I once worked in a department that allowed telecommuting - my boss made everyone in our workgroup sign up for it - not so we could work from home as opposed to from the office, but so we could work from the office and work from home. My team lead was working a full day at the office and dealing with the builds at night from home. Whatever they were paying him, it wasn't enough to put up with that nonsense. So the abuse can go both ways.
BTW - the boss was a total Lumbergh - yes, he would place demands on Friday afternoon for us to work weekends. I don't work in that group any more.
Anyone who can speak can demand. The ones controlling the gate into the country can deny you access. The court system takes time to challenge any misconduct, so I guess it would depend on how long you're willing to wait to bring your stuff in.
Simple case - you're denied access because you won't turn over your info
Not so simple case - you sit in Gitmo until you provide the key
The problem I have with this is that anyone with ill intentions who isn't smart enough to outmaneuver this can't be that effective. This has much more potential to damage the good guys (degraded civil rights - giving up some of our core values) than potential to "get" the bad guys.
Don't worry about the exhaust ports - anything they would use in a large scale assault would never be in position to target them. Besides, think of all the labor, parts and rework expense that can be avoided by leaving them as they are.
Someone with a law background correct me if I'm wrong, but being disbarred just means that he can't represent other people in court. IIRC, you can always represent yourself with or without a law license (no matter how bad an idea it is).
Just because you are the patent holder (contrary to popular practice) doesn't mean you have to be a jerk. You can hold a patent and then allow anyone to use the IP for whatever they want. Holding the patent doesn't mean that nobody else can use the IP, it just means that you set the rules for its use.
The downside is that getting a patent can be a bit expensive.
The problems happen in a couple of ways:
1.) "My kid should be in the smart class" (whether they belong there or not)
2.) Claims of discrimination / creation of a caste system being unacceptable.
Remember, school board officials are elected and must bow to political pressure.
One of my mentors used to always tell me: "Culture is the hardest thing to change". Parents want they perceive to be the best for their kids whether it really is or not. They also (typically - no matter how many sob stories you hear) have a greater stake in them than the teachers that only see them for a few hours a day.
Would you trust someone at the local public school to put your kid on a path that will determine what opportunities will be available to them? As one of my college professors said: too many Einsteins are passed over because the teacher was looking for that one Gauss.
This is precisely why, as much as I hate to say it, lawsuits have their place. Don't regulate our privacy - make it a civil offense to invade it and let the bloodsucking attorneys provide the penalties. Dollars are the blood of corporations - rightfully suing for the damage they do will either cause them to change their ways or at least compensate their victims. I'm not against using civil suits to inflict the necessary pain to limit corporate misbehavior.
Correct - That's because they're full Party members - they can also turn off their televiewers. Censorship of the proles is necessary to keep them working and shouldn't be counted as true "censorship".
It's a sad state of affairs when a video game is more appealing than real life. It says something about their lives and about how there's not much interesting out there for these people.
You're not considering the failure modes - there's no air as long as everything is working to plan.
How do the electronic meters work? Do they already transmit through the pipes, or are they just mechanical meters with LCD user interfaces and a small radio transmitter that gets read from the street?
Just at first glance, I wouldn't think that using electronic devices in the gas lines would be a very good idea. I know that the meters and such are probably mostly electronic by now, but still, I'd want to see this tested pretty good before I'd be willing to use it.
" 'A month before delivery, you don't have SPRs,' Azmi said. 'You're making things pretty. . . . You're changing colors.'"
I don't know what software shop he worked in, but I've never seen a time when there weren't numerous SPRs. SPRs aren't necessarily a bad thing - they show that you know where the problems are. If all you're doing is changing colors, you're wasting the customer's money. Get out there and find problems to write SPRs on. Any software of nontrivial size is going to have bugs.
If you don't mind my asking -
What services is your friend using where he gets 100-150ms latencies? I work for a group that is looking to use mobile (city to city) broadband where something like Connexion would be ideal mobilitywise, but latency concerned us. We did our own estimate on what the latencies would be on anything satelite based and the results were much higher than 100-150.
The scary part that gets overlooked in the "voluntary" argument is that things like this are voluntary for a while, then a subset is targeted for mandatory use. Usually that subset is an indefensible subset (pedophiles, violet felons, "turrusts", drug dealers, etc.) at first, then as the subset grows to include less indefensible groups (mid/minor criminals, people in positions of public trust such as police officers, gradually expanding to all government employees, licensed professionals), the arguments against using such things becomes less credible and less people try to stand up for those that have evaded the situation. In the end, the argument becomes "if they had to have it done, you should have to have it too".
As for having to have an ID - go to a rural area of the country and pay in cash - Jimbob doesn't really care who you are as long as you pay your tab and you behave yourself. This may be a foreign idea to someone who's never been in a place where they couldn't see a 10+ story building, but it's still the majority of this country.
You'll never see checkmate in one move. Whether you want to realize it or not, there are people out there maneuvering for control over you and/or your money, posessions, etc. Failure to make a move is forfeiture.
The bad guys won this time because we tried to match force with force. I've said it multiple times in this forum - we have to accept that spam isn't going to go away. The only way we're going to get it down to an acceptable level is to make it not worth doing.
Filtering is one way, but basing it on the raw content of the email won't work. If there was a public key repository where legitimate users placed a public key for decryption, and all legitmate email were sent encrypted with the corresponding private key, the authenticity of the email could be known. Then, if someone starts making a nuisance of themselves, they could get their public key revoked. If this method were used, filters could be made to only let through emails that decrypted with the public key of the sender.
Let's face it, spam is a fact of life. Remember that you're up against people who do this as their 9-5er with no regard for law, ethics or their public image if you want to go the force-vs-force route.
This also fails to address the threat of an inside job. It doesn't matter how well encrypted your data is if the bad guy has the keys.
I think that what needs to happen is for someone to do a complete analysis of why having data hordes is dangerous - is it because it's inherently dangerous for someone to know too much about you or is it because anyone who appears to know too much about you is assumed to "be" you by money lenders, law enforcement, etc?
to have known about this in advance. I would like to have sent a telegram to a certain 12 year old that I know if nothing else so that someone of that generation would have known what a telegram was. It's already getting hard to find things like rotary dialed phones. It freaks kids out when they see my first cell phone (the brick), especially when most of them never knew of a time when cell phones were toys of the rich, much less a time when they didn't exist at all.
Now, if only we could make dial-up modems a thing of the past - I wouldn't miss those one bit.
But you can be "held" on suspicion - sorry for my poor choice of words. They have a window of time where you can be held but not charged for anything, and it's not timed in minutes.
Be careful in how you apply this. You can be held, even arrested if the officer is dead set on searching your vehicle. An officer once explained to me how this can be done:
If you refuse the search, they can keep you there while a K9 unit is sent out to take a dog around the outside of the car - if the dog gets a "hit" then they can search without a warrant (they know not suspect that something's there). If the suspicion is that there's something in there that the dog can't detect, you can be arrested on "suspicion" and your car gets impounded, but not searched. It gets searched when they have to inventory it before putting it on "the lot" to make sure you can't accuse them of stealing anything out of it. Anything found in the inventory can be used as evidence for any charge they feel the need to level (i.e. a receipt from a restaurant 10 miles away from the place you were pulled over with a timestamp 9 minutes before you were pulled over proves that you were driving over 60mph, etc.).
The bottom line is that the 4th ammendment has lost much of its potency. This is because it depends on the word "reasonable", which in modern society has become usual and customary to regard as having no meaning.
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I once worked in a department that allowed telecommuting - my boss made everyone in our workgroup sign up for it - not so we could work from home as opposed to from the office, but so we could work from the office and work from home. My team lead was working a full day at the office and dealing with the builds at night from home. Whatever they were paying him, it wasn't enough to put up with that nonsense. So the abuse can go both ways.
BTW - the boss was a total Lumbergh - yes, he would place demands on Friday afternoon for us to work weekends. I don't work in that group any more.
Anyone who can speak can demand. The ones controlling the gate into the country can deny you access. The court system takes time to challenge any misconduct, so I guess it would depend on how long you're willing to wait to bring your stuff in.
Simple case - you're denied access because you won't turn over your info
Not so simple case - you sit in Gitmo until you provide the key
The problem I have with this is that anyone with ill intentions who isn't smart enough to outmaneuver this can't be that effective. This has much more potential to damage the good guys (degraded civil rights - giving up some of our core values) than potential to "get" the bad guys.
Don't worry about the exhaust ports - anything they would use in a large scale assault would never be in position to target them. Besides, think of all the labor, parts and rework expense that can be avoided by leaving them as they are.
Someone with a law background correct me if I'm wrong, but being disbarred just means that he can't represent other people in court. IIRC, you can always represent yourself with or without a law license (no matter how bad an idea it is).
Just because you are the patent holder (contrary to popular practice) doesn't mean you have to be a jerk. You can hold a patent and then allow anyone to use the IP for whatever they want. Holding the patent doesn't mean that nobody else can use the IP, it just means that you set the rules for its use.
The downside is that getting a patent can be a bit expensive.
The problems happen in a couple of ways:
1.) "My kid should be in the smart class" (whether they belong there or not)
2.) Claims of discrimination / creation of a caste system being unacceptable.
Remember, school board officials are elected and must bow to political pressure.
One of my mentors used to always tell me: "Culture is the hardest thing to change". Parents want they perceive to be the best for their kids whether it really is or not. They also (typically - no matter how many sob stories you hear) have a greater stake in them than the teachers that only see them for a few hours a day.
Would you trust someone at the local public school to put your kid on a path that will determine what opportunities will be available to them? As one of my college professors said: too many Einsteins are passed over because the teacher was looking for that one Gauss.
Bodybuilders in particular have a real problem with BMI. My physical trainer's BMI registers as obese, but he is a competition bodybuilder.
In Missouri, physical requirements for their State Troopers had to be revised because some who were bodybuilders couldn't meet their BMI requirements.
Would someone please explain to the 230 lb weightlifter with 6% body fat why he didn't pass his physical.
While this does illustrate an example of a criminal gaming the system, it also lends itself to another point:
If they can do it to a scumbag, they can do it to you too.
This is precisely why, as much as I hate to say it, lawsuits have their place. Don't regulate our privacy - make it a civil offense to invade it and let the bloodsucking attorneys provide the penalties. Dollars are the blood of corporations - rightfully suing for the damage they do will either cause them to change their ways or at least compensate their victims. I'm not against using civil suits to inflict the necessary pain to limit corporate misbehavior.
Dang that sucked - the link was supposed to be the movie poster for Ice Age with the sabre-toothed squirrel. Apparently, you can't link to the pic.
http://www.impawards.com/2002/posters/ice_age.jpg
I think that the experts may be biased because when they read an article, they know enough to disregard small defects, the average user does not.
In short, I'm asserting that an expert requires less accuracy in their documents than nonexperts because their own expertise can fill in the spaces.
Correct - That's because they're full Party members - they can also turn off their televiewers. Censorship of the proles is necessary to keep them working and shouldn't be counted as true "censorship".
It's a sad state of affairs when a video game is more appealing than real life. It says something about their lives and about how there's not much interesting out there for these people.
How do they know when someone was on a site for 30-60 minutes? My browser (Mozilla) always has a tab open to /. Would it show that I surf 24/7?
You're not considering the failure modes - there's no air as long as everything is working to plan.
How do the electronic meters work? Do they already transmit through the pipes, or are they just mechanical meters with LCD user interfaces and a small radio transmitter that gets read from the street?
Just at first glance, I wouldn't think that using electronic devices in the gas lines would be a very good idea. I know that the meters and such are probably mostly electronic by now, but still, I'd want to see this tested pretty good before I'd be willing to use it.
" 'A month before delivery, you don't have SPRs,' Azmi said. 'You're making things pretty. . . . You're changing colors.'"
I don't know what software shop he worked in, but I've never seen a time when there weren't numerous SPRs. SPRs aren't necessarily a bad thing - they show that you know where the problems are. If all you're doing is changing colors, you're wasting the customer's money. Get out there and find problems to write SPRs on. Any software of nontrivial size is going to have bugs.
If you don't mind my asking -
What services is your friend using where he gets 100-150ms latencies? I work for a group that is looking to use mobile (city to city) broadband where something like Connexion would be ideal mobilitywise, but latency concerned us. We did our own estimate on what the latencies would be on anything satelite based and the results were much higher than 100-150.
The scary part that gets overlooked in the "voluntary" argument is that things like this are voluntary for a while, then a subset is targeted for mandatory use. Usually that subset is an indefensible subset (pedophiles, violet felons, "turrusts", drug dealers, etc.) at first, then as the subset grows to include less indefensible groups (mid/minor criminals, people in positions of public trust such as police officers, gradually expanding to all government employees, licensed professionals), the arguments against using such things becomes less credible and less people try to stand up for those that have evaded the situation. In the end, the argument becomes "if they had to have it done, you should have to have it too".
As for having to have an ID - go to a rural area of the country and pay in cash - Jimbob doesn't really care who you are as long as you pay your tab and you behave yourself. This may be a foreign idea to someone who's never been in a place where they couldn't see a 10+ story building, but it's still the majority of this country.
You'll never see checkmate in one move. Whether you want to realize it or not, there are people out there maneuvering for control over you and/or your money, posessions, etc. Failure to make a move is forfeiture.
The bad guys won this time because we tried to match force with force. I've said it multiple times in this forum - we have to accept that spam isn't going to go away. The only way we're going to get it down to an acceptable level is to make it not worth doing.
Filtering is one way, but basing it on the raw content of the email won't work. If there was a public key repository where legitimate users placed a public key for decryption, and all legitmate email were sent encrypted with the corresponding private key, the authenticity of the email could be known. Then, if someone starts making a nuisance of themselves, they could get their public key revoked. If this method were used, filters could be made to only let through emails that decrypted with the public key of the sender.
Let's face it, spam is a fact of life. Remember that you're up against people who do this as their 9-5er with no regard for law, ethics or their public image if you want to go the force-vs-force route.
This also fails to address the threat of an inside job. It doesn't matter how well encrypted your data is if the bad guy has the keys.
I think that what needs to happen is for someone to do a complete analysis of why having data hordes is dangerous - is it because it's inherently dangerous for someone to know too much about you or is it because anyone who appears to know too much about you is assumed to "be" you by money lenders, law enforcement, etc?
to have known about this in advance. I would like to have sent a telegram to a certain 12 year old that I know if nothing else so that someone of that generation would have known what a telegram was. It's already getting hard to find things like rotary dialed phones. It freaks kids out when they see my first cell phone (the brick), especially when most of them never knew of a time when cell phones were toys of the rich, much less a time when they didn't exist at all.
Now, if only we could make dial-up modems a thing of the past - I wouldn't miss those one bit.
But you can be "held" on suspicion - sorry for my poor choice of words. They have a window of time where you can be held but not charged for anything, and it's not timed in minutes.
Be careful in how you apply this. You can be held, even arrested if the officer is dead set on searching your vehicle. An officer once explained to me how this can be done:
If you refuse the search, they can keep you there while a K9 unit is sent out to take a dog around the outside of the car - if the dog gets a "hit" then they can search without a warrant (they know not suspect that something's there). If the suspicion is that there's something in there that the dog can't detect, you can be arrested on "suspicion" and your car gets impounded, but not searched. It gets searched when they have to inventory it before putting it on "the lot" to make sure you can't accuse them of stealing anything out of it. Anything found in the inventory can be used as evidence for any charge they feel the need to level (i.e. a receipt from a restaurant 10 miles away from the place you were pulled over with a timestamp 9 minutes before you were pulled over proves that you were driving over 60mph, etc.).
The bottom line is that the 4th ammendment has lost much of its potency. This is because it depends on the word "reasonable", which in modern society has become usual and customary to regard as having no meaning.