Comment Texas GOPolitics Works for ...? (Score 1) 198
Texas, USA A place to work without a place to live is just U$A politics as usual.
USA Labor Policy or U$A Work, Pray, Die policy for #AllOfUS.
Comment Re:Hacks or Profitering (Score 1) 48
FYI:n Just like IPv4... IPv6... DoD can build MIC-style Internet/W3 weapon systems. A face to the field ain't a backbone of anything.
Comment After asking WTF are y'all talking about? (Score 1) 70
I looked at Stanford, MIT, Wikipedia... for "Internet Access Provider (IAP)" "Internet Service Provider (ISP)" both existed as separate concepts in the 1990s.
Now everyone is confused unless they see physical objects. Business/Capitalism loves to confuse all humanity and erase what scientists and engineers made clear initially. A service can't be physical; IOW, a service ain't a physical product, and products cannot be teleported; Hence, infrastructure...
ARPA/DARPA Internet physical Infrastructure.
TimBL/WWW Internet virtual services.
https://drive.google.com/file/...
I am retired and will not discuss this NetNeutrality topic again [reminds me of Trumps, QAnon, Gods' fanatics].
Comment Re: Tim Wu coined the phrase "net neutrality" (Score 1) 70
WTF are y'all talking about? [Services/Traffic on "OR" Access to infrastructure?]
Note from an old guy, ISP and IAP ain't the same.
Service "S" and Access "A" ain't the same.
Simple Explanation:
W3/LAN Services [eMail, Banking, Streaming, Shopping, Twitter...] use W3C... standards/protocols....
Internet Access [ATT, Verison...] use ITU... standards/protocols....
World Wide Web "Services" on the W3 provide virtual Internet Access.
Telecommunications Internet "Access" is all the physical Infrastructure.
https://drive.google.com/file/... [google.com]
Comment Re: Tim Wu coined the phrase "net neutrality" (Score 1) 70
Comment Re: Tim Wu coined the phrase "net neutrality" (Score 1) 70
Comment Re:Tim Wu coined the phrase "net neutrality" (Score 1) 70
What, your Google broken?
https://www.law.columbia.edu/news/archive/tim-wu-center-net-neutrality-debate
"Wu, the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, coined the term “network neutrality” back in 2002 to describe the concept that internet service providers should treat all data on the Internet the same and not block, speed up or slow down traffic based on paid prioritization or other preferences. In 2015, the FCC adopted rules that made net neutrality the law of the land."
http://www.timwu.org/OriginalNNProposal.pdf
Note from an old guy, ISP and IAP ain't the same.
Service "S" and Access "A" ain't the same.
Simple Explanation:
W3/LAN Services [eMail, Banking, Streaming, Shopping, Twitter...] use W3C... standards/protocols....
Internet Access [ATT, Verison...] use ITU... standards/protocols....
World Wide Web "Services" on the W3 provide virtual Internet Access.
Telecommunications Internet "Access" is all the physical Infrastructure.
Comment Over the decades of important lost data/info? (Score 1) 2
DoD Critical systems/networks, AirForce Aircraft, Navy missiles... science, engineering, R&D, Maintenance specs/TMs, decisions... were made to let Our U$A Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) manage, own, keep, maintain... everything better than the Government agencies/managers. IOW, U$A perfidious politicians forced the USA Government and DoD to contract out many very sensitive core-operations jobs/requirements that should have remained Government/DoD Organic responsibilities. I vaguely remember decades of news/info about critical systems lost data myopic-technophobic Luddite decisions, sub-contracts to China... companies for critical systems software development....
NOTE: Information Management ain't Data Management (Ontology...). Information for people ain't data for science, engineering.... From POTUS NeoCon Ron to POTUS Neihlist Don and all the neoliberal, libertarian... thoughtless and greedy agenda politicians, #AllOfUS have been sold spins, frames, gaslights... lies. All our honorable patriotic humanist politicians and SES, GM... government personnel have been made to look like the bad guys, for all our Government failures.
Government ain't the problem, IMO. I hope we can hire AI soon for HR, and to audit the info/data and pennies/dollars, and names linked to successes/failures from line-labor to C*O...POTUS.
Comment Russia, China... or U$A... is the Our Problem? (Score 1) 122
Russia, China, Israel, Iran, India... and U$A genius RICO families' and
C*Os' perfidious politicians and prosperity cult-clergy are
Wealth/Power Accumulation Clubs (W/PAC) of Luddite-technophobes.
The U$A governance of the USA has put #AllOfUS last in priority. Look at USA State Of Union (Education, Infrastructure, Science, Medicine, Communities, Industry, Economics, Finances...). U$A pays for QAnon (Question Answer nonsense) agitprop and MSM/SM pseudo-news.
Ask:
How does U$A setup US to fail?
Why does U$A want US to fail?
Microsoft is a plague on US. Many 1980s software companies (with better products) were choked out of existence by U$A laws and Microsoft, Oracle.... The only platforms/companies that produce and use the most secure innovative and advanced software are Open Source Software and Open Agile economic models (Look at RedHat Enterprise Software, Apache Web-Servers, Google, Apple...). Microsoft, Oracle... have always made security by obscurity (gaslight), politics/laws... very profitable and exhaustively excusable.
Does China has a very large Microsoft software development center? Does China have Microsoft sourcecode in an "escrow" account? How often does Microsoft use others' innovative and advanced software products as R&D for products, copyright...?
Microsoft is not alone. Which company (when) sold/gave China, USA rocketry telemetry technology for space launches?
Over the last +30y I have read about so many USA security failures that are always paved with (patriotic, religious, economic...) greed.
IOW: What is good for the U$A ain't good for All Of US. U$A W/PAC greed and lack of accountability are the greatest security threats to the USA.
Comment USA vs. U$A Polity and Accountability. (Score 1) 9
U$A Traitors, Terrorist, and Perpetrators are Trumps, Kochs... Iniquitous RICO families, perfidious hubristic billionaires, petulant pelf politicians, M$M/$M agitprop pundits, antiChrist prosperity clergy....
The Truth Must Be Told For All Of US To Be Free of all superciliousness misanthropic autocrats, racists, criminals... inciting Violent Overthrow Of Our USA Constitution and Government.
End The Hate. End The Lies. End The Fear. End The Iniquitous Inequality, End U$A Polity, Agitprop, and History.
All Of US Are One People With Liberty and Justice for All.
The USA cannot allow U$A private/corporate/PAC... wealth to purchase politicians and governance that increases iniquitous inequality and incite violence, treason, terrorism....
Comment Toxic Air, Water, Land, Products... Are Good? (Score 1) 66
Pick One: (A) USA Progress Polity, (B) U$A Profit Polity.
Does Plutocrat Polity Prevent Progress?
Does Isocracy Polity Prevent Profit?
Thanks for the Info.
Comment Re: Yes 3P-WASP. (Score 1) 96
History agrees with Personal Pelf Phantasy (3P) of Wealth Accumulation Society Peerages (WASP). Indentured cavalier satraps/politicians and perfidious prosperity clergy assure that supercilious and perfidious 18th-to-20th century Equestrian Economics (EE) will govern and conserve "POWER" into the 21st Century.
3P-WASP human history from kings...billionaires [China, Greece, Egypt, Rome, Germany, Japan... Christians, Muslims... USA, USSR, EU...], defined 3P "POWER" with agitprop history, thousands of years of peerage polity validation, and amoral iniquitous inequality. 3P-WASP steal, destroy, invade, enslave... the zeitgeist-people that create, invent, build.... 3P-WASP will always take the credit for successes, assign the blame for failures, and deny truth and facts. 3P-WASP reality ignores actuality. https://tobiasrevell.com/A-Bri...
3P-WASP power now (21st Century) defines seraphic-rights of sovereigns' lineage and legacy, intellect, privilege, integrity, sanity, probity, history... by a primeval zeitgeist. 3P-WASP prosperity dogma is canonized into domestic and international laws, treaties, ethics, economics, governance....
https://sxpolitics.org/wp-cont...
https://socialhistoryportal.or...
https://www.smithsonianmag.com...
https://www.vox.com/2014/4/10/...
https://www.bloomberg.com/feat...
Gilded Age Robber Barons Jason Gould (1836–1892) a railroad magnate and financial speculator [Wealthy Elite]; said, "I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half." U$ €U ¥ U... Billionaires think the same way today about humanity.
USA Fare Economics Fails U$A Iniquitous Inequality [AKA: Greed, Avarice, Cupidity...].
U$A Greed, Avarice, Cupidity... Economics Fails The USA and All US People.
USA Our Retirements?
U$A Recessions GDP drops +1%?
USA Our Jobs?
U$A Great Recessions GDP drops +5%?
USA Our Homes?
U$A Great Depressions GDP drops +10%?
USA Our Future?
U$A Great Desperations GDP drops +20%?
USA Constituents Accumulate Less Income, Services, Annuities, Safeguards...?
U$A Constituents Accumulate More Wealth, Privileges, Entitlements, Welfare...?
Comment WASP "Power" ends... US v. U$. (Score 0) 96
Governance by billionaires, kings, pharaohs... via their perfidious pelf satraps, plutocrats, aristocrats... creates iniquitous inequality on earth, as in space. Wealth Accumulation Society Peerage (WASP) exclusivity causes the destruction of cultures and people.
Governance by US/People [Isocracy] create peace, wealth, communities, schools, art, roads... and end slavery, oppression, wars, iniquitous inequality... by egalitarian and efficacious sharing resources [wealth] created by all of US, EU... and defending against WASP oligarchs, plutocrats.... Maybe one day WASP will be extinct and out of Space.
Personal WASP phantasy "Power" is defined by agitprop history, peerage politics, and iniquitous inequality. WASP kings, satraps, billionaires... exploit hate, hunger, fear... and take credit for all successes by others and blame other people for all failures, disasters, problems, wars....
U$ governance assures space is a profitable wasteful failure for humanity.
Edmund Clarke, 2007 Winner of the Turing Award, Dies of Covid-19 (post-gazette.com) 65
"Edmund M. Clarke, the FORE Systems Professor of Computer Science Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University, has died of Covid-19," writes Slashdot reader McGruber.
From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Professor Clarke was best known for his work in model checking, an automated method for detecting design errors in computer hardware and software. CMU president Farnam Jahanian said the world had "lost a giant in computer science" with Mr. Clarke's death. "Ed's pioneering work in model checking applied formal computational methods to the ultimate challenge: computers checking their own correctness," Mr. Jahanian said in a statement. "As systems become ever more complex, we are just beginning to see the wide-reaching and long-term benefits of Ed's insights, which will continue to inspire researchers and practitioners for years to come."
In the early 1980s, Mr. Clarke and his Harvard University graduate student, E. Allen Emerson — as well as Joseph Sifakis of the University of Grenoble, who was working separately — developed model checking, which has helped to improve the reliability of complex computer chips, systems and networks. For their work, the Association for Computing Machinery gave the three scientists the prestigious A.M. Turing Award — computer science's Nobel Prize — in 2007.
Mr. Clark's citation on the Turing Award website said Microsoft and Intel and other companies use model checking to verify designs for computer networks and software. "It is becoming particularly important in the verification of software designed for recent generations of integrated circuits, which feature multiple processors running simultaneously," the citation page said. "Model checking has substantially improved the reliability and safety of the systems upon which modern life depends."
From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Professor Clarke was best known for his work in model checking, an automated method for detecting design errors in computer hardware and software. CMU president Farnam Jahanian said the world had "lost a giant in computer science" with Mr. Clarke's death. "Ed's pioneering work in model checking applied formal computational methods to the ultimate challenge: computers checking their own correctness," Mr. Jahanian said in a statement. "As systems become ever more complex, we are just beginning to see the wide-reaching and long-term benefits of Ed's insights, which will continue to inspire researchers and practitioners for years to come."
In the early 1980s, Mr. Clarke and his Harvard University graduate student, E. Allen Emerson — as well as Joseph Sifakis of the University of Grenoble, who was working separately — developed model checking, which has helped to improve the reliability of complex computer chips, systems and networks. For their work, the Association for Computing Machinery gave the three scientists the prestigious A.M. Turing Award — computer science's Nobel Prize — in 2007.
Mr. Clark's citation on the Turing Award website said Microsoft and Intel and other companies use model checking to verify designs for computer networks and software. "It is becoming particularly important in the verification of software designed for recent generations of integrated circuits, which feature multiple processors running simultaneously," the citation page said. "Model checking has substantially improved the reliability and safety of the systems upon which modern life depends."
Edward Snowden Urges Donations to the EFF (eff.org) 99
In October, Edward Snowden was granted permanent residency in Russia. A new web page by the EFF applauds his past activities as a U.S. whistleblower. "His revelations about secret surveillance programs opened the world's eyes to a new level of government misconduct, and reinvigorated EFF's continuing work in the courts and with lawmakers to end unlawful mass spying."
And then they shared this fund-raising pitch written by Edward Snowden: Seven years ago I did something that would change my life and alter the world's relationship to surveillance forever.
When journalists revealed the truth about state deception and illegal conduct against citizens, it was human rights and civil liberties groups like EFF — backed by people around the world just like you — that seized the opportunity to hold authority to account.
Surveillance quiets resistance and takes away our choices. It robs us of private space, eroding our dignity and the things that make us human.
When you're secure from the spectre of judgement, you have room to think, to feel, and to make mistakes as your authentic self. That's where you test your notions of what's right. That's when you question the things that are wrong.
By sounding the alarm and shining a light on mass surveillance, we force governments around the world to confront their wrongdoing.
Slowly, but surely, grassroots work is changing the future. Laws like the USA Freedom Act have just begun to rein in excesses of government surveillance. Network operators and engineers are triumphantly "encrypting all the things" to harden the Internet against spying. Policymakers began holding digital privacy up to the light of human rights law. And we're all beginning to understand the power of our voices online.
This is how we can fix a broken system. But it only works with your help.
For 30 years, EFF members have joined forces to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people. It takes unique expertise in the courts, with policymakers, and on technology to fight digital authoritarianism, and thankfully EFF brings all of those skills to the fight. EFF relies on participation from you to keep pushing the digital rights movement forward .
Each of us plays a crucial role in advancing democracy for ourselves, our neighbors, and our children. I hope you'll answer the call by joining EFF to build a better digital future together.
Sincerely,
Edward Snowden
And then they shared this fund-raising pitch written by Edward Snowden: Seven years ago I did something that would change my life and alter the world's relationship to surveillance forever.
When journalists revealed the truth about state deception and illegal conduct against citizens, it was human rights and civil liberties groups like EFF — backed by people around the world just like you — that seized the opportunity to hold authority to account.
Surveillance quiets resistance and takes away our choices. It robs us of private space, eroding our dignity and the things that make us human.
When you're secure from the spectre of judgement, you have room to think, to feel, and to make mistakes as your authentic self. That's where you test your notions of what's right. That's when you question the things that are wrong.
By sounding the alarm and shining a light on mass surveillance, we force governments around the world to confront their wrongdoing.
Slowly, but surely, grassroots work is changing the future. Laws like the USA Freedom Act have just begun to rein in excesses of government surveillance. Network operators and engineers are triumphantly "encrypting all the things" to harden the Internet against spying. Policymakers began holding digital privacy up to the light of human rights law. And we're all beginning to understand the power of our voices online.
This is how we can fix a broken system. But it only works with your help.
For 30 years, EFF members have joined forces to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people. It takes unique expertise in the courts, with policymakers, and on technology to fight digital authoritarianism, and thankfully EFF brings all of those skills to the fight. EFF relies on participation from you to keep pushing the digital rights movement forward .
Each of us plays a crucial role in advancing democracy for ourselves, our neighbors, and our children. I hope you'll answer the call by joining EFF to build a better digital future together.
Sincerely,
Edward Snowden
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