Those are very rare. If anybody is interested, look up "defensive gun uses". The number of estimated defensive gun uses in the US ranges all the way from 80,000 to 2.4 million per year, to prevent bodily harm or death.
Don't forget to subtract the numbers for documented harm by firearms from the numbers for allegedly prevented harm.
More Americans have died from domestic firearms than the total number of American deaths in every war and conflict the US has ever fought, combined. Of the more than 11,500 firearm deaths so far this year, only around 1,500 claim to be defensive. Is a seven times higher risk of being killed than of using it for defense a good bargain?
I'm not so sure about the "expensive" part. The wet rate for a small airplane is in the $100-$170 per hour range. Compared to what the drones cost, and how short they seem to last, I don't think cost saving could be the reason here. Being able to hover and descend below safe flight levels to get better pictures might be a factor.
SPF and DKIM can be useful for resenders, but it adds nothing to security for original senders except maintenance costs and delays. If the A record for the sender address points to the IP of the remote MTA, it can be generally be trusted to come from that domain. Unless the DNS server is taken over, in which case SPF and DKIM won't do much good either.
Not disagreeing that there are tape backups like that, but I never met one in a 30-year career.
I've encountered at least two. One (a Tandberg, I believe) that had a dip switch that when flipped would treat all cartridges as WORM, and one tape changer that would only allow rewind/eject from one slot, and write operations from a different slot.
I would add a hacker who jumps a server could easily run a backup tape and reformat.
For some tape stations, that's just not possible. The tapes can only be appended to or swapped automatically, but a rewind requires a physical (not software) acknowledgement. So a hacker can never reformat a tape.
USA is not a signatory of the convention on the reduction of statelessness so they can do that.
USA is a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, where the right to a nationality and not be deprived of his nationality is specifically listed in Article 15.
By design, tapes are sequential append, not random write. That makes it much harder to modify data. For tape stations that can be set to not allow programmatic rewinding, but tapes have to be physically cleared for rewind, it's even more of a security benefit this way.
Much like some of us like having important system logs go to an unbuffered dot matrix printer in dumb mode - there's no way to undo what's already written like a local log, no way to DoS logging to a remote syslog server, nor kill the print job while it's buffering, like a modern page based printer.
Also, the rules of reciprocity come into play. What we deem is okay to do to foreigners, we also signal that we are okay with foreign countries doing the same to our people.
A citizen is not "asking to move here". They've been here.
Not necessarily. There are citizens who has never been to the US, including residents of US Territories, and children of American citizens born on foreign soil.
By international human rights, every human has the right to belong to a country or state. If a naturalized citizen came from a country that requires renouncing the original citizenship when becoming an American citizen, the US cannot revoke the citizenship without turning the person stateless. For dual citizenship individuals, it's less problematic.
In 1945 corporations paid 50 percent of federal taxes.
In 1945 we had a world war to finance. The squeeze was on corporations to do their part. Families contributed by sending their young men, and having less income to tax.
A quantum leap is exceedingly small, but that's not what the phrase originally referred to. What was meant, once upon a time, before the unwashed masses got to mangle the meaning, was that a quantum leap goes from one state to another without any intermediary steps. It referred to a subset of what in newer jargon is called disruptive inventions, and only those that were radical changes, and not just improvements, no matter how big.
A quantum leap for Firefox would be replacing it overnight with something that isn't a visual web browser. That's not going to happen.
These court challenges by government entities really are a reprehensible attempt to achieve legislation through judicial action.
That's unfortunately a feature of the common law system. It allows the lawmakers to not spend much time on making comprehensive laws where the intent is well codified and unambiguous, but instead spend time on playing politics and leave the brunt of the law making to the judicial system. I don't see that changing any time soon, so using the judicial system to create law is par for course.
One fascinating aspect of Conway's Game of Life is that it's DNA-like in that introducing mutations (flip a few cells at random) can have both small and very wide reaching consequences, and even a chance of causing unintentional improvements. If bundled with a reproductive system and evolutionary pressure, it could be the basis for a new type of actual life. Even supporting parasites and symbiosis. That's what's fascinating, and makes this prime AI material.
Filing lawsuits against the requester is akin to saying "there is no valid reason to deny the request, but I want to anyway"
I can see a situation where it's "there is no legal reason to deny the request, but there likely should be". In a common law system, creating a precedent can be very helpful in cases where the law hasn't been established well enough yet. Like there may not be a prohibition against walking your pet alligator on a public sidewalk, but getting a judge to declare that alligators are inherently unsafe would allow a district to ban it. For FOIA requests, there may likewise be some areas where it's unclear. But what's wrong is suing the person who files the FOIA request, and expect them to front much of he costs of court proceedings. The filing should be against their own agency to prevent them from disseminating the information, if they think it's likely that a judge will rule against it being released.
Because they are closing that hole with Windows PlayReady. Now the OS explicitly controls what content can and cannot be recorded.
Until Windows PlayReady can interface directly with the brain, bypassing a screen and speakers, the content can still be copied. How good quality depends on the equipment used. By capturing a 1080p display with a 2160p camera and condensing it back to 1080, the quallity is indistinguishable from the real thing. Similar for sound - de-amping a speaker signal and feeding it to a mixer, you get a copy that you can't tell the original from a first-generation copy.
In other words, it stops the average home user, but does nothing to stop the real pirates.
The browser is trying to take over the app world. It doesn't need to be an app VM.
What browsers were designed for and used to excel at is information sharing. The more, the better. Filling people's brains. Apps, on the other hand are not about sharing information, but condensing it and turning it into entertainment. Filling people's time. Two very different goals.
if a security researcher finds a security vulnerability on a website, he can access the site's security.txt file for information on how to contact the company and securely report the issue.
This is based on the false assumption that websites actually care about security. 99.9% of all companies couldn't care less, as proven by the almost daily occurrence of breaches.
It is based on the false assumption that the ones looking up the security.txt file would be people with your best interest in mind, and not spammers and telemarketers who want to sell you security products, or black hats looking for contacts to spearfish.
No. Geeks are known for being sticklers for precision. Computer geeks in particular, because operating systems do pay attention and distinguish "rm -rf/var/tmp/install" from "rm -rf / var/tmp/install". If they have dysIexia, they keep it on a tight leash. And geeks also tend to not blindly follow links, but enter them whenever possible. Downloading and installing a package with almost the right name is a good indication that it was not done by a geek.
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But guns? All a sudden the logic is reversed and it's okay to take them away from innocents. Unless they're Muslim, then once again it's racist.
"Muslim" isn't a race; it's a description of a culturally inflicted gullibility, like "Christian" and "republican".
Those are very rare. If anybody is interested, look up "defensive gun uses". The number of estimated defensive gun uses in the US ranges all the way from 80,000 to 2.4 million per year, to prevent bodily harm or death.
Don't forget to subtract the numbers for documented harm by firearms from the numbers for allegedly prevented harm.
More Americans have died from domestic firearms than the total number of American deaths in every war and conflict the US has ever fought, combined. Of the more than 11,500 firearm deaths so far this year, only around 1,500 claim to be defensive.
Is a seven times higher risk of being killed than of using it for defense a good bargain?
Light aircraft flying back and forth.
Noisy, polluting and expensive.
I'm not so sure about the "expensive" part. The wet rate for a small airplane is in the $100-$170 per hour range. Compared to what the drones cost, and how short they seem to last, I don't think cost saving could be the reason here.
Being able to hover and descend below safe flight levels to get better pictures might be a factor.
The question is then what they did before they had drones, which cost even more than a cool $80,000?
SPF and DKIM can be useful for resenders, but it adds nothing to security for original senders except maintenance costs and delays. If the A record for the sender address points to the IP of the remote MTA, it can be generally be trusted to come from that domain. Unless the DNS server is taken over, in which case SPF and DKIM won't do much good either.
Not disagreeing that there are tape backups like that, but I never met one in a 30-year career.
I've encountered at least two. One (a Tandberg, I believe) that had a dip switch that when flipped would treat all cartridges as WORM, and one tape changer that would only allow rewind/eject from one slot, and write operations from a different slot.
I would add a hacker who jumps a server could easily run a backup tape and reformat.
For some tape stations, that's just not possible. The tapes can only be appended to or swapped automatically, but a rewind requires a physical (not software) acknowledgement. So a hacker can never reformat a tape.
USA is not a signatory of the convention on the reduction of statelessness so they can do that.
USA is a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, where the right to a nationality and not be deprived of his nationality is specifically listed in Article 15.
By design, tapes are sequential append, not random write. That makes it much harder to modify data. For tape stations that can be set to not allow programmatic rewinding, but tapes have to be physically cleared for rewind, it's even more of a security benefit this way.
Much like some of us like having important system logs go to an unbuffered dot matrix printer in dumb mode - there's no way to undo what's already written like a local log, no way to DoS logging to a remote syslog server, nor kill the print job while it's buffering, like a modern page based printer.
Also, the rules of reciprocity come into play. What we deem is okay to do to foreigners, we also signal that we are okay with foreign countries doing the same to our people.
A citizen is not "asking to move here". They've been here.
Not necessarily. There are citizens who has never been to the US, including residents of US Territories, and children of American citizens born on foreign soil.
You can have your citizenship revoked
By international human rights, every human has the right to belong to a country or state. If a naturalized citizen came from a country that requires renouncing the original citizenship when becoming an American citizen, the US cannot revoke the citizenship without turning the person stateless.
For dual citizenship individuals, it's less problematic.
In 1945 corporations paid 50 percent of federal taxes.
In 1945 we had a world war to finance. The squeeze was on corporations to do their part. Families contributed by sending their young men, and having less income to tax.
A quantum leap is exceedingly small, but that's not what the phrase originally referred to. What was meant, once upon a time, before the unwashed masses got to mangle the meaning, was that a quantum leap goes from one state to another without any intermediary steps. It referred to a subset of what in newer jargon is called disruptive inventions, and only those that were radical changes, and not just improvements, no matter how big.
A quantum leap for Firefox would be replacing it overnight with something that isn't a visual web browser. That's not going to happen.
That's overkill for those services. All they need is to tweet:
Run. Now.
These court challenges by government entities really are a reprehensible attempt to achieve legislation through judicial action.
That's unfortunately a feature of the common law system.
It allows the lawmakers to not spend much time on making comprehensive laws where the intent is well codified and unambiguous, but instead spend time on playing politics and leave the brunt of the law making to the judicial system.
I don't see that changing any time soon, so using the judicial system to create law is par for course.
Maybe they clicked the "I'm feeling lucky" button.
Does anyone really use that? I'd think that the very presence of that button must have wasted petabytes of bandwidth over the years.
One fascinating aspect of Conway's Game of Life is that it's DNA-like in that introducing mutations (flip a few cells at random) can have both small and very wide reaching consequences, and even a chance of causing unintentional improvements. If bundled with a reproductive system and evolutionary pressure, it could be the basis for a new type of actual life. Even supporting parasites and symbiosis. That's what's fascinating, and makes this prime AI material.
Filing lawsuits against the requester is akin to saying "there is no valid reason to deny the request, but I want to anyway"
I can see a situation where it's "there is no legal reason to deny the request, but there likely should be". In a common law system, creating a precedent can be very helpful in cases where the law hasn't been established well enough yet. Like there may not be a prohibition against walking your pet alligator on a public sidewalk, but getting a judge to declare that alligators are inherently unsafe would allow a district to ban it.
For FOIA requests, there may likewise be some areas where it's unclear. But what's wrong is suing the person who files the FOIA request, and expect them to front much of he costs of court proceedings. The filing should be against their own agency to prevent them from disseminating the information, if they think it's likely that a judge will rule against it being released.
Come over to Europe! We could use a few immigrants that can read and write
That disqualifies a majority of my countrymen right there.
Because they are closing that hole with Windows PlayReady. Now the OS explicitly controls what content can and cannot be recorded.
Until Windows PlayReady can interface directly with the brain, bypassing a screen and speakers, the content can still be copied.
How good quality depends on the equipment used. By capturing a 1080p display with a 2160p camera and condensing it back to 1080, the quallity is indistinguishable from the real thing. Similar for sound - de-amping a speaker signal and feeding it to a mixer, you get a copy that you can't tell the original from a first-generation copy.
In other words, it stops the average home user, but does nothing to stop the real pirates.
The browser is trying to take over the app world. It doesn't need to be an app VM.
What browsers were designed for and used to excel at is information sharing. The more, the better. Filling people's brains.
Apps, on the other hand are not about sharing information, but condensing it and turning it into entertainment. Filling people's time.
Two very different goals.
It is based on the false assumption that the ones looking up the security.txt file would be people with your best interest in mind, and not spammers and telemarketers who want to sell you security products, or black hats looking for contacts to spearfish.
Whoosh!
A lot of geeks are slightly dyslexic
No. Geeks are known for being sticklers for precision. Computer geeks in particular, because operating systems do pay attention and distinguish "rm -rf /var/tmp/install" from "rm -rf / var/tmp/install".
If they have dysIexia, they keep it on a tight leash.
And geeks also tend to not blindly follow links, but enter them whenever possible.
Downloading and installing a package with almost the right name is a good indication that it was not done by a geek.