Saturday, November 18, 2023

 

Your phone keyboard is nit a physical keyboard; it's an on-screen app that captures all you type on it.  We use it to type our search engine key words, our credit card passwords, our security passwords.  How private  is your keyboard?  Not all keyboards are equal, and not all keyboard apps are equal.  Some keyboards might just talk locally to your device; other keyboards send keystrokes to a centralized server, which have wildly different privacy implications.  How do you tell the difference

VIRTUAL KEYBOARD
When we use a computer we have a physical device with keys that allows us to input text or numbers into the computer when we have a device with just a screen, like an iPad or phone.  We use a virtual keyboard, which is a software-based system, that renders an image of a keyboard on the display and operates as a touch screen for the inputting  keystrokes.

Three types of virtual keyboards:

1.  Systems Keyboard.  Your phone's operating system comes with a built-in virtual keyboard when you tap on a text input field so I can search bar SMS or Instagram comment by default you're operating systems keyboard will appear this is usually the case for all apps on your phone by default they generally use the operating systems built-in keyboard but occasionally there are apps specific keyboards some apps might have unique requirements for example a musical app might need a piano instead of letters others like some banking apps might have their own keyboard app for added security then there are third-party keyboards keyboard apps that you install on your phone

DR. TOBY ROGERS: The way that you get good science in connection with dangerous products is through the courts, is through the toxic tort system.

Dr. Toby Rogers.

Government doesn't really want to fund the studies that are going to smash an industry and lead to a product being withdrawn from the market. The way that you get good science in connection with dangerous products is through the courts, is through the toxic tort system.  Basically, the plaintiff's lawyers will take a look at whatever data they can find about a toxic product they will calculate the odds of winning a court case a toxic tort case and then they will actually go out and fun the scientific research to figure out how dangerous the product actually is. 

So industry is not doing this.

You actually need the court system, and you need Deep Pockets plaintiff's attorneys to spend $10 million, $20 million, what have you on a study, so you actually have the data to find out how harmful a toxic product is.  That's how our system works the pharmaceutical industry knew that. They were losing in court in the'70s and early 1980s when it came to lawsuits over Harms for vaccines.  So in 1986, they got Congress to pass the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, 1986, and that gave them liability protection.

Friday, November 17, 2023

Throughout its entire history, there are only 15 years in which the United States has not been at war with another country

The real story of America's "War on Terrorism" begins with the Iranian Revolution in 1979

Unfortunately, the sheriff's department in Los Angeles has stripped the permit away because Ricci's "yelled" at the LAPD when they came to investigate.