No it's not. the #1 problem is morons that are elected trying to make budgets. none of them are accountants, most can barely walk and chew gum at the same time.
Until we drastically increase the IQ of elected officials as well as increase their honesty level everything will stay a mess.
No it doesnt. Forced liability on software that is SOLD commercially. Free open source software is allowed a disclamer as you have the ability to find the problems and fix them yourself. Closed software is the only software that has forced liability as you can not fix it yourself.
Very easy to do, very clear language. and it will force two things. Either software companies will have to release their source code on request to anyone that asks to avoid the liability, or they have to actually write secure and good code.
And yes secure and good code is possible, I dont see many military or aircraft systems that have major fatal failures because the industry has a liability attached to their software. if they kill someone because of a bug, the families can go after the company.
and it's easy to do. every polycom comes with the admin password set to the serial number of the unit. Any programmer that made it out of the first year of college could easily add this feature during firmware initialization.
You have the answer. Forced liability on software companies.
Company hacked because of a Windows flaw? Microsoft owes you the $22 trillion it cost for cleaning up the hack... Yes, use the over inflated numbers they claim.
Dan Geer, the CISO of In-Q-Tel is a nutjob or a scumbag trying to just figure out how to bring about a forced revenue stream. Unless he proposes that companies that do this MUST buy back the self deactivated equipment at 50% of retail price, he is simply trying to figure out how to force customers into spending more money by artificial controlled failure.
Actually no. I had the only choice of GTE But they were heavily regulated and not allowed to do a lot of the BS that they get away with today. in fact back in the 80's they had to start working on a phone problem within 24 hours of reporting the problem or they got fined.
Deregulation happened, and now people will go days without phone/DSL/cable because they dont have a regulatory gun to their head to actually respond.
It's time we put a gun back to the head of ISP's, because they cant be trusted to do the right thing.
"One of the first things I would do as a mid-range ISP it analyse where most of my customers go on the internet. Then approach those data locations, cap in hand and negotiate mirroring and a data storage farm, so the by far the bulk of the traffic is from the data farm to the end user. "
We used to do this back in the @home broadband days. we had servers in major headends that were mirror serves for places like download.com and other services that had high traffic. Most of the time it was simply a reciprocal agreement because we both benefited from it. This was in the old times when Businesses were ran by honest people.
Today we have dishonest crooks like you have running Comcast who want to use extortion on everything. If they were honest in any way they would have formed an agreement with netflix to host mirror servers or add in a dedicated pipe to netflix regional servers to each region.
Instead they prefer to be dishonest dirtbags and try to act like organized criminals. the solution is heavy handed regulation like forcing common carrier status. The had decades of time to play nice, they dont want to, so fuck em all.
Odd, my Honda's all have 10 year warranties as a normal warranty, and they extended the warranty on the engine to "forever" because some engines had a casting problem in the engine block.
GM only ever told me, "your fault for buying GM, yes we know the intake is defective and allowed water in the oil to burn out the bearings, we will repair it for full retail cost because you actually drove the car. GM cars are not mean to be driven"
What is this 1998? A dedicated hotspot in the car? I can buy a portable hotspot that works better and is cheaper for service PLUS has LTE so it will be faster. Oh and It's also on my same phone bill so I have one bill.
This is more proof that GM is a has-been company that only makes medicore low grade products and is hell bent on staying that way.
Hey GM, Want to be a leader again? Shot for the highest quality and offer a 10 year 150,000 mile warranty that covers EVERYTHING as standard on your cars. nobody buys GM junk because it falls apart after 5 years and is over 10 years behind everyone else.
I grew up as a UAW/Chevy family kid and I will not touch the garbage that GM makes. Been burned too many times by their low grade dog food that they sell. Only way I will come back is they start fessing up to their mistakes and give us bumper to bumper zero cost 10 year warranties that cover over 15K miles a year driven. Make it no risk to me and I'll look at GM again.
Honda got my last 3 car purchases because of the very low risk of ownership.
All they have to do is name the male Lead in every disney movie "kelly" or "pat" and the LGBT cant complain. suddenly it's not a big dude that is marrying the princess, it's a Lesbian.
Your country it would be Aldi stores, and in Germany BMW is usually driven by the Volk. Here they are only reserved for the $250,000 euro or higher income level as they are special and only allowed for the ruling class.
If YOU tried this, they would have sued you out of existence. Sadly the law allows Corporations to use organized crime tactics to stifle competition. Only when they are up against someone the same size as they are do they play fair.
Wow, Around here the Power company MUST allow you to feed backwards and they have to either allow the meter to run backwards or buy the power from you.
I back feed from 200 watts of panels as a simple plug in system here and it actually made enough of a dent that it paid for the $450 in micro syncing inverters and two panels in a single year.
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"Suppose a bunch of thugs (you know who I mean) are in my house, and I need to call the police? "
the police will find your body when they arrive.
The LAST thing you reach for is a phone if your home is being invaded.
Take a look at the latest release works great.
Otherwise use a real DB like mySQL and a nice User frontend.
The vast majority of customers are stupid. really really stupid.
No it's not. the #1 problem is morons that are elected trying to make budgets. none of them are accountants, most can barely walk and chew gum at the same time.
Until we drastically increase the IQ of elected officials as well as increase their honesty level everything will stay a mess.
No it doesnt. Forced liability on software that is SOLD commercially. Free open source software is allowed a disclamer as you have the ability to find the problems and fix them yourself. Closed software is the only software that has forced liability as you can not fix it yourself.
Very easy to do, very clear language. and it will force two things. Either software companies will have to release their source code on request to anyone that asks to avoid the liability, or they have to actually write secure and good code.
And yes secure and good code is possible, I dont see many military or aircraft systems that have major fatal failures because the industry has a liability attached to their software. if they kill someone because of a bug, the families can go after the company.
and it's easy to do. every polycom comes with the admin password set to the serial number of the unit. Any programmer that made it out of the first year of college could easily add this feature during firmware initialization.
You have the answer. Forced liability on software companies.
Company hacked because of a Windows flaw? Microsoft owes you the $22 trillion it cost for cleaning up the hack... Yes, use the over inflated numbers they claim.
Dan Geer, the CISO of In-Q-Tel is a nutjob or a scumbag trying to just figure out how to bring about a forced revenue stream. Unless he proposes that companies that do this MUST buy back the self deactivated equipment at 50% of retail price, he is simply trying to figure out how to force customers into spending more money by artificial controlled failure.
Actually no. I had the only choice of GTE
But they were heavily regulated and not allowed to do a lot of the BS that they get away with today. in fact back in the 80's they had to start working on a phone problem within 24 hours of reporting the problem or they got fined.
Deregulation happened, and now people will go days without phone/DSL/cable because they dont have a regulatory gun to their head to actually respond.
It's time we put a gun back to the head of ISP's, because they cant be trusted to do the right thing.
"One of the first things I would do as a mid-range ISP it analyse where most of my customers go on the internet. Then approach those data locations, cap in hand and negotiate mirroring and a data storage farm, so the by far the bulk of the traffic is from the data farm to the end user. "
We used to do this back in the @home broadband days. we had servers in major headends that were mirror serves for places like download.com and other services that had high traffic. Most of the time it was simply a reciprocal agreement because we both benefited from it. This was in the old times when Businesses were ran by honest people.
Today we have dishonest crooks like you have running Comcast who want to use extortion on everything. If they were honest in any way they would have formed an agreement with netflix to host mirror servers or add in a dedicated pipe to netflix regional servers to each region.
Instead they prefer to be dishonest dirtbags and try to act like organized criminals. the solution is heavy handed regulation like forcing common carrier status. The had decades of time to play nice, they dont want to, so fuck em all.
If all the ISP's are against it, then it's the right thing to do.
Dear ISP's, It's your own damn fault, you let Comcast act like pricks so now you get what you allowed to happen.
For example Battlefield 4 : so many bugs you cant finish the game, Multiplayer worthless due to random invisible walls.
That game is a prime example of complete and utter crap churned out by a puppy mill.
By modding you are STEALING from them by offering DLC for Free and that is unamerican.
Odd, my Honda's all have 10 year warranties as a normal warranty, and they extended the warranty on the engine to "forever" because some engines had a casting problem in the engine block.
GM only ever told me, "your fault for buying GM, yes we know the intake is defective and allowed water in the oil to burn out the bearings, we will repair it for full retail cost because you actually drove the car. GM cars are not mean to be driven"
What is this 1998? A dedicated hotspot in the car? I can buy a portable hotspot that works better and is cheaper for service PLUS has LTE so it will be faster. Oh and It's also on my same phone bill so I have one bill.
This is more proof that GM is a has-been company that only makes medicore low grade products and is hell bent on staying that way.
Hey GM, Want to be a leader again? Shot for the highest quality and offer a 10 year 150,000 mile warranty that covers EVERYTHING as standard on your cars. nobody buys GM junk because it falls apart after 5 years and is over 10 years behind everyone else.
I grew up as a UAW/Chevy family kid and I will not touch the garbage that GM makes. Been burned too many times by their low grade dog food that they sell. Only way I will come back is they start fessing up to their mistakes and give us bumper to bumper zero cost 10 year warranties that cover over 15K miles a year driven. Make it no risk to me and I'll look at GM again.
Honda got my last 3 car purchases because of the very low risk of ownership.
All they have to do is name the male Lead in every disney movie "kelly" or "pat" and the LGBT cant complain. suddenly it's not a big dude that is marrying the princess, it's a Lesbian.
Your country it would be Aldi stores, and in Germany BMW is usually driven by the Volk. Here they are only reserved for the $250,000 euro or higher income level as they are special and only allowed for the ruling class.
I hope so. current big ISP's need to be cornholed violently.
Only 800 pound gorilla competition.
If YOU tried this, they would have sued you out of existence. Sadly the law allows Corporations to use organized crime tactics to stifle competition. Only when they are up against someone the same size as they are do they play fair.
Wow, Around here the Power company MUST allow you to feed backwards and they have to either allow the meter to run backwards or buy the power from you.
I back feed from 200 watts of panels as a simple plug in system here and it actually made enough of a dent that it paid for the $450 in micro syncing inverters and two panels in a single year.
People should never ever trust the police.
I figured that Bitcoin smelled like black tar heroin and a box of saved roaches with a little bit of human trafficking rolled in.
Honestly Bitcoin is the currency of the drug trade, so it should smell pretty gross.
Spoken like a true BMW owner.
So hook the solar cells into a syncing inverter and drive your electricity meter backwards. Use the power company as your battery.
As if a BMW owner will live in a place with a "car port" and not a garage.
No the 20 something working at walmart that is driving the beat up 325i does not count.