I hate SQs with a passion. Whoever thinks this is security is nuts.
Simply put, security questions reduce your account's security to the strength of the security questions. Mostly, they're weaker than average passwords. Lord help you if you've got a Facebook profile. Mother's maiden name. Hell, that's public information today.
Just because something isn't specifically protected by the Constitution doesn't mean it isn't a right.
Oh, but it is.
The first Amendment guarantees the right of Assembly. Good luck doing that without a vehicle, if you live in a rural area. Especially one where the Feds have taken over the local highways, and now pedestrians, bicycles, and horses are prohibited.
The fifth Amendment guarantees that the government may not deny you life, liberty, or property without "due process of law." Traveling how you wish is certainly a liberty. Now, if you commit a crime while driving, expect to be subject to that due process, but a-priori infringement on Liberty is unconstitutional.
And, of course, just because driving isn't an enumerated right, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. "The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
That said, the Government is and has been acting illegally for quite a long time, and they've got the guns to prove themselves 'right'.
Then just give the big shipping boats GPS coordinates, and let the pirates "find" them if they wish.
And what do the private yachts do, just go ker-splat so the oil can get through?
The only reason any of this is a problem is that certain governments have outlawed self-defense on the high sees. Having several 50mm guns on the deck would be all that is necessary and sufficient to get rid of the entire Somali pirate problem. When pulling into port, the harbormaster can ensure that the guns have the requisite safeties on them - he can use his locks if it really matters.
The funny part is since iPhone 3G's and earlier iPod touches don't get firmware updates anymore, being jailbroken is the ONLY way to be free of this flaw in those earlier devices.
Gosh, and I thought I got a raw deal because my G4 mini isn't supported anymore.
I know most things have become too complicated or miniaturized for hobbysts, but in most cases it's just that the appliances are sealed not to be serviceable anymore.
I recently had this experience with an ultrasonic humidifier. It just needed a $1 fan replaced, but the damn thing needed a dremel to separate the base from the top to get to it.
And yet people get all up in their britches about the patent trolls. It's as useful to get mad at coupon shoppers at the grocery store because they drive up prices for the rest of us. The system is the system, and as long as it's the system, there will be no end in sight for the march of the patent trolls.
Folks need to direct some of that outrage towards the cause of the problem - the US government - not feigning disgust at the symptoms (the trolls).
What would it take for Slashdotters to fire off a letter to Congress for every post made here on a patent story? No, seriously, is it time, knowledge, cost, convenience?
The summary should have at least once sentence saying who these people are
Quite so, and the submission had two links to previous stories here on Slashdot to help set the context. Click on my name right above this comment to see it.
the courts have blocked nearly all lawsuits pertaining to government misdeeds on the grounds that they might compromise national security.
That's actually one of the Supreme Court's precepts - that, despite all logic or argument, if a decision were to threaten the continuity of the State, that decision is wrong.
Anti-American if you ask me.
Napolitano's Constitutional Chaos has a section on this. Click on the used section for some $4-shipped offerings.
Who cares? I mean really... we have all the bases covered by Linux and BSD...
If you need a GPLv3 licensed OS for some reason, this will be one. Linux will probably never contain the patent guards Hurd will. That might be important for some folks.
1/10th the cost of the CFL's and no mercury vapor worries. As I mentioned, the lamp was knocked over within two weeks of purchasing the CFL. It was my 4 year old, not me, but I'd estimate he knocks that lamp over every 8 months or so.
Me, I mostly drop my work light (the kind in a cage on an extension cord) when doing home improvements. I have no idea what I'll do when 100W incandescents are no longer available. Stock up, I guess, and hope LED's progress rapidly before my stock dries up.
My food prices went up 50% in the last 2 years, gas prices 30%. Rent is up, prescription meds are up. Even my pets food is up. That "latte" or two is a big effing deal to people like me right now.
Yup, I haven't had a fancy coffee out in 3 years. Very tone-deaf PR hack.
I'll be decreasing my Netflix membership level by the amount of the increase, over-consuming on the rest, and seeking alternatives.
But this then presupposes that most people in that society would value it so highly that they'd be willing to kill and die for it
You don't need them all, but if their own property and way of life is threatened, people do tend to respond that way, provided they have a fighting chance (both literally and figuratively). I admit, given sticks against bazookas, surrender is not an unlikely outcome.
If you let people to what they want, for sure you'll wind up with some communes, some social democracies, etc., alongside regions of free people, but because some of those groups would use violence against their members (albeit voluntarily) the more peaceful ones would have to be prepared for eventual aggression from them as that human trait is re-enforced daily. Geez, look at the young men in the US who are eager to sign up to go fight in the Middle East... for our 'freedoms' they think.
Anyway, I'm not sure how it works without geographic segregation, but then again, I'm not a political genius. A real panarchy seems difficult if violence is allowed by any of them. Then again, with good technology we can probably reduce the level of scarcity for humans to only one of land. But with education comes declining birth rates, and education comes from wealth which comes from technology, so the land problem might not be unsolvable either.
Anyway, some risks are warranted to avoid the genocide perpetrated on the human race by the government mechanism.
How about the fact that many many residents of Southern NH travel to Massachusetts to earn their living because of the lack of JOBS in New Hampshire.
You would be singing a decidedly different tune about NH if it did not have the rich and prosperous state of Massachusetts as its best neighbor.
Only recently (the State-wide property tax) has this had any impact on the operation of the State. Those people all pay their income taxes to MA. They do pay property taxes, of course, but those were, until a few years ago, all paid to the Town. What happened to a Town in Coos County had almost no impact by who worked in MA.
There are now a few 'donor-towns' and a few 'welfare-towns', but by in large, most towns are net-even for the statewide property tax. Since that's all pegged to education, it doesn't really affect the rest of the State budget either.
I will say that MA shoppers coming over the border to evade their crazy State's taxes does help NH considerably. But that's not about jobs (which our Business Enterprise Tax really does hurt, especially low-margin jobs for the poor).
where as an associate is earning a commission from actual sales
Oh, this is much worse than I expected, then. I admit to not having the statute in front of me, but I've read earlier that the law was going to change the nexus definition.
With nexus, a Company can be regulated, not just taxed. If I had a salesperson in CA, I'd ask him to move or look for another job rather than expose my out-of-state business to CA laws.
This could have far worse consequences for the People of CA than just Amazon Associates.
Especially so when you exempt necessities like food.
As usual, this is handled disastrously. Which is a necessity, caviar or roofing shingles? Which is taxed?
At least with real estate taxes, they're proportionate to the value of the house/rental and people self-select according to their income.
Progressive taxes are evil, though - they enable governments to grow to unreasonable size by employing class warfare, and those ultimately hurt the poor. A head-tax that's low enough for everybody to afford is the only fair system.
What is your proposal with regard to not letting the "dumb-fucks" screw things up badly, then?
Not quite sure, but governments killed half a billion people in the 20th century. That's unacceptable. This is all done in the name of having societal retribution against psychopaths, but the risks don't seem to be worth the 'rewards'.
Government systems have evolved over time to reflect the technology of the time period - a representative republic makes great sense when the cost of travel is very high and the cost of communication is reasonable. Now we have ~zero-cost communication and cheap travel. We need to be done with a 17th century model. I don't have all the answers but can see many of the deficiencies.
Just as one example: why have there been no calls for government regulation of eBay? I'd say it's largely because the reputation system works. Amazon and Newegg reviews work better than any consumer commissions could. Open source works. Slashdot does, mostly. All are examples of crowdsourcing decisions and judgements, using reputations. I think there's much more work to be done here - confederation of reputations and identities being a start.
I share non-violence, organic economics, and personal freedom goals with libertarians, but they imagine those within the existing scope of governments; libertarianism is a policy strategy, nothing more. As I mentioned above, even Jefferson imagined other possibilities almost a quarter millennium ago.
Slashdot Mirror
I hate SQs with a passion. Whoever thinks this is security is nuts.
Simply put, security questions reduce your account's security to the strength of the security questions. Mostly, they're weaker than average passwords. Lord help you if you've got a Facebook profile. Mother's maiden name. Hell, that's public information today.
Three data centers is not enough to give each of the branches of the military its own dedicated data center for operations.
Do they each have their own road into the Pentagon?
A classic example of this was the tank in the US post WW1. There were three dominant lines of thought.
I suggest:
4. To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
(aka no standing Armies)
Just because something isn't specifically protected by the Constitution doesn't mean it isn't a right.
Oh, but it is.
The first Amendment guarantees the right of Assembly. Good luck doing that without a vehicle, if you live in a rural area. Especially one where the Feds have taken over the local highways, and now pedestrians, bicycles, and horses are prohibited.
The fifth Amendment guarantees that the government may not deny you life, liberty, or property without "due process of law." Traveling how you wish is certainly a liberty. Now, if you commit a crime while driving, expect to be subject to that due process, but a-priori infringement on Liberty is unconstitutional.
And, of course, just because driving isn't an enumerated right, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. "The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
That said, the Government is and has been acting illegally for quite a long time, and they've got the guns to prove themselves 'right'.
Why not just call it Ximian rev. 2.0?
Same reason Blackwater is now called Xe.
Slashdot UTF8 FAIL!
Can you give us a percent-encoded URL to a working search? We could feed results through one of the online translators.
and jail != prison. Jail is where people are held awaiting trial or sentencing.
Then just give the big shipping boats GPS coordinates, and let the pirates "find" them if they wish.
And what do the private yachts do, just go ker-splat so the oil can get through?
The only reason any of this is a problem is that certain governments have outlawed self-defense on the high sees. Having several 50mm guns on the deck would be all that is necessary and sufficient to get rid of the entire Somali pirate problem. When pulling into port, the harbormaster can ensure that the guns have the requisite safeties on them - he can use his locks if it really matters.
The funny part is since iPhone 3G's and earlier iPod touches don't get firmware updates anymore, being jailbroken is the ONLY way to be free of this flaw in those earlier devices.
Gosh, and I thought I got a raw deal because my G4 mini isn't supported anymore.
I know most things have become too complicated or miniaturized for hobbysts, but in most cases it's just that the appliances are sealed not to be serviceable anymore.
I recently had this experience with an ultrasonic humidifier. It just needed a $1 fan replaced, but the damn thing needed a dremel to separate the base from the top to get to it.
The system is totally borked.
And yet people get all up in their britches about the patent trolls. It's as useful to get mad at coupon shoppers at the grocery store because they drive up prices for the rest of us. The system is the system, and as long as it's the system, there will be no end in sight for the march of the patent trolls.
Folks need to direct some of that outrage towards the cause of the problem - the US government - not feigning disgust at the symptoms (the trolls).
What would it take for Slashdotters to fire off a letter to Congress for every post made here on a patent story? No, seriously, is it time, knowledge, cost, convenience?
The CPU in the Droid 3 has hardware AES assist. I'd love to see a CyanogenMod build with LUKS support.
Oh, and a battery that lasts at least double the 9 hours that the Droid 3 gets before even considering such a purchase.
The summary should have at least once sentence saying who these people are
Quite so, and the submission had two links to previous stories here on Slashdot to help set the context. Click on my name right above this comment to see it.
I don't really know what the solution is there.
It seems Manning found it. The solution isn't pleasant, but military guys tend to have large brass ones.
the courts have blocked nearly all lawsuits pertaining to government misdeeds on the grounds that they might compromise national security.
That's actually one of the Supreme Court's precepts - that, despite all logic or argument, if a decision were to threaten the continuity of the State, that decision is wrong.
Anti-American if you ask me.
Napolitano's Constitutional Chaos has a section on this. Click on the used section for some $4-shipped offerings.
.... And if you lose your domain?
Then it wasn't worth $7 for you to keep it. The GP's suggestion takes care of three nines of the problem, which is a great start.
Who cares? I mean really... we have all the bases covered by Linux and BSD...
If you need a GPLv3 licensed OS for some reason, this will be one. Linux will probably never contain the patent guards Hurd will. That might be important for some folks.
1/10th the cost of the CFL's and no mercury vapor worries. As I mentioned, the lamp was knocked over within two weeks of purchasing the CFL. It was my 4 year old, not me, but I'd estimate he knocks that lamp over every 8 months or so.
Me, I mostly drop my work light (the kind in a cage on an extension cord) when doing home improvements. I have no idea what I'll do when 100W incandescents are no longer available. Stock up, I guess, and hope LED's progress rapidly before my stock dries up.
My food prices went up 50% in the last 2 years, gas prices 30%. Rent is up, prescription meds are up. Even my pets food is up. That "latte" or two is a big effing deal to people like me right now.
Yup, I haven't had a fancy coffee out in 3 years. Very tone-deaf PR hack.
I'll be decreasing my Netflix membership level by the amount of the increase, over-consuming on the rest, and seeking alternatives.
Google Scripto v. Carson.
Hrrrm
So, why does California need a new law in the first place? I guess I'm missing the distinction.
But this then presupposes that most people in that society would value it so highly that they'd be willing to kill and die for it
You don't need them all, but if their own property and way of life is threatened, people do tend to respond that way, provided they have a fighting chance (both literally and figuratively). I admit, given sticks against bazookas, surrender is not an unlikely outcome.
If you let people to what they want, for sure you'll wind up with some communes, some social democracies, etc., alongside regions of free people, but because some of those groups would use violence against their members (albeit voluntarily) the more peaceful ones would have to be prepared for eventual aggression from them as that human trait is re-enforced daily. Geez, look at the young men in the US who are eager to sign up to go fight in the Middle East ... for our 'freedoms' they think.
Anyway, I'm not sure how it works without geographic segregation, but then again, I'm not a political genius. A real panarchy seems difficult if violence is allowed by any of them. Then again, with good technology we can probably reduce the level of scarcity for humans to only one of land. But with education comes declining birth rates, and education comes from wealth which comes from technology, so the land problem might not be unsolvable either.
Anyway, some risks are warranted to avoid the genocide perpetrated on the human race by the government mechanism.
How about the fact that many many residents of Southern NH travel to Massachusetts to earn their living because of the lack of JOBS in New Hampshire.
You would be singing a decidedly different tune about NH if it did not have the rich and prosperous state of Massachusetts as its best neighbor.
Only recently (the State-wide property tax) has this had any impact on the operation of the State. Those people all pay their income taxes to MA. They do pay property taxes, of course, but those were, until a few years ago, all paid to the Town. What happened to a Town in Coos County had almost no impact by who worked in MA.
There are now a few 'donor-towns' and a few 'welfare-towns', but by in large, most towns are net-even for the statewide property tax. Since that's all pegged to education, it doesn't really affect the rest of the State budget either.
I will say that MA shoppers coming over the border to evade their crazy State's taxes does help NH considerably. But that's not about jobs (which our Business Enterprise Tax really does hurt, especially low-margin jobs for the poor).
where as an associate is earning a commission from actual sales
Oh, this is much worse than I expected, then. I admit to not having the statute in front of me, but I've read earlier that the law was going to change the nexus definition.
With nexus, a Company can be regulated, not just taxed. If I had a salesperson in CA, I'd ask him to move or look for another job rather than expose my out-of-state business to CA laws.
This could have far worse consequences for the People of CA than just Amazon Associates.
Especially so when you exempt necessities like food.
As usual, this is handled disastrously. Which is a necessity, caviar or roofing shingles? Which is taxed?
At least with real estate taxes, they're proportionate to the value of the house/rental and people self-select according to their income.
Progressive taxes are evil, though - they enable governments to grow to unreasonable size by employing class warfare, and those ultimately hurt the poor. A head-tax that's low enough for everybody to afford is the only fair system.
What is your proposal with regard to not letting the "dumb-fucks" screw things up badly, then?
Not quite sure, but governments killed half a billion people in the 20th century. That's unacceptable. This is all done in the name of having societal retribution against psychopaths, but the risks don't seem to be worth the 'rewards'.
Government systems have evolved over time to reflect the technology of the time period - a representative republic makes great sense when the cost of travel is very high and the cost of communication is reasonable. Now we have ~zero-cost communication and cheap travel. We need to be done with a 17th century model. I don't have all the answers but can see many of the deficiencies.
Just as one example: why have there been no calls for government regulation of eBay? I'd say it's largely because the reputation system works. Amazon and Newegg reviews work better than any consumer commissions could. Open source works. Slashdot does, mostly. All are examples of crowdsourcing decisions and judgements, using reputations. I think there's much more work to be done here - confederation of reputations and identities being a start.
I share non-violence, organic economics, and personal freedom goals with libertarians, but they imagine those within the existing scope of governments; libertarianism is a policy strategy, nothing more. As I mentioned above, even Jefferson imagined other possibilities almost a quarter millennium ago.