"...if you want to militarise some profession, which is effectively what you're doing when you make striking illegal, you do it in advance and make sure every worker has provided informed consent."
A large counter-balancing force to the strike is the risk that the company you're working for will not be competitive. You may lose your job if the organization dissolves.
In any job where there's a government granted monopoly, there is no such counter-force. Your company will never go bankrupt, you will never lose marketshare. There's no danger to striking.
Combining government-granted immunity to job loss with a right to strike, is a power imbalance. Allow open competition or take away the right to strike.
The U.S. just has a different spin on "freedom". Did you catch the video of the TSA assaulting the 3-year-old and the father standing helplessly while it happened for fear of being arrested? Do you suppose in China they watch videos of Americans being waterboarded, or stories about U.K. police gunning innocent people down in the subway?
There's no shortage of ugly propaganda on both sides. Don't think China is so bad, and don't think the U.S. is so good. It's all somewhere in the middle, on both sides.
I'm in Canada, and if I'm roaming, I fully expect to be brutally RAPED by my telco.
When down in the U.S. recently, I turned my radio off, and I really, really hope that my phone didn't apply some kind of undocumented feature to try to access some wireless data while I was out. If so, I'm screwed.
It's not just Canada either. A friend in Germany had a GPS on his new smartphone. He used the GPS to get his current location, figuring it would cost a few bucks, but it was cool. He didn't know that the app went into the background.... At the end of the month, his bill was 6000 Euro... at the time, that's about $10k USD. They're forcing him to pay the bill. He's on social assistance.
These stories are not uncommon. A coworker had a bill for $4500 on an "Unlimited voice/Unlimited data" plan. Turns out that he didn't have the "Unlimited voice/Unlimited Data/Unlimited Tethering" plan. Another story was in the newspaper recently for a fellow who thought he'd look a couple things up on the net while he was overseas. What could it cost? $100 at the most? Who cares? oh no... the bill was in the thousands.
From that last one, it looks like I need to get the "unlimited/unlimited/unlimited/unlimited" plan if I wanted to check a web page while overseas. And here I thought the "unlimited/unlimited/unlimited" plan would be okay. Can't they just have a "please don't rape me?" plan?
They're thieves. I only have the plan because of work, and my bill and the contracts really make me very uncomfortable. What would have happened if my phone accidentally tunred on its radio and synced the email when I was in the U.S.? $10k mistake?
He could probably make a lot more money selling the tools and training to bookstores so that they can better price their books and better know which books don't sell at all. It's a good model.
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Russia does a lot of business with Iran. Ditto for Germany and the E.U. Where do you think they got all the Siemen's hardware and how do you think they flew it in?
What I don't get with EULA shrinkwrap agreements is the very assertion "by opening this box..."
I already have the right to open the box, I ignore their puny sticker and I refuse to relinquish my unfettered right to open the box, much less read their contract.
This is one of the most impressive things I've ever seen on the Internet. Finally, somebody is taking a new medium and presenting this kind of lecture material in a format and method where students can obtain the material themselves. Kids, without money, can actually obtain this stuff and learn from it. It's not a product being sold, it's just incredible. I dreamed of this kind of content as a kid. I think all geeks did. It was only available to be doled out by clueless adults to learn at the pace they felt you were ready for it, or it was crap being shoveled at parents to give their kids a "head start"
...and presenting it world-wide, this is *stunning*.
It's just how it goes here, some people find it easier to polarize opinions on a debate into "supporting mine" and "against mine" and assume that the people in the "against mine" group are all raving lunatics.
"Patents are like nuclear weapons. Even if you don't want to use the damned things offensively against others, you still want them so that you can threaten to use them on anyone who uses them on you."
Patents are different in Iran, they're only used for peaceful purposes.
Aside from the problem of revoking a self-signed cert, I agree with this self-signed philosophy.
The trick is that you need to find a way to bootstrap the trust. That will probably be an out-of-band communication, e.g., a letter, phonecall, visit to an office or something. But once you've established that trust, then you are not depending on multiple third parties, some politically hostile, to ensure that your communications are secure.
For out of band communication, putting a fingerprint of a signature on a business card could be one method. If you trust that the branch you visited was real, and the person you met was real, you could trust that signature, which could be used to verify the certificate presented by the website.
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Long term sleep deprivation is torture.
"...if you want to militarise some profession, which is effectively what you're doing when you make striking illegal, you do it in advance and make sure every worker has provided informed consent."
A large counter-balancing force to the strike is the risk that the company you're working for will not be competitive. You may lose your job if the organization dissolves.
In any job where there's a government granted monopoly, there is no such counter-force. Your company will never go bankrupt, you will never lose marketshare. There's no danger to striking.
Combining government-granted immunity to job loss with a right to strike, is a power imbalance. Allow open competition or take away the right to strike.
Me too.
I base this on observations among German technicians doing business in Iran and personal travels in Iran.
It's not an issue of ethics. The NSA and CIA pay a lot better and don't require you adhere to the laws of the Islamic republic.
Most good techs have the money and motivation to leave.
How else could you trust the caller? Phones are just another form of IT.
Damn, lost the url:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zok8yMxXEwk
Minute 12:30-13:20. Assange: "...This is why we called it Collatoral Murder"
Minute 12:30-13:20. Assange: "...This is why we called it Collatoral Murder"
Look at the Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prisoner_population_rate_UN_HDR_2007_2008.PNG
The U.S. just has a different spin on "freedom". Did you catch the video of the TSA assaulting the 3-year-old and the father standing helplessly while it happened for fear of being arrested? Do you suppose in China they watch videos of Americans being waterboarded, or stories about U.K. police gunning innocent people down in the subway?
There's no shortage of ugly propaganda on both sides. Don't think China is so bad, and don't think the U.S. is so good. It's all somewhere in the middle, on both sides.
The government is welcome to join our conference bridge for change meetings every Tuesday. It's a1 hour meeting where all changes are discussed.
Everyone dreads attending.
In Korea, only old people... I forget.
I'm in Canada, and if I'm roaming, I fully expect to be brutally RAPED by my telco.
When down in the U.S. recently, I turned my radio off, and I really, really hope that my phone didn't apply some kind of undocumented feature to try to access some wireless data while I was out. If so, I'm screwed.
It's not just Canada either. A friend in Germany had a GPS on his new smartphone. He used the GPS to get his current location, figuring it would cost a few bucks, but it was cool. He didn't know that the app went into the background.... At the end of the month, his bill was 6000 Euro... at the time, that's about $10k USD. They're forcing him to pay the bill. He's on social assistance.
These stories are not uncommon. A coworker had a bill for $4500 on an "Unlimited voice/Unlimited data" plan. Turns out that he didn't have the "Unlimited voice/Unlimited Data/Unlimited Tethering" plan. Another story was in the newspaper recently for a fellow who thought he'd look a couple things up on the net while he was overseas. What could it cost? $100 at the most? Who cares? oh no... the bill was in the thousands.
Just search Google:
http://www.ktvu.com/news/21927813/detail.html $21k
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20003930-71.html $18k
http://boingboing.net/2007/07/31/att-iphone-intl-roam.html $3k
From that last one, it looks like I need to get the "unlimited/unlimited/unlimited/unlimited" plan if I wanted to check a web page while overseas. And here I thought the "unlimited/unlimited/unlimited" plan would be okay. Can't they just have a "please don't rape me?" plan?
They're thieves. I only have the plan because of work, and my bill and the contracts really make me very uncomfortable. What would have happened if my phone accidentally tunred on its radio and synced the email when I was in the U.S.? $10k mistake?
He could probably make a lot more money selling the tools and training to bookstores so that they can better price their books and better know which books don't sell at all. It's a good model.
Maybe his girlfriend was 17?
Russia does a lot of business with Iran. Ditto for Germany and the E.U. Where do you think they got all the Siemen's hardware and how do you think they flew it in?
It's a fair observation, but it can also be disinformation. Insert obscure references to Israel so that people *think* it was Israel.
You can't trust anything in the worm.
Oh no.
I haven't been following the news, but what exactly are they doing so wrong?
Totally.
What I don't get with EULA shrinkwrap agreements is the very assertion "by opening this box..."
I already have the right to open the box, I ignore their puny sticker and I refuse to relinquish my unfettered right to open the box, much less read their contract.
This is one of the most impressive things I've ever seen on the Internet. Finally, somebody is taking a new medium and presenting this kind of lecture material in a format and method where students can obtain the material themselves. Kids, without money, can actually obtain this stuff and learn from it. It's not a product being sold, it's just incredible. I dreamed of this kind of content as a kid. I think all geeks did. It was only available to be doled out by clueless adults to learn at the pace they felt you were ready for it, or it was crap being shoveled at parents to give their kids a "head start"
...and presenting it world-wide, this is *stunning*.
OSM started before Google maps was launched, and certainly before Bing.
It's just how it goes here, some people find it easier to polarize opinions on a debate into "supporting mine" and "against mine" and assume that the people in the "against mine" group are all raving lunatics.
"Patents are like nuclear weapons. Even if you don't want to use the damned things offensively against others, you still want them so that you can threaten to use them on anyone who uses them on you."
Patents are different in Iran, they're only used for peaceful purposes.
Aside from the problem of revoking a self-signed cert, I agree with this self-signed philosophy.
The trick is that you need to find a way to bootstrap the trust. That will probably be an out-of-band communication, e.g., a letter, phonecall, visit to an office or something. But once you've established that trust, then you are not depending on multiple third parties, some politically hostile, to ensure that your communications are secure.
For out of band communication, putting a fingerprint of a signature on a business card could be one method. If you trust that the branch you visited was real, and the person you met was real, you could trust that signature, which could be used to verify the certificate presented by the website.
How do you revoke a self-signed cert?