Re: Re: This is nothing compared to 3D printing fingerprints
Something you know (5th amendment vs. ("enhanced/extreme!") interrogation) - Something you have (pass card etc vs. theft) - Something you are (biometrics incl fingerprints vs. 3d printers)
You missed one - something you can do - as in signatures.
The problem with scripture that requires interpretation is that even nine experienced jurists are unable to come to consistent conclusions as to what a given passage means, hence the ~40,000 schisms of Christian faith.
The moment you go from the authority of the Church to sola scriptura you get fragmentation like this. (Although it is also true that the moment you centralise the authority of the church in a single man you are in trouble too.)
Only protestantism is fragmented like this - and it is most fragmented in the US to which we europeans dispatched all our religious nutcases int he 17th century.
This, I suspect, is why contemporary Christianity is more evidently about suppressing sex than say Blessed are the peacemakers.
It should never be like that - if they actually looked and what Jesus did - Jesus forgave the woman caught in adultery but drove out the money changers in the temple with a whip!
We were told that when it was said that God endorsed the children of the current monarch to be the next one.
We figured out after centuries that that was bullshit, so we tried out this system.
Actually we figured this out much earlier than you seem to think. The hereditary
Think Greek democracy and the Roman republic.
In fact even the Roman Imperial system was rarely hereditary.
The so called "five good emperors" (Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius) were appointed by a mechanism where each Emperor selected an heir who was NOT a relative.
The Buddhists of Tibet have a similar system for choosing the next Lama (although the Chinese have been trying to mess it up lately). Plus of course Jesus made some good remarks about leadership when he said " You know that the rulers of the unbelieverst lord it over them and their superiors act like tyrants over them. That’s not the way it should be among you. Instead, whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave."
If most of the time and resources that are currently allocated to "stopping terrorism" were instead redirected to bringing everyone to a living wage and basic education (globally, if possible)
I used to think that, and I'd still like to think that, but Osama Bin Laden was a well educated multi millionaire and most of those who go to fight for ISIS come from the educated middle class. Unfortunately we also have to do a job of ideological opposition - just as we did against Nazism and Communism.
In fact the rise of Islamic terrorism is caused by wealth not poverty. We need to stop flattering the wealthy states which promote an ideology that is hard to distinguish from that of the terrorists.
Before, it was all-or-nothing, either they don't touch the content at all or they carefully go over all of it, the law was changed such that they could safely remove or moderate some content without having to worry about being held responsible for all of it as a result.
Of course there is a phrase in the law "in good faith". So I would assume that a site that pretended to be an open forum - but in fact acted specifically as a terrorist recruiting operation - and which systematically deleted posts critical of terrorist ideology could at some point become liable.
(Having said that I just realised that such a site would most likely be being run by the FBI as a sting operation...)
Moderating, editing and/or deleting comments DOES NOT remove a website's Section 230 Safe Harbor protection whatsoever:
True as a general statement - but when Facebook permits terrorist to use their services freely but then acts in an extremely censorious way towards those who most strongly oppose them (See http://www.faithfreedom.org/facebook-is-enforcing-islamic-blasphemy-laws/ ) then you begin to wonder whose side they are actually on. At some point down that road they DO become liable. I don't think they are near that point yet but it could in principle happen.
Also studies have shown that computers are better than humans at diagnosing illnesses. So why are humans still doing this? Because the studies use their own definition of "better".
It does work quite well, but the essence really is that no one understands what the structure is doing.
Not so fast...
A lot of work is being done to understand how these things work. Not least because they can go suddenly, spextacularly, wrong. Currently work is being done using the mathematics that is used also by general relativity, to understand the multi-dimensional spaces that underly these systems,
The statement "we don't know how the system works" is true of many new AI developments when they first break through. After about a year it stops being true but by that time the MSM have lost interest. Hence the public gets the impression that we don't understand how AI works - however most experts (talking in private) will admit that we DO understand how these things work - but the MSM is much more interested in you if you say that you don't.
AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol in Go earlier this year. It made decisions that seemed to make no sense at all, but worked out in the end.
Actually it didn't. If anything it was Lee Sedol who played like that - if you look at (9 dan) Michael Redmond's analysis of the games you will see that in fact Alphago made quite reasonable moves.
To be fair, the earlier program "Mogo" that firs beat a pro (with a big handicap) some years ago did play strange moves, but things have moved on since then.
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Re: Re: This is nothing compared to 3D printing fingerprints
- Something you have (pass card etc vs. theft)
- Something you are (biometrics incl fingerprints vs. 3d printers)
You missed one - something you can do - as in signatures.
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Damn it!
Is it a mistake - or a pun I'm not getting?
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Re: Blind obedience and the meaning of Romans 13
The moment you go from the authority of the Church to sola scriptura you get fragmentation like this. (Although it is also true that the moment you centralise the authority of the church in a single man you are in trouble too.)
Only protestantism is fragmented like this - and it is most fragmented in the US to which we europeans dispatched all our religious nutcases int he 17th century.
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Re: Re: Re: The Governments they deserve!
It should never be like that - if they actually looked and what Jesus did - Jesus forgave the woman caught in adultery but drove out the money changers in the temple with a whip!
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Re: Re: Re: the result seemed to be an improvement.
Not the only thing!
Without the American revolution the US would have been like Canada.
So worse healthcare was also a consequence of the American revolution.
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Re: This is good
Not President for Life - Caliph.
His only real objection to Islamic state is that he isn't in charge of it.
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Re: The Governments they deserve!
We figured out after centuries that that was bullshit, so we tried out this system.
Actually we figured this out much earlier than you seem to think. The hereditary
Think Greek democracy and the Roman republic.
In fact even the Roman Imperial system was rarely hereditary.
The so called "five good emperors" (Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius) were appointed by a mechanism where each Emperor selected an heir who was NOT a relative.
The Buddhists of Tibet have a similar system for choosing the next Lama (although the Chinese have been trying to mess it up lately).
Plus of course Jesus made some good remarks about leadership when he said " You know that the rulers of the unbelieverst lord it over them and their superiors act like tyrants over them. That’s not the way it should be among you. Instead, whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave."
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Re:
You mean the the last 5 - Reagan was a disaster too.
Carter was actually OK but very very unlucky.
Before that I think you have to go back to FDR.
Having said that - as a Brit - I have to admit that our last really good Prime Minister was Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
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Re: what if the blame at social media were replaced with something else
Already the plot of a movie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_Jury
and actually it would be a good idea, then there would be some positive control.
You Americans have far too many guns anyway.
There are roughly 3x as many gun deaths in the US as road accident deaths in the UK per 100,000 population.
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Re: Everything is relative
Yes, as is well known in Chess and similar games " a threat is stronger than its execution"
That is sort of the whole point of terrorism.
If most of the time and resources that are currently allocated to "stopping terrorism" were instead redirected to bringing everyone to a living wage and basic education (globally, if possible)
I used to think that, and I'd still like to think that, but Osama Bin Laden was a well educated multi millionaire and most of those who go to fight for ISIS come from the educated middle class. Unfortunately we also have to do a job of ideological opposition - just as we did against Nazism and Communism.
In fact the rise of Islamic terrorism is caused by wealth not poverty. We need to stop flattering the wealthy states which promote an ideology that is hard to distinguish from that of the terrorists.
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Re: Re: Question about Section 230
Of course there is a phrase in the law "in good faith". So I would assume that a site that pretended to be an open forum - but in fact acted specifically as a terrorist recruiting operation - and which systematically deleted posts critical of terrorist ideology could at some point become liable.
(Having said that I just realised that such a site would most likely be being run by the FBI as a sting operation...)
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Re: Re: Question about Section 230
True as a general statement - but when Facebook permits terrorist to use their services freely but then acts in an extremely censorious way towards those who most strongly oppose them
(See http://www.faithfreedom.org/facebook-is-enforcing-islamic-blasphemy-laws/ )
then you begin to wonder whose side they are actually on. At some point down that road they DO become liable. I don't think they are near that point yet but it could in principle happen.
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Re:
"fabrication of news or distortion of the facts were also a government monopoly"
FTFY
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Re:
Because the studies use their own definition of "better".
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Re:
Not so fast...
A lot of work is being done to understand how these things work. Not least because they can go suddenly, spextacularly, wrong. Currently work is being done using the mathematics that is used also by general relativity, to understand the multi-dimensional spaces that underly these systems,
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Re: Re:
The statement "we don't know how the system works" is true of many new AI developments when they first break through. After about a year it stops being true but by that time the MSM have lost interest. Hence the public gets the impression that we don't understand how AI works - however most experts (talking in private) will admit that we DO understand how these things work - but the MSM is much more interested in you if you say that you don't.
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Re:
Most people haven't studied much mathematics.
Most people are unable to understand the techinal details of the modern world - this has been true for over 50 years.
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alphago
Actually it didn't. If anything it was Lee Sedol who played like that - if you look at (9 dan) Michael Redmond's analysis of the games you will see that in fact Alphago made quite reasonable moves.
To be fair, the earlier program "Mogo" that firs beat a pro (with a big handicap) some years ago did play strange moves, but things have moved on since then.
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Re: People of Limited Cognitive Faculties Traveling at Excess Velocity
I really don't see that it has any kind of business that requires trademark protection.
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Re: Re: Parody or Slander?
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