When Apple said that if it made a special version of IOS that would bypass all the security features , that eventually it would be hacked which is why they would not do it, I guess they were right.
With sites, its not their software.
Its Adobe, Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Google, etc who write the software, make them liable.
Your example is like making Toyota liable for an accident caused by a pot hole in the road.
Why not just go a step further and make Adobe/Microsoft/Oracle/Google/Apple etc liable for the bugs in their software ?
Make the companies who supply the software liable. That will incentivise them into making it safer.
Been using Chip/pin and contactless payments for years in New Zealand.
It works well.
Next you are going to tell me you still use the imperial measurement system, and that disappeared here 40-50 years ago.
Over 80% of US citizens liv in Urban areas and huge swathes of your population live in areas with a much greater population density.
Plus NZ has to have a fibre from NZ to Hawaii for most of our internet access.
Your population is also 100 times that of NZ and your GDP even higher.
And you are being gouged already by your ISPs simply because they refuse to compete.
No they don't. That's why they spell "Beer" as "XXXX"
Mind you, they are one step up from Canadians who spell "Beer" as "XXX" , at least the Aussies know Beer has 4 letters in it.
Far more americans are murdered by Americans.
Want to make a difference, vote for gun control, it works a damn sight better than Prayers.
This yelling and screaming about terrorists is a diversion, its there to stop americans looking at how much the US is falling apart.
Wages have not rising since the 70's in real terms
Paved roads are being ripped up because states can not longer afford to maintain them
Dams, Bridges and other infrastructure is having its life expectancy extended because no one can afford to replace it.
The education system is worsening
Meanwhile you are slowly loosing more of your freedoms....
If the copyright holders can show me how the author rains productive and innovating after they have died, I will happily pay.
If they can no not, then I expect them to give me free copies of all their works.
The post said no server OS, No printer spooler, Web Server, Development Language, Email server, etc etc etc which was patently WRONG.
Our Macs are used by Chemists, Statisticians, Mathematicians, Physicists, Microbiologist, Engineers, Vets, etc
Computers are only limited by the imagination of the user.
Oh, and yes, we have users with Windows and Linux too. We strongly believe in giving our staff the computer that makes them the most productive. And the Macs, Linux,Windows boxes are are all part of the same Condor Cluster we use for R and other tasks.
No, a couple of armed idiots with guns would just have more than likely increased the carnage.
If you fire a gun and miss the intended target (and most do in these sorts of situations) then that bullet does not just disappear, it will go into what ever is in its way, the shooter, the wall, the girl running away behind the shooter, the person hiding behind the bar. Then of course Idiot B sees Idiot A with his gun and so takes a shot at them, with all the same risks. This is not s gun range where all the shooters stand at one end of the range and everything behind the target is safe. Its not even an area where the police have been able to clear innocent people (and potential victims) from to reduce the chances of accidental shootings.
Idiot A and Idiot B don't have signs popping up over their heads saying the are the good guys, to everyone else they are a gunman. The original shooter is not a stationary target at what ever fixed distance away a paper target on a range is, they are not there as a clear shot with no one running around. There are all sorts of visual distractions, is that person running towards you another shooter ???
This is not a John Wayne movie where the hero can shoot 7 shots from his six shooter and kill all 9 baddies while not hurting anyone else.
Gun control works.
And did you also note, Idiot A and Idiot B want hand guns, you don't see them wanting to carry an AR17 like shooters do into a bar, take away these military weapons and you will reduce the carnage.
Adam Landza Shot up Sandy Hook primary school, not an airport, not a movie theatre .
Mass shooters typical choose a target that has meaning to them, school, place of work, etc etc etc, and yes even military areas,
Then , as far as police are concerned, they don't have one active shooter, they have 3 and will treat them all the same.
Wow, intoxicated people who then go on an adrenaline rush, shooting a gun in a crowded area full of panicked people, what could go wrong ???
And when it becomes 2 or more people, they have no idea who the original shooter is, but hey, there is a guy over there with a gun, lets shoot at them.
Freedom is not the right to carry a gun, its not needing to.
surprise you DO have a Facebook account, its one they generated to track you via the [F] icon on web pages, via photos other people load onto Facebook , etc etc etc.
The only way that will work is if you leave you phone at home.
How soon do you think it will be before they have Wifi/Bluetooth/Cell sniffers on each door just tracking your MAC/IMEI numbers as you enter/leave ?
They may even track which part of the store you go into and how long you spend in each area.
Combine that with a camera system (security ones will work) + Facebook facial recognition and you may not even need a phone to be tracked.
So, if you bought a $60 game with $100 note and only got back $20 in change and you did not notice that until you left the store, thats OK ?, or will you be saying the store ripped you off ?
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The people I trust are the ones who do the right thing, even when it is not in their own best interests.
Your CPU was probably conceived by Germans, Chinese, Americans, British, Indians, Swedish, Australian, Japanese, French, Canadian, etc etc working both inside and outside of the USA.
Heck Boolean logic with CPUs depend on was invented by the British.
Shall we go back to Babbages analytical engine , that was British too.
Ada Lovelace is considered the first programmer, again British.
One of the great things is, the rest of the world can ignore the US.
96% of the worlds population lives outside of the USA, what happens if that 96% vote for a change ? Does the US ignore democracy ?
US influence is waning ,
The EU is a bigger economy, China will soon be the 2nd largest.
The more the US tries the bully the rest of the world, the more the world will resist. Each country has a strong culture, a strong heritage, a strong system of beliefs and the US must learn to recognise and respect these. US culture is NOT superior.
Hmmm...
2016 freedom of the press, the USA is 41 according to https://rsf.org/en/ranking
Democracy Ranking put the USA 16th (The top 5 were all EU countries)
Legal system is ranked 19th
Corruption the US is 16th.
And then we have "The Donald" and his racist xenophobic world view.
I am sorry, but I think others could do better.
Worst "lines" I have had were
waiting to go out to/return from the Statue of Liberty
Any popular ride at Disney/Universal Studios (can be hours)
Heathrow I have found in general to be better than US airports for queues, however Heathrow often only gives out gate numbers 20 minutes before boarding and it can take you than long and more to walk to the gate, missed out flight because of mobility issues there once.
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When Apple said that if it made a special version of IOS that would bypass all the security features , that eventually it would be hacked which is why they would not do it, I guess they were right.
With sites, its not their software. Its Adobe, Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Google, etc who write the software, make them liable. Your example is like making Toyota liable for an accident caused by a pot hole in the road.
Why not just go a step further and make Adobe/Microsoft/Oracle/Google/Apple etc liable for the bugs in their software ? Make the companies who supply the software liable. That will incentivise them into making it safer.
Been using Chip/pin and contactless payments for years in New Zealand. It works well. Next you are going to tell me you still use the imperial measurement system, and that disappeared here 40-50 years ago.
Over 80% of US citizens liv in Urban areas and huge swathes of your population live in areas with a much greater population density. Plus NZ has to have a fibre from NZ to Hawaii for most of our internet access. Your population is also 100 times that of NZ and your GDP even higher. And you are being gouged already by your ISPs simply because they refuse to compete.
No they don't. That's why they spell "Beer" as "XXXX" Mind you, they are one step up from Canadians who spell "Beer" as "XXX" , at least the Aussies know Beer has 4 letters in it.
Far more americans are murdered by Americans. Want to make a difference, vote for gun control, it works a damn sight better than Prayers. This yelling and screaming about terrorists is a diversion, its there to stop americans looking at how much the US is falling apart. Wages have not rising since the 70's in real terms Paved roads are being ripped up because states can not longer afford to maintain them Dams, Bridges and other infrastructure is having its life expectancy extended because no one can afford to replace it. The education system is worsening Meanwhile you are slowly loosing more of your freedoms....
If the copyright holders can show me how the author rains productive and innovating after they have died, I will happily pay. If they can no not, then I expect them to give me free copies of all their works.
The post said no server OS, No printer spooler, Web Server, Development Language, Email server, etc etc etc which was patently WRONG. Our Macs are used by Chemists, Statisticians, Mathematicians, Physicists, Microbiologist, Engineers, Vets, etc Computers are only limited by the imagination of the user. Oh, and yes, we have users with Windows and Linux too. We strongly believe in giving our staff the computer that makes them the most productive. And the Macs, Linux,Windows boxes are are all part of the same Condor Cluster we use for R and other tasks.
Nice to see Russia trying to become more like the USA
No, a couple of armed idiots with guns would just have more than likely increased the carnage. If you fire a gun and miss the intended target (and most do in these sorts of situations) then that bullet does not just disappear, it will go into what ever is in its way, the shooter, the wall, the girl running away behind the shooter, the person hiding behind the bar. Then of course Idiot B sees Idiot A with his gun and so takes a shot at them, with all the same risks. This is not s gun range where all the shooters stand at one end of the range and everything behind the target is safe. Its not even an area where the police have been able to clear innocent people (and potential victims) from to reduce the chances of accidental shootings. Idiot A and Idiot B don't have signs popping up over their heads saying the are the good guys, to everyone else they are a gunman. The original shooter is not a stationary target at what ever fixed distance away a paper target on a range is, they are not there as a clear shot with no one running around. There are all sorts of visual distractions, is that person running towards you another shooter ??? This is not a John Wayne movie where the hero can shoot 7 shots from his six shooter and kill all 9 baddies while not hurting anyone else. Gun control works. And did you also note, Idiot A and Idiot B want hand guns, you don't see them wanting to carry an AR17 like shooters do into a bar, take away these military weapons and you will reduce the carnage. Adam Landza Shot up Sandy Hook primary school, not an airport, not a movie theatre . Mass shooters typical choose a target that has meaning to them, school, place of work, etc etc etc, and yes even military areas, Then , as far as police are concerned, they don't have one active shooter, they have 3 and will treat them all the same.
Wow, intoxicated people who then go on an adrenaline rush, shooting a gun in a crowded area full of panicked people, what could go wrong ??? And when it becomes 2 or more people, they have no idea who the original shooter is, but hey, there is a guy over there with a gun, lets shoot at them. Freedom is not the right to carry a gun, its not needing to.
only so long as they add a sound track to it for the MPAA... Crystal Gaile's "Don'tcha make my brown eyes blue" would be appropriate
last time I checked, no one has killed 50 people using a hamburger. Ans ONE bullet can be lethal, 1 hamburger , not so much.
surprise you DO have a Facebook account, its one they generated to track you via the [F] icon on web pages, via photos other people load onto Facebook , etc etc etc.
The only way that will work is if you leave you phone at home. How soon do you think it will be before they have Wifi/Bluetooth/Cell sniffers on each door just tracking your MAC/IMEI numbers as you enter/leave ? They may even track which part of the store you go into and how long you spend in each area. Combine that with a camera system (security ones will work) + Facebook facial recognition and you may not even need a phone to be tracked.
So, if you bought a $60 game with $100 note and only got back $20 in change and you did not notice that until you left the store, thats OK ?, or will you be saying the store ripped you off ? ----- The people I trust are the ones who do the right thing, even when it is not in their own best interests.
Your CPU was probably conceived by Germans, Chinese, Americans, British, Indians, Swedish, Australian, Japanese, French, Canadian, etc etc working both inside and outside of the USA. Heck Boolean logic with CPUs depend on was invented by the British. Shall we go back to Babbages analytical engine , that was British too. Ada Lovelace is considered the first programmer, again British.
One of the great things is, the rest of the world can ignore the US. 96% of the worlds population lives outside of the USA, what happens if that 96% vote for a change ? Does the US ignore democracy ? US influence is waning , The EU is a bigger economy, China will soon be the 2nd largest. The more the US tries the bully the rest of the world, the more the world will resist. Each country has a strong culture, a strong heritage, a strong system of beliefs and the US must learn to recognise and respect these. US culture is NOT superior.
Hmmm... 2016 freedom of the press, the USA is 41 according to https://rsf.org/en/ranking Democracy Ranking put the USA 16th (The top 5 were all EU countries) Legal system is ranked 19th Corruption the US is 16th. And then we have "The Donald" and his racist xenophobic world view. I am sorry, but I think others could do better.
Yep, I can categorically say the next US president will be one of the worst the US has ever had.
As opposed to the 14,000 Americans shot and killed by Americans each year. Then there are the thousands shot and killed by law enforcement each year.
A 747 burns through 3,600 Gallons of fuel per hour for just over 416 Passengers. This ship burns 1/3 of that for nearly 9000 people.
Worst "lines" I have had were waiting to go out to/return from the Statue of Liberty Any popular ride at Disney/Universal Studios (can be hours) Heathrow I have found in general to be better than US airports for queues, however Heathrow often only gives out gate numbers 20 minutes before boarding and it can take you than long and more to walk to the gate, missed out flight because of mobility issues there once.
Where did he say he hated the USA ? Thats right, nowhere.