Well... Usually when you will be forced to pay three houses to have one as goes on here (ludicrous interest rates, "taxes", even plain fraud), it is best not to take the trouble of trying to buy a house.
Have to disagree, sorry. Better to pay X (including interest) to buy a home and have something at the end of the term vs. pay X in rent and have nothing at the end of the same term.
Other than buying Nexus devices, the best way to 'secure' an Android phone appears to be to keep nothing of value on it.
I'm considering returning a Marshall phone I just bought because (a) it's still vulnerable to Stagefreight even though it's a phone that was brought to market within the last thirty days and (b) I have zero confidence that updates will ever make this a reasonably secure phone.
A shame really as I like the phone and the sound quality is better than any other phone.
I'm kinda on the fence with regards to how I feel about this. One one hand, the banks are doing some shady stuff and directly trying to set people up for financial disaster for their own benefit. On the other hand, they arn't forcing people to use their credit cards beyond their means. Personally I've managed to never pay interest on any of mine. I guess it's gotta be a middle ground. Much as I hate nanny-state type stuff, I feel like this is one area we may need the government to come in and save people from themselves by restricting how much credit a person can hold based on income or something.
Shady indeed. Missing a single payment (due to a bank clerk error, not mine) and Chase upped my interest rate from almost nothing to 30%...which is evidently illegal in NY, if this site is accurate http://www.lectlaw.com/files/b... and yet they do it anyway.
I paid the fee for missing a payment and closed the account so for me impact was limited but for people caught in the trap 30% is, to say the least, abusive.
Although my understanding is imperfect as I'm a transplant to this country, my understanding of the way it works here in France is that banks, et. al. can lend you as much as they choose to but they can't collect debt that you can't pay if they've loaned you more than you can pay back with 30% of your income. End result is that the banks balk at lending that exceeds that 30% soft limit.
Sure, but maybe those politicians should have realized that in an open environment they're not exactly ideal candidates to begin with. Or they can hope that those who don't care outnumber those who do. They can just hire a pollster to find out before taking the plunge.
But wouldn't any politician, even if they don't care, and even if they are ahead in the polls before being doxxed, be vulnerable to the doxxing just the same?
To not care, they'd have to not care about votes = not care about winning the election. I don't think such politicians exist:-)
Having had a little more time, all the mayors named have denied it, and it died there with that, but I've still not seen a senator deny it. Why wouldn't they deny it if it isn't true?
Because to deny the KKK would be to lose white racist votes?
Not saying that is the case, just saying it's a possible reason for a politician.
There's a simple counter-measure - don't be ashamed of anything you do. Kind of hard to exert pressure on someone by revealing their personal stuff if they don't give a sh*t.
It would still be effective against politicians who need the votes of people who do give a shit.
4 US senators named so far, yet no denials or complaints by the senators in question yet. If this was fake, why wouldn't someone whose name is on it expose it as a fake?
No doubt they feel caught between the iron and the board.
During the 1960s college and university campuses were the birth places of free speech for students. Times have certainly changed with students demanding censorship.
Where did you get that this was the students making the demand because I don't see that anywhere in TFA.
"I recently spoke with the CIO of an Ivy League institution who told me they have a firing problem, not a hiring problem. I've spoken with large organizations that have huge staffs, and they worry that they can’t move fast enough to adopt the technology they need because the new IT talent doesn’t want to work on the old stuff, and the old talent doesn’t understand the new stuff."
Well fuck that Ivy League CIO - train your 'old' people in the 'new' tech and you won't have to fire them.
Developers "Won't be forced" because they will otherwise be motivated (i.e. what just happened in the US where telcos get immunized against lawsuits in exchange for providing customers' private data to the Feds).
Incidentally, I lost someone who was like a father to me due to VA incompetence. The family not being able to sue them afterward reiterates the need for accountability.
As I mentioned earlier - until you fix the root causes (which I see as gross incompetence and lack of accountability at all levels of government), you will have no workable solution be it public or private.
The problem is that there is no accountability for the false advertising that is political campaigning.
Of course there is. It's called "votes in Congress". Pay better attention.
Ineffective, to say the least.
They get it, do what they want and using your solution worst case is they get voted out. So what. Damage already done and they don't have any actual penalty to pay for it.
Try not to be obnoxious when you post. It does nothing useful.
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Well... Usually when you will be forced to pay three houses to have one as goes on here (ludicrous interest rates, "taxes", even plain fraud), it is best not to take the trouble of trying to buy a house.
Have to disagree, sorry. Better to pay X (including interest) to buy a home and have something at the end of the term vs. pay X in rent and have nothing at the end of the same term.
Other than buying Nexus devices, the best way to 'secure' an Android phone appears to be to keep nothing of value on it.
I'm considering returning a Marshall phone I just bought because (a) it's still vulnerable to Stagefreight even though it's a phone that was brought to market within the last thirty days and (b) I have zero confidence that updates will ever make this a reasonably secure phone.
A shame really as I like the phone and the sound quality is better than any other phone.
The only winning move is not to play.
Which makes it difficult to buy your own home if you're not independently wealthy.
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I'm kinda on the fence with regards to how I feel about this. One one hand, the banks are doing some shady stuff and directly trying to set people up for financial disaster for their own benefit. On the other hand, they arn't forcing people to use their credit cards beyond their means. Personally I've managed to never pay interest on any of mine. I guess it's gotta be a middle ground. Much as I hate nanny-state type stuff, I feel like this is one area we may need the government to come in and save people from themselves by restricting how much credit a person can hold based on income or something.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Shady indeed. Missing a single payment (due to a bank clerk error, not mine) and Chase upped my interest rate from almost nothing to 30%...which is evidently illegal in NY, if this site is accurate http://www.lectlaw.com/files/b... and yet they do it anyway.
I paid the fee for missing a payment and closed the account so for me impact was limited but for people caught in the trap 30% is, to say the least, abusive.
Although my understanding is imperfect as I'm a transplant to this country, my understanding of the way it works here in France is that banks, et. al. can lend you as much as they choose to but they can't collect debt that you can't pay if they've loaned you more than you can pay back with 30% of your income. End result is that the banks balk at lending that exceeds that 30% soft limit.
Sure, but maybe those politicians should have realized that in an open environment they're not exactly ideal candidates to begin with. Or they can hope that those who don't care outnumber those who do. They can just hire a pollster to find out before taking the plunge.
But wouldn't any politician, even if they don't care, and even if they are ahead in the polls before being doxxed, be vulnerable to the doxxing just the same?
To not care, they'd have to not care about votes = not care about winning the election. I don't think such politicians exist :-)
Having had a little more time, all the mayors named have denied it, and it died there with that, but I've still not seen a senator deny it. Why wouldn't they deny it if it isn't true?
Because to deny the KKK would be to lose white racist votes?
Not saying that is the case, just saying it's a possible reason for a politician.
I wonder, could this law protect us against the telco 5G that is going to come and squash our wifi?
There's a simple counter-measure - don't be ashamed of anything you do. Kind of hard to exert pressure on someone by revealing their personal stuff if they don't give a sh*t.
It would still be effective against politicians who need the votes of people who do give a shit.
But when was the last time any of that happened?
It'll be interesting to see if any of the cops that killed blacks recently are on the list.
http://www.politicususa.com/20...
4 US senators named so far, yet no denials or complaints by the senators in question yet. If this was fake, why wouldn't someone whose name is on it expose it as a fake?
No doubt they feel caught between the iron and the board.
"but that's a fairly dirty way to go about it."
Are you really surprised?
This is just stupid anyway.
If you make unregistered drones a crime...only criminals will have unregistered drones.
The Land of the Free strikes again!
Where's TFA?
For those of you attacking the technical viability of this, I suggest that reality is beside the point.
The summary already has the real reason:
"Partially funded by a multi-million dollar DOE grant"
During the 1960s college and university campuses were the birth places of free speech for students. Times have certainly changed with students demanding censorship.
Where did you get that this was the students making the demand because I don't see that anywhere in TFA.
Nice. How novel is that? As ugly as a cold sore is, how preferential it might be to eminent death...
Depends - are we talking about a teenager?
"I recently spoke with the CIO of an Ivy League institution who told me they have a firing problem, not a hiring problem. I've spoken with large organizations that have huge staffs, and they worry that they can’t move fast enough to adopt the technology they need because the new IT talent doesn’t want to work on the old stuff, and the old talent doesn’t understand the new stuff."
Well fuck that Ivy League CIO - train your 'old' people in the 'new' tech and you won't have to fire them.
Asshole.
Developers "Won't be forced" because they will otherwise be motivated (i.e. what just happened in the US where telcos get immunized against lawsuits in exchange for providing customers' private data to the Feds).
How about a mandatory downtime for the data centre of say, 24 hours?
Hit 'em in the hip pocket - which is what a fine is supposed to do, but rarely, in the case of corporations, achieves its desired affect.
Because you'd be punishing the customers, not only the DC.
I wonder how many of those 'low income students' parents work for Facebook?
Incidentally, I lost someone who was like a father to me due to VA incompetence. The family not being able to sue them afterward reiterates the need for accountability.
As I mentioned earlier - until you fix the root causes (which I see as gross incompetence and lack of accountability at all levels of government), you will have no workable solution be it public or private.
It isn't socialized medicine Americans fear, it is socialized medicine run by the same government that runs the VA.
No doubt many fear one or the other, and some fear both.
Until you fix the root cause, though, you're going to be screwed no matter what you do.
Of course there is. It's called "votes in Congress". Pay better attention.
Ineffective, to say the least.
They get it, do what they want and using your solution worst case is they get voted out. So what. Damage already done and they don't have any actual penalty to pay for it.
Try not to be obnoxious when you post. It does nothing useful.