These people are fighting for property rights, and to stop what many view as corruption in the US federal government. It isn't the most important battle for rights in history, but it is severely lame of you to trivialize it.
If NY is going to charge me taxes for telecommuting there, they had better let me VOTE there, too!
If one dime of my income tax money goes to NY, and they don't let me vote for the representatives that decide what those taxes are, I think its time to make some salty tea in NY.
I would not call the use of Diffie-Hellman particularly clever. TLS does this the same way. And because it has no PKI, it is still vulnerable to a MITM attack. You have no way of verifying that the person you are exchanging DH numbers with is who you think he is. Yeah, you can do fingerprinting, but you need to be sure the guy reading you his fingerprint really is who he says he is.
BS. Killing someone and spying on someone are both violations of personal liberties, but murder is a MUCH more serious violation. Unless everything is either black or white to you...
Are you saying the following clause is illegal for a contract?: "Any future performance of any of the songs on the album Sony produced for Pearl Jam is the property of Sony."
or are you just saying that it is uncommon these days?
Transfering data is a type of communication. Machine code is a type of data. Non-executable data can be executable, when the app that interprets it has a BoF.
People want to share data without worrying about the limitations or costs associated with an intermediary server. IM is good for that.
That's silly. If the user does EVERYTHING in a VM, then root is useless. A virus wants email addresses? No problem! They are all in the VM. The virus wants to record key strokes and passwords? No problem! The user types them in the pwn3d VM.
Sorry, your idea does nothing to prevent an attack. The only benefit is that it could hasten the recovery from a compromise.
By today's standards, Emacs is the UI from hell. My shool used it to teach CS, and many otherwise smart people were severly hampered by it. They spent more time messing with the editor than with their code! And you don't want a person's first experience with unix to be one as frustrating as emacs.
The focus should be 100% on the code. The editor should be completely transparent to the student.
"Music video for "Life Wasted" by Pearl Jam. New release of latest Pearl Jam video. Free until 5/24/2006. Musical Category: Pop The license for this video is http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/"
Free until? Is this DRMd? What good is creativecommons if there is DRM?
And how do I import this into video editing software? WTF is "GVI" format?
"they've stated in the past they don't expect the average fan to buy every show -- just get a couple, like the ones you go to, and trade with your friends"
Do they own the all the copyrights to their songs? Most bands don't. So if they are like most bands, it doesn't matter what they say, they don't have the legal authority to grant you the rights to copy their stuff. Once all rights are signed away in a recording contract, you could be just as pwned by the RIAA for copying, despite what the "artist" says.
Not that I ever, um, er, committed copyright infringement when I was a penniless student with a 14.4, but I recall "0-day warez" meaning cracked versions of software released before or on the same day that the commercial version was first released.
If the first cracked version came out a month after the commercial version was released, it was not 0-day, ever.
My 401k offers an S&P index fund which supposedly charges management fees of only 0.5%. SPY is the ticker for the ETF of the S&P. This is purchased in shares, which are 10% of the value of the index (right now $127). Of course, the larget chunks you buy in, the less your trade fee is as a percentage. It is where I put a lot of my non-retirement money. UDPIX is the "ProFund" which invests in the Dow on margin (for my roth).
Of course, a key component of this strategy is that I need to avoid having to sell during a crash. Not borrowing as little as possible and being prepared to move/switch careers is my plan for that. But as you point out, that isn't always easy. I'm going to do my best to avoid a situation like the one you were in.
Have you heard of ETFs? Exchange-Traded Funds are where you can buy index funds just like stocks. If you buy through a discount broker, like ScotTrade, you can buy, say, an even chunk of the S&P500 for $7. After that, your broker charges no additional fees. I'm sure there is some cost involved in making ETFs exist, but I really think it is negligable.
And the main part of by "retire by 40" plan is slightly riskier: a mutual fund that invests in the 30 Dow companies on margin. You/do/ need $5k to get into that, and the fees are high (like 2.5%/year), but after fees, you should get like %18 (on average) per year. Because it is done through a fund, you are insulated from the personal risk usually associated with margin investing, and they get great margin rates because of volume.
Anyway, doing the max ($4k/year) into a roth ira (in that dow fund), and about $3k/year into a S&P500 index 401k (a typical amount with company matching), you wind up with a millioin bucks in 20 years (on average). With that, one has the option of cashing out and buying federal bonds, and living on his own $50k/year trust fund. That is a comfortable life in most of the US.
And I KNOW "americans are lazy" will not keep you from a job in most of the US.
It sounds to me like you were a victim of some of the worst economic circumstances possible. It does frighten me that a PE can't find employment, though. All the engineering grads I know who graduated post-bubble got decent jobs in the midwest. But you have convinced me never to buy property (on loan) in CA.
I still think you could have retrained for a different job, then gotten back into IT when the tides changed. It happens. And it could be GOOD for your career if you get into IT in the industry you retrained for, because you will understand it better.
Every man and his dog can buy and index fund. Such funds have returned about 10% per year (on average) for almost a century. That doesn't sound like a scam to me. And, on indexes, brokerage fees are near nothing. I think you have your facts wrong on the "stock market is a scam" bit. Speculative investing, when you don't really know what you are doing, can be much like a scam, and a large amount of investing in the 90s was of that type. But I'm not touching that.
As for there being no jobs of any type after the bubble: I found one with no trouble, but it was low paying (1/4th what I make now) and I may have been lucky. I can't imagine being told I'm "overqualified" to sell computer parts retail, though. I'll take your word for it that it happens.
But searching through the BLS reports, it seems there are a lot of easy jobs you can do with very little training that make decent money.
But yeah, I can feel your pain at buying a mortgage that you could never cover on a low-income job. I never had that option during the bubble, and I've seen other's mistakes, so I'm not going to buy a house until I have enough saved toward it that the monthly payments will be reasonable.
You must have been in a particularly hard-hit part of the country. I just don't think it was that bad everywhere.
Honestly, you did not have to be out of work for so long.
If I lost my current high-paying job, I would 1) spend a few weeks/months living on savings while search for similar work all day. 2) if that failed, get an easy job working on something trivial (like retail or support) to pay the bills while i continue my search for a few months 3) if i still have no luck, i would either move to a part of the country where my prefered career is in demand, or start training for a new career.
Only a fool thinks he will never have to change careers.
Even if you live in hicksville, surely you had some of these options available to you. No person is without work for 26 months except by choice. If demand for your career evaporates, train for something else, don't live in denial.
Personally, I like to play it extremely safe: I live (rent + utils + necessities) on about 1/3rd of my income. I buy toys, party, and travel on another 1/3rd, and I invest the rest in the stock market (I want to have the option of retiring while I'm in my 30's). I drove an old, ugly car until I had enough CASH to buy my spiffy new sports car. I worked through college, and I never took out a loan for anything, ever.
Your cynicism does not impress me. If the majority of Americans had savings accounts which included 6 months of rent+utility payments, and they owned their cars, the economy would not crumble. As long as these buffers are maintained, people can still spend 100% of their extra income.
This assumes making a compliant site is more expensive than making a non-compliant one. And that is only true for some development methodologies.
There is also the increased price of non-compliance in the form of decreased future compatability (browsers 10 years from now won't be rendering with the same bugs IE6 has today). A compliant site will probably need less maintanence.
Actually, you don't disagree with me. It may be true. But we don't know, for sure, that there is no warrant in use here, do we? That was my only point.
And yeah, I think that mod is a coward. That was not a 'troll' by ANY definition of the word.
Um... what's your point? Seriously. What I got out of that is "you guys are smart" (mod up), bottled water is dumb (mod up), and "quit building and designing new things and... um... realize that data mining is probably being done to snoop on people."
Huh? So I should stop designing new things and... do what exactly? You failed to mention that part.
Someone please mod the parent up. It is important to keep in mind that, with a warrant, police have always been able to get phone records. This article doesn't mention whether the NSA is involved, or whether a warrant is used. But I'll bet most posters here are going to assume this is NSA+no warrant.
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These people are fighting for property rights, and to stop what many view as corruption in the US federal government. It isn't the most important battle for rights in history, but it is severely lame of you to trivialize it.
If NY is going to charge me taxes for telecommuting there, they had better let me VOTE there, too!
If one dime of my income tax money goes to NY, and they don't let me vote for the representatives that decide what those taxes are, I think its time to make some salty tea in NY.
That's true, but it most cases, bits can be added faster.
That's true, but it is still possible for a well-funded organization to fake a voice. But they can't fake large prime numbers.
If your key is long enough, #3 would require super-computers larger than The Sun. No government is as powerful as exponential growth :-)
You should study crypto before posting.
I would not call the use of Diffie-Hellman particularly clever. TLS does this the same way. And because it has no PKI, it is still vulnerable to a MITM attack. You have no way of verifying that the person you are exchanging DH numbers with is who you think he is. Yeah, you can do fingerprinting, but you need to be sure the guy reading you his fingerprint really is who he says he is.
I would call this somewhat less clever than TLS.
BS. Killing someone and spying on someone are both violations of personal liberties, but murder is a MUCH more serious violation. Unless everything is either black or white to you...
Are you saying the following clause is illegal for a contract?: "Any future performance of any of the songs on the album Sony produced for Pearl Jam is the property of Sony."
or are you just saying that it is uncommon these days?
Transfering data is a type of communication. Machine code is a type of data. Non-executable data can be executable, when the app that interprets it has a BoF.
People want to share data without worrying about the limitations or costs associated with an intermediary server. IM is good for that.
That's silly. If the user does EVERYTHING in a VM, then root is useless. A virus wants email addresses? No problem! They are all in the VM. The virus wants to record key strokes and passwords? No problem! The user types them in the pwn3d VM.
Sorry, your idea does nothing to prevent an attack. The only benefit is that it could hasten the recovery from a compromise.
By today's standards, Emacs is the UI from hell. My shool used it to teach CS, and many otherwise smart people were severly hampered by it. They spent more time messing with the editor than with their code! And you don't want a person's first experience with unix to be one as frustrating as emacs.
The focus should be 100% on the code. The editor should be completely transparent to the student.
"Music video for "Life Wasted" by Pearl Jam. New release of latest Pearl Jam video. Free until 5/24/2006. Musical Category: Pop"
The license for this video is http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/
Free until? Is this DRMd? What good is creativecommons if there is DRM?
And how do I import this into video editing software? WTF is "GVI" format?
"they've stated in the past they don't expect the average fan to buy every show -- just get a couple, like the ones you go to, and trade with your friends"
Do they own the all the copyrights to their songs? Most bands don't. So if they are like most bands, it doesn't matter what they say, they don't have the legal authority to grant you the rights to copy their stuff. Once all rights are signed away in a recording contract, you could be just as pwned by the RIAA for copying, despite what the "artist" says.
Not that I ever, um, er, committed copyright infringement when I was a penniless student with a 14.4, but I recall "0-day warez" meaning cracked versions of software released before or on the same day that the commercial version was first released.
If the first cracked version came out a month after the commercial version was released, it was not 0-day, ever.
In security, 0-day often is used to refer to any vulnerability for which there is no patch.
If Microsoft doesn't release a patch for this until next Tuesday, this will still be zero-day.
A five-day vulnerability would be one which has had a patch publically available for five days.
It is still all compiled with GCC, the GNU compiler.
My 401k offers an S&P index fund which supposedly charges management fees of only 0.5%. SPY is the ticker for the ETF of the S&P. This is purchased in shares, which are 10% of the value of the index (right now $127). Of course, the larget chunks you buy in, the less your trade fee is as a percentage. It is where I put a lot of my non-retirement money. UDPIX is the "ProFund" which invests in the Dow on margin (for my roth).
Of course, a key component of this strategy is that I need to avoid having to sell during a crash. Not borrowing as little as possible and being prepared to move/switch careers is my plan for that. But as you point out, that isn't always easy. I'm going to do my best to avoid a situation like the one you were in.
Have you heard of ETFs? Exchange-Traded Funds are where you can buy index funds just like stocks. If you buy through a discount broker, like ScotTrade, you can buy, say, an even chunk of the S&P500 for $7. After that, your broker charges no additional fees. I'm sure there is some cost involved in making ETFs exist, but I really think it is negligable.
/do/ need $5k to get into that, and the fees are high (like 2.5%/year), but after fees, you should get like %18 (on average) per year. Because it is done through a fund, you are insulated from the personal risk usually associated with margin investing, and they get great margin rates because of volume.
And the main part of by "retire by 40" plan is slightly riskier: a mutual fund that invests in the 30 Dow companies on margin. You
Anyway, doing the max ($4k/year) into a roth ira (in that dow fund), and about $3k/year into a S&P500 index 401k (a typical amount with company matching), you wind up with a millioin bucks in 20 years (on average). With that, one has the option of cashing out and buying federal bonds, and living on his own $50k/year trust fund. That is a comfortable life in most of the US.
And I KNOW "americans are lazy" will not keep you from a job in most of the US.
It sounds to me like you were a victim of some of the worst economic circumstances possible. It does frighten me that a PE can't find employment, though. All the engineering grads I know who graduated post-bubble got decent jobs in the midwest. But you have convinced me never to buy property (on loan) in CA.
I still think you could have retrained for a different job, then gotten back into IT when the tides changed. It happens. And it could be GOOD for your career if you get into IT in the industry you retrained for, because you will understand it better.
Every man and his dog can buy and index fund. Such funds have returned about 10% per year (on average) for almost a century. That doesn't sound like a scam to me. And, on indexes, brokerage fees are near nothing. I think you have your facts wrong on the "stock market is a scam" bit. Speculative investing, when you don't really know what you are doing, can be much like a scam, and a large amount of investing in the 90s was of that type. But I'm not touching that.
As for there being no jobs of any type after the bubble: I found one with no trouble, but it was low paying (1/4th what I make now) and I may have been lucky. I can't imagine being told I'm "overqualified" to sell computer parts retail, though. I'll take your word for it that it happens.
But searching through the BLS reports, it seems there are a lot of easy jobs you can do with very little training that make decent money.
But yeah, I can feel your pain at buying a mortgage that you could never cover on a low-income job. I never had that option during the bubble, and I've seen other's mistakes, so I'm not going to buy a house until I have enough saved toward it that the monthly payments will be reasonable.
You must have been in a particularly hard-hit part of the country. I just don't think it was that bad everywhere.
Honestly, you did not have to be out of work for so long.
If I lost my current high-paying job, I would
1) spend a few weeks/months living on savings while search for similar work all day.
2) if that failed, get an easy job working on something trivial (like retail or support) to pay the bills while i continue my search for a few months
3) if i still have no luck, i would either move to a part of the country where my prefered career is in demand, or start training for a new career.
Only a fool thinks he will never have to change careers.
Even if you live in hicksville, surely you had some of these options available to you. No person is without work for 26 months except by choice. If demand for your career evaporates, train for something else, don't live in denial.
Personally, I like to play it extremely safe: I live (rent + utils + necessities) on about 1/3rd of my income. I buy toys, party, and travel on another 1/3rd, and I invest the rest in the stock market (I want to have the option of retiring while I'm in my 30's). I drove an old, ugly car until I had enough CASH to buy my spiffy new sports car. I worked through college, and I never took out a loan for anything, ever.
Your cynicism does not impress me. If the majority of Americans had savings accounts which included 6 months of rent+utility payments, and they owned their cars, the economy would not crumble. As long as these buffers are maintained, people can still spend 100% of their extra income.
This assumes making a compliant site is more expensive than making a non-compliant one. And that is only true for some development methodologies.
There is also the increased price of non-compliance in the form of decreased future compatability (browsers 10 years from now won't be rendering with the same bugs IE6 has today). A compliant site will probably need less maintanence.
Actually, you don't disagree with me. It may be true. But we don't know, for sure, that there is no warrant in use here, do we? That was my only point.
And yeah, I think that mod is a coward. That was not a 'troll' by ANY definition of the word.
Um... what's your point? Seriously. What I got out of that is "you guys are smart" (mod up), bottled water is dumb (mod up), and "quit building and designing new things and... um... realize that data mining is probably being done to snoop on people."
Huh? So I should stop designing new things and... do what exactly? You failed to mention that part.
Someone please mod the parent up. It is important to keep in mind that, with a warrant, police have always been able to get phone records. This article doesn't mention whether the NSA is involved, or whether a warrant is used. But I'll bet most posters here are going to assume this is NSA+no warrant.