and that's why the Startup-NY is a failure. despite tax incentives employees have to live somewhere and they would be taxed disproportionately vs. the company then when the incentives expire the company gets slapped. That's not a startup friendly environment, not by a long shot.

well the problem is that grandma could be doing banking in China if a rogue CA issues a certificate that masques fraudulent activities.

This is how Wipro got started, by building PDP-11 clones because of export bans. The Soviets also got around export restrictions as well. It's never helped prohibit a adversary from getting what they want even when they have to build it themselves and at great cost.

Trust is at an arms length, so locally administered CAs make sense for these purposes. Trust works when all parties are trustworthy and it breaks down when you trust that deadbeat cousin Lin who still owes you money for that pizza from 5 years ago. At that point you should be able to prune cousin Lin from your XMAS card list. You can't however because then you're immediate family won't allow it. Apple not removing the Chinese CA for example.

Well DNS is one mechanism but there can be others. I do think that the hierarchy of CA trust needs to be thrown out and it needs to give local control to who you trust and why. that means more responsibility from users but at least you can have some level of control.

I agree that the surveillance issue is bad but it's much worse when the DEA creates false evidence trails to hide the surveillance links to their own programs and that of the NSA. This puts the basic principles of justice out the window when you have DEA agents lying on the witness stand about how they obtained their information. A judge could ostensibly throw out convictions or exclude evidence based on those facts, sanctioning prosecutors for knowingly allowing this to happen at trial. It's fucking stupid to expose the nation to this kind of risk.

I agree with the trust issue on certs however encrypting doesn't mean that I have to use a trust based model if it's for personal uses or for close proximity use, such as within a family or business environment. The issues are much larger in terms of protecting data whether it's stored or in transit across insecure networks. As a start I'd like to see the CA system revamped or replaced with multiple trust authorities, not just one chain and have meaningful teeth to eliminate trust associations with authorities who violate trust which seems to be more rampant and obvious as of late.

there's nothing prohibiting that now.

Sponsors pay for content either in production or distribution and that's how they get their brand recognition to their targeted audience. It's been that way for decades and when it comes to kids shows, most of them are toy manufacturers or clothing or related products that get the kids to desire the things that are advertised. with targeted marketing on platforms like IOS or Android now content sponsors can drill in even further with ads that are identifying a specific child. "Hey Billy, buy this.."
is it unfair? In some ways yes and in others it's not because there's no such thing as free content.

In Kids programming that's what PBS did for kids with Sesame Street etc.

If you want to fix this, fix how content production and distribution are funded but you're never going to outlaw Barbie.

and don't forget Lucent. She's an idiot peddling for votes. I do however agree with what she's saying on this set of topics however.

with the 49th worst median income in the US, I doubt anybody in West Virgina will be able to afford a Tesla anyway.

In a state where coal is king, you ban the direct sale of electric cars.

It's called taking pride in what you do and having the passion to do it. When dumb shits in management crack down on these kinds of things it's time to find another company to work for.

why my towns start starving? i keep building farms, gathering and hunting lodges yet starvation. fix that first!

This is the fundamental flaw with bureaucratic thinking. Define metrics, design criteria but let the contractor build it. This is why government projects are so fucking expensive. Rules, Laws, Legislators and stupidity get in the way of innovation.

I don't care how bad or tangled the logic but as long as it's not using Hungarian notation, It's good.