“I also met a bunch [of college students] who I would characterize as actively, maybe in some cases gleefully disinterested in participating in democracy.

“Not only could they just not be bothered, they seemed pleased to tell me they weren't voting.

“I cannot fathom that level of nihilism and I could not reach them.

“That's a failure mode we need to address.”

- @threatresearch

#FailureMode #nihilism #ParticipatoryRepublic #voting

@FloridaMan

Question to those legal types:
What Federal (or NYS) criminal and laws are implicated if someone objectively lies about their record (and in what forums) and maybe or maybe not as a result, is elected? As George Santos is alleged to have done (decent article link below)

FWIR, civil fraud requires four elements
- a lie or statement made in reckless indifference to the truth
- made to a specific audience
- reliance on that fraudulent statement
- a tort (damage)
#NotLegalAdvice

If the candidate submitted or allowed his organization to submit incorrect info a) on his own election-specific website, b) to a pseud-official sources such as ballotopedia, or c) to an official government entity that had as its purpose making that info available to voters, what

Next question - suppose this is only a civil matter. Suppose other people helped him and can be show to have repeated or enabled these fraudulent statements (e.g. conspiracy to commit fraud) - what is their actual or statutory damage that can be claimed for having their (or other people’s vote) misdirected?

Interested to hear answers, I think it’s probably not civilly addressable in practice, which is why a criminal statute would be required to disincentivize this type of behavior.

https://rollcall.com/2022/12/22/criminal-ethics-probes-sought-over-background-of-rep-elect-george-santos/

#legal #fraud #elections #federallaw #NYStateLaw #IANAL
#legalquestion
#failuremode

Two mistakes so far in #failureMode the first RC said her instead of him. The second he said Neuron star.

I am glad they rushed it though

RC Car Test Tether Takes Car Testing To New Lengths

It's fascinating to see what happens when a creative hacker is given a set of constraints to work within. [rctestflight] found themselves in a very specific set of circumstances: Free RC cars from sponsors, and no real purpose for them. Instead of just taking them apart to see what made them tick (itself the past time of many a beginning hacker), [rctestflight] decided to let the RC cars disassembled themselves , destructively, on their way to 100,000 (scale) RC Car Miles, tallying up the distance (and the carnage) in the end as you see in the video below the break.

Can you spot the RC car under the mud?

Re-using a jig and test track (his backyard) from another test, [rctestflight] set up solar powered tether that could power any of the vehicles under test. The vehicles were modified as needed to drive along the circular track on a tether, and once stability was achieved, the cars were set on their own to either drive 100,000 scale miles or die trying.

Seeing as how [rctestflight] hales from the Pacific NorthWet of the United States near Seattle, the endurance test turned out to be not just a test of distance. Among the factors evaluated were how well each vehicle could withstand the mud, grime, and yes, even earthworms, that awaited them.

After each vehicle failed beyond the point of a quick fix, they were all torn down. Where each manufacturer cut corners could clearly be seen, and the weaknesses and strengths of each vehicle were pretty interesting. Plus, there's a pretty great (awful) uh… rendition… of an iconic 80's song. Twice. And of course the final conclusion: Exactly how many miles did each vehicle go before catastrophic failure? Check the video for results.

Regular readers will know that [rctestflight] is somewhat of a Hackaday regular, with plentiful great hacks such as this drone boat that sails the high seas of Lake Washington.

#carhacks #distance #failuremode #rccar #radiocontrolledcar

"Boeing produced a dynamically unstable airframe .... then tried to mask the 737’s dynamic instability with a software system. ... Finally, the software relied on systems known for their propensity to fail (angle-of-attack indicators) and did not appear to include even rudimentary provisions to cross-check the outputs of the angle-of-attack sensor against other sensors, or even the other angle-of-attack sensor. Big strike No. 3."

#software #boeing737 #failuremode

https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-looks-to-a-software-developer