Does 201 CMR 17.00 apply to municipalities? No. 201 CMR 17.01 specifically excludes from the definition of “person” any “agency, executive office, department, board, commission, bureau, division or authority of the Commonwealth, or any of its branches, or any political subdivision thereof.” Consequently, the regulation does not apply to municipalities.
So it seems if your little business gets its 100-member customer db hacked, you're out half a million dollars; if the State of Massachusetts gets its DMV records hacked, they pay you zilch... or am I reading this wrong?
What happens if/when the chosen standard experiences a drastic change in abundance? E.g. say we choose gold, and everything's going along just wonderfully. Then the first wave of asteroid belt mining probes report a rock, 99.9% pure gold, fifty klicks wide. "Oops." Or we solve the Grand Unified Theory, and it reveals an easy way to transmute elements. "Oops". Or we simply discover a ridiculously massive vein under some beach somewhere.
Seems to me we need a simpler standard: "don't spend what you don't have". Though I suspect the problem isn't our standards, it's that we aren't enforcing them; "Too big to fail."
When either a direct-line supervisor or someone as high up the food chain as you are supposing here asks for something you pretty much give it to them. Or get fired on the spot with good cause. So of course you give it to them and let them take the heat for the consequences. Network down for a week? So what? It isn't the admin's problem to explain this to everyone.
So a Colonel, two spooks, a Major and a Private walk in, and the Colonel demands you hand the Private the launch codes to your missile station. Your orders are that the codes shall only be handed over to no less than a three-star General. Do you (a) hand over the password, because well heck they must have a pretty good reason, or (b) tell them to go find a three-star General?
And yes, I realise Childs was not military, let alone a missile station operator. He did however have the keys to city infrastructure, and he believed (rightly or wrongly) that the people asking for the passwords were unauthorised. At what point should some CYA document (even if worth the paper it's printed on) be more important than refusing an unlawful order? When should principles be tossed in favor of convenience? What shade was the grey in Childs' situation?
It is illegal. Passwords that protect company assets are intellectual property owned by the company. They don't belong to the employee any more than a company-issued laptop does.
Do you really want to go down the rabbit hole of advocating that a company has the legal right to enter a person's memory to retrieve/remove their "intellectual property"? Because if so, please go find some other universe and don't come back.
AP: So, you have seven children, have you ever caught any of them using Gnutella or Limewire or the P2P network?
EB: I have. I explained to them what I believe is right, that the principle involved is that stealing music is stealing music. Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child, a bright line around moral responsibility is very important. I can assure you they no longer do that.
Back when I was a teenager, many in my home city saw a bright golden triangular shape fly over the city. The local newspaper reported on it, including the usual "no aircraft were known to be in the area at that time".
Let's see: Unidentified? Check. Flying? Check. Object? Check. Three out of three, seems to meet the criteria...
Now I'd hazard a guess that when you said "UFO" you really meant "alien spacecraft" or somesuch, but if you're going to throw around phrases like "scientific scrutiny" and "statistical outlier", at least try to specific about what you're dissing.:)
Er, what? Eucalypts prove the poster's point. They're so well-suited to surviving Australian bushfires they dominated the continent. If you're going to link wikipedia, I suggest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus which goes into considerably more detail. For a relevant excerpt, "With the arrival of the first humans about 50 thousand years ago, fires became much more frequent and the fire-loving eucalypts soon came to account for roughly 70% of Australian forest."
36MPH? That'd be the urban speed limit. Forgive my metric, the current Australian speed limits are 50 km/hr (urban roads) and 100 km/hr (rural roads) unless otherwise signed (e.g. school zones are usually 40 while main thoroughfares are usually 60, with highways/motorways/freeways/bypasses/etc anywhere from 70 to 110 depending on assessed safety and local political influences). There's been a recent push in some districts to sign semi-rural roads down to 80.
Most police here understand the concept of "de minimus" and won't ticket you for doing a few km over on empty roads, but you shouldn't and can't count on that. The latest automatic speed cameras - which still remain utterly useless compared to having a real police officer on patrol - can apparently be set to trip at 0.1 over if the installer has an axe to grind. The real danger though is a few too many tailgaters and a surprisingly large number of otherwise perfectly sober idiots who do things like overtake on double-line blind corners uphill. Neither of which a speed camera trap or random breath test will do diddly about.:p
One solution is to have the numbers in two rows, with the second row pseudo-randomised by the remote bank; you do a lookup on your PIN from the first row, and enter the corresponding second row values. This resists both smudge-reading on touch-screens and key-loggers on push-pads, because the data you send isn't your PIN, merely a one-time hash that only the receiving bank understands.
Neither of course helps if someone can get actual video of your PIN entry, but there are other solutions for that.:)
The other was that voters were not aware they were voting for a Republican judge even if they were strongly opposed to Republicans
They simply handed people sample ballots at the station and people copied them down.
Er, am I understanding this right, that the U.S. ballot system does not indicate the political affiliation of the candidates?
Here in Australia the party samples may or may not list affiliations, but the actual ballot we have to fill in does. E.g. Adam, Acme Party; Bob, Party Foo; Cecil, Independent; etcetera. The system still has its flaws, but at least that isn't one of them.
For us kids, can you explain how to keep the "date and time down to the second" in a single byte each? Because unless you're using a byte larger than 8 binary bits, for a total of 256 possible values, I'm interested in how you're fitting even a year's worth of days (365), let alone a day's worth of seconds (86400) in that space, nevermind multiple years... what am I missing?
Thankyou for the citation. Can you provide anything similar for coal (i.e. one that takes into account area and energy used to extract and transport the fuel to feed it)?
You're wrong (sorry). As humans we tend to have a horrible idea of how things scale outside of our instinctive narrow range. The energy density of a solar-thermal plant is indeed considerably less than a coal plant - but not that low, and plenty for all but truly heavy industry (and that's what nuclear is for) once you understand the engineering involved. Also, it's not just watts:area of the plant, it's watts:area:cost where cost is capital plus maintenance and supply, and area is plant plus its logistics chain.
Coal plants have coal mines, heavy road/rail infrastructure to transport fuel and waste, emit large quantities of pollution (not just at the plant but also at the mines and along the transport routes, and not just heavy metals but also more radioactives by mass per watt than nuclear plants), high maintenance costs, high worker casualties, etcetera.
Solar-thermal plants have the sun, light road/rail infrastructure to transport workers, emit no pollution, low maintenance costs, low worker casualties, etcetera. The use of heat storage/recycling (e.g. molten salt tanks) allows night-time power distribution.
Or to put it another way - sure, you need orders of magnitude more surface area for solar-thermal than coal - but we've got that available, and while your capital costs work out higher your ongoing costs are orders of magnitude less to your civilisation as a whole.
Coal: Quicker, easier, more seductive. But you end up ugly and alone.
Obviously. However, if the evidence is compelling (e.g. a video of the guard getting into the car and assaulting him), said guard should be charged appropriately and if convicted then the original conviction should be overturned and compensation awarded.
Hmm. Does the same "mens rea" apply to that law, or can someone arrange to flash a CP photo on a projector at the next session of parliament and throw the lot of them in jail for a fortnight?
You're shooting at me? With what? I'm on the other side of the planet, pressing a button that drops explosives on your head. Tough luck if it's because you were wearing the same colour hat as Mister Terrorist.
"The ACLU's lawsuit seeks, in addition to information about the legal basis for the drone program, information about how the program is overseen and data regarding the number of civilians and non-civilians killed in the strikes. Estimates of civilian casualties provided by anonymous government officials quoted in the press and by various non-governmental analysts differ dramatically, from the dozens to the hundreds, giving an incomplete and inconsistent picture of the human cost of the program."
--- http://www.aclu.org/national-security/aclu-seeks-information-predator-drone-program
It's the equivalent of a picture postcard, open to the world to see, and therefore bereft of 4th Amendment protections ("plain sight" rule).
The fourth Amendment is not about what the world is allowed to do. The fourth Amendment is about what your government is allowed to do, and it is not allowed to read your papers without due process. If you mention committing a crime and a postal employee happens to read it of their own volition, tough luck - but it is not in "plain sight" for the government, and the government does not have the right to read everybody's postcards - nor order postal employees to do so - as they pass through the machinery on the off chance somebody somewhere mentions committing a crime.
The other thing to remember is that the onus of responsibility is on the lawyers who are presenting their case to the court. If they didn't do a good enough job of explaining the intricacies of email to the judges, they failed in their role as advocates.
Intricacies of email?!
It's "mail done by computers". If someone can't figure that out in this day and age, and thus how the fourth amendment should apply, they do not deserve to be a judge, let alone one presiding over a federal court of appeal!
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Here's a kicker - this law apparently does not apply to the politicians themselves. From the FAQ at http://www.mass.gov/Eoca/docs/idtheft/201CMR17faqs.pdf
Does 201 CMR 17.00 apply to municipalities?
No. 201 CMR 17.01 specifically excludes from the definition of “person” any “agency, executive office, department, board, commission, bureau, division or authority of the Commonwealth, or any of its branches, or any political subdivision thereof.” Consequently, the regulation does not apply to municipalities.
So it seems if your little business gets its 100-member customer db hacked, you're out half a million dollars; if the State of Massachusetts gets its DMV records hacked, they pay you zilch... or am I reading this wrong?
What happens if/when the chosen standard experiences a drastic change in abundance? E.g. say we choose gold, and everything's going along just wonderfully. Then the first wave of asteroid belt mining probes report a rock, 99.9% pure gold, fifty klicks wide. "Oops." Or we solve the Grand Unified Theory, and it reveals an easy way to transmute elements. "Oops". Or we simply discover a ridiculously massive vein under some beach somewhere.
Seems to me we need a simpler standard: "don't spend what you don't have". Though I suspect the problem isn't our standards, it's that we aren't enforcing them; "Too big to fail."
Disclaimer: economics newb.
So a Colonel, two spooks, a Major and a Private walk in, and the Colonel demands you hand the Private the launch codes to your missile station. Your orders are that the codes shall only be handed over to no less than a three-star General. Do you (a) hand over the password, because well heck they must have a pretty good reason, or (b) tell them to go find a three-star General?
And yes, I realise Childs was not military, let alone a missile station operator. He did however have the keys to city infrastructure, and he believed (rightly or wrongly) that the people asking for the passwords were unauthorised. At what point should some CYA document (even if worth the paper it's printed on) be more important than refusing an unlawful order? When should principles be tossed in favor of convenience? What shade was the grey in Childs' situation?
Do you really want to go down the rabbit hole of advocating that a company has the legal right to enter a person's memory to retrieve/remove their "intellectual property"? Because if so, please go find some other universe and don't come back.
Fourth option: whether or not filesharing is wrong, using the legal system to nuke the peasants into the poorhouse is just plain evil.
Funny you should mention the sons and daughters of the execs and artists - they fileshare too. The following is an excerpt from Adam Pasick interviewing Warner Music chief executive Edgar Bronfman: http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2006/12/01/warner-music-boss-edgar-bronfman/
Further context: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Bronfman,_Jr.#Music_piracy
I can assure Edgar that if his children are intelligent enough, they can see the hypocrisy in the system.
heh, what's easier to "green", all our airplanes or all our volcanoes?
Back when I was a teenager, many in my home city saw a bright golden triangular shape fly over the city. The local newspaper reported on it, including the usual "no aircraft were known to be in the area at that time".
Let's see: Unidentified? Check. Flying? Check. Object? Check. Three out of three, seems to meet the criteria...
Now I'd hazard a guess that when you said "UFO" you really meant "alien spacecraft" or somesuch, but if you're going to throw around phrases like "scientific scrutiny" and "statistical outlier", at least try to specific about what you're dissing. :)
I wonder if that's the actual original - a HD version would make a nice desktop background.
Er, what? Eucalypts prove the poster's point. They're so well-suited to surviving Australian bushfires they dominated the continent. If you're going to link wikipedia, I suggest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus which goes into considerably more detail. For a relevant excerpt, "With the arrival of the first humans about 50 thousand years ago, fires became much more frequent and the fire-loving eucalypts soon came to account for roughly 70% of Australian forest."
I'm going to take a leap and say that most of us don't disagree with responding to an attack. However, the least we could do is respond competently.
36MPH? That'd be the urban speed limit. Forgive my metric, the current Australian speed limits are 50 km/hr (urban roads) and 100 km/hr (rural roads) unless otherwise signed (e.g. school zones are usually 40 while main thoroughfares are usually 60, with highways/motorways/freeways/bypasses/etc anywhere from 70 to 110 depending on assessed safety and local political influences). There's been a recent push in some districts to sign semi-rural roads down to 80.
Most police here understand the concept of "de minimus" and won't ticket you for doing a few km over on empty roads, but you shouldn't and can't count on that. The latest automatic speed cameras - which still remain utterly useless compared to having a real police officer on patrol - can apparently be set to trip at 0.1 over if the installer has an axe to grind. The real danger though is a few too many tailgaters and a surprisingly large number of otherwise perfectly sober idiots who do things like overtake on double-line blind corners uphill. Neither of which a speed camera trap or random breath test will do diddly about. :p
One solution is to have the numbers in two rows, with the second row pseudo-randomised by the remote bank; you do a lookup on your PIN from the first row, and enter the corresponding second row values. This resists both smudge-reading on touch-screens and key-loggers on push-pads, because the data you send isn't your PIN, merely a one-time hash that only the receiving bank understands.
Neither of course helps if someone can get actual video of your PIN entry, but there are other solutions for that. :)
Er, am I understanding this right, that the U.S. ballot system does not indicate the political affiliation of the candidates?
Here in Australia the party samples may or may not list affiliations, but the actual ballot we have to fill in does. E.g. Adam, Acme Party; Bob, Party Foo; Cecil, Independent; etcetera. The system still has its flaws, but at least that isn't one of them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_electoral_system (includes pictures of a NSW sample and actual ballot paper)
That's okay - if it's over ten dollars, my Steam purchasing days are also in the past.
Want to give it to your brother?
Want to donate it to your local charity?
Want to sell it to your neighbour?
Steam? Can't do it.
I've gone back to buying real discs, from companies that still care. So yeah, no games with first-user-DLC traps either.
For us kids, can you explain how to keep the "date and time down to the second" in a single byte each? Because unless you're using a byte larger than 8 binary bits, for a total of 256 possible values, I'm interested in how you're fitting even a year's worth of days (365), let alone a day's worth of seconds (86400) in that space, nevermind multiple years... what am I missing?
Thankyou for the citation. Can you provide anything similar for coal (i.e. one that takes into account area and energy used to extract and transport the fuel to feed it)?
You're wrong (sorry). As humans we tend to have a horrible idea of how things scale outside of our instinctive narrow range. The energy density of a solar-thermal plant is indeed considerably less than a coal plant - but not that low, and plenty for all but truly heavy industry (and that's what nuclear is for) once you understand the engineering involved. Also, it's not just watts:area of the plant, it's watts:area:cost where cost is capital plus maintenance and supply, and area is plant plus its logistics chain.
Coal plants have coal mines, heavy road/rail infrastructure to transport fuel and waste, emit large quantities of pollution (not just at the plant but also at the mines and along the transport routes, and not just heavy metals but also more radioactives by mass per watt than nuclear plants), high maintenance costs, high worker casualties, etcetera.
Solar-thermal plants have the sun, light road/rail infrastructure to transport workers, emit no pollution, low maintenance costs, low worker casualties, etcetera. The use of heat storage/recycling (e.g. molten salt tanks) allows night-time power distribution.
Or to put it another way - sure, you need orders of magnitude more surface area for solar-thermal than coal - but we've got that available, and while your capital costs work out higher your ongoing costs are orders of magnitude less to your civilisation as a whole.
Coal: Quicker, easier, more seductive. But you end up ugly and alone.
Obviously. However, if the evidence is compelling (e.g. a video of the guard getting into the car and assaulting him), said guard should be charged appropriately and if convicted then the original conviction should be overturned and compensation awarded.
Hmm. Does the same "mens rea" apply to that law, or can someone arrange to flash a CP photo on a projector at the next session of parliament and throw the lot of them in jail for a fortnight?
When the guard is performing, or has just performed, an illegal act (e.g. assault and battery), thereby revoking their privilege of authority.
I have to wonder if that's covered anywhere under "colour of law" legislation. If it isn't, it should be.
You're shooting at me? With what? I'm on the other side of the planet, pressing a button that drops explosives on your head. Tough luck if it's because you were wearing the same colour hat as Mister Terrorist.
"The ACLU's lawsuit seeks, in addition to information about the legal basis for the drone program, information about how the program is overseen and data regarding the number of civilians and non-civilians killed in the strikes. Estimates of civilian casualties provided by anonymous government officials quoted in the press and by various non-governmental analysts differ dramatically, from the dozens to the hundreds, giving an incomplete and inconsistent picture of the human cost of the program."
--- http://www.aclu.org/national-security/aclu-seeks-information-predator-drone-program
I'd prefer neither. When you think the only solution to people you disagree with is to kill them, something is terribly wrong.
The fourth Amendment is not about what the world is allowed to do. The fourth Amendment is about what your government is allowed to do, and it is not allowed to read your papers without due process. If you mention committing a crime and a postal employee happens to read it of their own volition, tough luck - but it is not in "plain sight" for the government, and the government does not have the right to read everybody's postcards - nor order postal employees to do so - as they pass through the machinery on the off chance somebody somewhere mentions committing a crime.
Intricacies of email?!
It's "mail done by computers". If someone can't figure that out in this day and age, and thus how the fourth amendment should apply, they do not deserve to be a judge, let alone one presiding over a federal court of appeal!
Because you're doing it right. :)
"You're" = "You are".