Really? Explain how being deployed in Afghanistan makes you an expert on international law. Tells us when Afghanistan attacked the US. Both wars were first strikes. Both were unnecessary. Hunting down a few terrorists by starting a war against an entire country makes about as much sense as pounding a nail in to a piece of wood with a pile driver.
Where are all these groups and people now who were protesting against the war. Especially now that Obama has launched three new ones, and wants to have defacto powers to execute americans on american soil without due process.
Don't you remember? They were shouted down, pelted with trash by passers-by, corralled by police, and largely ignored by both the media and politicians. The protests were completely ineffective. My proof? The illegal invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were started by Bush anyway.
Politics makes strange bedfellows. I think it is hilarious that Democrats cheer for a health care law that was originally designed by Republicans during the Clinton administration, while Republicans protest it now because it was passed into law by Democrats. And now we have Republicans protesting drone programs created during the Bush administration, and protesting killing Americans with drones when the Bush administration killed at least one American without due process because he was deemed an "enemy combatant."
But I doubt Republicans will want to put too many restrictions on a warmongering, domestic-spying Democratic president. They realize any laws they pass now to rein in Obama could also be used rein in future presidents, which may be one of them.
Add to that, that many people mistakenly think that the 'P' in 'HIPAA' stands for Privacy. It does not. It stands for Portability. There are only vague references to data privacy and security in HIPAA. It is mostly about making data portable between organizations to make it easier for insurance companies, hospitals, doctors, lawyers, etc. to share your medical and financial information. Your local clinic could still be using unencrypted wifi. They could have a server in their closet that gets stolen and as long as it did not have more than 500 patients worth of data on it, they don't even have to report it!
Do yourselves a favor, always use a fake SSI number with doctors. Don't argue with them that you don't want to give your SSI to them. Just give them a fake one. They have no legitimate use for it, and all doctors offices I've seen are very lax with security, so you could just be saving yourself from identity theft. But forget about having any chance against the lawyers if an insurance company decides they don't want to pay for your treatment. They have access to your entire lifetime of medical and financial information to trump up some sort of excuse not to pay.
When I hear Microsoft say "platform" I assume they are referring not to actual OS files, but the libraries that could have just as much of a drastic effect when changed as updating the OS. This might refer to C/C++/C#/.Net runtime libraries that most Windows applications rely on. API files might change too, but tends Microsoft add new versions of functions rather than changing the behavior of old functions.
I never understood why Microsoft, with all its code signing, frameworks, and what-not, never opened up an API for Windows Update so there could be a single update system instead of every OEM and software company piling on their own update systems. Seems simple...
1. Register application and its update url with Windows Update API.
2. Windows API checks code signing, rejects invalid and unsigned code.
3. Windows Update updates all code-signed software on system.
4....
5. Profit?
Acknowledging it is likely to be against the advice of the company's attorneys whether or not it really is their fault.
Exactly. Datek or Ameritrade or TD Ameritrade, I forget at which point in their many buy-outs, has been repeatedly compromised in the past. At first they denied it and claimed that spammers had just guessed by email account. So each time I would create a new email account in my own domain consisting of a random collection of 12 letters, numbers, and punctuation marks. And each time they were compromised I would point out to them the impossibility of a spammer guessing my email account.
Finally, they just started a policy of sending me an email saying they are investigating it but their company policy does not allow them to give me any details of their findings or what, if anything, they did to fix it.
So...just throw in a random xkcd link and get automatic +2 mod? Oh mighty/., how far you have fallen.
Uh... a user with a low number like 897 most likely gets a +4 just for pooping in their pants on/. So, AC, you can rest easy in the knowledge that they actually got modded down
Whoops, just read through the thread on Bugzilla about the patch. It's not really disabling third party cookies completely. It still allows third party cookies to be exchanged if cookies from that third party already exist on the client. So if you visited PayPal directly, then went to a web site with an embedded PayPal button, that site would still send client's PayPal cookies.
That seems like a good trade-off between security and zero-config for most cases. But if also means unless you explicitly disable all third party cookies, sites like Facebook will still be able to follow you around the web.
I never quite understood how, for the past several years, embedded PayPal payment buttons have remained completely broken if the client disabled third party cookies. Maybe if all browsers did this PayPal would finally fix their system.
Yup. I've been programming computers since the mid 1970's, and have been in various electronics and IT positions since then. This stuff has been going on a long time.
1970's: Actively prevent computer programmers' unions from forming.
1980's: Outsource manufacturing.
1990's: Outsource support. H1-B visa abuse and fraud for engineering.
The US has the best quality health care in the world!
Sorry to nitpick since I agree with the rest of what you wrote, but this is not true by a number of measurements. The most recent survey of health care by the World Health Organization placed the US somewhere around #32 in the world. That's below all those socialized health care systems in the world that lobbyists for hospitals and insurances companies keep trying to convince Americans are hell-holes where you go to die in a waiting room!
Yeah, we can play this game all day, but let's remember that we live in a democracy, so this is really all on us. The only reason you have to sell out and act like a dickhole to be in Congress is because that's what voters are demanding right now.
I would argue that voters are demanding this right now because they have been convinced to do so by a vast array of corporate control media that selectively suppresses some news, grossly distorts other news, and gives a far-reaching public stage to people that are clearly either uninformed idiots, completely unhinged mental cases, or corporate shills.
Go back to pre-1980's rules about about media outlet ownership and equal-time, and you might stand a chance of cutting the head off the snake.
directors, officers, and employees owe fiduciary duties to the company (shareholders). The company owes nothing to the customers and employees outside of any contractual duties they assume and the general legal duties like ordinary care and non-discrimination.
I often hear this quote about the fiduciary duties of executive officers. But if this were true, then corporations that cut employee wages and benefits, or do layoffs, or outsource overseas, would not pay their executives huge bonuses or wages 300%+ over regular employees for doing so. All increased profits from cutting costs should go to the shareholders/company if that is truly who/what is top priority. Executive positions at big corporations are in extremely limited supply. If an executive leaves because they think they can get more money elsewhere, good luck to them. Otherwise, let's see them really fulfill their fiduciary duties.
Unbelievable. I have said this many times before, and the reaction is always the same. "No, no, we can't give people free access to education and contraception. We must continue to put band-aids on the problem and ignore the simplest, proven solution."
In 30 years or so the population is going to double again; 14 billion people. You geniuses better start working on on a band-aid for mathematics to solve the problem of how you allow population to grow geometrically on a finite planet.
I would also add that the mindless gasbag has presented a fallacy of false choice; use GMO or starve. We are told to believe that despite Monsanto's business plan of enslaving the world's farmers, that they are just doing this out of the kindness of their hearts to feed an overpopulated world. Here's a thought, reduce population growth instead. Statistics show that free access to education and contraception reduces population growth without imposing martial law. But no one gets rich off of giving something necessary away for free. So we are doomed.
5) Sell the unpaid invoices to a collection agency and let them worry about it, and never work for the company ever again. You won't get anywhere near what you were supposed to get paid. But it will be off your books and done with, you won't have to worry about it any more, and depending on your local tax laws the loss is most likely deductible.
I propose creating graphics with this system that consist entirely of an 2D grid of vectors where each vector has the same start and end point, along with an associated color and brightness.
As several anthropology professors told me, there are really only two kinds of jobs left in anthropology, teaching and working for the CIA. When an anthropologist starts studying your community, you know you are in for some deep shit! She's clearly a fuckin' spook!
This... and the fact that no branch of the military really wants to have an accurate record of anything they do or spend. Congress pushes it on the Pentagon, the Pentagon (or insert branch of military here) keeps moving the goal post on the contractor until the project turns into a great big ball of shit. Then Congress or the Pentagon pulls the plug on the project and blames the contractor!!!
if you are interested in personal freedom and privacy, use Firefox, with third party cookies and location info disabled, and AdBlock, Request Policy, HTTPS Everywhere, and BetterPrivacy add-ons installed. Period.
Fixed that for you. Firefox doesn't have great privacy by itself, but it can be made to have better privacy with add-ons and changing some of the default settings. But those add-ons and settings do have equivalents on Chrome. Chrome's sandboxing and integrated Adobe flash player updates might give it a slight edge on security, sometimes.
According to report linked to in TFA, the US government has no internet surveillance and does not spread misinformation! Sounds like their report was censored!
Especially since any atmosphere created for terraforming purposes would be ripped off by solar winds in short order due to the lack of a significant magnetosphere.
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Really? Explain how being deployed in Afghanistan makes you an expert on international law. Tells us when Afghanistan attacked the US. Both wars were first strikes. Both were unnecessary. Hunting down a few terrorists by starting a war against an entire country makes about as much sense as pounding a nail in to a piece of wood with a pile driver.
Where are all these groups and people now who were protesting against the war. Especially now that Obama has launched three new ones, and wants to have defacto powers to execute americans on american soil without due process.
Don't you remember? They were shouted down, pelted with trash by passers-by, corralled by police, and largely ignored by both the media and politicians. The protests were completely ineffective. My proof? The illegal invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were started by Bush anyway.
Politics makes strange bedfellows. I think it is hilarious that Democrats cheer for a health care law that was originally designed by Republicans during the Clinton administration, while Republicans protest it now because it was passed into law by Democrats. And now we have Republicans protesting drone programs created during the Bush administration, and protesting killing Americans with drones when the Bush administration killed at least one American without due process because he was deemed an "enemy combatant."
But I doubt Republicans will want to put too many restrictions on a warmongering, domestic-spying Democratic president. They realize any laws they pass now to rein in Obama could also be used rein in future presidents, which may be one of them.
Add to that, that many people mistakenly think that the 'P' in 'HIPAA' stands for Privacy. It does not. It stands for Portability. There are only vague references to data privacy and security in HIPAA. It is mostly about making data portable between organizations to make it easier for insurance companies, hospitals, doctors, lawyers, etc. to share your medical and financial information. Your local clinic could still be using unencrypted wifi. They could have a server in their closet that gets stolen and as long as it did not have more than 500 patients worth of data on it, they don't even have to report it!
Do yourselves a favor, always use a fake SSI number with doctors. Don't argue with them that you don't want to give your SSI to them. Just give them a fake one. They have no legitimate use for it, and all doctors offices I've seen are very lax with security, so you could just be saving yourself from identity theft. But forget about having any chance against the lawyers if an insurance company decides they don't want to pay for your treatment. They have access to your entire lifetime of medical and financial information to trump up some sort of excuse not to pay.
When I hear Microsoft say "platform" I assume they are referring not to actual OS files, but the libraries that could have just as much of a drastic effect when changed as updating the OS. This might refer to C/C++/C#/.Net runtime libraries that most Windows applications rely on. API files might change too, but tends Microsoft add new versions of functions rather than changing the behavior of old functions.
I never understood why Microsoft, with all its code signing, frameworks, and what-not, never opened up an API for Windows Update so there could be a single update system instead of every OEM and software company piling on their own update systems. Seems simple...
1. Register application and its update url with Windows Update API. ...
2. Windows API checks code signing, rejects invalid and unsigned code.
3. Windows Update updates all code-signed software on system.
4.
5. Profit?
Ah! Now I see why it hasn't been done!
Acknowledging it is likely to be against the advice of the company's attorneys whether or not it really is their fault.
Exactly. Datek or Ameritrade or TD Ameritrade, I forget at which point in their many buy-outs, has been repeatedly compromised in the past. At first they denied it and claimed that spammers had just guessed by email account. So each time I would create a new email account in my own domain consisting of a random collection of 12 letters, numbers, and punctuation marks. And each time they were compromised I would point out to them the impossibility of a spammer guessing my email account.
Finally, they just started a policy of sending me an email saying they are investigating it but their company policy does not allow them to give me any details of their findings or what, if anything, they did to fix it.
So...just throw in a random xkcd link and get automatic +2 mod? Oh mighty /., how far you have fallen.
Uh... a user with a low number like 897 most likely gets a +4 just for pooping in their pants on /. So, AC, you can rest easy in the knowledge that they actually got modded down
Whoops, just read through the thread on Bugzilla about the patch. It's not really disabling third party cookies completely. It still allows third party cookies to be exchanged if cookies from that third party already exist on the client. So if you visited PayPal directly, then went to a web site with an embedded PayPal button, that site would still send client's PayPal cookies.
That seems like a good trade-off between security and zero-config for most cases. But if also means unless you explicitly disable all third party cookies, sites like Facebook will still be able to follow you around the web.
I never quite understood how, for the past several years, embedded PayPal payment buttons have remained completely broken if the client disabled third party cookies. Maybe if all browsers did this PayPal would finally fix their system.
Yup. I've been programming computers since the mid 1970's, and have been in various electronics and IT positions since then. This stuff has been going on a long time.
1970's: Actively prevent computer programmers' unions from forming.
1980's: Outsource manufacturing.
1990's: Outsource support. H1-B visa abuse and fraud for engineering.
2000's: Outsource engineering and IT.
2013: NPR reports on the 1980's and 90's.
First they need customers that have a need for trillions of dollars worth of minerals, and the money to pay for it.
The US has the best quality health care in the world!
Sorry to nitpick since I agree with the rest of what you wrote, but this is not true by a number of measurements. The most recent survey of health care by the World Health Organization placed the US somewhere around #32 in the world. That's below all those socialized health care systems in the world that lobbyists for hospitals and insurances companies keep trying to convince Americans are hell-holes where you go to die in a waiting room!
Yeah, we can play this game all day, but let's remember that we live in a democracy, so this is really all on us. The only reason you have to sell out and act like a dickhole to be in Congress is because that's what voters are demanding right now.
I would argue that voters are demanding this right now because they have been convinced to do so by a vast array of corporate control media that selectively suppresses some news, grossly distorts other news, and gives a far-reaching public stage to people that are clearly either uninformed idiots, completely unhinged mental cases, or corporate shills.
Go back to pre-1980's rules about about media outlet ownership and equal-time, and you might stand a chance of cutting the head off the snake.
directors, officers, and employees owe fiduciary duties to the company (shareholders). The company owes nothing to the customers and employees outside of any contractual duties they assume and the general legal duties like ordinary care and non-discrimination.
I often hear this quote about the fiduciary duties of executive officers. But if this were true, then corporations that cut employee wages and benefits, or do layoffs, or outsource overseas, would not pay their executives huge bonuses or wages 300%+ over regular employees for doing so. All increased profits from cutting costs should go to the shareholders/company if that is truly who/what is top priority. Executive positions at big corporations are in extremely limited supply. If an executive leaves because they think they can get more money elsewhere, good luck to them. Otherwise, let's see them really fulfill their fiduciary duties.
Unbelievable. I have said this many times before, and the reaction is always the same. "No, no, we can't give people free access to education and contraception. We must continue to put band-aids on the problem and ignore the simplest, proven solution."
In 30 years or so the population is going to double again; 14 billion people. You geniuses better start working on on a band-aid for mathematics to solve the problem of how you allow population to grow geometrically on a finite planet.
I would also add that the mindless gasbag has presented a fallacy of false choice; use GMO or starve. We are told to believe that despite Monsanto's business plan of enslaving the world's farmers, that they are just doing this out of the kindness of their hearts to feed an overpopulated world. Here's a thought, reduce population growth instead. Statistics show that free access to education and contraception reduces population growth without imposing martial law. But no one gets rich off of giving something necessary away for free. So we are doomed.
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5) Sell the unpaid invoices to a collection agency and let them worry about it, and never work for the company ever again. You won't get anywhere near what you were supposed to get paid. But it will be off your books and done with, you won't have to worry about it any more, and depending on your local tax laws the loss is most likely deductible.
I propose creating graphics with this system that consist entirely of an 2D grid of vectors where each vector has the same start and end point, along with an associated color and brightness.
*THIS* exactly.
As several anthropology professors told me, there are really only two kinds of jobs left in anthropology, teaching and working for the CIA. When an anthropologist starts studying your community, you know you are in for some deep shit! She's clearly a fuckin' spook!
This... and the fact that no branch of the military really wants to have an accurate record of anything they do or spend. Congress pushes it on the Pentagon, the Pentagon (or insert branch of military here) keeps moving the goal post on the contractor until the project turns into a great big ball of shit. Then Congress or the Pentagon pulls the plug on the project and blames the contractor!!!
Google lets you block entire sites from search results. You'll never see them.
The feature is kind of hidden at....
http://www.google.com/reviews/t
It appears that this only works if:
a. you have a google account.
b. you are logged in to that google account while you are doing searches.
if you are interested in personal freedom and privacy, use Firefox, with third party cookies and location info disabled, and AdBlock, Request Policy, HTTPS Everywhere, and BetterPrivacy add-ons installed. Period.
Fixed that for you. Firefox doesn't have great privacy by itself, but it can be made to have better privacy with add-ons and changing some of the default settings. But those add-ons and settings do have equivalents on Chrome. Chrome's sandboxing and integrated Adobe flash player updates might give it a slight edge on security, sometimes.
According to report linked to in TFA, the US government has no internet surveillance and does not spread misinformation! Sounds like their report was censored!
Especially since any atmosphere created for terraforming purposes would be ripped off by solar winds in short order due to the lack of a significant magnetosphere.