Just because code is written by russians with connections to the FSB doesn't mean it's necessarily bad...
The fact that russians wrote or at some point had access to the code doesn't automatically give them access to data that the code is later processing, unless there are backdoor in the code allowing them to gain access and there aren't some other mitigating factors (network filters, airgap etc) which prevent them from accessing the backdoor.
Considering that the code analyzes fingerprints, who would have a need for such code? Chances are the FSB need to analyze fingerprints in much the same way the FBI do. It makes sense to collaborate with others who have similar requirements, as this will decrease your development costs. You just need to check the code thoroughly to ensure it works as you want it to. The russians will be doing their own checks during collaborative development, as they will be equally concerned that some of the code was written by people connected to the FBI.
The key point is understanding what your doing, and understanding what code you're running. Who wrote it doesn't matter, so long as it does the job it's supposed to.
Plus consider this, if the FSB wanted to get malicious code onto an american system they would go to great lengths to disguise the origin of the code, which doesn't seem to be the case here.
Yes, it's basically equivalent to a mastercard debit card... But if you don't have the maestro logo on the card then 99% of the vendors will refuse to even try processing it.
This assumes there are equal numbers of men and women... In many societies there are not equal numbers, for instance in China thanks to the one child policy and the preference for male children there is an imbalance and yet no civil war... On the other hand, in a country which is fighting a war war it is usually the men doing the fighting, and thus dying, resulting in an imbalance of women.
You were lucky that you were even allowed to use BASIC... We were shown how to load a few educational programs from floppies, and how to use those programs etc... We had a simple ecosystem simulator, a simple word processor, a simple drawing program, a glorified calculator etc...
I found it the other way round, in germany almost everywhere accepted my international mastercard without any problems... In belgium on the other hand, many places would only accept a card called "maestro" which they don't issue here.
Many places now take contactless cards for small transactions, which are generally instant... The idea of signing has always been ridiculous and does nothing of any value, anyone can write a random mark on a piece of paper. PIN transactions actually provide a small level of security, in that you at least have to know what the PIN is or the machine will refuse your transaction. They also tend to be somewhat quicker than printing a piece of paper and drawing on it.
You should have multiple cards, there are lots of banks and several major card issuers - very useful if one bank or card network has a serious outage or something screws up etc. Also different accounts offer different perks depending on where or what you're spending etc.
On the other hand, cashless is very inconvenient for visitors who come from countries with different payment systems... I recently visited belgium and the netherlands, and many places would only accept "maestro" cards which aren't issued in a lot of countries and none of us had.
If your card gets skimmed you call the bank to complain about the fraud, they refund you those transactions and issue you a new card... Minor inconvenience and no loss to you. If your cash gets stolen it's gone, you file a police report and it goes into a huge database of never-to-be-solved crimes.
The high interest rates are not relevant if you pay off the balance in full every month... If you're paying with cash then you pay off the balance in full immediately, so assuming you spend the same amount you should just be able to hold that cash until the end of the month and then pay off the card without incurring any interest or penalties. As an added bonus, you don't end up with a pot of useless small coins.
Because they wasted it... They bought computers, but didn't train the teachers how to use them properly. They used them to run mundane programs designed for teaching other subjects (poorly), no attempts were made to teach anything about the computers themselves. Attempting to program them yourself was forbidden, as was running any of your own software on them or trying to modify anything.
It used to be between 20 and 30 years in 1790, back when distribution of media was slow... For it to be longer now rather than shorter is ridiculous and a clear case of extorting and abusing the public.
Why would it not work? Since the components would have been created before the larger containing work, they would enter the public domain before the complete work did and could thus be easily distributed with it.
The problem as always, is that copyright laws are outdated.. The original 20 years and then a work falls into the public domain made sense when works were written on paper and transport was slow. These days a lot has changed...
The Internet allows near instantaneous distribution worldwide, so the copyright terms should be much shorter... Media such as software is much more complicated than a book... Whereas with a book it's possible to rewrite the words into a new book, reprint, or even chop up excerpts for use in another work, this isn't the case with software distributed as binaries, only software distributed as sourcecode. Similarly software can have external requirements (like an externally hosted server) which books, video and music cannot.
There needs to be sensible reforms to ensure that the original goals of copyright are met, that is authors have a limited time to profit from their works after which the work must enter the public domain so everyone can benefit. For software this should be a mandatory requirement that the fully buildable sourcecode of both client and server components be made available upon copyright expiry, or upon end of availability - whichever is sooner.
The current copyright system does not benefit society at all. People claim that works won't be produced, but visit any country where copyright laws don't exist or aren't enforced and you will see lots of locally produced content.
Those animals we farm for meat purposes likely wouldn't have been born at all were it not for those farms... There is very little reason to keep animals otherwise. By not eating meat, you are denying millions of animals the right to ever exist at all.
Plants are alive too, what gives animals a greater right to life than plants?
Animals eating animals (and plants) is a part of nature, if not eaten by us in the wild those animals would likely fall prey to other predators.
When plants and animals die (of old age, disease etc) their bodies are also eaten...
Artificially engineered foods are the cause of obesity and other health problems these days. In the name of reducing things like fat and salt (which are only harmful if consumed in excessive quantities), artificial replacements have been created which are unhealthy in even small quantities, or excessive quantities of other things (eg sugar) are used. I don't expect artificially engineered meat to be any better.
Most vegans i've met don't look healthy...
Many people who don't eat meat, do eat fish... How is eating fish any different from eating meat? The fish has still been killed... If anything it's worse because many types of fish are becoming endangered and many fishing practices cause significant amounts of collateral damage. Most meat we eat comes from farms, where the animals are intentionally bred and looked after.
We have all manner of confusion which arises from the multiple layers of NAT, which makes it painful to remember which internal addresses are mapped to which external addresses and ports. With ipv6, everything would be much simpler. The DNS record points to the ip, and that ip identifies a single host.
That may work on the server side of things, but most end users don't have ipv6 connectivity...
What's needed is for the likes of google and facebook etc to start offering desirable features to ipv6 users first, perhaps as a form of beta... If hundreds of customers start calling isps demanding ipv6, or switching to other providers that already offer it then adoption will increase pretty quickly.
For now it's only a few of us asking for ipv6, so we get ignored by the major isps.
Yeah UK plugs are monsters, they're in use in some other countries too (malaysia, singapore etc)... But they have some safety features, they're hard to pull out the socket accidentally unlike US plugs, and every plug is required to be individually fused etc.
You can direct the signal so that only users inside the jail will connect to it... Staff in jail shouldn't be using their phones while on duty, they shouldn't even be in possession of phones while on duty because they could easily get stolen by inmates. And it's not illegal wiretapping if someone agrees to it, inform staff and visitors of the system and require that they agree to monitoring if they wish to use their phones inside the jail, or perhaps also require that visitors not bring phones into the jail (which is probably already the case).
Also phones give off signals, you can detect when one is being used, with the right equipment you could track them down quite easily.
Since when has the fact that something is banned stopped criminals from acquiring them? Mobile phones are already banned in jail, and yet they still smuggle them in... Clearly the guys in jail never cared that much about the law or they wouldn't be in jail...
"Wants to act as a server" means it wants to open a port, have you checked as to *why* it might be doing this as there's probably a rational explanation (eg endpoint for a voip connection, p2p etc).
It's unlikely that malware would attempt to open a listening port as this action is easily detectable both by the software you're using and by external port scans.
Only a complete idiot would register a stolen car's normal plates with a service like lyft... Chances are they will have swapped the plates from another car of the same model and color. A thief would also intentionally pick a common model of car.
Depends on the car thief... Those who get caught are generally the joyriders, the serious car thieves who are doing it for profit are far less likely to do anything that will get them pulled over.
Burning it out means her insurance will supply her a replacement car or cash... Returning it with added mileage and damage means she gets back a lower value vehicle than she had before.
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Just because code is written by russians with connections to the FSB doesn't mean it's necessarily bad...
The fact that russians wrote or at some point had access to the code doesn't automatically give them access to data that the code is later processing, unless there are backdoor in the code allowing them to gain access and there aren't some other mitigating factors (network filters, airgap etc) which prevent them from accessing the backdoor.
Considering that the code analyzes fingerprints, who would have a need for such code? Chances are the FSB need to analyze fingerprints in much the same way the FBI do. It makes sense to collaborate with others who have similar requirements, as this will decrease your development costs. You just need to check the code thoroughly to ensure it works as you want it to. The russians will be doing their own checks during collaborative development, as they will be equally concerned that some of the code was written by people connected to the FBI.
The key point is understanding what your doing, and understanding what code you're running. Who wrote it doesn't matter, so long as it does the job it's supposed to.
Plus consider this, if the FSB wanted to get malicious code onto an american system they would go to great lengths to disguise the origin of the code, which doesn't seem to be the case here.
Yes, it's basically equivalent to a mastercard debit card... But if you don't have the maestro logo on the card then 99% of the vendors will refuse to even try processing it.
This assumes there are equal numbers of men and women...
In many societies there are not equal numbers, for instance in China thanks to the one child policy and the preference for male children there is an imbalance and yet no civil war... On the other hand, in a country which is fighting a war war it is usually the men doing the fighting, and thus dying, resulting in an imbalance of women.
You were lucky that you were even allowed to use BASIC...
We were shown how to load a few educational programs from floppies, and how to use those programs etc... We had a simple ecosystem simulator, a simple word processor, a simple drawing program, a glorified calculator etc...
I found it the other way round, in germany almost everywhere accepted my international mastercard without any problems... In belgium on the other hand, many places would only accept a card called "maestro" which they don't issue here.
Many places now take contactless cards for small transactions, which are generally instant...
The idea of signing has always been ridiculous and does nothing of any value, anyone can write a random mark on a piece of paper.
PIN transactions actually provide a small level of security, in that you at least have to know what the PIN is or the machine will refuse your transaction. They also tend to be somewhat quicker than printing a piece of paper and drawing on it.
You should have multiple cards, there are lots of banks and several major card issuers - very useful if one bank or card network has a serious outage or something screws up etc. Also different accounts offer different perks depending on where or what you're spending etc.
On the other hand, cashless is very inconvenient for visitors who come from countries with different payment systems... I recently visited belgium and the netherlands, and many places would only accept "maestro" cards which aren't issued in a lot of countries and none of us had.
If your card gets skimmed you call the bank to complain about the fraud, they refund you those transactions and issue you a new card... Minor inconvenience and no loss to you.
If your cash gets stolen it's gone, you file a police report and it goes into a huge database of never-to-be-solved crimes.
The high interest rates are not relevant if you pay off the balance in full every month...
If you're paying with cash then you pay off the balance in full immediately, so assuming you spend the same amount you should just be able to hold that cash until the end of the month and then pay off the card without incurring any interest or penalties. As an added bonus, you don't end up with a pot of useless small coins.
Because they wasted it...
They bought computers, but didn't train the teachers how to use them properly.
They used them to run mundane programs designed for teaching other subjects (poorly), no attempts were made to teach anything about the computers themselves. Attempting to program them yourself was forbidden, as was running any of your own software on them or trying to modify anything.
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It used to be between 20 and 30 years in 1790, back when distribution of media was slow...
For it to be longer now rather than shorter is ridiculous and a clear case of extorting and abusing the public.
Why would it not work? Since the components would have been created before the larger containing work, they would enter the public domain before the complete work did and could thus be easily distributed with it.
The problem as always, is that copyright laws are outdated..
The original 20 years and then a work falls into the public domain made sense when works were written on paper and transport was slow. These days a lot has changed...
The Internet allows near instantaneous distribution worldwide, so the copyright terms should be much shorter...
Media such as software is much more complicated than a book... Whereas with a book it's possible to rewrite the words into a new book, reprint, or even chop up excerpts for use in another work, this isn't the case with software distributed as binaries, only software distributed as sourcecode. Similarly software can have external requirements (like an externally hosted server) which books, video and music cannot.
There needs to be sensible reforms to ensure that the original goals of copyright are met, that is authors have a limited time to profit from their works after which the work must enter the public domain so everyone can benefit. For software this should be a mandatory requirement that the fully buildable sourcecode of both client and server components be made available upon copyright expiry, or upon end of availability - whichever is sooner.
The current copyright system does not benefit society at all. People claim that works won't be produced, but visit any country where copyright laws don't exist or aren't enforced and you will see lots of locally produced content.
Which is exactly the point being made, and needs explaining to those who call themselves vegetarians but still eat fish.
Those animals we farm for meat purposes likely wouldn't have been born at all were it not for those farms... There is very little reason to keep animals otherwise.
By not eating meat, you are denying millions of animals the right to ever exist at all.
Plants are alive too, what gives animals a greater right to life than plants?
Animals eating animals (and plants) is a part of nature, if not eaten by us in the wild those animals would likely fall prey to other predators.
When plants and animals die (of old age, disease etc) their bodies are also eaten...
Artificially engineered foods are the cause of obesity and other health problems these days. In the name of reducing things like fat and salt (which are only harmful if consumed in excessive quantities), artificial replacements have been created which are unhealthy in even small quantities, or excessive quantities of other things (eg sugar) are used. I don't expect artificially engineered meat to be any better.
Most vegans i've met don't look healthy...
Many people who don't eat meat, do eat fish... How is eating fish any different from eating meat? The fish has still been killed... If anything it's worse because many types of fish are becoming endangered and many fishing practices cause significant amounts of collateral damage. Most meat we eat comes from farms, where the animals are intentionally bred and looked after.
We have all manner of confusion which arises from the multiple layers of NAT, which makes it painful to remember which internal addresses are mapped to which external addresses and ports.
With ipv6, everything would be much simpler. The DNS record points to the ip, and that ip identifies a single host.
That may work on the server side of things, but most end users don't have ipv6 connectivity...
What's needed is for the likes of google and facebook etc to start offering desirable features to ipv6 users first, perhaps as a form of beta... If hundreds of customers start calling isps demanding ipv6, or switching to other providers that already offer it then adoption will increase pretty quickly.
For now it's only a few of us asking for ipv6, so we get ignored by the major isps.
Same too, i print occasionally and use a laserjet 4100 bought on ebay with a full toner cartridge for less than what a single new toner costs.
Yeah UK plugs are monsters, they're in use in some other countries too (malaysia, singapore etc)...
But they have some safety features, they're hard to pull out the socket accidentally unlike US plugs, and every plug is required to be individually fused etc.
You can direct the signal so that only users inside the jail will connect to it...
Staff in jail shouldn't be using their phones while on duty, they shouldn't even be in possession of phones while on duty because they could easily get stolen by inmates.
And it's not illegal wiretapping if someone agrees to it, inform staff and visitors of the system and require that they agree to monitoring if they wish to use their phones inside the jail, or perhaps also require that visitors not bring phones into the jail (which is probably already the case).
Also phones give off signals, you can detect when one is being used, with the right equipment you could track them down quite easily.
Since when has the fact that something is banned stopped criminals from acquiring them?
Mobile phones are already banned in jail, and yet they still smuggle them in...
Clearly the guys in jail never cared that much about the law or they wouldn't be in jail...
"Wants to act as a server" means it wants to open a port, have you checked as to *why* it might be doing this as there's probably a rational explanation (eg endpoint for a voip connection, p2p etc).
It's unlikely that malware would attempt to open a listening port as this action is easily detectable both by the software you're using and by external port scans.
Only a complete idiot would register a stolen car's normal plates with a service like lyft... Chances are they will have swapped the plates from another car of the same model and color. A thief would also intentionally pick a common model of car.
Depends on the car thief...
Those who get caught are generally the joyriders, the serious car thieves who are doing it for profit are far less likely to do anything that will get them pulled over.
Burning it out means her insurance will supply her a replacement car or cash...
Returning it with added mileage and damage means she gets back a lower value vehicle than she had before.