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The "Master persuader" series explains in great detail why and why trump won. It also explains how and why everyone got it wrong. great series.

> What will Alex Jones think now that Trump is in power

Alex Jones needs clicks and pageviews so it will be more of the same

> Will there be no more school shootings because Obama/Hillary and the federal government are no longer trying to take our guns away?

it will be because of democrats in the senate or house, or at the state or local level. Plenty of scapegoats to go around

> Will ISIS no longer attack the US because Trump is being "tough" on them and the president is no longer refusing to say the words "radical islamic terrorism"?

it will still be their fault for letting isis happen in the first place

> So many intriguing questions

Maybe for people who are new to politics. The same script will repeat in 8-16 years

They were mad because she attacked US citizens

don't encourage the scalpers

The run up and aftermath of the iraq war was my breaking point. we need something different.

Compliance vs Discovery. Typically, you would check for compliance periodically while discovery happens after the fact.

> I introduced the concept of warfare

I assumed "killing people" was broad enough to include obvious cases such as war :)

> So, back to my first questions; who benefits from manipulating medical and aircraft equipment on a large enough scale to be compared to potential financial fraud

Competing corporations via corporate espionage. A targeted hack against Siemens infusion pumps would force hospitals to consider alternatives.

> It's not that I don't trust the computers, it's that I don't trust people.

Every system in the world has been created by people with their own biases and faults. If we are really going down that path, then you must seriously consider going off the grid.

not op but office365 includes desktop versions of word, excel, outlook, etc and they are faster and have more features.

> Warfare maybe? For fun? Not as obvious as fraud for monetary gain

Wars are extremely profitable for some.

> I think you're exaggerating just a bit.

I think you are being myopic. We trust computers with thousands of important tasks. If we can't trust them for voting, we really have to reconsider their usefulness.

> the institution will suffer serious harm

The republic is experiencing significant harm. If it was not, people would not be talking about it.

> How will you know if an electronic voting system produces a wrong result, except by running a paper voting system in parallel?

Audits? Open Source? Checksums? Hashes? We have many tools to verify the integrity of electronic data (I also never claimed it had to 100% digital)

> Do municipalities choosing voting machine contractors have incentives aligned to promote election integrity? Can they critically evaluate security properties of what they're being sold

If the choice is federally verified company A or federally verified company B, then yes.

> What would be the benefit of manipulating this?

Killing people. Imagine a StuxNet type attack that targets medical equipment or an attack that can drop planes from the sky (https://www.wired.com/2015/05/feds-say-banned-researcher-com...)

> I would second guess anything that uses a computer to keep a record of something that someone would have a direct benefit if manipulated

Then you better move to the woods. Basic economic principals (scarcity) mean that every resource has value to an interested party.

This is the reason Schmidt uses an iPhone

We trust computers to:

* Count and record our money

* Operate and monitor medical equipment

* Monitor and control planes, trains, ships, and cars

* etc

To think that we cannot use a computer to record votes is insane.

Does your debugger not use the f keys for step\into\out of?

Did you expect them to come out and say "The Touchbar is just ok. You might like it" ?

I feel like the touchbar is going to make this worse. You will get into the habit of touching it and since your hand is already near the screen....

Have fun playing with your dongles

It is just another cable\dongle\adapter\hub we must buy again and again. These products should "just work" together.

Not an exhaustive search: http://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/business-solutions/hp-z240-tow...

So for 1,100 you are getting half as much ram, half as much storage, and a lesser gpu.

I'm sure you could spec out something similar to the internals for a few hundred less with a little bit of work.

> there will still be a web after natural selection

Here are 10 things you will do after ad blockers kill the web (You won't believe number 7!!!!)

> Four standard (non-proprietary) multi-use ports is a complaint?

which one of those ports can I use to plug in my lighting headphones?

This isn't a computer for excel\word\facebook.

The target market for this is people who buy a $1,800 wacom cintiq and pair it with a $1,000 computer.

The price is reasonable for the people it targets.

uBlock Origin + Windows Defender = pretty good defence for people who don't click yes on everything that pops up

Which is why the advice is terrible. Games need to be fun first which is why Doom uses abstract levels instead of realistic levels.

> focus first on what it is, and then only on how it plays

This is a great way to make a game that is pretty but boring.

You've wasted a lot of time on something that is easily ignored. Its time to move on.

Looks like a lot of fun

Try some coffee with a light breakfast, then move on to the harder stuff if you still can't cope with "words".

Have you tried downloading any significant portion of your backup from CrashPlan? Is so, how was performance?

> What? How does a better screen make the camera better?

According to the author: The screen makes photos look better. So if you use your phone as the primary device to view photos, and don't want to carry a second device to take them, this may be the phone for you.