Say I pay you to walk into a pub and tell your friends about my favourite candidate. Your pub generally disallows advertising. But they can't really detect this. So they don't actively do anything about it the way they do some guy walking in with a sign. That's the situation.
Solution: As a pub you have users sign a terms of service before letting them in, stating that you don't allow this type of behavior and reserve the right to ban the advertiser and the messenger from entering the establishment.
Then you make it easy to report solicitation of any activity that's against your terms.
A single person might be able to slip by, but anyone trying to brainwash your patrons at scale is very likely to get caught.
> A single person might be able to slip by, but anyone trying to brainwash your patrons at scale is very likely to get caught.
Sure, but a slight correction here. You're implying that once they're caught, they lose. But that's not what happens. To continue the bar analogy, the bartender now has to start banning his customers. He can't do anything to the guy that's bribing them.
Bloomberg got "caught" but that doesn't matter at all to him.
In this case the guy bribing people is also a regular at the only two pubs in town and getting kicked out of one of them would tank his venture because it's a source of a large portion of his audience.
Bloomberg getting kicked off of the Facebook ad platform would be a huge blow to his campaign. Facebook is huge for political campaigns because it allows them to micro target their audience and spam them with ads without any intent on the receiving end.
EDIT: Anyways, my main point is, if Facebook wanted to solve this problem they would.
If they cared about this problem to the exclusion of all else, sure. But Facebook doesn't want to ban all mention of Michael Bloomberg since Facebook users want to talk about him.
Legally cannot on US citizens. We werent even allowed to use drones to help civilian search and rescue missions due to fears of being accused of spying on citizens. This was in 2015.
That’s a little misleading, if the American government wants to do some surveillance on its citizens using military resources he can do so via partnership with the CIA and the NSA or any other domestic agency that has the authority to do it.
The CIA and the NSA or whatever civilian agency will make the actual program and then “use” (let) military resources do their thing.
For those that don't know, Specialist is a rank in the army.
Each of the individuals being promoted are _already psychological operations soldiers_. They are just going from the rank of specialist to sergeant or corporal. This is honestly a non-story. Soldiers are being promoted all the time, this is just a single large ceremony to account for an organizational reshuffle for the PSYOPS corps, Im assuming.
I think it is a story. The internal reorg and promotion of a huge class of 80+ psyops into leadership is a really good indication that the US army is changing and solidifying their combat strategy.
Clearly you haven't read the article. They are all either E-5 or E-6 and being promoted because 'the current rank authorizations were "inadequate to account for Soldiers' extensive training and education in influence theory, human dynamics, psychology, sociology, language, culture, and politics," per the release.'
Still, the service branches are always shuffling the deck to maintain the appropriate mix of senior and junior service members, especially in the more technical fields (such as psyops). This could represent an uptick in the use of psyops capabilities and the need for additional senior NCO's, or it could reflect a crop of senior NCO's that are retiring and need to be replaced. Sometimes a field can become bottom heavy, thus they reduce the points necessary for promotion (yes they use a point system), and when a field is top heavy they will offer early retirement, re-classing, and other options.
Yes, let's have the Ford highway that only Ford vehicle can drive on because the transponders are proprietary. We don't have privately painted lane markings, why would we have privately installed radio lane markings?
If you read the article, this disease, like it’s relative Mad Cow Disease, can probably infect humans, but is not likely to surface until many years after infection.
Actually the parent is correct. "That's not how it works". Specifically deer prions (but not other cervids like elk) don't seem to be transmissible to cows, both in the lab and in the wild, and not to mice or humans in the lab. It goes in both ways IIRC, cows nor mice can't go to deer.
Vulnerability to prion diseases is not as universal in human populations as with bacterial and viral infections - for example it’s been observed that people with certain genes never develop vCJD from eating BSE-infected meat (or at least their genes postpone the onset by at least a few decades).
AFAIK there's no direct evidence of prion diseases jumping species. The classic studies of scrapie prions failed to show cross-species transmission even with direct injection of infected material into the brains of rodents.
Everyone assumes BSE prions from cows are causing CJD in humans, but an alternative explanation is that organized crime was disposing human bodies in hamburger factories, and CJD is just caused by human prions.
There was at least one cluster of vCJD (in Queniborough) traced to a small traditional slaughter house that was providing to butcher shops, and that cross contamination was occurring because in a slaughter/butchering operation with only a few people it is much easier for the prions to be carried from the brain/spinal tissue to the expensive steaks. A consequence of this was that all small abattoirs in the United Kingdom went out of business.
So your theory has at least one strong counter example
"Soto’s team analyzed the retention of CWD and other infectious prion proteins and their infectivity in wheat grass roots and leaves that had been incubated with prion-contaminated material. They discovered that even highly diluted amounts of the material can bind to the roots and leaves. From there, they fed the wheat grass to hamsters, which became infected with the disease."
If you read the article instead of the press release, you'll see that Soto's group showed that wheatgrass can be contaminated by hamster prions or CWD prions, but that they only showed transmission of hamster prions to hamsters through exposure to the contaminated wheatgrass. That's not cross-species transmission.
"Everyone assumes BSE prions from cows are causing CJD in humans, but an alternative explanation is that organized crime was disposing human bodies in hamburger factories, and CJD is just caused by human prions."
Yes, that is indeed an alternative explanation, but has it actually been proposed seriously and is there any reason to believe that has ever happened ? I am genuinely curious...
shrug I don't recall seeing it in print anywhere. I've mentioned it to colleagues who study prions, and they're grossed out by the idea, but didn't think it was impossible.
I suppose you could try testing samples of hamburger for human DNA, but it would be hard to rule out innocent low levels of contamination from household dust (mostly human skin cells). Considering prions are infectious at such very low concentrations I'm not sure if any assay could rule it out.
4 paragraphs down in the main article talks about this. Yeah they don't "jump" if that's your concern. But have you ever licked your fingers without washing your hands? Are you a hunter that might have deer blood on your hands?
You currently run it either as a bytecode VM (which is rather fast and runs on any platform), or you can translate it to C++ if you want an additional speed boost.
