The author is wrong when he said you "agreed to agreed a license that removes such liability."
What you do is open the package.
The makers of the software CLAIM that by doing so it means you agreed, but that opinion has not been proven in any court of law.
OF COURSE they are going to claim you do that. They can claim anything they want to. They can even claim that their software is not a piece of crap. That doesn't make it true.
Yes, it will make suing them more dificult, but so what?
Lawsuits are rarely about money for the clients- the profitablity of them is just too low, especailly considering the fact that you don't do them unless you got royally screwed.
Lawsuits are about VENGENCE. And to do that you don't need to have an easy case, a dificult one is just as much.
So you think people should learn external progams instead of languages like perl?
What a load of stupidity. You must learn multiple different external progams instead of a single, organized program.
My job involves Perl programming all the time.
Yes, I COULD do everything with those things, but Perl is FAR more effecient for the kind of heavy text manipulation that I need to do, involving tons of special characters, and combining multiple lines with changes made to line 1 dependent on what was originally in line 2.
Perl is 1,000 times more efficient when you have to convert something like:
DP04200000096
Production Number
DT 397823
Text of Document
001-001: Jo Japui .
Into:
&DT-397823&|&\001-001: Jo Japui.\&|&DP04200000096&
Which is fairly typical in my job
What you are is someone that is prejudiced against Pearl simply cause the particular jobs YOU PERSONALLY DO are not easy to do with it.
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Sometimes you NEED glorified shell scripts, cause otherwise the shell becomes bloated with features that most people don't need.
Right now my kidneys have significant functionallity so I am not yet a donor qualified.
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But Kidney transplants tend NOT to last your life, and there are LOTS of problems with them. Many young people go through 3 of them before they finally die, usually of illnesses related to the kidney problem.
Another issue is that unless you get a kidney from a twin/clone, you are on immune surpressing drugs for the rest of your life.
These drugs are NOT 'safe', nor are they fun. The side affects can be deadly. For example, if you are exposed to say SARS, a disease with high transmitability but low general death rate (4% or so), you are extremely likely to catch it and die.
While you can live a relatively normal life, the operative words are "can" and "relatively".
I have slow, chronic kidney failure, originally caused by an over-active immune system. Now that it is damaged, each bit of protein I eat kills a portion of my Kidney, even if it is tofu protein. Eat no protein = starve to death.
I am currently trying to eat a minimal amount of protein each day (40 grams), but is very tough to stay on my diet and even if I do this, my kidney still gets worse just slower.
Luckily with this diet I still have time, possibly even 10 years till total kidney failure (assuming I don't drink, etc. etc). With any luck, they will either have gotten this to work or found a way to at least clone a kidney for me.
"What benefit would we get from NOT GPLing this code".
1) Our competitors will not use it. Hm. Is this code REALLY that fantastic that competitors would WANT to reuse it? Yes I know, we all like to think we are coding Gods and that all should bow down to own superior code. But truthfully, the competitor will instead say "I have no need for that/already got one."
2) Other people will not be forced to pay us to use our code. Were they going to anyway? Ask to see profit projections for the code.
2) Trade secret. (Coke formula for example.) Companies like to keep secrets cause that way they look smarter than I are. Again, bullcrap. Pepsi has NO interest in stealing Coca Col'as formula. People read Dilbert, they know how foolish an inept the company is. Keeping "trade secrets" for image purposes just does not work, while gaining a reputation for publishing GPL actually does increase your rep on the street.
Your logic works great if you work for software company X and are writing code that they sell.
It even works if you work for company Y and you are writing code at their request to be used by people in company Y.
But when instead (like me), you work for company Z that pays you to do job A, and to od that you need to write scripts, then that company has NO business taking the scripts that you wrote. They did not tell you "make this scripts" to do your job. They did not pay you to write those scripts. If you never wrote those scripts but did your work anyway, they would not complain.
But some companies think that just because they paid you that they have the right to take everything you made. That is bull crap. If they pay you to specifically do something, then they have the right to own code that does that. But if they pay you to do job X, then should own the software that YOU figured out would help YOU do the job.
Just as I own my car that I bought with my own money, even if I use it for work purposes, I own my scripts that I wrote, even if I use them to help me do my work.
If the company wants to own my car, they have to have paid for it. Similarly, if the companies want to own my scripts, they have to have asked me to make them. Otherwise, they are mine.
1) It is NOT a custumoer's legal "problem" until a court case/lawsuit has been filed and the customer notified. Until that time you need to repharse that statement as "why should an ISP subsidize protecting a customer's legal rights.
2) And that statement answers itself, because they are their CUSTOMERS, and as such should take reasonable steps to protect their customer's property. If you drop your clothing off at a Dry cleaner that dry cleaner is resonsible if someone comes and takes that clothing, even if it is someone claiming to be a cop. As such, that Dry cleaner should take reasonable steps to make sure that the people taking the clothing have the proper paperwork to make it truly legl, not just a piece of subpoena that the holder claims makes it legal. Otherwise, the Customer, who paid them, has the right to sue them. Same thing with the ISP. By accepting my money, they are legally bound to take reasonable steps to protect my priviticy, if they don't, I can sue.
2) It costs them cash to provide that information. Often, a lot of it.
90% of such coffee/food businesses is just getting people in the door. If the coffee/food is so expensive or so bad that that potenital customers that own a WiFI device won't buy from you, you are doomed anyway.
Advertising, perhaps you have heard of it? You pay for TV for everyone in exchange some people will watch your 30 second ad and then buy the product. Are the people that watch the ad but don't buy the product freeloading?
No. They have been exposed to your product, as you desired, and choose not to purchase it. Same thing with free wifi. Your Free WiFi is an advertisement. I am not talking about advertising the WiFi, I am talking about the 'freeloaders' you don't like.
They are in your shop, useing your tables, see your food, smell your coffee, etc. etc. If you can't convince people SPENDING THEIR TIME INSIDE THE SHOP to buy your product, then your business sucks and you will go out of business no matter what you do.
Liability issues make more sense, but only because the business owners don't understand the legal issues so they are spooking about things that are not really scary.
You guys are all saying "The thief could do X, the thief could do Y".
Yes he could. The software is not supposed to be perfect.
The quesiton is not Is this the single peice of security that will solve ALL your stolen laptops problems.
Instead the question is: Given the typical missing laptop situation, will this be helpfull?.
It will DEFINITELY be helpfull in a "lost laptop" situation where you left it someplace and was found by a reasonable person who decides to use it. (Lets face it, people do "forget" computers).
It will also Definitely be helpfull when some idiot who is too stupid to get a job decides to steal something. Low end street thieves are NOT smart (or rather, anyone risking prison and a legal record for a mere couple of grand is not smart - when smart people steal they go for at least a $100,000. See Embezlement.)
So YES, I do think that in at least 50% of the likely missing laptop scenarios, this will be helpfull.
But if you really want security, do the following:
Install a wireless modem with GPS capability. If you really are paranoid, open the case and install it in the case. Frankly, I don't think people will remove the card.
Set up the modem so that it will answer back anyone calling it with a modem line, and just log on remotely and activate the GPS.
Cost would be reasonable, assuming you want a wireless modem for other purposes and had sensitive data.
Part of the problem is you are creating false assumptions.
The facts are that many organizations, create free networks for people to use.
They do it for a vareity of reasons.,
So a better analogy is the following:
There are several parks in a neighborhood. Some of the parks costs money to enter, but others do not. You see some parks with fences protecting them, and signs saying "Enter at gate, if approved".
You seen one park with no fence. You enter and sit down.
Then some cop comes along and arrests you for entering a "pay" park with paying.
Your underboss goes to the police and complains that you are running a protection racket. He does not make a deal for immunity, he just tells the police.
You call up the police and say "Hey, that guy that's talking to you? He's dealing cocaine at 4th and Vine every saturday.
If the police catch him dealing, they will arrest him and send him to jail. They might thank him for ratting out you, but he still goes to jail.
I would have modded him up, he clearly knows more than you.
He did not say that you can't use bluffing to win hands when you have the best, just that it was not a smart idea to try to do it.
I think he would take all yoru cash and pay for cab ride home.
And Limit vs. no-Limit it does not matter. If you play tight, the way he said he does, then while you are tring to take his money, all you will get is the ante and other small change. When he DOES go in, you will be so happy to finally take his money you won't be expecting him to whip out that Full House with Kings over Queens when you were so sure your Queens over Kings would work.
His strategy is one of several valid ones. Yes, there are others, but many professionals use his.
Yes, I think it would be a wonder to watch him take all your money.
One of the MAJOR ways you tell a good poker player from a bad one is that bad ones bluff when they should not, and worse, with the wrong amount of cash.
His strategy was basically to play tight, which will work wonders when others are betting loosely. Why? Because you get out of the hands where your cards suck early on, then when you get a good hand, everyone else keeps on betting high, and you rake it in. You can't bluff him from a lot of money cause he never gets in the pot unless he can beat you. But he can bluff you cause you are playing loose and betting all the time.
Yes, there exists other strategies, but the one he mentioned is generally known as one of the better ones. You might be able to beat him, but I don't think so.
No matter how often you say that The argument that it save a million lives has been refuted time and time again", does not make it true.
The facts are clear.
1) We dropped the bomb.
2) The people that dropped it had been told it would save millions of lives. Whether it was 10,000 or 1,000,000 is mostly irrelevant. They THOUGHT it would save those lives. Maybe that number was a wild ass guess, but no one really knows. It could have been accurate - the Japanese had soldiers refusing to surrender DECADES after the war was over. It could very well have ended up like Iraq is now - with occupying soldiers being hit by kamikzae's with grenades every day, killing 1 american soldier and 20 japanese civilians.
3) No one KNOWS how many lives would have been saved.
4) The US government had cracked Japan's codes and KNEW that the Japanese military government was NOT going to surrender.
5) Some amount of american soldiers would have died if we did not drop the bomb.
6) We were at war with a nation that clearly started it with a surprise attack. We were under no ethical obligation to not go all out. We asked them to surrender, they said no. We stroke once and asked again. They still said no. Now you blaim us for stiking again? The Japanese government had the ability to stop the 2nd bomb. If they had used that power, those lives would have been saved. They have SOME responsibility, however small, for not quitting early.
7)Eisenhower's views, while interesting, was not particularly more relevant than those of any other US general.
9) Nuclear bombs were not thought of as weapons of HORROR back then, in part because they were still relatively small. A nuke of today is FAR more powerfull and more evil (radiation is often higher), and many people falsely think of those ancient bombs as just as horrifiying. That is bullcrap. Those first nukes were just baby horrors, not full grown ones, and the fact that we had to use two is proof of that.
Amazing how this anonymous moron can stand there and blame us americans for things our grandfathers did.
Numbers were made up because they had no facts. That does not change the basic fact that one bomb clearly was NOT enough to end the war and therefore dropping two can not in any way be considered worse than starting the war by a surprise attack, even if it was on a military site. Read about Japan and the rape of Nanking. Or how they starved and worked to death all the american soldiers they captured.
America has lots of faults. What we did to Native Americans was no better than what any one else did to the minority, oriinal settlers of their land.
But in WWII, we were by FAR the Good Guys. In no way can any reasonable person claim that we were evil "killers" or have more blood on our hand than others.
May be right about most things, but you are TOTALLY wrong about one.
There is a single physical trait that over 99.9% of women find attractive.
Go to Craig's list. Scan the adds.
The Sluts want it.
The Romantics want it.
The Whores want it. (God, they are demanding cash and they have so many requirements...)
The women shopping for a rich husband want it.
The women shopping for a citizen husband want it.
The Conservatives want it
The Liberals want it.
The drug users (420/ski/whatever) want it.
What is it?
Height. The classic refrain was "Tall dark and handsome." First and formost, almost all woman want a tall husband.
If you are 5'6" or shorter, your chance of getting any (sex, love, or just companionship) is 1/10 of those 5'11" or taller.
Your logic is seriously flawed. $20 was an example, not "the price".
If you want to take out $20 worth of books, you buy a $20 card. If you want to take out $100 worth of books, you buy a $100 card.
The poorer people would have the choice of either using standard identiy cards or just spending a smaller amount of money and getting one book at a time.
And the smarter people would probably use both. Use my Driver's License for the book about general american history, and the $23.50 card I purchased to take out the book about the history of the Manhattan Project.
Certain programing languages use commas to indicate commented text that should not be taken as instructions to the compiler but instead are intended to as comments on the text in jokes reminders to the programmer or just for fun.
,So a,re you goin,g to sich the comma police on me,?
This is not english class, unless his posting was as bad as my intentionally hard to read one, his errors should be politely ignored.
They don't have to compromise the SSL certificate - and even if they did, so what? Most people ignore that warning message - I have gotten in 5 times and each time it turned out to be a false alarm. If they want those kinds of warning to be taken seriously, they need something like a Blue Screen of Death, not a pop up window that scumbag advertisers use (Note, I am not saying that all advertisers are scum, just the ones that use pop ups)
You might have a point, if you were not ignoring the increasing value of the euro to the dollar.
The fact that the Euro has gone up so much means that the US is becoming a better and better deal for the other countries. Right now, Europeans can get 50% more out of their money by buying US instead of EU.
On top of thatm the measures of the economy wherby you say the EU is going to bypass the US is EXAGGERATTED by that same effect. Becuase the EU is worth 1.5 US, this causes the same business in the EU to have x1.5 the effect on the EU as it would in US.
Basically, economies are hard to judge where they are NOW, let alone predict what is going to happen in 5-15 years.
Otherwise, economic depressions/recessions would be a thing of the past.
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What you do is open the package.
The makers of the software CLAIM that by doing so it means you agreed, but that opinion has not been proven in any court of law.
OF COURSE they are going to claim you do that. They can claim anything they want to. They can even claim that their software is not a piece of crap. That doesn't make it true.
Yes, it will make suing them more dificult, but so what? Lawsuits are rarely about money for the clients- the profitablity of them is just too low, especailly considering the fact that you don't do them unless you got royally screwed.
Lawsuits are about VENGENCE. And to do that you don't need to have an easy case, a dificult one is just as much.
What a load of stupidity. You must learn multiple different external progams instead of a single, organized program.
My job involves Perl programming all the time.
Yes, I COULD do everything with those things, but Perl is FAR more effecient for the kind of heavy text manipulation that I need to do, involving tons of special characters, and combining multiple lines with changes made to line 1 dependent on what was originally in line 2.
Perl is 1,000 times more efficient when you have to convert something like:
DP04200000096 Production Number
DT 397823
Text of Document 001-001: Jo Japui .
Into: &DT-397823&|&\001-001: Jo Japui .\&|&DP04200000096&
Which is fairly typical in my job
What you are is someone that is prejudiced against Pearl simply cause the particular jobs YOU PERSONALLY DO are not easy to do with it.
Sometimes you NEED glorified shell scripts, cause otherwise the shell becomes bloated with features that most people don't need.
But Kidney transplants tend NOT to last your life, and there are LOTS of problems with them. Many young people go through 3 of them before they finally die, usually of illnesses related to the kidney problem.
Another issue is that unless you get a kidney from a twin/clone, you are on immune surpressing drugs for the rest of your life.
These drugs are NOT 'safe', nor are they fun. The side affects can be deadly. For example, if you are exposed to say SARS, a disease with high transmitability but low general death rate (4% or so), you are extremely likely to catch it and die.
While you can live a relatively normal life, the operative words are "can" and "relatively".
This may save my life personally.
I have slow, chronic kidney failure, originally caused by an over-active immune system. Now that it is damaged, each bit of protein I eat kills a portion of my Kidney, even if it is tofu protein. Eat no protein = starve to death.
I am currently trying to eat a minimal amount of protein each day (40 grams), but is very tough to stay on my diet and even if I do this, my kidney still gets worse just slower.
Luckily with this diet I still have time, possibly even 10 years till total kidney failure (assuming I don't drink, etc. etc). With any luck, they will either have gotten this to work or found a way to at least clone a kidney for me.
"What benefit would we get from NOT GPLing this code".
1) Our competitors will not use it. Hm. Is this code REALLY that fantastic that competitors would WANT to reuse it? Yes I know, we all like to think we are coding Gods and that all should bow down to own superior code. But truthfully, the competitor will instead say "I have no need for that/already got one."
2) Other people will not be forced to pay us to use our code. Were they going to anyway? Ask to see profit projections for the code.
2) Trade secret. (Coke formula for example.) Companies like to keep secrets cause that way they look smarter than I are. Again, bullcrap. Pepsi has NO interest in stealing Coca Col'as formula. People read Dilbert, they know how foolish an inept the company is. Keeping "trade secrets" for image purposes just does not work, while gaining a reputation for publishing GPL actually does increase your rep on the street.
Your logic works great if you work for software company X and are writing code that they sell.
It even works if you work for company Y and you are writing code at their request to be used by people in company Y.
But when instead (like me), you work for company Z that pays you to do job A, and to od that you need to write scripts, then that company has NO business taking the scripts that you wrote. They did not tell you "make this scripts" to do your job. They did not pay you to write those scripts. If you never wrote those scripts but did your work anyway, they would not complain.
But some companies think that just because they paid you that they have the right to take everything you made. That is bull crap. If they pay you to specifically do something, then they have the right to own code that does that. But if they pay you to do job X, then should own the software that YOU figured out would help YOU do the job.
Just as I own my car that I bought with my own money, even if I use it for work purposes, I own my scripts that I wrote, even if I use them to help me do my work.
If the company wants to own my car, they have to have paid for it. Similarly, if the companies want to own my scripts, they have to have asked me to make them. Otherwise, they are mine.
2) And that statement answers itself, because they are their CUSTOMERS, and as such should take reasonable steps to protect their customer's property. If you drop your clothing off at a Dry cleaner that dry cleaner is resonsible if someone comes and takes that clothing, even if it is someone claiming to be a cop. As such, that Dry cleaner should take reasonable steps to make sure that the people taking the clothing have the proper paperwork to make it truly legl, not just a piece of subpoena that the holder claims makes it legal. Otherwise, the Customer, who paid them, has the right to sue them. Same thing with the ISP. By accepting my money, they are legally bound to take reasonable steps to protect my priviticy, if they don't, I can sue.
2) It costs them cash to provide that information. Often, a lot of it.
Advertising, perhaps you have heard of it? You pay for TV for everyone in exchange some people will watch your 30 second ad and then buy the product. Are the people that watch the ad but don't buy the product freeloading?
No. They have been exposed to your product, as you desired, and choose not to purchase it. Same thing with free wifi. Your Free WiFi is an advertisement. I am not talking about advertising the WiFi, I am talking about the 'freeloaders' you don't like.
They are in your shop, useing your tables, see your food, smell your coffee, etc. etc. If you can't convince people SPENDING THEIR TIME INSIDE THE SHOP to buy your product, then your business sucks and you will go out of business no matter what you do.
Liability issues make more sense, but only because the business owners don't understand the legal issues so they are spooking about things that are not really scary.
Yes he could. The software is not supposed to be perfect.
The quesiton is not Is this the single peice of security that will solve ALL your stolen laptops problems.
Instead the question is: Given the typical missing laptop situation, will this be helpfull?.
It will DEFINITELY be helpfull in a "lost laptop" situation where you left it someplace and was found by a reasonable person who decides to use it. (Lets face it, people do "forget" computers).
It will also Definitely be helpfull when some idiot who is too stupid to get a job decides to steal something. Low end street thieves are NOT smart (or rather, anyone risking prison and a legal record for a mere couple of grand is not smart - when smart people steal they go for at least a $100,000. See Embezlement.)
So YES, I do think that in at least 50% of the likely missing laptop scenarios, this will be helpfull.
But if you really want security, do the following:
Install a wireless modem with GPS capability. If you really are paranoid, open the case and install it in the case. Frankly, I don't think people will remove the card.
Set up the modem so that it will answer back anyone calling it with a modem line, and just log on remotely and activate the GPS.
Cost would be reasonable, assuming you want a wireless modem for other purposes and had sensitive data.
The facts are that many organizations, create free networks for people to use.
They do it for a vareity of reasons.,
So a better analogy is the following:
There are several parks in a neighborhood. Some of the parks costs money to enter, but others do not. You see some parks with fences protecting them, and signs saying "Enter at gate, if approved".
You seen one park with no fence. You enter and sit down.
Then some cop comes along and arrests you for entering a "pay" park with paying.
You are mafia boss.
Your underboss goes to the police and complains that you are running a protection racket. He does not make a deal for immunity, he just tells the police.
You call up the police and say "Hey, that guy that's talking to you? He's dealing cocaine at 4th and Vine every saturday.
If the police catch him dealing, they will arrest him and send him to jail. They might thank him for ratting out you, but he still goes to jail.
He did not say that you can't use bluffing to win hands when you have the best, just that it was not a smart idea to try to do it.
I think he would take all yoru cash and pay for cab ride home.
And Limit vs. no-Limit it does not matter. If you play tight, the way he said he does, then while you are tring to take his money, all you will get is the ante and other small change. When he DOES go in, you will be so happy to finally take his money you won't be expecting him to whip out that Full House with Kings over Queens when you were so sure your Queens over Kings would work.
His strategy is one of several valid ones. Yes, there are others, but many professionals use his.
One of the MAJOR ways you tell a good poker player from a bad one is that bad ones bluff when they should not, and worse, with the wrong amount of cash.
His strategy was basically to play tight, which will work wonders when others are betting loosely. Why? Because you get out of the hands where your cards suck early on, then when you get a good hand, everyone else keeps on betting high, and you rake it in. You can't bluff him from a lot of money cause he never gets in the pot unless he can beat you. But he can bluff you cause you are playing loose and betting all the time.
Yes, there exists other strategies, but the one he mentioned is generally known as one of the better ones. You might be able to beat him, but I don't think so.
SIMPLY TELL THEM YOU DON'T HAVE ONE.
When they ask you if you work, say, "Grand dad invested in IBM and Dad moved the cash to Microsoft, so I don't have to."
The facts are clear.
1) We dropped the bomb.
2) The people that dropped it had been told it would save millions of lives. Whether it was 10,000 or 1,000,000 is mostly irrelevant. They THOUGHT it would save those lives. Maybe that number was a wild ass guess, but no one really knows. It could have been accurate - the Japanese had soldiers refusing to surrender DECADES after the war was over. It could very well have ended up like Iraq is now - with occupying soldiers being hit by kamikzae's with grenades every day, killing 1 american soldier and 20 japanese civilians.
3) No one KNOWS how many lives would have been saved.
4) The US government had cracked Japan's codes and KNEW that the Japanese military government was NOT going to surrender.
5) Some amount of american soldiers would have died if we did not drop the bomb.
6) We were at war with a nation that clearly started it with a surprise attack. We were under no ethical obligation to not go all out. We asked them to surrender, they said no. We stroke once and asked again. They still said no. Now you blaim us for stiking again? The Japanese government had the ability to stop the 2nd bomb. If they had used that power, those lives would have been saved. They have SOME responsibility, however small, for not quitting early.
7)Eisenhower's views, while interesting, was not particularly more relevant than those of any other US general.
9) Nuclear bombs were not thought of as weapons of HORROR back then, in part because they were still relatively small. A nuke of today is FAR more powerfull and more evil (radiation is often higher), and many people falsely think of those ancient bombs as just as horrifiying. That is bullcrap. Those first nukes were just baby horrors, not full grown ones, and the fact that we had to use two is proof of that.
Amazing how this anonymous moron can stand there and blame us americans for things our grandfathers did.
Numbers were made up because they had no facts. That does not change the basic fact that one bomb clearly was NOT enough to end the war and therefore dropping two can not in any way be considered worse than starting the war by a surprise attack, even if it was on a military site. Read about Japan and the rape of Nanking. Or how they starved and worked to death all the american soldiers they captured.
America has lots of faults. What we did to Native Americans was no better than what any one else did to the minority, oriinal settlers of their land.
But in WWII, we were by FAR the Good Guys. In no way can any reasonable person claim that we were evil "killers" or have more blood on our hand than others.
There is a single physical trait that over 99.9% of women find attractive.
Go to Craig's list. Scan the adds.
The Sluts want it.
The Romantics want it.
The Whores want it. (God, they are demanding cash and they have so many requirements...)
The women shopping for a rich husband want it.
The women shopping for a citizen husband want it.
The Conservatives want it
The Liberals want it.
The drug users (420/ski/whatever) want it.
What is it? Height. The classic refrain was "Tall dark and handsome." First and formost, almost all woman want a tall husband. If you are 5'6" or shorter, your chance of getting any (sex, love, or just companionship) is 1/10 of those 5'11" or taller.
Maybe they really meant "NO, you prick", but check out craig's list, they all want them tall.
He was obviously looking for more robots that he could infect in turn
Your logic is seriously flawed. $20 was an example, not "the price". If you want to take out $20 worth of books, you buy a $20 card. If you want to take out $100 worth of books, you buy a $100 card. The poorer people would have the choice of either using standard identiy cards or just spending a smaller amount of money and getting one book at a time. And the smarter people would probably use both. Use my Driver's License for the book about general american history, and the $23.50 card I purchased to take out the book about the history of the Manhattan Project.
This is not english class, unless his posting was as bad as my intentionally hard to read one, his errors should be politely ignored.
They don't have to compromise the SSL certificate - and even if they did, so what? Most people ignore that warning message - I have gotten in 5 times and each time it turned out to be a false alarm. If they want those kinds of warning to be taken seriously, they need something like a Blue Screen of Death, not a pop up window that scumbag advertisers use (Note, I am not saying that all advertisers are scum, just the ones that use pop ups)
The fact that the Euro has gone up so much means that the US is becoming a better and better deal for the other countries. Right now, Europeans can get 50% more out of their money by buying US instead of EU.
On top of thatm the measures of the economy wherby you say the EU is going to bypass the US is EXAGGERATTED by that same effect. Becuase the EU is worth 1.5 US, this causes the same business in the EU to have x1.5 the effect on the EU as it would in US.
Basically, economies are hard to judge where they are NOW, let alone predict what is going to happen in 5-15 years.
Otherwise, economic depressions/recessions would be a thing of the past.
If the DNS server gets comprimised, then EVERYONE goes to the wrong page, unless you type in the IP address like this: 125.001.001.
And guess what, there are DAILY attempts to comprimise the DNS servers. Do you want to bet that none of them are from phishers?
Maybe we are lucky and they are just crackers looking to switch the Buckingham Palace's home page with Sein Finn.