The law has not passed yet. It has the support of both major voting blocs, so it will pass in some form.

Here is the bill before our Parliament: Treasury Laws Amendment (News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code) Bill 2020 (PDF). It is in the usual bunch-o-amendments form but because this a large slab of new content it is mostly self-contained. Most importantly it is not simply related to publishing summaries but also covers basic linking (52B 1(b) of pp. 5), or even providing ranked search results including (52D 1 on pp. 6), of "core news." It places the determination of who this applies to in the hands of an elected Minister.

To my mind this is way too broad and controlled by individuals with skin in the game.

Amazon does not need to share this with anyone for it to be out there. The data is collected by an app provided by a third party (eDriving.com) who sell it to Amazon and, presumably, to any party willing to pay for a "safe driving" check. Given that eDriving have a clear sideline driving history checks and "risk-managed" insurance you can be confident this happens frequently. Selling it to another party could be considered publishing the information (by eDriving not Amazon), but if is near impossible to detect that your reputatation has been trashed through these channels, prosecute and prove it. You also have to fight the Mentor TOS which probably allow for anything less than annual anal probes of all family pets.

No, but there will be a head-to-head grudge match between Space Force and Tab Force

I'll take the figures as provided. All good reasons to consider moving elsewhere (and to address the particularly Byzantine US tax system) but neither new nor directly related to the "basic income promise". Perhaps I have missed something, but it seems that finding a billion dollars for any purpose out of an existing budget around $85B should not be too difficult*. I am sure promises from Yang's opponents will have no trouble matching the size of these, just targeted differently. Perhaps the complaint is more that the billion dollars (or $2k) is not being offered to Slashdot_Gopher's favourite cause; pizza vendors, police armament, gay whales, whatever

* even if, as others assert, it is shuffling deckchairs on the Titanic.

What is the logic behind this assertion?

At least until one of your plants gets too close to something from Monsanto.

The quoted 4.5 hours Tokyo to Seattle is an average speed around 920 knots. Conveniently all over water, so that is mostly cruise and the average is not diluted much by subsonic flight. That's comparable to Concorde with an average cruise at around 1100 knots. Concorde only had to tolerate ~127 Celsius. Composites for use at Mach 1-2 are fairly common in military fighter aircraft.

Blackbird flew a lot faster.

Nothing, he will claim that nobody warned the US about it.

And then think about it some. The premise of Mr Schneier's article presupposes that the application is a total replacement for human contact tracing and provides a diagnosis to the user. When you set up a strawman it is easily knocked over, and that he proceeded to do.

These apps, if well designed and used, can provide an additional source of potential contacts for the intelligent human beings doing contact tracing. The contact tracers will certainly will get application-reported contacts that do not result in transmissions, just like the majority of contacts elicited via interview will not have resulted in transmission. The contact tracer will not get application-reported contacts were contact existed unless both parties are running the app: just like the gaps they get from interviews with positive cases, and the things they cannot know like indirect transmission. Application contact records can also be used to prioritise interviews (a 4 hour contact is more likely to be problematic than a 10 minute one). If the use of the app detects one extra case that would otherwise have been walking the street passing on the love then it has more than, "absolutely no value." Even if the application data identifies a new positive case faster than it would otherwise been detected then it has more than, "absolutely no value."

That's not to say there are no privacy concerns, and there are certainly better and worse ways to craft an application.

In Australia the tracing app (notice the singular) does not autonomously announce to users that they have been in contact because, to quote Men in Black, "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." The app has been used only a few tens of times to allow human contact tracers to interview potential contacts of confirmed positive cases (https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2020-06-11/coronavirus-contact-tracing-app-covid-safe-no-close-contacts/12343138). It has not yet, to my knowledge, taken an infectious individual off the street that would not have otherwise been detected, but that may simply be because in Australia we have been blessed with very low COVID numbers in general and almost no community transmission. (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-17/coronavirus-cases-data-reveals-how-covid-19-spreads-in-australia/12060704?nw=0)

Limiting the size is a marketing strategy. If they go big early, then when 5.5G or 6G (or even 2021) comes along they will not have room to expand their bubble and sell you a new device. Just imagine how many more Gs a 1 GB device can protect against!

Sure they can.. and I wish them luck. I stuck to Australia because the article is titled, "How Australia could harness its tides for energy," and spruiking, "it could help to reduce Australia's dependence on fossil fuels." They mention, "Australia's government is currently investing in various ocean energy projects," and I am sure they'd like to be one of them.

... in the mere handful of inland rivers in Australia that exhibit regular and reliable flow. Stick to the oceans guys: unlike the inland rivers, government policy is less likely to dry these up.

Here's one from someone competent to offer an opinion: https://www.abc.net.au/news/he...

And, as I understand it, the first ever effective vaccine against a coronavirus. https://www.abc.net.au/news/he... Expecting a medical magic bullet is probably not wise.