Its crap waged for the skillset they mentioned. The certifications alone make it ridiculous, if I'm paying 6 grand in testing fees, every year, I'd at least expect a wage that would allow me to afford those fees. And nobody has a CCIE without the experience to back it up that I know of.
I've seen worse though. When I was first starting out I applied for a internship whose wages were so crap I'd make more on welfare, because I wanted something to put on a resume, they spent three months looking for an ideal candidate before they finally agreed to interview me, and by that time I already had a job that payed more than twice as much.
If I leave my door unlocked it is still a crime to enter without permission, and it is still unconstitutional to do a search without cause.
Also, email is just as secure as traditional, envelope contained, mail, more so even, since intercepting email requires skill, intercepting mail just requires a working pair of hands. The difference is that with snail mail the law protects privacy instead of stripping it away.
From the article, it sounds like the initial crude product is the heatless burner, however, he also claims that this can be further refined into diesel and gasoline.
Have you ever tried contacting MS support? Even the high end MSDN support? They're not bad per se, but there is zero procedure for what to do in a bug situation, either it can be fixed without a programmer, or you're SOL.
The law says even less than that, as far as I can tell the *only* time a IT person needs a PI license is when the activity is being done with the intent to present evidence before a court of law, or it involves tracking of a location. It creates an issue in that you would not be allowed to install Lowjack without a PI license, which will probably be overlooked, but other than that, unless you make a habit of going to court, the law won't affect you.
I actually am going to be quite critical of the law though, since Computer Forensics shouldn't be the same class as more traditional forensics and bodyguarding. For that matter, if you're going to require a bodyguard to have a license, that should be separate from a PI one as well.
Also, really, as long as they're adding engineering to the exempted list, they should add IT to it and shut everyone up.
The government did not order them to do it, they *payed* them to do it. Some telecoms refused to cooperate, or dropped out of the program after things got ugly as well, so there is nothing to suggest coercion was involved.
And before anybody brings up 9/11 panic as a defense, the program was started by the *first* Bush.
That said, as it stands, the entire FISA bill needs to be brought down, not just the retroactive clause. Allowing the government to spy on anybody they want for a week without judicial review is insane.
I wouldn't be so sure about boxing being good for self defense, the technique is excellent for what it does, and most attackers by far aren't going to be able to take advantage of the weaknesses. But if all your punches are normally thrown with heavy padding, I'd worry about punch strength growing faster than bone strength.
I'm not very familiar with the training though, so maybe that problem takes care of itself.
IE7 was rammed down most of the populations throat with an automatic security update a while back, though it has the graces to not try to install it again if you say no to the IE7 license agreement. I'm also not sure if this happened before the start of the study.
[quote]Non-separation of church and state is not necessarily bad but most (if not all) "states" which do not have the separation are also dictatorships therefore giving non-separation movements a bad connotation. [/quote] Afganistan, the new democratic one, not the Taliban, is a prime example of a democracy without church and state separation, they regularly execute people for saying, believing, and reading the wrong things.
Of course, Great Britain is a good counter example of this, since I believe CoE is still the official state religion, and its mostly decent (and the problems it does have do not appear to stem from religion).
[quote]Despite what many want and think, the U.S. was never intended to institute a true separation of church and state, at least that's not what the U.S. Constitution says we should be doing.[/quote]
Funnily enough, they said they wanted to do just that when they wrote the first amendment, however, I'm far more curios, as to what kind of joining of church and state could be made with a strict interpretation of the first amendment?
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Because by locking down the device, Tivo/Motorola/Nokia/whoever, keeps me from having a *better* device that I, or more likely, someone else, creates based on the Tivo starting point. It should also be kep in mind that the GPL was never, in its creators' minds, about sharing code, or giving things away, it was about making sure that everybody can do as the please* with the software, the rest of this, is just incidental.
*Pre counter rebuttal, locking down software so that it is unmodifiable and then giving it to someone else, is not doing as you please with your software, its doing as you please with the end users software, if Tivo wants locked down systems in house, good for them, but the moment they sell a box, it isn't theirs anymore.
The law in my state (Utah) includes the following:
(4) A person who intentionally or knowingly and without authorization, interferes with or interrupts computer services to another authorized to receive the services is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
(Misdemeanors for the same offense stack until they become felonies in Utah, not sure what it works out to for class As though)
(3) Any person is guilty of a second degree felony who:
(a) knowingly and unlawfully possesses an instrument capable of intercepting electronic serial number and mobile identification number combinations under circumstances evidencing an intent to clone;
(definition of electronic serial number is sketchy here, cloning is the electronic kind, interestingly, this also makes my router quite illegal (though as a misdemeanor, as I do not have intent to use), since it supports mac address cloning)
(1) A person is guilty of a class B misdemeanor if, in the course of business, he:
(c) sells, offers, or exposes for sale adulterated or mislabeled commodities. (2) (a) "Adulterated" means varying from the standard of composition or quality prescribed, or pursuant to any statute providing criminal penalties for a variance, or set by established commercial usage.
(b) "Mislabeled" means varying from the standard of truth or disclosure in labeling prescribed by or pursuant to any statute providing criminal penalties for a variance, or set by established commercial usage.
IANAL, or a paralegal, the state code may not reflect case law, and the judge may not care what the law is at all, your state will likely have something completely different. I also point out that I long since lost track of the number of felonies and misdemeanors I've racked up in my state's legal code. (which is annoying, since I need to add owning my router to it)
I did not suggest, or even imply that gun control increased crime, rather that places with gun control remain high in crime.
To the best of my knowledge, there is no evidence that gun control has any effect at all on crime rates, except where guns in the specific are concerned. And guns are readily replaced with knives and tire irons.
The idea of removing one potential person person in favor of another is ridiculous, hawkings theoretical nonexistant twin might also have been *twice* the physicist he is.
The bigger concern for me, is removing the variety posed by some of the more subtle defects, Dyslexia, Aspergers, ADD, Obsessive compulsive disorder, are all good examples of defects that also create something different, instead of just missing something. While lacking these things could be considered generally good for the individual, (A lot of people with those conditions would say differently), the lack of variety could be bad in general. (Not that I don't enjoy variety in general, but congenital blindness*, to mimic someone else's example, is just plain cruel if it can be avoided). The whole thing becomes a very tricky question.
Call me when the parents start selecting for obedience and pliability of their kids, and I'll freak out appropriately though.
*One of my best friends was born blind, and I wouldn't ever want him to go away, but I see things differently, letting him have been born with sight is not the same as keeping him from existing. And yes I'm aware a lot of the things I mention may or may not be genetic.
Do you have any figures to back up gun related crime as it relates to gun control? Well probably, cops in Britain apparently don't feel the need to be armed.
For the US? The places with strict gun control are pretty horrible last I checked. So are a lot of places without it.
How about for violent crime instead of gun crime, it isn't really relevant if you're killed with a gun or a knife is it?
OpenSSH itself is BSD licensed. I was referring more to the basic shell tools. ls in particular is hard to do without. Like I said, check the coreutils package, it has a nice list of day to day toold that appear to be owned by the FSF if I read the info page right. (The fact that it has an info page instead of a man is a pretty big tipoff).
It seems math on this should be possible, but has anyone done it? It might be 10s of billions of years to get to the point that its dangerous, and we don't care, but has anyone bothered to find out?
Given the sheer number of utility tools the FSF has the copyrights on, its unlikely that they were able to give the box ssh ability without using any of the FSF copyrighted material. The op doesn't mention anything that it would be, but 'info coreutils' should give a nice list of potential thing for them to latch onto, at least on debian boxes.
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No, but the judge the FCC is asking to do this has plenty of authority.
Its crap waged for the skillset they mentioned. The certifications alone make it ridiculous, if I'm paying 6 grand in testing fees, every year, I'd at least expect a wage that would allow me to afford those fees. And nobody has a CCIE without the experience to back it up that I know of.
I've seen worse though. When I was first starting out I applied for a internship whose wages were so crap I'd make more on welfare, because I wanted something to put on a resume, they spent three months looking for an ideal candidate before they finally agreed to interview me, and by that time I already had a job that payed more than twice as much.
I am the only one thinking of the nightmare that making suspend default in Vista has caused? Get it to work at the software level first please.
If I leave my door unlocked it is still a crime to enter without permission, and it is still unconstitutional to do a search without cause.
Also, email is just as secure as traditional, envelope contained, mail, more so even, since intercepting email requires skill, intercepting mail just requires a working pair of hands. The difference is that with snail mail the law protects privacy instead of stripping it away.
From the article, it sounds like the initial crude product is the heatless burner, however, he also claims that this can be further refined into diesel and gasoline.
Have you ever tried contacting MS support? Even the high end MSDN support? They're not bad per se, but there is zero procedure for what to do in a bug situation, either it can be fixed without a programmer, or you're SOL.
You know how sometimes you can see your keyboard without turning on the light?
Huh, I thought that was the gow from my monitor.
Is there any part of the bill at all that is acceptable? I was not aware of one.
See sig. And damn Obama most of all for voting for this.
The law says even less than that, as far as I can tell the *only* time a IT person needs a PI license is when the activity is being done with the intent to present evidence before a court of law, or it involves tracking of a location. It creates an issue in that you would not be allowed to install Lowjack without a PI license, which will probably be overlooked, but other than that, unless you make a habit of going to court, the law won't affect you.
I actually am going to be quite critical of the law though, since Computer Forensics shouldn't be the same class as more traditional forensics and bodyguarding. For that matter, if you're going to require a bodyguard to have a license, that should be separate from a PI one as well.
Also, really, as long as they're adding engineering to the exempted list, they should add IT to it and shut everyone up.
The government did not order them to do it, they *payed* them to do it. Some telecoms refused to cooperate, or dropped out of the program after things got ugly as well, so there is nothing to suggest coercion was involved.
And before anybody brings up 9/11 panic as a defense, the program was started by the *first* Bush.
That said, as it stands, the entire FISA bill needs to be brought down, not just the retroactive clause. Allowing the government to spy on anybody they want for a week without judicial review is insane.
I wouldn't be so sure about boxing being good for self defense, the technique is excellent for what it does, and most attackers by far aren't going to be able to take advantage of the weaknesses. But if all your punches are normally thrown with heavy padding, I'd worry about punch strength growing faster than bone strength.
I'm not very familiar with the training though, so maybe that problem takes care of itself.
"15% is kinda expensive considering they don't do much"
Interestingly, it's a lot more than many distributors let the artists have.
IE7 was rammed down most of the populations throat with an automatic security update a while back, though it has the graces to not try to install it again if you say no to the IE7 license agreement. I'm also not sure if this happened before the start of the study.
[quote]Non-separation of church and state is not necessarily bad but most (if not all) "states" which do not have the separation are also dictatorships therefore giving non-separation movements a bad connotation. [/quote]
Afganistan, the new democratic one, not the Taliban, is a prime example of a democracy without church and state separation, they regularly execute people for saying, believing, and reading the wrong things.
Of course, Great Britain is a good counter example of this, since I believe CoE is still the official state religion, and its mostly decent (and the problems it does have do not appear to stem from religion).
[quote]Despite what many want and think, the U.S. was never intended to institute a true separation of church and state, at least that's not what the U.S. Constitution says we should be doing.[/quote]
Funnily enough, they said they wanted to do just that when they wrote the first amendment, however, I'm far more curios, as to what kind of joining of church and state could be made with a strict interpretation of the first amendment?
Because by locking down the device, Tivo/Motorola/Nokia/whoever, keeps me from having a *better* device that I, or more likely, someone else, creates based on the Tivo starting point. It should also be kep in mind that the GPL was never, in its creators' minds, about sharing code, or giving things away, it was about making sure that everybody can do as the please* with the software, the rest of this, is just incidental.
*Pre counter rebuttal, locking down software so that it is unmodifiable and then giving it to someone else, is not doing as you please with your software, its doing as you please with the end users software, if Tivo wants locked down systems in house, good for them, but the moment they sell a box, it isn't theirs anymore.
Retina scanning is also fairly useless for ID, the retina changes over time, as bits of it die and regrow.
The law in my state (Utah) includes the following:
(4) A person who intentionally or knowingly and without authorization, interferes with or interrupts computer services to another authorized to receive the services is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
(Misdemeanors for the same offense stack until they become felonies in Utah, not sure what it works out to for class As though)
(3) Any person is guilty of a second degree felony who:
(a) knowingly and unlawfully possesses an instrument capable of intercepting electronic serial number and mobile identification number combinations under circumstances evidencing an intent to clone;
(definition of electronic serial number is sketchy here, cloning is the electronic kind, interestingly, this also makes my router quite illegal (though as a misdemeanor, as I do not have intent to use), since it supports mac address cloning)
(1) A person is guilty of a class B misdemeanor if, in the course of business, he:
(c) sells, offers, or exposes for sale adulterated or mislabeled commodities.
(2) (a) "Adulterated" means varying from the standard of composition or quality prescribed, or pursuant to any statute providing criminal penalties for a variance, or set by established commercial usage.
(b) "Mislabeled" means varying from the standard of truth or disclosure in labeling prescribed by or pursuant to any statute providing criminal penalties for a variance, or set by established commercial usage.
IANAL, or a paralegal, the state code may not reflect case law, and the judge may not care what the law is at all, your state will likely have something completely different. I also point out that I long since lost track of the number of felonies and misdemeanors I've racked up in my state's legal code. (which is annoying, since I need to add owning my router to it)
I did not suggest, or even imply that gun control increased crime, rather that places with gun control remain high in crime.
To the best of my knowledge, there is no evidence that gun control has any effect at all on crime rates, except where guns in the specific are concerned. And guns are readily replaced with knives and tire irons.
The idea of removing one potential person person in favor of another is ridiculous, hawkings theoretical nonexistant twin might also have been *twice* the physicist he is.
The bigger concern for me, is removing the variety posed by some of the more subtle defects, Dyslexia, Aspergers, ADD, Obsessive compulsive disorder, are all good examples of defects that also create something different, instead of just missing something. While lacking these things could be considered generally good for the individual, (A lot of people with those conditions would say differently), the lack of variety could be bad in general. (Not that I don't enjoy variety in general, but congenital blindness*, to mimic someone else's example, is just plain cruel if it can be avoided). The whole thing becomes a very tricky question.
Call me when the parents start selecting for obedience and pliability of their kids, and I'll freak out appropriately though.
*One of my best friends was born blind, and I wouldn't ever want him to go away, but I see things differently, letting him have been born with sight is not the same as keeping him from existing. And yes I'm aware a lot of the things I mention may or may not be genetic.
Do you have any figures to back up gun related crime as it relates to gun control? Well probably, cops in Britain apparently don't feel the need to be armed.
For the US? The places with strict gun control are pretty horrible last I checked. So are a lot of places without it.
How about for violent crime instead of gun crime, it isn't really relevant if you're killed with a gun or a knife is it?
Usage will cause it to vary a lot, I'm pulling just under 300 megs for Firefox right now, but I also have more than 20 tabs open.
OpenSSH itself is BSD licensed. I was referring more to the basic shell tools. ls in particular is hard to do without. Like I said, check the coreutils package, it has a nice list of day to day toold that appear to be owned by the FSF if I read the info page right. (The fact that it has an info page instead of a man is a pretty big tipoff).
It seems math on this should be possible, but has anyone done it? It might be 10s of billions of years to get to the point that its dangerous, and we don't care, but has anyone bothered to find out?
Given the sheer number of utility tools the FSF has the copyrights on, its unlikely that they were able to give the box ssh ability without using any of the FSF copyrighted material. The op doesn't mention anything that it would be, but 'info coreutils' should give a nice list of potential thing for them to latch onto, at least on debian boxes.