The critical period is the period immediately before the baby boom - the dip from 1929-~1945.
And of course the bay boomers following along immediately behind increased the demand in all sorts of professions - especially in education - which in the UK forced the government to expand the universities and provide mainrenance grants.
Oppressive copyright laws existed long before most people started to see them as a big problem. Most of the problematic extensions had already happened long before anti-copyright activism started. New since ~1980 has been the increased ability of people to fight against such laws. We now have the means to route around them and protest against them. Once again the change is not in the level of oppression - it lies in the ability to oppose it.
So long as they have the tragedy spigot flowing hard and fast they're going to get recruits.
That may provide a mechanism but it isn't a reason. The immediate reason why people rebel is never because they have suddenly become more oppressed (often the reverse is true).
People rebel because they CAN.
After the black death labourers were in short supply. This increased their bargaining power and allowed the peasant's revolt to happen.
In the late 50's/early 60's young people were in short supply (birthrate was low during the war). This increased their power within society and enabled the era of student protest to begin.
In the 1960's the higher birthrate amongst catholics in N. Ireland had changed the demographic. This increased their power within the population and enabled the "troubles" to start.
In none of these cases did the "bad treatment" of the "oppressed" group increase immediately before the problems began and in some it was actually reducing.
Huh - there is SO much wrong with your response - let me go through it for you and all those who thought it was insightful:
Terrorists have that agency. They are humans. This is part of what makes their actions so hard to accept. Terrorists make a choice, and no matter how much our foreign policy may make us a target, the *decision* to murder innocent civilians lies with the murderer.
The so called "serenity prayer" is relevant here.
Remember what is says about "accept the things we cannot change". Well we cannot easily change the fact that terrorists will act like they do - so we have to accept that one. Simply heaping moral opprobrium on them does nothing other than giving us a warm - but ultimately pointless feeling.
However we CAN change the things we do - that is where we have to focus our attention. The similarity between the tiger and the terrorist lies in the fact that from our point of view both are predictable and beyond our control.
To suggest otherwise is not only victim blaming, but also racist.
When you suggest that islamist terrorists coming over from middle eastern countries can't be judged to the same standards that we judge our more local peers and colleagues, you are guilty of the racism of lowered expectations.
You are absolutely dead wrong there. Islam is a politico- religious ideology not a race (did you not notice that some of these terrorists have been white european converts?). To imply (as you do) that Islam is a race is itself racist and a slur on those of Arab or Asian origin who are atheist, agnostic follow other religions!
But in any case the process of (so called) radicalisation mirrors in many ways the well known Milgram experiments ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment ) which shows clearly that your statement " the *decision* to murder innocent civilians lies with the murderer." is dubious.
The fault lies with the authority figures and ideologies that control the terrorists and those on our side who succumb to political correctness and make no effort to respond to the ideology.
So long as the ideology exists there will be people who follow it. Blaming those individuals will get you nowhere.
Quantum crypto is a completely separate thing from Quantum computers - and it is already in use- although it has potential flaws (that are also not directly related to quantum computers).
Quantum crypto makes use of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle to prevent undetectable eavesdropping whereas Quantum computers rely on superposition of states to create massive parallelism.
No matter what the country, it seems the problem with the police remains the same. They care more about protecting their own, no matter how bad the actions are, than protecting their reputations and relationship with the public.
The root of the problem lies in "confirmation bias". Police recruitment procedures tend to prefentially attract and select individuals who are particularly prone to this problem - when in fact they should reject such people.
To be fair there are many senior officers who are aware of this and are taking steps to counter it (and many related failings) see for example this article:
It does seem strange to me that when excellent articles like the one I linked are circulating within the senior law enforcement community we still have cases like that described by Tim here.
If there is any criminal justice in this life, we need to accept that nothing - nothing - removes the responsibility or agency from those responsible for these heinous acts.
If a tiger escapes from the zoo and kills someone then you do blame the person who let it out - not the tiger.
You are right of course - that kind of bug does exist but my real point was that hand calculation simply creates a much larger number of places where errors can get in.
we need to worry about the code being USED by random graduate students.
At least when they write it themselves it's different every time - so the inconsistencies flag the errors. When they all run the same code the failure will happen the same way every time.
although it might be a good idea not to use computers for this particular work....
You think that manual methods are less suspect!
With a computer program at least the same result (correct or erroneous) happens every time the line is executed. With a manual system you get to put in a whole new error every time! I'd say that's a whole lot worse!
When people estimate that there are 10 to 50 errors per 1000 lines of code rarely if ever will those bugs change the outcome of normal data being used in a normal way.
I'm not so sure. Some years ago I heard a presentation by an expert of bugs who recounted the following story:
He took the mission critical data analysis software of 3 or 4 different major oil/oil exploration companies and configued each so that they would run exactly the same set of algorithms. He then fed in the same input data to each. The agreement was only to one decimal place.
Also remember the design error in the 8087 that made the floating point evaluation stack unusable. I was still getting program crashes caused by this bug in the mid 90's (via more than one different compiler).
Re: This just shows how useless the current data collection is
Reality is that the latest perpetrators were on the French police watch list. However that list is 5000 strong so they aren't able to watch them all the time.
Most of these proposals will only increase the size of the watch list. That can only make things worse
A pity that you don't play Cricket in the US - if you did then you could explain that backdooring encryption is a bit like preparing a spin friendly wicket. It may mean that your bowlers can get the other team out more easily - but if you are playing against India or Pakistan it is suicide!
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Re: Re: Re: Causes of Daesh recruitment
The critical period is the period immediately before the baby boom - the dip from 1929-~1945.
And of course the bay boomers following along immediately behind increased the demand in all sorts of professions - especially in education - which in the UK forced the government to expand the universities and provide mainrenance grants.
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Re: Re: Causes of Daesh recruitment
Oppressive copyright laws existed long before most people started to see them as a big problem. Most of the problematic extensions had already happened long before anti-copyright activism started. New since ~1980 has been the increased ability of people to fight against such laws. We now have the means to route around them and protest against them. Once again the change is not in the level of oppression - it lies in the ability to oppose it.
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Re: Causes of Daesh recruitment
That may provide a mechanism but it isn't a reason. The immediate reason why people rebel is never because they have suddenly become more oppressed (often the reverse is true).
People rebel because they CAN.
After the black death labourers were in short supply. This increased their bargaining power and allowed the peasant's revolt to happen.
In the late 50's/early 60's young people were in short supply (birthrate was low during the war). This increased their power within society and enabled the era of student protest to begin.
In the 1960's the higher birthrate amongst catholics in N. Ireland had changed the demographic. This increased their power within the population and enabled the "troubles" to start.
In none of these cases did the "bad treatment" of the "oppressed" group increase immediately before the problems began and in some it was actually reducing.
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Re: Short term effects
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Re:
The preceding verse says "put your sword away". A pity that the US pro-patent lobby don't read their bibles.
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Re: Re:
Terrorists have that agency. They are humans. This is part of what makes their actions so hard to accept. Terrorists make a choice, and no matter how much our foreign policy may make us a target, the *decision* to murder innocent civilians lies with the murderer.
The so called "serenity prayer" is relevant here.
Remember what is says about "accept the things we cannot change". Well we cannot easily change the fact that terrorists will act like they do - so we have to accept that one. Simply heaping moral opprobrium on them does nothing other than giving us a warm - but ultimately pointless feeling.
However we CAN change the things we do - that is where we have to focus our attention. The similarity between the tiger and the terrorist lies in the fact that from our point of view both are predictable and beyond our control.
To suggest otherwise is not only victim blaming, but also racist.
When you suggest that islamist terrorists coming over from middle eastern countries can't be judged to the same standards that we judge our more local peers and colleagues, you are guilty of the racism of lowered expectations.
You are absolutely dead wrong there. Islam is a politico- religious ideology not a race (did you not notice that some of these terrorists have been white european converts?). To imply (as you do) that Islam is a race is itself racist and a slur on those of Arab or Asian origin who are atheist, agnostic follow other religions!
But in any case the process of (so called) radicalisation mirrors in many ways the well known Milgram experiments ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment ) which shows clearly that your statement " the *decision* to murder innocent civilians lies with the murderer." is dubious.
The fault lies with the authority figures and ideologies that control the terrorists and those on our side who succumb to political correctness and make no effort to respond to the ideology.
So long as the ideology exists there will be people who follow it. Blaming those individuals will get you nowhere.
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Re: Breaking news
The first thing we do - round up all the sports commentators!
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Re: Re: Quantum computers
Quantum crypto makes use of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle to prevent undetectable eavesdropping whereas Quantum computers rely on superposition of states to create massive parallelism.
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The root of the problem lies in "confirmation bias". Police recruitment procedures tend to prefentially attract and select individuals who are particularly prone to this problem - when in fact they should reject such people.
To be fair there are many senior officers who are aware of this and are taking steps to counter it (and many related failings) see for example this article:
It does seem strange to me that when excellent articles like the one I linked are circulating within the senior law enforcement community we still have cases like that described by Tim here.
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Re:
If a tiger escapes from the zoo and kills someone then you do blame the person who let it out - not the tiger.
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Re: Re: NAAA
You are right of course - that kind of bug does exist but my real point was that hand calculation simply creates a much larger number of places where errors can get in.
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Re: Detectability of software defects
At least when they write it themselves it's different every time - so the inconsistencies flag the errors. When they all run the same code the failure will happen the same way every time.
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NAAA
You think that manual methods are less suspect!
With a computer program at least the same result (correct or erroneous) happens every time the line is executed. With a manual system you get to put in a whole new error every time! I'd say that's a whole lot worse!
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Re: Re: All bugs are not considered equal.
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Re: All bugs are not considered equal.
I'm not so sure. Some years ago I heard a presentation by an expert of bugs who recounted the following story:
He took the mission critical data analysis software of 3 or 4 different major oil/oil exploration companies and configued each so that they would run exactly the same set of algorithms. He then fed in the same input data to each. The agreement was only to one decimal place.
Also remember the design error in the 8087 that made the floating point evaluation stack unusable. I was still getting program crashes caused by this bug in the mid 90's (via more than one different compiler).
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Re: This just shows how useless the current data collection is
Most of these proposals will only increase the size of the watch list. That can only make things worse
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Re:
I think the money that comes from other places in the middle east is more of a problem.
Remember that IRA terrorism was funded for many years by US money. When that dried up the IRA was forced to make peace.
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Gleeful
"he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished."
Proverbs 17:5
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Re: Re: so, kill all the mathematicians?
Unfortunately a way to kill mathematics has yet to be discovered.
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Cricket
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