The UN makes third world countries use real ID to vote. That doesn't ring true to my knowledge. Do you have a citation for that? Years ago when I was keeping up with this sort of thing, what they did was use ink on the finger or thumb showing that person voted. If you think about it, third world countries have problems getting clean drinking water, food security, sanitation, and clothing - let alone health care, so I guess the US does share a little in common with them. I expect that in a place like India, where 60% of the population doesn't have access to a toilet, an ID would come pretty far down on their list of important needs.
Why can't we do the same in the first world? Fine. Let's also require ID to purchase a gun and ammunition. But really, there is no need for either of those solutions. After all, I'm told gun violence is fake news, and I don't see any cases of mass voter fraud, just the one off Republican voting in two states.
As far as how prevalent fraud is... you put cart before horse claiming it's nothing. Impossible to say when the cheaters won't allow an investigation. I think purple elephants are a problem in my front yard, so I drew a huge KEEP OFF sign. Sure works. Haven't seen a purple elephant in years now. Of course that's nonsense, but I hope that you can at least see my view of your argument. It's nonsensical to me. If there were massive voter fraud, I think the authorites would be locking people up. As it stands, the FBI crime report shows fewer than 200 convictions of voter fraud in 2014.
We investigate the hell out of everything else but oh no don't look behind the vote fraud curtains! Nothing to see there! Trust me! No one is saying there is no vote fraud, we're saying it's not six million votes big. Slight difference there. And President Trump is the one that in my opinion, over uses the words "Believe me" and "Trust me". I do neither because I have a memory, a intellect, a moral compass, and a bit of compassion for my fellow human beings.
Perfectly willing to claim Trump was elected from vote hacking - er no. President Trump was elected by an out moded and no longer useful electoral college system, rather than a simple popular vote. Also, fear, fake news, and statements that play on the ignorance of his supporters and lack of imagination.
utterly unwilling to investigate or question any votes er, no. There is no reason President Trump needs the names, ages social security numbers and party affiliation data from the States to investigate what little voting fraud there was. Now, if you want to dig in to election fraud vs. vote fraud, then we need just a little more data on Russia ties.
It is absurd to claim with as loose as protocol is around most voting systems, that there is not widespread voter fraud ongoing - thus trying to prove a negative. Hm um. There is no evidence there is vote (as opposed to election) fraud going on.
Just to be clear, vote fraud is when someone casts a ballot when they aren't supposed to. Election fraud is things like passing ID requirements to vote.
Well, I say you owe me $300,000.00 for your student loan. So pay up! Remember, you can't discharge your debt to me in bankruptcy, and if you fail to pay me back at the 13%+ interest rate (which the government loaned me at 1%), then the government will pay me back 100% + 13% interest and my court costs and whatever legal fees I care to claim!
Of course, you could always move to Scotland, where university is free for the asking. Or many other nations that do much the same. And remember, every single US state has a state funded university. You pay taxes for people to learn there. So why are the tuitions sky high? Last time I went to UT, the cost was pretty damn large, and the universities in Texas are funded by oil wells on state land. Well, they used to be before (political party redacted, do your own research) raided the funds for the general purse.
I agree, just and legal debts should be binding, however, it's incumbent on the creditor to properly document and produce the contracts. In a sense, these debtors are saying "I don't owe you the money", and the "creditors" are saying "Trust me. You do." without offering the required proof. In that sense, it's not a loophole, it's simple justice. If I can't come to court and prove you owe me $300,000.00, then I should not be able to force you to pay me. Yet the law around student loans makes this inescapable (and credit card debt too, to a lesser extent.) One of my family had one of these companies try to dun them for a debt for going to school on a loan. Fortunately, they had proof they were out of the country during the time they said my family member was attending school.
Also, I've make a bit of coin by buying people's credit card debit. You bet the check that I ensure I have complete documentation, and that I get a contract that puts me first in collecting it, and that they can't open new credit accounts without my approval. But whereas they were paying the credit card companies 22.9% interest, I'm only asking 5%. I don't buy just anyone's debt, I have to know them personally for at least 2 years. And I work with them if needed to help them detect the scams, come ons, bait and switch, and corrupt loans and things.
I worked as a contractor to a food service bakery. I kid you not, the operator on a snack cake line was using his bare hand to dip into batter to portion it out to the batter. I came up with a pneumatic system that they used until they closed to shoot batter 8 at a time into the pans. No more hands.
Then I was doing a gig in a quarry that cut countertops. The automatic saw was breaking about 1/3 of the slabs it was cutting. I found some one had replaced the braided pipes with normal rubber hose. Put back the braided pipe, re-installed the hydrolic shock absorber thingie, no more problem.
Worked a gig at an amusement park. Found that the ticket booth and parking lot attendants were stealing. Drew up proposal to count cars in to the parking lot, and changed outside sales tickets to be serialized. (The attendants would swipe the tickets from stores in the area, then when someone paid cash, take the money, and use the stolen ticket and pocket the cash.)
Worked a gig for a point of sale system. Company was getting sued because of lost inventory. Found out the chasheirs were zeroing out the system, re-entering half the sales. Pointed out the reports had a "Z" serial number, and that many were missing. Fault was in audit control, not software. EG: If the Z serial number skipped, the problem was someone zeroed out the register then didn't report it.)
Or the OEM that delivered a few thousand systems where the case was bent.
Not to defend abortion, but I will simply point out Judges allows for the payment of blood price for causing an abortion. As for killing someone, Judges calls for stoning. This tells me that abortion caused when not wanted is wrong, and murder is always wrong.
I believe God created the Universe
I think of it like this: The Bible cites what man thinks God did. Science seeks to explain what happened and how, by observing God's work and explaining it without resorting to articals of faith that require a belief in God. In other words, science tries to understand God's work without requiring a faith. Will that work? Sometimes, not always.
Some leap to defend the Faith in science, but science does not depend on faith. It depends on what can be observed, measured, and repeated. I think God is OK with that. What parent wants their child to be eternally unable to stand on their own?
The key here is that we are not to judge according to God. "Vengeance is mine, says the Lord. I will repay." I'm content to let Him do the needful, while I pray for mercy. Only fools pray for justice.
people need to abandon these small towns and move someplace more sustainable
Hm. I will grant that you have a point, but when does it come to the point of a town like pflugerville tx (Home of the strawberry fest)? When it extends to other, small rural areas where they grow corn, wheat, and other crops? You're not going to get a bushel of wheat out of down town new york, and if you did, the land cost would put the price out of reach.
Then there are those (and I'm becoming one of them lately) that simply detest the press of other humans. I work nights and weekends. Saturday I never get too much sleep because at 7am, folks fire up the lawn mower symphony until nightfall, then it's the pool side BBQ until 4am.
It's not that you don't have a point, because you do, it's that not every life falls into neat categories where a solution of this sort isn't worse than the problem.
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Never understood how apartment and rent can be required to be non-cash payment.
Another issue is how do I pay my neighbor kid to mow my lawn with a credit card? Another issue is that I simply may not want Visa, and via third party records, the government, know exactly what I'm spending on and how frequently. The phrase "None of your business" comes to mind if for no other reason that it is, after all, none of their damned business.
Let me preface this with a simple question - Why on earth do you you feel like I need prove anything to you? My posing history is trivially available on SlashDot, anyone can look up my multiple years of posting the the psyudonym of Buss_Error. I chose that name because I was working with FAA air traffic control computers, and errors in the buss were introduced through inadequate shielding of the computer. My tag line has not changed over the years.
On to a point by point:
See subject: With your FAKE NAME for your FAKE LIFE no less "talking big" blowhard windbag bs (mere talk - PROVE IT talker)...
My name as posted here is a pseudonym. So, yes, it's not my real name. But I use a pseudonym as a first layer to defend myself from spammers and scammers. I assisted in kicking off Alex Blood, Ralsky, and other scammers many times. In some cases, I was required to submit a deposition to their criminal trials. See Network News channel Network.Admin.Net-Abuse.Email and the North American Network Operators Group archives.
On computer security, this WAS my job for nearly 24++ yrs. straight in code & network security - was it yours, talker?
I've been involved with DARPANET and Internet on a professional basis since 1975. I have worked with many folks that I consider giants, and my work excels, if it does, only because I have great mentors. Mentors that many have received a Nobel prize. I am not nearly as tallented and able as they are - I simply do the best I can with what I have, when I have it.
"Big bad 'buss_error'"? Prove your background (behind a fake name online, lol).
I make no particular claim to fame or expertise. Your plea leaves me unmoved. My work, again, is documented on line in many places. Again, I don't claim any special recognition - it's there, make your own conclusions, and I'm happy with whatever you think. Because I really don't much care what you think. I know what I know about myself, I don't need others to give me approval or kudos - though it is nice, I'll admit.
I won't ALLOW YOU to unjustiably downmod my post that SHOWS YOU'RE HOT AIR BULLSHIT You seem to have an misunderstanding on how Slashdot works, and over estimate my interest in your thoughts. First, I cannot moderate, up or down, anything you post when I have posted to that story. Second, I have no interest in moderating you at all. When I moderate, I focus on the works, not the author. If it is something that makes me think, if I like it or not, I upvote it. If it is, as this, your latest post, is a diatribe and presents no thoughtful analysis, humor, or insight, I generally leave it alone. I very rarely ever down moderate.
Be that is it may, I'm sure you'll continue to spew your angry and nonsensical outbursts. This is generally a sign of a person that is either unstable, or insecure, though not always. I'm not sure what it is in your case, and again, I simply don't care. I've wasted time on you, not to take you to school, but to in some small way show how situations like this are best handled. By simply realizing that some folks just can't handle reality, and they're best patiently presented with the facts, and hope that leads them to a place where reality will help form their opinions and actions.
I am reminded of the words of Mahatma Gandhi, when a reporter asked what he thought of western civilization.
After a slight pause, Mahatma replied, "I think it would be a good idea."
As long as there is a significant portion of people in the United States willing to turn back war orphans to their country of origin because "Not my kid, not my problem!" the United States will be uncivilized. As long as there is a significant portion that thinks paying our armed services members so little that the qualify for welfare and food assistance, we are uncivilized. As long as there is a significant portion willing to see our senior citizens starve in poverty and unable to obtain prescriptions, we are a nation of barbarians and savages. As long as police are able to kill unarmed, unresistant people with impunity and without repercussion, we do not have a government, we have warlords. As long as there is a significant portion that think "I've got mine, FSCK YOU!" we are not a nation, but a mob.
Wow. I am going to assume that you are unaware that any thread I post to, I am not going to be allowed to moderate. And no, I don't have another account I use on Slashdot. They are pretty good about spotting those. I know, because I have the code, and it's there to check for it.
But I'm sure you'll think otherwise. OK. Believe what you will.
Just look at my posting history, and see if that fits with what you believe. Reputation is what others think of you, but honor is what you know about yourself. I know what I know about myself - my honor is safe from you, and I really don't much care what you think of my reputation. Simply because I don't care.
A corporate security team won't send assassins to inject your most valuable people with ricin pellets. Or strew Strontium 147 around their house. Or seduce their daughter. Or rape/sodomize your son. The Russians have. The Soviets, back in the day, simply preferred to kill them. So, in a measure, that's an advancement of sorts.
But sure, lets blame Russia for Hillary / the DNC being so contemptibly corrupt that leaking emails from them sank a presidential canaanite against a guy as easily beaten as Trump.
You seem to think I thought HRC was a good choice. I do and did not. Simply a better choice than President Trump. And I reviewed the postfix configuration posted to reddit thought to be HRC's server. It wasn't perfect, but I didn't see any glaring errors either. Did you review it? Do you even know postfix?
You are just another tool who has lost his functioning analytical mind to sheer raw hatred of Trump
I will admit that he is not as bad as I thought he could be. Which is not to say in any way I think President Trump is good. Simply that we have as yet had the NKPR lob a nuke on any major city. But I will remind you that one need not use a ICBM to deliver a warhead. UPS will do. Or folks with impeccably forged documents. I will remind you that the $50 and $100 dollar bill are the most difficult to forge documents, yet the NKPR forges them to the point the the Treasury Department and the Secret Service tag them as "Super Forgeries" and millions of them pass every day. Yet most of President Trump's supporters are focused on those with brown skin as a serious threat.
Fear and xenophobia are the stock and trade of the Republican party. Also, it would seem, extreme stupidity though I prefer to think of it as focused on issue I am not concerned about. If I absolutely loathed a policy like Obama Care for the past seven and a half years, I surely would have another to replace it once my party had secured the majority in the House and Senate. Yet, 150+ days into a majority house, senate, and white house, and soon Supreme court, I don't see anything at all being done.
I understand that you dislike the policy. I get that. I am, very unfortunately headed down hill from personal medical issues. I don't expect to be here next year. Such is the luck of life. I cannot get SSI Disability by law because I did not pay into SSI for over a decade. And because I left the job with a private policy before the 30 years it takes to "vest", I can't draw from it either. So my choice is to die at my desk, or starve. Largely because of public service.
So be it.
I did my damn level best for you, and your children. What I got was spit on, called a pig in the trough, and had my car and home vandalized and death threats and now I face declining heath because to give me anything is "feeding the pigs at the trough."
I get that. It's not how I treat people, but standards differ.
Yet you call me names when I did no such to you, and still do not. I understand you are unhappy with the status quo. I am too. But I don't let that keep me from trying to be kind. We are not enemies. We have a difference of opinion, a difference of standards. Let me tell you how I try to live. Look up my post on "Let's change the name", and try to apply it to your own stance.
Let me leave you with this thought: Be happy. Find something in your life that gives you joy, and share it with others. Anger is simply fear turned outward. A brave man may have many fears, but that does not keep him from doing the thing that is hard; the thing he most fears. Because a brave man dies only once, but a coward dies a thousand times.
Would you form a joint intelligence sharing with them? Because this is sort of like forming a joint intelligence unit. If you've every dealt with operational security, you'd know why this isn't likely to work well. At best, it's reaching your unprotected arm into a snake pit every 15 minutes to count the snakes. While we may be able to get some small benefit, it would come at too high a cost in intelligence assets. For one thing, it would let them know how we conduct security, for a second, who is involved. And in intelligence, half or more of the battle is knowing who and how.
And I'll simply point out who leaked emails when, and where, as to the pure intentions of the Russian government.
Apple, Burger King, and countless others use off shore shelters to protect profits from US taxes.
My thought is that if you sell it here, you pay taxes here. Are taxes too high? Grover Norquest will say yes. Others will say no. I say it doesn't matter what the tax rate is if companies can avoid paying it at all. It makes me sick to think there are some millionaires out there that pay less in total tax than I do. Not less as in percentage, I mean less in absolute dollars. I paid over $35K in taxes last year. There are over one hundred estimated millionaires that paid less than that.
Most churches require credence to a cant to obtain their largess. Government does not by law.
Your statements indicate to me that you are in fact one of the solution set of "problem".
You need not be armed to be free. You need to be armed only to impose your own desired outcomes upon others, or because enforcement of law has broken down and is failing. I can accept that you feel LE has broken down to the point that it is in fact a Crimea. I happen to feel that way myself. If I go armed, I don't announce it like some sort of petty fan boi. I need neither permission nor let. If I feel I need to be armed, I am. I do not require a permit nor do I see a need to loudly proclaim it. It is, in fact, a damning indication that society and social contract has failed.
For more than a decade, I tried to serve the public good by working in the public sector. I finally got fed up with the shit pay, the shit I got when people found out I worked in the government (called a pig at the trough, incompetent, stupid, lazy, a drone, had my car vandalized multiple times, threaten with death on a weekly basis, and assaulted) and got a job in the private sector that pays one hell of a lot better.
The key here is that there is now a majority of people that think science and engineering are "just someone's opinion." That is true to a limited extent that it is indeed an opinion - but it's an opinion formed from training, intense study, experience, and perseverance. These opinions are not something someone pulls out of their ass.
The current administration was elected by the sorts of people that deny scientific opinion because it conflicts with their world view. The sorts of folks that think welfare is for the lazy the drug addicted, and cheats. Of course the white house science department has no employees. The people that elected this administration do not value science, compassion, empathy, or Christian Values, despite many of them calling themselves Christians. They are not Christians. At best they mistake their fear and anger for piety, their selfishness, lack of compassion and imagination as "being strong". These attitudes serve no one but the top 1%. The key here is that if you read this, you will never be one of the top 1%.
"The world isn't fair" is an excuse I hear a lot, which is true, life frequently isn't fair. Evil prospers when good men do nothing. There's nothing like doing nothing to ensure that life will remain unfair, and uncaring.
There is a fairly easy way to stop all kinds of scams like this.
Issue "Fraud cards" to LEO.
What, might you ask, is a fraud card? It's a special card that will stop a merchant account. Shut it down. Scammer calls a undercover LEO or their call is forwarded to them, LEO gives them the number, and as soon as it hits the card processor, it locks the merchant account and triggers a fraud investigation into that merchant account.
Full stop.
As for checking, that would be a tiny bit harder but not insurmountably so. Bit coin I doubt much could be done about it since the point of crypto currency is to avoid LE as much as possible.
The FCC's job is to implement the law as directed by Congress, not the other way around.
Which is how you get lawyers that don't understand technology setting technology policy. The FCC understands tech (at the lower, non-polcy levels) but the administration of FCC oversight is set by politicians.
Let's put it like this: How's that repeal and replace going for ya? They've been saying for 7 years this is job one, and here it is, 150 days into a majority Republican administration (and soon SCOTUS). The key fact here is not the health care policy itself, it's the fact that it doesn't really matter who is in power - it's all screwed up, and that swamp might be getting drained, but the sewage back fill is a higher flow rate than the swamp water outflow.
I had a co-worker get fired for He: "Would you like to have dinner? She: "No." He: "Oh. Ok. Thank you."
Very respectfully delivered - by that I mean the "Thank you" wasn't sarcastic. I didn't think that was at all inappropriate but HR took a dim view of it. They were the same level, not management to a subordinate. (An HR person was in the same room when this happened, she didn't report it.)
Now, in this case, things were quite inappropriate in my view, and I only wish one of them had been like an old girl friend of mine, 5' nothin, 100 pounds soaking wet, and a sixth dyne belt. Not sure what she would have done, but she did have quite a temper on her.
I just received a call a few hours ago with my area code and the same as my trunk (first three digits) offering me something about Hilton. I totally hung up before listening to the scam. But it's interesting that this is still going on. Is it the same guy, or are there copycats now?
But microwave links as well are being sabotaged by some one. Not sure who it is. Everything from aluminum spray paint on the dish to metallic epoxy injected into the device shorting it out. And of course, making it un-repairable.
And in Texas, all you have to be is a major monopoly and own a few lobbyists, and you get whatever it is you want. Insurance, banks, health care, and telecom frequently write the laws they want to give it to their paid for state congress critter. Sometimes, they even forget to remove the water marks on the legislation, so when you download the proposed bill, it's right there in the metadata. And there are rarely any edits for more than correcting grammar or spelling.
This is why synchronization clocks, power demand limiters, and crowbar systems are required on back feeding power into the grid. As a last resort, the grid operator can blow the fusible links via the crowbar system either automatically or manually.
I do agree there are some challenges to backfeeding the grid, but it's all mostly older control systems. About the worst problems grid operators these days face is an over supply of power in off peak periods - that's why power demand limiters are required. It's very rare now days to have a phase lock loss causing a net grid drain due to feeding power back into the grid out of phase.
Fundamentally, we don't believe that taxpayers should be funding broadband or internet systems,
MhmmmKay. Let's whip that around a bit, shall we?
Fundamentally, we don't believe that taxpayers should be funding fire departments, Fundamentally, we don't believe that taxpayers should be funding police departments, Fundamentally, we don't believe that taxpayers should be funding Public water & sewer systems, Fundamentally, we don't believe that taxpayers should be funding Hospital systems, Fundamentally, we don't believe that taxpayers should be funding streets and highways,
Because, fundamentally, internet access isn't about browsing porn anymore. It's about scheduling medical appointments, getting prescription refills, it's about having a job, or looking for a job. It's about paying your bills, taxes, and doing your banking. It's about ordering things on line you simply can't get at your local brick and mortar store even if you wanted to take the trouble.
Because, fundamentally, if a person doesn't understand how all pervasive and simply necessary internet access is, they are either planning to rip off the public, or they are thinking with their fundament.
Fundamentally.
You can discern the hypocrisy in their statement by observing how fast they get on board if it's building (with tax dollars!) a billion dollar sports stadium or for a multi-billion dollar air port expansion, or a new freeway. Better watch out then, because they will leave hoof prints (like all jack asses do) across your back.
Look, email is not secure. Not at all. Any other way to thinking about it is a lie.
You see, email has to connect with just anybody. That means you can't exchange email freely, you have to have an agreed security frame work if you want email to work. Even TLS is no real protection.
That being said, I'll upload an ansible script to set up a multi-tenet mail config you can run on any linux cloud provider or you can use only of the many that are already around.
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The UN makes third world countries use real ID to vote. That doesn't ring true to my knowledge. Do you have a citation for that? Years ago when I was keeping up with this sort of thing, what they did was use ink on the finger or thumb showing that person voted. If you think about it, third world countries have problems getting clean drinking water, food security, sanitation, and clothing - let alone health care, so I guess the US does share a little in common with them. I expect that in a place like India, where 60% of the population doesn't have access to a toilet, an ID would come pretty far down on their list of important needs.
Why can't we do the same in the first world? Fine. Let's also require ID to purchase a gun and ammunition. But really, there is no need for either of those solutions. After all, I'm told gun violence is fake news, and I don't see any cases of mass voter fraud, just the one off Republican voting in two states.
As far as how prevalent fraud is... you put cart before horse claiming it's nothing. Impossible to say when the cheaters won't allow an investigation. I think purple elephants are a problem in my front yard, so I drew a huge KEEP OFF sign. Sure works. Haven't seen a purple elephant in years now. Of course that's nonsense, but I hope that you can at least see my view of your argument. It's nonsensical to me. If there were massive voter fraud, I think the authorites would be locking people up. As it stands, the FBI crime report shows fewer than 200 convictions of voter fraud in 2014.
We investigate the hell out of everything else but oh no don't look behind the vote fraud curtains! Nothing to see there! Trust me! No one is saying there is no vote fraud, we're saying it's not six million votes big. Slight difference there. And President Trump is the one that in my opinion, over uses the words "Believe me" and "Trust me". I do neither because I have a memory, a intellect, a moral compass, and a bit of compassion for my fellow human beings.
Perfectly willing to claim Trump was elected from vote hacking - er no. President Trump was elected by an out moded and no longer useful electoral college system, rather than a simple popular vote. Also, fear, fake news, and statements that play on the ignorance of his supporters and lack of imagination.
utterly unwilling to investigate or question any votes er, no. There is no reason President Trump needs the names, ages social security numbers and party affiliation data from the States to investigate what little voting fraud there was. Now, if you want to dig in to election fraud vs. vote fraud, then we need just a little more data on Russia ties.
It is absurd to claim with as loose as protocol is around most voting systems, that there is not widespread voter fraud ongoing - thus trying to prove a negative. Hm um. There is no evidence there is vote (as opposed to election) fraud going on.
Just to be clear, vote fraud is when someone casts a ballot when they aren't supposed to. Election fraud is things like passing ID requirements to vote.
who've found a loophole
Well, I say you owe me $300,000.00 for your student loan. So pay up!
Remember, you can't discharge your debt to me in bankruptcy, and if you fail to pay me back at the 13%+ interest rate (which the government loaned me at 1%), then the government will pay me back 100% + 13% interest and my court costs and whatever legal fees I care to claim!
Of course, you could always move to Scotland, where university is free for the asking. Or many other nations that do much the same. And remember, every single US state has a state funded university. You pay taxes for people to learn there. So why are the tuitions sky high? Last time I went to UT, the cost was pretty damn large, and the universities in Texas are funded by oil wells on state land. Well, they used to be before (political party redacted, do your own research) raided the funds for the general purse.
I agree, just and legal debts should be binding, however, it's incumbent on the creditor to properly document and produce the contracts. In a sense, these debtors are saying "I don't owe you the money", and the "creditors" are saying "Trust me. You do." without offering the required proof. In that sense, it's not a loophole, it's simple justice. If I can't come to court and prove you owe me $300,000.00, then I should not be able to force you to pay me. Yet the law around student loans makes this inescapable (and credit card debt too, to a lesser extent.) One of my family had one of these companies try to dun them for a debt for going to school on a loan. Fortunately, they had proof they were out of the country during the time they said my family member was attending school.
If you've heard the phrase "short end of the stick" then you may find this link helpful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Also, I've make a bit of coin by buying people's credit card debit. You bet the check that I ensure I have complete documentation, and that I get a contract that puts me first in collecting it, and that they can't open new credit accounts without my approval. But whereas they were paying the credit card companies 22.9% interest, I'm only asking 5%. I don't buy just anyone's debt, I have to know them personally for at least 2 years. And I work with them if needed to help them detect the scams, come ons, bait and switch, and corrupt loans and things.
I worked as a contractor to a food service bakery. I kid you not, the operator on a snack cake line was using his bare hand to dip into batter to portion it out to the batter. I came up with a pneumatic system that they used until they closed to shoot batter 8 at a time into the pans. No more hands.
Then I was doing a gig in a quarry that cut countertops. The automatic saw was breaking about 1/3 of the slabs it was cutting. I found some one had replaced the braided pipes with normal rubber hose. Put back the braided pipe, re-installed the hydrolic shock absorber thingie, no more problem.
Worked a gig at an amusement park. Found that the ticket booth and parking lot attendants were stealing. Drew up proposal to count cars in to the parking lot, and changed outside sales tickets to be serialized. (The attendants would swipe the tickets from stores in the area, then when someone paid cash, take the money, and use the stolen ticket and pocket the cash.)
Worked a gig for a point of sale system. Company was getting sued because of lost inventory. Found out the chasheirs were zeroing out the system, re-entering half the sales. Pointed out the reports had a "Z" serial number, and that many were missing. Fault was in audit control, not software. EG: If the Z serial number skipped, the problem was someone zeroed out the register then didn't report it.)
Or the OEM that delivered a few thousand systems where the case was bent.
While I think abortion is murder
Not to defend abortion, but I will simply point out Judges allows for the payment of blood price for causing an abortion. As for killing someone, Judges calls for stoning. This tells me that abortion caused when not wanted is wrong, and murder is always wrong.
I believe God created the Universe
I think of it like this: The Bible cites what man thinks God did. Science seeks to explain what happened and how, by observing God's work and explaining it without resorting to articals of faith that require a belief in God. In other words, science tries to understand God's work without requiring a faith. Will that work? Sometimes, not always.
Some leap to defend the Faith in science, but science does not depend on faith. It depends on what can be observed, measured, and repeated. I think God is OK with that. What parent wants their child to be eternally unable to stand on their own?
The key here is that we are not to judge according to God. "Vengeance is mine, says the Lord. I will repay." I'm content to let Him do the needful, while I pray for mercy. Only fools pray for justice.
people need to abandon these small towns and move someplace more sustainable
Hm. I will grant that you have a point, but when does it come to the point of a town like pflugerville tx (Home of the strawberry fest)? When it extends to other, small rural areas where they grow corn, wheat, and other crops? You're not going to get a bushel of wheat out of down town new york, and if you did, the land cost would put the price out of reach.
Then there are those (and I'm becoming one of them lately) that simply detest the press of other humans. I work nights and weekends. Saturday I never get too much sleep because at 7am, folks fire up the lawn mower symphony until nightfall, then it's the pool side BBQ until 4am.
It's not that you don't have a point, because you do, it's that not every life falls into neat categories where a solution of this sort isn't worse than the problem.
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Never understood how apartment and rent can be required to be non-cash payment.
Another issue is how do I pay my neighbor kid to mow my lawn with a credit card?
Another issue is that I simply may not want Visa, and via third party records, the government, know exactly what I'm spending on and how frequently. The phrase "None of your business" comes to mind if for no other reason that it is, after all, none of their damned business.
How about the US repeal the nonsense "chick war" tariff on pick up trucks? see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Let me preface this with a simple question - Why on earth do you you feel like I need prove anything to you? My posing history is trivially available on SlashDot, anyone can look up my multiple years of posting the the psyudonym of Buss_Error. I chose that name because I was working with FAA air traffic control computers, and errors in the buss were introduced through inadequate shielding of the computer. My tag line has not changed over the years.
On to a point by point:
See subject: With your FAKE NAME for your FAKE LIFE no less "talking big" blowhard windbag bs (mere talk - PROVE IT talker)...
My name as posted here is a pseudonym. So, yes, it's not my real name. But I use a pseudonym as a first layer to defend myself from spammers and scammers. I assisted in kicking off Alex Blood, Ralsky, and other scammers many times. In some cases, I was required to submit a deposition to their criminal trials. See Network News channel Network.Admin.Net-Abuse.Email and the North American Network Operators Group archives.
On computer security, this WAS my job for nearly 24++ yrs. straight in code & network security - was it yours, talker?
I've been involved with DARPANET and Internet on a professional basis since 1975. I have worked with many folks that I consider giants, and my work excels, if it does, only because I have great mentors. Mentors that many have received a Nobel prize. I am not nearly as tallented and able as they are - I simply do the best I can with what I have, when I have it.
"Big bad 'buss_error'"? Prove your background (behind a fake name online, lol).
I make no particular claim to fame or expertise. Your plea leaves me unmoved. My work, again, is documented on line in many places. Again, I don't claim any special recognition - it's there, make your own conclusions, and I'm happy with whatever you think. Because I really don't much care what you think. I know what I know about myself, I don't need others to give me approval or kudos - though it is nice, I'll admit.
I won't ALLOW YOU to unjustiably downmod my post that SHOWS YOU'RE HOT AIR BULLSHIT
You seem to have an misunderstanding on how Slashdot works, and over estimate my interest in your thoughts. First, I cannot moderate, up or down, anything you post when I have posted to that story. Second, I have no interest in moderating you at all. When I moderate, I focus on the works, not the author. If it is something that makes me think, if I like it or not, I upvote it. If it is, as this, your latest post, is a diatribe and presents no thoughtful analysis, humor, or insight, I generally leave it alone. I very rarely ever down moderate.
Be that is it may, I'm sure you'll continue to spew your angry and nonsensical outbursts. This is generally a sign of a person that is either unstable, or insecure, though not always. I'm not sure what it is in your case, and again, I simply don't care. I've wasted time on you, not to take you to school, but to in some small way show how situations like this are best handled. By simply realizing that some folks just can't handle reality, and they're best patiently presented with the facts, and hope that leads them to a place where reality will help form their opinions and actions.
Dude...you need to move to a proper country.
I am reminded of the words of Mahatma Gandhi, when a reporter asked what he thought of western civilization.
After a slight pause, Mahatma replied, "I think it would be a good idea."
As long as there is a significant portion of people in the United States willing to turn back war orphans to their country of origin because "Not my kid, not my problem!" the United States will be uncivilized. As long as there is a significant portion that thinks paying our armed services members so little that the qualify for welfare and food assistance, we are uncivilized. As long as there is a significant portion willing to see our senior citizens starve in poverty and unable to obtain prescriptions, we are a nation of barbarians and savages. As long as police are able to kill unarmed, unresistant people with impunity and without repercussion, we do not have a government, we have warlords. As long as there is a significant portion that think "I've got mine, FSCK YOU!" we are not a nation, but a mob.
Wow. I am going to assume that you are unaware that any thread I post to, I am not going to be allowed to moderate.
And no, I don't have another account I use on Slashdot. They are pretty good about spotting those. I know, because I have the code, and it's there to check for it.
But I'm sure you'll think otherwise. OK. Believe what you will.
Just look at my posting history, and see if that fits with what you believe. Reputation is what others think of you, but honor is what you know about yourself. I know what I know about myself - my honor is safe from you, and I really don't much care what you think of my reputation. Simply because I don't care.
A corporate security team won't send assassins to inject your most valuable people with ricin pellets. Or strew Strontium 147 around their house. Or seduce their daughter. Or rape/sodomize your son. The Russians have. The Soviets, back in the day, simply preferred to kill them. So, in a measure, that's an advancement of sorts.
But sure, lets blame Russia for Hillary / the DNC being so contemptibly corrupt that leaking emails from them sank a presidential canaanite against a guy as easily beaten as Trump.
You seem to think I thought HRC was a good choice. I do and did not. Simply a better choice than President Trump. And I reviewed the postfix configuration posted to reddit thought to be HRC's server. It wasn't perfect, but I didn't see any glaring errors either. Did you review it? Do you even know postfix?
You are just another tool who has lost his functioning analytical mind to sheer raw hatred of Trump
I will admit that he is not as bad as I thought he could be. Which is not to say in any way I think President Trump is good. Simply that we have as yet had the NKPR lob a nuke on any major city. But I will remind you that one need not use a ICBM to deliver a warhead. UPS will do. Or folks with impeccably forged documents. I will remind you that the $50 and $100 dollar bill are the most difficult to forge documents, yet the NKPR forges them to the point the the Treasury Department and the Secret Service tag them as "Super Forgeries" and millions of them pass every day. Yet most of President Trump's supporters are focused on those with brown skin as a serious threat.
Fear and xenophobia are the stock and trade of the Republican party. Also, it would seem, extreme stupidity though I prefer to think of it as focused on issue I am not concerned about. If I absolutely loathed a policy like Obama Care for the past seven and a half years, I surely would have another to replace it once my party had secured the majority in the House and Senate. Yet, 150+ days into a majority house, senate, and white house, and soon Supreme court, I don't see anything at all being done.
I understand that you dislike the policy. I get that. I am, very unfortunately headed down hill from personal medical issues. I don't expect to be here next year. Such is the luck of life. I cannot get SSI Disability by law because I did not pay into SSI for over a decade. And because I left the job with a private policy before the 30 years it takes to "vest", I can't draw from it either. So my choice is to die at my desk, or starve. Largely because of public service.
So be it.
I did my damn level best for you, and your children. What I got was spit on, called a pig in the trough, and had my car and home vandalized and death threats and now I face declining heath because to give me anything is "feeding the pigs at the trough."
I get that. It's not how I treat people, but standards differ.
Yet you call me names when I did no such to you, and still do not. I understand you are unhappy with the status quo. I am too. But I don't let that keep me from trying to be kind. We are not enemies. We have a difference of opinion, a difference of standards. Let me tell you how I try to live. Look up my post on "Let's change the name", and try to apply it to your own stance.
Let me leave you with this thought: Be happy. Find something in your life that gives you joy, and share it with others. Anger is simply fear turned outward. A brave man may have many fears, but that does not keep him from doing the thing that is hard; the thing he most fears. Because a brave man dies only once, but a coward dies a thousand times.
You are not a coward.
But why is this a bad idea?
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Would you form a joint intelligence sharing with them? Because this is sort of like forming a joint intelligence unit. If you've every dealt with operational security, you'd know why this isn't likely to work well. At best, it's reaching your unprotected arm into a snake pit every 15 minutes to count the snakes. While we may be able to get some small benefit, it would come at too high a cost in intelligence assets. For one thing, it would let them know how we conduct security, for a second, who is involved. And in intelligence, half or more of the battle is knowing who and how.
And I'll simply point out who leaked emails when, and where, as to the pure intentions of the Russian government.
Apple, Burger King, and countless others use off shore shelters to protect profits from US taxes.
My thought is that if you sell it here, you pay taxes here. Are taxes too high? Grover Norquest will say yes. Others will say no. I say it doesn't matter what the tax rate is if companies can avoid paying it at all. It makes me sick to think there are some millionaires out there that pay less in total tax than I do. Not less as in percentage, I mean less in absolute dollars. I paid over $35K in taxes last year. There are over one hundred estimated millionaires that paid less than that.
Most churches require credence to a cant to obtain their largess. Government does not by law.
Your statements indicate to me that you are in fact one of the solution set of "problem".
You need not be armed to be free. You need to be armed only to impose your own desired outcomes upon others, or because enforcement of law has broken down and is failing. I can accept that you feel LE has broken down to the point that it is in fact a Crimea. I happen to feel that way myself. If I go armed, I don't announce it like some sort of petty fan boi. I need neither permission nor let. If I feel I need to be armed, I am. I do not require a permit nor do I see a need to loudly proclaim it. It is, in fact, a damning indication that society and social contract has failed.
Hardly something to be proud of.
For more than a decade, I tried to serve the public good by working in the public sector. I finally got fed up with the shit pay, the shit I got when people found out I worked in the government (called a pig at the trough, incompetent, stupid, lazy, a drone, had my car vandalized multiple times, threaten with death on a weekly basis, and assaulted) and got a job in the private sector that pays one hell of a lot better.
The key here is that there is now a majority of people that think science and engineering are "just someone's opinion." That is true to a limited extent that it is indeed an opinion - but it's an opinion formed from training, intense study, experience, and perseverance. These opinions are not something someone pulls out of their ass.
The current administration was elected by the sorts of people that deny scientific opinion because it conflicts with their world view. The sorts of folks that think welfare is for the lazy the drug addicted, and cheats. Of course the white house science department has no employees. The people that elected this administration do not value science, compassion, empathy, or Christian Values, despite many of them calling themselves Christians. They are not Christians. At best they mistake their fear and anger for piety, their selfishness, lack of compassion and imagination as "being strong". These attitudes serve no one but the top 1%. The key here is that if you read this, you will never be one of the top 1%.
"The world isn't fair" is an excuse I hear a lot, which is true, life frequently isn't fair. Evil prospers when good men do nothing. There's nothing like doing nothing to ensure that life will remain unfair, and uncaring.
There is a fairly easy way to stop all kinds of scams like this.
Issue "Fraud cards" to LEO.
What, might you ask, is a fraud card? It's a special card that will stop a merchant account. Shut it down. Scammer calls a undercover LEO or their call is forwarded to them, LEO gives them the number, and as soon as it hits the card processor, it locks the merchant account and triggers a fraud investigation into that merchant account.
Full stop.
As for checking, that would be a tiny bit harder but not insurmountably so. Bit coin I doubt much could be done about it since the point of crypto currency is to avoid LE as much as possible.
The FCC's job is to implement the law as directed by Congress, not the other way around.
Which is how you get lawyers that don't understand technology setting technology policy. The FCC understands tech (at the lower, non-polcy levels) but the administration of FCC oversight is set by politicians.
Let's put it like this: How's that repeal and replace going for ya? They've been saying for 7 years this is job one, and here it is, 150 days into a majority Republican administration (and soon SCOTUS). The key fact here is not the health care policy itself, it's the fact that it doesn't really matter who is in power - it's all screwed up, and that swamp might be getting drained, but the sewage back fill is a higher flow rate than the swamp water outflow.
I had a co-worker get fired for
He: "Would you like to have dinner?
She: "No."
He: "Oh. Ok. Thank you."
Very respectfully delivered - by that I mean the "Thank you" wasn't sarcastic. I didn't think that was at all inappropriate but HR took a dim view of it. They were the same level, not management to a subordinate. (An HR person was in the same room when this happened, she didn't report it.)
Now, in this case, things were quite inappropriate in my view, and I only wish one of them had been like an old girl friend of mine, 5' nothin, 100 pounds soaking wet, and a sixth dyne belt. Not sure what she would have done, but she did have quite a temper on her.
I just received a call a few hours ago with my area code and the same as my trunk (first three digits) offering me something about Hilton. I totally hung up before listening to the scam. But it's interesting that this is still going on. Is it the same guy, or are there copycats now?
But microwave links as well are being sabotaged by some one. Not sure who it is. Everything from aluminum spray paint on the dish to metallic epoxy injected into the device shorting it out. And of course, making it un-repairable.
And in Texas, all you have to be is a major monopoly and own a few lobbyists, and you get whatever it is you want. Insurance, banks, health care, and telecom frequently write the laws they want to give it to their paid for state congress critter. Sometimes, they even forget to remove the water marks on the legislation, so when you download the proposed bill, it's right there in the metadata. And there are rarely any edits for more than correcting grammar or spelling.
This is why synchronization clocks, power demand limiters, and crowbar systems are required on back feeding power into the grid. As a last resort, the grid operator can blow the fusible links via the crowbar system either automatically or manually.
I do agree there are some challenges to backfeeding the grid, but it's all mostly older control systems. About the worst problems grid operators these days face is an over supply of power in off peak periods - that's why power demand limiters are required. It's very rare now days to have a phase lock loss causing a net grid drain due to feeding power back into the grid out of phase.
Fundamentally, we don't believe that taxpayers should be funding broadband or internet systems,
MhmmmKay. Let's whip that around a bit, shall we?
Fundamentally, we don't believe that taxpayers should be funding fire departments,
Fundamentally, we don't believe that taxpayers should be funding police departments,
Fundamentally, we don't believe that taxpayers should be funding Public water & sewer systems,
Fundamentally, we don't believe that taxpayers should be funding Hospital systems,
Fundamentally, we don't believe that taxpayers should be funding streets and highways,
Because, fundamentally, internet access isn't about browsing porn anymore. It's about scheduling medical appointments, getting prescription refills, it's about having a job, or looking for a job. It's about paying your bills, taxes, and doing your banking. It's about ordering things on line you simply can't get at your local brick and mortar store even if you wanted to take the trouble.
Because, fundamentally, if a person doesn't understand how all pervasive and simply necessary internet access is, they are either planning to rip off the public, or they are thinking with their fundament.
Fundamentally.
You can discern the hypocrisy in their statement by observing how fast they get on board if it's building (with tax dollars!) a billion dollar sports stadium or for a multi-billion dollar air port expansion, or a new freeway. Better watch out then, because they will leave hoof prints (like all jack asses do) across your back.
Look, email is not secure. Not at all. Any other way to thinking about it is a lie.
You see, email has to connect with just anybody. That means you can't exchange email freely, you have to have an agreed security frame work if you want email to work. Even TLS is no real protection.
That being said, I'll upload an ansible script to set up a multi-tenet mail config you can run on any linux cloud provider or you can use only of the many that are already around.
as an example AT&T has been bent over for decades.
Good reason for it. See the federal budget and notice how much money AT&T gets for bending over.