There are no charges!! It is all about "questioning" that this unprecedented amount of work has been done to get him back after letting him go because there was no case and no charges and no questions until AFTER some politician wanted to suck up to the USA.
They can't even convict him of ANYTHING because the only charge being alluded to but not formally applied in anyway is some kind of "involuntary rape" law which their court basically threw out long ago because it was ridiculous. But they can try to bring that up to their supreme court again... not likely. we know what is really going on and yet it continues anyway!
If it was to get a blood test for STDs, that is pointless because the women would have had those already (likely for free too.) So they would know if he gave them something by now. That "question" is moot. One could make many cases if he had a STD at the time and knew about it; but proving he knew is quite difficult. The women involved were not pressing charges; it does not matter what they do because this political fight will go on with or without victims. Blood tests and questions can be handled WITHOUT a perp walk and prison photos - especially when they refuse to charge him with any crimes.
It is not just about trying to get him into gitmo, its about making an EXAMPLE so nobody dares mess with the USA.
One should never trust women who are suddenly interested after a big force has declared war on you. Remember, General Motors hired prostitutes for Ralf Nader to try to get him in trouble (and he wasn't married either) and that was just the biggest car maker.
Actually, some people argue that Hell was created later and added to the Bible. A hell mythology is quite popular everywhere so if you start out without it'll be added sooner or later.
If hell impacts good behavior and heaven does not, then one would expect Buddhists to do well right? They do not have heaven but they can get really bad Karma... Good karma is not Heaven but bad Karma could be bad enough to be considered a form of hell.
The U.N. would handle it. Can't trust the USA, we'd be messing with anybody who doesn't kiss our ass and ICE would be removing english TLDs for nations hosting the piratebay.
Tibet is gone. So is everybody else who can't buy support or win a war to maintain their nation. Sad, true - but nobody gives a rip. If China didn't figure out the benefits of economic imperialism they'd have taken more nations already - they are not even building bases in every nation (yet.)
BTW, the reason I suggested an @ for the TLD was so browsers could automatically add your nations TLD when you left it out. If you used the @ then it would use that TLD, otherwise it would insert your nation automatically.
The Irish in the 1600s were not slaves. Slaves are property which involves upkeep and devaluation while "indentured servants" are more like serfs in that they have no actual owner and therefore LESS value than slaves do. Their indentured status could be thought of as a form of bondage but it NOT slavery. Ownership is of the debt not of the one who has the debt. This is a BIG difference.
Wearing out your slave is like abusing YOUR car while wearing out your serf is like abusing a rental car you bought insurance on (no cost to you if you beat the hell out of it.) - Post WW2 it would seem our direction was being engineered towards mindless worker/consumer drones with the upper class being the leadership in an idealistic social darwin type system (with heavy contradictions.) Now we are achieving the ideal plans of extremists of that era the place for factory worker drones is slowly being eliminated by technology. This is leaving us with a whole lot of drones without work and unable to compete with societies who were not so foolishly engineered into a dead end.
1. Buggy proxies should not get so much power that we can't progress HTTP
2. OPTIONAL compressed headers would be nice. One reason HTTP and HTML got big is they are simple and easy to use-- obviously we could replace them with binary formats for huge technical gains as competing technologies did. I do not know SPDY but I would oppose whole protocol compression if that is what they are doing, most traffic is already compressed images or video. I don't want the extra work of having to encode headers into gzip just to do something simple.
3. Smart proxies and other interesting ideas using HTTP are impossible with an SSL wrapped protocol. It also uses extra CPU power. If SPDY is going to be used it should be part of HTTP v2.0 and go down an open standards route instead of 1 company's idea of an enhancement.
4. My point exactly, web developers should continue to easily scale up with multiple servers without being penalized / limited by the protocol. We are seeing MORE divergence on websites with time, not less. Distributed solutions and cross site integration.
5. Server push would be nice. HTTP could have this added; it had a form of server push (with issues) already. There is no reason a webserver using HTTP couldn't include unofficial headers now for giving the browser prefetch hints to use in it's typical 2nd or 3rd parallel connections. Multiple commands per connection would require big changes; in which case, I'd be for something that helps AJAX type uses without being as powerful as web sockets.
If we are going to go all binary anyhow and kill HTTP for some totally different thing why not multiplex our data too? (I do realize the network stack does this already but that adds more overhead than us multiplexing within fewer data streams - sure we lose the hardware serial multiplexing support and doing it manually uses more CPU but it saves us bandwidth and CPUs just get better... we are already compressing and encrypting everything so we obviously don't care. )
Unicode URLs + HTTP v1.2 + 10 year limitation on URL length (ascii URL length limits; allow for transition period.)
Each nation gets a full-name TLD and a long list of aliases in every language including short variations. I will not expect the world to type a nation TLD in a foreign language. Also, it is case insensitive.
Actually, since complications are being ignored, I'd make DNS use @TLD which just means that new URLs would stand out from old ones and email checks will have to grow up. If you want to own screw.canada you'll have to get Canadian approval while now you could do screw.canada.com. The USA would do something stupid (via ICANN) so we'd have domain.com.usa in the best case and domain.anything-for-10-grand.usa.
Nothing that works good can get around government control freaks so just give up on that ever being used by MOST people who are more concerned with performance. Covert systems are just off topic. Now, Iran could make.evil be.usa because they control their internet in their nation already.
Not silly! If you want the diploma you play the game, if you want the knowledge you already have other options; quality free textbooks would help MORE people than cheaper schools would, most people don't go to school.
Depends upon the state and the school. I can cite multiple schools in my area that do not waste money and ones that not only waste student money but waste CITY money on stadiums etc. College sports actually impact college funding in the state legislature; if that doesn't reflect society's idiotic priorities I don't know what will wake you up to the real problem. It is easy to blame others than yourself or your society. I've heard about private schools, which often waste so much MORE money marketing themselves.
Graduate school costs are partially the typical free market pricing where they can charge a premium. The other part is the increased workload on the instructor and SMALL class size. (FYI: student fee x number of students = income per class - instructor expense - small overhead - BS fees - "premium service" fee.)
Students which treat a course as a correspondence school are in the wrong place. Graduate students that do not need to engage in a discussion with the professor or others in the course are not likely in a good program. Basic communications 101 also states that most communication is non-verbal...
From what I read about SPDY it doesn't sound like a big benefit justifying a change in protocols.
HTTP pipeline support has been around for over a decade now and I'm unaware of the extent of it's usage but it produced real benefits back when I was using it in Firefox and apache about a decade ago. SPDY does pipelines; well so did HTTP: OPTIONALLY. I've read arguments about the benefits of pipelines, been there, done that - it is not new. When you have a scalable solution you CAN'T run everything from 1-2 pipelines on 1 big server, if not for CPU limits it is the bandwidth limitations.
HTTP Deflate encoding has been a little bit of a mess (thank you Microsoft) but I've found huge benefits to gzipping static content on the server. SPDY does gzip; well so did HTTP: OPTIONALLY. Are there benefits to gzipping all your bandwidth? NO! because most of it is JPEG and PNG images; HTTP is mixed mode, I admit it has additional overhead (but its not a huge deal in page loading speed.)
SPDY has too much unnecessary encryption which wastes power and CPU time.
The #1 problem I've seen is EXTERNAL resources, usually AD SERVERS, TRACKERS/social networks. DNS is a huge speed loss even today with my own DNS caching server that bypasses my ISP which has purposely slow DNS. I've also noticed plenty of LARGE image files, not optimized or even oversized for the page. My newer browsers wait for images of unknown sizes while previously the page would visibly reflow also CSS noticeably slowed page rendering. This likely will get worse as people start including larger images as soon as iOS browsers utilize them... since they separate logical resolution from actual resolution (like scalable fonts do.) CSS3 also gives us 150k+ fonts that must be downloaded before page rendering. "web 2.0 / ajax" sites could benefit from web sockets since that seems to be the only way we are going to do intelligent server interaction. I won't even get into all the massive javascript libraries bloating everything. SPDY is not going to help with that stuff.
I VOTE TO KEEP HTTP 1.1 and work on HTTP 2.0 based upon UDP or TCPv2 for the future. We could use something for open connections; web sockets is too much power (and risk) just to solve the stateless problem.
Make the text books free and that would help everybody. Most topics stay the same with only slight changes over time; especially the lower level courses.
Today we are insane; highly profitable businesses who are charging high prices due to high market demand are minimizing expansion if not shrinking in actual size while bitching about the small taxes they can't CHEAT out of paying. Naturally their "profit" goes down because that is actually tax money owed to the public and they've been STEALING from us. They DO NOT need to raise prices to pay their taxes! They have the tax money already in their pockets which they misrepresent as profit!
Corporations need MORE police and MORE fire protection. They benefit MORE from educated citizens than parents do (unless you have more children than the corporation has employees.) Corporations use more resources and government services. Welfare programs for corporations are some of the biggest programs in existence; almost always far exceeding what an individual can receive from the welfare programs for people.
If corporations are "people", then they should pay as much tax as I DO. I don't know anybody who would not be extremely upset if their neighbor was paying almost no taxes while making way more income.
Operating expenses are part of the equation of any business; if taxes raise their prices that is the REALITY they must work with. DEMAND DRIVES GROWTH. If they cost too much and the market demand will not bare the costs, then they go under. tough luck... take your publicly funded bankruptcy protection and go start another business. Somebody wanting money will start a business, there is never a shortage of people willing to earn money.
It is a red herring to simply cite the fact corporations employ people as if that is a legitimate answer.
"Who invented the Car?" A. Henry Ford B. Mr. General Motors C.... > A. Henry Ford. I think, I didn't realize there was a Mr. Motors and he was a general. Can I change my answer?
--Think decades in the future--
Who invented the PC? >What is a PC? Personal Computer >That Apple guy? Steve something...
Who invented the cell phone? >Just a second...Siri, who invented the cell phone? >>Siri: Apple invented the cell phone. >Apple.
Who is Bill Gates? >Some big ego rich guy who payed to have his name put on some buildings around the country. Like Carnegie and Rockefeller. Probably a jerk who did bad things to get wealthy but when he got old he realized his power was useless so he tried to use it to get immortality; you know, like the Pharaohs did - being a god doesn't matter if you don't have monuments around to remind people.
Bill Gates created Microsoft >What is that? Modern fabric softener?
Reboot and call me back. Update Reboot and call me back. Run your antivirus Reboot and call me back. Did you read the manual? Follow the procedure in there (which contains a Reboot) and feel guilty for not reading it before contacting me. Do you have a child? Ask them to help you.
Actually, call screening is an important part as well - even little known LIVE shows have somebody queuing up the callers trying to filter out nutcases. It would not surprise me if some shows have the true talented expert screening the callers; if they have the prep time or tape the show then the talent can do the screening themselves.
The USA is so corrupt; they can just be the next contractor with NYC to write their employee management software... NYC needs one and I bet the politicians would have a warm view of the Angry Birds maker who unlike previous contractors can actually FINISH something... plus bribes (aka campaign contributions.)
With the republicans taking back the government (like they ever really lost power with Obama) they probably would love to throw more money at the military. Romney wants to put in a Trillion more into the military and he can probably see how Angry Birds could be used by our military somehow... With our increasing stupidity we'll need those kind of easy interfaces so our future soldiers can operate the weapons.
They grow and prosper with taxes when they are a weaker and smaller corporation - yet with success they no longer can afford to pay taxes? PURE BS.
Corporations benefit and prosper in their home nation and their success is in part due to the employees they have at the time. It is clear betrayal to screw over the people that contributed to success and to the nation which helped facilitate it in the first place.
It is betraying your fellow countrymen by taking their tax-payer-funded infrastructure, workforce, education, and corporate welfare (includes the bankruptcy system that encourages risk taking.) The public (their government) should BILL the traitors for services rendered.
You sir have no idea how tv or radio production works. Sorry to ruin your world.
A real diagnosis would be everybit as horrible as helping a relative on the phone with a computer problem-- most the call is trying to communicate and often does not properly describe what is going on then you look like some git when it doesn't work and it was actually THEIR fault. If they really did know their stuff it would be a typical production to have them do the work upfront and NOT on the air where it could easily take most of the show to properly handle problem besides being BORING to listeners/viewers. It is not a "speak with a sex therapist" show where the topic is the only thing holding it together.
Yes. This is slashdot. Some other OCD nerd would have pointed it out as an obvious attack OR if I mentioned it point out it is unlikely...
Likely hood is not a wise excuse when listing security threats! Save that for the implementation phase! You document the threats and what you are doing about them, which in some cases will be nothing because it is not worth the effort at that point.
One has to keep in mind that when common attack vectors are GONE the less common ones become the new common attacks - and real crackers are skilled computer users who evolve their tools and skills (sometimes lending help to others.) It also depends on the details; if you don't track IPs and I have a long list of accounts I could stay under the radar by rotating the attacks; if you track IPs then I'd have a problem of getting a lot of IPs to do the attack which as you pointed out is quite unlikely.
Humans have not evolved. Culture, technology and other topics are not human. Put a baby from today in the past and they'll act no better than the rest of them (assuming they live and don't die of disease right away which could quite likely happen.)
Vengeance still exists every bit as bad as before but most modern societies (practically the definition of modern) so instead of wanting to crucify somebody society provides a different alternative for the exact same equally intense emotion - in the USA, still have the death penalty. In more civil societies they have accepted a lifetime in prison as being enough. Depending on the situation and how one views it, life in prison could be worse than burning at the stake. Victims may want more... if not restricted by society those who are unsatisfied would likely do the same things as in the past. Society and technology change the expressions to some degree but the human is still in there and this where Nurture influences Nature. This is why it makes sense to work at changing the culture over changing people because most people can not escape it (if they are even aware; and if they are there is a whole lot that is taken for granted as anybody who experiences culture shock should realize.)
There is a sound basis for cultural relativism and that is why it is still around despite it being uncomfortable and unpopular.
This is a good place and time for the debate. Thank you U.N.!
Simply having the debate is not a problem and given the UN will not get anywhere with such a proposal if they did seriously try it. I'd prefer they do it than somebody who can actually implement it... Some kind of similar measure probably will happen in the future but it'll be the WTO or international banks who pull it off... and probably get people on their side-- "free internet? that sounds like communism!"
Such a debate may end up stifling future debates in countries because it can lay the groundwork. This could end up influencing resolutions and treaties in the future PROTECTING people from such taxes. Sometimes topics are brought up for debate by the opposition for strategic reasons (besides just political posturing; but often that is what it is.)
I wouldn't mind if the threat of taxes on one of the few products of America could get them to back off from sabotaging all the climate negotiations.
1) server + http is stateless; it is not trivial to delay attempts every second. You would have to maintain a database of accounts and failure timestamps. On occasion, you'd have to scrub that database too. Not difficult to implement but I suspect few do. Busy distributed sites have more complications as this database may need to be in sync between servers; creating a possible bottleneck and another attack vector.
2) An attack on 100s of accounts could rotate between accounts to get around the time limit. So now you are storing a short history in that database; or tracking an IP address but not being too aggressive with the IP due to NAT users... and bot nets do not have as much trouble getting IP addresses.
3) Security holes. Some simple little add on to your website written in PHP just compromised your password database. The server may still be "secure" but the data could leak out and you may never know about it. Your password hashes are now on the internet with ZERO time delay between password attempts and any method known to man can be employed in parallel against those password hashes. Many people use the SAME password for all their accounts so one can be motivated to crack them even everybody later changes their passwords they probably keep the old ones in use elsewhere.
4) Some users have EMAIL ADDRESSES for account names it becomes easy to find that person again. Also, identification information may leak as well. Some sites produce different errors for unknown account names so then you know they have an account - especially if the account name is an email address. Even with a 1 second delay, I can quickly (in parallel) check a huge list of email addresses to see who has accounts with XXX with animals and kids.com. In addition, one has enough to send phishing emails...
5) Lost password questions. These questions are usually pathetic and tolerant of variations on input. This provides an easier password to crack probably without as much protection. 1 second delay will do nothing against "What is your mother's maiden name?"
So: Learn something from DES, MD5 and soon SHA -- use bcrypt hashing! Keep a timestamp database to filter out simple attacks and identify accounts under attack and log more data. Do not use emails for account names. Encrypt identification (emails) in the database; store the keys outside the database's reach. Forbid stupid passwords. Probably BAD to have secure questions at all. Do not mindlessly ban the use of autocomplete since it allows many of us to generate long random passwords. Do not limit the length of passwords or the characters used; too many sites are overly restrictive. Do not output errors that leak information.
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We can't even stick around Antarctica all year but we want to colonize mars?
There are no charges!!
It is all about "questioning" that this unprecedented amount of work has been done to get him back after letting him go because there was no case and no charges and no questions until AFTER some politician wanted to suck up to the USA.
They can't even convict him of ANYTHING because the only charge being alluded to but not formally applied in anyway is some kind of "involuntary rape" law which their court basically threw out long ago because it was ridiculous. But they can try to bring that up to their supreme court again... not likely. we know what is really going on and yet it continues anyway!
If it was to get a blood test for STDs, that is pointless because the women would have had those already (likely for free too.) So they would know if he gave them something by now. That "question" is moot. One could make many cases if he had a STD at the time and knew about it; but proving he knew is quite difficult. The women involved were not pressing charges; it does not matter what they do because this political fight will go on with or without victims. Blood tests and questions can be handled WITHOUT a perp walk and prison photos - especially when they refuse to charge him with any crimes.
It is not just about trying to get him into gitmo, its about making an EXAMPLE so nobody dares mess with the USA.
One should never trust women who are suddenly interested after a big force has declared war on you. Remember, General Motors hired prostitutes for Ralf Nader to try to get him in trouble (and he wasn't married either) and that was just the biggest car maker.
Actually, some people argue that Hell was created later and added to the Bible. A hell mythology is quite popular everywhere so if you start out without it'll be added sooner or later.
If hell impacts good behavior and heaven does not, then one would expect Buddhists to do well right? They do not have heaven but they can get really bad Karma... Good karma is not Heaven but bad Karma could be bad enough to be considered a form of hell.
The U.N. would handle it. Can't trust the USA, we'd be messing with anybody who doesn't kiss our ass and ICE would be removing english TLDs for nations hosting the piratebay.
Tibet is gone. So is everybody else who can't buy support or win a war to maintain their nation. Sad, true - but nobody gives a rip. If China didn't figure out the benefits of economic imperialism they'd have taken more nations already - they are not even building bases in every nation (yet.)
BTW, the reason I suggested an @ for the TLD was so browsers could automatically add your nations TLD when you left it out. If you used the @ then it would use that TLD, otherwise it would insert your nation automatically.
The Irish in the 1600s were not slaves. Slaves are property which involves upkeep and devaluation while "indentured servants" are more like serfs in that they have no actual owner and therefore LESS value than slaves do. Their indentured status could be thought of as a form of bondage but it NOT slavery. Ownership is of the debt not of the one who has the debt. This is a BIG difference.
Wearing out your slave is like abusing YOUR car while wearing out your serf is like abusing a rental car you bought insurance on (no cost to you if you beat the hell out of it.)
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Post WW2 it would seem our direction was being engineered towards mindless worker/consumer drones with the upper class being the leadership in an idealistic social darwin type system (with heavy contradictions.) Now we are achieving the ideal plans of extremists of that era the place for factory worker drones is slowly being eliminated by technology. This is leaving us with a whole lot of drones without work and unable to compete with societies who were not so foolishly engineered into a dead end.
I think; therefore, I am dangerous.
1. Buggy proxies should not get so much power that we can't progress HTTP
2. OPTIONAL compressed headers would be nice. One reason HTTP and HTML got big is they are simple and easy to use-- obviously we could replace them with binary formats for huge technical gains as competing technologies did. I do not know SPDY but I would oppose whole protocol compression if that is what they are doing, most traffic is already compressed images or video. I don't want the extra work of having to encode headers into gzip just to do something simple.
3. Smart proxies and other interesting ideas using HTTP are impossible with an SSL wrapped protocol. It also uses extra CPU power. If SPDY is going to be used it should be part of HTTP v2.0 and go down an open standards route instead of 1 company's idea of an enhancement.
4. My point exactly, web developers should continue to easily scale up with multiple servers without being penalized / limited by the protocol. We are seeing MORE divergence on websites with time, not less. Distributed solutions and cross site integration.
5. Server push would be nice. HTTP could have this added; it had a form of server push (with issues) already. There is no reason a webserver using HTTP couldn't include unofficial headers now for giving the browser prefetch hints to use in it's typical 2nd or 3rd parallel connections. Multiple commands per connection would require big changes; in which case, I'd be for something that helps AJAX type uses without being as powerful as web sockets.
If we are going to go all binary anyhow and kill HTTP for some totally different thing why not multiplex our data too? (I do realize the network stack does this already but that adds more overhead than us multiplexing within fewer data streams - sure we lose the hardware serial multiplexing support and doing it manually uses more CPU but it saves us bandwidth and CPUs just get better... we are already compressing and encrypting everything so we obviously don't care. )
Unicode URLs + HTTP v1.2 + 10 year limitation on URL length (ascii URL length limits; allow for transition period.)
Each nation gets a full-name TLD and a long list of aliases in every language including short variations. I will not expect the world to type a nation TLD in a foreign language. Also, it is case insensitive.
Actually, since complications are being ignored, I'd make DNS use @TLD which just means that new URLs would stand out from old ones and email checks will have to grow up. If you want to own screw.canada you'll have to get Canadian approval while now you could do screw.canada.com. The USA would do something stupid (via ICANN) so we'd have domain.com.usa in the best case and domain.anything-for-10-grand.usa.
Nothing that works good can get around government control freaks so just give up on that ever being used by MOST people who are more concerned with performance. Covert systems are just off topic. Now, Iran could make .evil be .usa because they control their internet in their nation already.
Get with the times. Facebook is the new AOL.
Not silly! If you want the diploma you play the game, if you want the knowledge you already have other options; quality free textbooks would help MORE people than cheaper schools would, most people don't go to school.
Depends upon the state and the school. I can cite multiple schools in my area that do not waste money and ones that not only waste student money but waste CITY money on stadiums etc. College sports actually impact college funding in the state legislature; if that doesn't reflect society's idiotic priorities I don't know what will wake you up to the real problem. It is easy to blame others than yourself or your society. I've heard about private schools, which often waste so much MORE money marketing themselves.
Graduate school costs are partially the typical free market pricing where they can charge a premium. The other part is the increased workload on the instructor and SMALL class size. (FYI: student fee x number of students = income per class - instructor expense - small overhead - BS fees - "premium service" fee.)
Students which treat a course as a correspondence school are in the wrong place. Graduate students that do not need to engage in a discussion with the professor or others in the course are not likely in a good program. Basic communications 101 also states that most communication is non-verbal...
From what I read about SPDY it doesn't sound like a big benefit justifying a change in protocols.
HTTP pipeline support has been around for over a decade now and I'm unaware of the extent of it's usage but it produced real benefits back when I was using it in Firefox and apache about a decade ago. SPDY does pipelines; well so did HTTP: OPTIONALLY.
I've read arguments about the benefits of pipelines, been there, done that - it is not new. When you have a scalable solution you CAN'T run everything from 1-2 pipelines on 1 big server, if not for CPU limits it is the bandwidth limitations.
HTTP Deflate encoding has been a little bit of a mess (thank you Microsoft) but I've found huge benefits to gzipping static content on the server. SPDY does gzip; well so did HTTP: OPTIONALLY. Are there benefits to gzipping all your bandwidth? NO! because most of it is JPEG and PNG images; HTTP is mixed mode, I admit it has additional overhead (but its not a huge deal in page loading speed.)
SPDY has too much unnecessary encryption which wastes power and CPU time.
The #1 problem I've seen is EXTERNAL resources, usually AD SERVERS, TRACKERS/social networks. DNS is a huge speed loss even today with my own DNS caching server that bypasses my ISP which has purposely slow DNS. I've also noticed plenty of LARGE image files, not optimized or even oversized for the page. My newer browsers wait for images of unknown sizes while previously the page would visibly reflow also CSS noticeably slowed page rendering. This likely will get worse as people start including larger images as soon as iOS browsers utilize them... since they separate logical resolution from actual resolution (like scalable fonts do.) CSS3 also gives us 150k+ fonts that must be downloaded before page rendering. "web 2.0 / ajax" sites could benefit from web sockets since that seems to be the only way we are going to do intelligent server interaction. I won't even get into all the massive javascript libraries bloating everything. SPDY is not going to help with that stuff.
I VOTE TO KEEP HTTP 1.1 and work on HTTP 2.0 based upon UDP or TCPv2 for the future. We could use something for open connections; web sockets is too much power (and risk) just to solve the stateless problem.
Make the text books free and that would help everybody. Most topics stay the same with only slight changes over time; especially the lower level courses.
Don't forget healthcare. What happened to that man who wasn't given prison after purposely robbing a back to get healthcare? He said he'd do it again.
I bet at least 1/3 of the USA has not caught up with you. You have an optimism bias. Equilibrium will not happen.
Not partisan; that is the way things are. Obama is a sham. I'm not even in the same area as either party.
learn something: PoliticalCompass.org
Today we are insane; highly profitable businesses who are charging high prices due to high market demand are minimizing expansion if not shrinking in actual size while bitching about the small taxes they can't CHEAT out of paying. Naturally their "profit" goes down because that is actually tax money owed to the public and they've been STEALING from us. They DO NOT need to raise prices to pay their taxes! They have the tax money already in their pockets which they misrepresent as profit!
Corporations need MORE police and MORE fire protection. They benefit MORE from educated citizens than parents do (unless you have more children than the corporation has employees.) Corporations use more resources and government services. Welfare programs for corporations are some of the biggest programs in existence; almost always far exceeding what an individual can receive from the welfare programs for people.
If corporations are "people", then they should pay as much tax as I DO. I don't know anybody who would not be extremely upset if their neighbor was paying almost no taxes while making way more income.
Operating expenses are part of the equation of any business; if taxes raise their prices that is the REALITY they must work with. DEMAND DRIVES GROWTH. If they cost too much and the market demand will not bare the costs, then they go under. tough luck... take your publicly funded bankruptcy protection and go start another business. Somebody wanting money will start a business, there is never a shortage of people willing to earn money.
It is a red herring to simply cite the fact corporations employ people as if that is a legitimate answer.
"Who invented the Car?" ...
A. Henry Ford
B. Mr. General Motors
C.
> A. Henry Ford. I think, I didn't realize there was a Mr. Motors and he was a general. Can I change my answer?
--Think decades in the future--
Who invented the PC?
>What is a PC?
Personal Computer
>That Apple guy? Steve something...
Who invented the cell phone?
>Just a second...Siri, who invented the cell phone?
>>Siri: Apple invented the cell phone.
>Apple.
Who is Bill Gates?
>Some big ego rich guy who payed to have his name put on some buildings around the country. Like Carnegie and Rockefeller. Probably a jerk who did bad things to get wealthy but when he got old he realized his power was useless so he tried to use it to get immortality; you know, like the Pharaohs did - being a god doesn't matter if you don't have monuments around to remind people.
Bill Gates created Microsoft
>What is that? Modern fabric softener?
Reboot and call me back.
Update Reboot and call me back.
Run your antivirus Reboot and call me back.
Did you read the manual? Follow the procedure in there (which contains a Reboot) and feel guilty for not reading it before contacting me.
Do you have a child? Ask them to help you.
Actually, call screening is an important part as well - even little known LIVE shows have somebody queuing up the callers trying to filter out nutcases. It would not surprise me if some shows have the true talented expert screening the callers; if they have the prep time or tape the show then the talent can do the screening themselves.
The USA is so corrupt; they can just be the next contractor with NYC to write their employee management software... NYC needs one and I bet the politicians would have a warm view of the Angry Birds maker who unlike previous contractors can actually FINISH something... plus bribes (aka campaign contributions.)
With the republicans taking back the government (like they ever really lost power with Obama) they probably would love to throw more money at the military. Romney wants to put in a Trillion more into the military and he can probably see how Angry Birds could be used by our military somehow... With our increasing stupidity we'll need those kind of easy interfaces so our future soldiers can operate the weapons.
They grow and prosper with taxes when they are a weaker and smaller corporation - yet with success they no longer can afford to pay taxes? PURE BS.
Corporations benefit and prosper in their home nation and their success is in part due to the employees they have at the time. It is clear betrayal to screw over the people that contributed to success and to the nation which helped facilitate it in the first place.
It is betraying your fellow countrymen by taking their tax-payer-funded infrastructure, workforce, education, and corporate welfare (includes the bankruptcy system that encourages risk taking.) The public (their government) should BILL the traitors for services rendered.
Welcome to the race to the bottom.
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You sir have no idea how tv or radio production works. Sorry to ruin your world.
A real diagnosis would be everybit as horrible as helping a relative on the phone with a computer problem-- most the call is trying to communicate and often does not properly describe what is going on then you look like some git when it doesn't work and it was actually THEIR fault. If they really did know their stuff it would be a typical production to have them do the work upfront and NOT on the air where it could easily take most of the show to properly handle problem besides being BORING to listeners/viewers. It is not a "speak with a sex therapist" show where the topic is the only thing holding it together.
Yes. This is slashdot.
Some other OCD nerd would have pointed it out as an obvious attack OR if I mentioned it point out it is unlikely...
Likely hood is not a wise excuse when listing security threats! Save that for the implementation phase! You document the threats and what you are doing about them, which in some cases will be nothing because it is not worth the effort at that point.
One has to keep in mind that when common attack vectors are GONE the less common ones become the new common attacks - and real crackers are skilled computer users who evolve their tools and skills (sometimes lending help to others.) It also depends on the details; if you don't track IPs and I have a long list of accounts I could stay under the radar by rotating the attacks; if you track IPs then I'd have a problem of getting a lot of IPs to do the attack which as you pointed out is quite unlikely.
Humans have not evolved. Culture, technology and other topics are not human. Put a baby from today in the past and they'll act no better than the rest of them (assuming they live and don't die of disease right away which could quite likely happen.)
Vengeance still exists every bit as bad as before but most modern societies (practically the definition of modern) so instead of wanting to crucify somebody society provides a different alternative for the exact same equally intense emotion - in the USA, still have the death penalty. In more civil societies they have accepted a lifetime in prison as being enough. Depending on the situation and how one views it, life in prison could be worse than burning at the stake. Victims may want more... if not restricted by society those who are unsatisfied would likely do the same things as in the past. Society and technology change the expressions to some degree but the human is still in there and this where Nurture influences Nature. This is why it makes sense to work at changing the culture over changing people because most people can not escape it (if they are even aware; and if they are there is a whole lot that is taken for granted as anybody who experiences culture shock should realize.)
There is a sound basis for cultural relativism and that is why it is still around despite it being uncomfortable and unpopular.
This is a good place and time for the debate. Thank you U.N.!
Simply having the debate is not a problem and given the UN will not get anywhere with such a proposal if they did seriously try it. I'd prefer they do it than somebody who can actually implement it... Some kind of similar measure probably will happen in the future but it'll be the WTO or international banks who pull it off... and probably get people on their side-- "free internet? that sounds like communism!"
Such a debate may end up stifling future debates in countries because it can lay the groundwork. This could end up influencing resolutions and treaties in the future PROTECTING people from such taxes. Sometimes topics are brought up for debate by the opposition for strategic reasons (besides just political posturing; but often that is what it is.)
I wouldn't mind if the threat of taxes on one of the few products of America could get them to back off from sabotaging all the climate negotiations.
1) server + http is stateless; it is not trivial to delay attempts every second. You would have to maintain a database of accounts and failure timestamps. On occasion, you'd have to scrub that database too. Not difficult to implement but I suspect few do. Busy distributed sites have more complications as this database may need to be in sync between servers; creating a possible bottleneck and another attack vector.
2) An attack on 100s of accounts could rotate between accounts to get around the time limit. So now you are storing a short history in that database; or tracking an IP address but not being too aggressive with the IP due to NAT users... and bot nets do not have as much trouble getting IP addresses.
3) Security holes. Some simple little add on to your website written in PHP just compromised your password database. The server may still be "secure" but the data could leak out and you may never know about it. Your password hashes are now on the internet with ZERO time delay between password attempts and any method known to man can be employed in parallel against those password hashes. Many people use the SAME password for all their accounts so one can be motivated to crack them even everybody later changes their passwords they probably keep the old ones in use elsewhere.
4) Some users have EMAIL ADDRESSES for account names it becomes easy to find that person again. Also, identification information may leak as well. Some sites produce different errors for unknown account names so then you know they have an account - especially if the account name is an email address. Even with a 1 second delay, I can quickly (in parallel) check a huge list of email addresses to see who has accounts with XXX with animals and kids .com. In addition, one has enough to send phishing emails...
5) Lost password questions. These questions are usually pathetic and tolerant of variations on input. This provides an easier password to crack probably without as much protection. 1 second delay will do nothing against "What is your mother's maiden name?"
So:
Learn something from DES, MD5 and soon SHA -- use bcrypt hashing!
Keep a timestamp database to filter out simple attacks and identify accounts under attack and log more data.
Do not use emails for account names. Encrypt identification (emails) in the database; store the keys outside the database's reach.
Forbid stupid passwords. Probably BAD to have secure questions at all.
Do not mindlessly ban the use of autocomplete since it allows many of us to generate long random passwords. Do not limit the length of passwords or the characters used; too many sites are overly restrictive.
Do not output errors that leak information.