Except for things like health care, education, police, fire protection, transport infrastructure. Leave them up to a "competitive market" and you get a healthy, educated aristocracy living in fear of a mass of peons.
Why? It it more cost effective for "me" to educate, medicate, and protect the "masses of peons" than -not- to. More education tends to result in more tax income and trade and more healthy peons. Peons who have good healthcare (and are educated) tend to take more proactive (read: cheaper) approach to their health, which tends to cost less than post-injury/sickness healthcare (which id be forced to provide to prevent a mass peon uprising - which would cost me more).
Governments and companies that don't take care of people aren't being "ruthlessly capitalistic", they're just being shortsighted and ineffectual (read: dumb).
If we promoted people within organizations and governments on a purely capitalistic basis (ie, theyre the best for the job and have earned the organization money/budget and are not being promoted because some other jerk likes to play golf with them), we'd have smarter/better organizations, they'd be more capable of making rational decisions, and the overall quality of life would go up.
Unfortunately, we don't. (Stopping here to prevent myself from turning this into a rant about education in the U.S. and how the lack of good education here strangles any hopes the U.S. has of continuing to be a successful representative capitalistic country).
There is no such thing as uncontrolled capitalism. Without enforced laws controling trade, it becomes cheaper to just use brute force to get what you want. Why bother trading for something you can just grab? At that point, the system devolves.
"Identity" and "Your personal information" aren't the same thing. You can create a system where everyone is authenticated, trusted, specific transactions can be reviewed by third parties with consent of participating parties, etc...all without giving away your *personal information*. This is the layer that's important...
"I like the convenience of being able to roam the house and yard."...and other people like it too - especially when "you" use a VPN back into work or a laptop. They can roam your house and your yard straight into all that confidential information.:)
For the reason censorship and government information control is newsworthy every other time. Even if youre not interested in the specific content and even if it's not intentionally malicious, it's bad form and worth bringing to public attention.
It would be rather annoying...when you innocently browse an infected web server with a web browser that has had many known unpatched issues for months and months which allow just this sort of thing to happen (yet you haven't switched browsers yet)...and your banking details are compromised and your bank account is emptied. I'd feel pretty bad for myself...
She seems genuinely after the truth. This sort of reduces the probability that you'll see pro-SCO posts. It's not like Groklaw is accessing information that isn't publicly available for the most part. If there were references to "Hey, we were there behind closed doors with no witnesses and they said blah blah" then it would be fair to question Groklaw's fairness. When everything said can be double checked with comparative ease, would anyone (other than SCO) ignore or distort evidence? The readers there have proven they're willing to dig up every bit of arcane fact - I'm sure distortion would be discovered rather quickly. Note, for example, the "This couldnt be a DOS against SCO!" thread. Plenty of posts were spent contradicting that...
I guess, since all security measures are ultimately subject to some sort of circumvention, that we should just not bother?
The point is to reduce exposure in cases where it cannot be completely removed. This limits the focus of where you need to manually apply the use logs, IDS's, leaps of inspiration, etc.
Forcing everyone out the same few, comparatively unusual gates is far better than leaving them all open.
It seems the point is to watch the cognitive process that people go through when attacking the systems. It doesn't matter if they're up against a brick wall, NASA, or a deck of cards. The core problem solving skills don't change - just the physical methods that get chosen and executed. This is what it seems like they're looking to learn - not attacks but thought processes.
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There is no such thing as uncontrolled capitalism. Without enforced laws controling trade, it becomes cheaper to just use brute force to get what you want. Why bother trading for something you can just grab? At that point, the system devolves.
"Identity" and "Your personal information" aren't the same thing. You can create a system where everyone is authenticated, trusted, specific transactions can be reviewed by third parties with consent of participating parties, etc...all without giving away your *personal information*. This is the layer that's important...
"I like the convenience of being able to roam the house and yard."...and other people like it too - especially when "you" use a VPN back into work or a laptop. They can roam your house and your yard straight into all that confidential information. :)
Acutally, I'm looking around for a suitable Kerry site right now that doesn't use named hosts. If you have a suggestion, feel free to pass it on!
You're right. Expressing an opinion in a non-threatening, non-damaging, slightly amusing way is juvenile. It won't happen again, I promise!
For the reason censorship and government information control is newsworthy every other time. Even if youre not interested in the specific content and even if it's not intentionally malicious, it's bad form and worth bringing to public attention.
..to make it easier to remember for people outside the US to get to the site without having to remember the IP of georgewbush.com
It would be rather annoying...when you innocently browse an infected web server with a web browser that has had many known unpatched issues for months and months which allow just this sort of thing to happen (yet you haven't switched browsers yet)...and your banking details are compromised and your bank account is emptied. I'd feel pretty bad for myself...
She seems genuinely after the truth. This sort of reduces the probability that you'll see pro-SCO posts. It's not like Groklaw is accessing information that isn't publicly available for the most part. If there were references to "Hey, we were there behind closed doors with no witnesses and they said blah blah" then it would be fair to question Groklaw's fairness. When everything said can be double checked with comparative ease, would anyone (other than SCO) ignore or distort evidence? The readers there have proven they're willing to dig up every bit of arcane fact - I'm sure distortion would be discovered rather quickly. Note, for example, the "This couldnt be a DOS against SCO!" thread. Plenty of posts were spent contradicting that...
I guess, since all security measures are ultimately subject to some sort of circumvention, that we should just not bother?
The point is to reduce exposure in cases where it cannot be completely removed. This limits the focus of where you need to manually apply the use logs, IDS's, leaps of inspiration, etc.
Forcing everyone out the same few, comparatively unusual gates is far better than leaving them all open.
It seems the point is to watch the cognitive process that people go through when attacking the systems. It doesn't matter if they're up against a brick wall, NASA, or a deck of cards. The core problem solving skills don't change - just the physical methods that get chosen and executed. This is what it seems like they're looking to learn - not attacks but thought processes.