Re: Re: Senators and Congressmen are supposed to be duty bound representatives of the people
There is no origin of authority statement in the U.S. Constitution.
Huh? It's right there at the very beginning, literally the first thing in the document:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
And there's no way to know what is a dependency and what isn't?
Did they not bother finding out, or was it all registered in some trendy NoSQL database with no referential integrity? Because this has been a solved problem in the relational world for decades. If NPM had been running on a real database, this mess would have been literally impossible.
The bureau also has to prove "Space City" is famous, said Amanda Greenspon, trademark lawyer with Munck Wilson Mandala in Dallas.
"It's not just enough to be famous in Texas. You have to be famous around the country, she said. "I don't know if 'Space City' is famous in Arkansas, North Dakota or New York."
And that would be difficult. I've lived all over the country, and I've never heard of "Space City" being readily identifiable with Houston, the way "The Windy City" is Chicago and "Motor City" is Detroit. Is anyone here familiar with the term?
Think about it: if there were no DMCA then people who wanted content removed from the Internet would have to file well-pleaded and well-substantiated lawsuits articulating why the content in question was so wrongful that an injunction compelling its removal was justified in the face of any defense. In other words, without the DMCA, the question of fair use would get considered, and it would get considered by a judge.
...which is what I've been saying all along. The DMCA takedown system takes a legal issue and allows people to skip Due Process, throw the Presumption of Innocence right out the window, and skip straight to sentencing. It's an abomination against our most important legal traditions, and it needs to be repealed.
I remember hearing (on Techdirt?) that the City of San Francisco (or somewhere thereabouts; may not be SF but close by) has developed an app for people to report civic-level problems like this. If the local municipality had one, I'd download it, catch a ride to lunch with a coworker, and report half a dozen potholes along the way.
Maybe the city that developed this should release the source, so other cities can benefit?
It's funny how, if you were to go around today saying the things the Father of Capitalism actually advocated, modern "capitalists" would call you a dirty Commie.
WSYX-TV reported that Downard made nearly $35,000 from the transactions leading up to his arrest. He faced up to 20 years in prison as a result of the charges against him,
So his illicit deeds brought in significantly less than a year's salary for most professionals these days, and earned himself "up to 20 years." Looks like someone forgot to run a risk/reward analysis!
What with all the horrendously abusive things that Apple execs legitimately deserve to be locked up for, how is it that this is the one people actually talk about making arrests over?
For day-to-day work, your normal driving will be within the range of the battery, so all you have to do is plug in overnight, and you're good. Or you can plug in at work. My employer has EV charging available in the parking lot, and I'm staring to see it pop up in a lot of malls and parking garages.
For long-range trips, you can stop off at a supercharger station along the way, then go across the street to a restaurant while your car fills up. Then at night, plug in at the hotel. (I haven't seen any hotels offer charging services yet, but it wouldn't surprise me if that started becoming a thing pretty quickly; it's a very logical step.)
Not being able to fill up as fast as you can with a gasoline pump really stops being an issue when you stop having to go to a gas station to fill up.
I have a wireless phone. It's a very good wireless phone. I bet you have one too. But if you were a block away from me--well within range--I would have no way of knowing just from your phone sharing that information. So no, it's not shared with "the rest of the world" under any reasonable interpretation of the phrase.
Many referred to him as the "inventor of email" even though Tomlinson himself had long insisted that was not true either. Instead, he (unlike Ayyaudurai) long admitted that the growth and success of email involved many people working in pieces, building on each other's work successfully to build out the tool that we all use today. Still, Tomlinson actually does deserve tremendous credit for making email what it is today.
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." This has always been the truth in real progress. Some people, like Isaac Newton and Ray Tomlinson, are even honest enough to admit it.
He points out that the only thing that has truly helped stop another 9/11-style plane hijacking (as Bruce Schneier points out repeatedly) is not the TSA security theater, but reinforced, locked cockpit doors that make it impossible for people in the cabin to get into the cockpit.
Wrong. I've got a lot of respect for Bruce Schneier, but he's completely wrong on this point.
Sure, reinforcing the doors helps a little, but really the thing that stopped another 9/11-style plane hijacking is that the 9/11 hijacking was a trick that could only ever work once anyway.
Back in the day, conventional wisdom used to be, "cooperate with the hijackers and no one will get hurt," because that was the way it always happened. Hijackers wanted money and/or political concessions, and there was no good reason to needlessly endanger the lives of the people on board by resisting them. But 9/11 changed that forever. The terrorists exploited that, but in doing so, they broke it.
Now that people understand that planes can be used as giant bombs by suicide bombers, who's going to go along with the next attempt? And if you've got over 100 people on the plane actively resisting, literally fighting for their lives because they sincerely believe that they will die anyway if they don't stop the hijacker, how is anyone going to ever be able to hijack another plane?
OTP is theoretically perfect encryption, but it's completely impractical as a generalized Internet encryption solution for a number of reasons. Unlike a public/private key pair, which you can generate once and reuse (theoretically) forever, for everyone, with a OTP you and the person you're communicating with need to have a pre-exchanged key pad of length identical to or longer than the message.
Let's say you want to buy something on Amazon.com. This involves various web pages, and the whole transaction can involve a fair amount of data, several MB at least. To keep it private, you'd need several MB of OTP key data from Amazon. But how did you get it? (Remember, Amazon can't send it to you over the Internet without you already having an OTP key of equal length to the key being sent, which must be discarded once it's used!) Maybe you could order one and they could ship it to you, but then it's not secure anymore, since the existence of a chain of couriers opens your key up to a literal man-in-the-middle attack.
Spies dealt with this by preparing their pads ahead of time, or having a highly trusted diplomatic courier deliver them. This isn't a solution that will work for John Q. Citizen.
And anyway, how in the world do you get from that to paranoid libertarian ranting about government being inherently evil blah blah blah?
I'd like to see stem cell technology advance to the point where they can just grow you some new eyes, cloned from your own DNA so there's no rejection issues, and replace your worn out ones.
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It's known as the Montgomery Scott school of project estimation. It's good to see they at least have some competent techs working for them.
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Re: Re: Senators and Congressmen are supposed to be duty bound representatives of the people
Huh? It's right there at the very beginning, literally the first thing in the document:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
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Re: A package that can be a dependency.
Did they not bother finding out, or was it all registered in some trendy NoSQL database with no referential integrity? Because this has been a solved problem in the relational world for decades. If NPM had been running on a real database, this mess would have been literally impossible.
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And that would be difficult. I've lived all over the country, and I've never heard of "Space City" being readily identifiable with Houston, the way "The Windy City" is Chicago and "Motor City" is Detroit. Is anyone here familiar with the term?
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...which is what I've been saying all along. The DMCA takedown system takes a legal issue and allows people to skip Due Process, throw the Presumption of Innocence right out the window, and skip straight to sentencing. It's an abomination against our most important legal traditions, and it needs to be repealed.
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Potholes
Maybe the city that developed this should release the source, so other cities can benefit?
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So his illicit deeds brought in significantly less than a year's salary for most professionals these days, and earned himself "up to 20 years." Looks like someone forgot to run a risk/reward analysis!
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Sealing her will?
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This is how broken our law is
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Re: EV
For day-to-day work, your normal driving will be within the range of the battery, so all you have to do is plug in overnight, and you're good. Or you can plug in at work. My employer has EV charging available in the parking lot, and I'm staring to see it pop up in a lot of malls and parking garages.
For long-range trips, you can stop off at a supercharger station along the way, then go across the street to a restaurant while your car fills up. Then at night, plug in at the hotel. (I haven't seen any hotels offer charging services yet, but it wouldn't surprise me if that started becoming a thing pretty quickly; it's a very logical step.)
Not being able to fill up as fast as you can with a gasoline pump really stops being an issue when you stop having to go to a gas station to fill up.
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Shared with the rest of the world?
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"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." This has always been the truth in real progress. Some people, like Isaac Newton and Ray Tomlinson, are even honest enough to admit it.
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Wrong. I've got a lot of respect for Bruce Schneier, but he's completely wrong on this point.
Sure, reinforcing the doors helps a little, but really the thing that stopped another 9/11-style plane hijacking is that the 9/11 hijacking was a trick that could only ever work once anyway.
Back in the day, conventional wisdom used to be, "cooperate with the hijackers and no one will get hurt," because that was the way it always happened. Hijackers wanted money and/or political concessions, and there was no good reason to needlessly endanger the lives of the people on board by resisting them. But 9/11 changed that forever. The terrorists exploited that, but in doing so, they broke it.
Now that people understand that planes can be used as giant bombs by suicide bombers, who's going to go along with the next attempt? And if you've got over 100 people on the plane actively resisting, literally fighting for their lives because they sincerely believe that they will die anyway if they don't stop the hijacker, how is anyone going to ever be able to hijack another plane?
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Re: You still don't get it!
Let's say you want to buy something on Amazon.com. This involves various web pages, and the whole transaction can involve a fair amount of data, several MB at least. To keep it private, you'd need several MB of OTP key data from Amazon. But how did you get it? (Remember, Amazon can't send it to you over the Internet without you already having an OTP key of equal length to the key being sent, which must be discarded once it's used!) Maybe you could order one and they could ship it to you, but then it's not secure anymore, since the existence of a chain of couriers opens your key up to a literal man-in-the-middle attack.
Spies dealt with this by preparing their pads ahead of time, or having a highly trusted diplomatic courier deliver them. This isn't a solution that will work for John Q. Citizen.
And anyway, how in the world do you get from that to paranoid libertarian ranting about government being inherently evil blah blah blah?
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Re: we'll see what happens with LASIK people..
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