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Comment Re: "law and order" .. it just can't get more path (Score 1) 57

by ami.one (#62402195) Attached to: Hackers Gaining Power of Subpoena Via Fake 'Emergency Data Requests'

Bingo.
And since the police dept is mostly misusing this facility so now we have some real or imaginary 'hackers' who can conveniently be blamed whenever some one gets caught misusing the EDR.

There can be a few rare cases where tracking someone online would save a life, but mostly it would be police trying to get details on something which is difficult to get a judge to sign off on.

Besides if they are so pressed for time, they would anyway get on a call with the ISP/Telco to expedite the info as soon as they send the email and this issue wouldn't arise

Comment This will forever remain a pilot in the treasury (Score 1) 88

Just too many problems they haven't thought through ! Or even realized.

I'll bet anything this will forever remain a pilot in the treasury depts' cafeteria !

Also Hw token / wallet will need to connect over the internet to another hw token/ wallet. Unless they want only physically proximate txns like BLE NFC.

And need OTA updates unless you want to replace tokens twice a year whenever u find a new bug in hw / fw.

So hackers will have full time physical access to these devices connecting to each other to reverse engg and just keep playing till they find an inevitable bug.

And hw token will necessarily need to be secured by a pin/pwd due to numerous issues. But we cant recover w/o personally identifiable info, so your fingerprint is the the only option possible (for a smartcard)

And FP anyway govt needs to prove 'owner present' transactions else people will FedEx the hw tokens preloaded with large amounts to each other which will be better than cash for criminals.

Finally, having a hw token and no ledger means when, not if, your card stops working the money is gone forever so people are simply going to have a limit they keep on it - like not more than $1000 or 500 or such.

And all this HW + Pin/FP means it will never be useful for automated transactions at all (anything similar to smart contracts) w

Which is the only plus point of digital currencies (beyond anonymity, which is better with cash)

Comment Re: It might work for subjects like English... (Score 1) 346

by ami.one (#62401719) Attached to: 'I No Longer Grade My Students' Work -- And I Wish I Had Stopped Sooner'

Actually very few topics in STEM have right or wrong answers except at beginner levels. And math.

Mostly it seems cut n dried when we have dumbed down or abstracted out or blackboxed the unknown things for the purpose of being practical enough to teach kids and being them to a level where they can understand & handle the unknowns & uncertainties.

From sub atomic particles to fundamental forces like gravity to the nature of light to the origin & evolution of life to most of medicine and engineering, the objective explanations all stop at a point and end with multiple conflicting unproven theories. Not even complete theories TBH. Even stuff like thermodynamic laws and entropy etc turn out to be probabilistic n statistical things. Things like gravity turn on their heads. Lot of concrete things turn out to be placeholders and adjustment entries like all the dark*
Subatomic particles with what we are taught as 'spin' turn out not to be spinning but to 'have spin' which actually means these are 'flavors' aka just differences in the particles' unknown properties which we are giving names so it's easy to refer to them while we study what it exactly is...

At a beginner's level even Arts & Music & Philosophy are quite objective.

Although grading is still essential, but could be given lower weightage, because kids need to learn how to handle the real world where there's usually some silly or useful metrics always present. If nothing else then the level of money you make

Submission + - SPAM: British Parliament Invites Director of The Kashmir Files to To Share the Plight

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ami.one writes: Vivek Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Files has emerged as one of the biggest superhit movies of the year. The film, which was released on March 11, has been making headlines and ruling the box office. It has received a positive response from both, the audience and critics.

Considering the same, the filmmaker and his wife Pallavi Joshi (who also featured in the movie) have now been invited by the British Parliament to talk about the plight of Kashmiri Pandits (ie Hindu religious minority)

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For the unversed, The Kashmir Files depicts the story of the exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits.
As per IMDB, which shows a rating of 8.3 over 537,000 votes, The Kashmir Files' is a story, based on video interviews of the first generation victims of the Genocide of Kashmiri Pandit Community In 1990
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Submission + - SPAM: Kim Jong Un used slick video to lie about firing new version of ICBM, Seoul says

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ami.one writes: North Korea tried to deceive the world about the type of missile it fired last week, claiming that it successfully tested a “huge,” new ICBM while actually firing off a rocket first launched in 2017, South Korean defense officials said.

The intercontinental ballistic missile that North Korea launched last week was likely a Hwasong-15, which was successfully tested in November 2017 and designed to carry a single nuclear warhead, the South Korean defense ministry told lawmakers in a report Tuesday. That’s less advanced than the Hwasong-17, a multiple-warhead missile, which Pyongyang triumphantly declared a success with a slick, highly produced video.

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North Korea tried to deceive the world about the type of missile it fired last week, claiming that it successfully tested a “huge,” new ICBM while actually firing off a rocket first launched in 2017, South Korean defense officials said.

The intercontinental ballistic missile that North Korea launched last week was likely a Hwasong-15, which was successfully tested in November 2017 and designed to carry a single nuclear warhead, the South Korean defense ministry told lawmakers in a report Tuesday. That’s less advanced than the Hwasong-17, a multiple-warhead missile, which Pyongyang triumphantly declared a success with a slick, highly produced video.

South Korean officials said the shadows in the video of the Hwasong-17 launch fell in a direction indicating the footage was shot between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m., rather than Thursday afternoon, when an ICBM rocketed into space and fell in the sea off of Japan. The cloud cover shown in the video also didn’t match the weather on the day of the launch, the officials said.

That suggests North Korea may have used video from a failed Hwasong-17 test on the morning of March 16 and launched an actual Hwasong-15 to sell it as a success, as previously reported by NK News.

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Comment Re: "do no evil" (Score 1) 124

by ami.one (#62400589) Attached to: Google Ordered Russian Translators Not To Call War in Ukraine a War

That's pretty accurate

Though this understanding only comes after having participated in this sort of shit fully or partly. It only becomes evident over a really long time like 5-10 years so many times you miss it if you moved on to other cos.

Till you've seen it you obviously feel that you and everyone else there are in complete control of your actions and motivations and all this is just aome wishy washy thing.
The only reason it happens is because no one is truly aware of it as it happens. Otherwise we would immediately change our motivations and targets and work differently.

But in reality the small startup things just no longer seem to work so you keep adapting and assume you are learning n doing things in a better way etc etc.

10 years down the line you can see entire company has just been sort of reaping what was sown earlier though at increasing volumes and no real innovation seems to have come out beyond the initial phase.

Obviously there a some exceptions. Specially those who are aware of this will try to address it in their next venture or job or position - usually by things like competing with your own depts/groups or various such ways but it never works that good.

There's a big difference in the motivations and aspirations of someone with nothing who is hell bent to prove something to the world and doesnt really care about money, and someone with a nice income n nest egg who does want to do something great but not really by risking everything he has, more like calculated risks and getting everyone's opinion and testing the market and the tech in small steps etc etc.

The problem is that if innovation or discovery were a known rational process then half the world would follow that process to success ! It's not at all known beyond the fact that it's an emergent property and the only way is to try all sorts of impossible looking options across functions and industries and intersections of probably the weirdest things.

Submission + - SPAM: Ukraine Update: Zelenskyy's representative Blames U.S. & Budapest Signatorie

Submitted by ami.one
ami.one writes: A representative of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described signatories to the Budapest Memorandum as a reason Ukraine is at war, citing their failure to hold up their end of the agreement.

“They signed their obligation to protect Ukraine, to provide the security and safety,” Fedir Venislavsky, President Zelenskyy’s representative to Ukraine’s Constitutional Court, told Fox News.

“Which means when Ukraine gave up its nuclear potential Ukraine was confident the other countries who have signed all of those agreements were going to guarantee its territorial integrity, it is independence and it is sovereignty.”

“Unfortunately, we are deeply sorry” the signatories of the Budapest Memorandum and the Charter “did not perform” and “provide the security of Ukraine” and “there is a war because of that going on in our territory,” Venislavsky explained.

The Budapest Memorandum “says that whatever countries would sign that, they would guarantee the safety and security of Ukraine. And there is the charter about the special partnership between NATO and Ukraine and all the signatories,” Venislavsky added.

“Innocent people are dying every day simply because we believed that those countries were going to provide what they obliged for.”

Venislavsky said the failure to protect Ukraine will have lasting consequences.

“After the Ukrainian case, I think there are going to be a lot of doubts in the world regarding international obligations that are given in exchange for whatever concessions,” Venislavsky said.
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Washington Post report added:
In a separate interview with the Economist, Zelensky asserted that some countries had drawn a red line at sending more offensive weapons to Ukraine “because they are afraid of Russia. And that is it. And those who say it first are the first to be afraid.”
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The Economist — Interview : Volodymyr Zelensky in his own words
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Submission + - SPAM: Ukraine: Zelenskyy's representative Blames U.S. & Budapest Signatories 1

Submitted by ami.one
ami.one writes: A representative of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described signatories to the Budapest Memorandum as a reason Ukraine is at war, citing their failure to hold up their end of the agreement.

“They signed their obligation to protect Ukraine, to provide the security and safety,” Fedir Venislavsky, President Zelenskyy’s representative to Ukraine’s Constitutional Court, told Fox News.

“Which means when Ukraine gave up its nuclear potential Ukraine was confident the other countries who have signed all of those agreements were going to guarantee its territorial integrity, it is independence and it is sovereignty.”

“Unfortunately, we are deeply sorry” the signatories of the Budapest Memorandum and the Charter “did not perform” and “provide the security of Ukraine” and “there is a war because of that going on in our territory,” Venislavsky explained.

The Budapest Memorandum “says that whatever countries would sign that, they would guarantee the safety and security of Ukraine. And there is the charter about the special partnership between NATO and Ukraine and all the signatories,” Venislavsky added.

“Innocent people are dying every day simply because we believed that those countries were going to provide what they obliged for.”

Venislavsky said the failure to protect Ukraine will have lasting consequences.

“After the Ukrainian case, I think there are going to be a lot of doubts in the world regarding international obligations that are given in exchange for whatever concessions,” Venislavsky said.

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The Washington Post report added:
In a separate interview with the Economist, Zelensky asserted that some countries had drawn a red line at sending more offensive weapons to Ukraine “because they are afraid of Russia. And that is it. And those who say it first are the first to be afraid.”

The Economist — Interview : Volodymyr Zelensky in his own words
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Comment Re: This will benefit half the country (Score 1) 60

by ami.one (#62397439) Attached to: CNBC: 'Stem Cells May Finally Offer a Cure for Type 1 Diabetes'

How did you jump to asking questions about vaccines suddenly ?

This is exactly how superstitious people try to justify that their 'beliefs' are some infallible universal truths or told by some higher power who can never be wrong by definition!

Everyone has a right to question CDC or WHO or any agency. If they fail to explain it properly to an average citizen then it's problem with their communication or their data.

Otherwise why would there be hundreds of other things on which no one questions them ?

Just because we want to avoid giving anti vaxxers any material to raise doubts doesn't mean we start assuming that media manipulation is normal.
Unless you want to become the next Russia or China.

It was needed temporarily as there was no other option & insufficient data & not enough time to convince every one during the covid outbreaks.

It wasnt something that can be allowed all the time.

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