I understand your point, but you seem to fail to grasp mine. IT as a whole is indeed a savings center, but those savings materialize elsewhere, the IT department as such is a cost center. It may save more for other departments than its own costs, making a net profit, but that is only a "virtual" profit, not a "real" one, because unless your company is a tech company, IT itself generates no revenue, and as such, no profit. The real profit comes from the revenue of marketeers (or Sales, as someone pointed out, quite rightly), which is augmented by the savings IT makes for everyone, but themselves.
So in the end, IT itself is a sink, whose costs materialize as savings elsewhere (multipliers may vary by department).
Look, dumbfuck, profit is a simple equation: (sales $ in) - (expenses) = (profit)
Manipulating either of the two variables before the equals will affect the profit.
Money is fungible, and both variables on that equation are fungible. Manipulating either one, or heck, both so they both go up will increase profits.
As usual, you sales weasels are distorting things (i.e. LIES) to promote your view. The thing is, all you are doing is making yourself look stupid in the process. SUCCESS AGAIN! for the sales department!
There's still no nationwide database in the US of all stolen IMEI numbers
Actually there is. The two major GSM carriers, T-Mobile and AT&T, share a database. Sprint and Verizon will be joining that database by the end of the year; though not that stealing a CDMA phone does you much good on a GSM network and vice versa at the moment. In any case the problem is that the IMEI database is not enough;
IMEIs are not unique. We've hit the equivalent of IPv4 space exhaustion. So they're simply reusing IMEIs now.
IMEIs can be changed on a number of phones, so it's not a reliable way to keep a phone blocked.
These IMEI databases are not shared on a global level, and there's really no way to force everyone to work together. China Telecom for example has little incentive to block iPhones stolen in other countries
The solution then is that rather than merely unreliably blocking a phone, the phone needs to be disabled entirely so that a stolen phone cannot be of any value. It essentially needs to be (reversibly) destroyed if stolen, to eliminate all financial incentive for stealing a phone. This is why the Attorneys General and other law enforcement officials want kill switches, so that shipping a purloined phone overseas is no longer a viable business, ultimately leading to criminals to stop stealing the damn things.
It doesn't have to be perfect, it just needs to make re-use of the phone more expensive.
"reversible" and "hard to defeat" seems like two requirements that would be fulfilled by some sort of encryption. Maybe activating the phone writes the firmware with an encryption code generated by the serial number and something the user sets up and stores with the carrier. Or a hash of some kind like a password (make the phone do some CPU work to connect).
People stealing phones that are causing a problem are the 15 year old ghetto goblins riding the public bus. 99% of the time, the phone is wiped and re used by the same person that stole it in the first place. They need to cut out that loop. Not the "has a lab full of stuff to take apart an iPhone" criminal.
Why "kill" a device when you stand a good chance of getting it back? Killing it does nobody any good, and has lots of quite horrible abuse potential.
You are fucking stupid if you think the pigs are going to go chase down a petty-theft phone based off information gathered by the victim.
They don't do that now, if the victim of credit card fraud has proof of tens of thousands of dollars of goods going to someone's house, and have their IP tracked and everything.
So, you'll be left with knocking on the door and shooting, or knocking on the door and hoping they don't drag you in and rape you... and in both cases, not getting the phone back.
We just need to remove the rules about "disguised guns" and have someone come up with a.22 Magnum double barrel derringer that fits in a smart phone-looking case. The problem will solve itself in a few weeks.
"No problem, I don't want any trouble, here's my phone bro BANG! BANG!.... thud."
Not all hacking comes from the government, but as they say, probably a good part do. That was what i read in their denial, "this time, i think that wasn't us"
I'd like to hear a good argument by those that think this was the government, why they would feel it appropriate (as in, best method of completing the task) to use her accounts to log in?
Compromised account? Sure that wasn't some 50 year old sysadmin that thought she was hot and was looking for pictures of her she might have put on the computer? Like, what girl doesn't have mirror shots taken from her phone once in a while? He wanted to see some of her skin. Not get her work data.
I am one of the more paranoid assholes concerning Hussain Obama's fuckups, but this just seems like "rogue sysadmin" and not like "government"
Why would the government use an undisclosed security hole in windows, then log onto her account, and then search for files? Why not just use the hole to search for files? Or fuck, clone the hard drive without leaving any evidence behind besides a SATA cable that's a little more loose than it would be otherwise?
You wont be able to find any illegal content hosted by the site no matter how long and hard you look, what you will find however are.torrent files and magnet links. Big difference but not one I'd expect you to be willing to accept.
While technically true. KAT.ph has served up malicious malware-infecting ads and solicitations for what are obviously scams for a long time. It's not like they are saints.
That said it was a good site.... I am not going to bother with the "alternative" domains, those sites always go down shortly afterwards anyway.
As a Brit, I've always wondered about how you guys look back on the revolution. Since the US was created out of a revolutionary war you'd think that there could be no act that is more than in keeping with the spirit and founding principles of the republic than seeking to overthrow a government that has overstepped its bounds. But most of your 'patriotic' type pundits seem to view any form of anti-establishment sentiment as either communism or treason.
In the UK we've never really gone in for violent revolution, so I can understand why our national identity doesn't lend itself to direct action. But you guys are always going on about the glory of the republic and the benefits that you gained via armed struggle against the state. How do you keep those sort if ideas straight in your heads alongside the sort of 'my country, right or wrong' jingoism that has you reciting oaths of loyalty in school and so forth?
Are you also confused about why Americans buy, keep, use,and love guns so much?
Take those two facts and rub them together for a little while and you'll figure it out.
Firstly, the 3d printed guns aren't 100% 3d printed, you can't use plastic for all of it. Second, they work once or twice before they break down. Third, they have a high chance of exploding in your hand. Lastly, have you seen one? I'd be more scared of someone holding a lego gun. Actually, it kinda looks like it's made of lego.
Your information is old.
Since the first guy published his "printed gun" improvements have been made. Interchangeable multi-shot barrels and plastic springs for magazines have both been done.
Not reliable yet by any means, but things are progressing very fast.
An innovative designer could make a receiver for a pipe-shotgun with quick change barrels and as long as the pipe was long enough it would be legal.
The days of "control" over this stuff have slipped away.
Speaking as a leftist of a stripe, we're not. Seriously. Don't get me wrong, I think you're insane for thinking a gun is going to give you any protection from anyone armed with more than a saturday night special, don't think the constitution says anything about you individually having the right to own a gun, and don't like you personally (for trolling), but I'm actually mad that Obama et al are wasting political capitol on gun control.
Just wait until the current president is voted out of office and the next republican is in office. You will be doubly-sorry this stuff was started then when it's used to chase down and out women who have had abortions, people that don't go to church, and all kinds of other sinners.
Who's got guns won't matter when the feds decide to use information to destroy you. Gonna shoot back at a web page with your mom's three abortions listed on it? HA!
Your disregard for portions of the Constitution will cause the downfall of all of the Constitution.
No; that guy is in jail for tax evasion, using an alias after a judge strictly forbid him from doing so, and fraud; well he should be incarcerated, considering the fact that he's 100% guilty.
ProTip: You'd be more well informed getting your news from the fucking Enquirer than World News Daily.
"Tax evasion" as alleged by the known to be corrupt and used for political purposes IRS? That kind of "tax evasion"?
Couple this with the social unrest of the one-child per family, resulting in 30 million unmarried men, and you have the fodder stimulating a revolution.
Revolution, or war with Taiwan / US.
As soon as they figure out how to move a couple million guys across the water fast. Look out.
Right because instead of spending their time manipulating the USD, Yen, Euro, etc. to make 100s of millions if not billions of dollars or more [BitCoin users use BitCoins, which are] used by a less than a thousandth of 1% of the world. Yeah, real [smart].
The start up costs and complication of manipulating real-world markets (as opposed to fake stuff) are astronomically high. Some governments couldn't manage it if they tried.
On the other hand, one nerd who can dDOS and a couple small time hoods could pull off a BitCoin manipulation scam.
Your arrogance in thinking BitCoin is equivalent to a world market "USD, Yen, Euro, etc." is proof positive that these types of attacks will continue to happen. BitCoin is for stupid people, or smart people acting stupidly.
See, this is where I don't get it. If I were to be storing info that I didn't people to get... weather it be child porn like this guy or I had some super sekret government documents, I wouldn't rely encryption at all. Just put the computers on UPS's, then coat the hardrives with phosphorus. Glue a model rocket igniter to the works and hook it up to a relay. When they pull the plug on the computer, it ignites and the hard drive turns into a pool of goo.
Lol, that's too much work. Just make it LOOK like you have a bomb mounted around the hard drive. The bomb squad will show up, and destroy the evidence for you. No problem!
There was a server compromised at my workplace once (IIS, Win2k) that got broken into and used to store pirated movies. This was before torrents existed.
The method was to have a "facsimilie" of a web page using spaces and other odd characters and permissions on an FTP list. So; "dir" (or "ls" for Unix flavors) would display logos and menus and such. Pretty cool really.
If the guy was mirroring something, or had his computer broken into, or had just copied a drive from somewhere, you could easily get thousands of oddly named "extra" folders present that DON'T actually represent more data other than their names. That would be known to the authorities in this case of course, but wouldn't be mentioned in their public appeal towards "let's violate this guy's Constitutional rights, pretty please! He's real bad!"
My sense is in this case the police are lying.
While it's probable also the guys doing something, even the collection of highly circumstantial evidence that points to that isn't grounds for nullifying the constitution.
Maybe Americans need to get out in the world more, and see and talk to people who have dealt with actual police states, who have lived under actual tyranny. Just because you have a broken democracy with some serious issues that need to be addressed doesn't mean you are the verge of collapsing into 1984. It is like watching someone get a bad cut on their arm and leg, and then go on and on about how they are going to die and to tell their wife they love her, etc., when despite needing to take care of the cut but are not in any short term risk of dying
Why should we tolerate "nigh-third world shithole conditions" just because a WORSE third world shithole exists?
Here's a cluebat for you moron, those places got the way they did because people didn't fight hard enough, or recognize what was happening, or were bought off.
- it lets the owner (if the claim is not valid) put the content back up and protects the host
- it passes the contact information between the two claimants, which sets the stage for "see you in court"
Since the host has followed the law, they can wait for the court order if it comes.
Making, transferring, and selling (distinct from merely transferring) are all regulated by federal statute.
You can make without a license if you register the item and pay the tax. Only a licensed FFL / SOT can sell as part of business activities, and transfers between individuals usually must be conducted through a licensee as well./IANAL, watch yer cornhole
Individual transfers, known as "face-to-face" or FTF are legal or not depending on the state. In my state, I can walk up, hand a gun over to someone that wants it without speaking a word, and walk off, and it's a legal transfer. It all depends on what level of lenninism has infiltrated your state.
The "Wi-fi never works again" bug^h^h^h feature is the fix.
Just update you iDevice, or get it warm, or get it cool, or bump it, or don't update it and your Wi-FI might drop off WiFi forever. Fixing the problem! Apple, it just works!
It's going to be useful if someone is trying a targeted attack directly on your server. That way they know what version you are running, and can go to the correct source code trying to find a vulnerability, and not waste time on newer versions, or older versions, or patched versions, or whatever.
Not really. Even targeted attacks are begun by an automated probe that just tries everything and sees what sticks.
It's a foolish thing to care about. The headers shouldn't be there, and if they are, it shouldn't matter. It takes literally seconds or minutes to ferret out what the tool is, and often the site says so right in a page somewhere.
Caring about it is for fools or people who want to lead those fools away from their money.
But they're using the corporate line that more PC makes should be using touch screens to show off Windows 8 better. Which is a stupid excuse, since the entire world isn't going to get a new PC just because of Windows 8, and they're certainly not going to buy the very expensive touch screen capable ones. The issues still remains that Metro is a silly and clumsy UI to use on real world computers in actual use today.
Touch screens will never take off in an office environment. People have repetitive stress injuries as it is from dragging a mouse across a flat surface. Arms up like some goddamn ape all the time jabbing a screen is going to cause real, non trivial, actual damage to people who will get compensation or lose actual productivity for the company. Not to mention the anal ones that wont want to be looking through greasy finger prints all the time... and the fact they are expensive, and prone to failure...
Microsoft didn't think. That's all there is to it.
I'm fine with that. Provided they have a clearly/easily accessible switch in the UI somewhere that turns the default behavior the hell off, which is how they should have had it set up in the first place. I know: they can call it "classic" mode. A mode they should have had a clue to include because they've done it before.
Learning curve? More like Microsoft is the one climbing the learning curve to re-learn things they should already know. But, hey, if they figure this out, maybe there's some hope they will offer a "classic" mode for the Ribbon in MS Office as well.
Beta versions of Win 8 had "legacy mode" and it could be switched on and off. The code to do this, has already been written and works. They just didn't include it in the final version.
I'd be OK with a registry hack even, just so long as it's not something the user has to do every time they boot.
I must be the only person who actually prefers the metro menu thing. I don't think I could go back to the small and horribly ordered (unless you spend the tedium of organizing it constantly) menu again. I like having all my main programs organized and displayed prominently. The metro screen is the best thing they did in Win 8, really (outside of making SD and Network transfers less idiotic).
Metro apps are still mostly crap, and they still need to make the whole OS feel less "tacked on", and work on UI and app consistency, though.
If this update is $15-20 I'll grab it. If not... I don't mind Win 8.
I can do the same thing on Win 7 with pinning buttons to the task bar or shortcuts on the desktop, or a widget that starts stuff.
Get your eyes checked, if you are having trouble finding stuff you probably need vision corrected or to get checked for glaucoma.
Actually as so many people seem to not realize. Hitting the windows button and typing what you want (like vista/7) still brings you up a list of matching apps/files/settings. This is the single and only use I have for the start menu since vista and it still works. Difference is now it brings up a full screen search result with more details.
The "oh look! they didn't fuck up EVERYTHING!" post of the day.
Windows has had that capability in one form or another (I admit, not all were useful) since Windows 95. The fact that they didn't take it out, is not a positive point. It's a neutral point.
Subsequently, a study by McPhedran and Baker compared the incidence of mass shootings in Australian and New Zealand. Data were standardised to a rate per 100,000 people, to control for differences in population size between the countries and mass shootings before and after 1996/1997 were compared between countries. That study found that in the period 1980–1996, both countries experienced mass shootings. The rate did not differ significantly between countries. However since 1996/1997, neither country has experienced a mass shooting event despite the continued availability of semi-automatic longarms in New Zealand. The authors conclude that “the hypothesis that Australia’s prohibition of certain types of firearms explains the absence of mass shootings in that country since 1996 does not appear to be supported if civilian access to certain types of firearms explained the occurrence of mass shootings in Australia (and conversely, if prohibiting such firearms explains the absence of mass shootings), then New Zealand (a country that still allows the ownership of such firearms) would have continued to experience mass shooting events.”
So, now we are only worried about "mass shootings" eh?
Nicely moved goal posts there. GP was talking about how the numbers for your side fail in "crimes of passion" type murders, not "mass shootings".
Care to address the issue at hand? Or are you just going to keep spreading lies....
You can do what you want with Title 1 firearms, as long as you don't INTEND to transfer them later.
If you make one, decide you want something else a year later, you can sell what you made no problem.
Just don't get caught doing stuff like repeatedly making the same (more or less) gun, "intent" is not just what you intend it's also appearances and what you can or can't get convicted on. So don't play fast and loose with the numbers.
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I understand your point, but you seem to fail to grasp mine. IT as a whole is indeed a savings center, but those savings materialize elsewhere, the IT department as such is a cost center. It may save more for other departments than its own costs, making a net profit, but that is only a "virtual" profit, not a "real" one, because unless your company is a tech company, IT itself generates no revenue, and as such, no profit. The real profit comes from the revenue of marketeers (or Sales, as someone pointed out, quite rightly), which is augmented by the savings IT makes for everyone, but themselves.
So in the end, IT itself is a sink, whose costs materialize as savings elsewhere (multipliers may vary by department).
Look, dumbfuck, profit is a simple equation: (sales $ in) - (expenses) = (profit)
Manipulating either of the two variables before the equals will affect the profit.
Money is fungible, and both variables on that equation are fungible. Manipulating either one, or heck, both so they both go up will increase profits.
As usual, you sales weasels are distorting things (i.e. LIES) to promote your view. The thing is, all you are doing is making yourself look stupid in the process. SUCCESS AGAIN! for the sales department!
Actually there is. The two major GSM carriers, T-Mobile and AT&T, share a database. Sprint and Verizon will be joining that database by the end of the year; though not that stealing a CDMA phone does you much good on a GSM network and vice versa at the moment. In any case the problem is that the IMEI database is not enough;
The solution then is that rather than merely unreliably blocking a phone, the phone needs to be disabled entirely so that a stolen phone cannot be of any value. It essentially needs to be (reversibly) destroyed if stolen, to eliminate all financial incentive for stealing a phone. This is why the Attorneys General and other law enforcement officials want kill switches, so that shipping a purloined phone overseas is no longer a viable business, ultimately leading to criminals to stop stealing the damn things.
It doesn't have to be perfect, it just needs to make re-use of the phone more expensive.
"reversible" and "hard to defeat" seems like two requirements that would be fulfilled by some sort of encryption. Maybe activating the phone writes the firmware with an encryption code generated by the serial number and something the user sets up and stores with the carrier. Or a hash of some kind like a password (make the phone do some CPU work to connect).
People stealing phones that are causing a problem are the 15 year old ghetto goblins riding the public bus. 99% of the time, the phone is wiped and re used by the same person that stole it in the first place. They need to cut out that loop. Not the "has a lab full of stuff to take apart an iPhone" criminal.
Why "kill" a device when you stand a good chance of getting it back? Killing it does nobody any good, and has lots of quite horrible abuse potential.
You are fucking stupid if you think the pigs are going to go chase down a petty-theft phone based off information gathered by the victim.
They don't do that now, if the victim of credit card fraud has proof of tens of thousands of dollars of goods going to someone's house, and have their IP tracked and everything.
So, you'll be left with knocking on the door and shooting, or knocking on the door and hoping they don't drag you in and rape you... and in both cases, not getting the phone back.
We just need to remove the rules about "disguised guns" and have someone come up with a .22 Magnum double barrel derringer that fits in a smart phone-looking case. The problem will solve itself in a few weeks.
"No problem, I don't want any trouble, here's my phone bro BANG! BANG!.... thud."
Not all hacking comes from the government, but as they say, probably a good part do. That was what i read in their denial, "this time, i think that wasn't us"
I'd like to hear a good argument by those that think this was the government, why they would feel it appropriate (as in, best method of completing the task) to use her accounts to log in?
Compromised account? Sure that wasn't some 50 year old sysadmin that thought she was hot and was looking for pictures of her she might have put on the computer? Like, what girl doesn't have mirror shots taken from her phone once in a while? He wanted to see some of her skin. Not get her work data.
I am one of the more paranoid assholes concerning Hussain Obama's fuckups, but this just seems like "rogue sysadmin" and not like "government"
Why would the government use an undisclosed security hole in windows, then log onto her account, and then search for files? Why not just use the hole to search for files? Or fuck, clone the hard drive without leaving any evidence behind besides a SATA cable that's a little more loose than it would be otherwise?
Occam's Razor and all that.
You wont be able to find any illegal content hosted by the site no matter how long and hard you look, what you will find however are .torrent files and magnet links. Big difference but not one I'd expect you to be willing to accept.
While technically true. KAT.ph has served up malicious malware-infecting ads and solicitations for what are obviously scams for a long time. It's not like they are saints.
That said it was a good site.... I am not going to bother with the "alternative" domains, those sites always go down shortly afterwards anyway.
As a Brit, I've always wondered about how you guys look back on the revolution. Since the US was created out of a revolutionary war you'd think that there could be no act that is more than in keeping with the spirit and founding principles of the republic than seeking to overthrow a government that has overstepped its bounds. But most of your 'patriotic' type pundits seem to view any form of anti-establishment sentiment as either communism or treason.
In the UK we've never really gone in for violent revolution, so I can understand why our national identity doesn't lend itself to direct action. But you guys are always going on about the glory of the republic and the benefits that you gained via armed struggle against the state. How do you keep those sort if ideas straight in your heads alongside the sort of 'my country, right or wrong' jingoism that has you reciting oaths of loyalty in school and so forth?
Are you also confused about why Americans buy, keep, use,and love guns so much?
Take those two facts and rub them together for a little while and you'll figure it out.
Firstly, the 3d printed guns aren't 100% 3d printed, you can't use plastic for all of it. Second, they work once or twice before they break down. Third, they have a high chance of exploding in your hand. Lastly, have you seen one? I'd be more scared of someone holding a lego gun. Actually, it kinda looks like it's made of lego.
Your information is old.
Since the first guy published his "printed gun" improvements have been made. Interchangeable multi-shot barrels and plastic springs for magazines have both been done.
Not reliable yet by any means, but things are progressing very fast.
An innovative designer could make a receiver for a pipe-shotgun with quick change barrels and as long as the pipe was long enough it would be legal.
The days of "control" over this stuff have slipped away.
Speaking as a leftist of a stripe, we're not. Seriously. Don't get me wrong, I think you're insane for thinking a gun is going to give you any protection from anyone armed with more than a saturday night special, don't think the constitution says anything about you individually having the right to own a gun, and don't like you personally (for trolling), but I'm actually mad that Obama et al are wasting political capitol on gun control.
Just wait until the current president is voted out of office and the next republican is in office. You will be doubly-sorry this stuff was started then when it's used to chase down and out women who have had abortions, people that don't go to church, and all kinds of other sinners.
Who's got guns won't matter when the feds decide to use information to destroy you. Gonna shoot back at a web page with your mom's three abortions listed on it? HA!
Your disregard for portions of the Constitution will cause the downfall of all of the Constitution.
Like this guy? http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/video-maker-blamed-for-benghazi-remains-jailed/
No; that guy is in jail for tax evasion, using an alias after a judge strictly forbid him from doing so, and fraud; well he should be incarcerated, considering the fact that he's 100% guilty.
ProTip: You'd be more well informed getting your news from the fucking Enquirer than World News Daily.
"Tax evasion" as alleged by the known to be corrupt and used for political purposes IRS? That kind of "tax evasion"?
Couple this with the social unrest of the one-child per family, resulting in 30 million unmarried men, and you have the fodder stimulating a revolution.
Revolution, or war with Taiwan / US.
As soon as they figure out how to move a couple million guys across the water fast. Look out.
Right because instead of spending their time manipulating the USD, Yen, Euro, etc. to make 100s of millions if not billions of dollars or more [BitCoin users use BitCoins, which are] used by a less than a thousandth of 1% of the world. Yeah, real [smart].
The start up costs and complication of manipulating real-world markets (as opposed to fake stuff) are astronomically high. Some governments couldn't manage it if they tried.
On the other hand, one nerd who can dDOS and a couple small time hoods could pull off a BitCoin manipulation scam.
Your arrogance in thinking BitCoin is equivalent to a world market "USD, Yen, Euro, etc." is proof positive that these types of attacks will continue to happen. BitCoin is for stupid people, or smart people acting stupidly.
See, this is where I don't get it. If I were to be storing info that I didn't people to get... weather it be child porn like this guy or I had some super sekret government documents, I wouldn't rely encryption at all. Just put the computers on UPS's, then coat the hardrives with phosphorus. Glue a model rocket igniter to the works and hook it up to a relay. When they pull the plug on the computer, it ignites and the hard drive turns into a pool of goo.
Lol, that's too much work. Just make it LOOK like you have a bomb mounted around the hard drive. The bomb squad will show up, and destroy the evidence for you. No problem!
There was a server compromised at my workplace once (IIS, Win2k) that got broken into and used to store pirated movies. This was before torrents existed.
The method was to have a "facsimilie" of a web page using spaces and other odd characters and permissions on an FTP list. So; "dir" (or "ls" for Unix flavors) would display logos and menus and such. Pretty cool really.
If the guy was mirroring something, or had his computer broken into, or had just copied a drive from somewhere, you could easily get thousands of oddly named "extra" folders present that DON'T actually represent more data other than their names. That would be known to the authorities in this case of course, but wouldn't be mentioned in their public appeal towards "let's violate this guy's Constitutional rights, pretty please! He's real bad!"
My sense is in this case the police are lying.
While it's probable also the guys doing something, even the collection of highly circumstantial evidence that points to that isn't grounds for nullifying the constitution.
Maybe Americans need to get out in the world more, and see and talk to people who have dealt with actual police states, who have lived under actual tyranny. Just because you have a broken democracy with some serious issues that need to be addressed doesn't mean you are the verge of collapsing into 1984. It is like watching someone get a bad cut on their arm and leg, and then go on and on about how they are going to die and to tell their wife they love her, etc., when despite needing to take care of the cut but are not in any short term risk of dying
Why should we tolerate "nigh-third world shithole conditions" just because a WORSE third world shithole exists?
Here's a cluebat for you moron, those places got the way they did because people didn't fight hard enough, or recognize what was happening, or were bought off.
The point of the counter notice is two fold;
- it lets the owner (if the claim is not valid) put the content back up and protects the host
- it passes the contact information between the two claimants, which sets the stage for "see you in court"
Since the host has followed the law, they can wait for the court order if it comes.
Making, transferring, and selling (distinct from merely transferring) are all regulated by federal statute.
You can make without a license if you register the item and pay the tax. Only a licensed FFL / SOT can sell as part of business activities, and transfers between individuals usually must be conducted through a licensee as well. /IANAL, watch yer cornhole
Individual transfers, known as "face-to-face" or FTF are legal or not depending on the state. In my state, I can walk up, hand a gun over to someone that wants it without speaking a word, and walk off, and it's a legal transfer. It all depends on what level of lenninism has infiltrated your state.
The "Wi-fi never works again" bug^h^h^h feature is the fix.
Just update you iDevice, or get it warm, or get it cool, or bump it, or don't update it and your Wi-FI might drop off WiFi forever. Fixing the problem! Apple, it just works!
It's going to be useful if someone is trying a targeted attack directly on your server. That way they know what version you are running, and can go to the correct source code trying to find a vulnerability, and not waste time on newer versions, or older versions, or patched versions, or whatever.
Not really. Even targeted attacks are begun by an automated probe that just tries everything and sees what sticks.
It's a foolish thing to care about. The headers shouldn't be there, and if they are, it shouldn't matter. It takes literally seconds or minutes to ferret out what the tool is, and often the site says so right in a page somewhere.
Caring about it is for fools or people who want to lead those fools away from their money.
But they're using the corporate line that more PC makes should be using touch screens to show off Windows 8 better. Which is a stupid excuse, since the entire world isn't going to get a new PC just because of Windows 8, and they're certainly not going to buy the very expensive touch screen capable ones. The issues still remains that Metro is a silly and clumsy UI to use on real world computers in actual use today.
Touch screens will never take off in an office environment. People have repetitive stress injuries as it is from dragging a mouse across a flat surface. Arms up like some goddamn ape all the time jabbing a screen is going to cause real, non trivial, actual damage to people who will get compensation or lose actual productivity for the company. Not to mention the anal ones that wont want to be looking through greasy finger prints all the time... and the fact they are expensive, and prone to failure...
Microsoft didn't think. That's all there is to it.
I'm fine with that. Provided they have a clearly/easily accessible switch in the UI somewhere that turns the default behavior the hell off, which is how they should have had it set up in the first place. I know: they can call it "classic" mode. A mode they should have had a clue to include because they've done it before.
Learning curve? More like Microsoft is the one climbing the learning curve to re-learn things they should already know. But, hey, if they figure this out, maybe there's some hope they will offer a "classic" mode for the Ribbon in MS Office as well.
Beta versions of Win 8 had "legacy mode" and it could be switched on and off. The code to do this, has already been written and works. They just didn't include it in the final version.
I'd be OK with a registry hack even, just so long as it's not something the user has to do every time they boot.
I must be the only person who actually prefers the metro menu thing. I don't think I could go back to the small and horribly ordered (unless you spend the tedium of organizing it constantly) menu again. I like having all my main programs organized and displayed prominently. The metro screen is the best thing they did in Win 8, really (outside of making SD and Network transfers less idiotic).
Metro apps are still mostly crap, and they still need to make the whole OS feel less "tacked on", and work on UI and app consistency, though.
If this update is $15-20 I'll grab it. If not... I don't mind Win 8.
I can do the same thing on Win 7 with pinning buttons to the task bar or shortcuts on the desktop, or a widget that starts stuff.
Get your eyes checked, if you are having trouble finding stuff you probably need vision corrected or to get checked for glaucoma.
Actually as so many people seem to not realize. Hitting the windows button and typing what you want (like vista/7) still brings you up a list of matching apps/files/settings. This is the single and only use I have for the start menu since vista and it still works. Difference is now it brings up a full screen search result with more details.
The "oh look! they didn't fuck up EVERYTHING!" post of the day.
Windows has had that capability in one form or another (I admit, not all were useful) since Windows 95. The fact that they didn't take it out, is not a positive point. It's a neutral point.
Subsequently, a study by McPhedran and Baker compared the incidence of mass shootings in Australian and New Zealand. Data were standardised to a rate per 100,000 people, to control for differences in population size between the countries and mass shootings before and after 1996/1997 were compared between countries. That study found that in the period 1980–1996, both countries experienced mass shootings. The rate did not differ significantly between countries. However since 1996/1997, neither country has experienced a mass shooting event despite the continued availability of semi-automatic longarms in New Zealand. The authors conclude that “the hypothesis that Australia’s prohibition of certain types of firearms explains the absence of mass shootings in that country since 1996 does not appear to be supported if civilian access to certain types of firearms explained the occurrence of mass shootings in Australia (and conversely, if prohibiting such firearms explains the absence of mass shootings), then New Zealand (a country that still allows the ownership of such firearms) would have continued to experience mass shooting events.”
So, now we are only worried about "mass shootings" eh?
Nicely moved goal posts there. GP was talking about how the numbers for your side fail in "crimes of passion" type murders, not "mass shootings".
Care to address the issue at hand? Or are you just going to keep spreading lies....
"intent" is key.
You can do what you want with Title 1 firearms, as long as you don't INTEND to transfer them later.
If you make one, decide you want something else a year later, you can sell what you made no problem.
Just don't get caught doing stuff like repeatedly making the same (more or less) gun, "intent" is not just what you intend it's also appearances and what you can or can't get convicted on. So don't play fast and loose with the numbers.