you're a nut if you allow a personal PC to connect to the company network.
Why?
Sorry for the simplicity there, but if your network is properly secured, that shouldn't be a problem. If it isn't, you shouldn't be connected to the internet.
Because it isn't possible to properly secure your network when your network now includes all of your employee's home computers.
Part of securing your network is having a hard edge between your network and not your network. Another part is having physical control over those devices on the inside of that line. Home computers violate both of those principles. That doesn't mean that there aren't circumstances when you should allow it, but you need to be aware of the implications. -- JimFive
Here's how I understand this thing we call "economy". There is a fixed amount of various resources in the world... materials, labour, whatever.
And this is where you're wrong. There is not a fixed amount of labour. (For this purpose labour is defined as any amount of physical or mental effort that can be monetized.) Labour can be increased by efficiency gains or increasing population size or working longer hours. Now, if you want to claim that there is some theoretical maximum value to labour you would also need to show that we have reached it.
Those resources are convertible into money and back, right ? So by extension, there is a fixed amount of wealth in the world.
And you assume that the value of something is related to the cost of its production. This is also not (necessarily) true. The price/value (wealth potential) of something is an agreement between the buyer and seller. The cost of something is external to that transaction. For example, if I am walking in the desert and find an ounce of gold that cost me no effort, but it has a value to someone of ~$800 (or thereabouts, I'm not going to look up the current gold price).
It's good that no one is applying for the job of Commander in Chief, then. The job is President. Commander in Chief is only one of the duties of the president and not necessarily the most important one. The President's job is to preside over the Executive departments. The ability to preside over the Department of Education and Department of Health are just as important as that ability for the Department of Defense. We don't require that the President be a teacher or a doctor, either. -- JimFive
They loan out a fraction of what their patrons deposit to earn profits through interest.
No, They loan out a multiple of the deposits, this is the (alleged) problem with fractional reserve banking. If a bank has deposits of $10,000 they are allowed to loan out $100,000 if there is a 10% reserve requirement. They loan out money that they don't have.
If you believe fractional reserve lending is, in fact, fraud, then what you are advocating is...drumroll please.... a regulation prohibiting that practice.
No, the libertarian is correct, without any lending regulations it would be fraud to loan out something that you don't have. The ability to loan more than you own is created through regulations. -- JimFive
And legalised fractional reserve lending creates a fiat currency system, even with an ostensibly gold backed currency.
Fractional reserve lending is a red herring; all currencies are fiat, including gold. The benefit of gold, when it was chosen, is that it:
1. Doesn't corrode.
2. Is dense and therefore doesn't take up a lot of space.
3. Had no value.
Read #3 again. Gold was too soft to be useful for anything. Now we use it as a conductor, but for the most part it is still useless. That is why it makes a good medium of exchange. No one is going to melt it down to make a coffee pot out of it.
Another way of saying that is gold has no utility. Something is valuable because of what one can do with it. Gold/silver have value only because the government (or your trading partner) has declared that they will be accepted as payment, that is, they have value by fiat. People go to great lengths to obtain them because of that declaration, not the other way around.
The difficulty of procurement of gold tends to encourage a less inflationary economy but it also means that only gold miners can increase wealth. Everyone else is just shuffling money around. In a non-backed economy anyone who can create a product can create wealth by getting the government (or their agents--the banks) to create money for them.
Another way of looking at this is to consider the copper penny. It isn't used any more because copper gained value beyond it's use as money. Once that happened it became worthless as money because people would rather melt it down and use for other things than keep it as money. If that doesn't occur with Gold it is because gold isn't valuable beyond its use as a fiat currency.
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Could you elaborate on how that works? I think the movie theaters you talk about don't work like those I think of.
The attack goes like this:
You and a friend each buy 1 ticket and pass through the ticket taker (who takes half of each ticket)
You then return through the gate carrying both ticket stubs.
You give one stub to a third friend and you both return through the gate, showing your already torn tickets.
This works because the cinema workers do not prevent you from walking back and forth through the gate with a valid, but used ticket, usually because the concessions or the bathrooms are outside the "secure" area
Clearly, it isn't worth it for most cinemas to control this as long as the incidence is low enough that the lost revenue is less than the cost.
As for someone staying to watch all the movies, you missed the main way that cinemas guard against this. They schedule the movies so that there is a significant wait between the end of a given movie and the start of a different movie, thus giving staff time to notice. They also put the concessions and restrooms outside of the secure area so that you have to show a stub to get back in. -- JimFive
Any analog format, including that cassette, can be read via the line-in port of your soundcard. Decoding it might be an issue, but that's software. I don't know of anyone that stored digital data on Edison cylinders. -- JimFive
No, it's a military base. It is still under U.S. Jurisdiction (for all practical purposes).
Are you suggesting that the bill of rights is legally binding on foreign nationals in other countries?
I think it is being suggested that the Constititution (including the bill of rights) applies to all actions of the U.S. Government regardless of where those actions take place or who the target of those actions are.
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I wasn't talking about the RIAA. I was talking about this new group, and the idea that even if it starts with good intentions it will eventually fall into the trap of thinking that its own existence matters more than the people it started out to represent. Another analogous group, apart from labor unions, would be MADD. They have succeeded in what they set out to do, but now, instead of declaring success and closing up shop (or moving into a maintenance mode), they move the goalposts to keep themselves relevant. -- JimFive
"Asking for something that is not deserved ("Can I have a...") looses a stick."
God forbid your kids ever ask for anything.
I thought that, too. It isn't asking for something that needs to be controlled, it is repeatedly asking after having been told no.
In fact, I would bet that this one isn't consistently enforced. You're less likely to punish your child for asking, "Can I have an apple?" than you are for, "Can I have a candybar?" -- JimFive
If this is a real concern, how hard would it be to set up some sort of track system to remove and place the solar panels in the event of a storm. e.g. Having a storage system where you unlock the panels and slide them down a track into a storage room in or under your garage. It wouldn't be that much more work than boarding up the windows. -- JimFive
Batteries don't go dead all at once. Assuming you have a fully electric vehicle your car will slow down dramatically but still be able to move forward slowly for that last mile or so if you turn off all of the accessories. (Assuming that the manufacturer hasn't put some sort of discharge limiter on it to protect the batteries.) -- JimFive
Actually, isn't it 20,000 counts of petty larceny (~$6). (Ok, even if the accumulation doesn't make it a felony, some of the equipment probably broke the $100 barrier, but still $6?) -- JimFive
When I first became ill, I was naive in thinking that since my illness did not fit into any standard patterns, physicians might be interested in my condition. What I found from the medical profession, however, generally ranged from indifference to outright hostility
(Most) Physicians are not researchers. If you want to get someone interested in your condition because it is unknown you need to find someone with the time, ability (and possibly mandate) to research it. To really get that research going, though, is going to require that a sufficient population of people be found that have similar symptoms that can be researched. Good luck with that.
Or, you could detect whether the USB was working before restarting the service. Kludgy solution. Use a USB drive with a file in a specific place, if the cron job can find the file then USB is working and abort, if not restart USB.
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Mass is getting smaller as time progresses. Astronomers know this and mention it often, but they tend to say things like 'The Universe is getting bigger' or 'Galaxies are moving away from each other as the space between them grows'...ie. mass is getting smaller. This isn't a wild theory, this is backed up by every telescope pointed at the sky. We know the distance between Galactic objects is increasing, is space getting larger or are we getting smaller?
If we were getting smaller we would be able to tell because the apparent speed of light would be changing (the shorter measuring stick would make it appear that light was moving faster).
This seems like it could be a good concept over a private network. At my company we encourage the users to use network drives for storing files, but, of course, all of the desktops have 80+G drives of which only about 10G are used. If something like this could be set up on the network as a distributed file system with some redundancy and encryption. It would create something like 70G * 2000Machines = 140TBytes of network storage.
As it is now, each school district has (can have) their own ballot. The state Department of Treasury probably can't handle that either. And if you go lower than that you have the problem of communities without income taxes and you end up back where we are now: Each district handles its own voting and the numbers get accumulated up the chain.
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Because it isn't possible to properly secure your network when your network now includes all of your employee's home computers.
Part of securing your network is having a hard edge between your network and not your network. Another part is having physical control over those devices on the inside of that line. Home computers violate both of those principles. That doesn't mean that there aren't circumstances when you should allow it, but you need to be aware of the implications.
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And this is where you're wrong. There is not a fixed amount of labour. (For this purpose labour is defined as any amount of physical or mental effort that can be monetized.) Labour can be increased by efficiency gains or increasing population size or working longer hours. Now, if you want to claim that there is some theoretical maximum value to labour you would also need to show that we have reached it.
And you assume that the value of something is related to the cost of its production. This is also not (necessarily) true. The price/value (wealth potential) of something is an agreement between the buyer and seller. The cost of something is external to that transaction. For example, if I am walking in the desert and find an ounce of gold that cost me no effort, but it has a value to someone of ~$800 (or thereabouts, I'm not going to look up the current gold price).
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Actually viri is the plural of vir(man). As far as I can tell virus is not a latin word.
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Not really, he won't be President-elect until 12/15 when the Electoral College votes. /pedant
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But you should have meant that "should" indicates a hypothesis.
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It's good that no one is applying for the job of Commander in Chief, then. The job is President. Commander in Chief is only one of the duties of the president and not necessarily the most important one. The President's job is to preside over the Executive departments. The ability to preside over the Department of Education and Department of Health are just as important as that ability for the Department of Defense. We don't require that the President be a teacher or a doctor, either.
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No, They loan out a multiple of the deposits, this is the (alleged) problem with fractional reserve banking. If a bank has deposits of $10,000 they are allowed to loan out $100,000 if there is a 10% reserve requirement. They loan out money that they don't have.
No, the libertarian is correct, without any lending regulations it would be fraud to loan out something that you don't have. The ability to loan more than you own is created through regulations.
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JimFive
Fractional reserve lending is a red herring; all currencies are fiat, including gold. The benefit of gold, when it was chosen, is that it:
1. Doesn't corrode.
2. Is dense and therefore doesn't take up a lot of space.
3. Had no value.
Read #3 again. Gold was too soft to be useful for anything. Now we use it as a conductor, but for the most part it is still useless. That is why it makes a good medium of exchange. No one is going to melt it down to make a coffee pot out of it.
Another way of saying that is gold has no utility. Something is valuable because of what one can do with it. Gold/silver have value only because the government (or your trading partner) has declared that they will be accepted as payment, that is, they have value by fiat. People go to great lengths to obtain them because of that declaration, not the other way around.
The difficulty of procurement of gold tends to encourage a less inflationary economy but it also means that only gold miners can increase wealth. Everyone else is just shuffling money around. In a non-backed economy anyone who can create a product can create wealth by getting the government (or their agents--the banks) to create money for them.
Another way of looking at this is to consider the copper penny. It isn't used any more because copper gained value beyond it's use as money. Once that happened it became worthless as money because people would rather melt it down and use for other things than keep it as money. If that doesn't occur with Gold it is because gold isn't valuable beyond its use as a fiat currency.
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JimFive
The attack goes like this:
You and a friend each buy 1 ticket and pass through the ticket taker (who takes half of each ticket)
You then return through the gate carrying both ticket stubs.
You give one stub to a third friend and you both return through the gate, showing your already torn tickets.
This works because the cinema workers do not prevent you from walking back and forth through the gate with a valid, but used ticket, usually because the concessions or the bathrooms are outside the "secure" area
Clearly, it isn't worth it for most cinemas to control this as long as the incidence is low enough that the lost revenue is less than the cost.
As for someone staying to watch all the movies, you missed the main way that cinemas guard against this. They schedule the movies so that there is a significant wait between the end of a given movie and the start of a different movie, thus giving staff time to notice. They also put the concessions and restrooms outside of the secure area so that you have to show a stub to get back in.
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JimFive
Of course, since everyone just clipped the two old cards on the same lanyard, nothing has really changed with regard to security, and costs went down.
It's a win.
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JimFive
Any analog format, including that cassette, can be read via the line-in port of your soundcard. Decoding it might be an issue, but that's software. I don't know of anyone that stored digital data on Edison cylinders.
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JimFive
No, it's a military base. It is still under U.S. Jurisdiction (for all practical purposes).
I think it is being suggested that the Constititution (including the bill of rights) applies to all actions of the U.S. Government regardless of where those actions take place or who the target of those actions are.
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JimFive
The university I graduated from regularly had (maybe still has) job fairs in Chicago, which is >600 miles from the campus.
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JimFive
I wasn't talking about the RIAA. I was talking about this new group, and the idea that even if it starts with good intentions it will eventually fall into the trap of thinking that its own existence matters more than the people it started out to represent. Another analogous group, apart from labor unions, would be MADD. They have succeeded in what they set out to do, but now, instead of declaring success and closing up shop (or moving into a maintenance mode), they move the goalposts to keep themselves relevant.
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JimFive
Regardless of the initial intent of the organization it will eventually exist to perpetuate itself and its own interests. See: Labor Unions
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JimFive
I thought that, too. It isn't asking for something that needs to be controlled, it is repeatedly asking after having been told no.
In fact, I would bet that this one isn't consistently enforced. You're less likely to punish your child for asking, "Can I have an apple?" than you are for, "Can I have a candybar?"
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JimFive
If this is a real concern, how hard would it be to set up some sort of track system to remove and place the solar panels in the event of a storm. e.g. Having a storage system where you unlock the panels and slide them down a track into a storage room in or under your garage. It wouldn't be that much more work than boarding up the windows.
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JimFive
Batteries don't go dead all at once. Assuming you have a fully electric vehicle your car will slow down dramatically but still be able to move forward slowly for that last mile or so if you turn off all of the accessories. (Assuming that the manufacturer hasn't put some sort of discharge limiter on it to protect the batteries.)
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JimFive
Actually, isn't it 20,000 counts of petty larceny (~$6). (Ok, even if the accumulation doesn't make it a felony, some of the equipment probably broke the $100 barrier, but still $6?)
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JimFive
(Most) Physicians are not researchers. If you want to get someone interested in your condition because it is unknown you need to find someone with the time, ability (and possibly mandate) to research it. To really get that research going, though, is going to require that a sufficient population of people be found that have similar symptoms that can be researched. Good luck with that.
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JimFive
Or, you could detect whether the USB was working before restarting the service. Kludgy solution. Use a USB drive with a file in a specific place, if the cron job can find the file then USB is working and abort, if not restart USB.
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JimFive
My dictionary is at home, but doesn't "Le Chiffre" mean "The Cipher", which is a much better name than "The Number".
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JimFive
If we were getting smaller we would be able to tell because the apparent speed of light would be changing (the shorter measuring stick would make it appear that light was moving faster).
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JimFive
This seems like it could be a good concept over a private network. At my company we encourage the users to use network drives for storing files, but, of course, all of the desktops have 80+G drives of which only about 10G are used. If something like this could be set up on the network as a distributed file system with some redundancy and encryption. It would create something like 70G * 2000Machines = 140TBytes of network storage.
Does something like that exists?
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JimFive
As it is now, each school district has (can have) their own ballot. The state Department of Treasury probably can't handle that either. And if you go lower than that you have the problem of communities without income taxes and you end up back where we are now: Each district handles its own voting and the numbers get accumulated up the chain.
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JimFive