Why should a car that won't be committing traffic infractions pay a fee for traffic infractions? That doesn't even come close to making sense. That's like saying everyone who puts on a seat belt should pay an extra fee to make up for "lost revenue" from fewer tickets for not wearing a seat belt.
something that makes the world better instead of being a necessary evil.
It's only a necessary evil because, to throw words back in people's faces, people refuse to live in a civilized society and not do things which endanger other people's lives such as speeding, talking on their cell phones while speeding, stiff-arming the steering wheel while speeding and talking on their cell phones, robbing, raping, and murdering people, to name just a few things.
You're making the assumption that speeding, by itself, is actually dangerous, and not simply a revenue generator for the municipality. This article itself seems to support the second assertion, rather than the first. I gave my local MPP (provincial representative, as driving laws are provincial in Canada) the following thought exercise:
Assuming all the rest is followed 100% perfectly, take away any single law or requirement of the Highway Traffic Act, and what happens? Take away the requirement to stop and yield to oncoming traffic for left turns? Lots of accidents. Take away the requirement to stay in the right hand lane on a two lane road? Lots of accidents. Take away the requirement to check your blind spot before changing lanes? Lots of accidents. Take away the requirement to be sober and attentive while driving? Lots of accidents. Take away the requirement to stick below an arbitrary speed limit? No accidents.
Again, assuming that all other sections of the HTA (or whatever your local law is called) are followed properly, when you remove speed limits, the only thing that happens is that people get where they're going faster.
Speed limits are one of two things: - revenue generators for municipalities. - band-aid solutions to having idiot drivers who shouldn't be operating a car in the first place from killing (more) people on the roads.
Probably actually a combination of both. The problem of car accidents isn't speeding. Speeding can NOT cause an accident by itself. It REQUIRES something else stupid to have been done, making the speed, at most, a catalyst. Reduce the speed, and you'll reduce, not eliminate, accidents. Remove the "something else stupid" and you'll eliminate accidents, regardless of speed.
Look at all these "Locality's worst driver" shows that are on TV around the world. Now ask yourself this question: How did any of the subjects of these shows EVER PASS A DRIVER'S TEST in the first place? They're completely and totally incompetent, yet they passed through a driving exam just fine, as all of them have licences.
The problem, from the government's point of view, with getting these drivers off the road permanently, is simply money. Bad drivers pay more in fuel tax, due to poor driving habits that use more fuel, they pay more tax on insurance premiums, due to paying more than good drivers for insurance, they pay tax on autobody repairs when they hit something, they pay pay pay all sorts of stuff that good drivers don't. If 50% of the drivers on the road were eliminated because they couldn't pass a more stringent driving test, the government would probably lose 70% of their revenue from automobile-based taxes. They're not willing to do this, so they pay lip service to road safety, by increasing enforcement, reducing speed limits, raising fines, etc.etc.bullshit,etc.
Here's another example: You can have an at fault accident that kills someone every year, and keep your driver's licence. As long as you can pay the insurance premiums, you can drive. Skip paying a $35 parking ticket, and what happens when you try to renew your licence? You can't. What's really important to them? Road safety? I think not.
If you'd included a question mark, we could have applied Betteridge's law of headlines. And of course, the answer to your question would have been "No."
By now, SNMP v3 should be the only version implemented on *any* device, given that the standard was published in 1999.
According to TFA, most of the affected devices have been EOL'd, but are still in use and/or are for sale in secondary markets. Even so, I'd be surprised if any of these even existed before 2004, a full five years after the SNMP v3 spec was published. Sigh.
WEP was broken in 2001. My local DSL ISP provides wireless routers to their customers. They come from the ISP configured with WEP. In 2014.
You can't remove computer from the demand without the domain admin password. If they're handing out that password to end users, they've got a whole other series of problems.
Bloody autocorrect. That's what I get for typing posts using my phone.
Can't say that I've ever tried it on a system with local admin rights. Usually I don't set up my domains in such a manner, because users can't resist the fuzzy kitten videos that come with free....ahem...."screensavers".
You can't remove computer from the demand without the domain admin password. If they're handing out that password to end users, they've got a whole other series of problems.
Closing the bank accounts of gainfully employed citizens just because they're work in a perfectly legal field that the government doesn't like is justice?
How the hell are you people still not realizing you're living in a situation worse than Nazi Germany? (Screw Godwin's law. This is a perfectly legitimate comparison.)
It isn't a "dumb name", it's what the word "mall" means. It's only recently that "mall" is assumed to mean "shopping mall".
I think more people assume it's a streetlike thing than a lawn. In any case, we often give things multiple names, we could just call it some president's name park or whatever.
Regarding binary and source code distribution, there's nothing to fix really - both source and binaries are already protected by X.509 certificates by virtue of being hosted on SSL-using websites: https://www.mail-archive.com/b...
This in no way prevents the server from being compromised and serving a malicious installer package. It prevents a MitM attack from compromising the package in transit, but that's it. Code signing and SSL are protections against completely different attacks, and are not interchangeable.
NSA Agent Smith: "Mr. Trail at Google refused our NSL. You can find a dozen kilos of cocaine in his car trunk, right?" Local Sheriff: "Sure thing." DEA Agent: "You got it."
How many people are going to believe that a drug dealer was targeted because of a refusal to honour a government data request, even if the target publicizes as much? For that matter, how many of those arrested and accused of dealing drugs are even granted a media interview?
You would be incorrect. The Canadian firm is responsible for ensuring that a breach doesn't happen when the data is in possession of the foreign firm, but it's not illegal to send it there at all. Considering the Canadian firm's responsibilities, it can certainly be argued that it's rarely, if ever, a good idea, but it's certainly not illegal.
They're advertised as "Windows Notebooks". They should be able to boot Windows of the particular version mentioned on the activation code sticker. Anything else - not their problem. Sad but true.
They should also be able to run programs using standard Windows APIs to perform functions required by the user, without damaging anything. VLC uses standard Windows APIs to play sound. If this damages the hardware, then it's Dell's problem.
His job was to find juicy tidbits in data scraped from external sources. His job was definitely NOT to find juicy tidbits in internal NSA documentation. The fact that he could easily and massively access this documentation without anyone seriously questioning his activities is a huge problem. The assumption could be made that internal documentation and externally sourced data are stored on the same servers, and accessed using the exact same methods.
There is no possible explanation for this which doesn't involve the NSA having absolutely piss poor internal security.
Hey you forgot the part where to be able to preserve the way of life "some" murky actions are necessary,and of course "they" think we can't handle the truth.
You mean the "way of life" where we're free people, not spied on by a fascist government, and executed whenever we piss off the king/emperor? Yeah....that's been preserved REAAAALLY well...
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Why should a car that won't be committing traffic infractions pay a fee for traffic infractions? That doesn't even come close to making sense. That's like saying everyone who puts on a seat belt should pay an extra fee to make up for "lost revenue" from fewer tickets for not wearing a seat belt.
You must be new here. Welcome to government.
something that makes the world better instead of being a necessary evil.
It's only a necessary evil because, to throw words back in people's faces, people refuse to live in a civilized society and not do things which endanger other people's lives such as speeding, talking on their cell phones while speeding, stiff-arming the steering wheel while speeding and talking on their cell phones, robbing, raping, and murdering people, to name just a few things.
You're making the assumption that speeding, by itself, is actually dangerous, and not simply a revenue generator for the municipality. This article itself seems to support the second assertion, rather than the first.
I gave my local MPP (provincial representative, as driving laws are provincial in Canada) the following thought exercise:
Assuming all the rest is followed 100% perfectly, take away any single law or requirement of the Highway Traffic Act, and what happens?
Take away the requirement to stop and yield to oncoming traffic for left turns? Lots of accidents.
Take away the requirement to stay in the right hand lane on a two lane road? Lots of accidents.
Take away the requirement to check your blind spot before changing lanes? Lots of accidents.
Take away the requirement to be sober and attentive while driving? Lots of accidents.
Take away the requirement to stick below an arbitrary speed limit? No accidents.
Again, assuming that all other sections of the HTA (or whatever your local law is called) are followed properly, when you remove speed limits, the only thing that happens is that people get where they're going faster.
Speed limits are one of two things:
- revenue generators for municipalities.
- band-aid solutions to having idiot drivers who shouldn't be operating a car in the first place from killing (more) people on the roads.
Probably actually a combination of both. The problem of car accidents isn't speeding. Speeding can NOT cause an accident by itself. It REQUIRES something else stupid to have been done, making the speed, at most, a catalyst. Reduce the speed, and you'll reduce, not eliminate, accidents. Remove the "something else stupid" and you'll eliminate accidents, regardless of speed.
Look at all these "Locality's worst driver" shows that are on TV around the world. Now ask yourself this question: How did any of the subjects of these shows EVER PASS A DRIVER'S TEST in the first place? They're completely and totally incompetent, yet they passed through a driving exam just fine, as all of them have licences.
The problem, from the government's point of view, with getting these drivers off the road permanently, is simply money.
Bad drivers pay more in fuel tax, due to poor driving habits that use more fuel, they pay more tax on insurance premiums, due to paying more than good drivers for insurance, they pay tax on autobody repairs when they hit something, they pay pay pay all sorts of stuff that good drivers don't.
If 50% of the drivers on the road were eliminated because they couldn't pass a more stringent driving test, the government would probably lose 70% of their revenue from automobile-based taxes. They're not willing to do this, so they pay lip service to road safety, by increasing enforcement, reducing speed limits, raising fines, etc.etc.bullshit,etc.
Here's another example: You can have an at fault accident that kills someone every year, and keep your driver's licence. As long as you can pay the insurance premiums, you can drive. Skip paying a $35 parking ticket, and what happens when you try to renew your licence? You can't.
What's really important to them? Road safety? I think not.
If you'd included a question mark, we could have applied Betteridge's law of headlines.
And of course, the answer to your question would have been "No."
By now, SNMP v3 should be the only version implemented on *any* device, given that the standard was published in 1999.
According to TFA, most of the affected devices have been EOL'd, but are still in use and/or are for sale in secondary markets. Even so, I'd be surprised if any of these even existed before 2004, a full five years after the SNMP v3 spec was published. Sigh.
WEP was broken in 2001. My local DSL ISP provides wireless routers to their customers. They come from the ISP configured with WEP. In 2014.
You can't remove computer from the demand without the domain admin password. If they're handing out that password to end users, they've got a whole other series of problems.
Bloody autocorrect. That's what I get for typing posts using my phone.
Can't say that I've ever tried it on a system with local admin rights. Usually I don't set up my domains in such a manner, because users can't resist the fuzzy kitten videos that come with free....ahem...."screensavers".
It was a Chevy Malibu. Yes, the "domestics are shit because....GM!!" fixed a problem for free, on my 14 year old car.
You can't remove computer from the demand without the domain admin password. If they're handing out that password to end users, they've got a whole other series of problems.
Closing the bank accounts of gainfully employed citizens just because they're work in a perfectly legal field that the government doesn't like is justice?
How the hell are you people still not realizing you're living in a situation worse than Nazi Germany? (Screw Godwin's law. This is a perfectly legitimate comparison.)
When in trouble, or in doubt, run in circles, scream, and shout.
Either that or it's only "mostly dead" and MS is giving it a miracle pill.
Shortly before this patch was issued, Windows XP distinctly said "The blaaaaaayth!"
Good luck getting a 15 year warranty on your car.
Back when I was younger, and living on student income, I had warranty work done on a car when it was 14 years old.
That's great. Now try convincing your ISP to forward port 32794 to you so you can run a game server for your buddy to connect to.
I think he meant the one outside of the capitol building where all of the super mutants are holed up in trenches.
Super mutants? Is that what you're calling your senators, now?
(I know...I know...Fallout 3...blahblahblah.)
It isn't a "dumb name", it's what the word "mall" means. It's only recently that "mall" is assumed to mean "shopping mall".
I think more people assume it's a streetlike thing than a lawn. In any case, we often give things multiple names, we could just call it some president's name park or whatever.
I propose "Metadata park."
Regarding binary and source code distribution, there's nothing to fix really - both source and binaries are already protected by X.509 certificates by virtue of being hosted on SSL-using websites: https://www.mail-archive.com/b...
This in no way prevents the server from being compromised and serving a malicious installer package. It prevents a MitM attack from compromising the package in transit, but that's it.
Code signing and SSL are protections against completely different attacks, and are not interchangeable.
I didn't know that every sysadmin was a US citizen
Where does the GP make anything even remotely resembling this claim?
NSA Agent Smith: "Mr. Trail at Google refused our NSL. You can find a dozen kilos of cocaine in his car trunk, right?"
Local Sheriff: "Sure thing."
DEA Agent: "You got it."
How many people are going to believe that a drug dealer was targeted because of a refusal to honour a government data request, even if the target publicizes as much? For that matter, how many of those arrested and accused of dealing drugs are even granted a media interview?
You would be incorrect.
The Canadian firm is responsible for ensuring that a breach doesn't happen when the data is in possession of the foreign firm, but it's not illegal to send it there at all.
Considering the Canadian firm's responsibilities, it can certainly be argued that it's rarely, if ever, a good idea, but it's certainly not illegal.
Watch Disney`s Cars 2.
They're advertised as "Windows Notebooks". They should be able to boot Windows of the particular version mentioned on the activation code sticker. Anything else - not their problem. Sad but true.
They should also be able to run programs using standard Windows APIs to perform functions required by the user, without damaging anything.
VLC uses standard Windows APIs to play sound. If this damages the hardware, then it's Dell's problem.
You trust him. Isn't that special?
Now, tell us why we should trust YOU.
Because he's "jrronimo", not "Beta"?
(Sorry....I couldn't help it...)
I look forward to the day when sNOwden hangs for high treason against the government spooks of the United States of America.
FTFY.
His job was to find juicy tidbits in data scraped from external sources. His job was definitely NOT to find juicy tidbits in internal NSA documentation. The fact that he could easily and massively access this documentation without anyone seriously questioning his activities is a huge problem.
The assumption could be made that internal documentation and externally sourced data are stored on the same servers, and accessed using the exact same methods.
There is no possible explanation for this which doesn't involve the NSA having absolutely piss poor internal security.
Hey you forgot the part where to be able to preserve the way of life "some" murky actions are necessary ,and of course "they" think we can't handle the truth.
You mean the "way of life" where we're free people, not spied on by a fascist government, and executed whenever we piss off the king/emperor? Yeah....that's been preserved REAAAALLY well...
Never underestimate the sheer levels of incompetence in the government.
FTFY.