Thats an extremely interesting idea, but one that is ripe for abuse. Consider who gets points? Consider the overlap and boundaries of professions. Consider that when you're young you have no profession. You'd be better off giving each person a set number of "points" (mod points, even...) on a consistent basis (say 5 per year) to which they then can apply those to whatever topic interests them. Of course this also still assumes a fixed set of area boundaries because there are times you might like to vote on something locally vs nationally (because someone still needs to choose if that yield sign should be changed to a stop sign etc.)... Plus you'd need to deal with people "selling" their vote, or dead voters or counting fraud and you'd have to have some way to determine if some issues were national vs state vs county type issues...
Of course all of this completely ignores the possibility of someone convincing the nation that some minority is the cause of all their problems and thus should be put to death...
And I think I just talked myself out of this idea... Oh well it was a nice thought while it lasted.
So, as someone who had at least their CC number stolen thanks to these ass hats, when can we sue them and take a major chunk out of their ass? People in TJX should be jailed...
While I stuck with it, I can completely understand where he's coming from and know many people that didn't stick with it just for this reason. I've only had a hand full of times so far where I've "worked all night" for work - none of them turned out all that productive either! so point made >.
I know you mean this as a joke, so this isn't directed at the poster really. Still I have to worry that some people might actually believe what you just wrote there. The only thing on a SS-card or a credit card might be the artwork, everything else has no copyright.
And the fact that these people had their ID stolen is extremely sad. Everytime I get an ad in the mail from my bank wanting me to buy id-theift protection I want to call them and ask about racketeering... Have these people zero liability when they lose my data? How can that be so? It makes no sesne. If the RIAA sues me for pirating music yet I cannot expect compensation from AT&T or Citibank or whoever lost my info yet again and thus resulted in my identity being stolen.
What we need is a universal ID, not one that olds my bio-data and crap that can only hurt me, but a public/private encryption key pair which can be used to encrypt transations and force the company to store my data in a personal encryption locker. One that can be used to lock my vote in and prevent alteration by Diebold or whatever moster that comes next. One that is for the people by the people (aka open source) and scrutable by others for security problems.
But since the president doesn't write his own speachs it would have even lessing meaning then it does when he presents it to people. It would be 'here is a statement I endorse' type stuff, and you couldn't hold him to it like we try to do when he gives a speech.
But is this robot professor... fully functional? Alternitively, in other news half of slashdot realizes that they can make their very own girl robot...
I guess I should be more specific. My point was that people were puting strings of letters and or numbers in sequence as their password because they were forced to change them so frequently. I would argue that any string which is sequential is less secure then a randomized number. Like putting 1234 as your ATM pin... it leads to easy shoulder serfing.
Thus people would pick their first name, Peter123 if I was to use my own name as an example. I'm comparing this to passwords that I had to use at Sandia National Labs which were randomized letters and number strings generated by computer, the user was presented with a screen of 30 passwords and you were allowed to pick any of the 30, or to generate a screen of 30 more passwords... The people would pick things that made sense to them but were completely randomized and were never a dictionary word or even a common short hand for the words etc.
Hopefully then they will also implement a good set of password rules and enforce them to protect themselves from future problems. Where I work they require 3 out of the 4 rules to be met such as mixed case, numbers and special characters... of course they also make us change our password every 30 days so i've discovered that people have taken to doing things like Asdf1234 and then when the password requires changing changing it to Asdf2345... Doh.
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He might have also later been seen later yelling at the kids to get off his lawn.
Thats exactly it man, the export requirements of the US gov don't require documentation on the hardware to be protected. I don't think you're missing anything, Theo is right, you shouldn't have to click on some agreement and fill out crap to download documentation. Even if 11 fields only required, those fields are for ton of info... Full name(2), company, title, phone, full address (5), and relationship... I don't give that info out to anyone unless I absolutely have to for payment.
Minors can't enter into a contract without their parents being in on it, and any contract they did enter for said contest would be null and void leaving CT screwed. So basically the answer is "yes."
If Redhat and Sun are really a part of this group then we can do better then boycot type actions. Redhat and Sun are part of the techies, they will respond to us. We just need to let them know what their group is doing in their name... I'd pull the facts to gether for a good old slashdoting but I'm out in like 10 mins...
So someone please pull the facts to gether so we can make a meaningful statement to these tech companies.
So you're that asshole sitting in the left lane doing 55mpg... Yeah news for you, people speed, get over it. The left lane's speed limit is whatever the person behind you wants to do or you get out of the way, at least in the country. In the city the existence of left hand entrances and exits mess this up to hell and back but its still a good rule of thumb.
Do these folks ALSO realize that by law, no computer containing classified data may be connected to a public network of any kind? How is any "bugged" machine supposed to export the data? Osmosis? Telepathy?
While this is true, accidents happen all the time. Consider that the computer might also act like a virus spreading its data to different machines... just waiting on the secured network for ONE pc to get accidently plugged into the wrong slot in the wall.
While the most important secret computer work is all done in vaults plenty of sensitive info could be spread through one accidental connection.
Everyone seems to worry about Google! No ISP is going to block Google search EVER. They may "degrade" Google video, Google VoIP, or other new services Google offers.
What the parent means is exactly that, if ATT degrades Google's anything, Google should just block all ATT customers from their site for one day with a message saying "Google is unavailable in your area due to policies with your ISP ATT, please call ATT customer service at [number]."
That is what the parent is referring to, and you are exactly right though, its the little guy with that new hot idea which ATT wants. That truly is the worst of the problems. The internet needs to be fair, and if everyone pays their local ISP no other local ISP should have the right to screw with those messages. The ISPs should be treated very much like a common-carrier (regardless of them not being).
They want to set a precedent however losely for collection of search data without a warent so that they can do it randomly in the future.... Think of this in the same way they want to go after your library records.
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Thats an extremely interesting idea, but one that is ripe for abuse. Consider who gets points? Consider the overlap and boundaries of professions. Consider that when you're young you have no profession. You'd be better off giving each person a set number of "points" (mod points, even...) on a consistent basis (say 5 per year) to which they then can apply those to whatever topic interests them. Of course this also still assumes a fixed set of area boundaries because there are times you might like to vote on something locally vs nationally (because someone still needs to choose if that yield sign should be changed to a stop sign etc.)... Plus you'd need to deal with people "selling" their vote, or dead voters or counting fraud and you'd have to have some way to determine if some issues were national vs state vs county type issues...
Of course all of this completely ignores the possibility of someone convincing the nation that some minority is the cause of all their problems and thus should be put to death...
And I think I just talked myself out of this idea... Oh well it was a nice thought while it lasted.
So, as someone who had at least their CC number stolen thanks to these ass hats, when can we sue them and take a major chunk out of their ass? People in TJX should be jailed...
While I stuck with it, I can completely understand where he's coming from and know many people that didn't stick with it just for this reason. I've only had a hand full of times so far where I've "worked all night" for work - none of them turned out all that productive either! so point made >.
Come on slashdot... railguns... eliminate... its a joke. :-)
The difference between MIT offering it and the RIAA, are like going to Bible Studies course where Satan is the pastor.
So what you're telling me is that slashdot should hack a bunch of voting machines and make cmdrtaco win the next election?
If only I had points...
I know you mean this as a joke, so this isn't directed at the poster really. Still I have to worry that some people might actually believe what you just wrote there. The only thing on a SS-card or a credit card might be the artwork, everything else has no copyright.
And the fact that these people had their ID stolen is extremely sad. Everytime I get an ad in the mail from my bank wanting me to buy id-theift protection I want to call them and ask about racketeering... Have these people zero liability when they lose my data? How can that be so? It makes no sesne. If the RIAA sues me for pirating music yet I cannot expect compensation from AT&T or Citibank or whoever lost my info yet again and thus resulted in my identity being stolen.
What we need is a universal ID, not one that olds my bio-data and crap that can only hurt me, but a public/private encryption key pair which can be used to encrypt transations and force the company to store my data in a personal encryption locker. One that can be used to lock my vote in and prevent alteration by Diebold or whatever moster that comes next. One that is for the people by the people (aka open source) and scrutable by others for security problems.
But since the president doesn't write his own speachs it would have even lessing meaning then it does when he presents it to people. It would be 'here is a statement I endorse' type stuff, and you couldn't hold him to it like we try to do when he gives a speech.
But is this robot professor... fully functional? Alternitively, in other news half of slashdot realizes that they can make their very own girl robot...
Ow! My eyes! The goggles, they do nothing!
I guess I should be more specific. My point was that people were puting strings of letters and or numbers in sequence as their password because they were forced to change them so frequently. I would argue that any string which is sequential is less secure then a randomized number. Like putting 1234 as your ATM pin... it leads to easy shoulder serfing.
Thus people would pick their first name, Peter123 if I was to use my own name as an example. I'm comparing this to passwords that I had to use at Sandia National Labs which were randomized letters and number strings generated by computer, the user was presented with a screen of 30 passwords and you were allowed to pick any of the 30, or to generate a screen of 30 more passwords... The people would pick things that made sense to them but were completely randomized and were never a dictionary word or even a common short hand for the words etc.
Hopefully then they will also implement a good set of password rules and enforce them to protect themselves from future problems. Where I work they require 3 out of the 4 rules to be met such as mixed case, numbers and special characters... of course they also make us change our password every 30 days so i've discovered that people have taken to doing things like Asdf1234 and then when the password requires changing changing it to Asdf2345... Doh.
He might have also later been seen later yelling at the kids to get off his lawn.
Thats exactly it man, the export requirements of the US gov don't require documentation on the hardware to be protected. I don't think you're missing anything, Theo is right, you shouldn't have to click on some agreement and fill out crap to download documentation. Even if 11 fields only required, those fields are for ton of info... Full name(2), company, title, phone, full address (5), and relationship... I don't give that info out to anyone unless I absolutely have to for payment.
Minors can't enter into a contract without their parents being in on it, and any contract they did enter for said contest would be null and void leaving CT screwed. So basically the answer is "yes."
So someone please pull the facts to gether so we can make a meaningful statement to these tech companies.
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So you're that asshole sitting in the left lane doing 55mpg... Yeah news for you, people speed, get over it. The left lane's speed limit is whatever the person behind you wants to do or you get out of the way, at least in the country. In the city the existence of left hand entrances and exits mess this up to hell and back but its still a good rule of thumb.
Now we really understand why google has collected so much data on everyone! They weren't doing Evil, just trying to get everyone dates.
While this is true, accidents happen all the time. Consider that the computer might also act like a virus spreading its data to different machines... just waiting on the secured network for ONE pc to get accidently plugged into the wrong slot in the wall.
While the most important secret computer work is all done in vaults plenty of sensitive info could be spread through one accidental connection.
Its true, the map site rocks on ask! Plus I was blown away by the fact that it actually responds to scroll-wheel by zooming in!
What the parent means is exactly that, if ATT degrades Google's anything, Google should just block all ATT customers from their site for one day with a message saying "Google is unavailable in your area due to policies with your ISP ATT, please call ATT customer service at [number]."
That is what the parent is referring to, and you are exactly right though, its the little guy with that new hot idea which ATT wants. That truly is the worst of the problems. The internet needs to be fair, and if everyone pays their local ISP no other local ISP should have the right to screw with those messages. The ISPs should be treated very much like a common-carrier (regardless of them not being).
SDer1: I just posted!
SDer2: Shutup, you called me 3 minutes ago!
And now we secretly find the real reason slashdot only lets you post every three minutes.
They want to set a precedent however losely for collection of search data without a warent so that they can do it randomly in the future.... Think of this in the same way they want to go after your library records.
Mod this guy up its totally true considering the news lately with the DoJ.