Because the orders are not illegal, just wrong... And you'll be fired for not following them. You might even be fired just for pointing out that the orders are wrong.
Have you never thought that maybe people don't want these updates? "But we only send once or two a month" multiplied by all the hundreds of companies that do so, and pretty soon people are flooded with crap. I'm not going to decide i want something just because i receive spam (or a visit to the door) telling me so, that will annoy me and cause me to refuse to purchase from the spammers. I never buy anything that someone tries to sell me on the doorstep, and wouldnt buy anything without shopping around first. I find it insulting being told what i want, if i want to buy something i will go out and look for it.
There days due to NAT your public address could be shared with many thousands of other users. While the ISP should be able to resolve an individual user, they will need to know the dates/times and source ports at least, assuming they even keep logs of the data. It was much easier to track down when an ip address was exclusively used by one user.
How could a site that is neither hosted in the EU, nor does business in the EU be forced to comply with a law just because a user from there happened to visit the site? There are many websites out there which blatantly violate laws in certain countries while being perfectly legal in the location where they are hosted.
Cars getting more expensive is the only thing the government has done... And making cars more expensive only reduces people's quality of life as they become less able to travel, or are forced to spend more on travel they have no choice about.
Cars are arguably worse for the environment after government regulation... They regulated the amount of CO2 but not other emissions, the end result has been lots of diesel vehicles which emit little CO2 and plenty of other more harmful chemicals. Now they are starting to realise the mistake, but there are millions of diesel vehicles on european roads now.
Cars getting more fuel efficient and safer never needed government regulation, car manufacturers are doing this on their own. People actually want to buy cars which are safer and use less fuel.
the current OS design would have you hand your wallet (and a non-revocable power of attorney) to the clerk, and just hope that they take the right amount out of your account before handing it back.
No it doesn't. There are thousands of compromised boxes in china, and malware infections are a routine problem in chinese companies. A lot of the spam and hack attempts that come from chinese addresses aren't launched by the chinese, they are boxes that have been hacked.
Warner Bros and Disney will keep pumping out movies while the people who work on it are slowly drained of their time and wealth by the companies they work for, and the people who buy the worst of their products will keep producing "a market" for that slop.
Worse than that, disney keep selling the same movies again every few years, each time targeting new kids with the same old crap rather than making any effort to create any new content.
That's the inherent flaw of democracy, the voters don't fully understand what they're voting for and are easily influenced. This applies not only to the people, but also to the politicians - they don't necessarily understand the issues being discussed and voted upon either. And then those "experts" who supposedly do, generally gained that knowledge working in a particular field and will have their own agendas to push - they won't be giving unbiased advice based on their expertise, they will be pushing an agenda that benefits themselves or their employers.
Give people too much power and they will abuse it, it happens with unions but also without them it would happen in the opposite way - you would be expected to do everything, and work longer hours at no extra pay etc. There's a happy medium where employers cant abuse employees and union workers do their jobs efficiently, but we never seem to get there.
It seems all of these people campaigning for equality or fairness want nothing of the sort - they all want inequality to remain, just that they want it to be in their favor instead of against them.
Defense in depth... Hackers are opportunistic, you can do almost everything right but make one tiny mistake at the wrong time and your toast. Having multiple layers of defense can mitigate against mistakes, and also against zero-day vulnerabilities in certain components.
A defender has to cover everything, an attacker only needs to find and exploit one weakness.
Just having your data "encrypted" is not good enough... You need to ensure that not only is your data encrypted, but that only the intended recipient has the decryption key. That's where certificates come in, to verify the remote peer. Without certificates or some form of pre shared keys, anyone can sit in the middle and establish an encrypted connection to you, then create a separate encrypted connection to the target you were intending to connect to and watch all the traffic as it gets decrypted by the attacker's machine and then re-encrypted for onward transmission.
You shouldn't be doing that, your networking devices should have proper certs or your client system should be configured to trust a corporate CA and the network devices then have certs from that. Chances are your job requires you to have elevated privileges on all manner of important networking devices, if someone was able to MITM you they could steal some powerful credentials.
The only times you should be logging into a device that uses a self signed cert are:
1, initial configuration 2, testing
In the same vein however, it seems browsers are disabling support for weaker algorithms by default, and preventing you from turning them back on. This represents a significant problem, as there are all kinds of old devices which we still need to access for various reasons.
When it was propped up by the soviet union... For many years, the north was ahead of the south economically. That only changed after the collapse of the USSR.
Capitalism does not encourage you to do anything which is good for the country, the goal of capitalism is personal gain.. Any benefit to the country is accidental, not a goal.
In general anything supplied by a consumer isp will be garbage... I had my house wired up with ethernet in every room, and cables in the ceilings in strategic locations for ceiling-mount wifi devices. Considering that internet access is now ubiquitous in many countries i'd expect all new houses to be built this way then you can just configure your router to talk to the isp's service.
Depends what parts you over-stressed... If you mod your car to increase power which puts more stress on the drivetrain thats one thing and the manufacturer should refuse a warranty repair if you destroy your engine as a result, however they should still honor the warranty on unmodified parts such as the radio etc.
Similarly while they shouldnt be obligated to repair the engine you destroyed by running it out of spec, they should still offer a paid repair or the option of purchasing replacement parts. There should also be a cap on the margin chargeable for spare parts, and the spare should cost the same wether purchased directly or as part of a repair carried out by an authorised repairer, otherwise manufacturers will artificially inflate the price of parts to discourage repairs.
In many countries, there are regulations which require auto manufacturers to make parts available for a minimum of 10 years from the date the last car was manufactured. There are also a large number of parts which are reused across models and even manufacturers.
An electronics board is much the same really, all of the resistors and capacitors etc will be standard parts that are easily replaced - people are buying new capacitors to replace faulty ones on amiga motherboards made more than 20 years ago, but repairing modern circuit boards is much harder because of the smaller component sizes.
It's not capitalism gone bad, that's just how capitalism works. Companies will do whatever they can to increase their profits, keeping customers happy and offering a decent product or service is not a goal of capitalism, its a side effect in the event of competition.
There are a variety of reasons for widescreen laptops, here are just a few of them:
Keyboards - a laptop with a tall and narrow screen will have a tall and narrow keyboard, which will feel cramped... A wider keyboard is better for typing on.
Availability of screens - widescreen format panels are mass produced for tv use, they're cheaper and more widely available.
Receipts which have been modified by hand using a pen attract extra scrutiny from the tax authorities, as it's trivially easy to forge.
Also if you pay for expenses with cash you effectively lose that money until you get reimbursed, if you pay for it on a card you usually have at least a month interest free before you actually have to pay for it. For insignificant amounts it may not be a problem, for large amounts it certainly can be.
The exchange rates offered for taking cash are usually worse than those offered when paying card, and you have to prepare in advance by carrying enough cash to cover any eventuality, carrying lots of cash around can often be extremely risky and ending up with lots of small change is annoying.
Yes offering multiple payment methods is preferable, but each added payment method adds cost for the retailer and cash is one of the most expensive methods to provide.
So long as they declare up front what method of payment they accept, then they have no obligation to accept cash. The fault is yours if you accrue a debt when you know that you'll be unable to repay it.
It does work the other way round, if the restaurant has a mastercard sign on the door and you present a mastercard to pay for the meal but they tell you their card machine is faulty it's not your responsibility to provide cash. I've had that happen a few times with restaurants where they want to take cash (tor tax evasion purposes) so they claim the card machine is faulty... When you point out that's their problem and you're not carrying any cash it usually magically fixes itself.
We neither demand nor expect slave labor, we expect to receive the goods we ordered for the advertised price, and to receive a receipt afterwards which accurately reflects the price we paid.
If the menu states that a 15% service charge will be added on top of the cost of the individual items then that's fine, it's up front, we know the cost before we order and we have a record of the cost afterwards.
And because the tip is paid *after* the meal, and certain nationalities are known for not tipping, as soon as the waitress hears an australian accent you get terrible service.
You tip *after* you've had the food, so long as you don't return to the same restaurant again you'll be fine.
That said, the whole idea of expected tipping is quite ridiculous and causes all manner of problems.
I travel often for business, i need receipts for my food and i get reimbursed, if you give me a receipt which includes the total amount including the tip i can claim back the tip which means i'm likely to be more generous with it. If i'm paying the tip out of my own pocket i'm going to be more stingy not least of all because i'm not eating out by choice - i'm away from home on business and can't prepare food at home like i normally would.
Not only that but if your working in a restaurant, the restaurant should pay a reasonable wage, not expect you to pay 15% more than the advertised price to pay for the staff. If you need to charge more to pay for the staff then raise prices so the cost is up front, or add a service charge thats displayed on the menu. If you're advertising a price then i'll expect to pay the advertised price.
You shouldn't be tipping staff simply for doing their job, you should tip them for going above and beyond. If they're simply doing their job to the expected standard then you've already covered the cost in the bill. It's even worse when you actually receive poor service and they still expect a tip!
Another thing that annoys me is you're expected to tip the waiters, but what about the chef? If you hd a really good meal, wouldn't you rather reward the chef who cooked it? The guy who slaved away over a hot stove to produce a delicious meal, or should you reward the guy who relayed your order to the chef and then carried the order to you? Some restaurants actually replace the ordering part with a tablet located on the table, so the waiter only has to carry your order to you, i wouldn't be surprised to see that automated by a robot at some point too.
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Because the orders are not illegal, just wrong... And you'll be fired for not following them. You might even be fired just for pointing out that the orders are wrong.
Have you never thought that maybe people don't want these updates?
"But we only send once or two a month" multiplied by all the hundreds of companies that do so, and pretty soon people are flooded with crap.
I'm not going to decide i want something just because i receive spam (or a visit to the door) telling me so, that will annoy me and cause me to refuse to purchase from the spammers. I never buy anything that someone tries to sell me on the doorstep, and wouldnt buy anything without shopping around first.
I find it insulting being told what i want, if i want to buy something i will go out and look for it.
There days due to NAT your public address could be shared with many thousands of other users. While the ISP should be able to resolve an individual user, they will need to know the dates/times and source ports at least, assuming they even keep logs of the data.
It was much easier to track down when an ip address was exclusively used by one user.
How could a site that is neither hosted in the EU, nor does business in the EU be forced to comply with a law just because a user from there happened to visit the site?
There are many websites out there which blatantly violate laws in certain countries while being perfectly legal in the location where they are hosted.
Cars getting more expensive is the only thing the government has done... And making cars more expensive only reduces people's quality of life as they become less able to travel, or are forced to spend more on travel they have no choice about.
Cars are arguably worse for the environment after government regulation... They regulated the amount of CO2 but not other emissions, the end result has been lots of diesel vehicles which emit little CO2 and plenty of other more harmful chemicals. Now they are starting to realise the mistake, but there are millions of diesel vehicles on european roads now.
Cars getting more fuel efficient and safer never needed government regulation, car manufacturers are doing this on their own. People actually want to buy cars which are safer and use less fuel.
the current OS design would have you hand your wallet (and a non-revocable power of attorney) to the clerk, and just hope that they take the right amount out of your account before handing it back.
Which is exactly how credit/debit cards work...
No it doesn't.
There are thousands of compromised boxes in china, and malware infections are a routine problem in chinese companies.
A lot of the spam and hack attempts that come from chinese addresses aren't launched by the chinese, they are boxes that have been hacked.
Warner Bros and Disney will keep pumping out movies while the people who work on it are slowly drained of their time and wealth by the companies they work for, and the people who buy the worst of their products will keep producing "a market" for that slop.
Worse than that, disney keep selling the same movies again every few years, each time targeting new kids with the same old crap rather than making any effort to create any new content.
That's the inherent flaw of democracy, the voters don't fully understand what they're voting for and are easily influenced. This applies not only to the people, but also to the politicians - they don't necessarily understand the issues being discussed and voted upon either. And then those "experts" who supposedly do, generally gained that knowledge working in a particular field and will have their own agendas to push - they won't be giving unbiased advice based on their expertise, they will be pushing an agenda that benefits themselves or their employers.
Give people too much power and they will abuse it, it happens with unions but also without them it would happen in the opposite way - you would be expected to do everything, and work longer hours at no extra pay etc.
There's a happy medium where employers cant abuse employees and union workers do their jobs efficiently, but we never seem to get there.
It seems all of these people campaigning for equality or fairness want nothing of the sort - they all want inequality to remain, just that they want it to be in their favor instead of against them.
Defense in depth...
Hackers are opportunistic, you can do almost everything right but make one tiny mistake at the wrong time and your toast.
Having multiple layers of defense can mitigate against mistakes, and also against zero-day vulnerabilities in certain components.
A defender has to cover everything, an attacker only needs to find and exploit one weakness.
Just having your data "encrypted" is not good enough...
You need to ensure that not only is your data encrypted, but that only the intended recipient has the decryption key. That's where certificates come in, to verify the remote peer.
Without certificates or some form of pre shared keys, anyone can sit in the middle and establish an encrypted connection to you, then create a separate encrypted connection to the target you were intending to connect to and watch all the traffic as it gets decrypted by the attacker's machine and then re-encrypted for onward transmission.
You shouldn't be doing that, your networking devices should have proper certs or your client system should be configured to trust a corporate CA and the network devices then have certs from that. Chances are your job requires you to have elevated privileges on all manner of important networking devices, if someone was able to MITM you they could steal some powerful credentials.
The only times you should be logging into a device that uses a self signed cert are:
1, initial configuration
2, testing
In the same vein however, it seems browsers are disabling support for weaker algorithms by default, and preventing you from turning them back on. This represents a significant problem, as there are all kinds of old devices which we still need to access for various reasons.
When it was propped up by the soviet union...
For many years, the north was ahead of the south economically. That only changed after the collapse of the USSR.
Capitalism does not encourage you to do anything which is good for the country, the goal of capitalism is personal gain.. Any benefit to the country is accidental, not a goal.
The system is working as designed.
In general anything supplied by a consumer isp will be garbage...
I had my house wired up with ethernet in every room, and cables in the ceilings in strategic locations for ceiling-mount wifi devices. Considering that internet access is now ubiquitous in many countries i'd expect all new houses to be built this way then you can just configure your router to talk to the isp's service.
Depends what parts you over-stressed...
If you mod your car to increase power which puts more stress on the drivetrain thats one thing and the manufacturer should refuse a warranty repair if you destroy your engine as a result, however they should still honor the warranty on unmodified parts such as the radio etc.
Similarly while they shouldnt be obligated to repair the engine you destroyed by running it out of spec, they should still offer a paid repair or the option of purchasing replacement parts. There should also be a cap on the margin chargeable for spare parts, and the spare should cost the same wether purchased directly or as part of a repair carried out by an authorised repairer, otherwise manufacturers will artificially inflate the price of parts to discourage repairs.
In many countries, there are regulations which require auto manufacturers to make parts available for a minimum of 10 years from the date the last car was manufactured. There are also a large number of parts which are reused across models and even manufacturers.
An electronics board is much the same really, all of the resistors and capacitors etc will be standard parts that are easily replaced - people are buying new capacitors to replace faulty ones on amiga motherboards made more than 20 years ago, but repairing modern circuit boards is much harder because of the smaller component sizes.
It's not capitalism gone bad, that's just how capitalism works. Companies will do whatever they can to increase their profits, keeping customers happy and offering a decent product or service is not a goal of capitalism, its a side effect in the event of competition.
There are a variety of reasons for widescreen laptops, here are just a few of them:
Keyboards - a laptop with a tall and narrow screen will have a tall and narrow keyboard, which will feel cramped... A wider keyboard is better for typing on.
Availability of screens - widescreen format panels are mass produced for tv use, they're cheaper and more widely available.
Receipts which have been modified by hand using a pen attract extra scrutiny from the tax authorities, as it's trivially easy to forge.
Also if you pay for expenses with cash you effectively lose that money until you get reimbursed, if you pay for it on a card you usually have at least a month interest free before you actually have to pay for it. For insignificant amounts it may not be a problem, for large amounts it certainly can be.
The exchange rates offered for taking cash are usually worse than those offered when paying card, and you have to prepare in advance by carrying enough cash to cover any eventuality, carrying lots of cash around can often be extremely risky and ending up with lots of small change is annoying.
Yes offering multiple payment methods is preferable, but each added payment method adds cost for the retailer and cash is one of the most expensive methods to provide.
So long as they declare up front what method of payment they accept, then they have no obligation to accept cash.
The fault is yours if you accrue a debt when you know that you'll be unable to repay it.
It does work the other way round, if the restaurant has a mastercard sign on the door and you present a mastercard to pay for the meal but they tell you their card machine is faulty it's not your responsibility to provide cash. I've had that happen a few times with restaurants where they want to take cash (tor tax evasion purposes) so they claim the card machine is faulty... When you point out that's their problem and you're not carrying any cash it usually magically fixes itself.
We neither demand nor expect slave labor, we expect to receive the goods we ordered for the advertised price, and to receive a receipt afterwards which accurately reflects the price we paid.
If the menu states that a 15% service charge will be added on top of the cost of the individual items then that's fine, it's up front, we know the cost before we order and we have a record of the cost afterwards.
And because the tip is paid *after* the meal, and certain nationalities are known for not tipping, as soon as the waitress hears an australian accent you get terrible service.
You tip *after* you've had the food, so long as you don't return to the same restaurant again you'll be fine.
That said, the whole idea of expected tipping is quite ridiculous and causes all manner of problems.
I travel often for business, i need receipts for my food and i get reimbursed, if you give me a receipt which includes the total amount including the tip i can claim back the tip which means i'm likely to be more generous with it. If i'm paying the tip out of my own pocket i'm going to be more stingy not least of all because i'm not eating out by choice - i'm away from home on business and can't prepare food at home like i normally would.
Not only that but if your working in a restaurant, the restaurant should pay a reasonable wage, not expect you to pay 15% more than the advertised price to pay for the staff. If you need to charge more to pay for the staff then raise prices so the cost is up front, or add a service charge thats displayed on the menu. If you're advertising a price then i'll expect to pay the advertised price.
You shouldn't be tipping staff simply for doing their job, you should tip them for going above and beyond. If they're simply doing their job to the expected standard then you've already covered the cost in the bill. It's even worse when you actually receive poor service and they still expect a tip!
Another thing that annoys me is you're expected to tip the waiters, but what about the chef? If you hd a really good meal, wouldn't you rather reward the chef who cooked it? The guy who slaved away over a hot stove to produce a delicious meal, or should you reward the guy who relayed your order to the chef and then carried the order to you? Some restaurants actually replace the ordering part with a tablet located on the table, so the waiter only has to carry your order to you, i wouldn't be surprised to see that automated by a robot at some point too.