The state government is then required by law to again try to find you.
But the law apparently doesn't say they (or the banks) have to try very hard:
To illustrate just how lackadaisical efforts are, California was caught holding accounts for "lost" owners Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, former Attorney General Ed Meese and actor Bob Hope!
I remember this story from a news exposé - that's how I found the cite.
(a) The term "individual subject to this order" shall mean any individual who is not a United States citizen with respect to whom
I determine from time to time in writing [...]
So besides the qualifying characteristics (I agree the FBI's definition is overbroad, but this isn't about the FBI), the President himself must determine in writing that each such individual is subject to the order.
Could this conceivably be abused? Yes. Do I suspect -- no, let's be real here: do I believe that at least many of Bush's confidantes would "love" the power to jail anybody they please? Yes.
But this order says the President is the only person who can determine who's subject to the order, individual by individual. I believe we must trust him to use this, in each case, reluctantly. He must know what any abuse would cost him personally, the rich and the Republicans in general, and the country to which he has sworn allegiance.
I'm suspicious, but that's a civic duty. I'm not yet alarmed, and I think raising The Alarm needs better evidence than this.
If Linux had the marketshare of Windows, you can bet there would be lots and lots of scriptkiddies writing Code-Red style worms.
Unh huh. So, IBM puts it on their mainframes and sells it into big telecomms shops, MS is waging an all-out toady war against it, and... there still hasn't been an exploit to compare with any of the headliner MSTDs.
It's time for MS and their thralls to put up or shut up, and stop trying to bullshit their way out of Code Red and SirCam and their hordes of incestuous cousins. Have them demo one security hole as kick-me-i'm stupid as the holes those exploited, by writing their own.
While I substantially agree with the last two paragraphs -- just as successful programs start small, successful change starts locally -- the characterization of Bush's order is egregious. Here:
Sec. 2. Definition and Policy.
(a) The term "individual subject to this order" shall mean any individual who is not a United States citizen with respect to whom I determine from time to time in writing that:
there is reason to believe that such individual, at the relevant
times,
(i) is or was a member of the organization known as al Qaida;
(ii) has engaged in, aided or abetted, or conspired to commit,
acts of international terrorism, or acts in preparation therefor,
that have caused, threaten to cause, or have as their aim to
cause, injury to or adverse effects on the United States, its
citizens, national security, foreign policy, or economy; or
(iii) has knowingly harbored one or more individuals described in
subparagraphs (i) or (ii) of subsection 2(a)(1) of this order;
and
it is in the interest of the United States that such individual
be subject to this order.
And, btw, I think Bush isn't even whoring for the rich, he's their inflatable doll. But that's not as bad as what the first paragraphs accused him of.
"We won't interfere or tell you what to do, we'll simply keep paying your bills."
[and m]aybe even give Alan more resources than he currently has to get things done.
MS offered that deal to Bungie, the guys who did Pathways into Darkness, Marathon, Myth and others before being bought out. They'd already started on Halo -- their demo at MacWorld impressed the hell out of everybody who saw it. It's been years. Halo is out, finally, but only for the Xbox, and there's nothing else from them. I don't care much about Halo; by all accounts it's not up to their standard.
I think the problem with these buyouts is that for anybody but an insane genius to do good work, the money has to be coming from people who actually care about it.
But there's one thing missing from the process here: the historical justification for the owner taking the lion's share of the profit has been that he took a similar share of the risk. Now the profits are concentrating on the wealthy, and the risks on the working class -- i.e. everybody who can't live on dividends, interest and capital gains.
That's the political change that has to take place: capitalism has to distribute profit and risk equitably; as Jon says the book points out, nobody wants to play the role of pre-appointed loser.
Why do the editors of Slashdot ALWAYS put their unproductive, derogatory, flaming, two cents at the end of _every_ story regarding something "AWFUL" Microsoft has done?
Because, in this case, it's a hole that's been in MS software for years now, can be exploited by any teenager with two neurons to rub together, that MS refused to take out even when repeatedly and publicly warned of the consequences, and for which those consequences are in the tens of billions of dollars?
Because what we're objecting to isn't so much their recalcitrance as their contempt for their customers, who now have to admit they've been suckered before they can admit what's been done to them?
Because we naively want it to be about computers and networks and communication rather than politics and marketing and ego?
Unproductive, derogatory, flaming: yes, all that. You forgot "accurate".
There are security problems in EVERY OS.
Please. Bring up MS Word, and hit Alt-F11. Congratulations: you've just started MS's very own virus-writing workshop, complete with "run on open" hooks and a built-in help browser. Everything you need is there. You can't find anything remotely comparable on any other system on the planet. It's so utterly blatant it defies comprehension. If you feel the urge to respond, check the second paragraph of this response, and see if it doesn't apply to you.
Why confuse users? Teach them;
"This is/, it is the root of the system."
"This is/etc where your configuration data is stored!"
"This is/usr - you'll find the actual programs and more there!"
And this is/dev, where your disks live. No, you're right, your files are on a disk. What? Yes, that one's here too. Yes,/dev on the disk -- no, wait, not really, it's fake, a convenient place -- no, it's not really a place, see, it's just namespace
The rise in autistic cases in Silicon valley has been rather dramatic and has also coincided with the recent dotcomm boom and the influx of programmers to the Silicon Valley area.
But, the article also says the rise is global. I don't think it's geeks evolving like some space alien from humans' breasts. I think there are too many people on this planet, and the absolute lack of places for most children to find a whole day's peace and solitude (with, at a young age, or without, later) their parents is pushing more children towards self-isolation.
I did the SQL*Net V2 address space (all of the design, about half the implementation) on MVS. I read Knuth to relax, sometimes. I'm a geek, and proud of it. But if my seven month (this Wed.) old son starts disconnecting from his surroundings in a couple of years, I'll know there's something wrong.
That unaware-of-body-language stuff, the avoids-eye-contact stuff, is a deadly sign in two-year-old children. They still need human guidance to wipe their asses, let alone find their way in the world. I expect there's a geek-pack of genes, too. But if toddlers reject human contact it's because something's broke. Maybe it's them, maybe it's us, I don't know.
Your puzzled statement about the lack of "protection against murder" in the Constitution tells me you don't even know its purpose or history.
Hmmm. I wouldn't have said "puzzled", myself. But, please, tell us more about the purpose and history of the Constitution. Ignore the carping know-nothings. They're just whiners.
is "internal consistency" something that people really look for in an OS? Speaking for myself (somebody who spends 90% of their time at the CLI) I've never really had a complaint in the "internal consistency" department
Yes, it is. What would your first reaction be to a compression tool that used '-1' for best compression? Or a utility that used ":" as its name for standard input? Or a shell that used "time" as a builtin to tell you the wallclock? Weird, pointless differences from "normal" decisions make life harder for everyone. Apple saw early on that standard names for common functionality would be important - thus z,x,c,v,w for undo, cut, copy, paste, close. Not even MS had the chutzpah to mess with those choices.
It's somewhat less critical for people who tend to actually configure their tools, and cart their personal setup around or just leave it up on their home system and expect to be able to get to it, but I bet if the next AA in your group brings a CD with her own personal Windows profile directory full of templates and macros and registry settings to get Office and the desktop Just Right, she won't be an AA very long at all.
I think the reason you've never really had a complaint in this department is that bonehead choices die a quick death these days.
I don't recall any protections against "oppressive marketers" in the Constitution.
Nor is there any protection against murder in the Constitution. So?
the right to start a business, buy and sell as you please, and not be punished by the government
Uh huh. So, if it turns a profit, butt out, right? Where in the Constitution does it grant them the right to outlaw child labor or lying about your product or refusing to do business with any damned ___... oh, you only meant punished
for being successful.
Well, that makes it all better, then. I'm sorry. Which companies were those? I must have missed those.
A century and a half bad laws, and two centuries of supreme court corruption, do not change the meaning of the constitution.
Hmm. A century and a half, huh?
Well, that's fine, then. You just tell us what the Constitution means, and we'll all see the light, and then everything will be all better.
there's no reason why webcasters should be able to reach an enormous new audience on the internet and get away without paying any additional fees
You sound like Bill Gates, utterly unable to comprehend that anybody not paying or making him money might just not want to do business with him. Gates in turn sounds remarkably like Kaiser Wilhelm: encirclement! encirclement!
"Get away" without paying "additional" "fees"? Can you say "presuming facts not in evidence"? It'll do you good. Go ahead.
Read what the courts think of EULAs: if you pay a flat fee for a right that doesn't expire, then it's a sale. It doesn't matter what b.s. hoops anybody makes you jump through after that.
Apple's keychains? Out since OS9 at least. Easy as clicking "Deny", "Allow once" or "Always allow" for each access or program that wants a particular password. So Mail has permanent permission for my SMTP and POP and IMAP passwords, but nothing else, and nobody else can get them without my explicit permission.
See, this way I get to control who gets to know what about me, and people I do business with aren't required to pay Microsoft for the privilege.
Sure, it's a convenience to keep all your eggs in one basket. Sure. Just stop fighting. You know you want to. It's soooo hard, and for what? You know they'll get their way. Why not just relax and watch the pretty pictures? It's what you do all day anyway, right?
And don't think that Microsoft aren't going to get all the best security they can on these things either, they're not THAT dumb
Where in the DMCA does it say you can't talk about how to break access control devices?
Senators and Congressmen aren't that stupid, nor are Hollywood lobbyists.
You didn't read the CDA, did you? It was a federal felony to say "fuck" online, like I just did. I think the maximum fine was $500,000. Exon's speeches were priceless.
How do you hope do deal with the limitations in the current agreement? If I have this right, you can't speak publicly, and -- far, far more ominous -- you can't testify.
They didn't have to do that. It's a stunt. The DOI was ordered to do a sensible thing: take the trust data offline. It's like if you told your kid to clean his room, and he took it down to the sheetrock and concrete and then hosed that off.
After reading the transcript, the only thing that surprises me is that the Judge hasn't jailed the lawyer and everyone he answers to. You can feel the contempt.
Slashdot Mirror
How revealing.
Could this conceivably be abused? Yes. Do I suspect -- no, let's be real here: do I believe that at least many of Bush's confidantes would "love" the power to jail anybody they please? Yes.
But this order says the President is the only person who can determine who's subject to the order, individual by individual. I believe we must trust him to use this, in each case, reluctantly. He must know what any abuse would cost him personally, the rich and the Republicans in general, and the country to which he has sworn allegiance.
I'm suspicious, but that's a civic duty. I'm not yet alarmed, and I think raising The Alarm needs better evidence than this.
It's time for MS and their thralls to put up or shut up, and stop trying to bullshit their way out of Code Red and SirCam and their hordes of incestuous cousins. Have them demo one security hole as kick-me-i'm stupid as the holes those exploited, by writing their own.
Err, ahh, sapphire is aluminum oxide.
No cache pollution: a process eating a whole cpu will get preempted far less often. A whole TLB of its own.
Can somebody splain to me how rsync wouldn't, ahh, "infringe" on this patent?
I think the problem with these buyouts is that for anybody but an insane genius to do good work, the money has to be coming from people who actually care about it.
That's the political change that has to take place: capitalism has to distribute profit and risk equitably; as Jon says the book points out, nobody wants to play the role of pre-appointed loser.
Because what we're objecting to isn't so much their recalcitrance as their contempt for their customers, who now have to admit they've been suckered before they can admit what's been done to them?
Because we naively want it to be about computers and networks and communication rather than politics and marketing and ego?
Unproductive, derogatory, flaming: yes, all that. You forgot "accurate".
Please. Bring up MS Word, and hit Alt-F11. Congratulations: you've just started MS's very own virus-writing workshop, complete with "run on open" hooks and a built-in help browser. Everything you need is there. You can't find anything remotely comparable on any other system on the planet. It's so utterly blatant it defies comprehension. If you feel the urge to respond, check the second paragraph of this response, and see if it doesn't apply to you.There can't be more than one spammer per spam, right? Track them down and jail them. Give them lots of reading material to keep them happy.
Nnnevermined.
I did the SQL*Net V2 address space (all of the design, about half the implementation) on MVS. I read Knuth to relax, sometimes. I'm a geek, and proud of it. But if my seven month (this Wed.) old son starts disconnecting from his surroundings in a couple of years, I'll know there's something wrong.
That unaware-of-body-language stuff, the avoids-eye-contact stuff, is a deadly sign in two-year-old children. They still need human guidance to wipe their asses, let alone find their way in the world. I expect there's a geek-pack of genes, too. But if toddlers reject human contact it's because something's broke. Maybe it's them, maybe it's us, I don't know.
It's somewhat less critical for people who tend to actually configure their tools, and cart their personal setup around or just leave it up on their home system and expect to be able to get to it, but I bet if the next AA in your group brings a CD with her own personal Windows profile directory full of templates and macros and registry settings to get Office and the desktop Just Right, she won't be an AA very long at all.
I think the reason you've never really had a complaint in this department is that bonehead choices die a quick death these days.
Well, that's fine, then. You just tell us what the Constitution means, and we'll all see the light, and then everything will be all better.
"Get away" without paying "additional" "fees"? Can you say "presuming facts not in evidence"? It'll do you good. Go ahead.
See, this way I get to control who gets to know what about me, and people I do business with aren't required to pay Microsoft for the privilege.
Sure, it's a convenience to keep all your eggs in one basket. Sure. Just stop fighting. You know you want to. It's soooo hard, and for what? You know they'll get their way. Why not just relax and watch the pretty pictures? It's what you do all day anyway, right?
That makes you an ignorant toady.If Exon's not stupid, he's despicable.
How do you hope do deal with the limitations in the current agreement? If I have this right, you can't speak publicly, and -- far, far more ominous -- you can't testify.
After reading the transcript, the only thing that surprises me is that the Judge hasn't jailed the lawyer and everyone he answers to. You can feel the contempt.