Apparently you don't understand what I'm saying if you're talking about copyright law. I never actually mentioned that. But alas, all you can do is redirect to something you can win on.
The FBI doesn't want its agents to lie, or default on student loans (the latter is often simply a matter of economics, not honesty), but yet the Snowden documents reveal that the FBI commits perjury in federal court to hide the true, illegal sources of information they got from the NSA. Described here, http://www.alexaobrien.com/sec... Search for "Parallel Construction"
. The rule that what I create with my own hands os mine to give away, trade, or sell exists for a very good reason.
And what's that reason? Not everyone agrees about imaginary property Ray. The concept is rather new. You're free to disagree, but the world is changing and as information is so easy to copy fewer and fewer people are seeing things your way. I don't really know anyone that really thinks you're a criminal if you share a TV show with your friend for instance. TV is already valued at approximately $0, since it's been free for so long. You seem to have an attitude that laws and cultural values are set in stone rather than the amorphous and variable concepts that they actually are.
These sorts of laws are cultural ones, and the culture is changing. It's not exactly clear what's going to happen with copy written property, but a good many people don't see it your way. That tends to change laws. 30 years ago it was unimaginable that marijuana and gay marriage would become legal, but the culture changed and now it's inevitable they'll both be legal in all 50 states. Are you prepared if copy write laws are reformed in another 30 years?
They might not use an NSL, but I wouldn't count on it. The other blunt instrument the government has at it's disposal is the Authorized use of Military force, which doesn't even mention surveilance or data and is about military force, but which the government has cited in its warrantless wiretapping when sued by the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...">ACLU. Kind of a stretch, but the government has long tried to get away with whatever they want and let the courts rule on it later.
So I have no problem beliving the US goverment wouldn't try some crazy interpretation of a statute never inteded to give them the power to do that, but which they'd hope the courts would take years to rule on.
Presumably, the apps on the phone have access to the encrypted data on the phone, right? So there's a simple solution. The user is happily using their iWhatever. The government sends a Nation Security letter to Apple forcing them to put a backdoor into the phone of the target, such that this app can read whatever data it wants on the phone. So when the user boots up his/her phone, and enters the password, the rougue app should be able to read all the data on the phone.
Their old trading platform TradElect was based on Microsoft's.NET Framework, and was developed by Microsoft and Accenture
You missed the real problem. The last word in that sentence. Accenture. I don't love Microsoft, but I don't think they're the big problem here. Accenture is a WELL KNOWN bad company that produces shit. They make Microsoft look good. Everyone I've ever know that's worked with them has a bad story to report. The same isn't true of Microsoft. So don't blame MS for the failures of a shitty outsourcing firm.
Are you aware that you're helping to reinforce one of the points two comments up?
I don't agree. Being critical of his work on a technical basis is VERY different from personal attacks. I found poettering's post to be good, and I agreed with that he has to say. I've also had shitty problems with the sound on Linux before, which I _think_ might be attributable to pulseaudio. I can't be sure, but I have no trouble beliving pulseaudio might be shit. I don't take a stand on systemd yet, but my instincts are that it's the wrong approach. But I'd never get personal with the man, after all, it's just software. And somehow, writing software that a group of people deem as bad means that you should be met with horrible physical tortures?
Umm.. what? Where did that come from? Nobody suggested physical violence. Nobody even got personal. Please stick to what people actually said rather than pulling stuff out of nowhere.
Why, exactly, would warmer weather make food production harder?
Because climate change isn't just warmer weather, it's a shift in the weather patterns. Our current infrastructure is everything from the choice of crops we grow to the location of the farmland and is all dependent on the current climate. If that shifts, that makes food production harder. The belt of wheat production has already shifted northward. Weather is hugely influential to what plants grow where. Changing the weather changes what will grow as well as the pests that also affect yield. Climate change isn't simply about getting warmer, that's why the language has shifted to climate change, not global warming.
I don't agree with your assessment of why SUVs became popular, and I also don't agree they get 30-40 MPG. My small sub-compact gets that. The SUV craze was driven by status symbol. They're big, make people feel powerful, are insanely expensive. All reasons to drive consumer demand because people make decisions on emotion as well as economics.
Having had plenty of sex without having children, and having known people who've had abortions, I beg to differ. The problem is solvable if you choose to solve it. If you don't choose to solve a problem, no problem is solvable.
You're right, all those things could be done. I'm not sure if 60% is really achievable with just insulation, but perhaps. I'd probably disagree about 30+ year old home insulation achieving that much. Homes in the 70s and 80s were relatively well insulated compared to homes made in the 30s through 50s. Often there wasn't any insulation put in the walls on those homes.
The point is though that achieving this isn't just a simple matter of replacing a few appliances. Furnaces are much more efficient now than they were 30 years ago, but replacing a furnace is a few grand at least. That's a significant investment, and one people only generally do when they have to replace the furnace anyway.
Why exactly do you think germans or frensh or british or italian or spanish or norwegian or finnish or swedish
You made the mistake of including Italy in your list. It depends on what you consider "standard of living", but for the most part Italy is a far poorer country than the US is, and people have far less disposable income. This is from personal experience, and from reading articles comparing the economies.
For example, in the US, everyone has driers, and few people hang their clothes outside. In Italy, few people have driers, and most people hang laundry outside. It's fine, I've done it, but it's an inconvenience in the winter, and takes a lot of time. If Italians could afford the dryer and the energy to feed the dryer, and the space in their homes, they'd do it. A typical american could use 1/3rd or down to 1/4th of the energy he uses and the whole country could cut down to 1/10th and no one would realize any difference. You only have to invest in devices that use less power
I don't know about you, but I and my neighbors use the majority of energy to heat our homes. Cutting energy down to 1/3 of what it is now would essentially be impossible, and isn't as simple as just investing in a new TV or washing machine. It gets cold in much of the US during the winter. Cutting energy use as drastically as you're suggesting would mean living in much smaller houses. That's not really "not realizing any difference".
Having procreative sex is one of the most carbon expensive things we can do. Someone mentions sex, and you think they mean having babies? WTF? I think we solved that baby making problem part of sex quite a long time ago.
We need to stop thinking of this like a disaster that's suddenly going to happen. There's no magic date where the climate is going to be "destroyed". What's going to happen is the climate is going to change, and much of our way of life and infra-structure is going to suffer because of that. We can't "destroy" the climate, we can only make it harder on ourselves and have to do a lot of work to adapt. But there's not exactly an armageddon that's going to unfold. Food production is going to be harder, and the places to grow crops are going to shift.
The article itself is a little silly. Climate scientists don't debate whether global warming is real, and human caused. But they DO debate like hell about what's going to happen, how much carbon is "too much", etc. So to make any decisions about "30 more years" or making some silly prediction about everyone living like Americans in just 20 years is incredibly stupid, and counter-productive. Those issues are FAR from settled, unlike the clarity that the article presents.
As far as wants and needs, that'll be settled like it always has, through cost. It's already happening. The SUV craze of the 90s through the 2000s is already on the wane. Gas is more expensive and is going to remain so for a while, and that gas-guzzling Suburban is not only expensive to fuel, it makes you look like a bit of a pig now. People in European countries aren't somehow more altruistic, and care about others more than the US (and therefore drive smaller cars), it's just that gasoline is quite expensive, and the streets are smaller. So the giant car thing is totally impractical. Eventually Americans are going to start driving smaller cars just like they do in much of Europe.
Warn the people in charge of the project, not the general public.
This is exactly what was done.
“An independent researcher has reported a vulnerability in Bugzilla which allows the manipulation of some database fields at the user creation procedure on Bugzilla, including the ‘login_name’ field,” said Sid Stamm, principal security and privacy engineer at Mozilla, which developed the tool and has licensed it for use under the Mozilla public license.
“This flaw allows an attacker to bypass email verification when they create an account, which may allow that account holder to assume some privileges, depending on how a particular Bugzilla instance is managed,” Stamm said. “There have been no reports from users that sensitive data has been compromised and we have no other reason to believe the vulnerability has been exploited. We expect the fixes to be released on Monday.”
Oh, and I'd also like to submit the idea that people such as yourself, who think that the solution to every problem is making a law are just as destructive as the people who think that the free market is going to control everything.
Because without some form of regulation, some dickhead is going to start selling grades. Just like without regulation, you would end up being poisoned by the food you eat.
Ok, so AFAIK states have never had regulations about cheating in school. Schools themselves handle this. So by your statement, we should have rampant for-profit cheating going on RIGHT NOW. But yet I've never heard of that.
How can you explain this lack of teachers selling grades on a mass scale?
You've mistaken a franchise for the business. The NFL is the real business, the franchises are just individual owners. You think the NFL doesn't operate like a single business? Of course they do. They have contract negotiation, It's even far more integrated as a single business than a Mcdonalds. The NFL requires mutiple teams to even exist. You don't need multiple mcdonalds restaurants to operate. It's the NFL that would pressure the Redskins to change their name.
If people want to force the GOVERNMENT to take action. Thats where I have a problem. Well that's where we disagree. The NFL gets special status for political reasons. Voters like them some football. So what's wrong with the opposite? I hate me some football, and I find redskins offensive. It's already a polical fight, and has been forever. We pay for their goddamn stadiums, so they opened the door to government intervention in their business. Since they've acted like asses for.. well forever with regard to the Redskins, and people are finally calling them on it, why shouldn't they take some political heat for it?
So if the NFL would like to pay back the various states and municipalities for all the stadiums that we've paid for for the last 50+ years, I'd be happy to let them do whatever they want. But since they've got in bed with the state, they're open to getting attacked by politics.
I was a vendor at a conference in this exact hotel in 2013. Internet access was ridiculously expensive...per account which they prohibited sharing between devices of course. Handy when you're trying to present and sell technical services...and your hotspot doesn't work. Many vendors complained about how their hotspots weren't working, quite a few sucked it up and paid the extortion fee. Now I guess we know why.
Three words. Class action lawsuit.
I agree, the fine should be bigger. Regulators should stomp the fuck out of Marriot for this. But class actions are the only remaining tool we have in this country against mega-corp. Since the FCC has already ruled Marriot has broken the law, I've no doubt that there's a bunch of lawyers right now hatching a plan to sue Marriot.
It really is pathetic that people out there are making such a big deal about it.
Umm.. People are making a big deal of it because in 2014 we still have a football team named after a racial epithet. The only reason people DON'T make a big deal of it is that it's faded into the background of the society for so long that people ignore it. But redskin is still a racial epithet.
You're right people don't have a right to be not offended. Rooting for "the other team" would be conter-productive as it obviously still supports the bottom line and contributes to NFL rivalry, which is how they make money. Obviously that doesn't effect the bottom line of the team. Your best bet would be to pressure goverment to end the monopoly status for the NFL, end funding of stadiums for the NFL, and tax the living shit out of them. I'd vote for all of that.
The NFL has the right to call their teams whatever they want. They could start up a new team called the Texas Niggers, or the New York Kike's, and there's nothing anyone could legally stop them with. That doesn't mean however that the NFL deserves special treatment.
According to the one religion I'm somewhat familiar with Then you're not very familiar with Christianity, or religion, really.
Christianity has survived worse than aliens. Heliocentric theory, evolution, and earth as a globe are all facts that Christianity has had to deal with over the last 100 years. The different sects are at varying points in how they've evolved with these facts, but they have and are evolving.
You think of religion as a series of facts, which it partially is... but that's not the main thing. The main thing is group identity, and group identity can and does change with time. You can't really "disprove" group identity.
w3 schools is about one of the WORST examples you could have picked. Web developers and designers don't use IE for obvious reasons.
But you're right though that browser market share is hugely dependent on what group you've picked. Business users use IE in much higher numbers. Given Microsoft's corporate masters, I'd be VERY surprised if they put an anti-spying feature in the browser. Remember, business loves to spy on their employees.
My money is still on Firefox though. Mozilla has a mission to provide privacy to its users. They actively resist making it easy for corporations to do MITM attacks on the browser though including custom placed to install CAs. Safari is a possibility too, but I'd still bet on FF.
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Apparently you don't understand what I'm saying if you're talking about copyright law. I never actually mentioned that. But alas, all you can do is redirect to something you can win on.
I see Ray. Interesting that you can't respond to my argument and have to resort to critiquing a spelling error.
Most stores these days have their own store credit cards. To apply for them you give them your SS#.
The FBI doesn't want its agents to lie, or default on student loans (the latter is often simply a matter of economics, not honesty), but yet the Snowden documents reveal that the FBI commits perjury in federal court to hide the true, illegal sources of information they got from the NSA. Described here, http://www.alexaobrien.com/sec... Search for "Parallel Construction"
. The rule that what I create with my own hands os mine to give away, trade, or sell exists for a very good reason.
And what's that reason? Not everyone agrees about imaginary property Ray. The concept is rather new. You're free to disagree, but the world is changing and as information is so easy to copy fewer and fewer people are seeing things your way. I don't really know anyone that really thinks you're a criminal if you share a TV show with your friend for instance. TV is already valued at approximately $0, since it's been free for so long. You seem to have an attitude that laws and cultural values are set in stone rather than the amorphous and variable concepts that they actually are.
These sorts of laws are cultural ones, and the culture is changing. It's not exactly clear what's going to happen with copy written property, but a good many people don't see it your way. That tends to change laws. 30 years ago it was unimaginable that marijuana and gay marriage would become legal, but the culture changed and now it's inevitable they'll both be legal in all 50 states. Are you prepared if copy write laws are reformed in another 30 years?
They might not use an NSL, but I wouldn't count on it. The other blunt instrument the government has at it's disposal is the
Authorized use of Military force, which doesn't even mention surveilance or data and is about military force, but which the government has cited in its warrantless wiretapping when sued by the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...">ACLU. Kind of a stretch, but the government has long tried to get away with whatever they want and let the courts rule on it later.
So I have no problem beliving the US goverment wouldn't try some crazy interpretation of a statute never inteded to give them the power to do that, but which they'd hope the courts would take years to rule on.
Presumably, the apps on the phone have access to the encrypted data on the phone, right? So there's a simple solution. The user is happily using their iWhatever. The government sends a Nation Security letter to Apple forcing them to put a backdoor into the phone of the target, such that this app can read whatever data it wants on the phone. So when the user boots up his/her phone, and enters the password, the rougue app should be able to read all the data on the phone.
Can anyone tell me why this WOULDN'T work?
Their old trading platform TradElect was based on Microsoft's
You missed the real problem. The last word in that sentence. Accenture. I don't love Microsoft, but I don't think they're the big problem here. Accenture is a WELL KNOWN bad company that produces shit. They make Microsoft look good. Everyone I've ever know that's worked with them has a bad story to report. The same isn't true of Microsoft. So don't blame MS for the failures of a shitty outsourcing firm.
Are you aware that you're helping to reinforce one of the points two comments up?
I don't agree. Being critical of his work on a technical basis is VERY different from personal attacks. I found poettering's post to be good, and I agreed with that he has to say. I've also had shitty problems with the sound on Linux before, which I _think_ might be attributable to pulseaudio. I can't be sure, but I have no trouble beliving pulseaudio might be shit. I don't take a stand on systemd yet, but my instincts are that it's the wrong approach. But I'd never get personal with the man, after all, it's just software.
And somehow, writing software that a group of people deem as bad means that you should be met with horrible physical tortures?
Umm.. what? Where did that come from? Nobody suggested physical violence. Nobody even got personal. Please stick to what people actually said rather than pulling stuff out of nowhere.
Why, exactly, would warmer weather make food production harder?
Because climate change isn't just warmer weather, it's a shift in the weather patterns. Our current infrastructure is everything from the choice of crops we grow to the location of the farmland and is all dependent on the current climate. If that shifts, that makes food production harder. The belt of wheat production has already shifted northward. Weather is hugely influential to what plants grow where. Changing the weather changes what will grow as well as the pests that also affect yield. Climate change isn't simply about getting warmer, that's why the language has shifted to climate change, not global warming.
I don't agree with your assessment of why SUVs became popular, and I also don't agree they get 30-40 MPG. My small sub-compact gets that. The SUV craze was driven by status symbol. They're big, make people feel powerful, are insanely expensive. All reasons to drive consumer demand because people make decisions on emotion as well as economics.
Having had plenty of sex without having children, and having known people who've had abortions, I beg to differ. The problem is solvable if you choose to solve it. If you don't choose to solve a problem, no problem is solvable.
That was the exact quote. The post I was responding to inserted the word procreative.
You're right, all those things could be done. I'm not sure if 60% is really achievable with just insulation, but perhaps. I'd probably disagree about 30+ year old home insulation achieving that much. Homes in the 70s and 80s were relatively well insulated compared to homes made in the 30s through 50s. Often there wasn't any insulation put in the walls on those homes.
The point is though that achieving this isn't just a simple matter of replacing a few appliances. Furnaces are much more efficient now than they were 30 years ago, but replacing a furnace is a few grand at least. That's a significant investment, and one people only generally do when they have to replace the furnace anyway.
Why exactly do you think germans or frensh or british or italian or spanish or norwegian or finnish or swedish
You made the mistake of including Italy in your list. It depends on what you consider "standard of living", but for the most part Italy is a far poorer country than the US is, and people have far less disposable income. This is from personal experience, and from reading articles comparing the economies.
For example, in the US, everyone has driers, and few people hang their clothes outside. In Italy, few people have driers, and most people hang laundry outside. It's fine, I've done it, but it's an inconvenience in the winter, and takes a lot of time. If Italians could afford the dryer and the energy to feed the dryer, and the space in their homes, they'd do it.
A typical american could use 1/3rd or down to 1/4th of the energy he uses and the whole country could cut down to 1/10th and no one would realize any difference.
You only have to invest in devices that use less power
I don't know about you, but I and my neighbors use the majority of energy to heat our homes. Cutting energy down to 1/3 of what it is now would essentially be impossible, and isn't as simple as just investing in a new TV or washing machine. It gets cold in much of the US during the winter. Cutting energy use as drastically as you're suggesting would mean living in much smaller houses. That's not really "not realizing any difference".
Having procreative sex is one of the most carbon expensive things we can do.
Someone mentions sex, and you think they mean having babies? WTF? I think we solved that baby making problem part of sex quite a long time ago.
We need to stop thinking of this like a disaster that's suddenly going to happen. There's no magic date where the climate is going to be "destroyed". What's going to happen is the climate is going to change, and much of our way of life and infra-structure is going to suffer because of that. We can't "destroy" the climate, we can only make it harder on ourselves and have to do a lot of work to adapt. But there's not exactly an armageddon that's going to unfold. Food production is going to be harder, and the places to grow crops are going to shift.
The article itself is a little silly. Climate scientists don't debate whether global warming is real, and human caused. But they DO debate like hell about what's going to happen, how much carbon is "too much", etc. So to make any decisions about "30 more years" or making some silly prediction about everyone living like Americans in just 20 years is incredibly stupid, and counter-productive. Those issues are FAR from settled, unlike the clarity that the article presents.
As far as wants and needs, that'll be settled like it always has, through cost. It's already happening. The SUV craze of the 90s through the 2000s is already on the wane. Gas is more expensive and is going to remain so for a while, and that gas-guzzling Suburban is not only expensive to fuel, it makes you look like a bit of a pig now. People in European countries aren't somehow more altruistic, and care about others more than the US (and therefore drive smaller cars), it's just that gasoline is quite expensive, and the streets are smaller. So the giant car thing is totally impractical. Eventually Americans are going to start driving smaller cars just like they do in much of Europe.
Warn the people in charge of the project, not the general public.
This is exactly what was done.
“An independent researcher has reported a vulnerability in Bugzilla which allows the manipulation of some database fields at the user creation procedure on Bugzilla, including the ‘login_name’ field,” said Sid Stamm, principal security and privacy engineer at Mozilla, which developed the tool and has licensed it for use under the Mozilla public license.
“This flaw allows an attacker to bypass email verification when they create an account, which may allow that account holder to assume some privileges, depending on how a particular Bugzilla instance is managed,” Stamm said. “There have been no reports from users that sensitive data has been compromised and we have no other reason to believe the vulnerability has been exploited. We expect the fixes to be released on Monday.”
Oh, and I'd also like to submit the idea that people such as yourself, who think that the solution to every problem is making a law are just as destructive as the people who think that the free market is going to control everything.
Because without some form of regulation, some dickhead is going to start selling grades. Just like without regulation, you would end up being poisoned by the food you eat.
Ok, so AFAIK states have never had regulations about cheating in school. Schools themselves handle this. So by your statement, we should have rampant for-profit cheating going on RIGHT NOW. But yet I've never heard of that.
How can you explain this lack of teachers selling grades on a mass scale?
You've mistaken a franchise for the business. The NFL is the real business, the franchises are just individual owners. You think the NFL doesn't operate like a single business? Of course they do. They have contract negotiation, It's even far more integrated as a single business than a Mcdonalds. The NFL requires mutiple teams to even exist. You don't need multiple mcdonalds restaurants to operate. It's the NFL that would pressure the Redskins to change their name.
Oh, and BTW The Redskins play in RFK Stadium, a stadium constructed with Federal dollars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...
Check and mate.
If people want to force the GOVERNMENT to take action. Thats where I have a problem.
Well that's where we disagree. The NFL gets special status for political reasons. Voters like them some football. So what's wrong with the opposite? I hate me some football, and I find redskins offensive. It's already a polical fight, and has been forever. We pay for their goddamn stadiums, so they opened the door to government intervention in their business. Since they've acted like asses for.. well forever with regard to the Redskins, and people are finally calling them on it, why shouldn't they take some political heat for it?
So if the NFL would like to pay back the various states and municipalities for all the stadiums that we've paid for for the last 50+ years, I'd be happy to let them do whatever they want. But since they've got in bed with the state, they're open to getting attacked by politics.
I was a vendor at a conference in this exact hotel in 2013. Internet access was ridiculously expensive...per account which they prohibited sharing between devices of course. Handy when you're trying to present and sell technical services...and your hotspot doesn't work. Many vendors complained about how their hotspots weren't working, quite a few sucked it up and paid the extortion fee. Now I guess we know why.
Three words. Class action lawsuit.
I agree, the fine should be bigger. Regulators should stomp the fuck out of Marriot for this. But class actions are the only remaining tool we have in this country against mega-corp. Since the FCC has already ruled Marriot has broken the law, I've no doubt that there's a bunch of lawyers right now hatching a plan to sue Marriot.
It really is pathetic that people out there are making such a big deal about it.
Umm.. People are making a big deal of it because in 2014 we still have a football team named after a racial epithet. The only reason people DON'T make a big deal of it is that it's faded into the background of the society for so long that people ignore it. But redskin is still a racial epithet.
You're right people don't have a right to be not offended. Rooting for "the other team" would be conter-productive as it obviously still supports the bottom line and contributes to NFL rivalry, which is how they make money. Obviously that doesn't effect the bottom line of the team. Your best bet would be to pressure goverment to end the monopoly status for the NFL, end funding of stadiums for the NFL, and tax the living shit out of them. I'd vote for all of that.
The NFL has the right to call their teams whatever they want. They could start up a new team called the Texas Niggers, or the New York Kike's, and there's nothing anyone could legally stop them with. That doesn't mean however that the NFL deserves special treatment.
According to the one religion I'm somewhat familiar with
Then you're not very familiar with Christianity, or religion, really.
Christianity has survived worse than aliens. Heliocentric theory, evolution, and earth as a globe are all facts that Christianity has had to deal with over the last 100 years. The different sects are at varying points in how they've evolved with these facts, but they have and are evolving.
You think of religion as a series of facts, which it partially is... but that's not the main thing. The main thing is group identity, and group identity can and does change with time. You can't really "disprove" group identity.
w3 schools is about one of the WORST examples you could have picked. Web developers and designers don't use IE for obvious reasons.
But you're right though that browser market share is hugely dependent on what group you've picked. Business users use IE in much higher numbers. Given Microsoft's corporate masters, I'd be VERY surprised if they put an anti-spying feature in the browser. Remember, business loves to spy on their employees.
My money is still on Firefox though. Mozilla has a mission to provide privacy to its users. They actively resist making it easy for corporations to do MITM attacks on the browser though including custom placed to install CAs. Safari is a possibility too, but I'd still bet on FF.