The USA should have an agency (maybe call it the NSA+) that's tasked with helping companies shore up cyber defenses... Maybe even doing code reviews and penetration testing of common software to look for vulnerabilities. Instead we have an NSA that exploits vulnerabilities and creates new backdoors into software and networks with no real oversight or accountability
While they merrily install backdoors in the systems of every business they, "help."
A tax on consumption is still a tax on labor. A worker is required to spend a larger percentage of his income on basic needs. Capital does not need to spend to maintain it's safety.
This argument is flawed.
Okay, I've worked as a valet. I've worked around other valets. Valets are like the police today. "Most of them are doing a good job and a few give them all a bad reputation." With me so far? What car can go anywhere? Your car! When it's being driven by a valet! If you're driving a sports car and parking is a few blocks away those guys are fighting to get to park your car instead of Grandpa's Cadillac next in line. Frankly, it's just too much fun. I'm not saying it's right or anything, but that IS reality.
Now the bigger problem here is that I don't for one second believe that the key is the only place in your car this can be activated from. It's a computer system. The computer checks the keys for instructions. The key does not control the car, the computer does. Tin foil hat time I suppose, but every technology that NSA/police get their hands on seems to end up being used to excess.
Car companies are already monitoring users remember?
Police proposal: We can protect the public by ending high speed chases!
I think I'll pass on in car audio video recording. At least from the factory.
... and every single term president is basically just an unempowered placeholder...
You my friend are on the path to understanding.
The President is very much a figurehead... the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership... His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.
Sorry for the obligatory quote, but more and more I believe this is actually the truth. That is, that the purpose of the job is to distract from power. Sadly, the president does wield actual power, much to our sorrow.
You're right, but given the isolation this imposes on them it's really difficult to tell people you love, "You just can't be in communication with the rest of us this way."
I've been excited about alternatives to taxi service. I've lived and dealt with taxi's in Minneapolis, Seattle, San Francisco and Denver. Denver is not a big city and has poor taxi coverage. I went to a concert Sunday, August 30th planning to use them to get home. Uber announced a rate multiplier of 2.5 times that night (making them much more expensive than a taxi, to gain more drivers) after I was already at the show...
Limited taxi service sucks and something else is needed. But I can't seem to rely on Uber. It feels to me that they don't understand their own business model. (Being price competitive with taxi services.) Watching them branch into other areas doesn't excite me very much when I can't rely on the one thing they're supposed to be good at.
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The USA should have an agency (maybe call it the NSA+) that's tasked with helping companies shore up cyber defenses... Maybe even doing code reviews and penetration testing of common software to look for vulnerabilities. Instead we have an NSA that exploits vulnerabilities and creates new backdoors into software and networks with no real oversight or accountability
While they merrily install backdoors in the systems of every business they, "help."
A tax on consumption is still a tax on labor. A worker is required to spend a larger percentage of his income on basic needs. Capital does not need to spend to maintain it's safety. This argument is flawed.
Okay, I've worked as a valet. I've worked around other valets. Valets are like the police today. "Most of them are doing a good job and a few give them all a bad reputation." With me so far? What car can go anywhere? Your car! When it's being driven by a valet! If you're driving a sports car and parking is a few blocks away those guys are fighting to get to park your car instead of Grandpa's Cadillac next in line. Frankly, it's just too much fun. I'm not saying it's right or anything, but that IS reality.
Now the bigger problem here is that I don't for one second believe that the key is the only place in your car this can be activated from. It's a computer system. The computer checks the keys for instructions. The key does not control the car, the computer does. Tin foil hat time I suppose, but every technology that NSA/police get their hands on seems to end up being used to excess.
Car companies are already monitoring users remember?
Police proposal: We can protect the public by ending high speed chases!
I think I'll pass on in car audio video recording. At least from the factory.
I imagine with their surveilance on foreign corporations there's a huge amount of technology the could license.
How long until the NSA files it's first patent application?
... and every single term president is basically just an unempowered placeholder...
You my friend are on the path to understanding.
The President is very much a figurehead ... the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership ... His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.
Sorry for the obligatory quote, but more and more I believe this is actually the truth. That is, that the purpose of the job is to distract from power. Sadly, the president does wield actual power, much to our sorrow.
You're right, but given the isolation this imposes on them it's really difficult to tell people you love, "You just can't be in communication with the rest of us this way."
Forgive my ignorance. I made an assumption. Ironically, there were lines of taxi's at the stands after the concert. I don't take taxi's often...
I've been excited about alternatives to taxi service. I've lived and dealt with taxi's in Minneapolis, Seattle, San Francisco and Denver. Denver is not a big city and has poor taxi coverage. I went to a concert Sunday, August 30th planning to use them to get home. Uber announced a rate multiplier of 2.5 times that night (making them much more expensive than a taxi, to gain more drivers) after I was already at the show... Limited taxi service sucks and something else is needed. But I can't seem to rely on Uber. It feels to me that they don't understand their own business model. (Being price competitive with taxi services.) Watching them branch into other areas doesn't excite me very much when I can't rely on the one thing they're supposed to be good at.