If it's illegal go to the cops file a report. Sexual harassment is a specific crime that none of this would seem to fall under (yes corner cases of people working there etc). My point is if you extend sexual harassment to be illegal everywhere you can effectively never attempt to have sexual congress. Holding public places up to the standard of the workplace is unworkable. Requiring that you somehow get approval to make sexual advances without making a sexual advance is unworkable as the question itself is a sexual advance. Why would a person go to a social gathering and expect to be subjected to sexual advances? It's an entitlement to make sexual advances? People have sex it happens rather often they meet at these social gatherings.
I'm not attempting to excuse the groping that's a pretty clear case of somebody going over the line. I am saying that as mammals you do have to expect that in social situations people will make advances of a sexual nature, the instinct to breed is pretty well ingrained. Sexual harassment is an attempt to move these natural behaviors out of the workplace and away from teachers and students, in an attempt to not let a person in power use it to there advantage or have a person use sex to gain it. It is not some code of conduct that should be required everywhere. I'm not offended when at a party or bar when somebody comes up to me and flirts the tackle hug from a woman I barely know. If your that thin skinned that any form of sexual advance is scary to you I would suggest seeking help and staying out of polite society until you have overcome this phobia but in any event do not attempt to bend the world to your phobia. As long as people are staying within the law it should not be a cons or any other social gatherings responsibility to enforce a higher standard of decorum.
I make no attempt to defend the groper, male female or whatever gender they choose to align themselves with. I do defend the right of people to make sexual advances in social situations. If we were to remove it, we remove a major avenue of people to connect with each other. Lest we all be forced to sterile internet dating sites where your matched like lab rats, or forced to revert to primary school tactics of asking jim to ask sue if tina likes you.
The article described would fall under at most sexual abuse the undesired touching of a sexual nature. Some of the rest might be rude but not illegal a guy asking a woman to show him her tits. A man the grabbed a woman's hips in a crowded party seems very situation dependent. I drunkard attempting to lick a shoulder is in base taste but when have drunkards been in good taste. The only thing listed that fell outside of bounds would be the inappropriate touching. Is it all juvenile behavioral sure, but none of it was sexual harassment that's specifically for workplaces and education that takes federal money. Seems like your putting a lot of socially inept people together people are going to fail miserably at expressing themselves. But requiring a con the standard of the workplace you saying that at neither at work or in social settings may somebody make an unwelcome sexual advance. Do we need special sexual advance zones with trained technical staff and therapists standing by so that one personal can express a desire commit an act that predates our species? Lets face it go to a crowded pickup bar either gender expects some might even hope to have sexual advances made. The unwanted groping is over the line go talk to the cops not the con same as you would do at a bar, mall, or grocery store. Want a horror story's talk to the booth babes at your average trade show, and that is sexual harassment at the workplace.
Nope brandy spanking new java apps with a latest and greatest auto downloaded java 7 something. Just a few weeks back got one of those fun update java and went from a working app that's is only a few months old to a non working app also took out a several years old app with the same update.
This is especially fun when the java app runs out of firmware with no other method of configuring the device and the device maker has no plants to fix it. Keeping that odd vm around with some specific version of java just to be able to configure a device is so much fun. Honestly it's getting as bad as having to keep some old version of IE installed to get some web app to work.
If only idiots and kids write bad java code as you say and java code from large corps is nearly universally bad as has been my experience then union of those two statements would be that large corps seems to only employ idiots and kids to write there managements apps. The truly bad part is for some of the apps I can see no reason for the java app vs a well written web app.
From my experience those developers are the majority of business java dev's it would seem. Honestly the platform is broken by the fact the super secret only work here bits existed in the first place. Functionally the java apps should know what versions and extensions they require to run and have the launcher use them or go download the required version.
Guess what I'm not coding for it just using apps from major corps. Those fun management apps that on some kit you must use as the cli will only setup basic ip settings, any real config requires some java monstrosity. Just a few weeks back a java update broke some buttons on the latest supermicro ipkvm java app and the cisco asdm launcher (though the web launched versions works). I would not call cisco some fly by night company.
Primarily with those java management apps related to networking kit. You know those things that are embedded in firmware and sometimes the only way to do more than get an IP on the box to get to said java nightmare. I've had the issues as recent as a few weeks ago when a java update stopped some dialog boxes from working on a supermicro ipkvm java app. Same update killed all my ASDM java apps for working with CIsco ASA's (though it still works as a web app for whatever reasons)
You must run some VERY different apps than I do. Every management app I've used seems to be tied to different versions of java everything for ui glitches though plain just not working.
Last I checked java was the biggest pita in things not running unless they were using the specific version of java they were coded for. Now your telling me you can have arbitrary java code compiled to cuda seems far fetched when it can hardly handle going from x.y.z to x.y.z+1 without breaking
Actualy the hosting provider is only required to take down properly formatted DMCA requests. With few exceptions this can never be a whole site. So in this case they would need to have lined to books they have control over the copyright. Now it sounds like he screwed up and did not file counter claim for each and every inbound take down notice. He should be suing everybody that sent these DMCA notices. His provider probably has it covered in his tos the DMCA is weak in allowing you to get out of liability via contract but lets face it this was one sided legislation.
In this case it also sounds like he is hosting none of it so his risk is very low, it's not reasonable to expect that a large company like amazon of B&N are allowing copyright infringement.
Try and get a wet behind the ears 20 something to learn x86 assembler well enough to do inline assembly optimization better than the compiler. Most cry like a stuck pig. Far to many programmers think that throwing some business logic around a pile of libraries constitutes coding.
Adopting java over what? If it's C they should stick with it at this point C is the mother of most modern programming languages. University level should not be a trade school, C teaches all the the constructs and all of the power. Java is a subset of C at best and hides a lot of complexity that a programmer needs to understand.
As far as the TSA he can stop it any time he wants, Ultimately congress has only the power of the purse and to impeach when dealing with the executive. Sure they can defund anything else they can override his veto on. But all it takes is his signature to stop the TSA in it's tracts they work for him and him alone. I doubt he wants to go anywhere near this in an election year.
They could but they are generally given in very narrow terms often with huge payments. The payments eat up anything they might get buy suing and since the term is limited with a pile of conditions the rights are pretty much useless. There are rules to try and get around this but they can be worked around. The fix requires them putting up a bond to cover the potential amount but that effectively blocks the little guy from ever suing or giving the judges leeway to alter contracts and make investors responsible for what those companies do.
NA they will just form companies for the purpose of bringing the suit assign the rights to the company in a very specific way and have no downside. Forming a corp only cost a few hundred bucks after all.
The "war" on drugs makes you feel safer? In the 30 years or so that I remember of it I've felt less and less safe as drug dealers get more militant and violent The police have gotten far more violet to match but they inflict that on everyone while they retreat behind more layers of protection.
Intercept what passwords? It's a 3 way system the site your going to, you and the site your running auth on. At worst you password ever goes from you to the site your running auth on. You do not need to use passwords and are free to use whatever methods you like. I use a OTP as part of the authentication so my password is useless in the long term and I authenticate with a client side browser key. Exposure to phishing might be a login perhaps a session if they can keep a session open to repeat the client key authentication. Seems like a lot of work getting a root key into my browser or getting one issued from a legit CA, misdirecting the first auth attempt I make in a newly opened browser (else it would not prompt for my password/OTP). Granted if somebody takes over the auth server they can try and guess your account name at sites and make the server authenticate them. The auth server is doing one task and is completely under my own control I view as a much smaller target than a complex web site. Might be easier to take over one of my PC's and just use the existing auth session and saved passwords and that does not seem to be a specific vulnerability to OpenID.
Your free to pick another provider you have two alternatives at least. Google looks to trying to avoid such fragmentation for the most part servicing a customer is a fixed cost.
How about openID it can be whatever you want based. There is no global single point of failure as people can stand up there own openid site and any site that accepts openid can use it. The only thing saved on the end site is your openid url these can be many to one and/or specific to a given site. Pretty much you can add as much complexity as you want on your server or find somebody to do so for you.
And if it's google, yahoo, aol or a pile of others they can be used as OpenID. Right now it's pretty much facebook as the holdout as they want all that juicy data. OpenID is the only one in the mix that lets you be in control you can host it on your own site add multipart authentication to it and generally be assured of it's safety as it's completely under your control (as much as anything that relies on DNS is).
Avoiding a tap requires spy levels of diligence like never using the same end points twice. As monitoring communications becomes more and more prevalent avoiding the tap becomes problematic so insuring they can not decipher the information in a reasonable time frame or track end points becomes more and more important.
I would have to disagree. I can insure that my communication is not tapped between me and other parties even going through third parties. This is the basis of public key crypto. The third party can still track who I communicated with but not what was said. Tor and similar systems are meant to take care of that (if your seriously paranoid systems to connect two parties have existed since well before the modern computer).
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If it's illegal go to the cops file a report. Sexual harassment is a specific crime that none of this would seem to fall under (yes corner cases of people working there etc). My point is if you extend sexual harassment to be illegal everywhere you can effectively never attempt to have sexual congress. Holding public places up to the standard of the workplace is unworkable. Requiring that you somehow get approval to make sexual advances without making a sexual advance is unworkable as the question itself is a sexual advance. Why would a person go to a social gathering and expect to be subjected to sexual advances? It's an entitlement to make sexual advances? People have sex it happens rather often they meet at these social gatherings.
I'm not attempting to excuse the groping that's a pretty clear case of somebody going over the line. I am saying that as mammals you do have to expect that in social situations people will make advances of a sexual nature, the instinct to breed is pretty well ingrained. Sexual harassment is an attempt to move these natural behaviors out of the workplace and away from teachers and students, in an attempt to not let a person in power use it to there advantage or have a person use sex to gain it. It is not some code of conduct that should be required everywhere. I'm not offended when at a party or bar when somebody comes up to me and flirts the tackle hug from a woman I barely know. If your that thin skinned that any form of sexual advance is scary to you I would suggest seeking help and staying out of polite society until you have overcome this phobia but in any event do not attempt to bend the world to your phobia. As long as people are staying within the law it should not be a cons or any other social gatherings responsibility to enforce a higher standard of decorum.
I make no attempt to defend the groper, male female or whatever gender they choose to align themselves with. I do defend the right of people to make sexual advances in social situations. If we were to remove it, we remove a major avenue of people to connect with each other. Lest we all be forced to sterile internet dating sites where your matched like lab rats, or forced to revert to primary school tactics of asking jim to ask sue if tina likes you.
The article described would fall under at most sexual abuse the undesired touching of a sexual nature. Some of the rest might be rude but not illegal a guy asking a woman to show him her tits. A man the grabbed a woman's hips in a crowded party seems very situation dependent. I drunkard attempting to lick a shoulder is in base taste but when have drunkards been in good taste. The only thing listed that fell outside of bounds would be the inappropriate touching. Is it all juvenile behavioral sure, but none of it was sexual harassment that's specifically for workplaces and education that takes federal money. Seems like your putting a lot of socially inept people together people are going to fail miserably at expressing themselves. But requiring a con the standard of the workplace you saying that at neither at work or in social settings may somebody make an unwelcome sexual advance. Do we need special sexual advance zones with trained technical staff and therapists standing by so that one personal can express a desire commit an act that predates our species? Lets face it go to a crowded pickup bar either gender expects some might even hope to have sexual advances made. The unwanted groping is over the line go talk to the cops not the con same as you would do at a bar, mall, or grocery store. Want a horror story's talk to the booth babes at your average trade show, and that is sexual harassment at the workplace.
Nope brandy spanking new java apps with a latest and greatest auto downloaded java 7 something. Just a few weeks back got one of those fun update java and went from a working app that's is only a few months old to a non working app also took out a several years old app with the same update.
This is especially fun when the java app runs out of firmware with no other method of configuring the device and the device maker has no plants to fix it. Keeping that odd vm around with some specific version of java just to be able to configure a device is so much fun. Honestly it's getting as bad as having to keep some old version of IE installed to get some web app to work.
If only idiots and kids write bad java code as you say and java code from large corps is nearly universally bad as has been my experience then union of those two statements would be that large corps seems to only employ idiots and kids to write there managements apps. The truly bad part is for some of the apps I can see no reason for the java app vs a well written web app.
From my experience those developers are the majority of business java dev's it would seem. Honestly the platform is broken by the fact the super secret only work here bits existed in the first place. Functionally the java apps should know what versions and extensions they require to run and have the launcher use them or go download the required version.
Guess what I'm not coding for it just using apps from major corps. Those fun management apps that on some kit you must use as the cli will only setup basic ip settings, any real config requires some java monstrosity. Just a few weeks back a java update broke some buttons on the latest supermicro ipkvm java app and the cisco asdm launcher (though the web launched versions works). I would not call cisco some fly by night company.
Primarily with those java management apps related to networking kit. You know those things that are embedded in firmware and sometimes the only way to do more than get an IP on the box to get to said java nightmare. I've had the issues as recent as a few weeks ago when a java update stopped some dialog boxes from working on a supermicro ipkvm java app. Same update killed all my ASDM java apps for working with CIsco ASA's (though it still works as a web app for whatever reasons)
You must run some VERY different apps than I do. Every management app I've used seems to be tied to different versions of java everything for ui glitches though plain just not working.
Last I checked java was the biggest pita in things not running unless they were using the specific version of java they were coded for. Now your telling me you can have arbitrary java code compiled to cuda seems far fetched when it can hardly handle going from x.y.z to x.y.z+1 without breaking
If you only can afford one rifle a semi auto fills all roles not so well.
Actualy the hosting provider is only required to take down properly formatted DMCA requests. With few exceptions this can never be a whole site. So in this case they would need to have lined to books they have control over the copyright. Now it sounds like he screwed up and did not file counter claim for each and every inbound take down notice. He should be suing everybody that sent these DMCA notices. His provider probably has it covered in his tos the DMCA is weak in allowing you to get out of liability via contract but lets face it this was one sided legislation.
In this case it also sounds like he is hosting none of it so his risk is very low, it's not reasonable to expect that a large company like amazon of B&N are allowing copyright infringement.
Try and get a wet behind the ears 20 something to learn x86 assembler well enough to do inline assembly optimization better than the compiler. Most cry like a stuck pig. Far to many programmers think that throwing some business logic around a pile of libraries constitutes coding.
Adopting java over what? If it's C they should stick with it at this point C is the mother of most modern programming languages. University level should not be a trade school, C teaches all the the constructs and all of the power. Java is a subset of C at best and hides a lot of complexity that a programmer needs to understand.
Na all those home connections will still be blocking ports and disallowing server via TOS.
As far as the TSA he can stop it any time he wants, Ultimately congress has only the power of the purse and to impeach when dealing with the executive. Sure they can defund anything else they can override his veto on. But all it takes is his signature to stop the TSA in it's tracts they work for him and him alone. I doubt he wants to go anywhere near this in an election year.
They could but they are generally given in very narrow terms often with huge payments. The payments eat up anything they might get buy suing and since the term is limited with a pile of conditions the rights are pretty much useless. There are rules to try and get around this but they can be worked around. The fix requires them putting up a bond to cover the potential amount but that effectively blocks the little guy from ever suing or giving the judges leeway to alter contracts and make investors responsible for what those companies do.
NA they will just form companies for the purpose of bringing the suit assign the rights to the company in a very specific way and have no downside. Forming a corp only cost a few hundred bucks after all.
The "war" on drugs makes you feel safer? In the 30 years or so that I remember of it I've felt less and less safe as drug dealers get more militant and violent The police have gotten far more violet to match but they inflict that on everyone while they retreat behind more layers of protection.
Intercept what passwords? It's a 3 way system the site your going to, you and the site your running auth on. At worst you password ever goes from you to the site your running auth on. You do not need to use passwords and are free to use whatever methods you like. I use a OTP as part of the authentication so my password is useless in the long term and I authenticate with a client side browser key. Exposure to phishing might be a login perhaps a session if they can keep a session open to repeat the client key authentication. Seems like a lot of work getting a root key into my browser or getting one issued from a legit CA, misdirecting the first auth attempt I make in a newly opened browser (else it would not prompt for my password/OTP). Granted if somebody takes over the auth server they can try and guess your account name at sites and make the server authenticate them. The auth server is doing one task and is completely under my own control I view as a much smaller target than a complex web site. Might be easier to take over one of my PC's and just use the existing auth session and saved passwords and that does not seem to be a specific vulnerability to OpenID.
Your free to pick another provider you have two alternatives at least. Google looks to trying to avoid such fragmentation for the most part servicing a customer is a fixed cost.
I did not see any mention of it will it be supported from day one?
How about openID it can be whatever you want based. There is no global single point of failure as people can stand up there own openid site and any site that accepts openid can use it. The only thing saved on the end site is your openid url these can be many to one and/or specific to a given site. Pretty much you can add as much complexity as you want on your server or find somebody to do so for you.
And if it's google, yahoo, aol or a pile of others they can be used as OpenID. Right now it's pretty much facebook as the holdout as they want all that juicy data. OpenID is the only one in the mix that lets you be in control you can host it on your own site add multipart authentication to it and generally be assured of it's safety as it's completely under your control (as much as anything that relies on DNS is).
Avoiding a tap requires spy levels of diligence like never using the same end points twice. As monitoring communications becomes more and more prevalent avoiding the tap becomes problematic so insuring they can not decipher the information in a reasonable time frame or track end points becomes more and more important.
I would have to disagree. I can insure that my communication is not tapped between me and other parties even going through third parties. This is the basis of public key crypto. The third party can still track who I communicated with but not what was said. Tor and similar systems are meant to take care of that (if your seriously paranoid systems to connect two parties have existed since well before the modern computer).