When the maximum penalty is 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, "Guilty" is a dumb thing to say.
You can't make a deal with a prosecutor if you have zero leverage.
Remember, because of lawyers, common courtesy is dead. For example, you can no longer apologize at the scene of a car accident that's your fault, because then you might be sued.
Having the government mandate an HDTV cut-over date with no more analog wasn't really a solution either, insofar as HDTV is an answer to a problem that not many people have (yes, I have a large LCD TV now, but the large CRT TV it replaced fully met my needs and looked great; I would happily have bought another one but they've become scare on the ground).
No, the government didn't mandate an HDTV switch. It mandated a digital TV switch. It did this to reclaim some spectrum that the People own that was being wasted on analog television.
The difference here is that the People own the spectrum. Network providers own their networks. There is no direct parallel.
What's wrong with using a public key for the backups? That's what I do.
If you're using purely symmetric encryption for your backups, you have to store the keys somewhere, and that somewhere has to be online when the backup is generated. Then you have to physically move it somewhere that it's not reachable. It's a manual process.
With a public key system, you can store your private key offline all of the time, and not have to deal with symmetric key management. GPG does that for you.
Yes, to do so would be dangerous. This is merely pointless and stupid. Much like the insistence in placing stop signs to try to slow people down (in direct contradiction to the MUTCD, I might add...)
Here's a novel idea: Time the lights to promote the orderly flow of traffic, not as an arbitrary speed enforcement mechanism. A traffic light is a tool. Its one purpose in life is to ensure that two vehicles aren't trying to use an intersection at the same time. Like most tools, it should be used for its purpose and not for another contrived purpose.
(Though I do admit that my ratchet often makes a good enough hammer....)
The traffic lights had sensors which detected how fast you were traveling towards them and reacted accordingly. It see's you going over the speed limit and speeds up the timer and changes red faster.
Let me get this straight... The yellow timing is non-deterministic, and varies inversely with the speed of the approaching vehicle. Which will increase the likelihood of said vehicle to be in the intersection after the light turns red. Which will increase the likelihood of cross street traffic entering the intersection before the speeding driver.
Most people don't realise the danger construction workers face doing their jobs either. Roofers alone are #3 in Wikipedia's list.
That list is in deaths per 100,000. The worst (timber cutters) shows 122.1 per 100,000, a fatality rate of.12%.
Since we're quoting Wikipedia, I'll refer you to this link which claims that 5% of those launched into space eventually died on a spaceflight.
That's a lot, lot worse. Your point is well taken that the world itself is unsafe, but the numbers show just how much more dangerous spaceflight is (an order of magnitude, by Wikipedia standards.)
Not if the bank has already given me a copy of its root certificate on CD when I opened my account. If you have the bank's CA certificate, then just import it, and you won't get a warning anyhow.
the responsibility is with the techs to not only ensure they hand out the good machines, but THOUGHROGHLY investigate an issue, especially concerning somthing as serious as child porn, before they throw the 'offender' under the bus. No, absolutely NOT. The MOMENT an IT staffer discovers child porn, they should stop and immediately contact law enforcement. Possession of child porn is no joke, even if it's not yours you can still get whacked pretty hard. Besides, extremely few general IT staff are equipped to conduct a forensic investigation, and will likely make things worse for law enforcement to sort out.
lsherida@skynet:~$ host -t ANY bofh.irs.gov bofh.irs.gov mail is handled by 5 MX-RELAY1.treas.gov. bofh.irs.gov mail is handled by 10 mx-relay24.treas.gov.
I myself am the proud owner of bofh.nccs.nasa.gov.:)
That violates Interstate standards and is not the case on any Interstate highway I've ever driven on. If I recall correctly, US Interstates have a grass median of at least 36 feet. If the median is less wide, a barrier device must be installed (usually a "jersey wall" or "K rail")
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I don't hear mine when I'm riding, but I do feel the vibrate.
I largely agree, but every couple of months I check it out again. It's made tremendous strides since that abomination that was StarOffice.
To draw an analogy -- I remember using early versions of the Mozilla suite. It was hideous. Now I can't imagine a web without Firefox.
Give it time. This *is* a major version release, after all. Might be worthy of another go-around.
Wow, to be honest I didn't know that. Google shows me this: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081007.wapology1007/BNStory/National/home/ , which states that currently 35 US states have such legislation. It seems to be a fairly new thing, including my own Maryland (passed in 2005)
BTW, Captain Splendid: You must be a real ball at parties.
When the maximum penalty is 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, "Guilty" is a dumb thing to say.
You can't make a deal with a prosecutor if you have zero leverage.
Remember, because of lawyers, common courtesy is dead. For example, you can no longer apologize at the scene of a car accident that's your fault, because then you might be sued.
Serious question here, not trolling...
Why do you care if people know what you look like? I've never really been able to wrap my head around that particular mindset.
Lots of the models are open. There's a nice site at: http://modelingguru.nasa.gov/
No one is lying so much as they are carefully ignoring certain facts and emphasizing others.
A definition I was once given by my high school principal (and one that I myself now tell young people) is: "A lie is the intent to deceive."
When you frame it that way...
ust look at all the hassle we have to go through at the airports because some British nutjob tried to blow up a home-made shoe bomb.
Yes. I'm sick of removing my shoes. Why, oh why couldn't the shoe bomber have been a bra bomber?
I personally think we should go back to the senate being elected by the state congress...
It would certainly do wonders for state's rights, which have been steadily eroding for over a century.
Yeah, that about sums it up.
I kept hearing my dad's voice in my head while reading this:
"That's why it's called 'work', son."
I should know. ;)
That's a bummer then, since you're off by a factor of 1000. ;)
Having the government mandate an HDTV cut-over date with no more analog wasn't really a solution either, insofar as HDTV is an answer to a problem that not many people have (yes, I have a large LCD TV now, but the large CRT TV it replaced fully met my needs and looked great; I would happily have bought another one but they've become scare on the ground).
No, the government didn't mandate an HDTV switch. It mandated a digital TV switch. It did this to reclaim some spectrum that the People own that was being wasted on analog television.
The difference here is that the People own the spectrum. Network providers own their networks. There is no direct parallel.
What's wrong with using a public key for the backups? That's what I do.
If you're using purely symmetric encryption for your backups, you have to store the keys somewhere, and that somewhere has to be online when the backup is generated. Then you have to physically move it somewhere that it's not reachable. It's a manual process.
With a public key system, you can store your private key offline all of the time, and not have to deal with symmetric key management. GPG does that for you.
Where is the downside?
Awesome, but what's more awesome is when these things go wrong
Anything else would be more dangerous.
Yes, to do so would be dangerous. This is merely pointless and stupid. Much like the insistence in placing stop signs to try to slow people down (in direct contradiction to the MUTCD, I might add...)
Here's a novel idea: Time the lights to promote the orderly flow of traffic, not as an arbitrary speed enforcement mechanism. A traffic light is a tool. Its one purpose in life is to ensure that two vehicles aren't trying to use an intersection at the same time. Like most tools, it should be used for its purpose and not for another contrived purpose.
(Though I do admit that my ratchet often makes a good enough hammer....)
The traffic lights had sensors which detected how fast you were traveling towards them and reacted accordingly.
It see's you going over the speed limit and speeds up the timer and changes red faster.
Let me get this straight... The yellow timing is non-deterministic, and varies inversely with the speed of the approaching vehicle. Which will increase the likelihood of said vehicle to be in the intersection after the light turns red. Which will increase the likelihood of cross street traffic entering the intersection before the speeding driver.
And this is good how?
Now the question is why wasn't the design delegated to MIT or NASA
Dude, I'm a NASA contractor. You really don't want NASA to code your voting machine, unless you want it implemented as a scary FORTRAN program... :)
5.) I steal Pepsi points from cow-orkers and get free music. (don't drink the stuff myself)
Even aside from that, I've paid for quite a few Amazon MP3s. I love it! WHY are people still using iTunes/etc anyhow? It makes no sense to me.
Most people don't realise the danger construction workers face doing their jobs either. Roofers alone are #3 in Wikipedia's list.
That list is in deaths per 100,000. The worst (timber cutters) shows 122.1 per 100,000, a fatality rate of .12%.
Since we're quoting Wikipedia, I'll refer you to this link which claims that 5% of those launched into space eventually died on a spaceflight.
That's a lot, lot worse. Your point is well taken that the world itself is unsafe, but the numbers show just how much more dangerous spaceflight is (an order of magnitude, by Wikipedia standards.)
Once you are out of contract, they are required by law to unlock your phone for use on any carrier
I'm sorry, what law is this?
Note that NOT reporting it is explicitly illegal in some cases: http://www.ncsl.org/programs/lis/kidnet/reportreq0603.htm
Caller ID and ANI are two different things. Caller ID is trivially forgeable, ANI is not.
Now how about that!
:)
lsherida@skynet:~$ host -t ANY bofh.irs.gov
bofh.irs.gov mail is handled by 5 MX-RELAY1.treas.gov.
bofh.irs.gov mail is handled by 10 mx-relay24.treas.gov.
I myself am the proud owner of bofh.nccs.nasa.gov.
That violates Interstate standards and is not the case on any Interstate highway I've ever driven on. If I recall correctly, US Interstates have a grass median of at least 36 feet. If the median is less wide, a barrier device must be installed (usually a "jersey wall" or "K rail")