My favorite. Oral sex and Sodomy used to be considered illegal in some states. Some people are on the list because of that, even though those laws are all gone now, they were on the list, and were grandfathered in. (don't want to look soft on child molesters, do we)..
Not to mention, the rules keep changing, after their conviction, which seems a little unfair.. Think of the republicans the bitch that congress keeps changing the rules for accepting TARP money.. yet many of them are all for this...
But if this happened on a brand new model of mac, would everyone scream about breach of privacy, and that they are going back to good old Microsoft products, or would they just assume that it was a feature needed during beta testing, that someone forgot to remove from the shipping product, which is what this sound like.
It really depends on what score you are talking about. Every company has several different scores, all in the same "range" of scores. There is the Fair Issac scores, which they claim are "official" but many people don't use them. Insurance companies have their own scoring systems they use to decide what rate to charge you for Car Insurance in some states, and, like Fair Issac, refuse to tell you how the score is calculated, just give very, very broad Generalities... There are dozens of different "Credit Scores" out there, all calculated very differently.
Some scores like your cards to be 30% full, to show your using it. Some like your cards to have no balance. Some don't like lots of available credit, I guess they figure if you suddenly went out and maxed out your credit, you wouldn't afford your payments...
Also, the 2-3 week time frame for shopping around is a joke. I spend MONTHS shopping around a few weeks ago for a Refinance loan I liked. It was something I would take a look at when I saw some interesting offers, and not something I was spending significant time working on. Because I took my time, wasn't in a rush to get the money, and did lots of comparison shopping, I was punished. Seems that should make me more likely to pay back the loan...
Lastly, keep in mind, this year, companies have been closing down credit limits for customers, without any real warning. Chase took a few thousand dollars off my card limit, with no warning, and no alternatives. That changes the whole Utilization, (or history, for the poor people that got their accounts closed) through no fault of their own, which really sucks for them. The ones that seemed to get closed the most were the ones that were empty, and didn't see any activity in the last few months, exactly what you described with cutting up the card to keep its history.
The nice thing is, if you actually use cold, green cash, stacked in a cheap briefcase, you can make the car salesmen salivate. Figure how much you want to spend on the car, and bring it in. Tell the person that this is how much you are spending, and if they want to make the price lower, it just raises their "commission". Then, tell them if you can walk out in an hour or less, they get to even keep the briefcase...
You pay what you wanted (which is way less then they are asking) the salesman hurries you through, and does the arguing about price with the manager for his own benefit, not yours, and you're in a new car...
They will salivate and go nuts, which is funny, cause most car dealerships make more money by adding a point or two of interest to your car loan than they make selling you the car..
90% of the people in the country live in one very small region? (Helsinki).. Getting the population density just takes the population devided by Sq kilometers.. It doesn't take into account WHERE they live in the country.
I bet Finland has the highest level of public Transportation usage per person as well...
Microtransactions could very well work. The biggest stumbling block right now, is the CC companies want large fees per transaction, or % of sale to use a credit card number.
They are actually trying to up the fees, since their member banks have bonuses to pay out, and billions in TARP loans to pay back...
Also, it is entirely possible to copyright a collection of facts. http://www.copyright.gov/docs/regstat092303.html
No! You do not put all your effort at one entry point.. I have seen a company that was totally secure from the old "code red" virus because all the firewalls were updated, and public facing servers were patched. The network guys blocked all the appropriate ports at the firewalls. Then, a Salesman came into the office from out at a client site, and hopped on the network to check his email, and his laptop took out everyone.
You need layers of defense. preferably from different vendors or makers.
And really, this is Slashdot, why are you recommending Fortigate or ASA? you should be talking up Snort, or its commercial appliance version, Sourcefire.
After every tragic event, from Katrina to the VT shootings, companies would be calling me (I was network manager at a small college) constantly wanting to sell me their product to send texts to people in case of an emergency. They charged an ungodly amount of money. Considering all the different patents and stuff these guys claim to have had, they are going to all wipe each other off the face of the earth.
On a side note, we put a list of common Email to SMS gateways up for our students(ie xxx-xxx-xxxx@sms.cellcompany.com), and asked them to fill in an EMAIL address, then we could truly get them anywhere that they choose, if they choose.
The problem is, communication is a two way street.
You really, really don't want John Twittering about how Joe was killed in an ambush a few minutes ago, when the military has not had time to properly identify the body, and inform the families the proper way. The last way you want Joe's parents finding out is from following the tweets (I hate that freaking word) of Joe's unit...
Conversely, you also don't want the enemy to get easy access to how many service people were killed in that ambush they did. They can use the information to adjust tactics, or re-allocate resources, or just to boost their own morale.
do you give your clients email accounts on your server, and only communicate to them that way? Or do all of your clients only use their own, hosted server? Pretty much the entire internet rely's on third parties..
No, the law is crystal clear. the reasoning's behind the law are not, nor whether the law is fair, or balanced. But the law says: "Thou shalt not circumvent protection features" so when you do just that, you really shouldn't be surprised that the authorities come after you. The person at the heart of this article could use their trial to take on whether the law is fair or not, but the fact is, they broke the law.
This puts itself exactly like the whole "Phorm" debacle... Where in order to have things work the way they should, you have to remember to "opt-out" any time you are using a different computer, or clear your cookies, or whatever.. however, it doesn't actually opt you out of anything, it just changes what you see.. (the Phorm debacle didn't opt you out of tracking everything you do with deep packet inspection, it just opted you out of seeing the ads tailored to you!).
This is the same thing.. Opt out should opt their DNS server from hijacking stuff. The only use I can see for this kind of service, is the ISP can get a list of the most mis-typed domains, and start squatting them.
No, the summary didn't make good points. Did the summary talk about how the kid is really innocent? no. It talked about how the kid broke the law, but that the submitter didn't really think the law was fair, for reasons that "Might" happen. this is news for nerds, not editorials from geeks. Now if the kid was writing games, and modding his own machine to make the games he wrote play, then that would be a bit different of a case, wouldn't it? Where, besides in the editorialized part of the summary, does the kid try to run applications that are locked out?
I think we can trust the slashdot masses to make their own minds up about the law.
I think the F22's that you are specifically mentioning are considered earmarks, because they direct a department (DOD) to purchase something that they did not specify that they wanted. They did not want the 7 F22's, and people are trying to force them to buy them.
There should be a law that congress has to implement a document management system, so that we know who added what to a bill, and when. So that people stop pulling the good ol switcheroo, and dropping a slightly different bill than the one the committee approved on the floor for a vote. I know that the Library of Congress has some tools, but as far as I have been able to tell, they do not track the versions of a bill.
It is in the interest of Voters for force the hands of the legislators in this.
They just thought that having to type your password twice to verify when you change it was stupid and redundant. They left that feature out of their code. then they fat-fingered the keys.
I think your number 1 is a great solution, however, I would also add a sub-rule, that after X confiscations, the child is then expelled, and has to attend a different school.. Maybe after the parents have to drive their kids across town to a different school everyday, the most stubborn ones will finally get the message.
You have no idea the growing levitation power of the new, modern, helicopter parent. They would scream if you even thought of proposing that maybe, just maybe, the kids should leave the burning building BEFORE calling them. (So they can immediately schedule a meeting with the principal and teacher about the lack of fireproofing in the school, and how it affects their childs chances of getting into a good college) For once, think of the parents, not the children. If they can't reach/see their children every minute of every day, then obviously, child molesters are trying to kidnap them...
the last few years, I have started feeling very, very sorry for teachers..
I would feel truly blessed if my "clients" would do nothing for a day. My day would be so nice and enjoyable, without any tickets, or emergencies, or questions I've answered 12 times already (and that's just to them!), not to mention a day without the "Wow $NameofPersonWhosDeskImSittingAt, you sure look different today! HAHAHAHAHAH" It was funny, the first time I heard it, in 1996. The 5 times a week since then, not so much...
Disable only works if the product was never activated. if the BIOS is set to active, AND the client software on the machine contacts the servers for Computrace, and verifies it should be licensed, then it "flips a switch" in that BIOS setting, and you can NEVER disable it again.
They need to write to the software, or else the software will always try to contact them, and then anyone could track any laptop with a supeana, ruining their business model.. Instead, it has to be "turned on".
Also, this software in the BIOS does not actually contact anyone directly. All the BIOS level crap does is forcibly try to re-install the agent software under windows. This could get ugly, if you update the BIOS, to try to force it to install a different program every time someone reloads windows...
Of course, I wonder what happens if I buy an "off lease" laptop, that was at one point activated...
And likewise, MS didn't only write windows for X86. I had it running on an Alpha CPU, there was also PPC, and MIPS, if I'm not mistaken. (why do you think all the important stuff for XP goes in a folder called i386 on the disk?, The disk used to have other directories too)
But to the users, its not Adobe's problem. Adobe works fine on their windows machine, so it must be Linux's fault that they can't watch their favorite video's on Hulu.
Its a nasty double edged sword, since Adobe won't care till it hits a critical mass of users, and it won't hit a critical mass, if its crap. The only decent solution is an Open Source project http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ , so that others, who do care, can fix it, but while its coming along nicely, last I checked, wasn't quite as good as the cruddy Adobe one. (but I do need to check again)
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My favorite. Oral sex and Sodomy used to be considered illegal in some states. Some people are on the list because of that, even though those laws are all gone now, they were on the list, and were grandfathered in. (don't want to look soft on child molesters, do we)..
Not to mention, the rules keep changing, after their conviction, which seems a little unfair.. Think of the republicans the bitch that congress keeps changing the rules for accepting TARP money.. yet many of them are all for this...
But if this happened on a brand new model of mac, would everyone scream about breach of privacy, and that they are going back to good old Microsoft products, or would they just assume that it was a feature needed during beta testing, that someone forgot to remove from the shipping product, which is what this sound like.
So basically, Credit Rating is to responsibility as SSN is to Identity...
It really depends on what score you are talking about. Every company has several different scores, all in the same "range" of scores. There is the Fair Issac scores, which they claim are "official" but many people don't use them. Insurance companies have their own scoring systems they use to decide what rate to charge you for Car Insurance in some states, and, like Fair Issac, refuse to tell you how the score is calculated, just give very, very broad Generalities... There are dozens of different "Credit Scores" out there, all calculated very differently.
Some scores like your cards to be 30% full, to show your using it. Some like your cards to have no balance. Some don't like lots of available credit, I guess they figure if you suddenly went out and maxed out your credit, you wouldn't afford your payments...
Also, the 2-3 week time frame for shopping around is a joke. I spend MONTHS shopping around a few weeks ago for a Refinance loan I liked. It was something I would take a look at when I saw some interesting offers, and not something I was spending significant time working on. Because I took my time, wasn't in a rush to get the money, and did lots of comparison shopping, I was punished. Seems that should make me more likely to pay back the loan...
Lastly, keep in mind, this year, companies have been closing down credit limits for customers, without any real warning. Chase took a few thousand dollars off my card limit, with no warning, and no alternatives. That changes the whole Utilization, (or history, for the poor people that got their accounts closed) through no fault of their own, which really sucks for them. The ones that seemed to get closed the most were the ones that were empty, and didn't see any activity in the last few months, exactly what you described with cutting up the card to keep its history.
The nice thing is, if you actually use cold, green cash, stacked in a cheap briefcase, you can make the car salesmen salivate. Figure how much you want to spend on the car, and bring it in. Tell the person that this is how much you are spending, and if they want to make the price lower, it just raises their "commission". Then, tell them if you can walk out in an hour or less, they get to even keep the briefcase...
You pay what you wanted (which is way less then they are asking) the salesman hurries you through, and does the arguing about price with the manager for his own benefit, not yours, and you're in a new car...
They will salivate and go nuts, which is funny, cause most car dealerships make more money by adding a point or two of interest to your car loan than they make selling you the car..
90% of the people in the country live in one very small region? (Helsinki).. Getting the population density just takes the population devided by Sq kilometers.. It doesn't take into account WHERE they live in the country.
I bet Finland has the highest level of public Transportation usage per person as well...
Microtransactions could very well work. The biggest stumbling block right now, is the CC companies want large fees per transaction, or % of sale to use a credit card number.
They are actually trying to up the fees, since their member banks have bonuses to pay out, and billions in TARP loans to pay back...
Also, it is entirely possible to copyright a collection of facts. http://www.copyright.gov/docs/regstat092303.html
No! You do not put all your effort at one entry point.. I have seen a company that was totally secure from the old "code red" virus because all the firewalls were updated, and public facing servers were patched. The network guys blocked all the appropriate ports at the firewalls. Then, a Salesman came into the office from out at a client site, and hopped on the network to check his email, and his laptop took out everyone.
You need layers of defense. preferably from different vendors or makers.
And really, this is Slashdot, why are you recommending Fortigate or ASA? you should be talking up Snort, or its commercial appliance version, Sourcefire.
After every tragic event, from Katrina to the VT shootings, companies would be calling me (I was network manager at a small college) constantly wanting to sell me their product to send texts to people in case of an emergency. They charged an ungodly amount of money. Considering all the different patents and stuff these guys claim to have had, they are going to all wipe each other off the face of the earth.
On a side note, we put a list of common Email to SMS gateways up for our students(ie xxx-xxx-xxxx@sms.cellcompany.com), and asked them to fill in an EMAIL address, then we could truly get them anywhere that they choose, if they choose.
The problem is, communication is a two way street.
You really, really don't want John Twittering about how Joe was killed in an ambush a few minutes ago, when the military has not had time to properly identify the body, and inform the families the proper way. The last way you want Joe's parents finding out is from following the tweets (I hate that freaking word) of Joe's unit...
Conversely, you also don't want the enemy to get easy access to how many service people were killed in that ambush they did. They can use the information to adjust tactics, or re-allocate resources, or just to boost their own morale.
do you give your clients email accounts on your server, and only communicate to them that way? Or do all of your clients only use their own, hosted server? Pretty much the entire internet rely's on third parties..
No, the law is crystal clear. the reasoning's behind the law are not, nor whether the law is fair, or balanced. But the law says: "Thou shalt not circumvent protection features" so when you do just that, you really shouldn't be surprised that the authorities come after you. The person at the heart of this article could use their trial to take on whether the law is fair or not, but the fact is, they broke the law.
This puts itself exactly like the whole "Phorm" debacle... Where in order to have things work the way they should, you have to remember to "opt-out" any time you are using a different computer, or clear your cookies, or whatever.. however, it doesn't actually opt you out of anything, it just changes what you see.. (the Phorm debacle didn't opt you out of tracking everything you do with deep packet inspection, it just opted you out of seeing the ads tailored to you!).
This is the same thing..
Opt out should opt their DNS server from hijacking stuff. The only use I can see for this kind of service, is the ISP can get a list of the most mis-typed domains, and start squatting them.
No, the summary didn't make good points. Did the summary talk about how the kid is really innocent? no. It talked about how the kid broke the law, but that the submitter didn't really think the law was fair, for reasons that "Might" happen. this is news for nerds, not editorials from geeks. Now if the kid was writing games, and modding his own machine to make the games he wrote play, then that would be a bit different of a case, wouldn't it? Where, besides in the editorialized part of the summary, does the kid try to run applications that are locked out?
I think we can trust the slashdot masses to make their own minds up about the law.
I misread this as actual news, not a ranting editorial by someone about what it MIGHT be about..
Fact is, the kid broke the law. You can hate the law, and work to change it, but that doesn't change the fact the kid broke the law.
I think the F22's that you are specifically mentioning are considered earmarks, because they direct a department (DOD) to purchase something that they did not specify that they wanted. They did not want the 7 F22's, and people are trying to force them to buy them.
There should be a law that congress has to implement a document management system, so that we know who added what to a bill, and when. So that people stop pulling the good ol switcheroo, and dropping a slightly different bill than the one the committee approved on the floor for a vote. I know that the Library of Congress has some tools, but as far as I have been able to tell, they do not track the versions of a bill.
It is in the interest of Voters for force the hands of the legislators in this.
They just thought that having to type your password twice to verify when you change it was stupid and redundant. They left that feature out of their code. then they fat-fingered the keys.
I think your number 1 is a great solution, however, I would also add a sub-rule, that after X confiscations, the child is then expelled, and has to attend a different school.. Maybe after the parents have to drive their kids across town to a different school everyday, the most stubborn ones will finally get the message.
You have no idea the growing levitation power of the new, modern, helicopter parent. They would scream if you even thought of proposing that maybe, just maybe, the kids should leave the burning building BEFORE calling them. (So they can immediately schedule a meeting with the principal and teacher about the lack of fireproofing in the school, and how it affects their childs chances of getting into a good college) For once, think of the parents, not the children. If they can't reach/see their children every minute of every day, then obviously, child molesters are trying to kidnap them...
the last few years, I have started feeling very, very sorry for teachers..
I would feel truly blessed if my "clients" would do nothing for a day. My day would be so nice and enjoyable, without any tickets, or emergencies, or questions I've answered 12 times already (and that's just to them!), not to mention a day without the "Wow $NameofPersonWhosDeskImSittingAt, you sure look different today! HAHAHAHAHAH" It was funny, the first time I heard it, in 1996. The 5 times a week since then, not so much...
Disable only works if the product was never activated. if the BIOS is set to active, AND the client software on the machine contacts the servers for Computrace, and verifies it should be licensed, then it "flips a switch" in that BIOS setting, and you can NEVER disable it again.
They need to write to the software, or else the software will always try to contact them, and then anyone could track any laptop with a supeana, ruining their business model.. Instead, it has to be "turned on".
Also, this software in the BIOS does not actually contact anyone directly. All the BIOS level crap does is forcibly try to re-install the agent software under windows. This could get ugly, if you update the BIOS, to try to force it to install a different program every time someone reloads windows...
Of course, I wonder what happens if I buy an "off lease" laptop, that was at one point activated...
And likewise, MS didn't only write windows for X86. I had it running on an Alpha CPU, there was also PPC, and MIPS, if I'm not mistaken. (why do you think all the important stuff for XP goes in a folder called i386 on the disk?, The disk used to have other directories too)
But to the users, its not Adobe's problem. Adobe works fine on their windows machine, so it must be Linux's fault that they can't watch their favorite video's on Hulu.
Its a nasty double edged sword, since Adobe won't care till it hits a critical mass of users, and it won't hit a critical mass, if its crap. The only decent solution is an Open Source project http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ , so that others, who do care, can fix it, but while its coming along nicely, last I checked, wasn't quite as good as the cruddy Adobe one. (but I do need to check again)
But then the caps will re-freeze if we cut down on our emissions, and we'll have to go back to the normal, gas guzzling shipping routes..