Who issues the tickets? Under whose authority? Lazy/cheap businesses will just shop around for juristdictions where it's cheaper to operate, no matter what.
Why not just do a name-and-shame, naming businesses and vulnerable services -- but only after the postmaster of the opening domain, or WHOIS domain owner gets notified first. I'm sure that such a list would concentrate minds wonderfully...
I continue to be disgusted by people who keep apologising for this vile individual.
Snowden's treachery inflicted a massive strategic defeat on the West. Our enemies are laughing their asses off, and using the damage Snowden caused to defeat us and roll back our influence all over the world, at every turn. And you libertoons think this is a good thing?
Note that the Swiss proposal is a tax on INCOME, *not* wealth.
Of all the ills of runaway Brazilification of the West and galloping inequality, disparities of income are not the same as disparities in net assets (e.g. wealth). This proposal does not touch wealth. Most rich people don't make most of their money in income (that's for the merely-comfortable); they make it through things like dividends and capital gains.
I doubt, if put into place, it'll move minimum wages much; the modern large company is really a feudal structure, where the lords take most of the loot, and the great unwashed masses make very little. That said, if the peons get comparatively tiny bit more, then that'll push some businesses over the edge.
The wannabes and corporate climbers at the top won't welcome pay restraint, as won't the doctrinaire right-wingers; long-suffering shareholders certainly will, since it's not unheard of, of the C-suite parasites to rape companies to death through anything ranging from excessive perks to full-blown control fraud.
Randroids will just hate this proposal, because they think that's what the boss-class are against.
Interesting idea. Put a price floor for antibiotics to force them to be too expensive to tip into animal feed, and give pharmaceutical companies more of an incentive to beef up with drug discovery pipelines. Trouble here, which lobby group has more clout? Big Agriculture, Big Pharma, or all the people out there who hate Big Pharma?
Having hundreds, or even thousands of micro-distractions chipping away at your attention span is crap for productivity, crap for morale, crap for stress. Anybody seriously advocating for it needs to be falcon-punched.
It's a wonder that so many people are using the built-in set top boxes in their so-called smart TVs.
The user interfaces are invariably shit (especially so for any software designed in the far East). And you're stuck with whatever badly designed, misconceived bollocks they force upon you. It's the Sony shit-on-your-paying-customers way of doing things.
Anyway, the whole world is (or should be) treating large displays like TVs as monitors, which screens media pushed from the internet via other devices in your house. DLNA and Chromecast are the way of the future, not built-in TV set top pox.
Putin has journalists murdered and protesters beaten up and thrown in the gulag. Putin also has a hell of a lot of blood on his hands from the Second Chechan War.
The difference here, is that the Kremlin does all these bad things and more, but has a very thick skin.
The West can be shamed and this has always been the case (that's why Gandhi's nonviolent tactics worked in India). Russia is utterly shameless in anything to do with human rights or freedom.
Putin and his nationalist thug buddies are just reaching for another opportunity to turkey-slap the West in the wake of the West's embarrassment after Ed Snowden's Guardian bum-buddies' appalling act of political sabotage. Putin has been handed a massive propaganda coup and is milking it for all its worth.
It's a deliberate, calculated insult, given that the US has no GPS ground stations on Russian soil, and have no prospect of building any.
The Kremlin will be quietly TTFO and that'll be the end of it. Hopefully a non-story.
I must be retarded, because if this is an act of political genius by Snowden and his contemptible band of homosexual compulsive Judases, I fail to see it.
I have been wrong the whole time. After being modded down into a smoking hole in the ground on slashdot, I have seen the light. Snowden and his fellow travellers actually DO know better than everyone else about diplomatic and foreign policy than all the people who spend their entire lives keeping us safe from the hordes of criminals, Islamists and angry poor people out there. I have seen the errors of my ways. Obviously, any kind of government secrecy is the thin end of the wedge to Stalinism and tyranny.
Had ambitions to get one to sling video from a home server to the telly, but not sure if it'll actually do the job anywhere near as well as a click'n'drool set top box from the likes of Logitech, even taking into account the good price and openness.
Apparently, the firmware in baseband processors don't get updated a lot because of certification requirements, vendor laziness, etc, and certain well-funded attackers have swags of exploits for phones that can crack phones from over-the-air through the baseband processor itself.
I learnt recently that these baseband processors are controlled over a serial connection, and talk old-school Hayes AT commands.
So if this is true, then it should be reasonably easy for hobbyists to buy baseband processors off the shelf and interface them to microcontrollers or Arduino or whatever fairly easily, and get instant Wi-fi/Bluetooth/cellular data support?
That sounds like a compelling justification for the West to smooth things over with Iran then.
I wonder what happens to Israel then... are the Likud and other rightwing parties now so feral, that America would throw them under the bus and not care?
If it's all about access to the European gas market, then how do we explain the Russia-shia axis then?
Isn't there a contradiction between Russia playing 19th-century power politics with access to Tarsus, preserving Gazprom's market power, preserving the 'oil weapon', and countering Sunni jihadism?
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Explanation is simple. The surveillance isn't anywhere near as effective as the tinfoil-hatters that infest these boards think it is.
I wish I had the time and inclination to do a proper rebuttal, but I doubt that you (AC) are worth my time.
I'll just say this: you're fucking nuts and you're making shit up.
Who issues the tickets? Under whose authority? Lazy/cheap businesses will just shop around for juristdictions where it's cheaper to operate, no matter what.
Why not just do a name-and-shame, naming businesses and vulnerable services -- but only after the postmaster of the opening domain, or WHOIS domain owner gets notified first. I'm sure that such a list would concentrate minds wonderfully...
Some geeks REALLY need to get out and get laid...
I continue to be disgusted by people who keep apologising for this vile individual.
Snowden's treachery inflicted a massive strategic defeat on the West. Our enemies are laughing their asses off, and using the damage Snowden caused to defeat us and roll back our influence all over the world, at every turn. And you libertoons think this is a good thing?
You're a class act, AC.
Note that the Swiss proposal is a tax on INCOME, *not* wealth.
Of all the ills of runaway Brazilification of the West and galloping inequality, disparities of income are not the same as disparities in net assets (e.g. wealth). This proposal does not touch wealth. Most rich people don't make most of their money in income (that's for the merely-comfortable); they make it through things like dividends and capital gains.
I doubt, if put into place, it'll move minimum wages much; the modern large company is really a feudal structure, where the lords take most of the loot, and the great unwashed masses make very little. That said, if the peons get comparatively tiny bit more, then that'll push some businesses over the edge.
The wannabes and corporate climbers at the top won't welcome pay restraint, as won't the doctrinaire right-wingers; long-suffering shareholders certainly will, since it's not unheard of, of the C-suite parasites to rape companies to death through anything ranging from excessive perks to full-blown control fraud.
Randroids will just hate this proposal, because they think that's what the boss-class are against.
Interesting idea. Put a price floor for antibiotics to force them to be too expensive to tip into animal feed, and give pharmaceutical companies more of an incentive to beef up with drug discovery pipelines. Trouble here, which lobby group has more clout? Big Agriculture, Big Pharma, or all the people out there who hate Big Pharma?
... as opposed to the lowest (private sector) bidder. Great choice.
It's interesting for what it implies:
Stealing personal data is easy and cheap. Cashing out certainly isn't, and is where banks' "defence in depth" security strategy pays off.
Fuckin' hate them with a passion.
Having hundreds, or even thousands of micro-distractions chipping away at your attention span is crap for productivity, crap for morale, crap for stress. Anybody seriously advocating for it needs to be falcon-punched.
Every complex ecosystem has parasites and bottom-feeders. The internet and Wikipedia is no different.
I wish them luck in shutting these guys down.
It's a wonder that so many people are using the built-in set top boxes in their so-called smart TVs.
The user interfaces are invariably shit (especially so for any software designed in the far East). And you're stuck with whatever badly designed, misconceived bollocks they force upon you. It's the Sony shit-on-your-paying-customers way of doing things.
Anyway, the whole world is (or should be) treating large displays like TVs as monitors, which screens media pushed from the internet via other devices in your house. DLNA and Chromecast are the way of the future, not built-in TV set top pox.
... is good for the gander.
They should be challenged on why they think that mass surveillance and law enforcement overreach is okay for us, but not them.
Putin has journalists murdered and protesters beaten up and thrown in the gulag. Putin also has a hell of a lot of blood on his hands from the Second Chechan War.
The difference here, is that the Kremlin does all these bad things and more, but has a very thick skin.
The West can be shamed and this has always been the case (that's why Gandhi's nonviolent tactics worked in India). Russia is utterly shameless in anything to do with human rights or freedom.
Although those subduction zones move about as fast as human fingernails grow.
Putin and his nationalist thug buddies are just reaching for another opportunity to turkey-slap the West in the wake of the West's embarrassment after Ed Snowden's Guardian bum-buddies' appalling act of political sabotage. Putin has been handed a massive propaganda coup and is milking it for all its worth.
It's a deliberate, calculated insult, given that the US has no GPS ground stations on Russian soil, and have no prospect of building any.
The Kremlin will be quietly TTFO and that'll be the end of it. Hopefully a non-story.
Exhibit A:
http://www.theage.com.au/world/indonesia-recalls-ambassador-to-australia-over-spying-claim-20131118-2xr5x.html
I must be retarded, because if this is an act of political genius by Snowden and his contemptible band of homosexual compulsive Judases, I fail to see it.
I have been wrong the whole time. After being modded down into a smoking hole in the ground on slashdot, I have seen the light. Snowden and his fellow travellers actually DO know better than everyone else about diplomatic and foreign policy than all the people who spend their entire lives keeping us safe from the hordes of criminals, Islamists and angry poor people out there. I have seen the errors of my ways. Obviously, any kind of government secrecy is the thin end of the wedge to Stalinism and tyranny.
Had ambitions to get one to sling video from a home server to the telly, but not sure if it'll actually do the job anywhere near as well as a click'n'drool set top box from the likes of Logitech, even taking into account the good price and openness.
Baseband hacking article: "Baseband Hacking: A New Frontier for Smartphone Break-Ins"
http://readwrite.com/2011/01/18/baseband_hacking_a_new_frontier_for_smartphone_break_ins#awesm=~on54yB5zHMVt93
Apparently, the firmware in baseband processors don't get updated a lot because of certification requirements, vendor laziness, etc, and certain well-funded attackers have swags of exploits for phones that can crack phones from over-the-air through the baseband processor itself.
I learnt recently that these baseband processors are controlled over a serial connection, and talk old-school Hayes AT commands.
So if this is true, then it should be reasonably easy for hobbyists to buy baseband processors off the shelf and interface them to microcontrollers or Arduino or whatever fairly easily, and get instant Wi-fi/Bluetooth/cellular data support?
That sounds like a compelling justification for the West to smooth things over with Iran then.
I wonder what happens to Israel then... are the Likud and other rightwing parties now so feral, that America would throw them under the bus and not care?
If it's all about access to the European gas market, then how do we explain the Russia-shia axis then?
Isn't there a contradiction between Russia playing 19th-century power politics with access to Tarsus, preserving Gazprom's market power, preserving the 'oil weapon', and countering Sunni jihadism?
This sounds really neat. Does it scale up? And does it have to burn just wood?