In order to ensure compliance, they'd have to effectively set his privacy rights aside altogether.
This is why I get so sick and tired of the people who come rushing to the defense of women who take naked selfies, do sex tapes, etc. You want to see privilege and entitlement? You take a bunch of pictures and videos and send them to someone and then sick the government on them, forcing them to effectively upend their own privacy rights over mere continued possession.
In China, if you cut corners in how you run your business and people die because of it, the government reserves the right to put you up against the wall. Corruption issues with due process there aside, that is probably the only way stuff like this, Deepwater Horizon and other disasters will be prevented. Stop going after the company and go directly after the people that chose to cut corners to "maximize shareholder value." Catch them, try them and execute them.
If Microsoft had been smart about their strategy, they'd have made the tablet and phone modes for Windows able to revert to a full desktop when a keyboard, mouse and display are connected. Corporate America would **love** a phone with 4GB of RAM and a good Atom CPU that can be plugged into a standard display and use bluetooth inputs to become a small desktop computer. Microsoft would probably have jumped from 2.5% to 20% of the market within two years if they'd adopted a strategy that was based on the premise that Windows adopts to your usage and any Windows device is a computer.
How about a peripheral standard for turning a phone or small tablet into a gaming device? Standard button count and purpose. Just go buy a new $30 case for your phone and now you have a Gameboy-like device.
If Apple and Google really wanted to take their platforms to the next level, that's all it would take. A simple controller-case standard and native APIs to support it if necessary.
On the other hand, Nintendo is probably well positioned that if they wanted to release their own phone/DS-hybrid, they could probably do so and beat Samsung in sales within a year. They could even sell two variations, one for kids and one for adults. The kid version can only make calls, surf the web, play music and access the Nintendo app store. The adult version is just a Nexus-like phone with the Nintendo app store added on.
Before you "but the children", give me the percentage of terrorist activities or even bombings where someone gave warning.
ISIS, unlike other groups, has the reputation that allows them to alternate between threats and actual acts of violence. Either way, their goals are advanced. So long as they have enough actual acts of violence to keep up their reputation, the mere threat of ISIS mobilizing is enough to scare the shit out of people for good reason, and ISIS knows that.
There is absolutely, not one shred of constitutional justification for this. The FAA has legitimate jurisdiction over interstate air travel and aircraft that are planned to be used for such. It has no constitutional jurisdiction over the use of RC drones, within a state's borders, that touches on no federal property and that is barely intended to be flown to the perimeter of one's community.
This is the job of the states. California doesn't need drone regulations to punish the guys who interfered with the fire fighters during the last wave of wild fires. There are probably half a dozen more serious, felony-level charges that could be directed at the drone operators for interfering with emergency personnel operations.
Sure terrorists use the Internet to recruit. But how many people did not join up because of information on the Internet?
Probably not that many. All of the schools of "radical Islam" were in existence and active well before the Internet, but the Internet has given them an unprecedented ability to reach out to Muslims very far away from their core audiences such as Muslims in Malaysia and Indonesia which were prohibitively expensive and difficult to reach in pre-modern times.
With the advent of broadcast communication, radicals were able to start reaching their diasporas and Muslims outside of the normal stomping grounds of the radical schools based in the Middle East. The Internet not only enables that broadcasting, but enables dialogue. It's now possible for radical imams and jurists in the Middle East to do more than a fire-side chat with young Muslims across the world, they can actually engage them as pupils and groom them personally.
I absolutely do not support Trump's proposal, but guys like you are precisely the sort of idealists that he will steamroll over without any effort in the public spotlight. Everyone else out there can see that as a matter of fact, the Internet enables terrorist recruitment probably 10x better than broadcast media did in the 60s to late 80s/early 90s.
The way I talk about the Internet is the way most gun rights activists talk about guns. I care more about freedom than security. "If it saves one life" is not an argument to me. I'd rather lose lives in the name of freedom than save lives in the name of security.
Where the feelings of SJWs who feel "harassed" get immediate attention and easier to use reporting and blocking tools, but where blackmail and advocacy of Islamic terrorism is simply not a priority for their admins...
"He got mad at me for ignoring him and grabbed me and shook me again," she read. "He also threw me to the ground and got on top of me. He started punching me in the stomach and slapped me across the face. I was shaking so bad."
Just like James Deen's ex-girlfriend recently claimed to be raped on Twitter, but had precisely no interest in going to the police station to get a rape kit and tell them the same things she said on Twitter. Why? Turns out a lot of women, like a lot of men, are perfectly capable of bearing false witness to hurt someone they don't like.
"We have stressed that cyber security needs to be based on mutual respect. We believe it is not constructive to make groundless accusations or speculation."
Attacking public systems like this is not one of the things they're much known for doing or even aiding and abetting. One has to wonder what China would do if suddenly the NSA and GCHQ were to take the kid gloves off and do to Chinese industry and civilian agencies what they've been doing to ours.
The only real electronic escalation would be attack on critical systems aimed at killing people. Once Chinese state-backed hackers start doing that, it's only a matter of time before the federal government escalates it into a formal war. So the question is, what does it take to get "mutual respect."
Many of most credulous people I've ever met are "open-minded," intelligent people. New Age stuff is very prominent in such people, and "New Age" ideas make low church Pentecostalism look like high Greek philosophy. I've had such people tell me about the healing power of crystals, magnets and all sorts of nonsense. I mean crystals? Really? If they weren't tool old for it, I'd swear they spent too much time doing drugs and playing Final Fantasy.
If you take a step back and look at things objectively, you find that there is a startling lack of correlation between intelligence and wisdom. In fact, it often takes a certain degree of intelligence to believe some of those idiotic things out there. Sure, people with lower degrees of intelligence may endorse alternative medicine and things like that, but the amount of simply bad (obviously bad in many cases) ideas and philosophies held by a lot of intelligent people in the West is even more disturbing. It's a lot scarier that a lot of intelligent and successful people think that Socialism and the Labor Theory of Value are viable than some Walmart worker believes in medical quackery or outlandish paranormal ideas.
Those who think they can skirt the law will find themselves facing some of the toughest penalties for firearms offences in this country," Grant said.
Indonesia executes people for simple drug trafficking.
Criminals don't really care about the law because there are two main types of criminals who commit serious crimes: the stupid ones who don't think about the consequences and the smart ones who are willing to take more extreme measures to stop people from holding them accountable.
The one consequence they do tend to fear is a swift death at the hands of a potential victim. That's why increasing the capacity of self-defense for the law-abiding is always a good thing. If an unarmed 6ft tall man gets gunned down trying to rob a 5"2 woman, who cares? He shouldn't have been trying to commit a violent felony. It's not that his life is worth less than her purse, but that when he chose to put her in fear of her life over her purse, he forfeited his right to live in that moment.
They have direct access to all these social media databases which Anonymous doesn't.
And so far, they're probably/hopefully, doing targeted investigations. The last thing we need is Anonymous to get so good at whack-a-mole that law enforcement just says "to hell with this" and starts data mining the entire database.
Odds are good that in most industrialized countries, feeding this sort of antibiotics to pigs to maximize profits would be highly illegal. On top of that, even many industrial farmers would maintain sufficiently high standards that they wouldn't need to resort to something that extreme. It's probably one of the few things they could do in the US that would have the federal government step in and kick their ass in court.
But the reality is that there is just nothing to stop a bunch of ignorant, short-sighted, greedy fools in some third world country from buying these antibiotics and doing it. With the global supply chain, there's even incentive to try to do it for the export market. Unless industrialized countries are prepared to treat such shenanigans and the failure to stop them by the authorities of poor countries as an act of war or one legitimizing sanctions, there's no credible threat powerful to stop it.
The only thing they've done is further prove the case for abolishing all tax exemption for political activism and making contributions to the same not a valid deduction on the income tax.
Campus tribunals operate without even a pretense of being governed by anything resembling due process for the accused. They typically have no right to an attorney, right to question the accuser, heck sometimes they literally aren't even told what the formal charge is. Then when they lose, they face expulsion. Sure they can "just attend another university," but they have an expulsion on their record that they have to explain. If they are on student loans and no one else picks them up, that is a very costly matter as well.
Those dastardly (probably all white!!!!11!) editors and writers might use the information to... send poor black voters information about how they can exercise their right to keep and bear arms and information on why they might want to do it.
Half of his appeal comes from the principle that the open society is not a suicide pact. That means "our Bill of Rights is more important than your feelings." If that means we have to tell people from countries with known terrorism problems that they are categorically not welcome, then so be it. Their feelings are simply nothing when juxtaposed with defending the 4th amendment. I'd rather see 1M Syrians forced to stare down ISIS than see the status quo continue and help ensure a steady supply of potential excuses for abridging our rights.
ISIS would have access to their streets whether or not refugees were accepted; what, you think an ISIS terrorist is going to take his chances going across the Mediterranean in a swamped, sinking refugee boat? They've got the money, documents, and connections needed to take a plane and rent an apartment like any normal person. He'll be wearing a nice suit, carrying quality luggage, and probably show a student visa or EU passport or something.
And money, documents, connections, etc. don't scale if your goal is to move 1,000 fighters into Europe, not a squad's worth of men. It is far easier to take a battalion or two of fighters, tell them to put on dirty old clothes and mingle with a vast wave of refugees than make fake IDs, itineraries, money transfers, etc. for them. Not to mention it looks damn suspicious if you have 40 combat age arabic-speaking men milling around in an airport acting like they might or might not know each other.
Citizenship is almost meaningless as a determining factor in affinity for the host society. We could rubber stamp all of our illegal immigrants and call them US citizens, and at the end of the day their loyalties would rightfully be primarily with the countries they came from and continue to send remittances to support.
Look at the attackers. None of them were native-born French whose ancestors were French for centuries. They're all the sons of recent arrivals or actual refugees by way of Greece. You can't pull this shit and expect it to fool anyone who is paying attention.
Because that is easier than blaming Merkel and like-minded leaders for self-righteously taking a position that they knew, beyond any reasonable doubt, would give ISIS incredibly easy access to their streets. The FBI director admitted that they have literally no meaningful body of information by which to screen our "refugees" for terrorist ties, and our president is likewise bringing them in anyway.
The NYT is not going to call these policies what they are: bordering on treason for the level that they endanger the host societies.
A handful of men did this attack in Europe. How many more "handfuls" of similarly capable men got through? Probably a lot. We know ISIS is threatening to do this in the US. ISIS isn't stupid. They're not going to go to the heart of Texas or Louisiana where half of the concert goers pack nothing smaller than 0.40. They're going to go to NYC, LA or Chicago. You know, "progressive" places where the average person thinks that no civilized person would "feel so inadequate" that they'd want to carry a gun. And when the police are 10 minutes away, there will be a body count identical to Paris or worse.
It was received wisdom that flying, let alone landing on the moon, was beyond the engineering capabilities of humanity. The most significant reason why scientists' input into the public sphere should be treated as no more than "probably good advice" is the complete lack of a historic perspective and humility so many seem to have. You'd think the number of times the consensus is one thing and one or two rebels make fools of the consensus would be a cause for open-mindedness in the current generation, but you'd be wrong.
The chattering classes were all "ooohhh portable electronic records" and this and that about the transformative impact of technology without any appreciation for the absolute, non-negotiable need for a security first posture. Of all private sector systems, hospitals are the closest (with a few other industries like utilities) to the use case for a classified government network on security.
This won't be fixed until the federal government and states get together and task the DNI with drafting guidelines derived from how they regulate Top Secret networks to be used by the medical industry. If left to the industry or DHHS, this won't get done until some hospital gets hacked and dozens of patients are murdered by some piece of shit in China, Russia or the Middle East.
Makes me sympathetic to the British standard of defamation. The law ought to provide these people with absolutely no legal defense in the face of a lawsuit or prosecution for defamation.
If they bend the knee and make country-specific images for the UK, it's over for them. Every country will expect them to be able to do a custom build for them too. The other is that we need the federal government to take an openly nationalist position such things. If you ban our legal products from your country for stuff like this, we'll ban yours without a hesitation. For the UK, that would mean the feds could tell Google and Apple to blacklist all apps produced by UK-based corporations from their stores; for China their handsets from vendors like ZTE couldn't be legally sold here.
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In order to ensure compliance, they'd have to effectively set his privacy rights aside altogether.
This is why I get so sick and tired of the people who come rushing to the defense of women who take naked selfies, do sex tapes, etc. You want to see privilege and entitlement? You take a bunch of pictures and videos and send them to someone and then sick the government on them, forcing them to effectively upend their own privacy rights over mere continued possession.
Check your privilege, honey.
In China, if you cut corners in how you run your business and people die because of it, the government reserves the right to put you up against the wall. Corruption issues with due process there aside, that is probably the only way stuff like this, Deepwater Horizon and other disasters will be prevented. Stop going after the company and go directly after the people that chose to cut corners to "maximize shareholder value." Catch them, try them and execute them.
If Microsoft had been smart about their strategy, they'd have made the tablet and phone modes for Windows able to revert to a full desktop when a keyboard, mouse and display are connected. Corporate America would **love** a phone with 4GB of RAM and a good Atom CPU that can be plugged into a standard display and use bluetooth inputs to become a small desktop computer. Microsoft would probably have jumped from 2.5% to 20% of the market within two years if they'd adopted a strategy that was based on the premise that Windows adopts to your usage and any Windows device is a computer.
How about a peripheral standard for turning a phone or small tablet into a gaming device? Standard button count and purpose. Just go buy a new $30 case for your phone and now you have a Gameboy-like device.
If Apple and Google really wanted to take their platforms to the next level, that's all it would take. A simple controller-case standard and native APIs to support it if necessary.
On the other hand, Nintendo is probably well positioned that if they wanted to release their own phone/DS-hybrid, they could probably do so and beat Samsung in sales within a year. They could even sell two variations, one for kids and one for adults. The kid version can only make calls, surf the web, play music and access the Nintendo app store. The adult version is just a Nexus-like phone with the Nintendo app store added on.
ISIS, unlike other groups, has the reputation that allows them to alternate between threats and actual acts of violence. Either way, their goals are advanced. So long as they have enough actual acts of violence to keep up their reputation, the mere threat of ISIS mobilizing is enough to scare the shit out of people for good reason, and ISIS knows that.
There is absolutely, not one shred of constitutional justification for this. The FAA has legitimate jurisdiction over interstate air travel and aircraft that are planned to be used for such. It has no constitutional jurisdiction over the use of RC drones, within a state's borders, that touches on no federal property and that is barely intended to be flown to the perimeter of one's community.
This is the job of the states. California doesn't need drone regulations to punish the guys who interfered with the fire fighters during the last wave of wild fires. There are probably half a dozen more serious, felony-level charges that could be directed at the drone operators for interfering with emergency personnel operations.
Probably not that many. All of the schools of "radical Islam" were in existence and active well before the Internet, but the Internet has given them an unprecedented ability to reach out to Muslims very far away from their core audiences such as Muslims in Malaysia and Indonesia which were prohibitively expensive and difficult to reach in pre-modern times.
With the advent of broadcast communication, radicals were able to start reaching their diasporas and Muslims outside of the normal stomping grounds of the radical schools based in the Middle East. The Internet not only enables that broadcasting, but enables dialogue. It's now possible for radical imams and jurists in the Middle East to do more than a fire-side chat with young Muslims across the world, they can actually engage them as pupils and groom them personally.
I absolutely do not support Trump's proposal, but guys like you are precisely the sort of idealists that he will steamroll over without any effort in the public spotlight. Everyone else out there can see that as a matter of fact, the Internet enables terrorist recruitment probably 10x better than broadcast media did in the 60s to late 80s/early 90s.
The way I talk about the Internet is the way most gun rights activists talk about guns. I care more about freedom than security. "If it saves one life" is not an argument to me. I'd rather lose lives in the name of freedom than save lives in the name of security.
Where the feelings of SJWs who feel "harassed" get immediate attention and easier to use reporting and blocking tools, but where blackmail and advocacy of Islamic terrorism is simply not a priority for their admins...
Just like James Deen's ex-girlfriend recently claimed to be raped on Twitter, but had precisely no interest in going to the police station to get a rape kit and tell them the same things she said on Twitter. Why? Turns out a lot of women, like a lot of men, are perfectly capable of bearing false witness to hurt someone they don't like.
Attacking public systems like this is not one of the things they're much known for doing or even aiding and abetting. One has to wonder what China would do if suddenly the NSA and GCHQ were to take the kid gloves off and do to Chinese industry and civilian agencies what they've been doing to ours.
The only real electronic escalation would be attack on critical systems aimed at killing people. Once Chinese state-backed hackers start doing that, it's only a matter of time before the federal government escalates it into a formal war. So the question is, what does it take to get "mutual respect."
Many of most credulous people I've ever met are "open-minded," intelligent people. New Age stuff is very prominent in such people, and "New Age" ideas make low church Pentecostalism look like high Greek philosophy. I've had such people tell me about the healing power of crystals, magnets and all sorts of nonsense. I mean crystals? Really? If they weren't tool old for it, I'd swear they spent too much time doing drugs and playing Final Fantasy.
If you take a step back and look at things objectively, you find that there is a startling lack of correlation between intelligence and wisdom. In fact, it often takes a certain degree of intelligence to believe some of those idiotic things out there. Sure, people with lower degrees of intelligence may endorse alternative medicine and things like that, but the amount of simply bad (obviously bad in many cases) ideas and philosophies held by a lot of intelligent people in the West is even more disturbing. It's a lot scarier that a lot of intelligent and successful people think that Socialism and the Labor Theory of Value are viable than some Walmart worker believes in medical quackery or outlandish paranormal ideas.
Indonesia executes people for simple drug trafficking.
Criminals don't really care about the law because there are two main types of criminals who commit serious crimes: the stupid ones who don't think about the consequences and the smart ones who are willing to take more extreme measures to stop people from holding them accountable.
The one consequence they do tend to fear is a swift death at the hands of a potential victim. That's why increasing the capacity of self-defense for the law-abiding is always a good thing. If an unarmed 6ft tall man gets gunned down trying to rob a 5"2 woman, who cares? He shouldn't have been trying to commit a violent felony. It's not that his life is worth less than her purse, but that when he chose to put her in fear of her life over her purse, he forfeited his right to live in that moment.
And so far, they're probably/hopefully, doing targeted investigations. The last thing we need is Anonymous to get so good at whack-a-mole that law enforcement just says "to hell with this" and starts data mining the entire database.
Odds are good that in most industrialized countries, feeding this sort of antibiotics to pigs to maximize profits would be highly illegal. On top of that, even many industrial farmers would maintain sufficiently high standards that they wouldn't need to resort to something that extreme. It's probably one of the few things they could do in the US that would have the federal government step in and kick their ass in court.
But the reality is that there is just nothing to stop a bunch of ignorant, short-sighted, greedy fools in some third world country from buying these antibiotics and doing it. With the global supply chain, there's even incentive to try to do it for the export market. Unless industrialized countries are prepared to treat such shenanigans and the failure to stop them by the authorities of poor countries as an act of war or one legitimizing sanctions, there's no credible threat powerful to stop it.
The only thing they've done is further prove the case for abolishing all tax exemption for political activism and making contributions to the same not a valid deduction on the income tax.
Campus tribunals operate without even a pretense of being governed by anything resembling due process for the accused. They typically have no right to an attorney, right to question the accuser, heck sometimes they literally aren't even told what the formal charge is. Then when they lose, they face expulsion. Sure they can "just attend another university," but they have an expulsion on their record that they have to explain. If they are on student loans and no one else picks them up, that is a very costly matter as well.
Those dastardly (probably all white!!!!11!) editors and writers might use the information to... send poor black voters information about how they can exercise their right to keep and bear arms and information on why they might want to do it.
Half of his appeal comes from the principle that the open society is not a suicide pact. That means "our Bill of Rights is more important than your feelings." If that means we have to tell people from countries with known terrorism problems that they are categorically not welcome, then so be it. Their feelings are simply nothing when juxtaposed with defending the 4th amendment. I'd rather see 1M Syrians forced to stare down ISIS than see the status quo continue and help ensure a steady supply of potential excuses for abridging our rights.
And money, documents, connections, etc. don't scale if your goal is to move 1,000 fighters into Europe, not a squad's worth of men. It is far easier to take a battalion or two of fighters, tell them to put on dirty old clothes and mingle with a vast wave of refugees than make fake IDs, itineraries, money transfers, etc. for them. Not to mention it looks damn suspicious if you have 40 combat age arabic-speaking men milling around in an airport acting like they might or might not know each other.
Citizenship is almost meaningless as a determining factor in affinity for the host society. We could rubber stamp all of our illegal immigrants and call them US citizens, and at the end of the day their loyalties would rightfully be primarily with the countries they came from and continue to send remittances to support.
Look at the attackers. None of them were native-born French whose ancestors were French for centuries. They're all the sons of recent arrivals or actual refugees by way of Greece. You can't pull this shit and expect it to fool anyone who is paying attention.
Because that is easier than blaming Merkel and like-minded leaders for self-righteously taking a position that they knew, beyond any reasonable doubt, would give ISIS incredibly easy access to their streets. The FBI director admitted that they have literally no meaningful body of information by which to screen our "refugees" for terrorist ties, and our president is likewise bringing them in anyway.
The NYT is not going to call these policies what they are: bordering on treason for the level that they endanger the host societies.
A handful of men did this attack in Europe. How many more "handfuls" of similarly capable men got through? Probably a lot. We know ISIS is threatening to do this in the US. ISIS isn't stupid. They're not going to go to the heart of Texas or Louisiana where half of the concert goers pack nothing smaller than 0.40. They're going to go to NYC, LA or Chicago. You know, "progressive" places where the average person thinks that no civilized person would "feel so inadequate" that they'd want to carry a gun. And when the police are 10 minutes away, there will be a body count identical to Paris or worse.
It was received wisdom that flying, let alone landing on the moon, was beyond the engineering capabilities of humanity. The most significant reason why scientists' input into the public sphere should be treated as no more than "probably good advice" is the complete lack of a historic perspective and humility so many seem to have. You'd think the number of times the consensus is one thing and one or two rebels make fools of the consensus would be a cause for open-mindedness in the current generation, but you'd be wrong.
The chattering classes were all "ooohhh portable electronic records" and this and that about the transformative impact of technology without any appreciation for the absolute, non-negotiable need for a security first posture. Of all private sector systems, hospitals are the closest (with a few other industries like utilities) to the use case for a classified government network on security.
This won't be fixed until the federal government and states get together and task the DNI with drafting guidelines derived from how they regulate Top Secret networks to be used by the medical industry. If left to the industry or DHHS, this won't get done until some hospital gets hacked and dozens of patients are murdered by some piece of shit in China, Russia or the Middle East.
Makes me sympathetic to the British standard of defamation. The law ought to provide these people with absolutely no legal defense in the face of a lawsuit or prosecution for defamation.
If they bend the knee and make country-specific images for the UK, it's over for them. Every country will expect them to be able to do a custom build for them too. The other is that we need the federal government to take an openly nationalist position such things. If you ban our legal products from your country for stuff like this, we'll ban yours without a hesitation. For the UK, that would mean the feds could tell Google and Apple to blacklist all apps produced by UK-based corporations from their stores; for China their handsets from vendors like ZTE couldn't be legally sold here.