If I were younger, I'd be even more pissed off! Think about YOUR share of the Federal debt: anywhere from about $46K per citizen to $130K per taxpayer. Unfunded obligations/liabilities brings that to over $1 Million per taxpayer. http://www.usdebtclock.org/ Do you understand that?
If you're reading this page, you're probably a taxpayer. If not yet, then you will be. Did you enjoy that money being spent in your name? You're liable for it!
Even if you don't pay off your share, you'll be paying the interest on it! Think about it: $130K would buy a really amazingly sweet ride, like a 2011 Corvette ZR1. You don't have that ride, now do you? But, you have to pay the bill. Not so fair, is it? And, if you don't pay the bill, don't worry... your kids will get to keep paying it off. Nice parent you are!
That's where I really get ticked-off: My kids aren't old enough to vote, but that doesn't stop the politicians from borrowing money "in their name". I call that THEFT! It is just PLAIN EVIL.
I'm willing to go toe-to-toe with anyone to argue the benefits and pitfalls of taxes vs. spending. But leave my kids out of it! If we can't pay for something this year, then we don't do it! Pick on someone your own size! Don't steal my kids' money before they can vote! Don't steal their money before they're born!
As I tell the younger folks in my office: When are you gonna say, "We're just not gonna pay back the money you borrowed and spent without our permission!" ?
Since it (re-)sells itself, it could also leave feedback for the buyer when it knows there has been a sale and the MAC address of its gateway has changed... Something like, "Great ebayer... not the sharpest tool in the shed, but OK as a sucker" (somebody else can count the chars to see if the eBay comment length limit is exceeded with that).
Neutral will be such a lame concept in the future: Who needs a transmission when you can have direct drive? Then what? Let's just call it "Fly-By-Windows". That's scary!
(1) Make the case that the box was a "gift" or "abandoned" on your car. Then, when they retrieved it, that constituted theft.
(2) If they say it was never meant to be a gift, but just to be retrieved, then bring "theft of service" charges against the police. The fact that hauling the little box around cost you gas and wear and tear on your car constitutes theft of service. They had you do it without your knowledge or consent. Offering to reimburse you after the arrest (or discovery of the box) is no less still theft.
(3) Charge the police with violating your 5th amendment rights against self-incrimination.
is another idiot whose "endorsement" matters ZERO. Why does non-news crap like this get posted to/. ? If/. wanted to discuss *real* issues, we'd have a story on the rampant voter fraud, and what the/. community could do to prevent it. Surely, there must be *some* techno ideas out there? Or, are we so totally bankrupt of ideas and fairness that we settle for bogus non-stories like this - and pretend that voter fraud doesn't exist. Give me a break. (Or, do you accept voter fraud so long as it's tilted towards *your* candidate?)
There is nothing more essential to a democracy or representative government than VOTING and ELECTIONS. They must be sacred. Voter fraud, election fraud, and illegal fundraising (thereby affecting the outcome) cannot and must not be tolerated. They must be dealt-with swiftly and severely. They are the moral equivalent of TREASON and should be punishable by death or life in prison. While some might laugh-off "dead people voting", "100% precinct turnouts", "illegal alien voting", and "Internet contributions from donors named 'Good Will'", these crimes undermine the very foundation of our Great Nation. They cannot be tolerated.
Give the Feds some credit here. They're smarter than Maryland Governor O'Schmuckley... uh... I mean O'Malley. The Federal Government generally doesn't pay state sales tax on anything.
The Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), "Part 29.302 -- Application of State and Local Taxes to the Government" covers this:
29.302 (a) Generally, purchases and leases made by the Federal Government are immune from State and local taxation. Whether any specific purchase or lease is immune, however, is a legal question requiring advice and assistance of the agency-designated counsel. (b) When it is economically feasible to do so, executive agencies shall take maximum advantage of all exemptions from State and local taxation that may be available. If appropriate, the contracting officer shall provide a Standard Form 1094, U.S. Tax Exemption Form (see Part 53), or other evidence listed in 29.305(a) to establish that the purchase is being made by the Government.
So, this new Maryland Sales Tax is unlikely to generate revenue on the back of the Federal Government.
Instead, considering that ANY SPOT in Maryland is at most 40 miles from another state, and considering that Pennsylvania already has a huge commuter workforce into Maryland, the trend of out-of-state commuters will accelerate. Companies and employees move out of state, then Maryland gets 6% of NOTHING.
This bright idea was brought to you by the same governor who sends his two high-school daughters to an elite private girls' school... because the public schools which are good enough for the rest of the state aren't good enough for him and his spawn.
The English language is too imprecise. As geeks and CS types, we're accustomed to precision in specification. There's a big difference between
1. (possession of material) for terrorist purposes
and
2. possession of (material for terrorist purposes)
where material = information
It's not clear from the post which of these is the intended meaning of the law. From the article, it seems the guy was doing a lot more than just reading. So, it sounds like #1 is the basis for the arrest, and #2 might not have been applied yet (at least not by this case). It does make you wonder if "reading in a web browser" would fit #2...
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IANAL, but I play one occasionally just so I know what it would be like to hate myself.
These clowns can put whatever they want in their contracts. Each contract/terms_and_conditions has a clause that if any part is unenforceable, the others still stand.
This is really just intimidation. If they get away with it, they've won.
They'll do it -- if you complain enough. I called TDA, forcefully explained that there was a big difference between "no evidence of XYZ" and "evidence that there wasn't XYZ", and the girl offered me 1 year free "Triple Credit Monitoring from Experian" (a $70 value). Then I got her to do it for my wife too... (Yes, some/.'ers have those...) I said the CEO needed to buy a clue if he thought the issue was the security of my measly Ameritrade account.
I hear an onslaught of phone calls to Ameritrade demanding 1 year Monitoring... Do it soon before they change the policy.
They'll do it -- if you complain enough. I called TDA, forcefully explained that there was a big difference between "no evidence of XYZ" and "evidence that there wasn't XYZ", and the girl offered me 1 year free "Triple Credit Monitoring from Experian" (a $70 value). Then I got her to do it for my wife too... (Yes, some/.'ers have those...) I explained that I wasn't concerned about the "security of my Ameritrade assets"... that I EXPECTED them to be safe... It was all about the possibility of compromise of my personal info... SSN and DOB... I said the CEO needed to buy a clue if he thought the issue was the security of my measly Ameritrade account.
I hear an onslaught of phone calls to Ameritrade demanding 1 year Monitoring... Do it soon before they change the policy.
That someone will come up with a use for your code that you did not envision - Or use it in a way that you did not envision.
Secure Code is not just about the microcosm of a "routine" or "method", but rather of the entire ecosystem of a collection of code. Don't just look at the security problem through a straw, looking for buffer overflows and the like. You need to find those too, but that's just the tip of the iceberg.
The grid is so fine that California doesn't have summers without brownouts or warnings of impending blackouts any more.
My point was that the recharging load would not be trivial. Sure, many people would recharge overnight. But that's also when solar and wind power is usually dead as a doorknob.
And, unless you start building nuke plants now, you're just shifting the source of the greenhouse gases from the "point of use" to the "point of generation", aren't you? Talk about nuclear power or some other non-hydrocarbon power and then we'll have something. Failing that, the introduction of a major new electric appliance (the recharger) will make electric rates go up like gas prices have recently.
... to push the California power grid six feet under during the summer. This will guarantee year-round brownouts, blackouts, and other power problems. Of course, that means plenty of "repair work" for IT staff.
When they talk about electric/hybrid cars with more nuclear power plants nationwide, *then* we'll have a plan. Otherwise, it's trading one problem for another.
Rest assured, California is not the only state with barely enough power-generation capacity. This could be "just the ticket" to justify hugely higher electric rates nationwide. Has anyone quantified the "recharging load" on the grid? Many people would have to recharge at work during the day to make it back home in the evening. Not all recharging could occur at night. Don't get me wrong. I think it's the right direction. But, the whole system needs to be planned and made to happen. Not just the cars.
The ONLY reason for checking boarding passes is to limit the "traffic load" on airport security screeners. What difference does it make if a person spent $100 for a ticket online to get a boarding pass or printed a fake one for free? What matters is that he doesn't take a weapon through the security checkpoint - whether he gets on a plane or not. The boarding pass check is simply to keep family/friends from taking up the screener's time without paying for it (part of your ticket price).
Note that ANYONE can pay a nominal fee (~$25 IIRC) if they really want to get past the screener's boarding-pass-check legally to meet someone on an incoming flight or escort someone on the way out. Ask any airline reservation agent. It happens all the time when small children travel alone on a flight: The parents want to go all the way to the gate.
There is NO ISSUE here: A boarding-pass-check doesn't increase security. It simply limits the "traffic load" on airport security screeners. What difference does it make if a person spent $100 for a ticket online to get a boarding pass or printed a fake one for free? What matters is that he doesn't take a weapon through the security checkpoint - whether he gets on a plane or not. The boarding pass check is simply to keep family/friends from taking up the screener's time without paying for it (part of your ticket price). Note that ANYONE can pay a nominal fee (~$25 IIRC) if they really want to get past the screener's boarding-pass-check legally to meet someone on an incoming flight or escort someone on the way out. Ask any airline reservation agent. It happens all the time when small children travel alone on a flight.
Again, there's no security issue here. Move along now...
This is a classic Measure - Counter-Measure - Counter-Counter-Measure problem. The winner is the one who can stay in the battle for the longest time/effort/$$$.
Shoot the perpetrator *AND* the one who came up with the idea.
At least in the US, we have long established the precedent that in many cases the only way to discourage certain crimes (where detection is unlikely or time-delayed) is to make the penalty SEVERE... (take Tax Evasion, for example). That is, the penalty should have both punitive value *and* deterrent value.
Thus, the penalty for identity theft should be something *VERY SEVERE*, say death.
This is a simple case of identity theft. If the penalty were death, there would be a lot fewer willing to do the crime. [Kind of makes sense for spammers, too]
That's an important missing detail. If it's a metal roof, that's going to be a lot better at protecting the top floor from all RF from the transmitter than a wood/shingle roof or a wood/asphalt roof.
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If you're reading this page, you're probably a taxpayer. If not yet, then you will be. Did you enjoy that money being spent in your name? You're liable for it! Even if you don't pay off your share, you'll be paying the interest on it! Think about it: $130K would buy a really amazingly sweet ride, like a 2011 Corvette ZR1. You don't have that ride, now do you? But, you have to pay the bill. Not so fair, is it? And, if you don't pay the bill, don't worry... your kids will get to keep paying it off. Nice parent you are!
That's where I really get ticked-off: My kids aren't old enough to vote, but that doesn't stop the politicians from borrowing money "in their name". I call that THEFT! It is just PLAIN EVIL.
I'm willing to go toe-to-toe with anyone to argue the benefits and pitfalls of taxes vs. spending. But leave my kids out of it! If we can't pay for something this year, then we don't do it! Pick on someone your own size! Don't steal my kids' money before they can vote! Don't steal their money before they're born!
As I tell the younger folks in my office: When are you gonna say, "We're just not gonna pay back the money you borrowed and spent without our permission!" ?
Since it (re-)sells itself, it could also leave feedback for the buyer when it knows there has been a sale and the MAC address of its gateway has changed... Something like, "Great ebayer... not the sharpest tool in the shed, but OK as a sucker" (somebody else can count the chars to see if the eBay comment length limit is exceeded with that).
Neutral will be such a lame concept in the future: Who needs a transmission when you can have direct drive? Then what? Let's just call it "Fly-By-Windows". That's scary!
need I say more?
(1) Make the case that the box was a "gift" or "abandoned" on your car. Then, when they retrieved it, that constituted theft.
(2) If they say it was never meant to be a gift, but just to be retrieved, then bring "theft of service" charges against the police. The fact that hauling the little box around cost you gas and wear and tear on your car constitutes theft of service. They had you do it without your knowledge or consent. Offering to reimburse you after the arrest (or discovery of the box) is no less still theft.
(3) Charge the police with violating your 5th amendment rights against self-incrimination.
is another idiot whose "endorsement" matters ZERO. Why does non-news crap like this get posted to /. ? If /. wanted to discuss *real* issues, we'd have a story on the rampant voter fraud, and what the /. community could do to prevent it. Surely, there must be *some* techno ideas out there? Or, are we so totally bankrupt of ideas and fairness that we settle for bogus non-stories like this - and pretend that voter fraud doesn't exist. Give me a break. (Or, do you accept voter fraud so long as it's tilted towards *your* candidate?)
There is nothing more essential to a democracy or representative government than VOTING and ELECTIONS. They must be sacred. Voter fraud, election fraud, and illegal fundraising (thereby affecting the outcome) cannot and must not be tolerated. They must be dealt-with swiftly and severely. They are the moral equivalent of TREASON and should be punishable by death or life in prison.
While some might laugh-off "dead people voting", "100% precinct turnouts", "illegal alien voting", and "Internet contributions from donors named 'Good Will'", these crimes undermine the very foundation of our Great Nation. They cannot be tolerated.
The Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), "Part 29.302 -- Application of State and Local Taxes to the Government" covers this:
29.302 (a) Generally, purchases and leases made by the Federal Government are immune from State and local taxation. Whether any specific purchase or lease is immune, however, is a legal question requiring advice and assistance of the agency-designated counsel. (b) When it is economically feasible to do so, executive agencies shall take maximum advantage of all exemptions from State and local taxation that may be available. If appropriate, the contracting officer shall provide a Standard Form 1094, U.S. Tax Exemption Form (see Part 53), or other evidence listed in 29.305(a) to establish that the purchase is being made by the Government.
So, this new Maryland Sales Tax is unlikely to generate revenue on the back of the Federal Government.
Instead, considering that ANY SPOT in Maryland is at most 40 miles from another state, and considering that Pennsylvania already has a huge commuter workforce into Maryland, the trend of out-of-state commuters will accelerate. Companies and employees move out of state, then Maryland gets 6% of NOTHING.
This bright idea was brought to you by the same governor who sends his two high-school daughters to an elite private girls' school... because the public schools which are good enough for the rest of the state aren't good enough for him and his spawn.
1. (possession of material) for terrorist purposes
and
2. possession of (material for terrorist purposes)
where material = information
It's not clear from the post which of these is the intended meaning of the law. From the article, it seems the guy was doing a lot more than just reading. So, it sounds like #1 is the basis for the arrest, and #2 might not have been applied yet (at least not by this case). It does make you wonder if "reading in a web browser" would fit #2...
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IANAL, but I play one occasionally just so I know what it would be like to hate myself.
Everything inside comment is false.
This is really just intimidation. If they get away with it, they've won.
Let's get Mikey to try it first...
I hear an onslaught of phone calls to Ameritrade demanding 1 year Monitoring... Do it soon before they change the policy.
I hear an onslaught of phone calls to Ameritrade demanding 1 year Monitoring... Do it soon before they change the policy.
At least then the principal would have known it was time to buy a clue...
Secure Code is not just about the microcosm of a "routine" or "method", but rather of the entire ecosystem of a collection of code. Don't just look at the security problem through a straw, looking for buffer overflows and the like. You need to find those too, but that's just the tip of the iceberg.
My point was that the recharging load would not be trivial. Sure, many people would recharge overnight. But that's also when solar and wind power is usually dead as a doorknob.
And, unless you start building nuke plants now, you're just shifting the source of the greenhouse gases from the "point of use" to the "point of generation", aren't you? Talk about nuclear power or some other non-hydrocarbon power and then we'll have something. Failing that, the introduction of a major new electric appliance (the recharger) will make electric rates go up like gas prices have recently.
... for nothing more than the headlights and taillights. Be still my heart. I think they've solved the gas crisis.
When they talk about electric/hybrid cars with more nuclear power plants nationwide, *then* we'll have a plan. Otherwise, it's trading one problem for another.
Rest assured, California is not the only state with barely enough power-generation capacity. This could be "just the ticket" to justify hugely higher electric rates nationwide. Has anyone quantified the "recharging load" on the grid? Many people would have to recharge at work during the day to make it back home in the evening. Not all recharging could occur at night. Don't get me wrong. I think it's the right direction. But, the whole system needs to be planned and made to happen. Not just the cars.
50th percentile: $2,200 of assets
10th percentile: $61,000 of assets
1st percentile: $500,000 of assets (37 million folks in this bucket)
(according to the data from the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-Wider)).
... thought provoking...
Note that ANYONE can pay a nominal fee (~$25 IIRC) if they really want to get past the screener's boarding-pass-check legally to meet someone on an incoming flight or escort someone on the way out. Ask any airline reservation agent. It happens all the time when small children travel alone on a flight: The parents want to go all the way to the gate.
Again, there's no security issue here. Move along now...
This is a classic Measure - Counter-Measure - Counter-Counter-Measure problem. The winner is the one who can stay in the battle for the longest time/effort/$$$.
At least in the US, we have long established the precedent that in many cases the only way to discourage certain crimes (where detection is unlikely or time-delayed) is to make the penalty SEVERE... (take Tax Evasion, for example). That is, the penalty should have both punitive value *and* deterrent value.
Thus, the penalty for identity theft should be something *VERY SEVERE*, say death.
This is a simple case of identity theft. If the penalty were death, there would be a lot fewer willing to do the crime. [Kind of makes sense for spammers, too]
Sometimes they are useful. Swiss Re, a mega-insurance company, wrote this article on Nanotechnology from an interesting perspective: *their* exposure in insuring companies in this business. Sorry for the PDF link: http://www.swissre.com/INTERNET/pwsfilpr.nsf/vwFil ebyIDKEYLu/ULUR-5YNGET/$FILE/Publ04_Nanotech_en.pd f
That's an important missing detail. If it's a metal roof, that's going to be a lot better at protecting the top floor from all RF from the transmitter than a wood/shingle roof or a wood/asphalt roof.