I think you'll find she's the one in whose name it all happens. I was taking a little literary license by inserting her bodily into the scene. If you wish to best enjoy the theatricality of it, read the Queen's lines in Miranda Richardson's voice.
Murdoch's lawyer: If it please the court, I would now like to present evidence that a group calling itself Lulzsec hacked into computers belonging to my client and altered them, thus rendering police evidence entirely unreliable.
Waste is when this sort of regulation doesn't exist, and the system purchases random junk that doesn't work for projects that stopped operating years before.
Fraud is when anyone in the chain knows that's happening and lets it continue because it means a paycheck.
Metal detectors don't detect non-metal weaponry. The procedures in place are there because everyone knows the ones you're proposing were bollocks in the first place.
By "seedy hitchhikers," I meant "potential terrorists." You're proposing to open a hole in physical security. Do that in your own vehicle, when nobody but you can be harmed by it. In commercial mass-transit vehicles, you follow the rules.
The airlines are not just complicit with these rules. They want them. Planes falling from the sky is very bad for business. Bad advertising, hard on the equipment, and a massive generator of personal-injury liability.
You always have the choice to travel without insisting everyone take a risk along with you. You just don't get to do it at bulk-discount prices. Start your own airline. See how far you get before you get blown out of the sky or bankrupted by your insurance carrier.
Because you're not the only one on the plane. Get your own. Pick up all the seedy hitchhikers you want. Deal with the consequences yourself. Don't insist on dragging the rest of the flying public with you.
Yes, there are a ton of enhanced IDs that the government already issues, and it should be a piece of cake to use one to get another.
But it's probably illegal for the agencies to share the info between them.
Yours is from the same agency and it should be cake, but, it's much, much easier to ask the individual for the information than to try to have it shipped over from another office. Add another "much".
Al Gore tried to rectify that, but making things all-electronic didn't necessarily guarantee that any two databases used the same schema. Still easier to input the data to the fields you have. And it ensures you get the right data, because, as this problem itself demonstrates, when you start with just a name you can end up with multiple peoples' info, some of it just because of typos and bit-rot.
And it ensures you've been deliberate about making the contract implied by applying for the ID.
The only real way around it is to have a One True Database of identities, issued at birth. But such a thing sends the privacidiots into apoplexy every time the scent of it wafts across the water. So efficiency is deliberately discouraged in government.
It's like watching all of the scariest bits of 1984 and Brave New World all coming together.
Then you understood neither of them.
The use of this data is limited to allowing you to do something privileged and bizarre (get across the entire country in a few hours in a metal sausage).
It is not intended as a control on the progress of your political activity.
Everyone needs to chill the fuck out on this thing and get some perspective about what the Constitution is for, so that when someone in government really does try to do something draconian, your complaints don't come off as just more of the same whining you do every time the system changes a little.
Most states, because of the gun lobby (i.e., the "NRA"), are repealing their CCW permit laws and replacing them with "concealed carry as a basic human right" policies.
It's the job of the people doing the vetting to ensure that the risk of that is minimized.
In the choice between having a gloved hand shoved up my crotch and showing someone an ID card with a special barcode on it, guess which way I'll go.
And no, there is no third choice, because not doing either of those things sets us back to 9/10/2001, only this time they send 200 guys out on the same day, not 20.
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He's saying we might as well ship Silicon Valley to Shenzhen so everyone in America will have the same shitty standard of living.
I think you'll find she's the one in whose name it all happens. I was taking a little literary license by inserting her bodily into the scene. If you wish to best enjoy the theatricality of it, read the Queen's lines in Miranda Richardson's voice.
"Pic or it didn't happen" is more like evidence than documentation.
Nipples aren't intuitive. They're instinctual. Which is why you have to be re-taught how to use them once you have teeth.
Murdoch's lawyer: If it please the court, I would now like to present evidence that a group calling itself Lulzsec hacked into computers belonging to my client and altered them, thus rendering police evidence entirely unreliable.
The Queen: Case dismissed. What's for lunch?
Rejected by dictionary checker in password widget in security-conscious software application.
I thought it was "homo sapiens and homo neanderthalensis miscegenated and the latter genes still exist in humans" in January.
Now it's "if you aren't 100% African, you're part Neanderthal."
Someone needs to do a little digging to make sure this isn't just an elaborate piece of GEICO astroturfing.
First person to die in possession of the memory stick without telling anyone what it is ends the game.
The Asphalt Shingle Association is already on it.
Lobbyist spew in 3...2...1...
But not if they actually try to read it.
I noticed (forget how i got there) the other day that Sourceforge is hiring a Slashdot head h4xx0r.
You'd think they'd just open-source it or something...
No, no, no.
This is "inefficiency."
Waste is when this sort of regulation doesn't exist, and the system purchases random junk that doesn't work for projects that stopped operating years before.
Fraud is when anyone in the chain knows that's happening and lets it continue because it means a paycheck.
And then there's an election and your contract gets cancelled by the new guys.
The military only needs one data center. Change the colors of the website based on the URI it's accessed through, if you want.
Metal detectors don't detect non-metal weaponry. The procedures in place are there because everyone knows the ones you're proposing were bollocks in the first place.
By "seedy hitchhikers," I meant "potential terrorists." You're proposing to open a hole in physical security. Do that in your own vehicle, when nobody but you can be harmed by it. In commercial mass-transit vehicles, you follow the rules.
The airlines are not just complicit with these rules. They want them. Planes falling from the sky is very bad for business. Bad advertising, hard on the equipment, and a massive generator of personal-injury liability.
You always have the choice to travel without insisting everyone take a risk along with you. You just don't get to do it at bulk-discount prices. Start your own airline. See how far you get before you get blown out of the sky or bankrupted by your insurance carrier.
It means that...
humans are animals!
[dramatic music]
[open-mouthed yawn]
Only if they're brown and might vote Democrat.
Steve Jobs is a sick man.
Why am I denied that option?
Because you're not the only one on the plane. Get your own. Pick up all the seedy hitchhikers you want. Deal with the consequences yourself. Don't insist on dragging the rest of the flying public with you.
Typical security policies, which do a perfectly reasonable job at keeping explosives or other weapons off of planes anyways
The perfectly reasonable reports of people taking their weapons onto aircraft despite the current security procedures says you're wrong.
Now there's a valid complaint.
Yes, there are a ton of enhanced IDs that the government already issues, and it should be a piece of cake to use one to get another.
But it's probably illegal for the agencies to share the info between them.
Yours is from the same agency and it should be cake, but, it's much, much easier to ask the individual for the information than to try to have it shipped over from another office. Add another "much".
Al Gore tried to rectify that, but making things all-electronic didn't necessarily guarantee that any two databases used the same schema. Still easier to input the data to the fields you have. And it ensures you get the right data, because, as this problem itself demonstrates, when you start with just a name you can end up with multiple peoples' info, some of it just because of typos and bit-rot.
And it ensures you've been deliberate about making the contract implied by applying for the ID.
The only real way around it is to have a One True Database of identities, issued at birth. But such a thing sends the privacidiots into apoplexy every time the scent of it wafts across the water. So efficiency is deliberately discouraged in government.
It's like watching all of the scariest bits of 1984 and Brave New World all coming together.
Then you understood neither of them.
The use of this data is limited to allowing you to do something privileged and bizarre (get across the entire country in a few hours in a metal sausage).
It is not intended as a control on the progress of your political activity.
Everyone needs to chill the fuck out on this thing and get some perspective about what the Constitution is for, so that when someone in government really does try to do something draconian, your complaints don't come off as just more of the same whining you do every time the system changes a little.
Most states, because of the gun lobby (i.e., the "NRA"), are repealing their CCW permit laws and replacing them with "concealed carry as a basic human right" policies.
So that's not a good plan there.
Moles are an issue in any secure organization.
It's the job of the people doing the vetting to ensure that the risk of that is minimized.
In the choice between having a gloved hand shoved up my crotch and showing someone an ID card with a special barcode on it, guess which way I'll go.
And no, there is no third choice, because not doing either of those things sets us back to 9/10/2001, only this time they send 200 guys out on the same day, not 20.