You have the right idea. Families should be built on trust. There should be checks too. It isn't hard to imagine that someone who should be trusted, such as a teacher or a neighobr, talking your child into something and advising them to 'keep it a secret'. Secrecy is the first angle of predators.
It was noted that in this recent spat of teachers having a sexual relationship with children, cell phones and email were the means of communication. The children involved were supposed to keep it a secret. So it won't hurt to let your child know you will "take a look" periodically. The words: "I just never knew" are echoed all too frequently over the remains of a once innocent teen.
The real answer to all of this is stay in touch with your children - Make sure your family is a good place for them and a very secure place. Open yourself to all chances to talk to them about anything. Be interested in things they do. Be ready to warn them off the edge of places you know to be dangerous. From infancy, build and maintain a mutual trust. It will payoff many fold.
When there is love at home, you have the best defense from all things evil.
This almost qualifies for the movie, Conspiracy Theory, except Julia Roberts added a sexiness to the movie that nothing in this article or comments could hope to match.
1-5 are true. He knows them to be true but can't prove it because they are so secret. One might ask how he knows it? Because its said by the conspiracy theorists version of Rush Limbaugh.
What I find is funny is that #2 is bad because they use taxpayer money to do the evil, then #3 is bad because they have their own companies to off sex the tax money. Ok.. somone needs to go back to basic logic.
So let's say, we believe all and want to stop the corruption - where will we go? If it is secret, how will you know if it is stopped? But, here lies the heart of all good conspiracy theories: THEY will always be among us - look there goes one now!
I have been around since the IBM 360 days and have seen many changes in the business. My first language was Cobol. I then moved to IBM 360 assembler, and through contacts from the computer companies, I learned about Snobol, Icebol, Algol, Jovial, Fortran, etc. I used to call myself a programmer. In the late 70's to a startup Micro computer store (yes - the Imsai 8080). There I found Basic along with a new assembly language followed by the Apple machine with yet another assemply language. By then I simply called it machine language. C and Pascal surfaced and I was in heaven. I found communications which started a specialization that continues today. Then it was serial (Start-stop) and BiSync (2780, 3270). Now we have IP and all that entails. What companies want is someone who can get the job done. Especially if something unusual comes up and you need innovation.
Over time, I discovered that what I do is engineering. More specifically, embedded engineering. Over the years I have followed that which interests me. I am giving that advice to my children. If they have a love of whatever they choose, they will get good. If they cook hamburgers, and they love it, they will have the best hamburgers ever. If they design web pages out of love, it will show. The customers will follow. If they design an embedded system for a high end router, that too will be good.
There is no competition for one who loves what he does. If you dread going to work, that will show in your product. Most of the off shore folks don't have that love, passion for what they do. They won't be able to get the job done at $10/hr or $2.50/hr. You will still get your rate.
I have been a contractor for the past 21 years. I am in no danger of loosing my job to the offshore crouds.
I am still confused here. I have not seen any attributed references that put him deeply involved with the Spiritualists. And even the few that do exist, from undisputably anti-mormon sources, don't try to claim contact before he had his vision. The thing that puzzles me, is why did all the major churches of the day attack a 14 year old boy. Why was he that important?
You say gold? Where was it. He never lived lavishly. His family didn't either. He was constantly threatened and chased. If it was just a con job as you say, it wasn't real successful. He could have made much more money playing poker or becoming a very eloquent preacher of one of the established churches and not had anyone against him. Your position doesn't make sense.
What hold did he have over Carthage. He had no church there. He only preached there 2-3 times. He had no businesses there. Actually, it is an established fact that most of the members of that mob were from out of town. When the sheriff gave his report, he described the killers as "a drunken mob".
I'm not sure where you studied your religious facts, but it would do you good to search some more.
Bill
I knew L. Ron Hubbard in Clearwater, FL before he called what he had Scientology. He started as Dianetics and the goal was just "Going Clear" with the help of his e-meter. He claimed that he could actually make a religion and people would believe. Their headquarters in Clearwater was plagued with claims of fraud and coersion. This peaked when a woman died in their residence. A number of people fled the country in order to stop from testifying and making prosecution of the church impossible, so the muder charges against the church were dropped. There have been many charges of criminal activity leveled against them by former members. Hubbard decided to 'make' a religion from scratch for several reasons: one was to prove he could do it and people would beieve him and it was a great legal tax evasion scheme. When I knew him, we all considered him to be little more than a used car salesman in wolves' clothing. He was no ones friend unless you had something he could use.
I fail to see how that connects to the LDS church. Joseph Smith wasn't beaten to death. He was in the jail in Carthage and a mob stormed the jail and shot him. The people that shot him had no prior connection with him. He had never done business in Carthage. He had only preached there several times. What Joseph founded was a religion from the start. The established religions at the time had a hard time believing God would talk to a 14 year old boy instead of all their educated selves. Then he said God told him that he was not to join any of the established religions. I guess they all pretty much felt insulted at that point or why would they start a religious war against a 14 year old boy? Why didn't they just ignore him.
There isn't a shread of similarity between the two. Good ole L. Ron never was shot by a mob (or anyone else, surprisingly). He pretended what he had was a Godless religion. He only introduced the spiritual part when he had a hard time making the connection with what he had already written and his new proclaimation of religion.
I really don't intend this to be a religious war here, but uninformed statements need to be answered.
A summary judgment is a judgment made without a defense being offered. In fact, it is asked for when there is no response to any filing. That doen't represent 'every case'. Usually cases are decided by both sides presenting evidence and either a jury or (if agreed upon by both parties) the judge rendering a verdict. Following the verdict, comes the judgement. Confusion in the process comes when the verdict is decided by a judge then the judgement comes from the same judge.
I guess I don't understand here. The law implementing the FISA court, also gives the government right right to monitor traffic anytime they need to and they have 48 hours to submit a warrent to cover that tap retroactively. That isn't sufficient time? Why do they need to ever go warrentless?
The natural state of government resists oversight. It takes specific laws to ensure that we can inspect what our government does. We have FOI act now and many states have government in the sunshine laws to help us find out what they are doing. Look at the White House now with the firing of those prosecutors. They refuse to release any information about what they did even to the point of refusing supoenas. In my time on earth, I have noticed that overwhealmingly, its the bad guys who hide under cloak of darkness.
It is laws like this that make it possible for the executive branch to operate in secrecy. If there comes a question about a particular wiretap, do you really think the administration will send enyone to congress to discuss it? Everything sleazy can hide under the cloak of executive privilege - and its legal.
Are your seriously suggesting that the United States government will call all the German and Russian (etc...) AV writers and tell them to please ignore their sneaky stuff, and actually expect them to do it? You think that wouldn't become the most widely published workaround in history with the AV folks laughing so hard they would be risking a heart attack?
Might even see a counter program that looks for the footprint and warns people. Someone might pay $29 for that.
You really don't know if it is useful or not. What if there was an abduction in the neighborhood, the camera caught it, but the abduction wasn't discovered until some co-workers wondered why that person wasn't at work for 2 days. Police are called, they check relatives - that takes time - they open the apartment - finally decide something is up - the investigationis now on - 3 days later. But the data that actually recorded the abduction has been thrown away. Now there are no clues, and the public discovers we had the data to find the kidnappers and the kidnapped person, but we threw it away.
I would hate to be the police chief trying to explain that. If it was your mom or other relative, you might be a little more forgiving of the data retention period.
This is photography in a public place. Anyone can do it. Even you could put up cameras and watch everyone everyone in your neighborhood.
My issue is not them using it to catch criminals, its when the data is released under FOIA or even worse, secreted out by unscrupulous police. That is something that in itself is illegal therefore is not going to be controlled even within the department itself. I would like to see a log of access to that data formed and enforced just like that do criminal evidence.
Bill
If the deposit is done by direct deposit (EFT), then those deposits can be reversed. No permission is necessary. The permission to access your account was given when you authorised direct deposit. I believe that is true in any country. The banking laws don't differ that much from country to country, at least in the developed world. Third world banks pretty much do what they please. Come to think of it, they its the same in the developed world too;)
The thing about the deposit reversal, is that even if the money is no longer in the account, the money gets sucked out anyway and it creates an overdraft which becomes your debt, for which the bank may pursue you, even in court.
In the US, a number of people have been overpaid by the IRS (the federal taxing authority). If you don't turn it back to them pronto, you are responsible for interest on the amount over. If, having been notified to return it and failing to do so, they will charge penalties plus the interest.
In short, in most cases, morality of the poor is the law. The rich and powerful are protected by other laws and they don't necessarily have a close relationship with morality.
I think all you have said is true. I'm not so upbeat on the bounty solution, but it deserves a voice.
I know of a different way record companies screw musicians.
I have a friend who actually writes and sings his own music. He has several albums to his credit and currently has one "on hold" by Rounder records. His contract specifies that he must do two albums for them to satisfy the contract. They have put the album on the backburner and won't release it - or release him from the contract. He has been silenced. He cannot record for any other studio while "under contract" to Rounder. He can go to many of the smaller labels and be published were it not for this set of handcuffs. All he can do now is perform. But, without a recent cd, there are few venues willing to book him.
Even the internet radio couldn't solve his problem.
I know this is off the DRM topic, but is somewhat linked to the "Evils of the Big Guys" offshoot topic.
If America were truly fascist, we couldn't be having this discussion. Imagine simply asking Hitler for access to his military data? Or even having a blog...
We have issues, but so does every government. At least, I can work to change them.
Everytime a computer connects to a network, and an IP address is assigned, the date, time , ip address and MAC address are recorded. So, the RIAA has someone load up some p2p software - looks for songs and downloads a bunch. They then can listen and tell its Metalica and not some audio of the prom queen being enjoyed. When they d/l the music, they record the time and the IP address. They find the owner of the ip address (univ of xxx or some ISP) and supeona the logs that tell what mac had that ip address at that time along with the MAC registration info and they have you unless its a public terminal. So, your next move will be to go into court - with a straight face and say: "Yes your honor, My computer was stolen during those 20 minutes starting at 2:34am. But I got it right back after all that nefarious downloading took place."
I am a contractor software engineer (American). I know that H1-B imports get paid a significantly less amount than I. I was being recruited by an H1-B company and while they get the same amount of money from their clients (ie Microsoft), a large amount of that get retained by the head hunter firm for "legal costs related to H1-B". I also know that Microsoft uses contractor to fill their ranks.
They had a mental block about paying the prevailing wage for kernel level engineers.
As for hiring indian workers in India, you really do get what you pay for. Most of my work over the past 3 yrs has been cleaning up code produced in foreign code mills.
No wonder Microsoft software has reliability problems. Isn't nice that we have an open source solution where people can see the code and ask: What were you thinking!
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You have the right idea. Families should be built on trust. There should be checks too. It isn't hard to imagine that someone who should be trusted, such as a teacher or a neighobr, talking your child into something and advising them to 'keep it a secret'. Secrecy is the first angle of predators.
It was noted that in this recent spat of teachers having a sexual relationship with children, cell phones and email were the means of communication. The children involved were supposed to keep it a secret. So it won't hurt to let your child know you will "take a look" periodically. The words: "I just never knew" are echoed all too frequently over the remains of a once innocent teen.
The real answer to all of this is stay in touch with your children - Make sure your family is a good place for them and a very secure place. Open yourself to all chances to talk to them about anything. Be interested in things they do. Be ready to warn them off the edge of places you know to be dangerous. From infancy, build and maintain a mutual trust. It will payoff many fold.
When there is love at home, you have the best defense from all things evil.
Bill
Oh please...
This almost qualifies for the movie, Conspiracy Theory, except Julia Roberts added a sexiness to the movie that nothing in this article or comments could hope to match.
1-5 are true. He knows them to be true but can't prove it because they are so secret. One might ask how he knows it? Because its said by the conspiracy theorists version of Rush Limbaugh.
What I find is funny is that #2 is bad because they use taxpayer money to do the evil, then #3 is bad because they have their own companies to off sex the tax money. Ok.. somone needs to go back to basic logic.
So let's say, we believe all and want to stop the corruption - where will we go? If it is secret, how will you know if it is stopped? But, here lies the heart of all good conspiracy theories: THEY will always be among us - look there goes one now!
Sorry - that was too easy...
Bill
I have been around since the IBM 360 days and have seen many changes in the business. My first language was Cobol. I then moved to IBM 360 assembler, and through contacts from the computer companies, I learned about Snobol, Icebol, Algol, Jovial, Fortran, etc. I used to call myself a programmer. In the late 70's to a startup Micro computer store (yes - the Imsai 8080). There I found Basic along with a new assembly language followed by the Apple machine with yet another assemply language. By then I simply called it machine language. C and Pascal surfaced and I was in heaven. I found communications which started a specialization that continues today. Then it was serial (Start-stop) and BiSync (2780, 3270). Now we have IP and all that entails. What companies want is someone who can get the job done. Especially if something unusual comes up and you need innovation.
Over time, I discovered that what I do is engineering. More specifically, embedded engineering. Over the years I have followed that which interests me. I am giving that advice to my children. If they have a love of whatever they choose, they will get good. If they cook hamburgers, and they love it, they will have the best hamburgers ever. If they design web pages out of love, it will show. The customers will follow. If they design an embedded system for a high end router, that too will be good.
There is no competition for one who loves what he does. If you dread going to work, that will show in your product. Most of the off shore folks don't have that love, passion for what they do. They won't be able to get the job done at $10/hr or $2.50/hr. You will still get your rate.
I have been a contractor for the past 21 years. I am in no danger of loosing my job to the offshore crouds.
Bill
I am still confused here. I have not seen any attributed references that put him deeply involved with the Spiritualists. And even the few that do exist, from undisputably anti-mormon sources, don't try to claim contact before he had his vision. The thing that puzzles me, is why did all the major churches of the day attack a 14 year old boy. Why was he that important? You say gold? Where was it. He never lived lavishly. His family didn't either. He was constantly threatened and chased. If it was just a con job as you say, it wasn't real successful. He could have made much more money playing poker or becoming a very eloquent preacher of one of the established churches and not had anyone against him. Your position doesn't make sense. What hold did he have over Carthage. He had no church there. He only preached there 2-3 times. He had no businesses there. Actually, it is an established fact that most of the members of that mob were from out of town. When the sheriff gave his report, he described the killers as "a drunken mob". I'm not sure where you studied your religious facts, but it would do you good to search some more. Bill
I knew L. Ron Hubbard in Clearwater, FL before he called what he had Scientology. He started as Dianetics and the goal was just "Going Clear" with the help of his e-meter. He claimed that he could actually make a religion and people would believe. Their headquarters in Clearwater was plagued with claims of fraud and coersion. This peaked when a woman died in their residence. A number of people fled the country in order to stop from testifying and making prosecution of the church impossible, so the muder charges against the church were dropped. There have been many charges of criminal activity leveled against them by former members. Hubbard decided to 'make' a religion from scratch for several reasons: one was to prove he could do it and people would beieve him and it was a great legal tax evasion scheme. When I knew him, we all considered him to be little more than a used car salesman in wolves' clothing. He was no ones friend unless you had something he could use.
I fail to see how that connects to the LDS church. Joseph Smith wasn't beaten to death. He was in the jail in Carthage and a mob stormed the jail and shot him. The people that shot him had no prior connection with him. He had never done business in Carthage. He had only preached there several times. What Joseph founded was a religion from the start. The established religions at the time had a hard time believing God would talk to a 14 year old boy instead of all their educated selves. Then he said God told him that he was not to join any of the established religions. I guess they all pretty much felt insulted at that point or why would they start a religious war against a 14 year old boy? Why didn't they just ignore him.
There isn't a shread of similarity between the two. Good ole L. Ron never was shot by a mob (or anyone else, surprisingly). He pretended what he had was a Godless religion. He only introduced the spiritual part when he had a hard time making the connection with what he had already written and his new proclaimation of religion.
I really don't intend this to be a religious war here, but uninformed statements need to be answered.
Bill
A summary judgment is a judgment made without a defense being offered. In fact, it is asked for when there is no response to any filing. That doen't represent 'every case'. Usually cases are decided by both sides presenting evidence and either a jury or (if agreed upon by both parties) the judge rendering a verdict. Following the verdict, comes the judgement. Confusion in the process comes when the verdict is decided by a judge then the judgement comes from the same judge.
Bill
I guess I don't understand here. The law implementing the FISA court, also gives the government right right to monitor traffic anytime they need to and they have 48 hours to submit a warrent to cover that tap retroactively. That isn't sufficient time? Why do they need to ever go warrentless?
The natural state of government resists oversight. It takes specific laws to ensure that we can inspect what our government does. We have FOI act now and many states have government in the sunshine laws to help us find out what they are doing. Look at the White House now with the firing of those prosecutors. They refuse to release any information about what they did even to the point of refusing supoenas. In my time on earth, I have noticed that overwhealmingly, its the bad guys who hide under cloak of darkness.
It is laws like this that make it possible for the executive branch to operate in secrecy. If there comes a question about a particular wiretap, do you really think the administration will send enyone to congress to discuss it? Everything sleazy can hide under the cloak of executive privilege - and its legal.
Bill
Are your seriously suggesting that the United States government will call all the German and Russian (etc...) AV writers and tell them to please ignore their sneaky stuff, and actually expect them to do it? You think that wouldn't become the most widely published workaround in history with the AV folks laughing so hard they would be risking a heart attack?
Might even see a counter program that looks for the footprint and warns people. Someone might pay $29 for that.
Hmmm....
Bill
You really don't know if it is useful or not. What if there was an abduction in the neighborhood, the camera caught it, but the abduction wasn't discovered until some co-workers wondered why that person wasn't at work for 2 days. Police are called, they check relatives - that takes time - they open the apartment - finally decide something is up - the investigationis now on - 3 days later. But the data that actually recorded the abduction has been thrown away. Now there are no clues, and the public discovers we had the data to find the kidnappers and the kidnapped person, but we threw it away. I would hate to be the police chief trying to explain that. If it was your mom or other relative, you might be a little more forgiving of the data retention period. This is photography in a public place. Anyone can do it. Even you could put up cameras and watch everyone everyone in your neighborhood. My issue is not them using it to catch criminals, its when the data is released under FOIA or even worse, secreted out by unscrupulous police. That is something that in itself is illegal therefore is not going to be controlled even within the department itself. I would like to see a log of access to that data formed and enforced just like that do criminal evidence. Bill
If the deposit is done by direct deposit (EFT), then those deposits can be reversed. No permission is necessary. The permission to access your account was given when you authorised direct deposit. I believe that is true in any country. The banking laws don't differ that much from country to country, at least in the developed world. Third world banks pretty much do what they please. Come to think of it, they its the same in the developed world too ;)
The thing about the deposit reversal, is that even if the money is no longer in the account, the money gets sucked out anyway and it creates an overdraft which becomes your debt, for which the bank may pursue you, even in court.
In the US, a number of people have been overpaid by the IRS (the federal taxing authority). If you don't turn it back to them pronto, you are responsible for interest on the amount over. If, having been notified to return it and failing to do so, they will charge penalties plus the interest.
In short, in most cases, morality of the poor is the law. The rich and powerful are protected by other laws and they don't necessarily have a close relationship with morality.
Bill
I think all you have said is true. I'm not so upbeat on the bounty solution, but it deserves a voice.
I know of a different way record companies screw musicians.
I have a friend who actually writes and sings his own music. He has several albums to his credit and currently has one "on hold" by Rounder records. His contract specifies that he must do two albums for them to satisfy the contract. They have put the album on the backburner and won't release it - or release him from the contract. He has been silenced. He cannot record for any other studio while "under contract" to Rounder. He can go to many of the smaller labels and be published were it not for this set of handcuffs. All he can do now is perform. But, without a recent cd, there are few venues willing to book him.
Even the internet radio couldn't solve his problem.
I know this is off the DRM topic, but is somewhat linked to the "Evils of the Big Guys" offshoot topic.
Bill
If America were truly fascist, we couldn't be having this discussion. Imagine simply asking Hitler for access to his military data? Or even having a blog...
We have issues, but so does every government. At least, I can work to change them.
Bill
The procedure is this:
Everytime a computer connects to a network, and an IP address is assigned, the date, time , ip address and MAC address are recorded. So, the RIAA
has someone load up some p2p software - looks for songs and downloads a bunch. They then can listen and tell its Metalica and not some audio of the prom queen being enjoyed. When they d/l the music, they record the time and the IP address. They find the owner of the ip address (univ of xxx or some ISP) and supeona the logs that tell what mac had that ip address at that time along with the MAC registration info and they have you unless its a public terminal. So, your next move will be to go into court - with a straight face and say: "Yes your honor, My computer was stolen during those 20 minutes starting at 2:34am. But I got it right back after all that nefarious downloading took place."
I am a contractor software engineer (American). I know that H1-B imports get paid a significantly less amount than I. I was being recruited by an H1-B company and while they get the same amount of money from their clients (ie Microsoft), a large amount of that get retained by the head hunter firm for "legal costs related to H1-B". I also know that Microsoft uses contractor to fill their ranks.
They had a mental block about paying the prevailing wage for kernel level engineers.
As for hiring indian workers in India, you really do get what you pay for. Most of my work over the past 3 yrs has been cleaning up code produced in foreign code mills.
No wonder Microsoft software has reliability problems. Isn't nice that we have an open source solution where people can see the code and ask: What were you thinking!