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by badsock 10y ago
First, auditing the hundreds of millions of lines of code that it takes to build an OS and userspace every election and midterm is completely unrealistic. Especially given the degree of code obfuscation that is possible. Second, at the sil
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by badsock 10y ago
To use your metaphor, yes if the military installed a single model of identical, network-connected engine in every vehicle they own, they would absolutely be fools. A single hack could, in a strategically critical moment, disable all motor
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by badsock 10y ago
Some context: Switzerland has votes on issues about four times a year, and they managed to do this with paper, mostly via mail (if someone local knows otherwise, please correct me). Recently they tried out e-voting, with what I consider pre
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by badsock 10y ago
Looking at the "Voting Machine Security Specifications", it's a verified OS image connecting to a VPN over the internet on election day. This means that you have to trust the: * VPN * OS * Network stack * Display an
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by badsock 10y ago
Not on the same scale, but castAR is definitely in the game.
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by badsock 10y ago
How would that be different from an LCD, which is something they've presumably looked at and not used?
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by badsock 10y ago
You're right. When I wrote the above, what I had in mind was sculpture (what I've mostly see consumer 3D printers making these days - representational things like D&D set pieces, or cosplay props). The interface of programs
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by badsock 10y ago
This is one area where I think VR will produce a solid win. IMO the steepest parts of the modelling learning curve are the result of the complexity required to manipulate a 3D world using 2D interfaces. With VR, both the input and output
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by badsock 10y ago
To take the US as an example, there's about 2.5 million people in the federal civil service - assuming a generous 1:8 ratio of bureaucrats to workers, that's about 300 thousand bureaucrats at just the federal level. I'm gues
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by badsock 10y ago
I don't disagree, but my point is that it's still less power over media than those who actually own the media have. If universities are really brainwashing people, then those who own the media can just not hire those brainwashed p
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by badsock 10y ago
It baffles me that university professors, who are in front of a minority of the population for typically only 4 years, are viewed as having all this control, whereas the people who literally own the media, who can arbitrarily hire and fire
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by badsock 10y ago
No, it's not just about whatever you happen to feel like doing to live a better life. There's also what society will collectively do to you if you violate its ethical standards - the consequences of which are very much real.
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by badsock 10y ago
Just because something makes money for someone doesn't mean it magically becomes ethical. Neither does it become ethical if other people do it too.
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by badsock 10y ago
You chose a bunch of politicized examples. How about the USDA inspecting meat to prevent shady companies from passing off improperly stored meat as safe? Or the Department of Housing making sure that people don't add lead to paint wit
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by badsock 10y ago
No no, you've got it all wrong. It's the wizards that we've got to worry about. Do you think they paid taxes on all of that gold in Gringotts? Do you think they respect immigration controls when they're flyin' ar
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by badsock 10y ago
RIP the term "Object Oriented" as Alan Kay defined it.
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by badsock 10y ago
Absolute hyperbole. Lynching is when someone is killed. Dropping a speaker from a conference schedule isn't murder.
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by badsock 10y ago
Doing something socially objectionable invites social consequences. I bet that Kony 2012 guy got uninvited from speaking engagements too.
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by badsock 10y ago
Fair enough. It just seems like it might be useful to have a symbolic split of some kind, where people choose a camp instead of trying to pull in both directions. Naming can do that.
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by badsock 10y ago
I almost think there should be a divorce. Call it systemdOS and be done with it. At that point every service it subsumes will be seen as a step closer to the obvious end-goal rather than a point of contention. And the other OS can be som
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by badsock 10y ago
Right out of the gate there's very strong evidence for the nepotism claim: three of Trump's children are on the transition Executive Committee.
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by badsock 10y ago
Here in Canada that's generally not the case: http://globalnews.ca/news/907665/ontario-motorist-fees-taxes... "The report released Thursday found Ontario road users driving cars, minivans, SUVs and light
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by badsock 10y ago
The trucks that deliver the goods that poor people buy (and carry away the waste) are hard as hell on roads - you could say that the car drivers are subsidizing (through gasoline taxes) the massive infrastructure costs of maintaining a road
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by badsock 10y ago
From your link: "All sites hosted on a server in the Chinese mainland must, by law, apply for and receive one of these babies [an ICP License] before their site goes live, a rule enforced at the hosting level." The West doesn&#x27
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by badsock 10y ago
Off the top of my head, the ability to run a web server without first getting approval from the government is a pretty obvious differenciator.
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by badsock 10y ago
Wait, I just realized I'm talking to one of the "wake up sheeple" types. Nevermind, carry on...
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by badsock 10y ago
You're making a false equivalency between China and the West - it's a vast exaggeration to say it's "exactly the same shit" that's happening. There is absolutely propaganda in the West, and there is censorship
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by badsock 10y ago
I agree. There's a narrative at the moment that the left should have listened to the right more. That's the wrong lesson. The US GDP in real dollars is 2.3 times larger than it was in the mid-70s. In the same time period the me
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by badsock 10y ago
I agree with your point that we terribly undervalue non-financial contributions, but I think you're wrong to put intelligence and kindness at opposite ends of a scale. I've never seen anything to suggest that they're not orth
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by badsock 10y ago
As a Canadian, I'm really glad it's over. From my perspective it was mostly the US forcing its money-corrupted legislation onto weaker economies.

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