3. If your lawyer has this on his (her) phone, are they in breach of confidence? What about now that they know about CIQ? 4. If a medical *anything* has this on their phone, is this a HIPAA issue?
> If this guy really is so damn shady, they should have no trouble at all getting a warrant. If there's not even enough suspicion to get a warrant, he certainly deserves to be left alone.
That actually might be the point in favor of these tactics. If he'd not found the GPS, nobody would have known he was being investigated. Since he DID find it, though, half of slashdot now thinks he's a drug-mule, or worse. His reputation has been tainted just by being investigated. Granted he's probably not an ideal example, but you get my point.
The secrecy prevents the neighbors from passing judgement, which effectively does leave him "alone" with no impact. OTOH I'm a big fan of "If I have nothing to hide, you have no reason to look." And in this day and age, if we need papers... so do they. Get a warrant.
Most certainly is very relevant to the question. His entire premise is NOT losing data. He went out of his way to recite two separate anecdotes to that effect. And none of his solutions resolve that goal.
You will spend all this effort to build this solution... and then your house will catch fire.
On the good side, the fire department WILL manage to save the basement by filling it with 80,000 gallons of water at 2,000GPM per fire engine.
Or, you'll be wiped out by a flood. Or a drunk will drive through the side of your house. Or you'll have a gas leak and the house will detonate. Or carpenter ants will eat away the floor joists.
Raid is not a backup solution. Neither is replication... if you whack the data, it'll likely be replicated. If you get a compromised machine somewhere, files they touch will likely be replicated. They only thing you're creating is an overly complex hardware mitigation. If THAT is how you define "data preservation"... you're doing it wrong.
Look more for a solution to move stuff offsite - a cheap pair of N routers running Tomato or OpenWRT, to a neighbor's house, and you reciprocate with each other. Bonus points if you use versions, transaction logs, journals, etc.
> Are you willing to pay $50 more for a crapware-free pc (if so, please give me a call, I will happily clean your PC for you remotely for $50--it really doesnt take that much effort).
If that's what your time is worth, you really aren't qualified to be touching any machines we buy.
However, the position becomes weak when there IS a security issue and Verizon fails to patch it within minutes of a fix being available. Or as WinMo 6 users like to call it, "The Windows Update feature that Wasn't."
Makes me wonder if we should start demanding "entrepreneur" classes in high schools. None of the super-rich people I know used a college degree to get where they are, they either found an opportunity, or created one - and then followed it. (And usually failed 500000 times before succeeding.) It occurs to me that most of the degrees being pursued these days are of little merit, anyway. Never mind Philosophy and PolySci - I mean, HTF do you get a 4 year out of "Web Design?"
It does occur to me that many college tracks are in fact trade-school topics. I'm not saying this to disparage those topics, either - I'm thinking that the colleges have hijacked, relabeled, and over-priced the products from a different market. We now believe that we need a 4yr to do data entry jobs, when those tasks were previously tied to vocational training, for example. As I read the various posts in this topic, the terror from seeing that escalation seems a common them - never mind becoming a Rocket Scientist, if we deny college loans, we won't be able to get the PhD required to make French Fries in 10 years. Apologies that I cannot phrase it better than that.
> "the signalling function of graduating"
I absolutely believe that, which for many, makes college an even worse choice -
Someone did a study a few years back about the chances of a "nobody" making yourself a millionaire if you were born here, vs if you were an immigrant just arriving with nothing to your name. And while I don't remember the numbers, the odds were much higher for the immigrant - the argument made was that the immigrants had nothing to lose, and weren't afraid to chase an opportunity. From that perspective, having a large student loan is just a boat anchor. From that perspective, the largest asset is the freedom to fail, and the belief that you can do so. Colleges do not teach this culture, and debt is not compatible with it.
Another suggestion was that the immigrants tended to see opportunities that the rest of us miss, write off, or ignore. How many times have you had an idea for something stupid - like a toy flying monkey that you fling across the room at your co-workers, or perhaps a fancy in-the-shell egg scrambler, or even this week's Fart App - and NOT followed up on it. The study raised a good question about why our culture has taught us to not follow up on such things, whereas the immigrant would tend to run with it.
I don't know what the answer is. For the 10% that actually pursue a degree of merit AND a career that uses it - Engineering, Bio, Finance, whatever - colleges are wonderful. But for the other 90% getting Liberal Art degrees... Education is crucial, but not the crap being pushed at most colleges. People need to be taught that they CAN succeed, and be taught how to find or create the tools they need. A $120,000 BA in "Art History" does not do that - the kids think they need a degree to compete, but all that does is put a boat anchor on them, and force them into a culture that punishes the taking of risks. None of these kids deserve that fate. They deserve the tools to succeed and the ability to fail, fail some more, and then fail again, and keep failing until they make it.
I often wonder how many problems have been solved, and cool things thought up, only to be "never-happened" because the person didn't run with it.
It's a fantastic idea for non-mailbombers (and I don't mean that in a negative way). Consider...
If the O365 is a constant source of crapflood, some may blacklist it... or more likely, the headers will be scored highly in their bayes corpus. It's no different than the reputation problem that MessageLabs has - they are hostage to their worst behaving customer - but MS has hopefully realized that whitelisting is a horrible workaround, and is taking steps to avoid recipients needing to whitelist (which we will not do).
Remember, the typical O365 user is a retard who is quite happy to hit Ctrl-A, Send. This includes chain letters, TeaBag incitements, FW:FW:FW:FW:FW:FW:FW:FW from @aol.com, and (rarely) Today's Menu Specials@LocalDeli.com.
> I didn't replace any of my 80 raid gear until actual better pieces dropped, and that didn't happen til heroics and rep gear,
Please don't tell me you used "maxdps.com" and no greens were suggested as upgrades. I'm pretty sure that every AEP calculator on the planet agrees that you're doing it wrong.
I ended LK with a full set of top tier, as did most in my guild. And almost all of mine was gone within two levels. If you actually believe that your hit, expertise, or any other caps were being maintained as you leveled up...
Yeah, but because of 2001, THOSE types of hijackers have been forced to move into hijacking trains and buses. It is quite the irony - the TSA is supposed to be saving lives, but is instead responsible for more drownings per year than eating-before-swimming.
Other point, lest we forget - all of this depends on what the max charge rate of the battery is. If you exceed it, depending on chemistry - you'll be in for a bad day.
There's a reason we charge our little 45C LiPos at only 1C, as one specific example. Lead cells losing hydrogen is another. It doesn't matter if you have a 240V/100MegaAmp supply - a battery can only soak so much, and the faster you try to saturate it... well, each chemistry has it's own trade offs, some of them not so nice.
You're suggesting that the bank is taking a huge risk by loaning to a jobless 18 year old, and the interest rate is appropriate for the risk they're taking.
I hereby call Shenanigans on you. The bank is taking ZERO risk with these loans. Shenanigans, I say!
...unless some of the numbers are intentionally wrong, as markers. Then *those* are fiction, and (some would argue) eligible for copyright protection.
Remember the old practice of cartographers adding fictitious details that would be unique to their work - same deal, in theory. If a rival's map had those features, it would be a slam dunk infringement.
I have no clue if such elements were present in the TZ list, however.
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3. If your lawyer has this on his (her) phone, are they in breach of confidence? What about now that they know about CIQ?
4. If a medical *anything* has this on their phone, is this a HIPAA issue?
That would be one of them, yes.
Still have it, in fact!
Err... if you're running Windows in a VM... ...you're running Windows.
> If this guy really is so damn shady, they should have no trouble at all getting a warrant. If there's not even enough suspicion to get a warrant, he certainly deserves to be left alone.
That actually might be the point in favor of these tactics. If he'd not found the GPS, nobody would have known he was being investigated. Since he DID find it, though, half of slashdot now thinks he's a drug-mule, or worse. His reputation has been tainted just by being investigated. Granted he's probably not an ideal example, but you get my point.
The secrecy prevents the neighbors from passing judgement, which effectively does leave him "alone" with no impact. OTOH I'm a big fan of "If I have nothing to hide, you have no reason to look." And in this day and age, if we need papers... so do they. Get a warrant.
...since they handle more packages per day than those two combined, anyway.
Most certainly is very relevant to the question. His entire premise is NOT losing data. He went out of his way to recite two separate anecdotes to that effect. And none of his solutions resolve that goal.
You will spend all this effort to build this solution... and then your house will catch fire.
On the good side, the fire department WILL manage to save the basement by filling it with 80,000 gallons of water at 2,000GPM per fire engine.
Or, you'll be wiped out by a flood. Or a drunk will drive through the side of your house. Or you'll have a gas leak and the house will detonate. Or carpenter ants will eat away the floor joists.
Raid is not a backup solution. Neither is replication... if you whack the data, it'll likely be replicated. If you get a compromised machine somewhere, files they touch will likely be replicated. They only thing you're creating is an overly complex hardware mitigation. If THAT is how you define "data preservation"... you're doing it wrong.
Look more for a solution to move stuff offsite - a cheap pair of N routers running Tomato or OpenWRT, to a neighbor's house, and you reciprocate with each other. Bonus points if you use versions, transaction logs, journals, etc.
> I've seen only 2 HTCs in the wild.
I suspect you live in an iCave, or under an iRock.
Well then, just offload the problem into The Cloud!
Done!
> Are you willing to pay $50 more for a crapware-free pc (if so, please give me a call, I will happily clean your PC for you remotely for $50--it really doesnt take that much effort).
If that's what your time is worth, you really aren't qualified to be touching any machines we buy.
Interesting view that may hold water.
However, the position becomes weak when there IS a security issue and Verizon fails to patch it within minutes of a fix being available. Or as WinMo 6 users like to call it, "The Windows Update feature that Wasn't."
Makes me wonder if we should start demanding "entrepreneur" classes in high schools. None of the super-rich people I know used a college degree to get where they are, they either found an opportunity, or created one - and then followed it. (And usually failed 500000 times before succeeding.) It occurs to me that most of the degrees being pursued these days are of little merit, anyway. Never mind Philosophy and PolySci - I mean, HTF do you get a 4 year out of "Web Design?"
It does occur to me that many college tracks are in fact trade-school topics. I'm not saying this to disparage those topics, either - I'm thinking that the colleges have hijacked, relabeled, and over-priced the products from a different market. We now believe that we need a 4yr to do data entry jobs, when those tasks were previously tied to vocational training, for example. As I read the various posts in this topic, the terror from seeing that escalation seems a common them - never mind becoming a Rocket Scientist, if we deny college loans, we won't be able to get the PhD required to make French Fries in 10 years. Apologies that I cannot phrase it better than that.
> "the signalling function of graduating"
I absolutely believe that, which for many, makes college an even worse choice -
Someone did a study a few years back about the chances of a "nobody" making yourself a millionaire if you were born here, vs if you were an immigrant just arriving with nothing to your name. And while I don't remember the numbers, the odds were much higher for the immigrant - the argument made was that the immigrants had nothing to lose, and weren't afraid to chase an opportunity. From that perspective, having a large student loan is just a boat anchor. From that perspective, the largest asset is the freedom to fail, and the belief that you can do so. Colleges do not teach this culture, and debt is not compatible with it.
Another suggestion was that the immigrants tended to see opportunities that the rest of us miss, write off, or ignore. How many times have you had an idea for something stupid - like a toy flying monkey that you fling across the room at your co-workers, or perhaps a fancy in-the-shell egg scrambler, or even this week's Fart App - and NOT followed up on it. The study raised a good question about why our culture has taught us to not follow up on such things, whereas the immigrant would tend to run with it.
I don't know what the answer is. For the 10% that actually pursue a degree of merit AND a career that uses it - Engineering, Bio, Finance, whatever - colleges are wonderful. But for the other 90% getting Liberal Art degrees... Education is crucial, but not the crap being pushed at most colleges. People need to be taught that they CAN succeed, and be taught how to find or create the tools they need. A $120,000 BA in "Art History" does not do that - the kids think they need a degree to compete, but all that does is put a boat anchor on them, and force them into a culture that punishes the taking of risks. None of these kids deserve that fate. They deserve the tools to succeed and the ability to fail, fail some more, and then fail again, and keep failing until they make it.
I often wonder how many problems have been solved, and cool things thought up, only to be "never-happened" because the person didn't run with it.
I think they need to bring back Palin. She'd even make Parry (with an A) look better.
Your point is valid, but remember that subsidies usually have strings attached. Remember Reagan's 55mph national speed limit, etc.
Actually, yes it does mean it is alright. When other people "need" enough, they tend to start killing the people who call them parasites.
A bunch of parasites made the news in Libya the other day, in fact.
It's a fantastic idea for non-mailbombers (and I don't mean that in a negative way). Consider...
If the O365 is a constant source of crapflood, some may blacklist it... or more likely, the headers will be scored highly in their bayes corpus. It's no different than the reputation problem that MessageLabs has - they are hostage to their worst behaving customer - but MS has hopefully realized that whitelisting is a horrible workaround, and is taking steps to avoid recipients needing to whitelist (which we will not do).
Remember, the typical O365 user is a retard who is quite happy to hit Ctrl-A, Send. This includes chain letters, TeaBag incitements, FW:FW:FW:FW:FW:FW:FW:FW from @aol.com, and (rarely) Today's Menu Specials@LocalDeli.com.
> I didn't replace any of my 80 raid gear until actual better pieces dropped, and that didn't happen til heroics and rep gear,
Please don't tell me you used "maxdps.com" and no greens were suggested as upgrades. I'm pretty sure that every AEP calculator on the planet agrees that you're doing it wrong.
I ended LK with a full set of top tier, as did most in my guild. And almost all of mine was gone within two levels. If you actually believe that your hit, expertise, or any other caps were being maintained as you leveled up...
Dammit Wyatt, tell her to post more greys below vendor price, please. :)
Yeah, but because of 2001, THOSE types of hijackers have been forced to move into hijacking trains and buses. It is quite the irony - the TSA is supposed to be saving lives, but is instead responsible for more drownings per year than eating-before-swimming.
Other point, lest we forget - all of this depends on what the max charge rate of the battery is. If you exceed it, depending on chemistry - you'll be in for a bad day.
There's a reason we charge our little 45C LiPos at only 1C, as one specific example. Lead cells losing hydrogen is another. It doesn't matter if you have a 240V/100MegaAmp supply - a battery can only soak so much, and the faster you try to saturate it... well, each chemistry has it's own trade offs, some of them not so nice.
> I really wish folks would stop bringing up the Streisand effect
I see what you did there.
You're suggesting that the bank is taking a huge risk by loaning to a jobless 18 year old, and the interest rate is appropriate for the risk they're taking.
I hereby call Shenanigans on you. The bank is taking ZERO risk with these loans. Shenanigans, I say!
You make a decision, and either decide you want their crap, or you decide to stop using their service.
...unless some of the numbers are intentionally wrong, as markers. Then *those* are fiction, and (some would argue) eligible for copyright protection.
Remember the old practice of cartographers adding fictitious details that would be unique to their work - same deal, in theory. If a rival's map had those features, it would be a slam dunk infringement.
I have no clue if such elements were present in the TZ list, however.
Damn, all that haiku now scares me.