Then there's the other factor... to even make the FBI's case load, you need to commit a felony. A felony is more than $5000 USD theft.
What happens is most ID thefts are under this amount so they don't make the FBI's radar. Even when they do, the FBI has bigger fish to fry. They are in line behind frauds that are much bigger so never make the FBI's case load. This enables id thieves to pretty much operate with impunity. No one files a complaint with local law enforcement so neither locals, nor the FBI goes after them.
I had the same guy, in Chicago, use my ID 3 separate occasions with Household bank in 2004 (yes, they kept on issuing loans to the same guy that just ripped them off). Each theft was $4500-4900.
Their collections people kept calling me and my wife, and told my wife I have a mistress in Chicago. She thought this was funny since I was home every night with her and NEVER traveled to Chicago (Indeed I wasn't traveling at all after 2001).
So not only to they enable thieves to ruin your credit, their asshole collections douchebags try to break up your family too. I was able to straighten this out by calling the credit bureau directly, raising a dispute (once for each fraud), at which point Household could not produce my signature, and I'd never lived in Chicago (according to credit bureau records) which enabled me to tell Household they can go fuck themselves and the bureaus simply deleted the non-payment entries in their database.
Very nice... but this could have been a real problem had the fraud been local. I'm not sure I'd have been able to clear it.
Aye a disaster that could have been avoided. The emperor caused this disaster. Don't kid yourself. He attacked the US and brought us into the war. He was warned to surrender or start losing cities. You'd think he would have learned after the first one, but it took 2 to convince him that the US wasn't fucking around and he was facing surrender, or total annihilation of the Japanese people.
When you start a war, and refuse to surrender after you've been beat, that's what happens, total annihilation.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki getting nuked were the direct result of the pride of one man. He should have been tried as a war criminal and executed.
>Ask any drone in a large company, Open Source is bad news because there are law suits against it. There are lawsuits against every mega-tech company too.
If you left your chair to go outside and pick some Morels, and cooked them with some food, you'd change your tune about picking mushrooms. I promise. There's a reason they cost $115 a pound dried;) Fresh they are orgasmically good and picking them is the only way to get them that way.
I can think of a couple of reasons: 1. you are drunk 2. you are horny 3. they are hot 4. they start making out with you out of nowhere and you get horny.
I suggest you try it sometime, but wear a condom. Being with someone you love can lead to better sex, but nothing is more exciting than having sex with a near or total stranger. This includes the girls from high school that are hitting on you 10 years later. Did you _really_ know them? That's what I thought.
>> But honestly, this Facebook hookup thing sounds like a lot of work, alias or no. Wouldn't it be easier to just join AdultFriendFinder for casual sex
LOL. after my divorce I joined facebook. AFF is a site full of scammers, cam girls and hookers. Facebook is real people.
Within a 2 months of joining I had hooked up with 4 women I knew in the past who had a crush on me and I never figured it out. All were divorced or separated. I actually stayed with 4th for a year before she dumped me because I didn't want to get married for "a while" and she wanted kids *now*. After that I met up with a friend of a friend. Then I stopped using facebook for dating.
Facebook wins hands down vs. AFF;) to meet new women either use a reputable site for dating (if there is such a thing) or you could leave the house and meet people. That's what works for me. After my initial year of tapping facebook, I prefer to stay out of my network of friends for dating since people treat you differently after a breakup and gossip if you both know them all. That's the real drawback about facebook.
I sincerely doubt that using aliases on facebook would work for dating. Starting a relationship with a lie doesn't usually bode well.
AFF is a scam. Been there, done it.
Oh, and wear a condom for chrissakes. I do agree with one of the parents that google voice is indispensable for dating. Anyone that's ever gotten 150 texts in a day from someone you just broke up with will agree. You can block numbers from reaching your cell with GV. My number is xxx-xxx-[first name]. Freaking awesome.
Or maybe he means things like "back in the day" you could walk down the street carrying your bb gun from a rat hunting trip at the waterfront. A cop would stop you and ask you how many rats you bagged.
Now they call the swat team.
Or perhaps "back in the day" when you were 16 and the cops busted you drinking beer, they would pour out the open containers and tell you to take your beer home.
Now they arrest you, you get court ordered into AA, and lose your eligibility to drive til you are 21.
Things definitely were more civil "back in the day".
When you visit our web site to read pages or download information, we automatically collect and store the following *non-identifying* information: The Internet protocol *(IP) address from which you access our web site*. An IP address is a unique number that is automatically assigned to the computer you are using whenever you are surfing the web
If they are this disingenuous about the "anonymous" info they collect on their web site, how can you believe anything else they say about privacy? An IP address is identifying info because they can call the ISP, give them the IP and time stamp and identify the person who had the IP at the time.
Granted, this info is collected by any web server, however in their privacy policy they are misrepresenting the nature of the information. Do they know what privacy means? They certainly don't understand the concept of "non-identifying" which is a part of the privacy lexicon. What else don't they know or understand about privacy? IMHO privacy doesn't exist in the government mindset.
>>What it does state, quite clearly, is that power belongs in the hands of the people, and they have granted the government a few, limited, enumerated duties. Anything else they want to do, they have to ask the People first, and an overwhelming majority of them have to agree to it.
--- that went out the window a long time ago. Look at obamacare. that's now a law and the senate had no say in the matter. It's supposed to require a 2/3 majority in the senate according to the constitution. Right or wrong, it's wasn't passed by constitutionally mandated process.
The constitution is dead and the government cannot be trusted with anything. The only goal of government is to make itself bigger and gain more power over us so they can collect more taxes. Detailed information gives them more power.
Without physics, you don't exist, let alone math. Math is simply a way to describe physics. The universe would continue to operate whether or not humans invented math to describe it. Physics could care less about math. Math only matters to people.
Yup. The very concept of putting a value into a variable is math.
Your programming ability is roughly limited by your math ability, especially when it comes to working visually. I've used graph theory, sets, lattices and all kinds of advanced math professionally. Even though I understand the stuff I still google it. If you don't go around thinking about the stuff all the time you tend to forget some details.
Programming is nothing but math, though most of the dirty details have been abstracted. Without at least mid level training in advanced math, you aren't crap as a programmer.
You'd need to contact facebook to get their IP address.
actually most ISP's enter long/lat info into their routers. you can easily trace a connection to the nearest NOC of the ISP using a geotracing program find their neighborhood in a few seconds with nothing more than an IP address.
You can then call the NOC and find out who the IP's been assigned to, and get their billing address, if you have a badge, maybe even if you don't.
This technology is not Sci Fi, it's real. I was playing with neotrace in 1997 to trace IRC users and freak them out. This capability has been around a long time and it's next to free to get a client to do this.
... someone that pays for all of their music, without exception, I would certainly welcome such a tax. However I'd move to just copying everything instead of buying it. I wouldn't pay for my music twice ; )
I'm pretty sure most other people would feel the same way. Doing this essentially socializes entertainment since the government becomes the record store.
I'm pretty sure that doing this will result in a net loss for the music industry... There's no way people will buy their music unless they are idiots since this tax sanctions copying. People will just form music clubs where you can copy whatever you want without buying it.
Record stores could simply burn mix cds for people. It's not online, the record store owner is simply copying with friends right?
And most users won't put up with it because all they know is their website doesn't work, which is easily solved.
This is an excuse used by people that don't want to endure the short term pain of doing things right.
An automated approval system is a piece of cake. I've already got one in prototype. It took me a whole 2 days to design and code it. It's implemented in my Yoggie I use at home to gatway my network. It keeps the porn out of my kid's computers and chooses the white list based on IP and MAC. If the IP doesn't match the MAC address it cheerfully blocks the request.
Really simple stuff...
My firewall doesn't allow any outbound traffic but the Yoggie. Done.
You can write a script that will pull your default allow list from your existing mail and proxy logs for closer examination and implementation.
So you have all the domains your company currently interacts with and you put that in a list as the start.
What's the hard part? That occasionally some user puts a ticket in to add a site or domain to the list? Wow that is certainly harder than rebuilding 300 (or 3000) workstations because someone downloaded a screensaver with a new trojan from a domain that didn't make it into the blacklists yet, isn't it?/sigh
That's the beautiful part of default deny. After a couple of months your network security load drops to patching things and updating av definition.
No more spam battle, no more trojans, severely limited employee slacking.
Default permit is the "easy" way, and it doesn't work. Easy is in quotes because it's not really easier.
All that time we spend on antivirus, blacklists, spam etc etc etc would be totally unnecessary with default deny. We could focus on building a good whitelist approval system, which I am actually doing on my own. After the initial few weeks the maintenance would be a piece of cake. Then you'd have a ton of resources to devote to making your network better.
Try telling this to your average security practitioner. Most of them are idiots that can't see 10 ft into the future and the stupid way is so entrenched in their brain it's like trying to convince someone from the 1300's that the earth is round. We have the proof, why is everyone clinging to default permit?
I'm guessing you've tried this? Did the lock post fit behind the trigger or did you go to bass pro shop and buy the $12.99 one randomly then install it wrong?
Like all things, a trigger lock requires a modicum of common sense to use correctly.
I have a rifle. There's this little thing called a trigger lock you can buy... you can also slide the breech out, remove the firing pin assembly and store it separately in your sock drawer or something. Then you can stuff the ammo in your mattress.
An IQ test should be part of the purchase process for a firearm.
Considering the average title has 8-12 hours of play time, you could easily play 4 games a month to completion. TBH I usually shelve a game and never play it again once I'm done. You pay $60 for a new game, and might get $10 back when you sell it, if you are lucky. If you don't sell it, within a couple of years, the OS will have moved on and it won't work any more.
The economics, at least for someone like me, are pretty compelling. $15 a mo is a bargain, _if the service works_ which it doesn't.
The idea is based on a flawed concept and I don't care how you slice it, it will never work. They should move to a model where you download the real game with a module added that calls home each time to make sure you are subscribed. Game client executables can't run remotely and give you anything resembling performance, I don't care if you have a 1Tbps connection. The latency will screw you if it's any more than 10ms. You get that from 3-4 hops.
It can't be. You can't prevent doom, or else the doom would have never necessitated traveling back in time and you would poof. I know it's true, because I read it in wikipedia.
Yup... When it comes to creating bigger government and collecting the taxes to pay for it, NOTHING will escape notice, especially piracy. By pirating software you are also dodging the IRS. That makes it a government problem instead of a simple loss of revenue for a company.
You are dodging sales tax and reducing the income tax paid by the company who you are stealing the software from, since their incoming money is shorted. You are also causing one of the merchants that sells the product to lose revenue, reducing their income taxes paid.
That's three separate taxes you are dodging on your own and others' behalf.
The argument "Well I wouldn't have bought it anyway" won't work because you have the software, and didn't pay your taxes on it. If the government decided to prosecute you they could probably argue for tax evasion and copyright violation charges.
Disclaimer: I am not pro big government or pro taxes, I'm just telling it like it is with regard to how the IRS and the government views piracy. There is this factor working against pirates, as well as the software lobby. The software lobby will get what it wants because of the illegality of copyright violation and loss of tax revenue, the more important factor being the loss of taxes. Stopping tax abuse is at the top of the administrations agenda right now.
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Then there's the other factor... to even make the FBI's case load, you need to commit a felony. A felony is more than $5000 USD theft.
What happens is most ID thefts are under this amount so they don't make the FBI's radar. Even when they do, the FBI has bigger fish to fry. They are in line behind frauds that are much bigger so never make the FBI's case load. This enables id thieves to pretty much operate with impunity. No one files a complaint with local law enforcement so neither locals, nor the FBI goes after them.
I had the same guy, in Chicago, use my ID 3 separate occasions with Household bank in 2004 (yes, they kept on issuing loans to the same guy that just ripped them off). Each theft was $4500-4900.
Their collections people kept calling me and my wife, and told my wife I have a mistress in Chicago. She thought this was funny since I was home every night with her and NEVER traveled to Chicago (Indeed I wasn't traveling at all after 2001).
So not only to they enable thieves to ruin your credit, their asshole collections douchebags try to break up your family too. I was able to straighten this out by calling the credit bureau directly, raising a dispute (once for each fraud), at which point Household could not produce my signature, and I'd never lived in Chicago (according to credit bureau records) which enabled me to tell Household they can go fuck themselves and the bureaus simply deleted the non-payment entries in their database.
Very nice... but this could have been a real problem had the fraud been local. I'm not sure I'd have been able to clear it.
Aye a disaster that could have been avoided. The emperor caused this disaster. Don't kid yourself. He attacked the US and brought us into the war. He was warned to surrender or start losing cities. You'd think he would have learned after the first one, but it took 2 to convince him that the US wasn't fucking around and he was facing surrender, or total annihilation of the Japanese people.
When you start a war, and refuse to surrender after you've been beat, that's what happens, total annihilation.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki getting nuked were the direct result of the pride of one man. He should have been tried as a war criminal and executed.
He's probably picked up some bad habits...
>Ask any drone in a large company, Open Source is bad news because there are law suits against it.
There are lawsuits against every mega-tech company too.
IBM http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/mainframe-blog/ibm-faces-another-anti-trust-lawsuit-in-europe-over-mainframe-practices/
Microsoft http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-20000597-75.html
Oracle http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=201003291158dowjonesdjonline000278&title=rimini-street-files-countersuit-against-oracle
Lawsuits are practically a standard expense for most of these companies.
If you left your chair to go outside and pick some Morels, and cooked them with some food, you'd change your tune about picking mushrooms. I promise. There's a reason they cost $115 a pound dried ;) Fresh they are orgasmically good and picking them is the only way to get them that way.
Wouldn't that be a Pubic awareness campaign?
I can think of a couple of reasons:
1. you are drunk
2. you are horny
3. they are hot
4. they start making out with you out of nowhere and you get horny.
I suggest you try it sometime, but wear a condom. Being with someone you love can lead to better sex, but nothing is more exciting than having sex with a near or total stranger. This includes the girls from high school that are hitting on you 10 years later. Did you _really_ know them? That's what I thought.
>> But honestly, this Facebook hookup thing sounds like a lot of work, alias or no. Wouldn't it be easier to just join AdultFriendFinder for casual sex
LOL. after my divorce I joined facebook. AFF is a site full of scammers, cam girls and hookers. Facebook is real people.
Within a 2 months of joining I had hooked up with 4 women I knew in the past who had a crush on me and I never figured it out. All were divorced or separated. I actually stayed with 4th for a year before she dumped me because I didn't want to get married for "a while" and she wanted kids *now*. After that I met up with a friend of a friend. Then I stopped using facebook for dating.
Facebook wins hands down vs. AFF ;) to meet new women either use a reputable site for dating (if there is such a thing) or you could leave the house and meet people. That's what works for me. After my initial year of tapping facebook, I prefer to stay out of my network of friends for dating since people treat you differently after a breakup and gossip if you both know them all. That's the real drawback about facebook.
I sincerely doubt that using aliases on facebook would work for dating. Starting a relationship with a lie doesn't usually bode well.
AFF is a scam. Been there, done it.
Oh, and wear a condom for chrissakes. I do agree with one of the parents that google voice is indispensable for dating. Anyone that's ever gotten 150 texts in a day from someone you just broke up with will agree. You can block numbers from reaching your cell with GV. My number is xxx-xxx-[first name]. Freaking awesome.
Or maybe he means things like "back in the day" you could walk down the street carrying your bb gun from a rat hunting trip at the waterfront. A cop would stop you and ask you how many rats you bagged.
Now they call the swat team.
Or perhaps "back in the day" when you were 16 and the cops busted you drinking beer, they would pour out the open containers and tell you to take your beer home.
Now they arrest you, you get court ordered into AA, and lose your eligibility to drive til you are 21.
Things definitely were more civil "back in the day".
I like this from their privacy policy http://www.census.gov/privacy/privacy_policy/data_collected_automatically.html page on census.gov:
When you visit our web site to read pages or download information, we automatically collect and store the following *non-identifying* information:
The Internet protocol *(IP) address from which you access our web site*. An IP address is a unique number that is automatically assigned to the computer you are using whenever you are surfing the web
If they are this disingenuous about the "anonymous" info they collect on their web site, how can you believe anything else they say about privacy? An IP address is identifying info because they can call the ISP, give them the IP and time stamp and identify the person who had the IP at the time.
Granted, this info is collected by any web server, however in their privacy policy they are misrepresenting the nature of the information. Do they know what privacy means? They certainly don't understand the concept of "non-identifying" which is a part of the privacy lexicon. What else don't they know or understand about privacy? IMHO privacy doesn't exist in the government mindset.
>>What it does state, quite clearly, is that power belongs in the hands of the people, and they have granted the government a few, limited, enumerated duties. Anything else they want to do, they have to ask the People first, and an overwhelming majority of them have to agree to it.
---
that went out the window a long time ago. Look at obamacare. that's now a law and the senate had no say in the matter. It's supposed to require a 2/3 majority in the senate according to the constitution. Right or wrong, it's wasn't passed by constitutionally mandated process.
The constitution is dead and the government cannot be trusted with anything. The only goal of government is to make itself bigger and gain more power over us so they can collect more taxes. Detailed information gives them more power.
Without physics, you don't exist, let alone math. Math is simply a way to describe physics. The universe would continue to operate whether or not humans invented math to describe it. Physics could care less about math. Math only matters to people.
Yup. The very concept of putting a value into a variable is math.
Your programming ability is roughly limited by your math ability, especially when it comes to working visually. I've used graph theory, sets, lattices and all kinds of advanced math professionally. Even though I understand the stuff I still google it. If you don't go around thinking about the stuff all the time you tend to forget some details.
Programming is nothing but math, though most of the dirty details have been abstracted. Without at least mid level training in advanced math, you aren't crap as a programmer.
You'd need to contact facebook to get their IP address.
actually most ISP's enter long/lat info into their routers. you can easily trace a connection to the nearest NOC of the ISP using a geotracing program find their neighborhood in a few seconds with nothing more than an IP address.
Here's an open source geotracing program: http://www.linuxsoft.cz/en/sw_detail.php?id_item=169
You can then call the NOC and find out who the IP's been assigned to, and get their billing address, if you have a badge, maybe even if you don't.
This technology is not Sci Fi, it's real. I was playing with neotrace in 1997 to trace IRC users and freak them out. This capability has been around a long time and it's next to free to get a client to do this.
I'm kind of partial to chrome, but then again I'm a minimalist. Opera is blazing fast tho, got to give them that.
... someone that pays for all of their music, without exception, I would certainly welcome such a tax. However I'd move to just copying everything instead of buying it. I wouldn't pay for my music twice ; )
I'm pretty sure most other people would feel the same way. Doing this essentially socializes entertainment since the government becomes the record store.
I'm pretty sure that doing this will result in a net loss for the music industry... There's no way people will buy their music unless they are idiots since this tax sanctions copying. People will just form music clubs where you can copy whatever you want without buying it.
Record stores could simply burn mix cds for people. It's not online, the record store owner is simply copying with friends right?
/signed, cryptographically with PGP that is.
And most users won't put up with it because all they know is their website doesn't work, which is easily solved.
This is an excuse used by people that don't want to endure the short term pain of doing things right.
An automated approval system is a piece of cake. I've already got one in prototype. It took me a whole 2 days to design and code it. It's implemented in my Yoggie I use at home to gatway my network. It keeps the porn out of my kid's computers and chooses the white list based on IP and MAC. If the IP doesn't match the MAC address it cheerfully blocks the request.
Really simple stuff...
My firewall doesn't allow any outbound traffic but the Yoggie. Done.
You can write a script that will pull your default allow list from your existing mail and proxy logs for closer examination and implementation.
So you have all the domains your company currently interacts with and you put that in a list as the start.
What's the hard part? That occasionally some user puts a ticket in to add a site or domain to the list? Wow that is certainly harder than rebuilding 300 (or 3000) workstations because someone downloaded a screensaver with a new trojan from a domain that didn't make it into the blacklists yet, isn't it? /sigh
That's the beautiful part of default deny. After a couple of months your network security load drops to patching things and updating av definition.
No more spam battle, no more trojans, severely limited employee slacking.
+1 I've been saying this for 10 years.
Security is Hard(tm) (or so we've been told)
Default permit is the "easy" way, and it doesn't work. Easy is in quotes because it's not really easier.
All that time we spend on antivirus, blacklists, spam etc etc etc would be totally unnecessary with default deny. We could focus on building a good whitelist approval system, which I am actually doing on my own. After the initial few weeks the maintenance would be a piece of cake. Then you'd have a ton of resources to devote to making your network better.
Try telling this to your average security practitioner. Most of them are idiots that can't see 10 ft into the future and the stupid way is so entrenched in their brain it's like trying to convince someone from the 1300's that the earth is round. We have the proof, why is everyone clinging to default permit?
It's easier.
[shakes head]
It's not a self defense item. I have a baseball bat, alarm system, a black-belt, and a dog for that.
Guns aren't the best home defense solution when you have a kid since you need to keep them loaded and accessible for that.
I'm guessing you've tried this? Did the lock post fit behind the trigger or did you go to bass pro shop and buy the $12.99 one randomly then install it wrong?
Like all things, a trigger lock requires a modicum of common sense to use correctly.
I have a rifle. There's this little thing called a trigger lock you can buy... you can also slide the breech out, remove the firing pin assembly and store it separately in your sock drawer or something. Then you can stuff the ammo in your mattress.
An IQ test should be part of the purchase process for a firearm.
Considering the average title has 8-12 hours of play time, you could easily play 4 games a month to completion. TBH I usually shelve a game and never play it again once I'm done. You pay $60 for a new game, and might get $10 back when you sell it, if you are lucky. If you don't sell it, within a couple of years, the OS will have moved on and it won't work any more.
The economics, at least for someone like me, are pretty compelling. $15 a mo is a bargain, _if the service works_ which it doesn't.
The idea is based on a flawed concept and I don't care how you slice it, it will never work. They should move to a model where you download the real game with a module added that calls home each time to make sure you are subscribed. Game client executables can't run remotely and give you anything resembling performance, I don't care if you have a 1Tbps connection. The latency will screw you if it's any more than 10ms. You get that from 3-4 hops.
It can't be. You can't prevent doom, or else the doom would have never necessitated traveling back in time and you would poof. I know it's true, because I read it in wikipedia.
Yup... When it comes to creating bigger government and collecting the taxes to pay for it, NOTHING will escape notice, especially piracy. By pirating software you are also dodging the IRS. That makes it a government problem instead of a simple loss of revenue for a company.
You are dodging sales tax and reducing the income tax paid by the company who you are stealing the software from, since their incoming money is shorted. You are also causing one of the merchants that sells the product to lose revenue, reducing their income taxes paid.
That's three separate taxes you are dodging on your own and others' behalf.
The argument "Well I wouldn't have bought it anyway" won't work because you have the software, and didn't pay your taxes on it. If the government decided to prosecute you they could probably argue for tax evasion and copyright violation charges.
Disclaimer: I am not pro big government or pro taxes, I'm just telling it like it is with regard to how the IRS and the government views piracy. There is this factor working against pirates, as well as the software lobby. The software lobby will get what it wants because of the illegality of copyright violation and loss of tax revenue, the more important factor being the loss of taxes. Stopping tax abuse is at the top of the administrations agenda right now.