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you: "murder == lying"

me: "no it's not"

I don't claim "all laws go out the window". No clue how you reached that conclusion.

You'd then need to have some nontrivial anti-counterfeit technology on the ticket. Otherwise, the name is just a label, and the barcode is a UUID that actually means it's a valid ticket. Someone could make a high quality copy of the ticket, keep the UUID and put new persons name over it.

What I would try is a "credit card required at entry", so at the gate the only person who gets is the one who inserts the (valid) CC# that was used to buy the ticket.

Because the purpose of law is to protect people. The purpose of murder laws is to protect people from the act of murder. The purpose of constitutional law is to protect people from tyranny.

My "only half joking" premonition is that in a few years you're going to need a permit to travel outside the US. And I don't mean a passport. I mean an application that is either approved or denied each time you want to go somewhere. And if you dont stick to the approved itinerary (or you dont come back), feds come bring you back and charge you as a felon.

Each one of these border issues (phone passwords, checkpoints inside the US, travel bans) increases the total law enforcement "resistance" we face when traveling internationally. As the resistance increases, at what point does it become an "open circuit" ?

True, but I meant my post as a one-size-fits-all rule. I'm sure there are many smart phones that don't use disk encryption.

on a scale of 0-9, I'd put factory reset at about a 5. I'd wager there's still software out there that could do a raw read of the SD storage device's blocks. Unless Apple and friends have the device reset go to extra measures that tell the drive (at the chip-level, not the OS) "report all zeros" when read from, I think to increase your safety to "level 9" you should overwrite the disk by copying a large file several times until all the free space is consumed. Even then, flash drives have more physical storage than they report, but accessing those blocks would be pressing the edge of whats practical except in the most exigent situations.

Edit: I didn't realize virtually all phones' storage is encrypted nowadays.

> "Is this your main phone?"

This is my main phone I use when crossing constitution-free zones.

> it's a felony to lie to a customs & border patrol officer

That makes me livid: "Oh, sorry, the constitutional laws (that apply to us) don't apply here, see it's not technically the US because reasons." [lies to officer] "FELONY!".

> still a car indirectly running on fossil fuels

the change isn't going to happen overnight. Even if the car still runs on fossil fuels, it's more efficient to produce them at scale, where you can have better exhaust management, and (usually) exhaust produced out of the city. Charging will usually happen nightly, which is good for balancing the load on the grid. In some plants, carbon can be captured, and at the very least exhausts are scrubbed better than what comes out a car's exhaust pipe. So even when an electric car runs on a LNG or coal plant, there's still efficiency gained.

People are selfish, we have more than we need, and all the pleasures and luxuries to satiate every desire we could possibly have. It's (sadly) not surprising that protecting the earth isn't high on many people's agenda.

abusing the most widely available language to destroy the UX makes a website poorly developed.

Maybe it's a mistake to allow imaginary to ever be separate from real numbers ? Another post here brought up how easily it is to work with imaginaries if you just treat them as the vector [re im]. Maybe (philosophically speaking), there are no purely real numbers. Could it be that all quantities in nature must contain a (sometimes zero) Im component ? That might be a more satisfying interpretation than just allowing them to creep in when they are absolutely required, such as polynomial equations.

Ah, so like prohibition ? Cause that worked so well for alcohol and drugs ?

investigators image drives, they dont work with the originals.

what's being ignored is the constitution. which is an even more grave injustice than child abuse.

> and that right cannot be removed by states.

but cities like new york somehow removed it.

> as traffic lights and life-support systems fail.

Has anyone on life support ever died from the power going out ? I've worked at a hospital and the life support machines have internal battery backups, they're plugged into a separate outlet that is (at least) got an instant-on backup generator and possibly another battery backup. Plus, the ventilators I saw have rubber balloons on them that can be manually squeezed to breathe the patient if the machine dies. I also thought ventilated patients are also staffed by critical care nurses that have at most 2 patients per nurse. I've never heard of a ventilated patient set off in a room alone without adequate supervision.

Not saying there's no risk elsewhere in a city from power loss, but I thought hospitals had this situation covered.

I'm not arguing against algos or HFT, just spoofing. also I updated my comment to ask about level-2 quote information. If people are stupid for acting on perceived intention of other market participants, wouldn't that make the case that L2 quotes are entirely garbage and should just be removed from the exchange ?

> they deserve what they get.

what about buy-and-hold investors who don't do anything to deserve that ? Why should they get unnecessary volatility in their portfolios just because some get-rich-quick kids want to treat NYSE like its Mortal Kombat?

> if people are so stupid as to move their orders trivially based on others' actions

Then why show level 2 quotes at all ? Isn't your argument equivalent to "level 2 information is useless"? If not, then people wouldn't be stupid for using it, would they ? Would you trade in a market that only had level 1 quotes ?

The game is only fair if you play to outsmart the other animals in the herd. Not if you actively harm them by misdirecting them with false signals.

in NYC right turn on red is illegal, and it makes sense due to the number of pedestrians.

IIRC, Radio Shack also ran one of the first customer tracking programs. From my recollection it started circa 1998, until about 2003 ? Every purchase you made they'd ask for your full mailing address.

it wouldn't be surprising that a guy who spent his life in infosec/IT might have a 50tb NAS at home.

My guess is he was addicted to "stealing", the same way some people shoplift for the thrill. It can feel empowering to steal because it gives the thief control. So subconsciously he's thinking "huh, NSA thinks they're so tough and powerful, but look how I can break their rules right under their nose and they can't even figure it out". Or perhaps he exfiltrated people's phone calls/emails. Thats another power theory: "I'm as big and mighty as the NSA because I can tap communication lines and invade privacy just like they can".

Like others in this thread, I dont think he was a spy. A spy wouldn't hoard shit in his basement that could get him life in prison. He would have stolen it, sold it, and GTFO.

> probably on optical media.

I cringe thinking NSA would have DVD-burners connected to any machine on their campus. Sure in their labs they probably have every device ever made -- strictly labeled and used only for hacking. But it would be asinine to have their "corporate" machines equipped with them. I bet he either used a microSD card or just put HDDs in his pocket.

sort of OT of the post, but on topic of all the cool discussions about physics we've had here, I want to share one my favorite channels on youtube[1]. Eugene Khutoryansky has put together an amazing collection of very intuitive explanations of all kinds of physics, including cosmology. I also recommend his series on math and electromagnetics.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/EugeneKhutoryansky

the same thing could have been said about the discovery of Neptune [1]: "there's no evidence a planet is there, it's pure speculation. The changes in Uranus' orbit must be the result of mathematical error and not another planet."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune

FWIW banks couldn't operate without at least one mode of "irreversible and unfreezable" currency transactions, aka fed wire transfers.

When thrust is applied by the computer, do the throttle levers move on their own or stay in their original positions ?

Thats what came to my mind too. Which is sad. I definitely dont want passengers exposed to more risk, but I'm also against "its policy" kind of rules that squelch people from having fun and exposing more people to aviation.

calm down. anyone privileged enough to buy stocks is also privileged enough to buy colocated rack space. so yes, it's "privileged", just like everyone else.

However, given that you want to make a trade, it's not arguable whether you want more market participants or fewer.

> a privileged connection t

anyone can buy co-located rack space.