Nope. They aren't paying taxes. Well, the workers are paying taxes but the money never makes it to the government. The problem is that the employer has to send the tax money up to the federal government. Since the employer typically knows these people are illegal and therefor have no recourse or ability to collect their government services, the company will keep the money as profit. So in effect they're not paying their fair share (although it isn't their fault).
The problem is that the employer has to send the tax money up to the federal government. Since the employer typically knows these people are illegal and therefor have no recourse or ability to collect their government services, the company will keep the money as profit. So in effect they're not paying their fair share (although it isn't their fault).
/me resists urge to correct grandparent's use of the phrase 'begs the question'...
But also, I'm reminded of an argument I waged and lost with my wife and some friends about the whole English-language thing. It was my position that if somone comes to a given country they should learn to speak the local language. But if you follow that logic everyone in the US should be speaking Cherokee or whatever. The European immigrants imposed their language on the country by sheer numbers. Who are we to say some other ethnic group can't do the same? If you look, you'll notice there isn't a law that places English as our national language. I would like such a law but there isn't one.
That's the beauty of a centralized architecture. Policy is defined in one place and enforced uniformly throughout the network. Operating expenses go down quite a bit using the new WLAN Switching systems from Aruba, Trapeze, or Airespace (now owned by Cisco). In fact many companies are replacing their legacy Fat-AP network with a WLAN switched network. Some have calculated they've already spent several times over the cost of the original network just in operating expenses dealing with several thousand autonomous network devices (on top of all their wired infrastructure devices).
Plus the Aruba boxes have a per-user stateful firewall to guard against spoofing and other attacks and allow role-based access control so you can set and enforce policy based on user identity instead of subnet/VLAN (the typical demarcation point for separating users and enforcing network access policy). It's pretty cool stuff:)
Wireless Mesh will provide even less bandwidth. Every hop halves the available bandwidth. No, having a bunch of APs each with their own wired uplink that dynamically adapt their channel and power settings to minimize intereference offers by far the most bandwidth available. The system also has load-balancing algorithms to distribute users across multiple APs.
"the whole security problem"? What would that be? Static WEP? Please, that's so Y2K. 802.11i was ratified in June of last year and has solved (for the moment - you can never say never w/ security) the security problems w/ wireless. It's still bleeding-edge stuff mind you but AES-CCMP has been peer-reviewed for a few years now and seems strong.
The NYT went after the 'wireless' aspect for buzz - most of the students will be using wired connections for high-bandwidth applications. The wireless is there for convenience (and it's extremely convenient).
Assuming you don't have any.11b users associated you can get ~20Mbps of actual IP throughput shared amongst the users. Also, the APs are actually dual-radio (a and b/g) so students with.11a radios will get much better performance (less interference on the 5GHz band) and bandwidth per AP is effectively doubled. Finally, the APs are deployed quite densely so there are typically only 15-20 users per AP. It works:)
Just chiming in w/ my support for Serenity. I never watched Buffy or Angel but after a posting on/. I started watching Firefly. Loved the show. Heck my wife even likes it and she hates Sci-Fi shows. She liked it for the well-rounded and likable characters. I liked the concepts behind the world. For instance, in Firefly, the culture and language is a mix of (American) English and Chinese. I can imagine a future where this is the case. Sometimes the wide disparities of past and future tech colliding were a little much but I understood where the writers were going.
Anyway, I hope Serenity stays true to the series. It will definitely have 2 fans lining up to see it.
Sony doesn't let it bother them? The whole reason MiniDisc has been a wholesale failure is because of Sony's PITA licensing restrictions. I thought of adopting it years ago but the price (both figurative and literal) was just too high. the simple fact that Sony DOES have content makes them more protective. I can guarantee Blu-Ray will have more evil copy-protection stuff in it than HD-DVD. The article said they were trying to roll their own.
Then again, the track record of encryption technologies that were never submitted for public review is pretty bad so maybe we should root for Blu-Ray?
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Yep. I still love my old Plextor 32X SCSI CD-ROM drive. Caddies for me please. But yeah, I cut my teeth on caddy 1X's back in the day. Still think it's a superior system (although more expensive if you buy caddies for all your discs.
Except for many suits, the contingency could wipe out the settlement you were asking for. For instance, I'm currently negotiating with the insurance company of a person who hit me on my motorcycle a month ago. I am about to the point of suing them but I know that if I do, the lawyer will take so much of the settlement I'm likely to end up with less than if I would just accept their current low-ball offer. They know this as well and are simply stonewalling me into accepting their offer.
We're only talking a few thousand dollars here. They're offering US$2,500 for my bike while I think (based on ads for the same model) it's worth US$4,500. With a loser-pays scenario I could sue them and if I won, I could collect a 'fair' (determined by me and the judge/jury) settlement and the insurance company would pay my lawyer. As it stands today the US$2K difference I could make would be wipred out in legal fees, missed work, etc.
Actually, people are buying houses this way. Witness the explosion of Adjustable Rate Mortgages where people sacrifice stability for lower short-term payments.
The current method of buying power fits in with the average American's desire to put off near-term spending to the detriment of long-term stability. Been following the Medicare and Social Security debates?
Preach on! Where's co-op mode!?!?!? that was a GREAT aspect of the older games. At our early gatherings, people would ge pretty pissed off playing deathmatch. Also, 2-person deathmatch sucks. So if you just have one other person handy, you could make a co-op run. Wish they had kept that aspect in D3.:(
Yeah except what they don't talk about is how much electricity is used to heat all the stuff up to reduce it down. The environmental cost of electricity is huge. In America we burn coal which not only results in tons of CO2 and other emissions, it also vent radioactive materials into the air (since there is uranium in coal). Every day, power plants in america vent as much radioactive material into the air as was released in the 3-Mile Island meltdown. Yet people are so worried (especially in my home state of California) about nuclear plants. I'd much rather have a nuclear plant in my backyard than a coal plant.
Which brings me to electric and hybrid cars. No one ever calculates the TOTAL environmental costs of these things. Coal was burned to generate the electricity to run your electric car. N as for hybrids, what happens when these cars wear out? A few hundred pounds of toxic batteries being dumped into landfills will really help our environmental problems.
All this effort to reduce vehicle emissions.... why don't they tackle the real offenders (as far as pure volume), agriculture, power plants, and other industrial users. They're spending millions on making motorcycle manufacturers install catalytic converters in bikes now - do you know how small the motorcycle emission slice of the pollution pie is? I'm all for making things cleaner but that money could be better spent on some of the above gross polluters.
I consider myself an environmentalist. I just try to take a long view of my actions instead of jumping at whatever the latest fad is.
In most states, Parking and Speeding Tickets are counted as "Infractions" not misdemeanors. Hence you can't demand a jury trial for your speeding ticket. Now if you're grossly speeding, they may charge you with Reckless Driving which often is misdemeanor.
Why don't you check how many UN resolutions Israel is in violation of - and we're not talking Security Council resolutions, these are resolutions about Israeli human rights violations that the ENTIRE WORLD voted for except the US. Are we going to invade them next? I doubt it.
Sure, Saddam was a 'bad guy', but let's not forget we created him. And if we're going to go after all the 'bad guys', there are many worse than Saddam we should start with.
And yes, please show me a link between Saddam and terrorists. Further, Bush did lie about Saddam trying to buy plutonium from Africa - that happened over 20 years ago and the CIA knew it was unsuccessful. Bush knew it as well, yet still used this as a justification for war. Iraq posed no imminent threat to the US. Where are all these weapons that he was supposed to have been able to use to attack us? Nevermind that these are weapons that WE (the US) gave him because we didn't like the Iranians.
Both the fourth Geneval Convention and the two Additional Protocols extend protections to civilians during war time.
Civilians are not to be subject to attack. This includes direct attacks on civilians and indiscriminate attacks against areas in which civilians are present. There is to be no destruction of property unless justified by military necessity. Individuals or groups must not be deported, regardless of motive. Civilians must not be used as hostages. Civilians must not be subject to outrages upon personal dignity. Civilians must not be tortured, raped or enslaved. Civilians must not be subject to collective punishment and reprisals. Civilians must not receive differential treatment based on race, religion, nationality, or political allegiance. Warring parties must not use or develop biological or chemical weapons and must not allow children under 15 to participate in hostilities or to be recruited into the armed forces.
Libya actually approached the US back in 1999 willing to do whatever was required to end the sanctions. Unfortunately, the US couldn't lift the sanctions until the Pan Am Lockerbie incident wound its way through the courts. Now that the lawsuits have been settled, they're on the path to have the sanctions lifted.
This is NOT (as Pres. Bush would have you believe) a result of the US invading Iraq and "cowing" Libya onto the striaight and narrow. They've been trying for some time now.
I assume you're driving w/ the windows down then? You should double-check your math. Listening to Click and Clack on NPR, they confirmed a theory I had in that the mpg loss due to increased drag with the windows down is greater than the parasitic losses from the A/C compressor.
Nope. Amazon does have a lot of automation but all their boxes are still verified and packed by humans.
In the Auto Pay scenario, you selected all the items and put them in a cart, that was free for the company (aside from stocking the shelves, keeping the lights on, etc). Then if they can check you out automatically, more cost savings for them.
Almost. UPC codes are the same for every one of the same product. So theoretically, someone could only know the brand/model of an item you bought. But RFID tags each carry a UNIQUE number for that SPECIFIC tag. Now someone knows not only the brand/model, but also when and where you bought it, how much you paid, and everywhere you've taken that item since you bought it.
UPCs are harmless to privacy in that you're identity is unknown (also you often remove the UPC by taking the item out of the box, removing the tags, etc). That anonymity (sp?) is lost w/ RFID. Not to mention UPC's are tough to read (anyone whos' worked as a cashier knows this) while RFIDs can be read by anyone at a distance whithout you knowing.
Since the latest RFID tags are the size of a grain of rice. They would be easily sewn into the seam of a shirt. Granted, in the clothing expample, you could probably remove it. The scarier scenario is if they're embedded in your shoes or your tires. Then the only way to remove it is to destroy the item.
Except one of the main problems in this country is that anyone can be sued for anything by anyone else with no consequence. The government only provides free legal assistance for criminal defendants, not civil ones so you have no choice but to hire a lawyer when you're sued. We need the system like they have (I believe) in the UK where if you're sued by someone and you win, they have to pay your legal bills. At least then it would incent companies to get their $hit straight straight. As it is there's no deterrent. My parents were bankrupted when they were sued by one of their employees for breach of contract - the guy's brother was an attorney and did it for free. My parents ended up winning but had spent over $100K in legal fees. Their small business couldn't recover from that ordeal and they had to shut it down, dragging themselves into bankruptcy.
So what now? Sue the former employee for a frivolous lawsuit? More legal fees to get what? The guy doesn't have that kind of cash. It's like getting mugged for $100K. They're fsck'd. Mom's working part-time at a doctor's office and Dad is looking for a job.
I hate our current President but the one campaign promise I hoped he'd deliver on is that of tort reform. Don't think that'll happen now though:(
Why? Do you think people should have to throw away multi-thousand dollar boxes because someone lost the password?
Physical security goes hand-in-hand with infosec. There's a reason that physical security is part of the CISSP. If you can get physical access to any system you can get in . Having a "back door" that's only accessible when physically connected to the system is a common mechanism (now and for the foreseeable future) of performing password recovery.
True. But the Key factor is that this u:p is accessible from a remote connection. Backdoors are common and necessary for reasons like the above. However, care must be taken such that these backdoors are only accessible from some sort of physical/console connection. *NO* system is safe if a person has physical access.
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Nope. They aren't paying taxes. Well, the workers are paying taxes but the money never makes it to the government. The problem is that the employer has to send the tax money up to the federal government. Since the employer typically knows these people are illegal and therefor have no recourse or ability to collect their government services, the company will keep the money as profit. So in effect they're not paying their fair share (although it isn't their fault).
The problem is that the employer has to send the tax money up to the federal government. Since the employer typically knows these people are illegal and therefor have no recourse or ability to collect their government services, the company will keep the money as profit. So in effect they're not paying their fair share (although it isn't their fault).
/me resists urge to correct grandparent's use of the phrase 'begs the question'...
But also, I'm reminded of an argument I waged and lost with my wife and some friends about the whole English-language thing. It was my position that if somone comes to a given country they should learn to speak the local language. But if you follow that logic everyone in the US should be speaking Cherokee or whatever. The European immigrants imposed their language on the country by sheer numbers. Who are we to say some other ethnic group can't do the same? If you look, you'll notice there isn't a law that places English as our national language. I would like such a law but there isn't one.
That's the beauty of a centralized architecture. Policy is defined in one place and enforced uniformly throughout the network. Operating expenses go down quite a bit using the new WLAN Switching systems from Aruba, Trapeze, or Airespace (now owned by Cisco). In fact many companies are replacing their legacy Fat-AP network with a WLAN switched network. Some have calculated they've already spent several times over the cost of the original network just in operating expenses dealing with several thousand autonomous network devices (on top of all their wired infrastructure devices).
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Plus the Aruba boxes have a per-user stateful firewall to guard against spoofing and other attacks and allow role-based access control so you can set and enforce policy based on user identity instead of subnet/VLAN (the typical demarcation point for separating users and enforcing network access policy). It's pretty cool stuff
Wireless Mesh will provide even less bandwidth. Every hop halves the available bandwidth. No, having a bunch of APs each with their own wired uplink that dynamically adapt their channel and power settings to minimize intereference offers by far the most bandwidth available. The system also has load-balancing algorithms to distribute users across multiple APs.
"the whole security problem"? What would that be? Static WEP? Please, that's so Y2K. 802.11i was ratified in June of last year and has solved (for the moment - you can never say never w/ security) the security problems w/ wireless. It's still bleeding-edge stuff mind you but AES-CCMP has been peer-reviewed for a few years now and seems strong.
The NYT went after the 'wireless' aspect for buzz - most of the students will be using wired connections for high-bandwidth applications. The wireless is there for convenience (and it's extremely convenient).
Assuming you don't have any .11b users associated you can get ~20Mbps of actual IP throughput shared amongst the users. Also, the APs are actually dual-radio (a and b/g) so students with .11a radios will get much better performance (less interference on the 5GHz band) and bandwidth per AP is effectively doubled. Finally, the APs are deployed quite densely so there are typically only 15-20 users per AP. It works :)
All,
/. I started watching Firefly. Loved the show. Heck my wife even likes it and she hates Sci-Fi shows. She liked it for the well-rounded and likable characters. I liked the concepts behind the world. For instance, in Firefly, the culture and language is a mix of (American) English and Chinese. I can imagine a future where this is the case. Sometimes the wide disparities of past and future tech colliding were a little much but I understood where the writers were going.
Just chiming in w/ my support for Serenity. I never watched Buffy or Angel but after a posting on
Anyway, I hope Serenity stays true to the series. It will definitely have 2 fans lining up to see it.
Chris
Sony doesn't let it bother them? The whole reason MiniDisc has been a wholesale failure is because of Sony's PITA licensing restrictions. I thought of adopting it years ago but the price (both figurative and literal) was just too high. the simple fact that Sony DOES have content makes them more protective. I can guarantee Blu-Ray will have more evil copy-protection stuff in it than HD-DVD. The article said they were trying to roll their own.
Then again, the track record of encryption technologies that were never submitted for public review is pretty bad so maybe we should root for Blu-Ray?
Yep. I still love my old Plextor 32X SCSI CD-ROM drive. Caddies for me please. But yeah, I cut my teeth on caddy 1X's back in the day. Still think it's a superior system (although more expensive if you buy caddies for all your discs.
Except for many suits, the contingency could wipe out the settlement you were asking for. For instance, I'm currently negotiating with the insurance company of a person who hit me on my motorcycle a month ago. I am about to the point of suing them but I know that if I do, the lawyer will take so much of the settlement I'm likely to end up with less than if I would just accept their current low-ball offer. They know this as well and are simply stonewalling me into accepting their offer.
We're only talking a few thousand dollars here. They're offering US$2,500 for my bike while I think (based on ads for the same model) it's worth US$4,500. With a loser-pays scenario I could sue them and if I won, I could collect a 'fair' (determined by me and the judge/jury) settlement and the insurance company would pay my lawyer. As it stands today the US$2K difference I could make would be wipred out in legal fees, missed work, etc.
Our legal system sucks.
Actually, people are buying houses this way. Witness the explosion of Adjustable Rate Mortgages where people sacrifice stability for lower short-term payments.
The current method of buying power fits in with the average American's desire to put off near-term spending to the detriment of long-term stability. Been following the Medicare and Social Security debates?
Preach on! Where's co-op mode!?!?!? that was a GREAT aspect of the older games. At our early gatherings, people would ge pretty pissed off playing deathmatch. Also, 2-person deathmatch sucks. So if you just have one other person handy, you could make a co-op run. Wish they had kept that aspect in D3. :(
Yeah except what they don't talk about is how much electricity is used to heat all the stuff up to reduce it down. The environmental cost of electricity is huge. In America we burn coal which not only results in tons of CO2 and other emissions, it also vent radioactive materials into the air (since there is uranium in coal). Every day, power plants in america vent as much radioactive material into the air as was released in the 3-Mile Island meltdown. Yet people are so worried (especially in my home state of California) about nuclear plants. I'd much rather have a nuclear plant in my backyard than a coal plant.
Which brings me to electric and hybrid cars. No one ever calculates the TOTAL environmental costs of these things. Coal was burned to generate the electricity to run your electric car. N as for hybrids, what happens when these cars wear out? A few hundred pounds of toxic batteries being dumped into landfills will really help our environmental problems.
All this effort to reduce vehicle emissions.... why don't they tackle the real offenders (as far as pure volume), agriculture, power plants, and other industrial users. They're spending millions on making motorcycle manufacturers install catalytic converters in bikes now - do you know how small the motorcycle emission slice of the pollution pie is? I'm all for making things cleaner but that money could be better spent on some of the above gross polluters.
I consider myself an environmentalist. I just try to take a long view of my actions instead of jumping at whatever the latest fad is.
In most states, Parking and Speeding Tickets are counted as "Infractions" not misdemeanors. Hence you can't demand a jury trial for your speeding ticket. Now if you're grossly speeding, they may charge you with Reckless Driving which often is misdemeanor.
Why don't you check how many UN resolutions Israel is in violation of - and we're not talking Security Council resolutions, these are resolutions about Israeli human rights violations that the ENTIRE WORLD voted for except the US. Are we going to invade them next? I doubt it.
Sure, Saddam was a 'bad guy', but let's not forget we created him. And if we're going to go after all the 'bad guys', there are many worse than Saddam we should start with.
And yes, please show me a link between Saddam and terrorists. Further, Bush did lie about Saddam trying to buy plutonium from Africa - that happened over 20 years ago and the CIA knew it was unsuccessful. Bush knew it as well, yet still used this as a justification for war. Iraq posed no imminent threat to the US. Where are all these weapons that he was supposed to have been able to use to attack us? Nevermind that these are weapons that WE (the US) gave him because we didn't like the Iranians.
Stop listening to Rush...
Afraid you're wrong on that one.
From http://www.genevaconventions.org/
Both the fourth Geneval Convention and the two Additional Protocols extend protections to civilians during war time.
Civilians are not to be subject to attack. This includes direct attacks on civilians and indiscriminate attacks against areas in which civilians are present.
There is to be no destruction of property unless justified by military necessity.
Individuals or groups must not be deported, regardless of motive.
Civilians must not be used as hostages.
Civilians must not be subject to outrages upon personal dignity.
Civilians must not be tortured, raped or enslaved.
Civilians must not be subject to collective punishment and reprisals.
Civilians must not receive differential treatment based on race, religion, nationality, or political allegiance.
Warring parties must not use or develop biological or chemical weapons and must not allow children under 15 to participate in hostilities or to be recruited into the armed forces.
Just to feed the political beast here....
Libya actually approached the US back in 1999 willing to do whatever was required to end the sanctions. Unfortunately, the US couldn't lift the sanctions until the Pan Am Lockerbie incident wound its way through the courts. Now that the lawsuits have been settled, they're on the path to have the sanctions lifted.
This is NOT (as Pres. Bush would have you believe) a result of the US invading Iraq and "cowing" Libya onto the striaight and narrow. They've been trying for some time now.
I assume you're driving w/ the windows down then? You should double-check your math. Listening to Click and Clack on NPR, they confirmed a theory I had in that the mpg loss due to increased drag with the windows down is greater than the parasitic losses from the A/C compressor.
But as always, YMMV.
Chris
Nope. Amazon does have a lot of automation but all their boxes are still verified and packed by humans.
In the Auto Pay scenario, you selected all the items and put them in a cart, that was free for the company (aside from stocking the shelves, keeping the lights on, etc). Then if they can check you out automatically, more cost savings for them.
Almost. UPC codes are the same for every one of the same product. So theoretically, someone could only know the brand/model of an item you bought. But RFID tags each carry a UNIQUE number for that SPECIFIC tag. Now someone knows not only the brand/model, but also when and where you bought it, how much you paid, and everywhere you've taken that item since you bought it.
UPCs are harmless to privacy in that you're identity is unknown (also you often remove the UPC by taking the item out of the box, removing the tags, etc). That anonymity (sp?) is lost w/ RFID. Not to mention UPC's are tough to read (anyone whos' worked as a cashier knows this) while RFIDs can be read by anyone at a distance whithout you knowing.
Since the latest RFID tags are the size of a grain of rice. They would be easily sewn into the seam of a shirt. Granted, in the clothing expample, you could probably remove it. The scarier scenario is if they're embedded in your shoes or your tires. Then the only way to remove it is to destroy the item.
Except one of the main problems in this country is that anyone can be sued for anything by anyone else with no consequence. The government only provides free legal assistance for criminal defendants, not civil ones so you have no choice but to hire a lawyer when you're sued. We need the system like they have (I believe) in the UK where if you're sued by someone and you win, they have to pay your legal bills. At least then it would incent companies to get their $hit straight straight. As it is there's no deterrent. My parents were bankrupted when they were sued by one of their employees for breach of contract - the guy's brother was an attorney and did it for free. My parents ended up winning but had spent over $100K in legal fees. Their small business couldn't recover from that ordeal and they had to shut it down, dragging themselves into bankruptcy.
:(
So what now? Sue the former employee for a frivolous lawsuit? More legal fees to get what? The guy doesn't have that kind of cash. It's like getting mugged for $100K. They're fsck'd. Mom's working part-time at a doctor's office and Dad is looking for a job.
I hate our current President but the one campaign promise I hoped he'd deliver on is that of tort reform. Don't think that'll happen now though
Why? Do you think people should have to throw away multi-thousand dollar boxes because someone lost the password?
Physical security goes hand-in-hand with infosec. There's a reason that physical security is part of the CISSP. If you can get physical access to any system you can get in . Having a "back door" that's only accessible when physically connected to the system is a common mechanism (now and for the foreseeable future) of performing password recovery.
Chris - CISSP, CCNP, RCIE/RCSI, MCSE, CNE
True. But the Key factor is that this u:p is accessible from a remote connection. Backdoors are common and necessary for reasons like the above. However, care must be taken such that these backdoors are only accessible from some sort of physical/console connection. *NO* system is safe if a person has physical access.