Especially if you've got bad credit etc where a financial institution won't let you open an account, a pre-paid Visa or debit-style card is pretty much the only option for some people (unless you'd like to carry a ton of cash and risk mugging, but hey that still doesn't protect you from the police).
Gotta love how banks like to charge people who have less money extra fees for not having the "minimum balance", or hold their deposits for an extra week and thus not allow them to withdraw their own money to pay bills.
Indeed, if they were only concerned with access to something to commit an illegal act, then depriving the supposed "criminal" of the card should be enough (though still bad as it's assuming guilt). Draining the associated pre-paid account goes beyond that though. It really is theft by the authorities.
I'd love to see that argument come back to bite them in court, too.
"Honestly your honor, I did not hire that prostitute or purchase those drugs, it was that devious 'wad of ten $100 bills' that did it!" Per recent precedent under similar cases, the cash should be charged with the crime, not me!
And sadly, the same shit (or maybe worse) happened to the owner of an RV park in Canada. In this case, a crooked tax collector supposedly offered to make the case "go away" (for a kickback), and when they didn't play ball the agency "lost" his receipts and thus declared all his deductions invalid before destroying his business and livelyhood.
And this is why we still need to defend against bad laws used/created with flowery language targeting terrorists, pedos, drug dealers, rapists, trolls, etc.
Even if the initial stated target of the law is a bad person, the consequences of bad laws are much worse.
"Both slow and high-latency as every packet needs to find the route to the destination"
This assumes reliance on something like modern tcp, arp, and BGP. However, it may be possible in the future to build a protocol that's a better fit for a mesh style networking as well as hardware that could support it at relatively high speed.
I'd imagine that - at the least - you'd have a lot more information on paths that are trusted/reliable/fast, along with a way of quickly adding new paths or dismissing old ones. BGP isn't going to handle that very well but it's not impossible to build something that would.
Indeed. These days you have paid for operating systems which will automatically download then bait-and-switch update to malware-ridden spyware. That some random software (game or otherwise) downloaded from a sketchy source could contain malware is laughably obvious.
This is NOT a problem with "Google Maps", but a problem with an idiot trucker who obviously wasn't watching the road properly and/or not driving for the conditions. It could just as easily have been some twit playing with a phone or diddling with a stereo.
Wow, that's f***ed up. I've never had a special assessment for anything other than a Strata (or HOA in the U.S.). Otherwise, road repairs are fully assessed and funded by city taxes. They don't do every street, every year, but rather designate spots on a yearly basis from the funding pool based on current condition, age, and various other factors.
Most vehicles log events for a certain time, and may preserve the logs in the event of a crash event, etc. There's a big difference between local logging for post-event analysis and constantly grabbing (TRACKING) your information real-time and storing it offsite.
In TFA, it says "Tesla said it analyzed vehicle logs". Nowhere does it say that those logs were being captured wirelessly, so this is probably the same type of logging that most vehicles do, analysed after the incident.
Hell, most of my servers at home and work "log" tons of data, and that's perfectly OK. What they don't do is ship those logs off to a third-party without my consent or knowledge of what's being sent.
Except you still need at least some level of administration, otherwise scammers will have a field-day with false/ineligible personas collecting paycheques.
And yet big, money-hefty institutions (and persons) still get hacked, regularly. A robot army is only loyal so long as you control it, and only useful so long as it can't be disrupted.
Meaningful activities can still be "work", they're just a more enjoyable form there of. I tend towards basic carpentry (making cabinets, shelving and other wood stuff) for around the house. Some parts of making the final product are a bit annoying, but overall it's quite enjoyable. I wouldn't mind also taking a course or two, etc etc if I could afford it.
There's plenty of "work" I do outside my "job". I'd imagine I'd still do the same if I no longer felt the need to be employed - e.g. if I won the lottery - although I'd probably take more vacations too and perhaps sleep in a bit more.
If anything, population is generally determined by survival rate. If you need your kids to help tend the herd and push the plow when you get old, but the mortality rate is high, then... you have a lot of kids. Odds are a few of them might survive and stick around by the time you're old and worn out.
A lot of that depends also on where you live, and how it stacks. $2000 per person is $4k/month per household. In many places that's not too bad. Also, what's the lower age-bound? If you have a couple kids that are 16+, are they eligible? Then it might be $6-8k per household if everyone pitches in. At that point you're doing pretty good.
I doubt the cellular phone even needs to be hacked. Half the people around you probably already have an app around that's already listening (but don't worry, they say they're not).
I have friends/family who are the same way about their ISP's. One of the local ISP's has been underperforming for years, and technical support # pretty much blames any issues on the user / users' equipment. I actually called them on it after being hired ($100/h) by a second person for the same issue. First thing out of the guy's mouth "everything is fine with our mailserver, your computer must be having issues, have it serviced." So then I explained I was the tech, and asked why THEIR server was returning "bad mailbox" errors periodically when I tested mail commands via telnet. The answer then switched to "we're upgrading."
So my friends, family, and customers all know that this ISP is crappy, but as soon as their contract is up our conversation is like. "Still having internet issues. Your contract is up, so why not switch" "Oh, I uh, signed up for another two years because they were offering a free Xbox"
Really? It needs to read the contacts ON MY PHONE in order to communicate with friends ON FACEBOOK? Oh, and to read my microphone?
It needs to know WHICH WIFI I'm connected to, and to know WHO I'M CALLING?
It's a fucking messenger. All it needs to know is which FB contact I'm talking to and what I'm typing as a message. I can give it a pass for camera in order to upload pictures etc but most of the rest is bullshit.
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Especially if you've got bad credit etc where a financial institution won't let you open an account, a pre-paid Visa or debit-style card is pretty much the only option for some people (unless you'd like to carry a ton of cash and risk mugging, but hey that still doesn't protect you from the police).
Gotta love how banks like to charge people who have less money extra fees for not having the "minimum balance", or hold their deposits for an extra week and thus not allow them to withdraw their own money to pay bills.
Indeed, if they were only concerned with access to something to commit an illegal act, then depriving the supposed "criminal" of the card should be enough (though still bad as it's assuming guilt). Draining the associated pre-paid account goes beyond that though. It really is theft by the authorities.
I'd love to see that argument come back to bite them in court, too.
"Honestly your honor, I did not hire that prostitute or purchase those drugs, it was that devious 'wad of ten $100 bills' that did it!" Per recent precedent under similar cases, the cash should be charged with the crime, not me!
Yeah, it looks like at least some states are working to solve/reduce this problem.
And sadly, the same shit (or maybe worse) happened to the owner of an RV park in Canada. In this case, a crooked tax collector supposedly offered to make the case "go away" (for a kickback), and when they didn't play ball the agency "lost" his receipts and thus declared all his deductions invalid before destroying his business and livelyhood.
And this is why we still need to defend against bad laws used/created with flowery language targeting terrorists, pedos, drug dealers, rapists, trolls, etc.
Even if the initial stated target of the law is a bad person, the consequences of bad laws are much worse.
"Both slow and high-latency as every packet needs to find the route to the destination"
This assumes reliance on something like modern tcp, arp, and BGP. However, it may be possible in the future to build a protocol that's a better fit for a mesh style networking as well as hardware that could support it at relatively high speed.
I'd imagine that - at the least - you'd have a lot more information on paths that are trusted/reliable/fast, along with a way of quickly adding new paths or dismissing old ones. BGP isn't going to handle that very well but it's not impossible to build something that would.
Yeah, keep in mind that what really did in old BJ Bill was not the sexual act, but the perjury when he lied about it under oath...
Indeed. These days you have paid for operating systems which will automatically download then bait-and-switch update to malware-ridden spyware. That some random software (game or otherwise) downloaded from a sketchy source could contain malware is laughably obvious.
This seems easily abused.
"Sorry you had to leave your house because you couldn't pay taxes, but look at all the upgrades it got you!"
Ugh. I really do hope that is optional, or at least tunable.
This is NOT a problem with "Google Maps", but a problem with an idiot trucker who obviously wasn't watching the road properly and/or not driving for the conditions. It could just as easily have been some twit playing with a phone or diddling with a stereo.
Wow, that's f***ed up. I've never had a special assessment for anything other than a Strata (or HOA in the U.S.). Otherwise, road repairs are fully assessed and funded by city taxes. They don't do every street, every year, but rather designate spots on a yearly basis from the funding pool based on current condition, age, and various other factors.
Most vehicles log events for a certain time, and may preserve the logs in the event of a crash event, etc. There's a big difference between local logging for post-event analysis and constantly grabbing (TRACKING) your information real-time and storing it offsite.
In TFA, it says "Tesla said it analyzed vehicle logs". Nowhere does it say that those logs were being captured wirelessly, so this is probably the same type of logging that most vehicles do, analysed after the incident.
Hell, most of my servers at home and work "log" tons of data, and that's perfectly OK. What they don't do is ship those logs off to a third-party without my consent or knowledge of what's being sent.
How is this not Barratry or Vexatious Litigation?
How about the profit from having cameras, microphones, and other sensor data right in people's houses.
Oh wait, like Facebook's chat, I'm sure that's never misused...
Except you still need at least some level of administration, otherwise scammers will have a field-day with false/ineligible personas collecting paycheques.
And yet big, money-hefty institutions (and persons) still get hacked, regularly. A robot army is only loyal so long as you control it, and only useful so long as it can't be disrupted.
Meaningful activities can still be "work", they're just a more enjoyable form there of.
I tend towards basic carpentry (making cabinets, shelving and other wood stuff) for around the house. Some parts of making the final product are a bit annoying, but overall it's quite enjoyable. I wouldn't mind also taking a course or two, etc etc if I could afford it.
There's plenty of "work" I do outside my "job". I'd imagine I'd still do the same if I no longer felt the need to be employed - e.g. if I won the lottery - although I'd probably take more vacations too and perhaps sleep in a bit more.
Personally I'd rather have a big place to "make" stuff (nice shop, etc)
If anything, population is generally determined by survival rate. If you need your kids to help tend the herd and push the plow when you get old, but the mortality rate is high, then... you have a lot of kids. Odds are a few of them might survive and stick around by the time you're old and worn out.
A lot of that depends also on where you live, and how it stacks.
$2000 per person is $4k/month per household. In many places that's not too bad.
Also, what's the lower age-bound? If you have a couple kids that are 16+, are they eligible? Then it might be $6-8k per household if everyone pitches in. At that point you're doing pretty good.
I doubt the cellular phone even needs to be hacked. Half the people around you probably already have an app around that's already listening (but don't worry, they say they're not).
I have friends/family who are the same way about their ISP's. One of the local ISP's has been underperforming for years, and technical support # pretty much blames any issues on the user / users' equipment.
I actually called them on it after being hired ($100/h) by a second person for the same issue. First thing out of the guy's mouth "everything is fine with our mailserver, your computer must be having issues, have it serviced." So then I explained I was the tech, and asked why THEIR server was returning "bad mailbox" errors periodically when I tested mail commands via telnet. The answer then switched to "we're upgrading."
So my friends, family, and customers all know that this ISP is crappy, but as soon as their contract is up our conversation is like.
"Still having internet issues. Your contract is up, so why not switch"
"Oh, I uh, signed up for another two years because they were offering a free Xbox"
fuuuuuuuuuuuu********
Really? It needs to read the contacts ON MY PHONE in order to communicate with friends ON FACEBOOK? Oh, and to read my microphone?
It needs to know WHICH WIFI I'm connected to, and to know WHO I'M CALLING?
It's a fucking messenger. All it needs to know is which FB contact I'm talking to and what I'm typing as a message. I can give it a pass for camera in order to upload pictures etc but most of the rest is bullshit.