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This article seems to conflate using the block chain to verify title transfers, with using Bitcoin to buy/rent property, as it discusses both without really drawing a distinction.

Can anyone make sense of what's going on here, and in particular why a municipality would prefer a block chain to a public database of digitally signed records?
This is my go-to method for doing that. Years ago, in the 90s, I used that trick (with ftp) to overwrite a custom login script used to "prevent" users from logging in. You'd login and it would spit out like "You are not allowed to login!" and then immediately log you out. Well, ftp (this is before sftp or scp) let me copy over that. This was actually one of the computers used by the newspaper in the next town over. I'm still shocked actually that the worst I ever got from the sysadmin there was a stern phone call.
In Canada, buying/selling Bitcoin is subject to capital gains in the same way buying/selling stocks are. I wonder if you have to pay capital gains if using Bitcoin directly as a currency- as in through the purchase of a house or other expensive asset.
Seems a bit overblown. If you have a package management system you're responsible for the packages you install.. surely.

I agree that the ascii-art is not very pleasant. Maybe the solution is to rename the package cowsay-offensive and mark it as suggested in that topic.
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> The ME is remotely vulnerable,

Could you please post a link on that? I read about the AMT bugs, which require the user to manually provision it.
So you need to work on removing local and possibly state regulations/codes to make it cheaper for startup ISPs to build infrastructure.
Clearly, we need a standard --noeaster flag. ;)
It requires some serious web traffic analysis and honeypot to detect the attempt. That is assuming they would use remote access and not use ME locally. That would be even harder to prove once the malware uninstall itself.
I don't think he is: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/hustle

"Obtain illicitly or by forceful action."

"Pressure someone into doing something."

"Sell aggressively."

"A fraud or swindle."

There's also "hustler" (https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/hustler): "A person adept at aggressive selling or illicit dealing."

There are uses of the word that don't have negative connotations but in the context we generally hear it in around startups, I think the negative connotations are still appropriate.
In capitalism, capital flows to its wisest custodians. You see this effectively in algorithmic trading on security exchanges. Humans need not apply.

With AGI, robots will be the wisest custodians of capital, under no compulsion to waste it on themselves.

Of course Universal Basic Income is the answer of how to fairly distribute the great abundance in our future when the GDP is DOUBLING every few weeks. When labor is removed from the economic equations of growth we get a singularity.
That shouldn't be necessary: he should already have included what he was trying to accomplish and why, so that if you knew the code better (likely if you worked on it) you can catch issues before they happen.
I see your profile says "data scientist in training"

I would love for you to use some of your training to supply your post with actual data or sources. Everything I see reported disagrees with so many of your assumptions.

Like your unstated assumption of some sort of fair and competitive market where they will lose money if they don't treat their customers right.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/50-mi...

The internet is so vital to our modern world that it has become a human right in several countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_Internet_access#Ensur...
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VPN is the way to go. With tunnelbear they think I am in Jersey.
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Though this strongly contrasting view is not mainstream by any measure.
Blockchain ≠ Bitcoin
Toolbar thing is my fault. And violent monkey seems like a good alternative.

With tree style tabs I didn't realize there is a CSS hack to remove the top tabs.
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the big companies will happily pay. for their money they are getting a promise that any potential competitor will have to climb over a wall before entering the ring.

the big companies just don't want to be the _only_ ones paying.
True. The big difference between Apple and google is that Apple sells you pricey hardware, that just works. In the case of google they sell you. Thus, but Business Model alone you should not trust google if you care about privacy. It doesn’t make sense for them to stop collecting data points about you.
Noticed this as well, granted it may be because I had to lose about 20 legacy extensions...
What you're talking of is skilled and state certified blue collar. Many in this area have legal government protections to do this work.

There's a whole class of blue collar under that. Line workers, food prep, factory pickers, non-medical health aide, framers, concrete pourers, roofers...

I know when my parents had their current house built, they had a bunch of hispanic people working on the house. When my parents went to take pictures, they beat feet to get out of any photo. My moms pretty sure they said something about INS. But who knows.

My parent's didn't care too much that likely "illegal to work peoples" were building their house. It was cheaper than the other options.
Not to necessarily agree with the OP's prognosis, but the Fed rate also affects inflation which can affect the viability of every contract written in terms of dollars when it strays from where it's expected to be.
At one point I was renting a house that had a magpie nest in one tree. I was able to condition the magpies over time with offerings of food scraps. It was a lot of fun to have the magpies hangout on the deck railing and make noise back and forth with me. I got to recognize three of them by their voices. I miss them...
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RAM persisted what? Table of hardware pstates and cstates per device? A flag to reinitialize busses and hardware, skip memory clear?
Handling PCI and CPU reinit should be easy. It is not because manufacturers are keeping critical parts under NDA or completely secret.
I'm going to make a privacy app and tell everyone it's secure, fight lawsuits if anyone debates it, and then have it phone home with all their details.

Oh wait, that's what Google did.
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> 1) Its not the executive branch's job to legislate. 2) The ISP's know whats best for innovation and serving their customers.

Ran that through congressman/senator double speak to english translator and got this:

1) You're unable to offer us election funding and/or a high paying job after we leave office so we're not going to do anything. 2) The ISP's know whats best for themselves and screwing their customers.
While there are certainly jobs in Ohio paying more than $100k/year they tend to be clustered among only half a dozen companies. That leaves very little mobility for people. This also doesn't address the fact that salary is only a portion of total compensation.
Sophistry in the sense that according to any reasonable idea of privacy, meeting someone in public, so that they know where you are, your name and your face, is distinctly different from a private company knowing exactly where you are at all moments.

Imagine if it came out that a company had hired private investigators to follow you around, and collected a list of every location you visited. You tell someone else, and they say "if you really cared about privacy, you should not have come out in public, for instance I met you, and now I know your name, and that you visit this place". It is just nowhere near equivalent.
>And? How does that matter? What's dangerous in them collecting my location information?

What's dangerous about them compiling your medical history? Who are you afraid of? Oh wait, that's a HIPAA violation.

I wonder if they keep track of the location of every doctor's office you visit... and that abortion clinic... and that methadone clinic. Surely, nothing to lose there.

The only information that isn't hackable, is information that's never gathered in the first place. The more valuable the information, the more likely someone will spend nation-state amounts of dollars to get it.

I propose Donald Trump use the NSA (legally) to steal all of this information to track illegal immigrants who pass between Mexico and the USA border who don't have a passport on file. And then send SWAT officers to break into everyone's current location, throw them into vans, and send them back over to Mexico.

Wow, that's really fucked up, huh? And Google made it possible.
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In Canada, the CRTC requires the big internet providers to resell their broadband to smaller ISPs. Even then it took a decade for big ISPs like Rogers to give up on onerous bandwidth caps (which would be about 100GB a month, and, usually, worse).

Even with some competition and access, it can take a while for unfavorable conditions to resolve, partially because consumers don’t really care about things like censorship, lack of access, (or in my example) bandwidth limits.

Markets are eventually consistent, but in terms of net neutrality I really don’t think we can afford to wait.
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I complained that my (D) state has crappy government services. Someone said that is because our Democrats are like centrists elsewhere. But Democratic states are certainly left enough to spend more money than Canada. That doesn’t explain why they get so little in return.
When you graduate, at your first tech job you'll have to sit through various mandatory training. One of those describes the employer's requirements under U.S. (or EU) law.

One of those requirements is "reasonable accommodation," which is a term that means that employers face big lawsuits from the government if they don't reasonably accommodate employee disabilities.

This means that if an employee has a condition that allows them to do the work, but needs special stuff, such as software to allow them to write code while blind, or a wheelchair-accessible entrance, then the company has to provide it. Otherwise, the employee can ask the government to sue the company on her or his behalf.

But yeah, dude, capitalism is a disease.
> If you're worried about hackers, I can guarantee you Google protects this data more securely than your carrier does.

This is absurd. Me not wanting google to have this data has nothing to do with how secure they can keep it.
EFF Australia should just repost the EFF US post and see what happens. :)

The post didn’t make clear if EFF US contested the case in South Australia at all. In which case it was probably a default judgement and unlikely based on merit?
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> UEFI should renounce direct hardware access after initialization and driver disable

I don't follow. If it's nefarious then doesn't having control in the beginning already screw you? And if not, but if it gets compromised, then can't it be programmed not to do that?
I didn't make it past the first lovely sentence. "With a sleek needle nose and a swept double-delta wing with two prominent nacelles, the supersonic SR-1 Blackbird spy plane is the stuff aviation legend."

SR-1? "Stuff aviation legend"? I'd expect a little better editing from Popular Mechanics.
Yeah, I fully understand that its not easy to detect this. But I'd also like to make an informed decision based on evidence, not speculation. So far I've seen bugs being reported that require the user to enable and provision AMT, which are quite serious, but entirely avoidable by keeping it disabled.

Anyway, I'm happy to read more about it if you have any additional info.
Exactly. It is like that quote from game of thrones: If you have to tell the world you are the king, you aren't.
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It gets blocked at the ISP level. Nothing to do with DNS providers.
> Apple and google is that Apple sells you pricey hardware, that just works

Well, pricey hardware, at least.

> In the case of google they sell you

No, they aren't in the slave trade; they sell ad placement, not people.
Well isn't it just great to have a new Theme API, never even knew I missed that. And a Reader Mode API, I'm sure I'll love that too even though I've never even used that mode.

Glad they got rid of the old extension system now that the new one is so feature complete. I mean who needs spellchecker API anyway, if you miss spellchecking in your language, you can always start writing in another language, no? Perhaps they could introduce a Pocket API to compensate?
I'm very tempted to go down this route, but it seems to fail the "easy to install and use" bit.
Because the only alternative is AMD, who, until Ryzen, was lacking in performance quite a bit.
In case it makes you feel better, I'm a native English speaker and I had to read the first seven paragraphs - which are very poorly written, I would say - twice before I really understood what was going on. Probably if you knew the context and had heard of this man it would have instantly made sense, but it certainly didn't to me.
I usually point people at Zen to Done, it takes an incremental approach to setting up the system instead of throwing the whole thing at you.

https://zenhabits.net/zen-to-done-ztd-the-ultimate-simple-pr...
It’s a civil case and it’s against the organization, so yes?
It would allow two private parties to transfer title between themselves without permission or action by the municipality.

Not sure why the municipality would want that. Also would create a slew of issues around what happens if you lose the private key to your house, or worse, it gets stolen.
You have two choices. Use the one ISP or not. /PaiLogic
It's a labor shortage more than anything else they listed. It's not an energy boom, weak dollar, Trump etc.

The question should be "why is this a surprise?"

Does our culture esteem people that work with their hands?
Do parents encourage their children to aspire to learn trade skills?
Does our educational system encourage students to learn trade skills and explore the trades as highly viable alternatives to going to college?

We've looked down at the trades and blue-collar work for decades. The evidence is everywhere. Of course there is a shortage, students have been listening to the adults in their lives, their peers, media outside of Mike Rowe etc and have heard the message loud and clear.

Solutions; I see two things that need to happen.

First, we need to reach and communicate to students and adults across the country that trade skills are valuable and a career in the trades is an outstanding option.

Create a more efficient, affordable and accessible resources for people to learn trade skills, no matter their location, age, income, nationality etc. We need to make it 10x easier for people to learn the skills that are in demand.

I’m working on both those solutions at Tradeskills.io

Definitely a lot to figure out!
Those companies don't exist yet. What sounds better "If you don't save net neutrality, you will pay extra for Facebook!"

or

"Without net neutrality you might have to pay for a service that doesnt exist yet!"
There is already overwhelming evidence of abuse of power, bad faith and surveillance. Attempting to brush it aside as 'incompetence' is brazenly disingenuous.

What's the point of asking for more 'evidence'? Do you expect Snowden levels of sacrifice and disclosures every month?

Apologists will continue to do this untill it's too late to do anything about surveillance, at which point they will shrink into the thicket and leave everyone else hanging onto a surveillance state.

Those who care about surveillance, privacy and democracy have every responsibility to be alert and act now.
Prior to Zen based processors there are a decent number of offerings under the Opteron and AMD's embedded SoC families (possibly others, but these are the ones I'm familiar with) which did not contain ME-like capabilities. Projects like Coreboot generally have pretty good support for these AMD parts. For an embedded example, see the PCEngines APU2 boards: http://pcengines.ch/apu2.htm

Zen based parts from AMD have their PSP (platform security processor), which I believe is generally a dedicated Cortex-A series CPU within the silicon to do many security related things. Its functionality is similar to some of what the ME provides on Intel parts.
I think it odd that the strongest opposition to testing is from people who clearly don't smoke.

Its a test of self introspection and awareness and intelligence, not solely discipline.

Its not a simple binary "have you been within 10 meters of the devils weed in the past month T/F" question.

To fail a test after 30 days of normal peeing takes something like weeks of Cheech and Chong 2.0 behavior to build up the level of metabolites in the body. There's a whole spectrum of use vs time required to test clean. A buzz a couple days ago will not fail a test. Wake and bake the morning of the test is a fail. The kind of person dumb enough to wake and bake the morning of a pee test is not the kind of person I'd want on a jobsite.

There's also the question of motivation. There are supplements which basically make you pee alot to pee out the THC and there are test kits at walgreens for $10 that are fairly accurate to determine if you pass. To fail a pee test you have to be unmotivated enough to not even try.

Responsible intelligent users will not have trouble passing a test. Irresponsible or unintelligent users are doomed, but those are the kind of people that cause workplace fatalities anyway, so no real loss.

This is all aside from unemployment fraud type stuff.
In Portland, we just removed 2.4 million pounds of grease from our sewer system.

http://www.kptv.com/story/36854903/crews-removed-nearly-24-m...
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians is moderated well and has fantastic answers from very knowledgeable people, just a great community.

Also, /r/BadEconomics is good as well.
Same things that happens with Bitcoin, you lose your house.
I can't even get companies to send me FizzBuzz or any coding test when applying to remote jobs. I'm not sure they even see my application with the flood of applicants they get.
>Maybe the solution is to rename the package cowsay-offensive and mark it as suggested in that topic.

That's addressed further down in the bug report:

>"I don't disagree, but the reason it's called *-off is because there was a long-standing fortunes-off package with "offensive" fortunes. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=769194 for the discussion on splitting out cowsay-off.

But I think the initial problem, that this could cause legal issues, is slightly absurd. Given the context of the "sodomy" I think it would be a stretch for you to get in trouble for this.
I think yes, might be wrong but it's logical (logic and taxes don't always mix, so I may be wrong).

You bought Bitcoin at $1 and sell at $8000 to pay for a house, you need to declare income of $7999 for each Bitcoin at the end of the year or else...
Kids who molest other kids and bring guns to school are criminals. We should lock them up early, and we can reduce the cost of prison by getting more labor out of prisoners and busting the guard unions.

Teachers spend a non-zero amount of time dealing with parents. I know a few teachers personally and all of them have stories about parents who take up too much of their time.

In the school districts near me, special ed and admin costs can take ~40% of the budget. I wouldn't displace the students onto social services because there'd be no social services.
To agree with your initial point: hardware stores do sell different kinds of shovels, for different digging tasks.
Did anybody else read this as "The Secret Lives of Urban Cows"?
They sell ad placement by observing all of your behaviors and figuring out what you want to do. (Refining the other statement ).
I know you can get a Secret and I have heard you can get a Top Secret depending on the agency. Though some agencies give random drug tests to people with Top Secret clearances and many contractors also have their own testing policy.

They do however ask about drug usage both on the application and when doing their investigation.
> At the FCC's 25Mbps download/3Mbps upload broadband standard, there are no ISPs at all in 30 percent of developed census blocks and only one offering service that fast in 48 percent of the blocks. About 55 percent of census blocks have no 100Mbps/10Mbps providers, and only about 10 percent have multiple options at that speed. ... these numbers overstate the amount of competition, because an ISP might offer service to only part of a census block. The percentage of households with choice is thus even lower[1]

I guess technically 48% is a minority. Sure is an awful lot of people, though.

(Yes, if you drop all the way down to DSL speeds then most people do have more than one choice of provider. Ever tried to stream video at DSL speeds? Or shudder satellite?)

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/us-br...
Not to mention no ISP in any other country has offered anything close to that either.

Facebook. India. So-called free basics.
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That's a good question.

Would you be charged capital gains taxes if you wanted to make a straight-trade of real estate properties, or would there need to be a symbolic changing-hands of money on paper, and thus taxed on each side?

I can't claim to be trading real estate properties, or even buying and selling them (long live Toronto real estate market...) so I have no idea. I know it's a weird scenario, but just in an attempt to find an analogue — anybody?

edit: This question was an attempt to create a more relatable analogue scenario for a BTC <> Real Estate transaction. Thanks for the info.
During the height of slavery it was widely accepted, culturally and legally, that slaves wern't people. Slavers sold implements of labor, not people.
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I am reminded of this: http://edw519.posthaven.com/it-takes-6-days-to-change-1-line...

But I also have the thought that in the military, the person issuing orders is also responsible for things if they go wrong. If his orders are bad, he takes the fall for them. I wonder if that is the case here. Or is it a case of "Do as you are told, and then take the fall when it breaks our system."

If so, you have deeper problems than one guy saying "Nope. No can do."
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