Except the NSA have almost certainly already broken PGP....and probably everything else you can think of.
Yeah, they got all of our dumb asses to not use it. Instead we favor web based services like Gmail... or write your own intelligence profile services like Facebook.
(Well, I'd rather have fuel lines that didn't get eaten by ethanol, but that's a pipe dream right now.)
Only if you have no imagination or mechanical skills. E85 compatible tubingdoes exist; just go find some that's the appropriate size to fit your engines.
This is all fine and dandy until you get to the rubber inside of an engine, or hidden in the body of a car.
I would be willing to pay quite a bit more to just get a few gallons of pure ethanol-free gasoline to put in my tractor, boat motor, leaf blower, hedge trimmer, etc...
As water is absorbed from the atmosphere into the gasoline/ethanol mixture, a point comes where the ethanol/water mixture is no longer miscible with the petroleum part. Since ethanol raises the octane of gas; when it leaves, the octane of the separated gasoline layer is lower (think 83-84). This is horrible for engines, ie. it destroys them. The water/ethanol mixture is also horrible for engines because it dissolves gaskets, and generally does unfriendly things. In fact, it can even act as a substrate for petroleum eating bacteria.
The laws of physics prevent any fuel storage system from being hermetically sealed, sorry. Some are better sealed than others.
If you don't believe me, ask someone that owns a lawnmower, or any other small gasoline engine.
The AC said, "ethynol", I was just being a condescending prick. I agree 100% about the ethanol in gas thing, and I will go one further by saying it would not be there without the enormous subsidy paid for E10.
The most fundamental benefit to society of the 5th is that it blocks using torture (or more modern interrogation techniques) to extract false confessions.
It also blocks the usage of less contentious forms of coercion, which would be totally legal, such as extended imprisonment for contempt of court. Remember that if you can be forced to talk, you can be forced to say anything.
What all the states have in common, and I would challenge you to find a counterexample, is that the business reports their sales, and remits payment to the relevant taxing agency. Failing to do either correctly, the business is the party upon which penalties are levied.
This has nothing to do with the complexity of sales tax law.
No, companies collect sales tax. They do not pay it.
The company writes the check to the state sales tax agency, and is the sole responsible party (both monetarily and criminally) for the correctness and timeliness of the payment. In the US it is customary to list prices before sales tax, and then to "collect them from the consumer", but at no time is the consumer ever liable for the businesses's collection or payment of said taxes. When a business neglects to charge the consumer for sales tax, it still must be paid.
In other words, businesses collect money from consumers, to pay their sales tax obligations.
Corporate income tax is a sales tax too, because it is based on income, and paid by the consumer in higher prices. The only difference is that in one case the consumer sees the price increase clearly, and in the other case it is a hidden charge.
If they just go run an ldap query they are going to get back... NOTHING YOU FUCKING WANT BECAUSE THESE ADDRESSES AREN'T IN THE GOD DAMN DATABASE YOU MORON.
What are you trying to say? The DOJ MX magically accepts mail without account validation? No, that is stupid. If the email addresses are/were not in the authentication database, they could never have received mail, and thus the problem is solved. Also, I would suggest finding a more polite LDAP client if that is the sort of response that you are getting.
They have to go HUNTING for signs of undisclosed addresses in many cases. That requires the efforts of a lot of different people due to all the existing checks and balances that have to be followed.
Perhaps you forgot to RTFA, I know it is pretty long. The AP was asking specifically for undisclosed email addresses, which were provided by the DOJ, for the purpose of executing official business. This was not a hunt for clues that DOJ employees were using email addresses that they created personally. Are you trying to say that the DOJ made email addresses internally with no record whatever of who owned/used them? Does that seem right? In your position, where that you evidently know everything about all things, do you make totally anonymous emails for employees? Perhaps it makes more sense to say that they simply delete the account records instead of deactivating them, but even then we encounter a severe problem. There are record keeping requirements for federal agencies, so by deleting the records they are literally pre-committing perjury.
In other words, they are trying to charge the AP $1,000,000 to query a database. In business perhaps we might dismiss this as greed, but who even stands to profit in the DOJ? They are covering something up. Use your brain.
My mistake. I thought this discussion was specifically about the DOJ stupidly requesting $1+ million from AP for FOIA requests and "private" e-mail addresses.
You are a slippery weasel with words. The DOJ demanded one million dollars to fulfill a single specific FOIA request for non-disclosed email addresses.
Do you really really think that it costs a million dollars to run a fucking LDAP query? Is there some job where we can be paid that much for something so mundane? Are you really so naive to ascribe this to simple stupidity; that they forgot the addresses, otherwise they would tell?
Those second addresses are fully subject to FOIA and it was not suggested in the article that they were "secret" -- just "non-disclosed".
Can you explain the difference between secret and non-disclosed, when the definition of secret is essentially to not disclose something? Can you explain how, in this case, the supposed non-disclosed email address are subject to FOIA? The problem here is not the usage of said addresses, but instead their usage (whether intentional, or incidental) to evade FOIA requests.
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Red Hat might switch to MariaDB from MySQL, but businnesses still use MSSQL server.
MSSQL is an expensive turd.
The plan is to vote for Republicans or Democrats. (I haven't yet decided which; that's a minor detail.)
You didn't figure it out on line 2? A bit daft are we?
>> Fortunately there are ways to gain a measure of security: HTTPS, Tor, SCP, SFTP..
Don't those all rely on SSL?
Do you REALLY believe that the NSA still hasn't cracked/can't decrypt SSL (or any of the stuff mentioned) yet?
Yes I do. Because math.
Well said.
You know, an MITM exploit for SSL would be a perfect match for their MITM eavesdropping program, prism.
No, it isn't. Numbers alone tell anyone with half a brain that there are better places to use your resources.
If you make terrorism easier, the numbers would presumably rise?
Except the NSA have almost certainly already broken PGP. ...and probably everything else you can think of.
Yeah, they got all of our dumb asses to not use it. Instead we favor web based services like Gmail... or write your own intelligence profile services like Facebook.
Not to mention that if you have a trusted CA certificate in your pocket, it is trivial to do a man in the middle attack with SSL.
Only if you have no imagination or mechanical skills. E85 compatible tubing does exist; just go find some that's the appropriate size to fit your engines.
This is all fine and dandy until you get to the rubber inside of an engine, or hidden in the body of a car.
I would be willing to pay quite a bit more to just get a few gallons of pure ethanol-free gasoline to put in my tractor, boat motor, leaf blower, hedge trimmer, etc...
This stuff is pretty good for really small engines (I put it in a hedge clipper), http://www.trufuel50.com/ProductInfo.aspx , but hard to afford in larger ones.
As water is absorbed from the atmosphere into the gasoline/ethanol mixture, a point comes where the ethanol/water mixture is no longer miscible with the petroleum part. Since ethanol raises the octane of gas; when it leaves, the octane of the separated gasoline layer is lower (think 83-84). This is horrible for engines, ie. it destroys them. The water/ethanol mixture is also horrible for engines because it dissolves gaskets, and generally does unfriendly things. In fact, it can even act as a substrate for petroleum eating bacteria.
The laws of physics prevent any fuel storage system from being hermetically sealed, sorry. Some are better sealed than others.
If you don't believe me, ask someone that owns a lawnmower, or any other small gasoline engine.
The AC said, "ethynol", I was just being a condescending prick. I agree 100% about the ethanol in gas thing, and I will go one further by saying it would not be there without the enormous subsidy paid for E10.
It is ethanol.
The most fundamental benefit to society of the 5th is that it blocks using torture (or more modern interrogation techniques) to extract false confessions.
It also blocks the usage of less contentious forms of coercion, which would be totally legal, such as extended imprisonment for contempt of court. Remember that if you can be forced to talk, you can be forced to say anything.
How progressive - I'll be using Java 7 instead of Java 5.
Jump on the bandwagon man, closures running on the GPU!
Original poster is dickhead.
What all the states have in common, and I would challenge you to find a counterexample, is that the business reports their sales, and remits payment to the relevant taxing agency. Failing to do either correctly, the business is the party upon which penalties are levied.
This has nothing to do with the complexity of sales tax law.
No, companies collect sales tax. They do not pay it.
The company writes the check to the state sales tax agency, and is the sole responsible party (both monetarily and criminally) for the correctness and timeliness of the payment. In the US it is customary to list prices before sales tax, and then to "collect them from the consumer", but at no time is the consumer ever liable for the businesses's collection or payment of said taxes. When a business neglects to charge the consumer for sales tax, it still must be paid.
In other words, businesses collect money from consumers, to pay their sales tax obligations.
Corporate income tax is a sales tax too, because it is based on income, and paid by the consumer in higher prices. The only difference is that in one case the consumer sees the price increase clearly, and in the other case it is a hidden charge.
Companies don't pay sales tax.
Actually they do, and forward the cost to the customer. Ultimately, it is the company that is liable for the sales tax being paid, not the individual.
"Send me all of Bob Smith's e-mail on the subject of soft lumber trade negotiations with Canada."
"Here is the bill, that will be two million dollars, thank you. :)"
If they just go run an ldap query they are going to get back ... NOTHING YOU FUCKING WANT BECAUSE THESE ADDRESSES AREN'T IN THE GOD DAMN DATABASE YOU MORON.
What are you trying to say? The DOJ MX magically accepts mail without account validation? No, that is stupid. If the email addresses are/were not in the authentication database, they could never have received mail, and thus the problem is solved. Also, I would suggest finding a more polite LDAP client if that is the sort of response that you are getting.
They have to go HUNTING for signs of undisclosed addresses in many cases. That requires the efforts of a lot of different people due to all the existing checks and balances that have to be followed.
Perhaps you forgot to RTFA, I know it is pretty long. The AP was asking specifically for undisclosed email addresses, which were provided by the DOJ, for the purpose of executing official business. This was not a hunt for clues that DOJ employees were using email addresses that they created personally. Are you trying to say that the DOJ made email addresses internally with no record whatever of who owned/used them? Does that seem right? In your position, where that you evidently know everything about all things, do you make totally anonymous emails for employees? Perhaps it makes more sense to say that they simply delete the account records instead of deactivating them, but even then we encounter a severe problem. There are record keeping requirements for federal agencies, so by deleting the records they are literally pre-committing perjury.
In other words, they are trying to charge the AP $1,000,000 to query a database. In business perhaps we might dismiss this as greed, but who even stands to profit in the DOJ? They are covering something up. Use your brain.
My mistake. I thought this discussion was specifically about the DOJ stupidly requesting $1+ million from AP for FOIA requests and "private" e-mail addresses.
You are a slippery weasel with words. The DOJ demanded one million dollars to fulfill a single specific FOIA request for non-disclosed email addresses.
Do you really really think that it costs a million dollars to run a fucking LDAP query? Is there some job where we can be paid that much for something so mundane? Are you really so naive to ascribe this to simple stupidity; that they forgot the addresses, otherwise they would tell?
Those second addresses are fully subject to FOIA and it was not suggested in the article that they were "secret" -- just "non-disclosed".
Can you explain the difference between secret and non-disclosed, when the definition of secret is essentially to not disclose something? Can you explain how, in this case, the supposed non-disclosed email address are subject to FOIA? The problem here is not the usage of said addresses, but instead their usage (whether intentional, or incidental) to evade FOIA requests.
Big Surprise from the Obama Administration.
That's right, those loopholes are for Whites Only.
No, they apply for all Chicago scofflaws and thugs.
Nobody cares.
Month/Year, not day.*
* Except in cases where there is day/month/year.