The birth rate for immigrants is much higher than the birth rate for native born US people. That where the growth is coming from. Their birth rate will drop in a couple of generations. But as we "welcome" new immigrants, the overall US birth rate stays level.
Who here thinks that putting the default master password in the manual is a good idea?
This reminds me the of backdoor password that Nortel had for one of its more common PBX's. At least they didn't put it the manual. But it got passed around enough to land on Usenet (in reponse to a problem that a customer was having). In that case, it was worse. It was not a "default" password, it was hardcoded.
Another day, another brain dead corporate password mistake....
There is no cure for impersonation if you provide a con man all of the details required to impersonate you. If you fall for a phishing scam you did as much as dressed up a con man to look just like you and gave him your photo ID cards.
In the pre-Internet days, a con man would have to work harder. You had to withdraw the money for him (like using the old Pideon Drop scam, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_drop ).
The bank could use things like a PIN for account access, but if you gave out our PIN, how is that the bank's fault?
A friend of mine is a Thai kick boxing champ. He had a similar problem when a drunk a-hole jumped him. Being too well trained makes it "not a fair fight" (according to the law).
If you ever have to defend yourself, never admit to having *any* training. Get a lawyer. Keep your mouth shut. Don't assume that just because you are morally right (acting in self-defense), that will keep you out of legal trouble.
Barratry is legal (and profitable) for corporations.
There is an overwhelming amount of evidence to prove that and very little evidence to disprove that statement. The possibility of a corporation, like the RIAA, getting punished for barratry is very nearly zero. Anything without punishment is, de facto, legal. That is reality.
Because we all know how good average people are with passwords and id numbers.
And we all know how good the government is at using a 8 digit id for a password. A password that is rarely changed even after being revealed all over world via the Internet.
But for the short term, using a number that could be changed by the consumer (like a password) would go a long way towards solving the problem. Any identifier that is difficult to change is ripe for abuse once it's been revealed. An SSN is difficult to change. A biometric ID would be the worst. That can never be changed without medical intervention.
Then, TransUnion would tell MegaCorp that Mr. 555-55-5555 has changed his identifier and that number is no longer valid for taking a out a $422523523 loan.
An SSN number is needed for a credit check. Therefore any company, like AT&T, that does end-of-the month billing will run a credit check on all of their customers. From their perspective they are giving one month of credit every month.
The solution is to ban the use of SSN for credit files. Use a number that the consumer controls.
Also, let customers pre-pay monthly. I know how much my monthly cell phone billing is going to be, let me pre-pay and avoid the forced use of credit (which gets reported to the credit agencies).
It would lessen the need to save history for sites that I currently don't want to bookmark for privacy reasons. I could include history in "Clear Private Data".
"Active Mental Groping" - That was the term for merely looking at a female at my previous place of employment.
You can't have a mixed gender working environment in that atmosphere. At an up-tight large corporation, a female can forget about becoming buddies with the boys. Even if a friendly female were to be accepted as a non-threat by the male group, another female could become jealous of the social setting and complain to HR about the "hostile" clique.
Complainer females are the bane of a relaxed social environment in a corporation. I saw one supervisor sent into "early retirement" because a complainer female was assigned to him. Few managers are flameproof enough to get rid of a complainer female. One manager did the only wise thing he could do - he promoted a complainer female to a different department.
Until the sexual harassment revolution cools down, that's that way it is.
You can never carry around too many portable applications.
Although most portable app are for Linux (or have both Linux and Window versions). Few Windows apps are portable because (I think) Windows developers are piss poor developers. One look at the registry of the average Windows PC proves my point. Creating portable and easily editable config files seem to be beyond the skills of most Windows developers.
You assume that the wireless will be on a normal frequency. They could use spead spectrum or UWB. They could use light frequencies like infrared to carry the signal.
Yeah, I was spoiled by having good bosses for the first few years of my working life too.
Things change. Bosses come and go. Reorganizations are hell.
If you ever work for a bad boss, all of the positive things you just said will disappear in a flash. I now work for a good boss again. I appreciate that much more than when I didn't know any better.
To share expenses on a flight, the passengers and the pilots have to have a common purpose
That's not true. They don't need to have common purpose. They each need to have a purpose, but it does not have to be common. If I need to fly to XYZ to pick up some aviation parts and you need to fly to XYZ to make a sales call, we can share the flight expenses.
If we planned our trip together, that would be OK.
If I was planning to fly to XYZ before you came along, that would be OK.
If I was planning to fly to XYZ "sometime" and went there only after you proposed the trip, that might be OK.
If I had no plans to fly to XYZ before you proposed the trip, and I thought up a weak purpose, I might be in trouble.
If I had no purpose for going to XYZ, other than building hours, I'd be in trouble.
Intent is closely examined in FAA actions. If your intent is to skirt the rules, you can expect to have the book thrown at you. If your intent is like car-pooling (we're each going to XYZ - let's go together), then you're OK.
You are so wrong. You should never let a cop search your property unless you know what's in his pocket. Because sometimes what's in his pocket has a way of finding its way into your property. Life is like that sometimes. Followed by your blabbering...
"That's not mine", "I never saw that before", "Where did that come from", "You must have put that there"...and thus we observe two well worn heel marks leading back to the police station.
Most of the spawler's leeching will be done off of future generations. Future generations will inherit McMansion subdivisions instead of rich farmlands, a road system that costs a huge amount to maintain, little low cost mass transit (like European trains), a crushing national debt , and soaring energy costs.
To repeat the parents point: "urban sprawl is unsustainable". There will come a point to there are simply not enough tanker trucks (and petrol to fill them) to meet the energy demands of the spawlers.
I think in the not so distant future dense suburban subdivisions will be converted to small towns by the integration of goods and services. Other subdivisions will be abandoned because of their access make it too hard to move goods/services/people to and from their location. Or the integration of goods and services is too hard because of their low density.
The other issue is that cost-per-click is a poor means to advertise a new product. Search advertising assumes that the consumer is shopping for something. And that they are shopping for something familiar.
What's keeping out most internet advertisers is a better advertising model.
This law is all about PR and stoking up the conservatives with righteous pride. It has as much chance of getting enforced as a law banning swearing on Sunday.
have a process, that you know and follow it, and that you can show that you follow it .
That is the most important point: "Say what you do - do what you say" -- and be prepared to demonstrate it to someone else.
The "do what you say" part is probabaly the biggest stumbling block. Most corporate cultures are not tuned to that much honestly. Corporations are used to having a pile of rules/regulations/processes and selectivly following them. That does not work with ISO9000.
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The birth rate for immigrants is much higher than the birth rate for native born US people. That where the growth is coming from. Their birth rate will drop in a couple of generations. But as we "welcome" new immigrants, the overall US birth rate stays level.
Bingo! I think you hit the correct answer - no defult password.
How my computer systems have a default password? None that are secure. You have to set the root password yourself as part of the install.
Who here thinks that putting the default master password in the manual is a good idea?
This reminds me the of backdoor password that Nortel had for one of its more common PBX's. At least they didn't put it the manual. But it got passed around enough to land on Usenet (in reponse to a problem that a customer was having). In that case, it was worse. It was not a "default" password, it was hardcoded.
Another day, another brain dead corporate password mistake....
This is a better description of the pigeon drop scam...
o n/MajorPerson/pigeon_drop.htm
http://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com/Crimes/InPers
There is no cure for impersonation if you provide a con man all of the details required to impersonate you. If you fall for a phishing scam you did as much as dressed up a con man to look just like you and gave him your photo ID cards.
In the pre-Internet days, a con man would have to work harder. You had to withdraw the money for him (like using the old Pideon Drop scam, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_drop ).
The bank could use things like a PIN for account access, but if you gave out our PIN, how is that the bank's fault?
A friend of mine is a Thai kick boxing champ. He had a similar problem when a drunk a-hole jumped him. Being too well trained makes it "not a fair fight" (according to the law).
If you ever have to defend yourself, never admit to having *any* training. Get a lawyer. Keep your mouth shut. Don't assume that just because you are morally right (acting in self-defense), that will keep you out of legal trouble.
Barratry is legal (and profitable) for corporations.
There is an overwhelming amount of evidence to prove that and very little evidence to disprove that statement. The possibility of a corporation, like the RIAA, getting punished for barratry is very nearly zero. Anything without punishment is, de facto, legal. That is reality.
Because we all know how good average people are with passwords and id numbers.
And we all know how good the government is at using a 8 digit id for a password. A password that is rarely changed even after being revealed all over world via the Internet.
I mostly agree with you.
But for the short term, using a number that could be changed by the consumer (like a password) would go a long way towards solving the problem. Any identifier that is difficult to change is ripe for abuse once it's been revealed. An SSN is difficult to change. A biometric ID would be the worst. That can never be changed without medical intervention.
Then, TransUnion would tell MegaCorp that Mr. 555-55-5555 has changed his identifier and that number is no longer valid for taking a out a $422523523 loan.
An SSN number is needed for a credit check. Therefore any company, like AT&T, that does end-of-the month billing will run a credit check on all of their customers. From their perspective they are giving one month of credit every month.
The solution is to ban the use of SSN for credit files. Use a number that the consumer controls.
Also, let customers pre-pay monthly. I know how much my monthly cell phone billing is going to be, let me pre-pay and avoid the forced use of credit (which gets reported to the credit agencies).
Would be a nice privacy boost.
It would lessen the need to save history for sites that I currently don't want to bookmark for privacy reasons. I could include history in "Clear Private Data".
"Active Mental Groping" - That was the term for merely looking at a female at my previous place of employment.
You can't have a mixed gender working environment in that atmosphere. At an up-tight large corporation, a female can forget about becoming buddies with the boys. Even if a friendly female were to be accepted as a non-threat by the male group, another female could become jealous of the social setting and complain to HR about the "hostile" clique.
Complainer females are the bane of a relaxed social environment in a corporation. I saw one supervisor sent into "early retirement" because a complainer female was assigned to him. Few managers are flameproof enough to get rid of a complainer female. One manager did the only wise thing he could do - he promoted a complainer female to a different department.
Until the sexual harassment revolution cools down, that's that way it is.
You can never carry around too many portable applications.
Although most portable app are for Linux (or have both Linux and Window versions). Few Windows apps are portable because (I think) Windows developers are piss poor developers. One look at the registry of the average Windows PC proves my point. Creating portable and easily editable config files seem to be beyond the skills of most Windows developers.
Don't assume that it is so easily jammed.
You assume that the wireless will be on a normal frequency. They could use spead spectrum or UWB. They could use light frequencies like infrared to carry the signal.
Yeah, I was spoiled by having good bosses for the first few years of my working life too.
Things change. Bosses come and go. Reorganizations are hell.
If you ever work for a bad boss, all of the positive things you just said will disappear in a flash. I now work for a good boss again. I appreciate that much more than when I didn't know any better.
That's not true. They don't need to have common purpose. They each need to have a purpose, but it does not have to be common. If I need to fly to XYZ to pick up some aviation parts and you need to fly to XYZ to make a sales call, we can share the flight expenses.
If we planned our trip together, that would be OK.
If I was planning to fly to XYZ before you came along, that would be OK.
If I was planning to fly to XYZ "sometime" and went there only after you proposed the trip, that might be OK.
If I had no plans to fly to XYZ before you proposed the trip, and I thought up a weak purpose, I might be in trouble.
If I had no purpose for going to XYZ, other than building hours, I'd be in trouble.
Intent is closely examined in FAA actions. If your intent is to skirt the rules, you can expect to have the book thrown at you. If your intent is like car-pooling (we're each going to XYZ - let's go together), then you're OK.
This makes me long for the good old days, with Windows 98SE, where most ports were closed and exploits mostly came in through Outlook and IE.
Running Thunderbird and Firefox would solve the Outlook and IE exploits today.
In many coutries prescription drugs are legal. Meaning that you don't need a prescription to get them. Just ask for what you want any pay for it.
Islamists have culture. Unforntunately, that culture seems to more resemble 1506 than 2006.
You are so wrong. You should never let a cop search your property unless you know what's in his pocket. Because sometimes what's in his pocket has a way of finding its way into your property. Life is like that sometimes. Followed by your blabbering...
"That's not mine", "I never saw that before", "Where did that come from", "You must have put that there"
Well said.
Most of the spawler's leeching will be done off of future generations. Future generations will inherit McMansion subdivisions instead of rich farmlands, a road system that costs a huge amount to maintain, little low cost mass transit (like European trains), a crushing national debt , and soaring energy costs.
To repeat the parents point: "urban sprawl is unsustainable". There will come a point to there are simply not enough tanker trucks (and petrol to fill them) to meet the energy demands of the spawlers.
I think in the not so distant future dense suburban subdivisions will be converted to small towns by the integration of goods and services. Other subdivisions will be abandoned because of their access make it too hard to move goods/services/people to and from their location. Or the integration of goods and services is too hard because of their low density.
The other issue is that cost-per-click is a poor means to advertise a new product. Search advertising assumes that the consumer is shopping for something. And that they are shopping for something familiar.
What's keeping out most internet advertisers is a better advertising model.
There are some that consider Lake Erie to be very polluted. But there is water under Lake Erie.
Good chance that Bush will add a signing statement which will make certain that the good folks back home won't have to enforce this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signing_statement
This law is all about PR and stoking up the conservatives with righteous pride. It has as much chance of getting enforced as a law banning swearing on Sunday.
have a process, that you know and follow it, and that you can show that you follow it .
That is the most important point: "Say what you do - do what you say" -- and be prepared to demonstrate it to someone else.
The "do what you say" part is probabaly the biggest stumbling block. Most corporate cultures are not tuned to that much honestly. Corporations are used to having a pile of rules/regulations/processes and selectivly following them. That does not work with ISO9000.