That is how the courts work. If Brazilian law, as interpreted by a duly appointed judge, allows the government access, the judge must enforce that law. Just because it is inconvenient to 100 million Whatsapp users does not matter.
Those users can contact their representatives and change the law.
This is the natural consequence of "corporations are people" and "money is speech" argument. Once you give corporations the same standing as real citizens, to have unfettered free money/speech, the right to hold religious beliefs, etc, power of the real people will be diminished.
It is far easier to create a corporation than real people, easier to create a chain of complex parent corporations and child corporations. It is impossible for us to stop corporations from sneaking across our borders. It is impossible to access jail time for corporation people.
It is entirely ridiculous that SCOTUS endows corporations with all the rights of real citizens but none of the liabilities of real citizens. I can't clone myself, make my clone a citizen of Cayman islands and route my income through that clone and create another clone to hold my assets and yet another clone to hold my liabilities.
We need a constitutional amendment to making corporations second class "people". It is necessary to limit the powers of the government.
If small government is better big government, and smaller government is always better, by method of induction we have to conclude no government is better than small government. But small and powerless governments will not be able to enforce the laws. There is a minimum size of government needed. That size is what is needed to enforce the laws, more power than any individual subject. If we make government smaller than that, the most powerful individual will drown it in the bathtub and we will be living under a warlord.
But, if we distinguish between real citizens and corporate citizens, we can make the government more powerful than the most powerful corporation but limit its power over real citizens so as not to threaten our liberty.
Now a days our liberty is more threatened by corporations than governments. We need to realize the government is the last defense we have against the corporations.
Yes, I concede, we Americans are mammals, and we have a natural affinity to our class, mammalia. It is natural for us to ennoble a wonderful member of our class, as our archetype. But, we need to realize we are a nation of laws, and we pride ourselves in believing equality and egalitarianism. We are not going for the melting pot of a classless society but a wonderful salad bowl of all classes intermingling creating something that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Let the nay sayers decry this as political correctness, but I hold that other classes are no less worthy, no less deserving, no less anything. They too deserve a representative member of their class installed as the archetype and be represented as officially.
My fellow Aves, Amphibia, Pisces, Insecta, Vermes, rise and demand to be represented. You have nothing to lose but the chains and the second, no pun intended, class treatment by the upper class Mammalia. We Americans despise class warfare and we strive to treat all classes equally. You will friends and well wishers among the more enlightened members of the Mammals. Do not suffer in silence.
This incident shows the power of collective action. One weasel went up against the Large Hadron Collider and ended up dead.
Back in the 1990s a whole bunch of weasels went up against Superconducting Super Collider. The SSC died, and was reduced a mere hole in the ground in the southern suburbs of Dallas, TX. Never underestimate the power of these congress critters.
To all the nay sayers who laugh at hair dryers, I say this: Hair dryer is the most under estimated products in the history. Remember when Princess Vespa was stranded in the desert moon of Vega, all she had was a hair dryer and she survived the desert with it.
The driver should not get 5 minutes grace time if it is only two minutes for the rider. If the driver is more than 2 minutes late, the rider should get a discount.
.The best way people have found dealing with that is to limit the cost of governmental "corruption" (rent seeking etc.) is to limit the size of government as much as possible and make it as local as possible.
India was full of small kingdoms, with weak centralization of power, almost everything ruled at the local level using village five-man councils. It was quite powerful, it had 25% of world GDP before 17th century, very very wealthy. And the Europeans just walked in and took over the whole continent, stuffed out the local resistance, killed the pride and self worth of all the people of the continent.
People like Raghuram Rajan who know and feel the arc of history from both sides, from colonial powers and the colonized people, is likely to be far more astute than you. I would not be surprised if he lands a Nobel in economics sometime.
They found a way to populate the Waze with hundreds of fake cars and create a ghost traffic jam. They could easily use this method to clear a path in any city anytime. They could create a derivative app that will let the users clear a way and sell it at a much higher price. Instead, they went ahead and babbled all over the world. Now a good opportunity to earn some serious money is lost for ever for every one.
The following is my, not his, take. But my view is heavily influenced by his book. Please do read his book or at least the summaries and reviews.
He argues that like in any system, in Capitalism too, the current generation of winners will do everything possible to stay on top and make it difficult for others to dislodge them. Without a strong government to break up cartels, trusts, de facto monopolies, the current winners will take too much of the fruits of the economy, it will stagnate and it will be in dangers of sliding back to a feudal system. But government, powerful enough to break such large corporations is also a threat to the liberty of citizens. Government can end up as a weapon in the arsenal of the current winners. That is why democracy, that keeps the government is check is so important. Again, democracy too can end up as a weapon in the same arsenal too. If the democracy is so undermined the pressure will build up and the system of governance will break down in a revolution, the current winners will lose it all. So it is in the best interests of the current winners to lock in their gains, not to get too greedy, allow next generation of winners to come up in a level field. The winners are already very powerful with money and market share, they should not also try to usurp the government, in their own self interest.
There was a time when the team brought its own footballs. Then someone had the bright idea to underinflate the ball to give their quarterback a better grip. We should give all to do the right thing and be honest and be self-policed. Only when they cheat or get caught cheating we dock the privilege. Otherwise enforcement cost will be prohibitive.
Fundamentally, the world works because most people are mostly honest, most of the time. Shocking! but true.
It claims it is not a taxi company but merely a software platform. It also claims its drivers are independent contractors. If they are independent contractors then surge pricing, where all the independent contractors quote the same price for the service amounts to price fixing and collusion. As the enabler of this collusion Uber becomes an aider and abettor to the collusion.
So Uber could make their drivers franchisers. Franchisers are not allowed to set their own price, they have to kow-tow to corporate policy strictly. Thus Uber can dodge collusion charge. But franchisers have lots of rights too against the corporation, for example when someone buys a Subway franchise they get exclusive rights in an area and prevent corporation from setting up another franchise too close. So Uber drivers, as franchisers, would be able to limit the number of cars that are allowed in a market or in an area. So Uber might not like to give the drivers franchise rights.
I don't see how Uber can deny the drivers both employee rights and franchisers right and have the ability to price gouge during demand spikes.
Some one charging money for w hat I am doing for free? I have written many positive notes about HRC, I might have been paid for it! HRC owes me big time.
If they don't have full disclosure of every dispute and every resolution, they will be in violation of the law. If they do disclose they might get some wiggle room.
Not by caching the private key. It is by pre-fetching the challenge.
The chip in the card does the challenge-and-response routine. The bank sends a small string, the chip signs that string with its private key and the bank verifies the encryption with the card's public key. The way it is implemented now the challenge string comes from the bank only after you insert the card into the terminal. In the next generation of the terminals, the card company would have already issued a few, may be as few as one, challenge string. You insert the card, terminal issues the prefetched challenge, the card issues a response. After this you don't need the card anymore. The terminal has enough time to pre-fetch the next challenge string before the next transaction is processed.
[Caveat:] I don't know if this is how they are planning to implement the next gen terminals. This is how *I* would reduce the transaction time without copying/caching the private keys, without allowing the terminals to generate their own challenge strings.
These companies are so big, they make billions of dollars of profit or loss per quarter. 0.2 million will not even be blip in the radar.
But these auto companies are notorious for penny pinching too. One of the Chrysler mini van tail gate latches were weak. A proposal to strengthen it was rejected because the additional cost of some 50 cents was deemed too high.
My brother consulted for Chrysler. The employees will get a beige phone with a blinking red light to show there was pending voice mail. But contractors are not allowed that expensive phone. They get a phone without the light. Stupidly the phones were all rented from the telco, for ages, decade after decade. This was not in 1970s or 80s. It was in 1999 or so. They could have bought the whole damned phone, better phone for cheaper price. But still Chrysler rented these phones and saved money by denying the consultants the blinking red light.
In general, in all bureaucracies, once a precedent is set, it will be followed, come hell or high water, costs be damned. But getting the precedent set would be very difficult.
All they did was to show 500 images to 50 people. The EEG had 50 unique signatures.Unless they repeat the experiment many times, and make sure the same person will make the same signature looking at the same 500 pictures, it is not "identifying" anyone.
I know India. Was born there. Almost everyday the minister of this or minister of that will make big announcement about something. Usually not much happens after the announcement. India does improve, things do happen in India. But usually at a vastly different time scale than what is announced by the ministers.
The original phone hackers used the "whistling" tones to hack into SS7. There was a blind phreak/hacker who was exceptionally good at this. They used band pass filters to keep the "signal" data from "voice" in analog transmission. Though the whistles and signal data was filtered out for the consumer's receiving end, it was not filtered by the exchange on the voice line from the customer. That is how they added spurious signals and avoided billing. Mostly got free phone calls.
Surprised they are still using such a system in modern day SMS and cell phones. I remember reading about separating the command-control stream from the data stream. So it is quite surprising such a hole exists in a modern telcom system.
People have been debating about it for decades. It is certain the cat Schrodinger in the box is definitely dead, whether or not the timer mechanism has triggered the poison gas to be released or not. No cat has survived this many decades without food or water. But still people argue about it, claiming non zero probability for the cat to be still alive. When science can't even answer whether or not a cat in the box for the last 80 years has died or not, how can it answer when the earthquake is going to strike?
...The only caveat is, no one else should be out at that time, or come closer than 150 feet to you. Jet exhaust of 1000 HP, and a couple of stability thrusters so close to ground will kick up so much of small debris, anything down stream of the jet wash is going to suffer greatly. Foreign object reingestion, got to hand it to the military to come up with three word terms, is a major problem in the Harrier jump jets. Harrier also has a few thrust nozzles for stabilization at low air speeds. Harrier landing has to be excruciatingly precise, and zones cleared of small debris.
There are anti-gun radar that can pinpoint the location of the gun accurately. The gun fires two or three shells to estimate the range, it waits for the shell to land, get the feedback to adjust the firing angle, azimuth and elevation. But before it could fire the next shell, it would be receiving counter strikes, anti gun radar and other technology has become that good. So dug in artillery pieces are sitting ducks. Shoot and scoot can fire a few shells randomly and run, but it could not strike with accuracy.
When some one says A could happen, there is some chance it is going to happen. But it could also mean "it is not impossible, and under the following circumstances, however unlikely and improbable the circumstances are, A could happen". So in that sense the paper could be correct.
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Those users can contact their representatives and change the law.
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It is far easier to create a corporation than real people, easier to create a chain of complex parent corporations and child corporations. It is impossible for us to stop corporations from sneaking across our borders. It is impossible to access jail time for corporation people.
It is entirely ridiculous that SCOTUS endows corporations with all the rights of real citizens but none of the liabilities of real citizens. I can't clone myself, make my clone a citizen of Cayman islands and route my income through that clone and create another clone to hold my assets and yet another clone to hold my liabilities.
We need a constitutional amendment to making corporations second class "people". It is necessary to limit the powers of the government.
If small government is better big government, and smaller government is always better, by method of induction we have to conclude no government is better than small government. But small and powerless governments will not be able to enforce the laws. There is a minimum size of government needed. That size is what is needed to enforce the laws, more power than any individual subject. If we make government smaller than that, the most powerful individual will drown it in the bathtub and we will be living under a warlord.
But, if we distinguish between real citizens and corporate citizens, we can make the government more powerful than the most powerful corporation but limit its power over real citizens so as not to threaten our liberty.
Now a days our liberty is more threatened by corporations than governments. We need to realize the government is the last defense we have against the corporations.
Let the nay sayers decry this as political correctness, but I hold that other classes are no less worthy, no less deserving, no less anything. They too deserve a representative member of their class installed as the archetype and be represented as officially.
My fellow Aves, Amphibia, Pisces, Insecta, Vermes, rise and demand to be represented. You have nothing to lose but the chains and the second, no pun intended, class treatment by the upper class Mammalia. We Americans despise class warfare and we strive to treat all classes equally. You will friends and well wishers among the more enlightened members of the Mammals. Do not suffer in silence.
Back in the 1990s a whole bunch of weasels went up against Superconducting Super Collider. The SSC died, and was reduced a mere hole in the ground in the southern suburbs of Dallas, TX. Never underestimate the power of these congress critters.
To all the nay sayers who laugh at hair dryers, I say this: Hair dryer is the most under estimated products in the history. Remember when Princess Vespa was stranded in the desert moon of Vega, all she had was a hair dryer and she survived the desert with it.
The driver should not get 5 minutes grace time if it is only two minutes for the rider. If the driver is more than 2 minutes late, the rider should get a discount.
.The best way people have found dealing with that is to limit the cost of governmental "corruption" (rent seeking etc.) is to limit the size of government as much as possible and make it as local as possible.
India was full of small kingdoms, with weak centralization of power, almost everything ruled at the local level using village five-man councils. It was quite powerful, it had 25% of world GDP before 17th century, very very wealthy. And the Europeans just walked in and took over the whole continent, stuffed out the local resistance, killed the pride and self worth of all the people of the continent.
People like Raghuram Rajan who know and feel the arc of history from both sides, from colonial powers and the colonized people, is likely to be far more astute than you. I would not be surprised if he lands a Nobel in economics sometime.
Lose lips sink ships. Hacking boast, dollars lost.
The following is my, not his, take. But my view is heavily influenced by his book. Please do read his book or at least the summaries and reviews.
He argues that like in any system, in Capitalism too, the current generation of winners will do everything possible to stay on top and make it difficult for others to dislodge them. Without a strong government to break up cartels, trusts, de facto monopolies, the current winners will take too much of the fruits of the economy, it will stagnate and it will be in dangers of sliding back to a feudal system. But government, powerful enough to break such large corporations is also a threat to the liberty of citizens. Government can end up as a weapon in the arsenal of the current winners. That is why democracy, that keeps the government is check is so important. Again, democracy too can end up as a weapon in the same arsenal too. If the democracy is so undermined the pressure will build up and the system of governance will break down in a revolution, the current winners will lose it all. So it is in the best interests of the current winners to lock in their gains, not to get too greedy, allow next generation of winners to come up in a level field. The winners are already very powerful with money and market share, they should not also try to usurp the government, in their own self interest.
Fundamentally, the world works because most people are mostly honest, most of the time. Shocking! but true.
So Uber could make their drivers franchisers. Franchisers are not allowed to set their own price, they have to kow-tow to corporate policy strictly. Thus Uber can dodge collusion charge. But franchisers have lots of rights too against the corporation, for example when someone buys a Subway franchise they get exclusive rights in an area and prevent corporation from setting up another franchise too close. So Uber drivers, as franchisers, would be able to limit the number of cars that are allowed in a market or in an area. So Uber might not like to give the drivers franchise rights.
I don't see how Uber can deny the drivers both employee rights and franchisers right and have the ability to price gouge during demand spikes.
Some one charging money for w hat I am doing for free? I have written many positive notes about HRC, I might have been paid for it! HRC owes me big time.
If they don't have full disclosure of every dispute and every resolution, they will be in violation of the law. If they do disclose they might get some wiggle room.
The chip in the card does the challenge-and-response routine. The bank sends a small string, the chip signs that string with its private key and the bank verifies the encryption with the card's public key. The way it is implemented now the challenge string comes from the bank only after you insert the card into the terminal. In the next generation of the terminals, the card company would have already issued a few, may be as few as one, challenge string. You insert the card, terminal issues the prefetched challenge, the card issues a response. After this you don't need the card anymore. The terminal has enough time to pre-fetch the next challenge string before the next transaction is processed.
[Caveat:] I don't know if this is how they are planning to implement the next gen terminals. This is how *I* would reduce the transaction time without copying/caching the private keys, without allowing the terminals to generate their own challenge strings.
All you need is a simple flux capacitor, a conductor to capture a lightning that can deliver 88 Gigawatts of electricity. That is all.
They did not send it to any one's email. They simply sent it to the debug mail box.
But these auto companies are notorious for penny pinching too. One of the Chrysler mini van tail gate latches were weak. A proposal to strengthen it was rejected because the additional cost of some 50 cents was deemed too high.
My brother consulted for Chrysler. The employees will get a beige phone with a blinking red light to show there was pending voice mail. But contractors are not allowed that expensive phone. They get a phone without the light. Stupidly the phones were all rented from the telco, for ages, decade after decade. This was not in 1970s or 80s. It was in 1999 or so. They could have bought the whole damned phone, better phone for cheaper price. But still Chrysler rented these phones and saved money by denying the consultants the blinking red light.
In general, in all bureaucracies, once a precedent is set, it will be followed, come hell or high water, costs be damned. But getting the precedent set would be very difficult.
All they did was to show 500 images to 50 people. The EEG had 50 unique signatures.Unless they repeat the experiment many times, and make sure the same person will make the same signature looking at the same 500 pictures, it is not "identifying" anyone.
I know India. Was born there. Almost everyday the minister of this or minister of that will make big announcement about something. Usually not much happens after the announcement. India does improve, things do happen in India. But usually at a vastly different time scale than what is announced by the ministers.
Surprised they are still using such a system in modern day SMS and cell phones. I remember reading about separating the command-control stream from the data stream. So it is quite surprising such a hole exists in a modern telcom system.
People have been debating about it for decades. It is certain the cat Schrodinger in the box is definitely dead, whether or not the timer mechanism has triggered the poison gas to be released or not. No cat has survived this many decades without food or water. But still people argue about it, claiming non zero probability for the cat to be still alive. When science can't even answer whether or not a cat in the box for the last 80 years has died or not, how can it answer when the earthquake is going to strike?
...The only caveat is, no one else should be out at that time, or come closer than 150 feet to you. Jet exhaust of 1000 HP, and a couple of stability thrusters so close to ground will kick up so much of small debris, anything down stream of the jet wash is going to suffer greatly. Foreign object reingestion, got to hand it to the military to come up with three word terms, is a major problem in the Harrier jump jets. Harrier also has a few thrust nozzles for stabilization at low air speeds. Harrier landing has to be excruciatingly precise, and zones cleared of small debris.
There are anti-gun radar that can pinpoint the location of the gun accurately. The gun fires two or three shells to estimate the range, it waits for the shell to land, get the feedback to adjust the firing angle, azimuth and elevation. But before it could fire the next shell, it would be receiving counter strikes, anti gun radar and other technology has become that good. So dug in artillery pieces are sitting ducks. Shoot and scoot can fire a few shells randomly and run, but it could not strike with accuracy.
When some one says A could happen, there is some chance it is going to happen. But it could also mean "it is not impossible, and under the following circumstances, however unlikely and improbable the circumstances are, A could happen". So in that sense the paper could be correct.