What makes you think the price you paid for the property included those rights?
If you wanted a clown house you would have no problem buying some remote property or pay extra for a place that allows such so that no one would complain. Until then what you are buying is property sold with the conditions as stated by city ordinances.
This is _NOT_ a problem with social security numbers (or national identification numbers). What this is about is the lack of strict regulation on their use and proper oversight.
If you can open a bank account just by having the information that is on a passport the there's a failure in procedure here, not an intrinsic security risk with national identification numbers. That is to say; any procedure that uses information found on a passport to authenticate that you are who you claim to be are relying on security through obscurity.
The online banks that were tested in the article failed and I'm surprised they haven't been slapped silly by government regulators for lax security. (They would be in norway, which has had NIN since 1960's)
One of the biggest disservices we can do to the cause is to talk of doom scenarios. The planet isn't heading for doom, nor are we, even if there was a 5-10C temperature increase.
The economy might be fucked and hunger might kill of large portions of the human race... But that's not the same as being doomed.
The last article is bollocks since not only is the gear also fly-by-wire, but there's also witness reports of the care being set in neutral/reverse with no effect.
Good luck getting any money from Toyota or your insurance company if you _don't_ take that update.
Besides, there's not 100 million lines of code in _that_ particular part, they won't be updating your blinkenlights firmware and such at the same time.
There are a few more Member States heading the same way, yes.
On the short term you can probably say it hurts the EU to be so reluctant to help Greece due to the fear investors have for those other countries to also default with no help. Yet a few of those countries are actually to a degree relying on the safety net they think are there in order to avoid unpopular political decisions.
The EU as a whole will not benefit from such a situation, and is likely better served with making an example of Greece despite the short-term damage it will do. This does however not mean the EU should let those countries go bankrupt.
When the IMF gets involved they make some rather extensive demands on the country receiving the money, which due to political reasons the rich EU member states would have a harder time making. So in some ways it is better for them to stall until Greece has no choice but to turn to IMF for help. Despite the blow to the European Project image, this is more of a concern for those who are overly concerned with saving face.
What makes you think they have failed to agree on the case of Greece?
Not only did Greece cook the books to a degree that only Italy can match, but they also have a huge public sector and pension burden together with a very corrupt system. The damage to the EU if they were to just go in and rescue Greece to 'save' the Euro would be a huge liability that would lead to similar cases happening again.
No, more likely they are agreeing to fail to agree because Greece needs to be kicked into fixing their system. (not to mention that stand is popular amongst the masses despite any depreciation of the Euro)
No... they only said they activated the software on 'missing' laptops. And they can say _any_ laptop that isn't on school grounds is missing cause the rules said they were not supposed to be brought home.
All I was asking that the summary be more clear as to how much these things cost. It sounds blatantly one sided.
So you're comparing the price per unit of a well-established technology with high sales volume with that of a newer one... And then you're surprised the new one is more expensive to purchase?
There is a condition known as "hypothyroidism". There are many causes; in my case it was an auto-immune disease known as "Grave's Disease". It caused my body to attack my own thyroid gland - a gland in the neck that secretes thyroid hormone, which controls most of a person's metabolism.
Yes, it seems the US has had a pandemic of 'hypothyroidism' the last few decades. I wonder if it is contagious.
If they are experts in the field and have a large userbase testing the patches, are you not perhaps suffering from a slight spell of HUBRIS in thinking you can do better?
And who is to say you can't do QA before applying?
We have computers that can keep track of those variables, and what lacks then is just a business model. And the one that is being invested heavily in (above link) is that of renting the batteries, while owning the car.
Swapping out the batteries is faster (according to the live tests) than filling your tank. You won't get any duds as they will likely be caught during charging at the station, and even if it were to happen you can just exchange it later. (It's rented, after all)
We are in fact rather suspicious of data storage and in favor of privacy protection, right now for example there's a debate on EUs data storage directive.
People in the US think they're so advanced when it comes to privacy protection that they become blind towards what real privacy means in this century. While they are raging against the government surveillance boogyman private companies are trading between themselves databases of their names, addresses, SSNs, phone numbers, family, shopping habits, color of their underwear and what not with no restrictions.
Ok... I'm not saying the government should have free reign to build databases on its citizens. Yet what you Americans seem to forget is that the same needs to apply to private companies, especially since fraud and misuse of information is more likely to happen due to leaks of information from unregulated private companies.
The storage of the information in the parent post is tightly regulated in Norway by the Data Inspectorate. You need special dispensation in the law to be allowed to store such sensitive information, and it doesn't matter if you're a private company or governmental organization. And storing information you strictly don't need or having lax security means they'll demand answers or else.
You guys can keep that paranoia of governments for your selves.
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What makes you think the price you paid for the property included those rights?
If you wanted a clown house you would have no problem buying some remote property or pay extra for a place that allows such so that no one would complain. Until then what you are buying is property sold with the conditions as stated by city ordinances.
This is _NOT_ a problem with social security numbers (or national identification numbers). What this is about is the lack of strict regulation on their use and proper oversight.
If you can open a bank account just by having the information that is on a passport the there's a failure in procedure here, not an intrinsic security risk with national identification numbers. That is to say; any procedure that uses information found on a passport to authenticate that you are who you claim to be are relying on security through obscurity.
The online banks that were tested in the article failed and I'm surprised they haven't been slapped silly by government regulators for lax security. (They would be in norway, which has had NIN since 1960's)
Of course he gives a dishonest summary... He is after all a lawyer. That's pretty much his job.
One of the biggest disservices we can do to the cause is to talk of doom scenarios. The planet isn't heading for doom, nor are we, even if there was a 5-10C temperature increase.
The economy might be fucked and hunger might kill of large portions of the human race... But that's not the same as being doomed.
We have 6-7 billion people and constantly make more than we can handle. While there's probably only a handful of those rather expensive mirrors.
The last article is bollocks since not only is the gear also fly-by-wire, but there's also witness reports of the care being set in neutral/reverse with no effect.
Good luck getting any money from Toyota or your insurance company if you _don't_ take that update.
Besides, there's not 100 million lines of code in _that_ particular part, they won't be updating your blinkenlights firmware and such at the same time.
Big Corporation: have a nice entertaining trip with our lobbyists while you think about our point of view
Open Source Advocate: Hey! Wait!
Open Source Advocate: Use our open source programs and I'll blow you!
There are a few more Member States heading the same way, yes.
On the short term you can probably say it hurts the EU to be so reluctant to help Greece due to the fear investors have for those other countries to also default with no help. Yet a few of those countries are actually to a degree relying on the safety net they think are there in order to avoid unpopular political decisions.
The EU as a whole will not benefit from such a situation, and is likely better served with making an example of Greece despite the short-term damage it will do. This does however not mean the EU should let those countries go bankrupt.
When the IMF gets involved they make some rather extensive demands on the country receiving the money, which due to political reasons the rich EU member states would have a harder time making. So in some ways it is better for them to stall until Greece has no choice but to turn to IMF for help. Despite the blow to the European Project image, this is more of a concern for those who are overly concerned with saving face.
What makes you think they have failed to agree on the case of Greece?
Not only did Greece cook the books to a degree that only Italy can match, but they also have a huge public sector and pension burden together with a very corrupt system. The damage to the EU if they were to just go in and rescue Greece to 'save' the Euro would be a huge liability that would lead to similar cases happening again.
No, more likely they are agreeing to fail to agree because Greece needs to be kicked into fixing their system. (not to mention that stand is popular amongst the masses despite any depreciation of the Euro)
I left it to chance and look what it got me!
No... they only said they activated the software on 'missing' laptops. And they can say _any_ laptop that isn't on school grounds is missing cause the rules said they were not supposed to be brought home.
All I was asking that the summary be more clear as to how much these things cost. It sounds blatantly one sided.
So you're comparing the price per unit of a well-established technology with high sales volume with that of a newer one... And then you're surprised the new one is more expensive to purchase?
There is a condition known as "hypothyroidism". There are many causes; in my case it was an auto-immune disease known as "Grave's Disease". It caused my body to attack my own thyroid gland - a gland in the neck that secretes thyroid hormone, which controls most of a person's metabolism.
Yes, it seems the US has had a pandemic of 'hypothyroidism' the last few decades. I wonder if it is contagious.
No... Most of the fat ones aren't geeks. They're nerds.
Of course he will ignore DMCA takedowns, they are not within US jurisdiction.
Besides, in Scandinavia we don't follow "common sense law". We are quite unreasonable people.
I thought all geeks would celebrate the death of Flash.
And now we have a device as high-profile being released that doesn't have Flash.
So we are now celebra^W... whining?
It's not like the US wants to be part of the modern world (read: SWIFT) anyway... WTF is that $20 charge for transferring money?
If they are experts in the field and have a large userbase testing the patches, are you not perhaps suffering from a slight spell of HUBRIS in thinking you can do better?
And who is to say you can't do QA before applying?
http://www.economist.com/businessfinance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15464481
We have computers that can keep track of those variables, and what lacks then is just a business model. And the one that is being invested heavily in (above link) is that of renting the batteries, while owning the car.
Swapping out the batteries is faster (according to the live tests) than filling your tank. You won't get any duds as they will likely be caught during charging at the station, and even if it were to happen you can just exchange it later. (It's rented, after all)
Speak for yourself. This valentine's day I'm giving flowers and chocolate to my beloved Rinko-chan.
Language is amazing thing, isn't it?
I spend most of my days in various professional recording studios video production houses and you see a lot fewer Macs than you used to.
Funny, all the IT professionals and programmers I meet seem to be using MacBooks these days.
You forgot to mention Mac OS X and iPhone.
Wait, what?
We are in fact rather suspicious of data storage and in favor of privacy protection, right now for example there's a debate on EUs data storage directive.
People in the US think they're so advanced when it comes to privacy protection that they become blind towards what real privacy means in this century. While they are raging against the government surveillance boogyman private companies are trading between themselves databases of their names, addresses, SSNs, phone numbers, family, shopping habits, color of their underwear and what not with no restrictions.
Ok... I'm not saying the government should have free reign to build databases on its citizens. Yet what you Americans seem to forget is that the same needs to apply to private companies, especially since fraud and misuse of information is more likely to happen due to leaks of information from unregulated private companies.
The storage of the information in the parent post is tightly regulated in Norway by the Data Inspectorate. You need special dispensation in the law to be allowed to store such sensitive information, and it doesn't matter if you're a private company or governmental organization. And storing information you strictly don't need or having lax security means they'll demand answers or else.
You guys can keep that paranoia of governments for your selves.