Why? Just because you said so? Since when it is a manufacturers responsibility to protect against criminal actions involving his product?
Crashing your vehicle into another is a violation of the traffic laws, and yet our automakers spend billions and billions of dollars to protect their customers from these criminal actions.
When talking about statistical averages, the first thing to do is to emphasize that your one data point is much more important and interesting than the rest of them.
Unless you live out in the country, streetlights are ubiquitous. I find that the only time I ever need to turn on my high beams is when I am out on country roads, which is very rarely.
wow, we should just throw out all our surveys and statistical information and just go with your experiences because clearly we all live just like you do
Does anybody really think the state of Massachusetts actually gives a flying fuck about disabled access to Uber and Lyft?
Yes, I do. Massachusetts is very aggressive about disabled access. They put wheelchair access on EVER SINGLE BUS in the MBTA fleet. I see disabled people on the bus ALL THE TIME. The state mandates handicapped parking spaces. I see disabled people using these parking spaces ALL THE TIME.
All presented in a way of protecting the poor helpless disabled
Most of these disabled people use public transportation to COMMUTE TO THEIR JOBS. With public transportation they are NOT poor and helpless, they are active contributing members of the community. Take away public transportation and THEN they become useless.
their subnets should be isolated from the Internet for everything but security patches, alarms/traps, and other essential communication.
in other words, leave lots of possible security holes
Take a law firm. Unless there is an exception, their individual partner offices, floor, and entire building is locked at night.
by cutting network access to say, 0700 to 1900
Really? What a convenient reality you have. Most lawyers work 50 to 80 hours a week.
it means that half the attacks mounted against the network would fail.
this is a pretty pathetic way to avoid a network attack, assuming that it won't happen during business hours. it's like saying you don't have to worry about shoplifters because we lock the doors at night.
Except it isn't one set of browser code. You still have to account for platform differences. If you aren't aware of this, I really doubt that you are in this part of the business.
I am aware of this, the difference now is that the differences between the platforms are bugs instead of outright feature differences. Different browsers have different bugs but at least today they are all reading from the same specifications. Your client code doesn't need to be recoded from scratch for each browser. Today you just have to be aware of the platform specific bugs and work around them
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Why? Just because you said so? Since when it is a manufacturers responsibility to protect against criminal actions involving his product?
Crashing your vehicle into another is a violation of the traffic laws, and yet our automakers spend billions and billions of dollars to protect their customers from these criminal actions.
The locks are a convenience feature and not actual security.
This is Not true at all, the government has laws on vehicle security, intended to slow the rate of auto theft.
Automobile locks in the US MUST be certified their security.
See: "The Anti-Car Theft Act of 1992", "The Anti-Car Theft Improvements Act of 1996"
Your insurance company would refuse to offer theft insurance on your car if it was easy to steal.
Windows has been "patching" their security holes for 15+ years. Is Windows now secure? No!
FIAT ==
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Tony
It's not the gps capabilities I mind. It is the sharing/selling of the accumulated data that I mind.
you are aware that there are video cameras on most roads today, snapping pictures of your license plate as you drive by?
you are aware that every police car is covered with sensors that record the license plate of every car that comes near it, even when it's not running?
so you are complaining about something you already lost a long time ago
When talking about statistical averages, the first thing to do is to emphasize that your one data point is much more important and interesting than the rest of them.
Unless you live out in the country, streetlights are ubiquitous. I find that the only time I ever need to turn on my high beams is when I am out on country roads, which is very rarely.
wow, we should just throw out all our surveys and statistical information and just go with your experiences because clearly we all live just like you do
The outrage here should be why the state is spending trillions of eurodrachmas
gosh, let's pretend that they are, and then we can get angry about that
yeah your one data point is more meaningful than all of the other collected information
woo woo
when both right and wrong are given equal consideration, this is how you figure out what is what
If you lived in America more than about 6 years ago
What would you have done in case of catastrophic illness, or was that just a risk you were willing to take?
Wasn't that the time of Theodoric of York, medieval barber? In case of catastrophic illness, break out the leeches.
You want the government into everything. You dont even believe in private property rights.
You take the time to write something like that and yet you don't believe in correct punctuation.
I do think it's funny that you infer that from what I say.
do they give them back, or do they keep them?
yeah by that argument the government should sell food and build houses
If I have a handicapped friend, and I invite them to go somewhere with me, they better be able to utilize my vehicle or arrange their own.
because its really all about you
Does anybody really think the state of Massachusetts actually gives a flying fuck about disabled access to Uber and Lyft?
Yes, I do. Massachusetts is very aggressive about disabled access. They put wheelchair access on EVER SINGLE BUS in the MBTA fleet. I see disabled people on the bus ALL THE TIME. The state mandates handicapped parking spaces. I see disabled people using these parking spaces ALL THE TIME.
All presented in a way of protecting the poor helpless disabled
Most of these disabled people use public transportation to COMMUTE TO THEIR JOBS. With public transportation they are NOT poor and helpless, they are active contributing members of the community. Take away public transportation and THEN they become useless.
Since a ride-sharing service is neither a utility nor a necessity, you're wrong as usual.
It's not a necessity? So that means they don't really need it. WTF are you talking about? What alternatives are there?
No, if our society wants to preserve those people, then our society should pay the costs, and not people who are just trying to operate a business.
Our society IS paying the costs. We ARE paying more to accomodate these people.
Oh, you mean slavery.
nobody is forcing anybody to be in business
if you want to do business, you play by the rules
Obviously the question is "Fuck yea, government sucks!"
as opposed to what exactly?
the hackers aren't going to try an hack a firewall, they are going to send an email that makes you feel warm and fuzzy to open up that attachment.
if they have any kind of security, they won't be able to download the attachment unless you've hacked their router first
if the same amount of work gets you more results, then the things you are doing are simpler, because you are doing more of them with the same effort.
And the first thing the users will tell you is "That's great! But can you make it do this one simple thing?"
Do you even work in the IT field? This is what we call a "revenue opportunity". If they really want it, they will pay you for it.
What would it be like if (choose occupation here) went on strike?
Don't feel so special, the world falls apart when the garbage men go on strike.
their subnets should be isolated from the Internet for everything but security patches, alarms/traps, and other essential communication.
in other words, leave lots of possible security holes
Take a law firm. Unless there is an exception, their individual partner offices, floor, and entire building is locked at night.
by cutting network access to say, 0700 to 1900
Really? What a convenient reality you have. Most lawyers work 50 to 80 hours a week.
it means that half the attacks mounted against the network would fail.
this is a pretty pathetic way to avoid a network attack, assuming that it won't happen during business hours. it's like saying you don't have to worry about shoplifters because we lock the doors at night.
Except it isn't one set of browser code. You still have to account for platform differences. If you aren't aware of this, I really doubt that you are in this part of the business.
I am aware of this, the difference now is that the differences between the platforms are bugs instead of outright feature differences. Different browsers have different bugs but at least today they are all reading from the same specifications. Your client code doesn't need to be recoded from scratch for each browser. Today you just have to be aware of the platform specific bugs and work around them