Being stonewalled by bureaucracy with no explanation given is nothing new.
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Legislation: Lets pass a bill that lets technocrats decide the details on regulations.
Technocrats: I don't like the look for those emergency antennas from my vacation cabin in the mountains.
Gun-> shoot-> foot
Yay. Good luck with that, California. For some people it could be their purpose in life is just to serve as a example for others. This seems to be California's role as of late.
Interesting tactic.
But, ultimately, the security and safety of the American public is served best by actually using software and services that are safe and secure. When the Federal government works against that they are undermining the security of the American public.
It's not very complicated. The interests of the government do not align with the interests of the American public.
What is sexist is assuming testosterone is responsible for autism and acting on that 'knowledge' without proof in some manner that impacts other people's lives.
Yes, absolutely. If it's a true revolt.
The reason for this is because if the rebels have support of the population then they can get intelligence and material support from said population. They will be able to walk circles around military bureaucracy.
Were as the USA Military is dependent on the USA population for economic support. No economic support means no military sustainability. Sure they have stockpiles of weapons and whatnot, but there is more that is need to run a successful campaign against domestic guerrillas then just stockpiles of weapons.
The reality is that in order to overthrow the Federal government all the American people have to do is just choose to stop paying their taxes and refusing to do business with the Federal government. The Federal government would be dead within months.
Firearms are redundant. What they are useful for, however, is to prevent politicians from getting bad ideas... like using the military against their own population.
They've been well known since that a F-117 was shot down in 1999 during the Serbia conflict. The actual event was mostly due to bad operational tactics on the American's side and a very lucky shot, but it did highlight that it was possible to detect stealth fighters using coldwar-era Soviet technology.
The problem is that the stealth is specifically geared towards XHF frequencies, which are the frequencies used in radar guided missiles.. which are the favored missiles for the USA.
However the planes lack the physical size and features necessary to completely absorb VHF radar. VHF lacks the resolution necessary for guided missiles and VHF radar stations must be very large, but it can be used to monitor air traffic over vast areas.
So if you detect a aircraft on VHF and then point your XHF radar at it and nothing shows up... Then you know you are dealing with a USA stealth fighter.
Stealth has been heavily oversold to the American public, but foreign governments are not so vulnerable to USA industrial-military propaganda.
This doesn't mean that stealth is worthless. It does dramatically reduce chances of detection, just doesn't make them invisible. They are still largely invulnerable to radar-guided missiles. The size of VHF radar arrays needed precludes their use on other aircaft.
So to make this sort of thing still requires a sophisticated network connecting large and easily found radar stations, which themselves can be targeted and disrupted in a combat environment. There is still major hurdles needed to solved before it would be possible to actually shoot down these aircraft with radar-guided missiles.
Also this technique doesn't work as well against aircraft the size of B-2 bomber.
And since the government refuses to solve the problem or even really look deeply into solutions then it's not getting solved and it isn't ever going to get solved.
Because of this the solutions to recycle spent fuel is still in it's infancy. Nobody is allowed to do anything, the government isn't really interested in allowing nuclear power to be competitive, so it's just not happening. No money, no motivation.
People in the industry are not going to invest millions in developing these breeder reactors and other ways to recycle fuel if they will never be allowed to use them.
Theoretically you could recycle the fuel to the point to where most of it is spent and isn't much of a danger. Recycle the fuel 60 or a 100 times. Then mix it with clay and cook into into a ceramic so that they are safe to handle, transport, and store. Massively reduce the danger and radiation levels.
Despite all the talk and rhetoric about CO2 emmissions you see coming from the state the petroleum industry is still king. People inside and outside of government are making a lot of money and they have no interest in seeing that go away.
The dirty secret with things like solar and wind is that in order for them to work reliably they need to have large number of natural gas generators. Because of this and other issues they really pose little threat to total fossil fuel consumption.
Suicide rates among soldiers is already high enough.
If anything we should be encouraging people to leave the force and join back with the civilian population.
The whole patent system in general is a massive drag on innovation and the economy. Sure it's supposed to do the opposite, but that the difference between theory and practice.
The way it is now it's harms technological progress with this sort of nonsense.
You have to look at the steps.
A patent is a recipe for 'creating' the invention. You do A, and B, and C, and then D, and then furthermore E... etc etc. You have to look at those steps and understand what they mean to see what the actual patent is about.
So if the patent says 'You need to do A, B, C, and D' and Gnome does "A, B, and D", but not C... then Gnome doesn't violate the patent.
Changing the behavior of the application or showing how the application doesn't follow all the steps outlined in the patent is probably the most effective way to 'defeat' a patent.
But regardless it's a frivolous lawsuit that will likely cost Gnome a lot of money and time for no good reason.
Especially now that more and more people are using mobile networks from people like AT&T and Verizon, and these companies are effectively scum of the earth.
The real solution is to have the OS itself deal with DNS privacy concerns, not the browser. Localhost DNS resolver with DNSSEC enabled that will bypass the default DNS settings and go out to 'trusted' DNS servers when DNSSEC fails. Maybe even use DoH if ISP blocks normal DNS traffic.
But these big companies can't compete with all the Vape Shops that are insanely popular and are everywhere.
This is why there is just a big hubbub over regulation and the deaths over black market Marijuana cartridges. These massive corporations can afford to deal with things like FDA certification of flavors and such things.
Were as the small companies, that make up the bulk of the vape market, cannot. So they will get pushed out of the market and 'big tobacco' will be the only ones that are allowed to sell in the USA. They really don't care if they have bad names and are used as targets by the regulators when they are going to be the only ones allowed to sell to the public.
Governments are going along with this because tobacco is a massive tax base. They can't regulate small business and internet sales in the same manner they can regulate and tax a small number of massive corporations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
According to 'Lung Cancer Fact Sheet' there was a estimated 154,000 Americans that would of died to lung cancer in 2018. Tobacco smoking contributes to all types of cancer.
This is why Vaping, which should cut these lung cancer rates by over 95%, is one of the most important public health break-throughs in recent memory.
If allowed to continue to exist in the way it is now it should do more to cut down on cancer deaths then billions of dollars in medical research spent in the past 20 years.
People have found that vaping is massively more effective at helping them to quit smoking compared to patches, gum, or any other medical-grade nicotine delivery method. It's extremely cheap, it's effective, and it's safe and has none of the side effects associated with any other type of drug being sold by doctors to help people quit.
And yet you have politicians now scrambling all over each other to flush this miracle down the toilet to protect their tax revenue and help out 'Big Tobacco'.
And when you look close at the facts behind 'vaping deaths' it's pretty obvious that these are related to drug prohibition more then anything else. These are deaths that are massively contributed to by regulation. If people bought those cartridges from gas stations or vape shops they would still be alive, but they couldn't because they were illegal in their states.
Oh, shit.. I have "How to trick yourself into thinking overpriced prestige consumer goods are worth it: 101" with Mr. Conner. That guy is a pervert.
A lot of time companies make shitty products and then refuse to back down on it. Apple has done it in the past and this is just another example of it.
Dell and friends do much better job at reliability.
If she was a 45 year old accountant trying to take a stand on climate change I don't think she would be trotted out like this.
Tail call reversion optimization just exists so people can right 'for loops' in a manner that looks 'functional' on the surface.
Because that is what tail optimization does.. it turns your recursive function into a loop.
So every time you write a for loop in Python just tell yourself that it's actually just a brilliantly optimized recursive function and you can get the same benefit.
Functions are first class objects in python so you can, if you really want, write functional code. It just all kinda goes to shit when you start importing other people's libraries that demand classes and methods being used. Those libraries are just a major part of what benefit you get from using python.
So I am not saying that any of this invalidates haskell or anything like that.
Since it's such 1984-speak.
Years ago they called these things tenement buildings. Although the word can mean any multi-home building, it usually is used (at least in the USA) as a reference to high capacity, low footprint, urban living arrangements.
So, yeah. It's a nice way to solve housing crisis for relatively low income living, but don't act like it's some sort of innovation that people are going to find super desirable. Because most people won't. Some people do, but most people kinda want their own house.
Which is really a shame.
All 'True' Unixes are just closed source versions of what originally were open source operating systems. By taking copyright seriously and having the misconception that there is intrinsic value in 'IP' they effectively sentenced their operating systems and investors to a long term grave.
But I doubt most of them feel bad about it. They got their millions and their nice fat retirements. It doesn't matter now if customers now view their once dominate systems as a sort of technical debt cancer.
If it wasn't for the destructive power that copyright has on technology and the demands of board members to monetize Unix.. we would all be using BSD right now. Unfortunately the tech people from 30 years ago didn't understand the power of 'letting go' and thus allowed them to destroy Unix.
As far as docker goes it has a lot of momentum as a daemon and it'll probably stay that way for a long time despite some technically superior solutions for running containers that have cropped up in the past few years. The newer container solutions just don't have the community backing them and that matters.