for deciding what should and shouldn't be on the internet.
Spamhaus does not decide what should and what should not be on the internet. Spamhaus merely maintains an advisory list which network administrators choose to implement. If you don't like what your network administrator chooses to filter, you are free to host your own mailserver and accept whatever spam you wish.
I don't necessarily agree with Spamhaus and their policies, and I operate my own mailservers. However, your statement is simply not true.
It is very common to be able to buy a phone without contract in the Netherlands, and then buy a separate sim-card somewhere.
You can do that in the U.S. as well. You will just pay the full price.
The reason why lots of cellphones are carrier-locked, is because the carrier subsidizes the purchase and charges less for the phone than the manufacturer does. Your brand new Nokia 6220 will cost Telfort 300 Euries, but you will only pay 49.95 if you sign a 2 year contract. So in that case, Telfort's business model to subsidize your new phone will be based on the assumption that you will use their service. In order to "force" you to do so, the phone is locked to accept only Telfort Sim cards.
This model has evolved to certain manufacturers doing only business with certain service providers and basically locking them in. For example, here in the U.S. the first Iphone could only be purchased at AT&T and thus would be sim-locked for the AT&T network.
The news here is that HTC now breaks that tradition and just offers their cellphone directly to consumers, simlock free. And that does matter.
I have a beautiful wife and two beautiful daughters.
Having two daughters at home already justifies owning at least a shotgun. At the Dads against daughters dating club, there is one slogan: shoot the first one, and the word will follow.
The general rule (there are restrictions based on proximity to airports, communication tower installations, etc.) you still control your airspace up to 600 feet. ANY object intruding into this space on your property is trespassing, be it a drone, an aircraft, a blimp, what-have-you. ABOVE 600 feet is all regulated in some way by the FAA, and you can NOT fly your drone into that space without authorization. The FAA stopped taking applications for drone licensing in all regulated airspace in 2004, except from DHS and the DoD. So right now no private or local government entity can get clearance to fly above 600 feet, even on their own property.
I'm not sure where you got your information from, but that is not true (assuming you mean below 600 ft).
First of all, in rural areas I can fly at 500ft above of your home. This is the default minimum altitude. In densely populated areas that is 1000ft. In some designated areas, I can fly as low as 100ft. Second, I can legally fly anywhere I like if I declare an emergency. If I fly at 200ft above your property and you shoot at me because you think I'm trespassing, your ass is going to jail, period.
Bottom line is, you don't control the airspace above your home, with the exception of what you can reasonably use. Perhaps you should read this article.
You are right, and the freaking out part was not what I was aiming at. I wanted to point out that TCAS is something that is taken very seriously by aircrew.
Both Facebook and Google can hire easily in EU (they do), but you can only go so far.
After which they can transfer the foreigh hire to the U.S. as an intra-company transferee (L1 Visa) and file PERM. Qualified EU-born immigrants will have their GC within 1 year.
Oh, and there is no yearly cap on the L-1. In fact, the government hands out blank visa's to companies (actually called blanket L-1 petitions). They can just give a copy of the petition to the worker and the visa will be given almost automatically.
The H-1B visa is a work permit with Dual intent. This means that a temporary worker is allowed to have immigrant intent.
If that worker has immigrant intentions, he will have to convince his employer to file a petition for a non-immigrant worker where (in most cases), the employer has to prove that it is unable to find American workers for the job (also known as PERM).
Once that is approved, the worker will be placed in a queue, as the number of immigrant visas (or green cards) are limited per fiscal year.
The current system is unfair to everyone. The PERM system is being abused to get cheap labor, and the temporary workers with immigrant intent are put to work for low wages, locked in with their current employer for many years. The only ones benefiting from this are the corporations.
you fucking moron
In a civilized debate, you respect your partners opinion, regardless of whether or not you agree with it.
Thanks for the FUD. Pilots who fly aircraft with these systems have training to know how to deal with collision avoidance alerts and they don't "freak out" every time one happens, and the measures are rarely extreme.
Actually, it is not FUD. Since the crash over southern Germany, it has been made very clear in ICAO rules that pilots are to follow their TCAS advisories. See this article.
hah, think of what the last 75 years have brought us: nuclear weapons, ICBM, satellites, lasers that can shoot down aircraft, rail guns, bioweapons, genetic engineering......now you're talking about a species centuries advanced from ours that can not only travel interstellar space but wage war on that scale? wouldn't matter if we had a military or not, we'd be dead meat before we even knew we were being attacked.
Think about what the next 75 years will bring us. Science is advancing at such a rate that we might be a species capable of interstellar travel ourselves very soon. Regardless of this, having a well-trained military may be a costly burden on the U.S., but one day they might save your ass from a pissed off E.T.
I don't want to confuse science with fiction, but what if a fraction of the fiction behind Scifi series like Stargate would actually be close to the truth: alien civilizations far out of reach for our current detection technologies, that already know we are there but simply choose not to contact us.. yet.
Which has happend before. Well, not the life-without-parole part, but people who have been identified as "part of the chain", have been convicted on criminal charges. This includes pilots, air traffic controllers and mechanics. Google Peter Nielsen, Helios Flight 522 and Pacific Blue DJ89.
Ah you see here in the UK we have the both of best systems. It's run by private companies but subsidised by the tax payer, so we get both the public cost and the private investment in infrastructure. As a bonus it means that subsidies are channeled to the shareholders with minimnal intervention!
With cctv cameras in every carriage... Welcome to the UK.
Given that not a single incident has been known to have been caused by a laser pointer, does it make sense to be handing out long jail sentences to idiots just for being idiots? We don't see long jail sentences for people pulled over for yakking on their cell phones, yet those have caused more accidents than we can count.
They average people yakking on their cell phone does not fly an airplane carrying shitloads of fuel and 300+ souls at a speed of 200+ knots over a densely populated area.
The fact that not a single incident has been caused by a laser does not mean we should be pointing lasers at planes.
As a pilot, I can tell you that there are two critical moments in a flight: take-off and landing. Everybody can take off in an airplane with minimal instructions. Landing an aircraft is a difficult process and the airman will need to focus on the task at hand. During approach and landing, pilots of commercial flights do not talk about anything other than landing. A laser pointer will disrupt cockpit sterility and cause danger.
No air accident has a single cause: it is always a chain of events. Some idiot pointing a laser at an airplane might just be the connecting link in a chain of disaster. That, AC, is worth a life without parole sentence.
No, but when you *never* connect to the VPN all day, that says something, doesn't it?
Yes, it would hint my corporate security guys that I have secretly installed an OpenVPN tunnel from my workstation to my home in order to avoid that pesky rerouting adding 200ms to all my traffic.
That is an excellent summary of the judge's decision. The judge argues that by not contacting the systems administrator upon logging in, but instead making copies of confidential data, they went from white hat to black hat.
At the same time, the judge argues, the defendant may not have had criminal intentions. So while the "hackers" crossed the line in their efforts to "expose" the bad security, they were not sent to prison as they are not criminals.
Well, doesn't their reasoning make the entire country a border? Because an international plane (helicopter) can land virtually anywhere.. What protection does the fourth amendment give?
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for deciding what should and shouldn't be on the internet.
Spamhaus does not decide what should and what should not be on the internet. Spamhaus merely maintains an advisory list which network administrators choose to implement. If you don't like what your network administrator chooses to filter, you are free to host your own mailserver and accept whatever spam you wish.
I don't necessarily agree with Spamhaus and their policies, and I operate my own mailservers. However, your statement is simply not true.
It is very common to be able to buy a phone without contract in the Netherlands, and then buy a separate sim-card somewhere.
You can do that in the U.S. as well. You will just pay the full price.
The reason why lots of cellphones are carrier-locked, is because the carrier subsidizes the purchase and charges less for the phone than the manufacturer does. Your brand new Nokia 6220 will cost Telfort 300 Euries, but you will only pay 49.95 if you sign a 2 year contract. So in that case, Telfort's business model to subsidize your new phone will be based on the assumption that you will use their service. In order to "force" you to do so, the phone is locked to accept only Telfort Sim cards.
This model has evolved to certain manufacturers doing only business with certain service providers and basically locking them in. For example, here in the U.S. the first Iphone could only be purchased at AT&T and thus would be sim-locked for the AT&T network.
The news here is that HTC now breaks that tradition and just offers their cellphone directly to consumers, simlock free. And that does matter.
I have a beautiful wife and two beautiful daughters.
Having two daughters at home already justifies owning at least a shotgun. At the Dads against daughters dating club, there is one slogan: shoot the first one, and the word will follow.
And to think, just the other day I was being berated for delaying updates on system critical boxes...
Time for a salary increase request :-)
The general rule (there are restrictions based on proximity to airports, communication tower installations, etc.) you still control your airspace up to 600 feet. ANY object intruding into this space on your property is trespassing, be it a drone, an aircraft, a blimp, what-have-you. ABOVE 600 feet is all regulated in some way by the FAA, and you can NOT fly your drone into that space without authorization. The FAA stopped taking applications for drone licensing in all regulated airspace in 2004, except from DHS and the DoD. So right now no private or local government entity can get clearance to fly above 600 feet, even on their own property.
I'm not sure where you got your information from, but that is not true (assuming you mean below 600 ft).
First of all, in rural areas I can fly at 500ft above of your home. This is the default minimum altitude. In densely populated areas that is 1000ft. In some designated areas, I can fly as low as 100ft. Second, I can legally fly anywhere I like if I declare an emergency. If I fly at 200ft above your property and you shoot at me because you think I'm trespassing, your ass is going to jail, period.
Bottom line is, you don't control the airspace above your home, with the exception of what you can reasonably use. Perhaps you should read this article.
You are right, and the freaking out part was not what I was aiming at. I wanted to point out that TCAS is something that is taken very seriously by aircrew.
Both Facebook and Google can hire easily in EU (they do), but you can only go so far.
After which they can transfer the foreigh hire to the U.S. as an intra-company transferee (L1 Visa) and file PERM. Qualified EU-born immigrants will have their GC within 1 year.
Oh, and there is no yearly cap on the L-1. In fact, the government hands out blank visa's to companies (actually called blanket L-1 petitions). They can just give a copy of the petition to the worker and the visa will be given almost automatically.
He said immigrate
The H-1B visa is a work permit with Dual intent. This means that a temporary worker is allowed to have immigrant intent.
If that worker has immigrant intentions, he will have to convince his employer to file a petition for a non-immigrant worker where (in most cases), the employer has to prove that it is unable to find American workers for the job (also known as PERM).
Once that is approved, the worker will be placed in a queue, as the number of immigrant visas (or green cards) are limited per fiscal year.
The current system is unfair to everyone. The PERM system is being abused to get cheap labor, and the temporary workers with immigrant intent are put to work for low wages, locked in with their current employer for many years. The only ones benefiting from this are the corporations.
you fucking moron
In a civilized debate, you respect your partners opinion, regardless of whether or not you agree with it.
Thanks for the FUD. Pilots who fly aircraft with these systems have training to know how to deal with collision avoidance alerts and they don't "freak out" every time one happens, and the measures are rarely extreme.
Actually, it is not FUD. Since the crash over southern Germany, it has been made very clear in ICAO rules that pilots are to follow their TCAS advisories. See this article.
hah, think of what the last 75 years have brought us: nuclear weapons, ICBM, satellites, lasers that can shoot down aircraft, rail guns, bioweapons, genetic engineering......now you're talking about a species centuries advanced from ours that can not only travel interstellar space but wage war on that scale? wouldn't matter if we had a military or not, we'd be dead meat before we even knew we were being attacked.
Think about what the next 75 years will bring us. Science is advancing at such a rate that we might be a species capable of interstellar travel ourselves very soon. Regardless of this, having a well-trained military may be a costly burden on the U.S., but one day they might save your ass from a pissed off E.T.
I don't want to confuse science with fiction, but what if a fraction of the fiction behind Scifi series like Stargate would actually be close to the truth: alien civilizations far out of reach for our current detection technologies, that already know we are there but simply choose not to contact us.. yet.
Patent trolls don't make refrigerators, they make patents.
Patent trolls don't make patents. They don't innovate.
Patent trolls buy patents or companies with patents to halt innovation.
Huge difference there.
Which has happend before. Well, not the life-without-parole part, but people who have been identified as "part of the chain", have been convicted on criminal charges. This includes pilots, air traffic controllers and mechanics. Google Peter Nielsen, Helios Flight 522 and Pacific Blue DJ89.
China already protects itself from US-influence.
On the contrary, Huawei actively copied US code.
As with everything, this Chinese networking gear is nothing but a cheap copy originating from the world's bigges Xerox machine: China.
Ah you see here in the UK we have the both of best systems. It's run by private companies but subsidised by the tax payer, so we get both the public cost and the private investment in infrastructure. As a bonus it means that subsidies are channeled to the shareholders with minimnal intervention!
With cctv cameras in every carriage... Welcome to the UK.
I prefer the TSA.
Guess what.. If they ever find out who is responsible: I'll bet you $10 that it will be a 15 year old without friends.
Given that not a single incident has been known to have been caused by a laser pointer, does it make sense to be handing out long jail sentences to idiots just for being idiots? We don't see long jail sentences for people pulled over for yakking on their cell phones, yet those have caused more accidents than we can count.
They average people yakking on their cell phone does not fly an airplane carrying shitloads of fuel and 300+ souls at a speed of 200+ knots over a densely populated area.
The fact that not a single incident has been caused by a laser does not mean we should be pointing lasers at planes.
As a pilot, I can tell you that there are two critical moments in a flight: take-off and landing. Everybody can take off in an airplane with minimal instructions. Landing an aircraft is a difficult process and the airman will need to focus on the task at hand. During approach and landing, pilots of commercial flights do not talk about anything other than landing. A laser pointer will disrupt cockpit sterility and cause danger.
No air accident has a single cause: it is always a chain of events. Some idiot pointing a laser at an airplane might just be the connecting link in a chain of disaster. That, AC, is worth a life without parole sentence.
No, but when you *never* connect to the VPN all day, that says something, doesn't it?
Yes, it would hint my corporate security guys that I have secretly installed an OpenVPN tunnel from my workstation to my home in order to avoid that pesky rerouting adding 200ms to all my traffic.
And which "bay" are we talking about, O summary?
Usually that is the San Francisco Bay Area. Also known as Silicon Valley.
That is an excellent summary of the judge's decision. The judge argues that by not contacting the systems administrator upon logging in, but instead making copies of confidential data, they went from white hat to black hat.
At the same time, the judge argues, the defendant may not have had criminal intentions. So while the "hackers" crossed the line in their efforts to "expose" the bad security, they were not sent to prison as they are not criminals.
Yes, apologies, English is not my first language. I only scored 115 on my TOEFL test.
That's the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this happen: someone is going to get fired over this... So, who got fired?
Well, doesn't their reasoning make the entire country a border? Because an international plane (helicopter) can land virtually anywhere.. What protection does the fourth amendment give?
Did this ever reach the supreme court?
I love the encoding issues I find on this site
Which is interesting, because in the preview, everything looked ok...
âoeItâ(TM)s like they are exploiting the kids,â he said.
And that's the best quote of the article...
99% of the time cash is faster than cc. Most people don't use exact change.
Well, my personal experience is different but I was unable to find hard statistical data on that.
And armed robberies are not my problem. I'll let the insurance companies worry about it.
Exactly my point. Who pays the premiums?
I like the anonymity of cash.
Prepaid credit/debit cards. Available (for cash, even), everywhere. I use them for my online purchases.