Comment Re:So Zuck's going to jail, right? (Score 1) 55
Nah, but he'll be spending what is to him a trivial amount of money having his legal department come up with a reason the courts should ignore this.
Nah, but he'll be spending what is to him a trivial amount of money having his legal department come up with a reason the courts should ignore this.
Originally, laws were ways of codifying what everyone agreed was an acceptable form of vengeance for being wronged.
We have had a few years to think about things. Now we can say things like, "Maybe we should try to reverse the harm to the victim" or "The goal is a safe and happy society for all".
With that in mind, you can say that a sentence should A) protect the innocent, B) where deterrents work, be a deterrent, C) rehabilitate the criminal into a productive member of society.
If someone is found dangerous and not capable of being made safe any other way... capital punishment remains a logical sentence. The threshold, given the consequences of a mistake, needs to be pretty high, but it should always be a potential response to crime. It's a simple cold calculation - how certain you are you have the correct person, how certain you are they can't be fixed, and how much you can afford for warehousing them under guard.
I think you underestimate how much those mods sink their personal identity and ego into the job. Also, the point isn't to make the system work, it's to make it look like it could so you can cash out and leave someone else holding the bag.
Your use of language tells a slightly different story - you come across as mindlessly bloodthirsty. I tend to agree that dangerous people with no hope of rehabilitation are probably better off executed, but if that's your first choice and not your regrettable last one out of perceived necessity... You should think about it some more.
Having said that, censor-and-ban is a way of creating a false sense of consensus to push a particular belief, and that is inappropriate for any forum pretending to have open discussion. Reddit mods are amateurs who typically lack ethics, have a deliberate agenda, or are simply overwhelmed by the workload they've taken on. Usually some combination of the three.
Your best option is to recognize that the forum is not what it claims to be... and leave it to the idiots who want their echo chamber. As long as you stay, you're giving them a more effective platform to shout from.
Bitcoin, not BitTorrent. BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol. Bitcoin is the cryptocurrency that uses obscene amounts of energy for nothing.
Make it another income stream... Make mods PAY.
You want to run a sub? There's a recurring fee based on monthly readership and posting stats, divided between mods (to encourage having a good mod:post ratio).
You want to be a mod? Registration fee. We're going to need a credit card and valid government-issued photo ID.
Give each mod some advertising credit on subs they moderate based on their estimated work - posts read, complaints reviewed, etc.
It'll push corporate-funded moderation and censorship, turning the whole thing into a mix of product placement and banner ads, but who cares? You're not going to make it worse, and it'll look good for the IPO!
The point of a breeder reactor is to make material for nuclear weapons. The radioactive waste they generate isn't worth the power you get from them.
If we limit our nuclear power to fuel mined and refined at current costs, used in non-breeder reactors, uranium will last less than a century, and you can only double that if you throw in thorium.
If you are willing to have power three times as expensive as current nuclear power generation rates, we could go for tens of thousands of years getting uranium extracted from sea water.
I think other options will likely keep that an economically non-viable option... which is probably good because we already have enough nuclear waste, thanks. We have other options to explore, it's not 'nuclear or freeze in the dark'. If we have to use nuclear power for a few more decades to help us get off fossil fuels fine, but it shouldn't be our forever answer.
Forget what Bitcoin is used for, the 'production' should be banned anywhere that gives even the slightest shit about the environment or rational allocation of energy production.
China's 'catch-up' has been powered more by theft than discovery. I'm kind of ambivalent about that, they've more than paid for what's been stolen with the environmental damage that came with making all out cheap crap for us.
The tighter the CCP locks the country down, the less room there is for brilliant people to excel, and the less semi-rationally assigned funding for things they might excel in. I don't see China leaping ahead any time soon. Keeping in step, sure.
With the phone network having its own powered lines and with its switching stations having independent backup power, when I was growing up you always knew the phones would work even if the power went out. Beyond that, you knew where a phone line led.
Those two qualities are what make that old system so precious to people who remember it, especially as they get older and being able to get 911 to send someone to you immediately seems more and more important.
That is indeed gone for most people, and they're clinging to an illusion. You can still pay POTS rates, but it's VOIP. Probably from inside your home. If you don't have a UPS on your phone provider's device, your phone will drop whenever there is a power failure.
The only reason I have a line into my house is for my Internet connection. The only reason I have VOIP line is I'm just old enough to be stuck in the days when cell phones cost you a mint every time you made a call. I'll probably get around to cancelling my VOIP line in a year or two.
Ron DeSantis said in 2021 that Social media platforms have morphed into the town square, this when he signed the "stop the censorship" bill.
Does this new bill then mean that there's an age-limit on town squares?
You don't have to give it voluntarily, they can mine it out of all the data the are constantly vacuuming up from more sources than you can likely imagine.
If you have an Android phone and it connects to your home WiFi, they can even figure out which of your family members you are spending the most time with. And where each of you works or goes to school, and what your schedules are.
If you use Google, they probably know more about you than you do... If they care to look at the data.
TNG, even when it was doing serious sci-fi, always felt bland to me. And the comic relief cheap.
NuTrek/The Kelvinverse is even worse, no matter how much I love Karl's portrayal of McCoy. In fact, let's take a moment to realize exactly how awesome an actor Urban is... But NuTrek completely abandoned everything Trek except the uniforms and the shapes of the ships.
TOS of course has issues with being very dated AND low budget on top of that, but whatever the lightning in a bottle was with that nothing since recaptured it until Strange New Worlds.
More like criminals who occasionally use a secret letter of marque.
Spies would only sell what they had obtained if required to fund an operation or as part of an operation. Neither of those options seem particularly likely here - the capabilities are too useful if kept in their hands alone, and hardly worth the political fallout if not.
Except of course, we're talking about espionage. Maybe this is just a way of 'proving' that this group isn't a direct tool of the CCP by selling their 2nd-tier access.
In my opinion, the best way to deal with foreign cyber-criminals is the same way you'd deal with a group of vigilantes firing weapons across a border... expect their host country to handle it or accept that the criminals are assumed to working for the government. And if that country feels it's appropriate to attack the infrastructure of another nation... that other nation should feel perfectly fine about retaliation.
Where there's a will, there's a relative.