Except that black holes radiate energy at a temperature that seems to be inversely proportional to its mass. Even a simple stellar mass black hole emits so little radiation that is is for all intents and purposes, black. A black hole will not become visible until it nears the end of its life, when its contents are rapidly radiating away and the rate of energy release brings its temperature into a detectable range. Right now they emit virtually nothing, so we literally can not see them.

We can, however, infer their existence through the effects of gravity on other nearby stars. We can also use this effect to infer their mass, which is exactly how we have figured out that at the very center of our own galaxy there is a black hole with 4.1-4.5 million times the mass of our Sun.

Looks like we're in Soviet Russia then, since Youtube does watch you (watch history, subscriptions, all to send you target ads), Google does search you (again, to sell you targeted ads), your email does read you (think about who else gets to read all your email and turn them into an open book about your life). Hell, as Windows incorporates more DRM measures and gets more and more locked down, it kind of does boot you from being in control. Facebook of course is just commercialized surveillance where its users are the product and are served up to advertisers for the purpose of selling my crap to the masses. Text messages....I got nothing there. Phone listens to you...well same thing as email. Who else gets to listen? Sad that what was once a hilarious joke is now turning true before our eyes.

..does not mean you have any business going through my life with a fine tooth comb.

The "Nothing to Hide" argument is a fallacy that falls apart upon examination:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110524/00084614407/privacy-is-not-secrecy-debunking-if-youve-got-nothing-to-hide-argument.shtml
https://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127461/

You really think that the American Public, who can't be bothered to vote people out of office who violate all kinds of other rights, intrude upon private affairs, and gave wholesale approval to an illegal spying program perpetrated against every citizen of this country, will somehow mobilize and vote people out of office for supporting the implementation of the metric system? What?

Except the feds do have that power. One of the clauses enumerating the powers of Congress has explicitly states that "The Congress shall have power to ... fix the Standard of Weights and Measures". So if Congress wants to say "lets get of this nonsense imperial crap no one can remember" they can do that at any times, and the states have literally no standing to say otherwise.

The issue is that the government does not wait until they think you *are* a criminal to do this stuff, they start doing it when they think you *might* be a criminal, or worse yet, when someone *wants* you to be a criminal. It's not the stuff that would actually manage to fetch a warrant that a lot of people are worried about, it's the fishing expeditions that lazy crime fighting agencies and power abusing bureaucrats engage in if they don't like some of your associations. Just look to what happened during the McCarthy era to see what can happen when persons in power don't like the idea of you exercising your right to free association with people they don't like, regardless of if any rules are being broken.

The big problem with this is that Judges tend to dislike Juries being notified of that right and tend to throw people out for even mentioning it in court.

Man, it really sucks that Papa Johns would do crap like that, with the texting and threats of layoffs and reduced hours. What a cheapskate that guy is. Too bad they make the best pizza out of the three big chains. Now I might have to consider not eating it on ideological grounds.

Jerks.

If anything is absolutely critical for a companies production infrastructure, it should not be connected to the internet, and all the systems involved should be locked down so hard that you need admin approval to so much as change the desktop wallpaper, let alone write to the disk or plug in a thumbdrive.

And if there is a need for data transfer from those machines to the internet, hire a few extremely trustworthy individuals to run sneakernet between the two networks, and have the whole thing recorded on security camera: the room in which the two network connection points are in, and the monitors and KB/Mouse inputs on the two computers.

Probably cheaper to have up to 6 guys who do nothing but sit in a room manually transferring files and data from the secured infrastructure LAN during their shifts to the internet at employee request than it would be to suffer a cyberattack that cripples production. And if something DOES go down, it's all on the video anyway, so it should be hard to figure out which of the sneakernet employees did it.

What I hate about these articles that say there is no right to privacy in the Constitution is that they completely forget about the existence of the Ninth Amendment:

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

What that amendment means is that "just because we did not list that right here, does not mean it does not exist as a right. There are many rights we did not list here, and this amendment is intended to protect them as well as those we did list already". And yes, it is very broad. It is supposed to be broad because it is supposed to be a check on government power and a protection of the publics general rights. The Tenth Amendment is written along a similar line. Both are intended to say "any power or right we did not explicitly give to the federal government, we give to the people and the states". They are supposed to be very very broad because they are supposed to have a very broad interpretation in order to protect personal freedom and the autonomy of the states. And I think a right to privacy easily passes the test for inclusion under the Ninth Amendment.

I disagree with anyone who says that the Constitution contains no right to privacy. It contains one, by virtue of the Ninth Amendment, by not explicitly denying it.

Given the widespread, nationwide abuse of this practice by employers, I believe this might actually be a justifiable use of the ol' "Necessary and Proper" clause.

If they've stopped showing up entirely, I say the court should issue warrants and hold them in contempt until they take the proceedings seriously. They made their bed, time to lay in it.

I dont really care how it works, what I care is if it leaves my ability to refuse to answer intact.

I think having everyone use UTC would be impractical. If the sun is out and its 2am UTC, someones gonna be confused, somewhere. And its gonna just be a giant pain in the rear end for everyone that isn't already using UTC to begin with. And even if you eliminate time zone boundaries, you still kind of need date boundaries. At one point do we say that monday is done with and tuesday begins? Is that a local thing? Do we keep time zones and just have them define the start and end points of the local day now?

And then theres all the technology that we use. Sure, disabling DST and just setting everything to UTC would be easy, but then every scheduled process has to be converted over to UTC. And then new rules for DST have to be implemented and its all a big pain in the you no what. Why don't we just go ahead and implement metric time while were at it just to make sure everyone's sense of time is sufficiently scrambled? Ugh...

I think something that would be much more practical would be to simply eliminate DST worldwide, and for countries that span multiple timezones to simplify. As far as the US goes, it would be easy to get the lower 48 on the same schedule. EST just falls back 90 minutes, CST falls back 30, MST jumps ahead 30, and PST jumps ahead 90. Bam, one unified timezone and no ones off by more than 90 minutes.

At those speeds, I cant imagine that there isnt some lost/corrupted data. Does retransmission factor into the 90 minute time, or are they using so many redundant signals that theres no need for a TCP-like packed received ack? Whenever communication between Earth and Mars comes up I just have to wonder how long it's going to be until we find a way to communicate faster than light using something like quantum nonlocality. Otherwise were going to need two internets once we finally colonize that rusted out wasteland. (No really, it is all rusted out...that orange color comes from iron oxide, aka rust)