The rebuttal is that you obviously don't know if that is what they're investigating, or if they're investigating something else, like involvement in the act of leaking itself, rather than just the act of publishing.
The publishing is obviously legal. When he first hid in the embassy, all that was publicly known about was publishing, which is obviously legal under US law. And yet, he was worried about something more. And now he's being investigated for something more. We don't know what yet, because the process hasn't moved that far. It is unlikely we'll know at all until sometime after he is in custody; generally the public will get the details during the trail, and not before then. Sometimes only after the trial.
Golly, but it almost seems like if something was leaked from a place, part of the activity happened in that place. So laws of that place might actually apply.
I'd sooner buy a video on betamax than bluray. After years of physical media, they come out with network-reliant crap where the future can make disks from the past stop working. No thank you.
I wouldn't mind paying an extra dime on a rental for higher resolution than DVD, but I'm not going to buy some crap player to do it.
Well, if you were ever paying attention you wouldn't be shocked at all.
A flashlight app needs no permissions at all. None. No permissions. If you try to install a flashlight app and it asks for networking, don't install it.
It seems rather simple, actually. Does following that type of system cut down the available apps? Yes, drastically! It cuts it all the way down to the ones that only do what you want.
The story is all so nice and neat, but a lot of is back-fitted crap, like the stuff about bells.
School was often taught in Churches, they were already using the Church bells for whatever events happened at the school. Later, electricity made bells easy to install everywhere. It is a basic aid for group activities, used by nearly every type of human activity. The only reason to connect it to factory bells is when you're just making up history as imagined by a popular narrative.
More real was that basic education was seen as being needed so that workers grow up able to read instructions, and weigh, measure, and time things. But there was never really a gap where it wasn't understood that a well-rounded education was more effective even at teaching to weigh and measure. That was always understood. It is simply that the schools were being provisioned from different sources of money than the traditional upper class education; a teacher who can read and write is enough when you want to save money. And some of them will be good anyways, so you'll end up with lots of educated workers.
Even now with all the access to information it is difficult to get people to separate what they imagine from what they know. They don't bother to think about, "if I was hired as a school teacher in that era, what instructions would I be given?" Where does the conspiracy to condition children to bells come from? How would the instruction be given? How would a teacher who had to purchase supplies out of the budget for their pay know that they were required to purchase the bell? Or would they only buy it because it was a major convenience for them? Is it possible that the rich kids didn't have bells, because they had private tutors and it didn't serve any purpose?
In Merry Olde England, when the peasants were gathered around the square waiting for alms, (a free cup of soup and a beer, basically) did the church ring the bell to tell them it was time? Did pre-industrial American farm kids come running when a dinner bell was rung? Can you imagine living on a farm with people spread out all over the place and not being used to banging on a noise-maker at dinner time?!
In Christian theology, Prophets are regular humans who are assigned some divine task by God. They are not given any sort of special access to wisdom by this act, though they sometimes receive assistance via miracles.
It is not even clear that it is any sort of reward. It is clear that they're not selected based on religious learning. It seems to be more that God decides on having a Prophet for some task, and assigns whoever is walking past.
But good luck even finding a preacher who would put the words of Jesus as quoted in their bible above the words of other preachers that they've listened to! It seems Christians only fall into two camps; those that have no idea what the teachings are, and those that know but do something else anyways. Heck, I even saw this guy on the internet who thinks God declares whom or what is wise, because internet guy speaks for him! LOL Christians don't even differentiate between God's prerogatives and their own, but they claim he's a really big, powerful God.
There is lots of stuff in the bible about prophets, and what their backgrounds were. But there is nothing at all in there for or against little pieces of paper. If you're not a Christian, it is obvious that according to Christian metaphysics "nobody knows." And if you are a Christian, you know you're gonna go to Hell if you lie and say you have that answer. But you're unlikely to meet any Christians.
They probably replace a lot of phones through theft insurance bundled with other products like renter's insurance, home owner's insurance, auto insurance.
Theft from my vehicle is covered under my auto insurance, and I've known people who had laptops and phones stolen out of a car that they claimed on renter's insurance.
Right now, if the phone is recovered from the police with minor damage, it is still a total loss. If there was a Right to Repair, then most of those would in fact be fixable. Also, even if they already replaced it before the old one was recovered, they could refurb that and use it to replace somebody else's later.
OK, but one ship to get you out there, and different ships that stay out there that you fly around to find and capture the asteroid, the refinery just floats around, and the return ship for the minerals doesn't need life support or high speed. And you only return some percent, the rest is used to grow the operation.
Why would you sell raw iron on Earth, surely they would buy that at the orbital space port?
This is exactly the other side of the insistence that equipment has to be expensive, because it has to be produced on the Earth's surface.
What is the list of assumptions, and which of them are reasonably still true if you're also engaging in large scale mining in the asteroid belt?
There are lots of minerals more expensive than iron that might get returned to the surface, but you'd probably be using the iron to support the space effort.
"it was created somewhere between a hundred thousand years and a hundred million years ago"
That's a fairly vague estimate,
Earth is 4.5 billion years old. The oldest surface rocks are 4.4x billion years old.
This is like a 45 year old person saying that some newly discovered thing is somewhere between 8 hours and 1 year old. Not vague, especially when you realize it is an estimate taken at a glance that is only intended to help focus further examination.
Or lets say you discover an abandoned building, and you find some activity inside. You know the building was constructed 45 years old. You're able to determine that the activity happened at least 8 hours ago, because there was no residual heat, and less than 1 year ago because some exposed mineral hadn't visibly oxidized. That's not vague at all. Vague would be, "well we found a soda bottle but we don't know how old it is because it is an old bottle design that is still sold as a novelty item, so probably years, but maybe this morning."
It could easily happen if their sysadmins suck, everything is put together by hand, and somebody cracked the backup server. The backup server might have access to everything.
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The rebuttal is that you obviously don't know if that is what they're investigating, or if they're investigating something else, like involvement in the act of leaking itself, rather than just the act of publishing.
The publishing is obviously legal. When he first hid in the embassy, all that was publicly known about was publishing, which is obviously legal under US law. And yet, he was worried about something more. And now he's being investigated for something more. We don't know what yet, because the process hasn't moved that far. It is unlikely we'll know at all until sometime after he is in custody; generally the public will get the details during the trail, and not before then. Sometimes only after the trial.
Golly, but it almost seems like if something was leaked from a place, part of the activity happened in that place. So laws of that place might actually apply.
When they have RT in their username, I just figure they're Russian.
I'd sooner buy a video on betamax than bluray. After years of physical media, they come out with network-reliant crap where the future can make disks from the past stop working. No thank you.
I wouldn't mind paying an extra dime on a rental for higher resolution than DVD, but I'm not going to buy some crap player to do it.
Well, if you were ever paying attention you wouldn't be shocked at all.
A flashlight app needs no permissions at all. None. No permissions. If you try to install a flashlight app and it asks for networking, don't install it.
It seems rather simple, actually. Does following that type of system cut down the available apps? Yes, drastically! It cuts it all the way down to the ones that only do what you want.
If you can't find any, try f-droid.
The story is all so nice and neat, but a lot of is back-fitted crap, like the stuff about bells.
School was often taught in Churches, they were already using the Church bells for whatever events happened at the school. Later, electricity made bells easy to install everywhere. It is a basic aid for group activities, used by nearly every type of human activity. The only reason to connect it to factory bells is when you're just making up history as imagined by a popular narrative.
More real was that basic education was seen as being needed so that workers grow up able to read instructions, and weigh, measure, and time things. But there was never really a gap where it wasn't understood that a well-rounded education was more effective even at teaching to weigh and measure. That was always understood. It is simply that the schools were being provisioned from different sources of money than the traditional upper class education; a teacher who can read and write is enough when you want to save money. And some of them will be good anyways, so you'll end up with lots of educated workers.
Even now with all the access to information it is difficult to get people to separate what they imagine from what they know. They don't bother to think about, "if I was hired as a school teacher in that era, what instructions would I be given?" Where does the conspiracy to condition children to bells come from? How would the instruction be given? How would a teacher who had to purchase supplies out of the budget for their pay know that they were required to purchase the bell? Or would they only buy it because it was a major convenience for them? Is it possible that the rich kids didn't have bells, because they had private tutors and it didn't serve any purpose?
In Merry Olde England, when the peasants were gathered around the square waiting for alms, (a free cup of soup and a beer, basically) did the church ring the bell to tell them it was time? Did pre-industrial American farm kids come running when a dinner bell was rung? Can you imagine living on a farm with people spread out all over the place and not being used to banging on a noise-maker at dinner time?!
In Christian theology, Prophets are regular humans who are assigned some divine task by God. They are not given any sort of special access to wisdom by this act, though they sometimes receive assistance via miracles.
It is not even clear that it is any sort of reward. It is clear that they're not selected based on religious learning. It seems to be more that God decides on having a Prophet for some task, and assigns whoever is walking past.
But good luck even finding a preacher who would put the words of Jesus as quoted in their bible above the words of other preachers that they've listened to! It seems Christians only fall into two camps; those that have no idea what the teachings are, and those that know but do something else anyways. Heck, I even saw this guy on the internet who thinks God declares whom or what is wise, because internet guy speaks for him! LOL Christians don't even differentiate between God's prerogatives and their own, but they claim he's a really big, powerful God.
There is lots of stuff in the bible about prophets, and what their backgrounds were. But there is nothing at all in there for or against little pieces of paper. If you're not a Christian, it is obvious that according to Christian metaphysics "nobody knows." And if you are a Christian, you know you're gonna go to Hell if you lie and say you have that answer. But you're unlikely to meet any Christians.
If you highlighted the word independent instead of professional, it might have been more obvious how it affects the parts market for consumers.
I agree it is good news, but nothing in the reports says what they paid for it. So it doesn't really say much about the strength of their intent.
They don't have to provide info, they only have to be forced to refrain from taking steps to stop people from repairing.
The nerds can figure out the details when parts are available. Understanding the machines is not the bottleneck.
It puts Allstate on the same team as the people who didn't but their extended warranty, and just want to fix it themselves.
Those are the people that it helps.
They probably replace a lot of phones through theft insurance bundled with other products like renter's insurance, home owner's insurance, auto insurance.
Theft from my vehicle is covered under my auto insurance, and I've known people who had laptops and phones stolen out of a car that they claimed on renter's insurance.
Right now, if the phone is recovered from the police with minor damage, it is still a total loss. If there was a Right to Repair, then most of those would in fact be fixable. Also, even if they already replaced it before the old one was recovered, they could refurb that and use it to replace somebody else's later.
OK, but one ship to get you out there, and different ships that stay out there that you fly around to find and capture the asteroid, the refinery just floats around, and the return ship for the minerals doesn't need life support or high speed. And you only return some percent, the rest is used to grow the operation.
Why land on the space elevator at all, why not land on the surface and not use propellant for that at all?
It seems a lot more reasonable if you presume that you'd want to mine minerals that are expensive, rather than trying to mine minerals that are cheap.
Why would you sell raw iron on Earth, surely they would buy that at the orbital space port?
This is exactly the other side of the insistence that equipment has to be expensive, because it has to be produced on the Earth's surface.
What is the list of assumptions, and which of them are reasonably still true if you're also engaging in large scale mining in the asteroid belt?
There are lots of minerals more expensive than iron that might get returned to the surface, but you'd probably be using the iron to support the space effort.
That's why everybody goes to the Belt. Where else can you get an easy claim a piece of rock?
On Earth you need a time machine or a billion dollars. On the moon you need an international treaty. On Mars you need a ride home, and bad.
In the Belt the paperwork is easy, and home is mostly downhill.
Oh good, maybe that will give the cockroaches some slim chance of survival. /s
"it was created somewhere between a hundred thousand years and a hundred million years ago"
That's a fairly vague estimate,
Earth is 4.5 billion years old. The oldest surface rocks are 4.4x billion years old.
This is like a 45 year old person saying that some newly discovered thing is somewhere between 8 hours and 1 year old. Not vague, especially when you realize it is an estimate taken at a glance that is only intended to help focus further examination.
Or lets say you discover an abandoned building, and you find some activity inside. You know the building was constructed 45 years old. You're able to determine that the activity happened at least 8 hours ago, because there was no residual heat, and less than 1 year ago because some exposed mineral hadn't visibly oxidized. That's not vague at all. Vague would be, "well we found a soda bottle but we don't know how old it is because it is an old bottle design that is still sold as a novelty item, so probably years, but maybe this morning."
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Gotta call bullshit right there.
I just wish they'd hurry up and start recruiting space miners to go to the asteroid belt.
A few million miles, a robot sidekick, and a cargo hold full of gold, what more do you need?
You even wonder how processed foods last so long?
They do it by consuming the life energy of the future consumers to keep themselves looking youthful!
Never accept candy from a time vampire.
It could easily happen if their sysadmins suck, everything is put together by hand, and somebody cracked the backup server. The backup server might have access to everything.
If you backup data instead of backing up the disks then it shouldn't be that hard to have append-only backups with very limited access permissions.
Then it also is pretty easy to do incremental offline backups of the changed data.
It would seem more practical to just limit the stored backups to the last n copies, like you do with rotated log files.
If it can only come back for two weeks or something, that is sufficient for most use cases.
Why not, there is already one for goats.
If filtering and sorting are the same to you, I doubt we would have meaningful communication about any technological matter.