Nixon was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator because he was still in office at the time. The prosecutors and the grand jury concluded that the Constitutional process of Impeachment made the President unindictable. But there was nothing to prevent indictment after he resigned. Ford's pardon prevented that.
I didn't mean to imply that the pin was kept on the card. That would not be the brightest thing. I was just surprised by the use of a 6 digit pin since I'd assumed that the ATM interchange standards used some kind of standardized message protocol with a standard pin length. And since the German bank's ATM had the same interchange logo as my card, I was not happy when it refused to work. I'm glad we don't have 6 digit pins in the US. I can barely remember 4.
An occasional scam seen in the US is for a crook to buy an ATM and put it in a convenience store where it is happy to disperse the requested cash after checking with your bank and claiming the usual small fee, etc. But it is also quietly saving your card details and the pin you used for later retrieval by the crook's technician.
Hmmm, If there are no standards, then what are the IATA, ABA, and TTS standards for the three tracks on a mag stripe card? And how do ATMs recognize which bank the card and account number are linked to. I'll bet the bank routing number must be stored in a standard spot on the card - likely it is somewhere in the 19 digit account number in the ABA track. Better hope that your Uni wasn't using that track for some local purpose, because the bank probably had to encode that info wiping out whatever was already there.
While the standards are ISO standards, it is clear that, like all standards, there is wiggle room. I once tried to use a US ATM card in a German ATM. The US uses 4 digit pin codes while the German ATM demanded that I give it a 6 digit code.
The worst I've ever run into is a minor hassle at the Austrian border by guards who plainly didn't care for Americans, but they were able to make themselves pains in the ass entirely without the assistance of RFID.
Austrian border guards? Last time I drove over the Austrian border, both the Italian and German border stations were empty and mostly used as a convenient place to pull over and switch drivers. I thought Hungary, Slovenia, and the Czech Republic were in the EU, too, now, so having border guards in Austria would be kinda like having border guards in Kansas.
One can only hope that the Government (or some smart entrepreneur) will have the passports in a cover that blocks the RFID signal. The only way they can be read is if you take them out, which makes sense because they only need to be "read" when handed to customs officials anyway. At all other times the signal would be completely blocked.
Except when you have to present it at the front desk of the hotel in order to check-in or at the bank in order to change money, cash a traveller's check, etc, or when you are trashed in a local bar and want to show off the cool visa stamp from some country that no longer exists. You haven't done much foreign travel, have you?
I want to live just long enough to see them cut off Darl's head and stick it on a pike as a reminder to the next ten generations that some things come at too high a price.
Thus giving rise, five hundred years from now, to the legend of Sam the Impaler
One of the problems with SOAP and WSDL is that the standard is incompletely specified. Try connecting.NET with, say, BEA's autogenerated WSDL. An element such as:
is perfectly legal WSDL. But BEA sends this as an empty element if there is no data which will generate a null exception on the.NET side since MS insists on trying to instantiate a primative but has no data to use.
CORBA seems complex in many ways because the OMG went to great lengths to make their specifications complete enough to avoid this type of problem.
On another note, much as I respect Michi Henning, there are definitely well designed and very solid CORBA ORB and service implementations that have made it fairly easy to build C++ CORBA objects. And they are open source, to boot. Just because IONA failed so miserably (their marketing folks were real dicks), does not mean that others didn't do it correctly.
I'm not a food scientist, but I think labeling laws and food safety inspection regulations are very necessary. Who doesn't think that? The food industry that doesn't want me to know that their product contains transfats and which would be happy to sell me contaminated meat.
I'm not a chemical engineer, but I support regulation of gasoline additives. Who doesn't support that? The oil companies who understand that lead is a very cheap way to increase octane levels.
The real question is why you think the laws on education, civil planning, economy, enviornment, health care, or anything else are more reasonable that these laws on encryption.
Because most regulations are designed to establish the bounderies of various property rights. Who owns the air -- you or the oil companies? In this case, the regs define the limits of what an individual or company can do with a common resource. Should a food company have the property right to sell unlabled food? Here, the regs are designed to put buyer and seller on more even terms -- they reduce the transaction costs of buying and selling food.
But mandatory government access to private keys does nothing except make it easier for governments to invade personal privacy. In no way do such regs reduce the costs of transacting commerce or establish property rights boundries on common resources. These regs are fundamentally different from food, health, and environmental regulations.
You obviously don't read the Wall Street Journal, the NY Post, the Columbus Dispatch, or any other of the several hundred daily papers in major US cities that are owned by conservative Republicans and have conservative Republican editorial boards. The WSJ was running daily ads online for a book about Whitewater which they published. Most of what was in the book could not be proven by Ken Starr after spending multimillions of taxpayer money.
My passport has proof that Toronto, at least, is a part of the US. Last time I went throught the airport there to return to the US, the US Customs/Immigration checkpoint for much of the Midwest (Dayton, Columbus, Indianapolis, etc.) was all handled in Toronto rather than having small checkpoints for Canadian flights at all the local US airports. The return stamp in my passport reads "US Immigration, Toronto."
Specifically Wisconsin Act 138 does not mention encryption as a way to preclude disclosure. Basically Wisconsin's law states if someone unauthorized has a clients data, you must tell the client about it.
If the data is on an encrypted disk, does the thief really have the data if they steal the encrypted disk?
terrorists arent some crazy demonic subhuman entities. They are the same as *YOU* or I.
No, they are not. I don't generally run around blowing up children nor make excuses for those (including my gov't) who do. When my gov't is doing evil things I work my ass off to stop it and hold the idiots responsible. In a democratic society, there are plenty of peaceful mechanisms for doing so. And even in non-democratic societies, folks like Ghandi, MLK, and Desmond Tutu have shown that change can happen without resorting to violence.
Do you really think that the immigrant busboys who worked at the restaurant at the top of the world trade center were responsible for US policy and deserved death? Do you really think that the Iraqi kids who have died at the hands of Zarqawi inspired suicide bombers deserved death?
Recently AT&T bought SBC, which was Southwestern Bell and Pac Bell.
You have that backwards. SBC bought AT&T and renamed the result AT&T. AT&T was worth about $16 billion at the time of the proposed meger while SBC has a market cap of around $100 billion.
Personally, I think the Dems have some merits to some of their calls... but they don't and never have stood for a smaller governement than the Republicans.
Well, at least the Dems, in recent years anyway, have tried to actually pay for their spending instead of just putting on the credit card.
The text-book definition of monopoly has not been violated...is what they did wrong and illegal - sure, is it a monopoly pfft - no it isn't.
You are confusing the textbook definition of perfect or pure monopoly (which Microsoft is not) with the textbook definition of monopoly (which Microsoft is). When a market is characterized by a single dominant seller with the power to set prices due to barriers to entry, the dominant firm is still considered a monopolist even though there may be several small competitors. In the pure case, obviously, the smaller firms don't exist. This distinction is made in most every microeconomics and industrial organization textbook.
Its been awhile since I've had an antitrust course, but I believe that a monopolist is not allowed to use their monopoly profits to cross subsidize another non-monopoly product (e.g. sell the non-monopoly product for less than its production cost). This is a form of predatory pricing designed to put rivals out of business. A monopolist is also forbiden from bundling the monopoly and non-monopoly products together for similar reasons.
Most of those preaching religion are there to be in a position of power over their relgious underlings.
I don't believe this is true. I'll bet most Christian preachers have a definite belief that what they are doing is genuinely helping folks by relieving suffering and teaching ways of finding happiness in a very strange world. I'm an Atheist who attends a Unitarian-Universalist church, but I've got a cousin who is a Baptist preacher who spends a lot of time visiting the sick, the old, and the poor. Over my lifetime, I've met many preachers like him. The idiots who want power get the occasional newspaper headline, but they are a small minority of all ministers. I find all religious beliefs to be a bit kooky (including many UU rituals), but most of the ministers are out there are either directly helping folks or cajolling their flock into helping folks that the rest of us typically ignore.
If he does exist he'll hide his hand so that you can't make him do stuff...
Which is a perfect illustration of why I personally despise the Hebrew/Christian God. Why should it matter to God why people are praying for a sick heart patient? He/She/It sure is a callous bastard to deny help to the patient just because the request is part of a science experiment.
Spam filtering and spam delivery are two separate issues. An ISP could easily filter all messages and add a [SPAM] string sequence to, say, the subject line of suspected spam and still deliver all messages including the suspected spam to the user. Now the user is free to use their email client software to filter the suspected spam after checking a private whitelist. I'd love it if my ISP did this. The spam filter that moz uses is slow, cumbersome, and not real smart. But I sure don't want my ISP deciding not to deliver just because they thought it was spam. I'll make the final determination of that, thank you.
but your very own work and feelings about yourself change based on your dress.
While that can be a positive correlation for some folks, for many of us it is a negative correlation. The dressier the environment, the less relaxed I feel and the less I am able to concentrate on producing high quality product.
But I have noticed a large positive correlation here in the stuffy Midwest between dress and pay. My previous job was in IT at an airline. I took a 20K/year pay cut just so I could wear blue jeans and sandles. Fuck that business casual crap.
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Nixon was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator because he was still in office at the time. The prosecutors and the grand jury concluded that the Constitutional process of Impeachment made the President unindictable. But there was nothing to prevent indictment after he resigned. Ford's pardon prevented that.
I didn't mean to imply that the pin was kept on the card. That would not be the brightest thing. I was just surprised by the use of a 6 digit pin since I'd assumed that the ATM interchange standards used some kind of standardized message protocol with a standard pin length. And since the German bank's ATM had the same interchange logo as my card, I was not happy when it refused to work. I'm glad we don't have 6 digit pins in the US. I can barely remember 4.
An occasional scam seen in the US is for a crook to buy an ATM and put it in a convenience store where it is happy to disperse the requested cash after checking with your bank and claiming the usual small fee, etc. But it is also quietly saving your card details and the pin you used for later retrieval by the crook's technician.
Hmmm, If there are no standards, then what are the IATA, ABA, and TTS standards for the three tracks on a mag stripe card? And how do ATMs recognize which bank the card and account number are linked to. I'll bet the bank routing number must be stored in a standard spot on the card - likely it is somewhere in the 19 digit account number in the ABA track. Better hope that your Uni wasn't using that track for some local purpose, because the bank probably had to encode that info wiping out whatever was already there.
While the standards are ISO standards, it is clear that, like all standards, there is wiggle room. I once tried to use a US ATM card in a German ATM. The US uses 4 digit pin codes while the German ATM demanded that I give it a 6 digit code.
Actualy, both Slovenia (between Italy, Austria, Croatia, and Hungary) and Slovakia share borders with Austria.
The worst I've ever run into is a minor hassle at the Austrian border by guards who plainly didn't care for Americans, but they were able to make themselves pains in the ass entirely without the assistance of RFID.
Austrian border guards? Last time I drove over the Austrian border, both the Italian and German border stations were empty and mostly used as a convenient place to pull over and switch drivers. I thought Hungary, Slovenia, and the Czech Republic were in the EU, too, now, so having border guards in Austria would be kinda like having border guards in Kansas.
One can only hope that the Government (or some smart entrepreneur) will have the passports in a cover that blocks the RFID signal. The only way they can be read is if you take them out, which makes sense because they only need to be "read" when handed to customs officials anyway. At all other times the signal would be completely blocked.
Except when you have to present it at the front desk of the hotel in order to check-in or at the bank in order to change money, cash a traveller's check, etc, or when you are trashed in a local bar and want to show off the cool visa stamp from some country that no longer exists. You haven't done much foreign travel, have you?
I want to be able to turn on/off javascript on a per URL basis.
I want to live just long enough to see them cut off Darl's head and stick it on a pike as a reminder to the next ten generations that some things come at too high a price.
Thus giving rise, five hundred years from now, to the legend of Sam the Impaler
One of the problems with SOAP and WSDL is that the standard is incompletely specified. Try connecting .NET with, say, BEA's autogenerated WSDL. An element such as:
.NET side since MS insists on trying to instantiate a primative but has no data to use.
<xsd:element type="xsd:int" name="myInt" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"></xsd:element>
is perfectly legal WSDL. But BEA sends this as an empty element if there is no data which will generate a null exception on the
CORBA seems complex in many ways because the OMG went to great lengths to make their specifications complete enough to avoid this type of problem.
On another note, much as I respect Michi Henning, there are definitely well designed and very solid CORBA ORB and service implementations that have made it fairly easy to build C++ CORBA objects. And they are open source, to boot. Just because IONA failed so miserably (their marketing folks were real dicks), does not mean that others didn't do it correctly.
Hmmm...
I'm not a food scientist, but I think labeling laws and food safety inspection regulations are very necessary. Who doesn't think that? The food industry that doesn't want me to know that their product contains transfats and which would be happy to sell me contaminated meat.
I'm not a chemical engineer, but I support regulation of gasoline additives. Who doesn't support that? The oil companies who understand that lead is a very cheap way to increase octane levels.
The real question is why you think the laws on education, civil planning, economy, enviornment, health care, or anything else are more reasonable that these laws on encryption.
Because most regulations are designed to establish the bounderies of various property rights. Who owns the air -- you or the oil companies? In this case, the regs define the limits of what an individual or company can do with a common resource. Should a food company have the property right to sell unlabled food? Here, the regs are designed to put buyer and seller on more even terms -- they reduce the transaction costs of buying and selling food.
But mandatory government access to private keys does nothing except make it easier for governments to invade personal privacy. In no way do such regs reduce the costs of transacting commerce or establish property rights boundries on common resources. These regs are fundamentally different from food, health, and environmental regulations.
You obviously don't read the Wall Street Journal, the NY Post, the Columbus Dispatch, or any other of the several hundred daily papers in major US cities that are owned by conservative Republicans and have conservative Republican editorial boards. The WSJ was running daily ads online for a book about Whitewater which they published. Most of what was in the book could not be proven by Ken Starr after spending multimillions of taxpayer money.
You should be modded -1, Offtopic.
Carnivore, IIRC, required warrents under Clinton. And the DMCA has zero to do with NSA domestic or foreign wiretapping.
My passport has proof that Toronto, at least, is a part of the US. Last time I went throught the airport there to return to the US, the US Customs/Immigration checkpoint for much of the Midwest (Dayton, Columbus, Indianapolis, etc.) was all handled in Toronto rather than having small checkpoints for Canadian flights at all the local US airports. The return stamp in my passport reads "US Immigration, Toronto."
Specifically Wisconsin Act 138 does not mention encryption as a way to preclude disclosure. Basically Wisconsin's law states if someone unauthorized has a clients data, you must tell the client about it.
If the data is on an encrypted disk, does the thief really have the data if they steal the encrypted disk?
If you pay your taxes, you are just as guilty as anyone who gives orders.
So any kid who pays sales tax on a piece of candy is a legitimate target of any creep who doesn't approve of what that tax is used for? Bullshit.
terrorists arent some crazy demonic subhuman entities. They are the same as *YOU* or I.
No, they are not. I don't generally run around blowing up children nor make excuses for those (including my gov't) who do. When my gov't is doing evil things I work my ass off to stop it and hold the idiots responsible. In a democratic society, there are plenty of peaceful mechanisms for doing so. And even in non-democratic societies, folks like Ghandi, MLK, and Desmond Tutu have shown that change can happen without resorting to violence.
Do you really think that the immigrant busboys who worked at the restaurant at the top of the world trade center were responsible for US policy and deserved death? Do you really think that the Iraqi kids who have died at the hands of Zarqawi inspired suicide bombers deserved death?
you really need to gain some perspective.
Pot, meet Kettle.
Recently AT&T bought SBC, which was Southwestern Bell and Pac Bell.
You have that backwards. SBC bought AT&T and renamed the result AT&T. AT&T was worth about $16 billion at the time of the proposed meger while SBC has a market cap of around $100 billion.
Personally, I think the Dems have some merits to some of their calls... but they don't and never have stood for a smaller governement than the Republicans.
Well, at least the Dems, in recent years anyway, have tried to actually pay for their spending instead of just putting on the credit card.
The text-book definition of monopoly has not been violated...is what they did wrong and illegal - sure, is it a monopoly pfft - no it isn't.
You are confusing the textbook definition of perfect or pure monopoly (which Microsoft is not) with the textbook definition of monopoly (which Microsoft is). When a market is characterized by a single dominant seller with the power to set prices due to barriers to entry, the dominant firm is still considered a monopolist even though there may be several small competitors. In the pure case, obviously, the smaller firms don't exist. This distinction is made in most every microeconomics and industrial organization textbook.
Or is Stallman just a brilliant guy with some signs of lunacy?
Or maybe he is just getting started.
Its been awhile since I've had an antitrust course, but I believe that a monopolist is not allowed to use their monopoly profits to cross subsidize another non-monopoly product (e.g. sell the non-monopoly product for less than its production cost). This is a form of predatory pricing designed to put rivals out of business. A monopolist is also forbiden from bundling the monopoly and non-monopoly products together for similar reasons.
Most of those preaching religion are there to be in a position of power over their relgious underlings.
I don't believe this is true. I'll bet most Christian preachers have a definite belief that what they are doing is genuinely helping folks by relieving suffering and teaching ways of finding happiness in a very strange world. I'm an Atheist who attends a Unitarian-Universalist church, but I've got a cousin who is a Baptist preacher who spends a lot of time visiting the sick, the old, and the poor. Over my lifetime, I've met many preachers like him. The idiots who want power get the occasional newspaper headline, but they are a small minority of all ministers. I find all religious beliefs to be a bit kooky (including many UU rituals), but most of the ministers are out there are either directly helping folks or cajolling their flock into helping folks that the rest of us typically ignore.
If he does exist he'll hide his hand so that you can't make him do stuff...
Which is a perfect illustration of why I personally despise the Hebrew/Christian God. Why should it matter to God why people are praying for a sick heart patient? He/She/It sure is a callous bastard to deny help to the patient just because the request is part of a science experiment.
Spam filtering and spam delivery are two separate issues. An ISP could easily filter all messages and add a [SPAM] string sequence to, say, the subject line of suspected spam and still deliver all messages including the suspected spam to the user. Now the user is free to use their email client software to filter the suspected spam after checking a private whitelist. I'd love it if my ISP did this. The spam filter that moz uses is slow, cumbersome, and not real smart. But I sure don't want my ISP deciding not to deliver just because they thought it was spam. I'll make the final determination of that, thank you.
but your very own work and feelings about yourself change based on your dress.
While that can be a positive correlation for some folks, for many of us it is a negative correlation. The dressier the environment, the less relaxed I feel and the less I am able to concentrate on producing high quality product.
But I have noticed a large positive correlation here in the stuffy Midwest between dress and pay. My previous job was in IT at an airline. I took a 20K/year pay cut just so I could wear blue jeans and sandles. Fuck that business casual crap.