opinion.
I run Office 2003 on all my home machines, first because it's good enough. And because I have a valid multi user license. And because Microsoft somehow gave it compatibility updates. And, lastly, because LibreOffice would be my replacement.
Flash and Shockwave I avoid, so those usually are disabled or uninstalled. Problems solved.
And my Surface Pro 3 is in the Windows Insider Program, so I get a lot of updates, back up my data obsessively, and have updates scheduled. So far so good.
Truly, word processing hasn't advanced much since Word 6.0 and Quark, unless you hang on features like formatting preview and dynamic content, and since paper is out of favor, these now make sense. In the day of printing, there were a lot of features not useful to production environments.
But hey,. I missed Minesweeper so much I went and found it.
Somehow it wasn't possible, apparently, to have sites reporting the original, 'full' suspension, to be 'more accurate', lead with the current 'conditional suspension', being more accurate...
Hey, my first concern was that this would result in factual content being removed, insulating people from the genuine and predictable consequences of their actions. Is that happening here? At first glance, it seems not. But is this order going to force removal of all the original charges and/or disciplinary actions?
And your argument is that being compelled by law is somehow different from 'selling out'.
Well, yes, I suppose it is, if you care what the reason is that they give your data out without your knowledge. I don't, much. Really doesn't matter to me to which agency, nor why. We already know that in the US, in the past, AT&T willingly provided the US Government with taps on Internet transmission lines that permitted virtually total surveillance. of Internet traffic in the US. No law was apparently compelling them to do so.
Other nations are well out of us, users, control.
As in how the service is delivered?
It matters why?
No Chinese software can be trusted. None. And 'Free VPN' software cannot really be trusted.
Actually, thinking it over, no software can be 'trusted'. Not any more. At best they sell whatever they can to whoever they can. At worst, they sell out to LE or intelligence agencies because if they don;t they will have their franchise revoked, or distribution severed, or be found committing suicide with a bullet in the back of the head.
No software or hardware an be trusted. Ever. Again.
Not my numbers, just data.
But in a discussion of polling you bring up results that aren't just suspicious, they're fabricated. The exact opposite of what you state is true. Trump's support isn't decreasing.
But you might want to cling to your statement. It does give many solace, and might prevent further violence.
And there you have one of the abuses of campaign finance law. But it's usually just a fine, unless you succeed in pissing off someone powerful, then they slap you in jail. To prove you are right...
TRYING to rig the same polls... And also possibly failing. Or not.
NO, the third widest margin, but Adams was finally elected by the House, and Hayes won election despite a 3% popular vote deficit v Hillary's 2.09% advantage. 14 prior elections saw the President elected despite not winning a *majority* of the popular vote, only 4 where the winner did not win the popular vote outright.
Among the Presidents who won election despite not winning a *majority* of the popular vote? Bill Clinton. Twice. And Abraham Lincoln.
Like a lot of IT work, they expected to get paid for doing the work, not the results.
You've seen expensive and long term software projects end in failure, right? Bet the bills got paid. Mostly. People other than Trump stiff their partners for work done, even the Government.
"Paying for it ... is what constitutes the felony."
Paying for it, and not declaring it as an expense or contribution.
Paying for it, with money, and not accounting for it as campaign expense.
Not paying for it, and not declaring it as an in-kind contrubution.
Using campaign finance laws like this only suppresses activity. If the activity is illegal, that is enough, but by using campaign finance laws you get to:
- Embarrass (sort of) the perps.
- Assess usually meaningless fines.
- avoid the unpleasantness of actual criminal proceedings, where the standard of proof is somewhat higher.
Or, more simply, campaign finance laws are becoming preferred tool of the opposition.
*whoosh*
FTFA:
"Cohen's admission came shortly after The Wall Street Journal published a story detailing how he retained an information technology company to manipulate a 2014 CNBC online poll identifying the nation's top 100 business leaders to bolster Trump's chances of making that list.
That effort failed. And Trump himself fumed in 2014 on Twitter about his absence from CNBC's poll results."
And then;
"A second similar effort related to rig a Drudge Report poll of potential Republican candidates worked, according to the Journal. Trump placed fifth in that poll, conducted in February 2015, before he announced his candidacy for the White House."
Oh, it got him placed fifth. Wow, big impact. I remember that time. He was higher than fifth in my estimation, but only because there were only two other candidates I was considering as viable and worth my consideration at the time. And one of those got weeded out pretty early. The rest were so milquetoast as to draw my scorn and humor.
And do we doubt every single candidate was also trying this tactic, to scam the polls any way possible, preferably without getting caught? Really? You think that?
I hope not. the only possible exception, AFAIAC, didn't need to, because they fixed their nomination. Done deal.
I'm not sure this is momentous, but it's another reason for those who loathe our President to expand on that. Mind you, his former lawyer, Cohen, is in the vise of a prosecutorial death march, and is paying for that.
100% (or close to it) participation is critical to the business. Having both total access to us, as well as good quality/representational data, is crucial to the business. If the data is reduced by opt-out to any significant degree, the risk of a selection bias that makes the data marginally representational makes it virtually (!) USELESS.
So if you opt-out, and your favorite store knows you shop there but don't show up in their vast and viral marketing subconscious, they don;t know enough about you to expand their marketing, develop reliable trait definitions, and ultimately can't hit you as hard as they were paying for. And so they don't want to pay for semi-useless or less-useful data. The data aggregators lose revenue. And power. And they will fight back.
They will ignore your opt-out. Their surveillance will become even more covert. They will lie, and pay the fines (always insufficient to deter abuse). They will partner up with those who cannot be defied.
There isn't much we can do, short of punish the transgressors by refusing to do business with their willing partners, and that assumes we don't NEED to do business with these partners, some of which we will have to, no matter what.
Lost. We have lost.
...That China watched the movie 'The Martian.
And took some international law advice from it. /s
7.0 is current on most every stable release. Running Raspian Stretch, 7.0 is my best version. Loading a Buster image is costing too much space, and I'm not ready to put the 32GB chip in there just to satisfy some nerdy desire to align with the most current PHP version. This isn't the 90s, and PHP-Nuke isn't a thing so much. Let it go. And forcing me to third-party repos isn't necessarily an improvement to security.
Buster seems ready to freeze in a few months. WordPress should kindly let this go, also. There are greater threats. It's interesting that PHP updates and everyone loses their mind UPGRADE ALL THE PHP NOW!
"Does the EU really want Saudia Arabia determining what web content is allowable in the EU?"
The honest answer to this question will probably surprise you.
Exactly. Many courts in the US, realizing that making public records accessible, via the Internet, made them ACTUALLY accessible. And letting these 'public' records be 'public' when you had to trudge down to the courthouse and pay for them kept access to a minimum.
Now, with the Internet,. and electronic documents, plenty of courts (and other governmental entities) have decided to erect similar barriers to easy access. They really didn't want these records to be so available.
If you known anyone involved in local or state government, open meetings laws cause them a great deal of inconvenience. It's a pain to have to refrain from casual discussions with colleagues or others regarding official business. Often they solve that problem by making everything an executive session, or ignoring the law. Which works until something happens that get attention, and then they have to obstruct the inquiries and wait it out...
GDPR.
If your website is accessed form the EU, expect them to demand you obey. How they enforce that will still end up hurting you, no matter who does the enforcement.
Or choose your elected officials more carefully, with an eye towards those who will defend you and not just talk about it.