is that it contains no private right of action. In other words, you can't sue your insurance company when they sell your records to a marketing company^W^W^W^W^W^W^W share some of your health information with some of our selected, carefully prescreened partners. Your only recourse is to make a complaint to the same people that routinely accept millions in bribes^W contributions from the people you're complaining about. This is true with so many "protections" passed by this administration while at the same time they've gutted others (bankruptcy, class actions).
You don't actually make software hacker proof, the goal is to make it harder to break into it for the average person than to go out and buy it.
That's how it is with any kind of encryption: Make the data more expensive to get at than it's worth. It's stupid, for instance, for the NSA to run their acre of computer underneath Fort George G. Meade full tilt for a week to decrypt an email message that says "wanna go have lunch?" Same principle applies to software.
"Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all other philosophers are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself."
Knowing their history, we will probably have it soon enshrined in our caselaw that the President may spy on any American anytime he wants for any reason or no reason.
The DHS spokeman hinted that the only reason that Sony was still allowed to sell any product in the US was that the DHS was being nice, this one time.
This decision was made, of course, after some money changed hands behind the scenes. You know, a little bribe^H^H^H^H^H campagin contribution. If you think the Bush administration would have put Sony out of business for this, I'd really like a toke off of whatever it is you're smoking. Doing so is, after all, bad for business and bad for the economy, and if we do things that are bad for corporate bottom lines^W^W^W the economy, then the terrorists have already won.
Where I am, we can ask the CEO the hard questions and actually get an answer.
And later get called in for a meeting with HR and be told, "your negative attitude just isn't a good fit with the culture here at Consolidated Companies and we have decided to let you go."
I find it interesting that they're just now doing something, right when RIM came within an angstrom of being shut down. When those bureaucrats realize the patent system is threatening their Crackberries, they finally get off their lazy, worthless asses and do something. Anybody else remember D Squared? The FTC only came down on them when a Commission member was spammed silly. And check out their vomit-inducing PR spin.
What are we going to do when we've outsourced *everything*?
Okay, kids aren't getting CS degrees because there are no jobs to be had, they've all been shipped to India (or China, or whatever other shithole^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H"low-wage country".) Eventually, we'll stop training our own programmers. Now, India doesn't like the fact that we're not going to let them nuke Pakistan back into the stone age, so what do they do? They cut us off. Now what? We saw something similar in the '70s with OPEC. Similarly, we don't grow our own food (we're building McMansions on some of the richest farmland in the world). Face it, we're being sold down the river for the sake of next quarter's numbers.
I'm to the point where I'm ready to get while the getting's good.
No, what will end up happening is, the American hospitals will charge the same for telesurgery (or reduce it by 5%) even though it costs them 80% less and pocket the difference, thus handing the hospitals and insurance companies a windfall. Hey, that's capitalism, and if you're against it, you're a terrorist.
Frankly, I think that it's rather more disturbing that so many of the supposedly "intelligent" members of our society are completely incapable of the critical thinking neccessary to identify satire. Whatever our education system is doing, it sure isn't teaching people how to think.
I'm not sure as this is a satire. I am forced to work with people who are this stupid.
Be warned though, you're up for some truly hilarious reading, including that Microsoft invented the modern computer, the Internet and the World Wide Web.:)
This woman is a jingoistic moron. From her site:
: FOR GOD, FREEDOM AND GEORGE W. BUSH - ONE NATION UNDER GOD : : U - S - A : (Love it or Leave it!)
Like most things that are worth owning, Computers are an American invention. Look at any modern computer and you will see that the whole thing is the product of American brilliance.
I wonder if she knows that American cars suck shit compared to the Japanese ones, for starters.
In California, If a security person detains you, you can Sue, and will probably win.
Of course you have to ask to leave, and they imply that you can't ask./*DISCLAIMER This is not legal advice. You are not a client. I'm not even an attorney. If you want legal advice, contact an attorney admitted to your jurisdiction's bar. What I am saying here is probably 100% wrong and if you do anything in reliance upon it, you are a blithering idiot who deserves whatever bad shit is very likely to befall you.
DISCLAIMER*/
Okay, now that that's out of the way . . .
Parent is correct. Anytime a police officer or security rental cop make someone feel as though they're not free to leave, then legally that person is detained. It's a subjective standard based upon what a reasonable person in that situation would feel. In other words, "he wasn't detained, he was free to go" when the subject was in a tiny office with three beefy guards standing in front of the door, doesn't cut it. Now, most states have merchant protection statutes which allow the detention of a person for the purpose of determining whether or not they have secreted merchandise. They only apply if the detention is done reasonably and and for a reasonable length of time. Practically speaking, if you're going that route, you damn well better be prepared to say what merchandise was taken, where it was taken from, where it's hidden, and how you know all of this. "I thought I saw him take X" won't work. Here, there was no reason to suspect that any of these people had taken anything, so no detention was warranted.
It gets better. Detention for more than 30 minutes turns into a de facto arrest, at which point the arrestor had better be praying it turns out to be legit. If not, i.e., it turns out that said arrest was without probable cause, the arrestee can sue the cop/guard personally (and spouse if in a community property state), the guard's employer, and possibly the store on a negligent hiring/retention theory. The plaintiff will probably stand to collect a settlement big enough to interest any number of attorneys in taking the case on contingency.
As for the ignoramus, diversity-hire store manager with the four-foot caboose (what we in the Army used to call a "Delta November" or "the NUF"), claiming her civil rights are violated by being videotaped, bullshit. It's a public place, she has no reasonable expectation of privacy. Now, the store has a right to set rules on its property against videotaping or photography, but its sole recourse is to tell the person to leave. If they refuse, that's trespass and they can be arrested for it.
Bottom line, all they did was throw a monkey wrench in the works of the Wal-Mart of electronics stores. Nothing illegal about that.
So when is the FTC going to charge carriers with improperly handling private information?
They won't. The carriers paid their protection money^W^Wcampaign contributions to the RNC. These guys didn't, and that's why they're getting hammered. Hell, ChoicePoint and a whole host of other companies traffic in customer information all the time!
What's even more interesting is the blatant fact that the old foam is actually more safe than the new foam that failed. That's right, the foam that failed was a new EPA regulation applied to NASA [newsmax.com]. From that article:
But instead of returning the much safer, politically incorrect, Freon-based foam for Discovery's launch, the space agency tinkered with the application process, changing "the way the foam was applied to reduce the size and number of air pockets," according to Newsday.
You're quoting Newsmax as an authoritative source?!? Why not the National Enquirer or the Weekly World News, they're just about as authoritative. Are you aware that Newsmax, along with WorldNetDaily, CyberCast News Service (formerly Conservative News Service), and freerepublic.com are playgrounds where far-right conspiracy whackos trade theories? Friend, these are people who would abolish the EPA if they had their way! Small wonder why they spin this story as "EPA kills astronauts."
When their exemption was denied, the National Astronaut Scattering Administration had the option of not launching. But, just like with Challenger and Columbia, they're going to launch it anyway, safety be damned.
Of course not every job can get out sourced but well 0% of plumbing jobs will get out sourced.
No, those just get "insourced" to illegal aliens^W^Wundocumented immigrant workers. You must understand, they don't do treasonous things like join unions or demand better pay and benefits. If they do, "no mas trabaja y llamo la migra."
I told this to my doctor and they said that the white lab coats is a:major: image thing and that patients respond much more favorably to it than normal clothes.
That's interesting because I've heard of "white-coat hypertension," i.e., patients' BP is higher around the white coat because it makes them nervous.
By the end of that day, I was hearing "Need Another Seven Astronauts". In contrast, I've yet to hear any such wise-assed remarks about the Columbia reentry disaster.
No, it's actually "National Astronaut Scattering Administration."
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My last company was just the opposite. About 1/2 our IT team was ex military (myself included). Navy and Air Force. No prima donnas, no ego trips.
Not to mention the fact that they'll blindly follow orders, regardless of how asinine, and will work long hours for shit pay.
is that it contains no private right of action. In other words, you can't sue your insurance company when they sell your records to a marketing company^W^W^W^W^W^W^W share some of your health information with some of our selected, carefully prescreened partners. Your only recourse is to make a complaint to the same people that routinely accept millions in bribes^W contributions from the people you're complaining about. This is true with so many "protections" passed by this administration while at the same time they've gutted others (bankruptcy, class actions).
You don't actually make software hacker proof, the goal is to make it harder to break into it for the average person than to go out and buy it.
That's how it is with any kind of encryption: Make the data more expensive to get at than it's worth. It's stupid, for instance, for the NSA to run their acre of computer underneath Fort George G. Meade full tilt for a week to decrypt an email message that says "wanna go have lunch?" Same principle applies to software.
This is what The Man said about philosophy:
"Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all other philosophers are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself."
Knowing their history, we will probably have it soon enshrined in our caselaw that the President may spy on any American anytime he wants for any reason or no reason.
The DHS spokeman hinted that the only reason that Sony was still allowed to sell any product in the US was that the DHS was being nice, this one time.
This decision was made, of course, after some money changed hands behind the scenes. You know, a little bribe^H^H^H^H^H campagin contribution. If you think the Bush administration would have put Sony out of business for this, I'd really like a toke off of whatever it is you're smoking. Doing so is, after all, bad for business and bad for the economy, and if we do things that are bad for corporate bottom lines^W^W^W the economy, then the terrorists have already won.
I really want to see someone go after Sony for a real settlement.
You can. No one is bound by the class action settlement. You can opt out of the settlement and pursue your own independent damages claim against Sony.
Where I am, we can ask the CEO the hard questions and actually get an answer.
And later get called in for a meeting with HR and be told, "your negative attitude just isn't a good fit with the culture here at Consolidated Companies and we have decided to let you go."
I find it interesting that they're just now doing something, right when RIM came within an angstrom of being shut down. When those bureaucrats realize the patent system is threatening their Crackberries, they finally get off their lazy, worthless asses and do something. Anybody else remember D Squared? The FTC only came down on them when a Commission member was spammed silly. And check out their vomit-inducing PR spin.
certainly W's approach to IANA, but that will change with the next president
You mean when the ignoramus Americans elect the next neocon fruitcake that Fox News and Rush "Oxy" Limbaugh tell them to vote for?
What are we going to do when we've outsourced *everything*?
Okay, kids aren't getting CS degrees because there are no jobs to be had, they've all been shipped to India (or China, or whatever other shithole^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H"low-wage country".) Eventually, we'll stop training our own programmers. Now, India doesn't like the fact that we're not going to let them nuke Pakistan back into the stone age, so what do they do? They cut us off. Now what? We saw something similar in the '70s with OPEC. Similarly, we don't grow our own food (we're building McMansions on some of the richest farmland in the world). Face it, we're being sold down the river for the sake of next quarter's numbers.
I'm to the point where I'm ready to get while the getting's good.
No, what will end up happening is, the American hospitals will charge the same for telesurgery (or reduce it by 5%) even though it costs them 80% less and pocket the difference, thus handing the hospitals and insurance companies a windfall. Hey, that's capitalism, and if you're against it, you're a terrorist.
This law could potentially allow companies to circumvent and undermine state laws designed to protect consumers from identity theft.
I thought Republicans believed in state's rights. Silly me.
a family to pay for.
Don't bother me with your self-imposed problems.
The fact that there's even a question as to whether or not this is a satire means the US is already in big, perhaps unrecoverable, trouble.
Frankly, I think that it's rather more disturbing that so many of the supposedly "intelligent" members of our society are completely incapable of the critical thinking neccessary to identify satire. Whatever our education system is doing, it sure isn't teaching people how to think.
I'm not sure as this is a satire. I am forced to work with people who are this stupid.
Be warned though, you're up for some truly hilarious reading, including that Microsoft invented the modern computer, the Internet and the World Wide Web. :)
This woman is a jingoistic moron. From her site:
: FOR GOD, FREEDOM AND GEORGE W. BUSH - ONE NATION UNDER GOD : : U - S - A : (Love it or Leave it!)
Like most things that are worth owning, Computers are an American invention. Look at any modern computer and you will see that the whole thing is the product of American brilliance.
I wonder if she knows that American cars suck shit compared to the Japanese ones, for starters.
In California, If a security person detains you, you can Sue, and will probably win.
/*DISCLAIMER
Of course you have to ask to leave, and they imply that you can't ask.
This is not legal advice. You are not a client. I'm not even an attorney. If you want legal advice, contact an attorney admitted to your jurisdiction's bar. What I am saying here is probably 100% wrong and if you do anything in reliance upon it, you are a blithering idiot who deserves whatever bad shit is very likely to befall you.
DISCLAIMER*/
Okay, now that that's out of the way . . .
Parent is correct. Anytime a police officer or security rental cop make someone feel as though they're not free to leave, then legally that person is detained. It's a subjective standard based upon what a reasonable person in that situation would feel. In other words, "he wasn't detained, he was free to go" when the subject was in a tiny office with three beefy guards standing in front of the door, doesn't cut it. Now, most states have merchant protection statutes which allow the detention of a person for the purpose of determining whether or not they have secreted merchandise. They only apply if the detention is done reasonably and and for a reasonable length of time. Practically speaking, if you're going that route, you damn well better be prepared to say what merchandise was taken, where it was taken from, where it's hidden, and how you know all of this. "I thought I saw him take X" won't work. Here, there was no reason to suspect that any of these people had taken anything, so no detention was warranted.
It gets better. Detention for more than 30 minutes turns into a de facto arrest, at which point the arrestor had better be praying it turns out to be legit. If not, i.e., it turns out that said arrest was without probable cause, the arrestee can sue the cop/guard personally (and spouse if in a community property state), the guard's employer, and possibly the store on a negligent hiring/retention theory. The plaintiff will probably stand to collect a settlement big enough to interest any number of attorneys in taking the case on contingency.
As for the ignoramus, diversity-hire store manager with the four-foot caboose (what we in the Army used to call a "Delta November" or "the NUF"), claiming her civil rights are violated by being videotaped, bullshit. It's a public place, she has no reasonable expectation of privacy. Now, the store has a right to set rules on its property against videotaping or photography, but its sole recourse is to tell the person to leave. If they refuse, that's trespass and they can be arrested for it.
Bottom line, all they did was throw a monkey wrench in the works of the Wal-Mart of electronics stores. Nothing illegal about that.
So when is the FTC going to charge carriers with improperly handling private information?
They won't. The carriers paid their protection money^W^Wcampaign contributions to the RNC. These guys didn't, and that's why they're getting hammered. Hell, ChoicePoint and a whole host of other companies traffic in customer information all the time!
Who do they make their profits off of? The 50% of people online who are too stupid to be.
What's even more interesting is the blatant fact that the old foam is actually more safe than the new foam that failed. That's right, the foam that failed was a new EPA regulation applied to NASA [newsmax.com]. From that article:
But instead of returning the much safer, politically incorrect, Freon-based foam for Discovery's launch, the space agency tinkered with the application process, changing "the way the foam was applied to reduce the size and number of air pockets," according to Newsday.
You're quoting Newsmax as an authoritative source?!? Why not the National Enquirer or the Weekly World News, they're just about as authoritative. Are you aware that Newsmax, along with WorldNetDaily, CyberCast News Service (formerly Conservative News Service), and freerepublic.com are playgrounds where far-right conspiracy whackos trade theories? Friend, these are people who would abolish the EPA if they had their way! Small wonder why they spin this story as "EPA kills astronauts."
When their exemption was denied, the National Astronaut Scattering Administration had the option of not launching. But, just like with Challenger and Columbia, they're going to launch it anyway, safety be damned.
Of course not every job can get out sourced but well 0% of plumbing jobs will get out sourced.
No, those just get "insourced" to illegal aliens^W^Wundocumented immigrant workers. You must understand, they don't do treasonous things like join unions or demand better pay and benefits. If they do, "no mas trabaja y llamo la migra."
I told this to my doctor and they said that the white lab coats is a :major: image thing and that patients respond much more favorably to it than normal clothes.
That's interesting because I've heard of "white-coat hypertension," i.e., patients' BP is higher around the white coat because it makes them nervous.
Wish I had mod points, I'd have modded you Insightful.
By the end of that day, I was hearing "Need Another Seven Astronauts". In contrast, I've yet to hear any such wise-assed remarks about the Columbia reentry disaster.
No, it's actually "National Astronaut Scattering Administration."