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Comment Re:watch out, Scooby!! (Score 1) 99

A state run prison is not a death camp.

The due process questions are BS, a court had already found he was gangster, he is now on trial for human trafficking. We are not better offer because some activist judge brought him back to the sates.

It is all slap fights, none of this about efficent, fair, immigration or legal processing.

Comment Re:watch out, Scooby!! (Score 1) 99

LOL like that time Obama created what amounts to an entire immigration PROGRAM DACA out of nothing but EOs that now nobody can do anything about?

Correct EOs are not laws, but Trump's immigration related EOs for the most part are not attempting to make law. They are no more and no less the same priority/priority stuff every previous administration as done.

So just to be clear what you are saying here. Obama with just EOs can create a program where the government actively solicits applications to remove individuals from enforcement priority where immigration law is concerned, but Trump cannot say decide to put zero priority on approving student visas? Trump cannot decide that implementing his OBLIGATION to enforce the immigration laws we have, these people are "criminal suspects" under the law can't prioritize quanity over severity of violation?
Why do we have traffic courts, clears no officer should be writing tickets where there are personal and property crimes they could be solving instead right right?

This isnt even what-about-ism. It is just a matter of two tier justice. Conservatives win elections they are prevented from implementing policy choices, using the same mechanisms that liberals when elected are allowed to use. That is manifestly unjust; it is manifestly undemocratic. Where does this leave us? With the following possibilities (not exclusive) for the American left. You are profoundly ignorant. You are profoundly hypocritical, you are profoundly cynical and dont really believe in things like democracy you profess to care about.

Anyone who chooses to remain associated with our national Democratic party, is not a good American full stop.

Comment Re:watch out, Scooby!! (Score 1) 99

Short to taking states right to extremes of wanting to start another civil war most conservatives are concerned when the federal government tries to expand into areas historically handled by the states, they don't imagine the supremacy clause does not exist.

We did this back in like 2010 when AZ tried do immigration enforcement. The courts made it pretty clear that they could not even carry out black letter federal immigration law, let alone add their own. It is beyond any reason then to assume state and local governments can actively interfere with the federal executive enforcing federal law. I suppose a "sanctuary" municipality of some kind might choose to not actively assist, share information etc, but the instant they step over the line where they assist anyone in evading enforcement; that makes them at least accessories to those immigration crimes, if not engaged in insurrection.

Comment TSA? (Score 1) 99

I guess sure its more data, but is it much more?

I mean the TSA (part of DHS) already had/has access to every boarding pass. At least for the first outbound flight, most trips being round trips, they already had your travel plans. I guess some of the connectors might possible have been unknown to them but realistically they probably already have enough other data sources to figure it out.

To me this speaks more about how ineffective and bad at IT / big data DHS is that would even need/want/bother with buying this information than anything else; while already having almost all the data needed to generate it.

Comment Re:On the flip side... (Score 2) 18

a baby bought entirely with bitcoin.

IVF as practiced at least generally results in a whole lot of abortions, also known to thinking people as murders.

Just look at the quote above and the words used to talk about the even by people who ostensibly see it as good thing, 'bought' as if this person is some kind of pet or worse slave.

We need to remember there was only ever one price enough to purchase a child of God, and that price was his own blood.

Comment Re:Maybe Apple Is waiting for AI stability (Score 1) 24

From a hardware standpoint Apple SI is probably going to be a winner, at least in the workstation and professional space, likely the enthusiast space. PCs with some NPU or GPU will get the bottom end, and NVIDA probably ends up owning the large enterprise and scientific part of the market.

I guess where I am going is Apple probably has the right hardware solution and they can always license a better model and model quality is the problem they will probably end up doing exactly that, rather than lose out on the market share. It isn't like Apple can't buy their way out of a software / data problem as long as they get the base of deployed kit right, and by the looks of it they have done that.

Comment Re:Another reason we will have mass world war (Score 1) 50

Its only generally positive as look as there is room for growth, in terms of physical space and natural resources.

After that runs out and it will run out, you are India, massive population that will have the same demographic characteristics we see playing out now, in the west, namely aging.

It is just a recipe for more needs, and fewer options for addressing them. This is why curbing growth in population via immigration, and economic growth sourced from population expansion is the thing we should be doing right now.

Should we actually find the market can't adapt and we are in position where there is working that we as a society need done, and nobody to do, we can always open up an d start issuing visas again to relieve the pressure. On the flip side there is nothing you can do if you allow the country to end up with 10 geriatric persons to every working age person, all the housing stock used up, and no room to build out further.

The time to restructure our society demographically (stop the skew older trend) and economically (De-sepcializaiton move back to more balanced sectors) is now.

Comment Maybe unpopular opinion (Score 1) 150

While this likely saved them from the disastrous CrowdStrike outage that had a massive global impact

Exactly none of those endpoint security packages belong on anything safety critical.

Their remote management and monitoring features present single point attack surface, pop the management server and you likely have enough C&C to at least DOS-condition all the clients.

They potential break operations like filesystem access in potentially surprising ways that are difficult or impossible to do good defensive programing and error handling around.

They are only effective if updated frequently which means your are constantly introducing change into what should be a highly controlled environment.

Safety critical stuff if it really has to be networked, and really has to be some COTS os platform, should be isolated with enough layers and very carefully network access control devices/ and lists that allow only very specific communication with the next lower security layer. The OS platforms themselves should be in the most hardened 'FIRST PARTY TOOLS ONLY' configuration possible, ie nothing runs with anything but least privileges, the 'operator' does not have the ability to escalate they are not root/administrator, they can't sudo etc, only a small group of engineers get those credentials. Coding signing requirements turned on etc. Absolutely no automatic updates of any kind, no unnecessary services/daemons running.

  What you most definitely do not do, and toss the same GPOs you have the customer service people on them and install clown-strike, or whatever else on them.

Comment Re: I want my old old 3D GUI (Score 1) 104

I would say it was considerably better (just the interface not the system under it) than its contemporaries like CDE. Again not saying any of it was terribly original or a lot of those ideas did not start in software like Sun View, but the implementation looked better and felt better.

A lot of people think the opposite is true, but I firmly believe this has mostly to do with they tended to encounter Windows for Workgroups and NDW on PCs with video that was 800x600 and often 640x480 displays, while the systems running CDE and motif applications tended to be workstations at higher resolutions. Run Windows / Norton on video hardware that could do 1280x1024 and it looked and felt great!

Comment Re:I want my old old 3D GUI (Score 2) 104

1000x ^^This

Put Norton Desktop 3 on Windows 3 and you have the most immediately understandable and usable general UI ever done. Things like forms in HTML were much better and easier to use with those old Windows 3.x common controls as well.

That environment took a lot of ideas from a lot of places but combined it all in a thoughtful way. A big part of that was strong visual indicators that told you what you could interact with and immediately communicated 'how'. There is nothing sensible and contemporary MacOS or Windows. You only know how to use it by wrote, and vague references that remain to what came before. I am looking at the corner of this full space window on MacOS right now, there are two arrows pointing toward each other in the corner. Not raised, how do I know they are clickable? No box or anything around them to suggest they have anything to do with 'windowing' you just have know. Might as well be using a CLI, if you did not know already you'd have to either just try it or look at the help.

Comment Re:Also absolutely everything is currently (Score 1, Offtopic) 135

You guess realize it rsilvergun himself posting this stuff right? He knows his boring broken record posts lifted directly out of some 2-bit state house reps canvasing guide are going to get down moderated, so he post these coke talk versions of his his own stuff, so the mods waste their points down moderating it instead and then insists someone else cares enough about him to write a bot.

I agree the admins should ban him.

Comment Re:Statistical statistical (Score 1, Insightful) 76

Sex outside of marriage clearly leads to the spread of quite a lot of disease, that sometimes leads to more severe disease like cancer and obviously all kinds of other societal harm.

Maybe instead of being cute and flip you should realize Archie that your free-love boomer bullshit has been bad for our society and individuals a like.

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