Seems reasonable. Evolution has made beings able to reproduce. There isn't any evolution pressure on adults living must past the time when their children can reproduce. Yes there are some benefits of longer lived species as the older ones provide wisdom and protection to the younger, but there is a falling off point.
While I am all for anonymity for people on the internet. I am against it for corporations and states, for the same reason I am against treating corporations as people.
What possible legitimate use could someone have for anonymously posting a targeted advertisement?
I was under the impression that it was illegal for companies to use SSN as an identifier. Why do the credit reporting agencies still get away with doing it?
I suppose that is just one of the many laws that don't apply to financial institutions.
(x) people are dicks (x) average people won't understand it (x) companies will fuck up the implementation ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
Even if this is implemented perfectly, I think this will go just as well as OpenId. Eventually the providers give up on it or go out of business because there is no money to be made on it, and things get fucked up. I am not going to trust my credentials to a 3rd party like that again.
They key would have to be stored somewhere off of your device, otherwise you would be locked out of your own accounts if the device were to be lost or broken. This is exactly as secure as just having a private key file somewhere. With all the pitfalls involved with that.
I see it as a step backwards from something like LastPass as it provides no security benefits, with a bunch of downfalls that you stated.
Gibson is a smart guy, but I have no idea what problem he thought he was solving here.
Also, I can specify any dollar value I want for "free parking and office 5 minutes from my house". In fact, my base salary is pretty terrible for my experience and skill level. But at my age, its hard to put a dollar value on loving my job.
Sounds like a good plan to me. Any company that refuses is full of HR asshats that I would not want to work with anyhow.
Headhunters always ask for your current salary and they claim "oh it is to make sure we get you jobs that make more than this." But I can guarantee they turn around and tell employers they are working with. But headhunters don't entirely care if you make more money (they make a percentage so the higher the better), but they will do anything to get you in the door to make sure they get their fee. Including lying to you, lying to the company about you, trying to talk you into taking a lower salary.
I told one what I wanted after interviewing "but 20% more than you make now!" I responded "yeah bitch, I did not like that place, and I can live with my current job, so this is what it would take me." (The "yeah bitch" part was in my head.) I eventually interviewed elsewhere with another headhunter and got a different job.
So the only needs that should be legal are one that are required for life? No.
On this article I seem to be stuck in some kind of common sense hell between your "only rights that should be permitted are ones I allow!" and some other jackass's "using the phone or drunk driving should be totally allowed as long as nobody gets hurt."
My old car had dials that I could "feel" the position of and adjust without looking. My new car has a bunch of identical buttons and rotary encoders all crammed next to each other and a screen for display.
You literally have to look away from the road just to see what the temperature is set to, let alone change it.
Except that road deaths are not going up per capita. Cars are vastly more safe now than at any time in history. The number of cars on the road is going up causing more total deaths.
I am not sure if the number of accidents is going up or down, but crashes are more survivable now.
The fact that phones are undoubtedly increasing accident rates is the issue here. Without those deaths we could be even safer.
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For some reason your Amazon home security camera had a blackout for the same 10 minutes that someone was robbing their home.
Tell that to Congress.
Seems reasonable. Evolution has made beings able to reproduce. There isn't any evolution pressure on adults living must past the time when their children can reproduce. Yes there are some benefits of longer lived species as the older ones provide wisdom and protection to the younger, but there is a falling off point.
What MVC?
Lol, comparing java from 20 years ago to java today.
While I am all for anonymity for people on the internet. I am against it for corporations and states, for the same reason I am against treating corporations as people.
What possible legitimate use could someone have for anonymously posting a targeted advertisement?
But if you can tie the fake ads to a particular user, it will be easy to see they are a shill/agent/troll/whatever.
Apparently its just illegal to ask for it: http://www.timesunion.com/loca...
Since credit agencies don't ask for ANY of the data they have on you, they just take it, it is ok for them to do whatever they like.
I was under the impression that it was illegal for companies to use SSN as an identifier. Why do the credit reporting agencies still get away with doing it?
I suppose that is just one of the many laws that don't apply to financial institutions.
You have proposed a
(x) technical
( ) legislative
( ) market-based
( ) vigilante
solution to fighting fraud.
Specifically, your plan fails to account for:
(x) people are dicks
(x) average people won't understand it
(x) companies will fuck up the implementation
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
So where is the other 73% of their power coming from. Nuclear and natural gas? :Seems like a big amount for those.
Also the article was basically just the summary. No sources or content whatsoever.
Even if this is implemented perfectly, I think this will go just as well as OpenId. Eventually the providers give up on it or go out of business because there is no money to be made on it, and things get fucked up. I am not going to trust my credentials to a 3rd party like that again.
We live in both Huxley and Orwell's worlds at the same time.
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites...
They key would have to be stored somewhere off of your device, otherwise you would be locked out of your own accounts if the device were to be lost or broken. This is exactly as secure as just having a private key file somewhere. With all the pitfalls involved with that.
I see it as a step backwards from something like LastPass as it provides no security benefits, with a bunch of downfalls that you stated.
Gibson is a smart guy, but I have no idea what problem he thought he was solving here.
Like passwords with unicode in them. Impossible to share via Slashdot.
Also, I can specify any dollar value I want for "free parking and office 5 minutes from my house". In fact, my base salary is pretty terrible for my experience and skill level. But at my age, its hard to put a dollar value on loving my job.
Sounds like a good plan to me. Any company that refuses is full of HR asshats that I would not want to work with anyhow.
Headhunters always ask for your current salary and they claim "oh it is to make sure we get you jobs that make more than this." But I can guarantee they turn around and tell employers they are working with. But headhunters don't entirely care if you make more money (they make a percentage so the higher the better), but they will do anything to get you in the door to make sure they get their fee. Including lying to you, lying to the company about you, trying to talk you into taking a lower salary.
I told one what I wanted after interviewing "but 20% more than you make now!" I responded "yeah bitch, I did not like that place, and I can live with my current job, so this is what it would take me." (The "yeah bitch" part was in my head.) I eventually interviewed elsewhere with another headhunter and got a different job.
A credit check will easily tell them this, and big companies ALWAYS do a credit check.
So the only needs that should be legal are one that are required for life? No.
On this article I seem to be stuck in some kind of common sense hell between your "only rights that should be permitted are ones I allow!" and some other jackass's "using the phone or drunk driving should be totally allowed as long as nobody gets hurt."
What the fuck is Slashdot anymore?
I am a terrible shot, so I missed your house completely.
Are you still a victim?
My old car had dials that I could "feel" the position of and adjust without looking. My new car has a bunch of identical buttons and rotary encoders all crammed next to each other and a screen for display.
You literally have to look away from the road just to see what the temperature is set to, let alone change it.
"I don't need my phone on mass transit, so nobody else should be allowed to use theirs."
Great logic there.
Waze is part of the problem. Who thought encouraging people to fuck around with their phones while driving is a good idea?
"no victim no crime" Complete bullshit.
So I can randomly fire a gun at your house. As long as I miss, there is no victim, right?
Except that road deaths are not going up per capita. Cars are vastly more safe now than at any time in history. The number of cars on the road is going up causing more total deaths.
I am not sure if the number of accidents is going up or down, but crashes are more survivable now.
The fact that phones are undoubtedly increasing accident rates is the issue here. Without those deaths we could be even safer.