There is nothing as secure as a computer system that's switched off. These keys are off-line, distributed, and safely stored. Nothing any bank has is better than that.
It will not damage their careers in the slightest. His department will clear him of all wrongdoing and claim that he acted appropriately no matter what the video says.
That's one problem Google Glass will sort out - none of this `you can't film here` crap. I'll film wherever the hell I like, officer.
So your theory is that cops who are willing to beat you up and take your camera will be unwilling to beat you up and take your geek glasses?
The point is while the cops are beating and robbing that guy there are three more people filming and uploading the incident from various angles. We can put the streams together with a nice picture in picture thing later.
A reasonably fair court system and lots of video recordings might just cause the US police state to calm down.
Society will be a lot better off the day we stop humoring authority figures abusing their power. It shouldn't even be a question that the Officer should lose his job, yet I bet he's still getting a paycheck for something he's clearly unsuitable for. Terrible thing.
If you commited assult and robbery against an innocent when you should have been performing your job getting fired should be the least of your problems.
The police need to be held accountable for their actions in a court of law because if they are not civil war is going to break out sooner or later. Video recording police should not only be legal it should be encouraged.
The officers should be charged with theft and assault. They should also be fired.
There is nobody to do the charging. Police are above the law because they lie to cover each others misdeeds.
Police are terrified of video cameras because they can't lie their way around video evidence. If someone else recorded this whole incident there would be evidence that would hold up in court.
You are appalled that they would consider the use of a drone to attack an American citizen if that citizen were collaborating in another Pearl Harbor or 9/11? Because that's what the actual letter says - that drones will not be used to attack American citizens (because we have a functioning legal system such that they are never beyond the reach of law enforcement here), but that in the event of extraordinary circumstances like Pearl Harbor and 9/11, the president would be advised about the legality of it.
Well that will work out fine then. Just like the tasers that are only ever used by police in their own self defence and only when the alternative is shooting someone. I mean these kinds of things would never be abused would they? Oh. Wait.
Come Windows 9, don't include a browser at all for the EU market. Leave the IE icon, but just have it say "Internet Explorer has not been included in this copy of Windows due to an EU ruling. Please go to www.microsoft.com/download_IE or contact your local governor." Let them sneakernet it from a previous version of Windows that DID include it. Better remove calculator too just to be safe... and mspaint... and notepad... and wordpad.. and spider solitaire... and..
That's exactly how I like windows. Removed, overwritten with zeros, and with a ext4 filesystem built on top of it.
The EU is focusing on Microsoft because they have a proven track record of abusing their monopoly status to force their competition out of other markets. In this case they are trying to force other web browsers out of the market.
Except what's the monopoly here? IE is bundled with it's own operating system. They don't block the competition from installing other browsers in the OS and never have block other browsers.
This is plainly a money grab by the EU.
Most windows users not only won't install a different web browser, they don't even know what one they use.
Go ask someone who doesn't work in IT what web browser they use. They will likely say 'I just click on the internet' or 'google'.
I am certainly not a MS fan, but it seems to me that the EU has found a way to "grab money from the rich" with the ridiculous fines they have been handling out lately.
If you need money isn't it better to rob a rich company that makes cash by selling low quality products using predatory market practices, rather than a large number of citizens who don't have anything left to take?
There is a very good reason to do work related training during work hours: you need a clear mind to learn something.
Mostly you need to be interested in it. If you love football ( for example ) you are still happy to talk about it after being stressed out at work all day.
Provide a budget to each employee for training/exams, say $2,500 / year. All training requests must be approved by their manager first (to ensure they are aligned with the company needs). Only reimburse exam fees if the exam is passed (employee incentive to succeed).
WHA!? $2500 a year for training and exams?
There might be some companies where that's the right amount but in most that would just mean employees taking a week or two in training courses on anything just to get a free holiday.
I'd give employees a $200 book allowance and pay for exams.
I recently tried to get the site director to purchase some new training books, but was told that they'd 'maybe' be able to get the books in six months.
Don't ask if they can buy books for you, just buy them yourself and try to claim for them. It's far easier to get forgiveness than permission. Just buy the books if you need them and fill in the standard expense form. At worse you will end up paying for the books yourself but more likely they will pay you without much complaint.
IT training where I work consists of buying the book, reading the book, playing with the software.
Classroom training courses cost thousands and are used as holidays by staff who don't even care about the subjects they are sent to learn. It's a bad deal. There isn't much you can't learn by reading the book or from Google and if you don't have the motivation to read the book and play with the software you really don't care about the subject enough to be any good at it anyway.
Multinationals will always tell you they care about your career advancement but in the end it's always your problem not theirs. The only difference between a bad company and a good company is the number of barriers they put in your way.
Now to see if the people of the United States can get it by the American Taliban people who keep trying to screw this nation over. I am hopeful but far from confident.
Serious question - what group are you actually talking about?
The real news item here is that a We The People petition actually garnered a thought-out response, instead of a boilerplate restating of current policy.
Exactly. There is some hope that the white house actually listens, and just maybe actually cares.
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It's Exante, a real financial services company.
https://exante.eu/products/
What about the lock in the first place?
Good question but the bitcoin lock in question has been proved secure. It's 256 bit ECDSA.
No.
There is nothing as secure as a computer system that's switched off. These keys are off-line, distributed, and safely stored. Nothing any bank has is better than that.
So hundreds of thousand of dollars of peoples money (most of it virtual none the less) relying on some $50 flash drives.....No thanks. Ill pass.
If the same flash drives cost $5000 would you feel safer?
Taking a person's property without justification and under color of authority is a serious crime.
Unless there is video proving the cop did this then legally he didn't. Video all the cops all the time, it's the only way to be sure.
It will not damage their careers in the slightest. His department will clear him of all wrongdoing and claim that he acted appropriately no matter what the video says.
In most cases. Not in every case.
That's one problem Google Glass will sort out - none of this `you can't film here` crap. I'll film wherever the hell I like, officer.
So your theory is that cops who are willing to beat you up and take your camera will be unwilling to beat you up and take your geek glasses?
The point is while the cops are beating and robbing that guy there are three more people filming and uploading the incident from various angles. We can put the streams together with a nice picture in picture thing later.
A reasonably fair court system and lots of video recordings might just cause the US police state to calm down.
Society will be a lot better off the day we stop humoring authority figures abusing their power. It shouldn't even be a question that the Officer should lose his job, yet I bet he's still getting a paycheck for something he's clearly unsuitable for. Terrible thing.
If you commited assult and robbery against an innocent when you should have been performing your job getting fired should be the least of your problems.
The police need to be held accountable for their actions in a court of law because if they are not civil war is going to break out sooner or later. Video recording police should not only be legal it should be encouraged.
The officers should be charged with theft and assault. They should also be fired.
There is nobody to do the charging. Police are above the law because they lie to cover each others misdeeds.
Police are terrified of video cameras because they can't lie their way around video evidence. If someone else recorded this whole incident there would be evidence that would hold up in court.
You are appalled that they would consider the use of a drone to attack an American citizen if that citizen were collaborating in another Pearl Harbor or 9/11? Because that's what the actual letter says - that drones will not be used to attack American citizens (because we have a functioning legal system such that they are never beyond the reach of law enforcement here), but that in the event of extraordinary circumstances like Pearl Harbor and 9/11, the president would be advised about the legality of it.
Well that will work out fine then. Just like the tasers that are only ever used by police in their own self defence and only when the alternative is shooting someone. I mean these kinds of things would never be abused would they? Oh. Wait.
G) A bunch of local groups that hated us (because we invaded their country forcing them to live in fear of us)
The notion that the state can decide to ignore everyone's rights is disgusting. The entire concept of "martial law" is also disgusting.
It's the psychos who are employed as police you should worry about. They are above the law and not held accountable for their actions.
we already know windows is the most common OS in the world
You know wrong. It's the most popular OS for desktop computers but not for any other category.
It only has 1.24% share of phones, 1.5% share of tablets, 35.3% share of servers, and 0.6% share of supercomputers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems
That's exactly how I like windows. Removed, overwritten with zeros, and with a ext4 filesystem built on top of it.
You should dump /dev/random into the hdd, instead of writing zeros - just to be safe :p
I have been known to use shred to overwrite windows with random data a few times before writting zeros. Mostly that's to test the disk though.
Come Windows 9, don't include a browser at all for the EU market. Leave the IE icon, but just have it say "Internet Explorer has not been included in this copy of Windows due to an EU ruling. Please go to www.microsoft.com/download_IE or contact your local governor." Let them sneakernet it from a previous version of Windows that DID include it. Better remove calculator too just to be safe... and mspaint... and notepad... and wordpad.. and spider solitaire... and..
That's exactly how I like windows. Removed, overwritten with zeros, and with a ext4 filesystem built on top of it.
The EU is focusing on Microsoft because they have a proven track record of abusing their monopoly status to force their competition out of other markets. In this case they are trying to force other web browsers out of the market.
1994 called. They want their idiotic generalizations back.
I challenge you to go try it with someone who doesn't work in IT.
Except what's the monopoly here? IE is bundled with it's own operating system. They don't block the competition from installing other browsers in the OS and never have block other browsers.
This is plainly a money grab by the EU.
Most windows users not only won't install a different web browser, they don't even know what one they use.
Go ask someone who doesn't work in IT what web browser they use. They will likely say 'I just click on the internet' or 'google'.
I am certainly not a MS fan, but it seems to me that the EU has found a way to "grab money from the rich" with the ridiculous fines they have been handling out lately.
If you need money isn't it better to rob a rich company that makes cash by selling low quality products using predatory market practices, rather than a large number of citizens who don't have anything left to take?
There is a very good reason to do work related training during work hours: you need a clear mind to learn something.
Mostly you need to be interested in it. If you love football ( for example ) you are still happy to talk about it after being stressed out at work all day.
Provide a budget to each employee for training/exams, say $2,500 / year. All training requests must be approved by their manager first (to ensure they are aligned with the company needs). Only reimburse exam fees if the exam is passed (employee incentive to succeed).
WHA!? $2500 a year for training and exams?
There might be some companies where that's the right amount but in most that would just mean employees taking a week or two in training courses on anything just to get a free holiday.
I'd give employees a $200 book allowance and pay for exams.
I recently tried to get the site director to purchase some new training books, but was told that they'd 'maybe' be able to get the books in six months.
Don't ask if they can buy books for you, just buy them yourself and try to claim for them. It's far easier to get forgiveness than permission. Just buy the books if you need them and fill in the standard expense form. At worse you will end up paying for the books yourself but more likely they will pay you without much complaint.
IT training where I work consists of buying the book, reading the book, playing with the software.
Classroom training courses cost thousands and are used as holidays by staff who don't even care about the subjects they are sent to learn. It's a bad deal. There isn't much you can't learn by reading the book or from Google and if you don't have the motivation to read the book and play with the software you really don't care about the subject enough to be any good at it anyway.
Multinationals will always tell you they care about your career advancement but in the end it's always your problem not theirs. The only difference between a bad company and a good company is the number of barriers they put in your way.
Now to see if the people of the United States can get it by the American Taliban people who keep trying to screw this nation over.
I am hopeful but far from confident.
Serious question - what group are you actually talking about?
Uou are going to get dictated to on the important matters, but isn't it nice that your dictator gives you a shiny bauble?
He could just shoot you for being a trouble maker.
The real news item here is that a We The People petition actually garnered a thought-out response, instead of a boilerplate restating of current policy.
Exactly. There is some hope that the white house actually listens, and just maybe actually cares.