In the past I've never brought a computer. And I don't plan to be attached to my laptop. It's a matter of being able to research destinations, book hostels, send email to family so they know I'm not dead, offload my photos from my digital camera to a larger storage device, etc. Plus, consider that if accessing my bank account on my own netbook over wireless is risky, accessing the same account in some guy's internet cafe is much more dangerous - who knows what keyloggers and spyware could be running on that.
I've been to South America several times on short trips, so I know how to let go of home and just enjoy myself. In fact that's why I'm going for a year this time...I'm quitting my job, selling everything I own, and I'll have nothing on my mind but the present. For the first time since...middle school maybe? I'm 29 now so I'm not sure what it's even going to be like to have no plans for the future!
That sums it up pretty well...no home, parents that can only operate a power button, and troubleshooting via phone from Guyana could be tricky even if I were to leave a machine with a tech-savvy friend. VPNing to a hosted machine didn't occur to me for whatever reason, I'll probably look into that. This is probably an area where compromises will have to be made, but my first step is to avoid any potential complications because they'll be a real pain to deal with.
I tried FoxIt for a while...it is definitely more memory efficient, but it failed to render a lot of PDFs properly. I eventually gave up and went back to Adobe's shitty software (which hogs memory and crashes a lot). It's a tough choice to be honest.
Depends where you live actually...mortgage interest is only deductible if you itemize, so you need quite a lot of it to result in much of an additional deduction. Many people are unable to deduct any mortgage interest at all. The student loan deduction is available to anyone, with the AGI limit caveat.
It's based on AGI, rather than gross income so you can make in the 70s before the deduction is phased out. It's a nice deduction but if you make that much you can probably afford your payments without much trouble. I have 33k in stafford loans and my payment is only around $150 a month on the 30 year plan. I was lucky an consolidated at 2.6%, but even if the payment was three times as much it wouldn't be that big a deal at this income level.
Yes, 1000 years from now the discs may not be terribly useful. But if there was some fantastic info on them my guess is that some creative person would be willing to build a system to read them.
But really, lets put aside 1000 years. Lets just think of 100 years, or 200. DVDs now can't be relied upon to last 100 years, but I'm confident that if someone wanted to maintain an archive of info 100 years from now they would find a way to read the discs and put them on the latest generation archival material. And this seems reasonable, we still occasionally find old films from the early 20th century and we have the equipment necessary to read, restore, and digitize the info. I suspect this trend will continue. And there are lots of people interested in maintaining huge archives of information...like google, who would love to digitize every book and other scrap of human knowledge they can get their hands on.
To me, archival isn't the question anymore. No one needs to throw obscure information into a vault to be rediscovered 100 years from now, you can digitize it and have it available forever. The real risk is what happens if Google ever goes south? It would be a shame for a disaster or a bankruptcy or something to have them just shut down and throw away their data. Seems unlikely for a bankruptcy, storage is cheap enough to justify buying almost any digitized info. But it would only take 1 extremely disruptive natural disaster, or war, or cultural revolution, etc to lose a lot of info now that it is so concentrated into a few hands.
AT&T / Yahoo DSL does this. I really despise it...first, they seem to "lose" DNS entries for sites at times. And second when it redirects you due to a minor typo the address bar get changed and you can't easily correct a single letter typo.
Then put it this way, what counts as "paid editing?" If I work for Microsoft am I simply banned from editing any article relevant to my industry? Can I edit things informally if not a specific job duty? Does whether I use my home or work computer matter? What about university researchers who are surely writing about their research? They may be one of only a few people qualified to write on many topics. Without their contributions there may simply be no information available on a subject. But researchers are highly invested in the acceptance of their ideas both financially and in terms of reputation. I doubt any reasonable set of criteria in the grey area could be agreed upon.
Paid editing in inevitable. If you think companies, celebrities, etc aren't having employees routinely edit articles relevant to them you're dreaming. And wikipedia allows anonymous edits. Therefore, it doesn't really matter if it is or isn't allowed. The only question is whether the edits are good contributions or not.
You've misunderstood, it means the IDENTIFICATION CARD must be resistant to fraud, tampering, exploitation, etc. The government issued a federal standard for HSPD-12 compliant ID cards called FIPS 201. There are a lot of requirements but they are all specific to the card...for example, it must have a smart card chip that meets security standards for a cryptoprocessor (FIPS 140), it must use an identity applet on the card with various requirements on PIN policy, certificates, etc. The physical card has to meet anti-tamper requirements and have security features like an agency seal printed with optical variable ink (holographic ink).
And on it goes. But the criteria for issuing an ID card to an individual? That's got absolutely nothing to do with HSPD-12.
I wonder if this method of averaging is then intended...it makes a bit of sense. When you first start blowing you might have recently had a sip of alcohol or something. But I think the idea is that when you do a sustained blow near the end you will only be getting the alcohol that is being released from the blood into your lungs in real time. In that sense weighting the most recent samples would make sense.
I don't know if there is an accepted standard way that breathalyzers are supposed to condense data from multiple samples into a single value, but this method actually seems to be biased towards a lower reading rather than a higher one.
We're talking about employers here. They're often not willing to spend years and tens of thousands of dollars working on getting their employees green cards. The US system requires extensive work by the employer, not just the individual.
And frankly, US citizenship is not so valuable that it should be dramatically harder to obtain than an EU, UK, or Australian citizenship. But it is.
[quote]They can use the evidence you gave them, but they can't force you to give them more evidence which is what this is about.[/quote]
Of course they can. If they have a warrant they can force you to give them access to your property. No different from a warrant to search your house or your briefcase or your safe. The warrant must be based on probably cause, once they've got that probably cause you must comply with the warrant.
The whole point of a search warrant is to find more evidence, if you could just decline them they wouldn't even exist because there would be no point.
It's the Tom-Clancy-reading, FPS-playing, mil-porn 101st Fighting Keyboarders who never had the guts to get their hands dirty themselves trying to make themselves sound (they think) all tough and macho who have popularized the term.
Uhhh...actually it's because they use that term on TV shows and in movies. Use in media is a pretty common way to popularize a term is it not? How does the use of an acronym make someone a gutless Fighting Keyboarder blah blah blah? I honestly don't understand the glee with which some members of the military denigrate civilians.
Signs that say no weapons on these premises seem quite specifically directed at those carrying guns. I don't see how you can imagine it was not intended for them.
Terrible analogy. Electricity is metered. There's a reason most utilities are metered. It seems like no one on slashdot understands that it fucking costs money to provide a utility. You can't have a reserved 10Mbps connection for fifty bucks. You just can't, if everyone was guaranteed their full bandwidth simultaneously internet access would rise by an order of magnitude.
So overselling capacity is essential to the model, assuming you don't want to pay hundreds of dollars a month for your internet connection. Another option would be to meter usage, this would put an appropriate market force in place. But when Comcast tried this in a test area they were roundly condemned.
Bottom line, there is a choice...oversold capacity, metered usage, or you pay a fuckton more for a reserved slice of bandwidth.
My iPhone can't stream radio for shit even on 3G. It seems a big reason for the low stock price right now is concern that they wont be able to refinance their debt next year.
And how does that help with legal liability? Your just as obligated to have a rational policy for retaining or destroying documents and trouble tickets as you are for email.
And not every task that I have is a discrete "issue" that can be filed as a trouble ticket. It may be an aspect of a discussion that I want to learn more about, or a link to a document that I haven't fully read yet, or any of a hundred other things.
Even if your idea was feasible for internal communication it doesn't address communication between companies. When I'm corresponding with a customer I can't just send them links to documents because there are potentially firewall or virus issues, and because that is not how people use email thus it would piss them off.
"Should" be used? That may be the best policy for limiting discovery in lawsuits, but it would seriously damage the operation of the business. I can't immediately resolve an issue emailed to me most of the time, and I rely on saving emails with important information for later use. I'd say these are pretty common ways that people use email.
You want to mitigate legal risk, not necessarily eliminate it.
But that doesn't equate to legal requirements for a company to retain ALL email.
No it doesn't. But there are two issues with email. First is that if you don't have a standard policy for retention/destruction of email (or network share backups or whatever), it opens you up to allegations that you destroyed evidence after a lawsuit was filed. If people can delete things at any time, it makes it hard to show if it was coincidence that your VP just happened to delete all that relevant stuff after a suit was filed or not. With a standard policy, if everyone complies, then this matter is much more cut and dry.
Second is Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. I know a lot of companies have banned external instant messenging because of retention concerns related to Sarbanes-Oxley (since you can't easily log AIM and other IM discussions). I'm a bit surprised that Apple hasn't got policies in place given their issues with improper options in the past. Similar laws, I guess they didn't take the scandal very seriously.
Sometimes people make the wrong call. It happens. Columbine freaked a lot of people out. If you can suggest a better candidate, by all means let's hear it.
I agree with you...seems to me that just after the internet caught on everyone was worried and trying to figure out how to regulate it. None of the regulations worked and now...well we're pretty used to the internet the way it is. I don't think Obama or Holder or the administration will really give a shit about censoring the internet.
I would note that Russ Feingold is on the Senate Judiciary Committee so he will actually be questioning Holder for confirmation. I've seen people link to Obama's public input site, if you're really concerned about this issue you might want to send an email to Feingold as well and ask him to bring it up. I'm not sure it'll rate high enough with all the big-name issues like torture out there, but it's the best shot.
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In the past I've never brought a computer. And I don't plan to be attached to my laptop. It's a matter of being able to research destinations, book hostels, send email to family so they know I'm not dead, offload my photos from my digital camera to a larger storage device, etc. Plus, consider that if accessing my bank account on my own netbook over wireless is risky, accessing the same account in some guy's internet cafe is much more dangerous - who knows what keyloggers and spyware could be running on that.
I've been to South America several times on short trips, so I know how to let go of home and just enjoy myself. In fact that's why I'm going for a year this time...I'm quitting my job, selling everything I own, and I'll have nothing on my mind but the present. For the first time since...middle school maybe? I'm 29 now so I'm not sure what it's even going to be like to have no plans for the future!
That sums it up pretty well...no home, parents that can only operate a power button, and troubleshooting via phone from Guyana could be tricky even if I were to leave a machine with a tech-savvy friend. VPNing to a hosted machine didn't occur to me for whatever reason, I'll probably look into that. This is probably an area where compromises will have to be made, but my first step is to avoid any potential complications because they'll be a real pain to deal with.
I tried FoxIt for a while...it is definitely more memory efficient, but it failed to render a lot of PDFs properly. I eventually gave up and went back to Adobe's shitty software (which hogs memory and crashes a lot). It's a tough choice to be honest.
Depends where you live actually...mortgage interest is only deductible if you itemize, so you need quite a lot of it to result in much of an additional deduction. Many people are unable to deduct any mortgage interest at all. The student loan deduction is available to anyone, with the AGI limit caveat.
It's based on AGI, rather than gross income so you can make in the 70s before the deduction is phased out. It's a nice deduction but if you make that much you can probably afford your payments without much trouble. I have 33k in stafford loans and my payment is only around $150 a month on the 30 year plan. I was lucky an consolidated at 2.6%, but even if the payment was three times as much it wouldn't be that big a deal at this income level.
Isn't a scan just a photocopy that hasn't yet been printed?
Yes, 1000 years from now the discs may not be terribly useful. But if there was some fantastic info on them my guess is that some creative person would be willing to build a system to read them.
But really, lets put aside 1000 years. Lets just think of 100 years, or 200. DVDs now can't be relied upon to last 100 years, but I'm confident that if someone wanted to maintain an archive of info 100 years from now they would find a way to read the discs and put them on the latest generation archival material. And this seems reasonable, we still occasionally find old films from the early 20th century and we have the equipment necessary to read, restore, and digitize the info. I suspect this trend will continue. And there are lots of people interested in maintaining huge archives of information...like google, who would love to digitize every book and other scrap of human knowledge they can get their hands on.
To me, archival isn't the question anymore. No one needs to throw obscure information into a vault to be rediscovered 100 years from now, you can digitize it and have it available forever. The real risk is what happens if Google ever goes south? It would be a shame for a disaster or a bankruptcy or something to have them just shut down and throw away their data. Seems unlikely for a bankruptcy, storage is cheap enough to justify buying almost any digitized info. But it would only take 1 extremely disruptive natural disaster, or war, or cultural revolution, etc to lose a lot of info now that it is so concentrated into a few hands.
AT&T / Yahoo DSL does this. I really despise it...first, they seem to "lose" DNS entries for sites at times. And second when it redirects you due to a minor typo the address bar get changed and you can't easily correct a single letter typo.
Then put it this way, what counts as "paid editing?" If I work for Microsoft am I simply banned from editing any article relevant to my industry? Can I edit things informally if not a specific job duty? Does whether I use my home or work computer matter? What about university researchers who are surely writing about their research? They may be one of only a few people qualified to write on many topics. Without their contributions there may simply be no information available on a subject. But researchers are highly invested in the acceptance of their ideas both financially and in terms of reputation. I doubt any reasonable set of criteria in the grey area could be agreed upon.
Paid editing in inevitable. If you think companies, celebrities, etc aren't having employees routinely edit articles relevant to them you're dreaming. And wikipedia allows anonymous edits. Therefore, it doesn't really matter if it is or isn't allowed. The only question is whether the edits are good contributions or not.
You've misunderstood, it means the IDENTIFICATION CARD must be resistant to fraud, tampering, exploitation, etc. The government issued a federal standard for HSPD-12 compliant ID cards called FIPS 201. There are a lot of requirements but they are all specific to the card...for example, it must have a smart card chip that meets security standards for a cryptoprocessor (FIPS 140), it must use an identity applet on the card with various requirements on PIN policy, certificates, etc. The physical card has to meet anti-tamper requirements and have security features like an agency seal printed with optical variable ink (holographic ink).
And on it goes. But the criteria for issuing an ID card to an individual? That's got absolutely nothing to do with HSPD-12.
I wonder if this method of averaging is then intended...it makes a bit of sense. When you first start blowing you might have recently had a sip of alcohol or something. But I think the idea is that when you do a sustained blow near the end you will only be getting the alcohol that is being released from the blood into your lungs in real time. In that sense weighting the most recent samples would make sense.
I don't know if there is an accepted standard way that breathalyzers are supposed to condense data from multiple samples into a single value, but this method actually seems to be biased towards a lower reading rather than a higher one.
We're talking about employers here. They're often not willing to spend years and tens of thousands of dollars working on getting their employees green cards. The US system requires extensive work by the employer, not just the individual.
And frankly, US citizenship is not so valuable that it should be dramatically harder to obtain than an EU, UK, or Australian citizenship. But it is.
[quote]They can use the evidence you gave them, but they can't force you to give them more evidence which is what this is about.[/quote]
Of course they can. If they have a warrant they can force you to give them access to your property. No different from a warrant to search your house or your briefcase or your safe. The warrant must be based on probably cause, once they've got that probably cause you must comply with the warrant.
The whole point of a search warrant is to find more evidence, if you could just decline them they wouldn't even exist because there would be no point.
It's the Tom-Clancy-reading, FPS-playing, mil-porn 101st Fighting Keyboarders who never had the guts to get their hands dirty themselves trying to make themselves sound (they think) all tough and macho who have popularized the term.
Uhhh...actually it's because they use that term on TV shows and in movies. Use in media is a pretty common way to popularize a term is it not? How does the use of an acronym make someone a gutless Fighting Keyboarder blah blah blah? I honestly don't understand the glee with which some members of the military denigrate civilians.
Signs that say no weapons on these premises seem quite specifically directed at those carrying guns. I don't see how you can imagine it was not intended for them.
You let your guild mates charge you 50 gold for a port to dalaran? You need to find some friends that aren't douchebags.
It could be worse, apparently games that require more skill attract the intolerable, the arrogant, and the generally douchey.
Terrible analogy. Electricity is metered. There's a reason most utilities are metered. It seems like no one on slashdot understands that it fucking costs money to provide a utility. You can't have a reserved 10Mbps connection for fifty bucks. You just can't, if everyone was guaranteed their full bandwidth simultaneously internet access would rise by an order of magnitude.
So overselling capacity is essential to the model, assuming you don't want to pay hundreds of dollars a month for your internet connection. Another option would be to meter usage, this would put an appropriate market force in place. But when Comcast tried this in a test area they were roundly condemned.
Bottom line, there is a choice...oversold capacity, metered usage, or you pay a fuckton more for a reserved slice of bandwidth.
My iPhone can't stream radio for shit even on 3G. It seems a big reason for the low stock price right now is concern that they wont be able to refinance their debt next year.
And how does that help with legal liability? Your just as obligated to have a rational policy for retaining or destroying documents and trouble tickets as you are for email.
And not every task that I have is a discrete "issue" that can be filed as a trouble ticket. It may be an aspect of a discussion that I want to learn more about, or a link to a document that I haven't fully read yet, or any of a hundred other things.
Even if your idea was feasible for internal communication it doesn't address communication between companies. When I'm corresponding with a customer I can't just send them links to documents because there are potentially firewall or virus issues, and because that is not how people use email thus it would piss them off.
"Should" be used? That may be the best policy for limiting discovery in lawsuits, but it would seriously damage the operation of the business. I can't immediately resolve an issue emailed to me most of the time, and I rely on saving emails with important information for later use. I'd say these are pretty common ways that people use email.
You want to mitigate legal risk, not necessarily eliminate it.
But that doesn't equate to legal requirements for a company to retain ALL email.
No it doesn't. But there are two issues with email. First is that if you don't have a standard policy for retention/destruction of email (or network share backups or whatever), it opens you up to allegations that you destroyed evidence after a lawsuit was filed. If people can delete things at any time, it makes it hard to show if it was coincidence that your VP just happened to delete all that relevant stuff after a suit was filed or not. With a standard policy, if everyone complies, then this matter is much more cut and dry.
Second is Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. I know a lot of companies have banned external instant messenging because of retention concerns related to Sarbanes-Oxley (since you can't easily log AIM and other IM discussions). I'm a bit surprised that Apple hasn't got policies in place given their issues with improper options in the past. Similar laws, I guess they didn't take the scandal very seriously.
Sometimes people make the wrong call. It happens. Columbine freaked a lot of people out. If you can suggest a better candidate, by all means let's hear it.
I agree with you...seems to me that just after the internet caught on everyone was worried and trying to figure out how to regulate it. None of the regulations worked and now...well we're pretty used to the internet the way it is. I don't think Obama or Holder or the administration will really give a shit about censoring the internet.
I would note that Russ Feingold is on the Senate Judiciary Committee so he will actually be questioning Holder for confirmation. I've seen people link to Obama's public input site, if you're really concerned about this issue you might want to send an email to Feingold as well and ask him to bring it up. I'm not sure it'll rate high enough with all the big-name issues like torture out there, but it's the best shot.