Nobody is arguing that H1-Bs make $60k and experienced developers make $100k. The point is that the H1B can't replace a seasoned programmer. They can, however, put the new corporate branding on a web site for a much lower cost.
If you drive only 15 miles / day, you won't benefit from the lower operating costs of an electric vehicle. Right now you have a situation where the up-front cost of the equipment is higher and the savings are realized in the operational costs. This will only make sense if there is a lot of operation. Some people commute 45 minutes / day in traffic. They waste half their gas idling an ICE as they sit still on a freeway. This pollution is spewed out in the most densely populated areas. Switching these commuters to electric makes sense for their finances and for the environment. Of course it would be even better if they could work at home but that's not always possible. For those who don't drive very much at all, the up front costs represent the majority of the total cost.
I use low self-discharge Lithium Ion batteries in my smoke detector. My house has six of them. There isn't an issue with fast cut off if the smoke detectors are wired to mains electricity. The device either gets enough power from the battery or it makes a loud, annoying beep until you give it a fresh battery.
No, because buying the Anarchist's Cookbook isn't illegal. Setting up surveillance of people who bought the book is a form of harassment. This is more the equivalent of the police busting an illegal gun dealer and then writing down the license plates of people who show up there over the next few days. It doesn't mean those people are guilty but it does give them leads on who some of the customers might be. And they will investigate whoever shows up to buy an illegal gun.
I don't necessary support the practice but it does seem to be SOP that, when the government busts a CP site, they continue to run it for a period of time in hopes of catching the users. The honeypot will likely have honey in some cases. Well at least if one considers CP honey. I consider it poison.
Or they can just host the file on the CP server and get a list of people who have downloaded it. That doesn't prove anything but it gives them leads in terms of people they should investigate. If I were a judge, I would consider this probably cause. An AC has pointed out a way that this could be abused by dishonest LE and I don't see a good solution for that, unfortunately. But I struggle with the idea that we object to every tool that law enforcement uses even when done judiciously.
Also as I mentioned, the keyboard cases don't have a stiff hinge so its hard to adjust the screen angle if you don't have a table (i.e. its on your lap)
Have you used an iPad with a keyboard cover? I've used the Lenovo Miix tablet with a keyboard cover and the keyboard isn't nearly as good. It's similar to a surface tablet.
Or they are business people who want to answer email and create other content using a real keyboard. Those users don't need an incredible amount of CPU power, but the laptop form factor is pretty ideal. 2 in 1s are good in economy class, but if you fly in business class, a real laptop is much nicer on the plane. A low power mode used to be really good on a long flight although most long-haul flights have power outlets now so it's less of an issue. Admittedly the new MacBooks with the touch bar are supposedly pretty crappy keyboards but they are very fashionable.
I think that's what I said. The OP advocated for playing mathematically optimal poker and I'm arguing for bluffing. But it's worth pointing out a *reason* for bluffing. Even though this means that you aren't playing each hand in the optimal way that you would play video poker, this has a net positive effect because it avoids information disclosure. I'm not sure how this is getting read backwards. Bluffing is not mathematically option in term of the cards in your hand but it leads to a better outcome due to depriving your opponents of information. It's an easy concept to understand but quite hard to implement.
If you play in the way described, your bets essentially inform the other players of your cards. I am not a good poker players. But the good ones will play in a way that is sometimes mathematically suboptimal because, as you said, being the only one to know your cards is an advantage but that advantage has a cost.
Although most of your point seems reasonable, requiring Mandarin speaking in the hospitality industry seems like something that would be expected of applicants. It is the most widely known language in the world.
The short answer to this is that they have probably tried and failed. These systems are so archaic and complicated that it's amazing that they work at all. In fact, trying to do what you suggest very well may have been the source of the failure!
Actually, I would think that VirtualBox for Windows would be something that might run under Wine. If you are using VT-x, much of the code is operating-system independent. There is, of course, no good reason for doing this, but I don't think this would be the biggest stretch.
This is certainly true, but to pull this off I have to be an *intended* target rather than a target of opportunity. If you are somebody who is worth specifically targeting, you will have much different security needs. And those probably start with having an (armed) bodyguard who will ensure that they never get possession of your device. For ordinary people who might be targets of opportunity, a fingerprint is quite reasonable. Even if you unlock your phone in the coffee shop and throw out your cup, by the time a lone operator retrieves the cup and lifts the print, you are long gone. If, OTOH, they are stalking you at the coffee shop, you may need a bigger defense. But in that case, we are talking about threats of violence and a much different scenario.
If they are just machines for public web browsing, there i3s no data to ransom. Just reinitialize them. Firefox works great on Linux BTW and you have a much smaller attack surface.
That's too bad. I have the iPhone 6S and the unlock works pretty reliably. Doesn't work well for my wife. That being said, it is a good unlock technique for use in public spaces since you don't risk revealing your PIN. Hopefully the technology will improve so it will work for more people. I do Apple Pay the same way you do. Store the chip card with the phone and use the card!
This is a good argument for the fingerprint unlock. I rarely enter my PIN. Sure there are downsides (somebody could cut off my finger) but it's probably still more secure than a PIN or pattern. If somebody was serious about cutting off my finger, I would unlock the phone for them regardless of what authentication method I might be using. I don't have anything valuable enough to risk injury over. If I did, I wouldn't be unlocking my phone at all somewhere like a coffee shop with horrible physical security. Information security, lest we forget, starts with physical security.
Did you actually ever check whether or not they completed the transactions? In most WU US offices, they attempt to figure out scams and warn about them. The agents won't gain anything if you fall for a scam so they generally will do everything they can to not take the business. On the Nigerian side, the agents would probably just insist on a cut. And WU should notice that certain agents accept all transactions in Nigeria while others routinely reject them. They will know because it's unusual for somebody to receive multiple high-dollar transfers in a short period of time and should flag the transactions.
WU turned a blind eye. They had agents participating in a massive fraud. Those agents went to jail. But WU had such poor controls that the fraud went on for a long time.
Nobody is saying that WU has to prevent all fraud. But they do have to be aware of criminal activity in which their agents are actively participating.
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Nobody is arguing that H1-Bs make $60k and experienced developers make $100k. The point is that the H1B can't replace a seasoned programmer. They can, however, put the new corporate branding on a web site for a much lower cost.
If you drive only 15 miles / day, you won't benefit from the lower operating costs of an electric vehicle. Right now you have a situation where the up-front cost of the equipment is higher and the savings are realized in the operational costs. This will only make sense if there is a lot of operation. Some people commute 45 minutes / day in traffic. They waste half their gas idling an ICE as they sit still on a freeway. This pollution is spewed out in the most densely populated areas. Switching these commuters to electric makes sense for their finances and for the environment. Of course it would be even better if they could work at home but that's not always possible. For those who don't drive very much at all, the up front costs represent the majority of the total cost.
I use low self-discharge Lithium Ion batteries in my smoke detector. My house has six of them. There isn't an issue with fast cut off if the smoke detectors are wired to mains electricity. The device either gets enough power from the battery or it makes a loud, annoying beep until you give it a fresh battery.
But clearly their customers are not serious companies!
No, because buying the Anarchist's Cookbook isn't illegal. Setting up surveillance of people who bought the book is a form of harassment. This is more the equivalent of the police busting an illegal gun dealer and then writing down the license plates of people who show up there over the next few days. It doesn't mean those people are guilty but it does give them leads on who some of the customers might be. And they will investigate whoever shows up to buy an illegal gun.
I don't necessary support the practice but it does seem to be SOP that, when the government busts a CP site, they continue to run it for a period of time in hopes of catching the users. The honeypot will likely have honey in some cases. Well at least if one considers CP honey. I consider it poison.
Or they can just host the file on the CP server and get a list of people who have downloaded it. That doesn't prove anything but it gives them leads in terms of people they should investigate. If I were a judge, I would consider this probably cause. An AC has pointed out a way that this could be abused by dishonest LE and I don't see a good solution for that, unfortunately. But I struggle with the idea that we object to every tool that law enforcement uses even when done judiciously.
Also as I mentioned, the keyboard cases don't have a stiff hinge so its hard to adjust the screen angle if you don't have a table (i.e. its on your lap)
Have you used an iPad with a keyboard cover? I've used the Lenovo Miix tablet with a keyboard cover and the keyboard isn't nearly as good. It's similar to a surface tablet.
Or they are business people who want to answer email and create other content using a real keyboard. Those users don't need an incredible amount of CPU power, but the laptop form factor is pretty ideal. 2 in 1s are good in economy class, but if you fly in business class, a real laptop is much nicer on the plane. A low power mode used to be really good on a long flight although most long-haul flights have power outlets now so it's less of an issue. Admittedly the new MacBooks with the touch bar are supposedly pretty crappy keyboards but they are very fashionable.
Apparently it's all Asians look similar enough to the lab proctors that he got away with it when they did cursory ID checks.
I think that's what I said. The OP advocated for playing mathematically optimal poker and I'm arguing for bluffing. But it's worth pointing out a *reason* for bluffing. Even though this means that you aren't playing each hand in the optimal way that you would play video poker, this has a net positive effect because it avoids information disclosure. I'm not sure how this is getting read backwards. Bluffing is not mathematically option in term of the cards in your hand but it leads to a better outcome due to depriving your opponents of information. It's an easy concept to understand but quite hard to implement.
If you play in the way described, your bets essentially inform the other players of your cards. I am not a good poker players. But the good ones will play in a way that is sometimes mathematically suboptimal because, as you said, being the only one to know your cards is an advantage but that advantage has a cost.
Except in Vancouver!
Although most of your point seems reasonable, requiring Mandarin speaking in the hospitality industry seems like something that would be expected of applicants. It is the most widely known language in the world.
The short answer to this is that they have probably tried and failed. These systems are so archaic and complicated that it's amazing that they work at all. In fact, trying to do what you suggest very well may have been the source of the failure!
If you have a really big hard disk, you could make a giant RAMdisk out of virtual memory!
Actually, I would think that VirtualBox for Windows would be something that might run under Wine. If you are using VT-x, much of the code is operating-system independent. There is, of course, no good reason for doing this, but I don't think this would be the biggest stretch.
But can it run Linux?!
This is certainly true, but to pull this off I have to be an *intended* target rather than a target of opportunity. If you are somebody who is worth specifically targeting, you will have much different security needs. And those probably start with having an (armed) bodyguard who will ensure that they never get possession of your device. For ordinary people who might be targets of opportunity, a fingerprint is quite reasonable. Even if you unlock your phone in the coffee shop and throw out your cup, by the time a lone operator retrieves the cup and lifts the print, you are long gone. If, OTOH, they are stalking you at the coffee shop, you may need a bigger defense. But in that case, we are talking about threats of violence and a much different scenario.
If they are just machines for public web browsing, there i3s no data to ransom. Just reinitialize them. Firefox works great on Linux BTW and you have a much smaller attack surface.
That's too bad. I have the iPhone 6S and the unlock works pretty reliably. Doesn't work well for my wife. That being said, it is a good unlock technique for use in public spaces since you don't risk revealing your PIN. Hopefully the technology will improve so it will work for more people. I do Apple Pay the same way you do. Store the chip card with the phone and use the card!
This is a good argument for the fingerprint unlock. I rarely enter my PIN. Sure there are downsides (somebody could cut off my finger) but it's probably still more secure than a PIN or pattern. If somebody was serious about cutting off my finger, I would unlock the phone for them regardless of what authentication method I might be using. I don't have anything valuable enough to risk injury over. If I did, I wouldn't be unlocking my phone at all somewhere like a coffee shop with horrible physical security. Information security, lest we forget, starts with physical security.
Did you actually ever check whether or not they completed the transactions? In most WU US offices, they attempt to figure out scams and warn about them. The agents won't gain anything if you fall for a scam so they generally will do everything they can to not take the business. On the Nigerian side, the agents would probably just insist on a cut. And WU should notice that certain agents accept all transactions in Nigeria while others routinely reject them. They will know because it's unusual for somebody to receive multiple high-dollar transfers in a short period of time and should flag the transactions.
WU turned a blind eye. They had agents participating in a massive fraud. Those agents went to jail. But WU had such poor controls that the fraud went on for a long time. Nobody is saying that WU has to prevent all fraud. But they do have to be aware of criminal activity in which their agents are actively participating.