If the Holo sticker no longer does anything, then why spend the extra money to get smog checks?
Won't this remove the incentive for drivers to get lower emission vehicles leaving them with the disincentive of the additional costs for smog reduction with now no benefit for those added costs?
Until now vehicles have been exempt from Mexico City's "no circulation" rules if owners obtain a holographic sticker from a smog-check center certifying them as lower-emission......Environmental Commission of the Megalopolis..., said in a statement that all cars must now comply, even if they have the exemption sticker. Vehicles will also be forced from the roads one Saturday a month.
It also lowered the threshold at which alerts will be declared and predicted that atmospheric conditions will continue to favor the build-up of contaminants during the current dry season.
It does not follow that if the government had more money that they'd be spending it on social safety nets. It does not matter the government, it simply does not follow.
In the US; the government is no longer funded by tax revenue..... they just have their partners at the federal reserve (private banking cartel) print out whatever debt they need to fund the government.
The purpose of the income tax is Enslavement..... that is to bestow (or withold) political benefits and favors (bribes) in the form of tax exemptions, to give some people or companies competitive advantages over others, AND also to take money from the middle class and anyone not dependent on welfare in order to make them financially dependent on the banking industry partners (for loans) by separating these people from their wallet....
I would like for any cancellation of my working internet service to require callback and verbal confirmation before it gets cancelled.
The concern is someone gains access to my online account and cancels without my permission, or someone who has legit access accidentally initiates a cancel, thinking they are doing something different.
I'm not posting to your comments section, and I'm sure as hell not signing
Perhaps CloudFlare could eliminate CAPTCHAs for simple GETs, except when the malicious access issue is DoS, or a Risky Cookie is found in the HTTP request.
Simple GETs don't contain POST form data or other non-Idempotent operations.
They also don't contain any complex request parameters which could harbor malicious intent.
It would make sense for CloudFlare to ignore them; if the request seems innocuous, even if the client is malicious, provided the known malicious clients
are ones that act Overtly malicious.
Example, a police officer knocks on your door. You invite him inside. The officer sees your heroin needle. The officer can arrest you, because you gave him permission to search your home.
OK, so is it possible now that Apple will file a lawsuit against San Bernadino county for soliciting and giving the FBI permission to conduct activities such as reverse-engineering or disassembly which are prohibited by the software EULA?
What happens if you're at a neighbor's house, and you let the officer in (without authorization from the neighbor), and the officer happens to see the neighbor's needle?
Apple has so far been unwilling to encourage folks to expose bugs, by paying them, so....
Where 1 has been discovered; 100 lie in wait.
I think Apple should stop trying to find the specific bug, and work on improving their code to address ALL Potential vulnerabilities.
From what we understand, the device was fully encrypted, and someone was able to mod it to make it break-in-able....... Apple ought to know very well what elements of their architecture could be weak against that, and get changes to the design done to make all those classes of vulnerabilities unworkable.
Seems Apple should be able to sue the FBI at this point to request a declaratory judgement against their order, due to the harm it does them to have the question about this order still left open...
and I have seen texters walk right into them. Ouch!
I think that's a nice nudge for the texter to learn a lesson, and if it's just a bump and some bruises: not so bad in the grand scheme of things; much more effective than getting some B.S. fine or ticket.
I know someone who in their 30s that was not texting and almost bled to death after they slipped and fell in a Target parking lot, busting her knee in the process, and lay on the pavement unable to move.
This 'gravity' and 'unsafe surface' stuff seems like a much bigger problem, and being distracted or not --- only addresses a small subset of risks.
Plus... from iPhones, to Smartwatches, to iPods playing music over headphones.... there's an endless source of distractions people want.
So perhaps we should just ban walking entirely, and especially jogging/running, and also force all pedestrians to ride at least motor chairs (with seatbelts, airbags, bumpers, and anti-collision/anti-fall software safety features) when in public.
These are not general hazards of texting; these are extreme situations which can sometimes occur.
Also, a reasonable person --- even if texting while walking, is going to look up occassionally, to make sure
they still see where they are going.
Texting While Walking Causes More Accidents Than Texting and Driving
However, they are smaller accidents, and they tend to only affect the person texting.
Also, there can be varying levels of distraction while texting while walking --- and some level of
distraction can be safe, Whereas, other levels of distraction can have some risks.
Man 'walks off cliff and plummets 60 feet to his death on Christmas Day while distracted
So you think it's normal for there to be a 60ft cliff in the middle of the sidewalk, or in the city park?
If you're out hiking; it's a different story, but only a fool would stare at their phone continuously trudging through the wilderness.
Girl Falls Into Manhole While Texting, Parents Sue
Because a Manhole carelessly left open/not secured is not reckless disregard by the workers and
a danger to everyone on the sidewalk? People have fallen into those, without even being distracted.....
That is what you call an "unreasonable hazard"; and generally, Manholes aren't left open.
Also, usually those are on the street (I think); not the Sidewalk.
Bonnie Miller, Woman Who Fell Off Pier While Texting, Saved By Teen Rebecca Van Zant
So anyways.... there aren't piers in the middle of a city or normal walk area for people to fall off of.
There are certain areas, of course, such as near lakes or rivers, where additional care is due.
So what happens when the diver was texting and the pedestrian was texting, who is at greater fault.
If the driver was texting and ran into the pedestrian, then the driver is 100% at fault, full stop.
As a pedestrian; there is generally no hazard from texting, and all the danger is caused by the fact there are cars, and the distracted driving cannot be overcome by any action of the pedestrian.
drivers face no financial liability except in extreme circumstances where your insurer tells you to eff off.
No... when drivers are at fault, they are liable, but it's insured liability. Drivers will pay for it in insurance premiums over time and more.
however, pedestrians don't have ped insurance.
This is their choice.... Generally, attention to their injuries would be covered by health insurance, and any liability would be covered by general liability insurance, homeowners' insurance, or an Umbrella policy from their insurance company. Certainly there are policies the ped could choose to purchase which would cover any liability to other people.
in the scenario above, would the ped be liable for 5, 6, or 7 figure damages?
The pedestria's liability is likely to be the full damages against themself, no matter how much.... If there are any other damages, then these damages are likely to be the exclusive responsibility of the drivers and/or the property owner.
The pedestrian is not infinitely responsible, beyond anticipatable results of their failure.
Just like a loose-mouthed trash talker setting off an international incident does not mysteriously become civilly liable for all the damages caused by war between the two nations.
The pedestrian not behind the wheel of a vehicle; does not become responsible for other things the vehicles happened to damage, possibly due to the pedstrian's presence with them./P
or to drive at a walking pace in places like that.
This is exactly what the law requires that drivers do, and that's what the prosecution against the driver may very well say in court after the accident ---- they were driving too fast... even though it was below the speed limit; the driver of the vehicle was responsible to see the densely parked cars and operate their vehicle and a slow enough speed that the driver would be able to stop for any unexpected pedestrian emerging.
Irrelevant to 99.999% of people who buy burner phones because it is their easiest solution for privacy that requires 0 technical knowledge.
And there's a solution that requires 0 technical knowledge to the ID hurdle as well, which the criminals will use.... it's called Fake ID, or steal someone else's ID.
As usual, the proposed actions will do NOTHING to stop terrorists, and they will will hurt innocent people.
Rest assured, private possession of gold will have been banned
There should be no concern that "private possession of gold will be banned", because it would be unconstitutional, thus impossible.....
The US Constitution prohibits the taking of private property, and gold is of the land, so for those who have it is personal property --- and for those who own gold mines, the gold, and their ability to trade it is part of their private property they have a natural right to possess.
I went and looked and there's a Google Maps for business/work. I'd think there's a serviceability/merchantability obligation there
Serviceability for a publication or data product doesn't assure the data is 100% accurate or make the publisher responsible for the user's conduct.
The user is responsible for their conduct, and a contractor has a duty of care to take steps to fully verify that the building is exactly the correct one, before they gain access, or begin demolition or other modification (Not just find the place on a map).
Just like your vehicle GPS map provider doesn't have responsibility for the car accident; if you follow the GPS navigators' directions to turn the wrong way down a One-Way street and barrel head-on into a Semi truck.
There might be a disclaimer on the GPS itself, but that's just CYA.
They committed a range of criminal offences least of which is trespass. They should be criminally charged being an incompetence idiot is no excuse to break the law.
Agree.... they should be required to pay retribution, in addition to civil damages and punitive damages, and people responsible should face possible jail time.
The demolition company's CEO dismissed the incident as "not a big deal."
That further solidifies the need for state prosecutors to pursue them to the full extent of the law.....
ID to buy nails because they're used in nail bombs? ID to buy pressure cookers?
Why don't we just cut to the chase already? Mandatory scanning of an ID and reporting to the government by all retailers, for any transaction where the payment method is by Cash or Personal check.
The DMCA does try to ban circumvention of security measures that are used to protect copyright, but I don't think that's the case here.
The DRM effectively prevents access to the firmware binary code.... note that in no case can a normal user get access to the firmware code, let alone see it and patch it; without circumventing effective controls.
Modifying the code in memory is also an exercise of the copyright owner's exclusive right to prepare derivative works.
Which has no bearing on the issue, Because 2 + 2 does not equal 2. The theft from taxpayers is not entirely concentrated on one specific budget line item.
And welfare programs do not fall under One "Line item"; In fact, Medicaid is one of the Welfare program line items where the government is bleeding massive amounts of money which it should not be spending in the first place.
If we were spending almost as much on welfare for immigrants as we spend on Defense everyone would know it
Nope. People would only know it if their favorite media outlet disseminated the information to them, even though it is available from the government statistics; the general public remains ignorant, and ignorance is bliss.....
Also, this isn't something people really want to hear, and the media considers it a "sensitive issue", so they're largely unlikely to appropriately inform the public.
So of course not everybody would be aware of the actual expenditures.....
The Social Contract is explained in John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
The foundation of the Social Contract and all government is the extension of man's natural right to protect himself and his property from being deprived of them, encroached upon, being stolen from, done violence against, etc.
Political power, according to Locke, can have no right except as this is derived from the individual right of each man to protect himself and his property. The executive and legislative powers used by civil government to protect property are nothing except the natural power of each man resigned “into the hands of the community,” or “resigned to the public,” and they are justified merely because it is a better way of protecting natural rights than the self-help to which each man is naturally entitled. This is the original “compact” by which individuals incorporate into one society and is a bare agreement to unite into one political society.
Its result is that no one volunteers anything because it doesn't help their district at all, it just gets reallocated to other districts.
So just reallocate 75% of it, then it Does help their own district, but a portion of it also helps other districts. It's just that if they want their district to get $1000, then they need to volunteer $4000.
From Google: The top 10 percent pays 53.3 percent of all federal taxes.
And close to half a trillion a year of spending from all that is going to fund Welfare for immigrants from certain countries; instead of on public goods.
The burden is significant on all payers, and we find the US government becoming further and further in breach of the social contract, by just taking money from peoples' wallets and straight-up giving it to other people, which also means: the US government has become less and less legitimate over the past 50 years, and approaching the tipping point where citizens will have a solemn duty to overthrow it and institute new government which does not steal from them......
I think so as long as it doesn't reduce current funding on their roads.
Why don't you just set a policy of subtracting the amount of taxpayer funding from roads that receive contributions from rich people?
If a billionaire contributes $5,000,000 to an improvement of road X, then subtract $3,500,000 from the taxpayer budget for improvements to road X, and use the use the subtracted amount to fund other projects.
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If the Holo sticker no longer does anything, then why spend the extra money to get smog checks? Won't this remove the incentive for drivers to get lower emission vehicles leaving them with the disincentive of the additional costs for smog reduction with now no benefit for those added costs?
Until now vehicles have been exempt from Mexico City's "no circulation" rules if owners obtain a holographic sticker from a smog-check center certifying them as lower-emission......Environmental Commission of the Megalopolis..., said in a statement that all cars must now comply, even if they have the exemption sticker. Vehicles will also be forced from the roads one Saturday a month.
It also lowered the threshold at which alerts will be declared and predicted that atmospheric conditions will continue to favor the build-up of contaminants during the current dry season.
It does not follow that if the government had more money that they'd be spending it on social safety nets. It does not matter the government, it simply does not follow.
In the US; the government is no longer funded by tax revenue..... they just have their partners at the federal reserve (private banking cartel) print out whatever debt they need to fund the government.
The purpose of the income tax is Enslavement..... that is to bestow (or withold) political benefits and favors (bribes) in the form of tax exemptions, to give some people or companies competitive advantages over others, AND also to take money from the middle class and anyone not dependent on welfare in order to make them financially dependent on the banking industry partners (for loans) by separating these people from their wallet....
do not repeat DO NOT send them a signal
Too late. What's the worst that could happen?
I would like for any cancellation of my working internet service to require callback and verbal confirmation before it gets cancelled.
The concern is someone gains access to my online account and cancels without my permission, or someone who has legit access accidentally initiates a cancel, thinking they are doing something different.
I'm not posting to your comments section, and I'm sure as hell not signing
Perhaps CloudFlare could eliminate CAPTCHAs for simple GETs, except when the malicious access issue is DoS, or a Risky Cookie is found in the HTTP request.
Simple GETs don't contain POST form data or other non-Idempotent operations.
They also don't contain any complex request parameters which could harbor malicious intent.
It would make sense for CloudFlare to ignore them; if the request seems innocuous, even if the client is malicious, provided the known malicious clients are ones that act Overtly malicious.
Example, a police officer knocks on your door. You invite him inside. The officer sees your heroin needle. The officer can arrest you, because you gave him permission to search your home.
OK, so is it possible now that Apple will file a lawsuit against San Bernadino county for soliciting and giving the FBI permission to conduct activities such as reverse-engineering or disassembly which are prohibited by the software EULA?
What happens if you're at a neighbor's house, and you let the officer in (without authorization from the neighbor), and the officer happens to see the neighbor's needle?
Apple has so far been unwilling to encourage folks to expose bugs, by paying them, so....
Where 1 has been discovered; 100 lie in wait.
I think Apple should stop trying to find the specific bug, and work on improving their code to address ALL Potential vulnerabilities.
From what we understand, the device was fully encrypted, and someone was able to mod it to make it break-in-able....... Apple ought to know very well what elements of their architecture could be weak against that, and get changes to the design done to make all those classes of vulnerabilities unworkable.
Seems Apple should be able to sue the FBI at this point to request a declaratory judgement against their order, due to the harm it does them to have the question about this order still left open...
and I have seen texters walk right into them. Ouch!
I think that's a nice nudge for the texter to learn a lesson, and if it's just a bump and some bruises: not so bad in the grand scheme of things; much more effective than getting some B.S. fine or ticket.
I know someone who in their 30s that was not texting and almost bled to death after they slipped and fell in a Target parking lot, busting her knee in the process, and lay on the pavement unable to move.
This 'gravity' and 'unsafe surface' stuff seems like a much bigger problem, and being distracted or not --- only addresses a small subset of risks.
Plus... from iPhones, to Smartwatches, to iPods playing music over headphones.... there's an endless source of distractions people want.
So perhaps we should just ban walking entirely, and especially jogging/running, and also force all pedestrians to ride at least motor chairs (with seatbelts, airbags, bumpers, and anti-collision/anti-fall software safety features) when in public.
Want to rethink that stance?
These are not general hazards of texting; these are extreme situations which can sometimes occur.
Also, a reasonable person --- even if texting while walking, is going to look up occassionally, to make sure they still see where they are going.
Texting While Walking Causes More Accidents Than Texting and Driving
However, they are smaller accidents, and they tend to only affect the person texting. Also, there can be varying levels of distraction while texting while walking --- and some level of distraction can be safe, Whereas, other levels of distraction can have some risks.
Man 'walks off cliff and plummets 60 feet to his death on Christmas Day while distracted
So you think it's normal for there to be a 60ft cliff in the middle of the sidewalk, or in the city park? If you're out hiking; it's a different story, but only a fool would stare at their phone continuously trudging through the wilderness.
Girl Falls Into Manhole While Texting, Parents Sue
Because a Manhole carelessly left open/not secured is not reckless disregard by the workers and a danger to everyone on the sidewalk? People have fallen into those, without even being distracted.....
That is what you call an "unreasonable hazard"; and generally, Manholes aren't left open.
Also, usually those are on the street (I think); not the Sidewalk.
Bonnie Miller, Woman Who Fell Off Pier While Texting, Saved By Teen Rebecca Van Zant
So anyways.... there aren't piers in the middle of a city or normal walk area for people to fall off of. There are certain areas, of course, such as near lakes or rivers, where additional care is due.
So what happens when the diver was texting and the pedestrian was texting, who is at greater fault.
If the driver was texting and ran into the pedestrian, then the driver is 100% at fault, full stop.
As a pedestrian; there is generally no hazard from texting, and all the danger is caused by the fact there are cars, and the distracted driving cannot be overcome by any action of the pedestrian.
drivers face no financial liability except in extreme circumstances where your insurer tells you to eff off.
No... when drivers are at fault, they are liable, but it's insured liability. Drivers will pay for it in insurance premiums over time and more.
however, pedestrians don't have ped insurance.
This is their choice.... Generally, attention to their injuries would be covered by health insurance, and any liability would be covered by general liability insurance, homeowners' insurance, or an Umbrella policy from their insurance company. Certainly there are policies the ped could choose to purchase which would cover any liability to other people.
in the scenario above, would the ped be liable for 5, 6, or 7 figure damages?
The pedestria's liability is likely to be the full damages against themself, no matter how much.... If there are any other damages, then these damages are likely to be the exclusive responsibility of the drivers and/or the property owner.
The pedestrian is not infinitely responsible, beyond anticipatable results of their failure.
Just like a loose-mouthed trash talker setting off an international incident does not mysteriously become civilly liable for all the damages caused by war between the two nations.
The pedestrian not behind the wheel of a vehicle; does not become responsible for other things the vehicles happened to damage, possibly due to the pedstrian's presence with them. /P
or to drive at a walking pace in places like that.
This is exactly what the law requires that drivers do, and that's what the prosecution against the driver may very well say in court after the accident ---- they were driving too fast... even though it was below the speed limit; the driver of the vehicle was responsible to see the densely parked cars and operate their vehicle and a slow enough speed that the driver would be able to stop for any unexpected pedestrian emerging.
Irrelevant to 99.999% of people who buy burner phones because it is their easiest solution for privacy that requires 0 technical knowledge.
And there's a solution that requires 0 technical knowledge to the ID hurdle as well, which the criminals will use.... it's called Fake ID, or steal someone else's ID.
As usual, the proposed actions will do NOTHING to stop terrorists, and they will will hurt innocent people.
Rest assured, private possession of gold will have been banned
There should be no concern that "private possession of gold will be banned", because it would be unconstitutional, thus impossible.....
The US Constitution prohibits the taking of private property, and gold is of the land, so for those who have it is personal property --- and for those who own gold mines, the gold, and their ability to trade it is part of their private property they have a natural right to possess.
I went and looked and there's a Google Maps for business/work. I'd think there's a serviceability/merchantability obligation there
Serviceability for a publication or data product doesn't assure the data is 100% accurate or make the publisher responsible for the user's conduct. The user is responsible for their conduct, and a contractor has a duty of care to take steps to fully verify that the building is exactly the correct one, before they gain access, or begin demolition or other modification (Not just find the place on a map).
Just like your vehicle GPS map provider doesn't have responsibility for the car accident; if you follow the GPS navigators' directions to turn the wrong way down a One-Way street and barrel head-on into a Semi truck.
There might be a disclaimer on the GPS itself, but that's just CYA.
They committed a range of criminal offences least of which is trespass. They should be criminally charged being an incompetence idiot is no excuse to break the law.
Agree.... they should be required to pay retribution, in addition to civil damages and punitive damages, and people responsible should face possible jail time.
The demolition company's CEO dismissed the incident as "not a big deal."
That further solidifies the need for state prosecutors to pursue them to the full extent of the law.....
means an end to bankruns and no more keeping cash in a matress.
There's still a way around it..... people can purchase valuable fungible commodities and trade those instead.
One example would be, they can trade gold bars.
Other examples would be bullets or guns.... cans of gasoline.... bails of hay. Tins of caviar.... bottles of white Trufflle oil from real Truffles.
Satchels of Saffron.
Just about any valuable commodity can be used as a form of Cash or substitute cash in trade.
ID to buy nails because they're used in nail bombs? ID to buy pressure cookers?
Why don't we just cut to the chase already? Mandatory scanning of an ID and reporting to the government by all retailers, for any transaction where the payment method is by Cash or Personal check.
The DMCA does try to ban circumvention of security measures that are used to protect copyright, but I don't think that's the case here.
The DRM effectively prevents access to the firmware binary code.... note that in no case can a normal user get access to the firmware code, let alone see it and patch it; without circumventing effective controls.
Modifying the code in memory is also an exercise of the copyright owner's exclusive right to prepare derivative works.
There are only three line items over $500B a year
Which has no bearing on the issue, Because 2 + 2 does not equal 2. The theft from taxpayers is not entirely concentrated on one specific budget line item.
And welfare programs do not fall under One "Line item"; In fact, Medicaid is one of the Welfare program line items where the government is bleeding massive amounts of money which it should not be spending in the first place.
If we were spending almost as much on welfare for immigrants as we spend on Defense everyone would know it
Nope. People would only know it if their favorite media outlet disseminated the information to them, even though it is available from the government statistics; the general public remains ignorant, and ignorance is bliss..... Also, this isn't something people really want to hear, and the media considers it a "sensitive issue", so they're largely unlikely to appropriately inform the public.
So of course not everybody would be aware of the actual expenditures.....
The Social Contract is explained in John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
The foundation of the Social Contract and all government is the extension of man's natural right to protect himself and his property from being deprived of them, encroached upon, being stolen from, done violence against, etc.
Its result is that no one volunteers anything because it doesn't help their district at all, it just gets reallocated to other districts.
So just reallocate 75% of it, then it Does help their own district, but a portion of it also helps other districts. It's just that if they want their district to get $1000, then they need to volunteer $4000.
From Google: The top 10 percent pays 53.3 percent of all federal taxes.
And close to half a trillion a year of spending from all that is going to fund Welfare for immigrants from certain countries; instead of on public goods.
The burden is significant on all payers, and we find the US government becoming further and further in breach of the social contract, by just taking money from peoples' wallets and straight-up giving it to other people, which also means: the US government has become less and less legitimate over the past 50 years, and approaching the tipping point where citizens will have a solemn duty to overthrow it and institute new government which does not steal from them......
I think so as long as it doesn't reduce current funding on their roads.
Why don't you just set a policy of subtracting the amount of taxpayer funding from roads that receive contributions from rich people?
If a billionaire contributes $5,000,000 to an improvement of road X, then subtract $3,500,000 from the taxpayer budget for improvements to road X, and use the use the subtracted amount to fund other projects.