Most of the problems caused by Identity theft are directly caused by inept governments.
1) We make it VERY hard to change social security numbers, which would deal with a lot of the issues.
2) They refuse to offer effective, optional enhanced security methods as well.
What they should do is offer a free "Secure Replacement Number", SRN, to anyone that is the victim of ID theft. Charge $50 to do it, get a picture (updated yearly), thumb print, and signature on the SRN card. Have the SRN card always start with the letter R, so your new SRN would be something along the lines of "R23-87-1234"
Make it illegal for any business or government to require/forbid the use of an SRN, or even to offer price changes for it's use. Have an online database that lets people enter the SRN and see a picture of the
This lets people that want to get extra security do so, does not affect the existing SSN limitations, and in general makes ID theft much harder.
The only real problem is dealing with all the existing code that expects SSN to have digits only.
We don't drop the penny because Lincoln is our favorite president. That and the zinc lobby.
What we really should do is dump the penny, and create a new $3 coin with Lincoln on it.
$3 is actually USEFUL as a coin, as opposed to a dollar, as $3 makes getting change from a vending machine easier for products costing over $1, and also makes paying tolls with coins feasible again.
I guarantee that people would use them more than they use the penny right now.
In my grandfather's day, kids were let loose and they were far more likely to be targeted. Now that we have made a safe place for kids to grow up, people have become paranoid and refuse to leave them alone to play.
If the watch is that good, then it could learn some variant of sign language, allowing people to silently communicate with their devices faster than typing.
It would be a huge boon to the deaf, and might encourage people to learn sign language.
If Dolphins have a right to privacy, then does that mean we can't film them without permission? How much do we owe Flipper for the movies he made?
Furthermore there are a lot of US laws that derive from that right. A right to privacy is part of the basis for the right to home schooling, as well as the right to get an abortion, and the legal right for sodomy. (Lawrence vs Texas). Does that mean that consensual sex with a dolphin is now legal in the state of New Jersey?
More than that. You need multiple doses.
But most health care plans cover at least some of it.
To be clear, it is overly expensive - and most of the cost is profit. The company could recover the cost to research it and manufacture it within one year, if it cost just 1/5 the current price. But that excludes the money they spent on many other drugs that failed to make a profit. Most drugs they research fail to ever become profitable - success rates vary between 5 and 15%.
As such, a profit ratio of 5:1 is not unreasonable. It is a little bit on the greedy side, but no where near as much as the anti-vaxer 100% profit, 0% research and 0% results offer.
We definitely need to add US survelieance programs.
Let's start with a set of drones programmed to follow every single US Governor, Congressman, Senator, President or candidate for any of those jobs 24 hours a day, live streaming and recording it, viewable by any IP address located inside the USA.
We can put in an exclusion for when they actually meat on top secret/confidential meetings - as long as those meetings only consist of people directly employed by the US government.
50 year old balsa woods are MODELS. They have no camera, and are not Drones. The FAA has made NO requirement for them.
Simple rule - camera? Drone. No Camera? Model airplane.
The 2012 FMRA law talks about models, not drones. They are not the same thing and never have been.
Just as the US can regulate and outlaw machine guns without regulating semi-automatic guns, the US can regulate Drones without regulating Model airplanes.
1) This looks like a clear case of copyright infringement to me. They obtained certain rights to the song, but not merchandising and other rights. They owe her big time.
2) This is a clear example of how absurd our copyright laws have become. This HEIRS author of this ditty deserves NOTHING. The song should have become public domain 50 years after it was created, not have it's copyright life repeatedly extended by Congress drunk on lobbyist donations.
The word tape means strip of something that is sticky on one side.
Something that generic is almost bound to have multiple varieties, all with amazing uses.
It's kind of like being surprised at how many different and powerful types of mammals there are, or how many different types of internal combustion engines. Did you know there is an internal combustion engine designed to FLY? An another one to run a submarine?
Wow, that's so impressive.
Now, if we were talking something more specific, such as cyanoacrylate based adhesives, that would have no where near as many different properties.
It's not enough to create the power, we need to store and transmit it. Worst of all, the Sahara is short of water, so we can't even electrolyze water into hydrogen and oxygen, ship the hydrogen and burn it at our leisure.
Basically, the distances involved make this a foolish idea.
But that's beside the point. The point was that keeping it there is a very stupid idea. It has to be moved and should be moved inland. Preferably some place with low population, and low rain fail.
That puts Nevada high on the list of possible locations. They don't want They tried and failed to move it before money was spent. No one else wanted it, they lost the battle. The fact that they got out of it, after already spending billions is also fine - if they were willing to pay the federal government back the money already spent in Nevada.They didn't pay the money back, so they should have to take it. They owe us money a tone of it. Pay us back the money the federal government spent in their state and will be fine.
That's the real question. Is the 94 year old man that really has no business behind a wheel, an acceptable 'driver' in a driverless car?
And far more commonly, if you've had 12 shots in 2 hours, can you get arrested for being the driver in a driverless car? Will the cop even notice? Will the car test your breath?
Because these are the primary reasons for a normal customer to buy one of these things.
Global warming is a relatively minor issue by itself. The problem is that certain low lying areas already have major issues and global warming makes it much worse. It's not just a rise in sea level - it's also a huge rise in the ground's water table directly caused by the rise in sea level.
Miami Beach Florida already has issues with tides - certain high tides of the year flood the city, leaving it deep enough for fish to swim into major roads. In some areas they had to raise the roads a full meter above land level so that at least the roads are clear. Of course this leaves the houses, parking lots, businesses all flooded.
The main problem with Florida is that the water doesn't come from one direction it comes from all six directions. Rivers flow from the other states into Florida, sea water on 3 sides, rain falls down onto it and finally the land itself is porous limestone that sea water seeps into and UP out of the ground. Basically, most of the state of Florida is not solid land, but a sponge. That's why it has sink holes and why floods are so bad. Florida, unlike Holland, does not have a sealing salt/anihydrite layer that blocks water movement.
For this reason, unlike the Dutch, merely building a huge dike is not enough. As global warming raises the sea level it invades deeper into the center of Florida's porous, limestone ground. What used to be safe relatively dry land, miles from the dangerous shore, is now wet, eroded limestone. Fresh water wells turn into salt water wells, sink holes open up, new springs suddenly appear where there were none before.
Some of those new springs will be INSIDE the grounds protected by the dikes built around the nuclear power plants.
In such circumstances, to truly protect a nuclear power plant, you have to put a solid layer of water proof concrete UNDER it, connect that to the water proof 10 ft wall around the nuclear power plant and then arrange for a pumping station to drain out any rain water that falls into the plant area. Good luck with that.
Those only become a problem at high speeds. Limit the car to 30 MPH, and they vanish.
If you can sit back and read/rock/watch a video. the time delay - which saves you fuel (and reduces air pollution) becomes meaningless. So your 30 minute commute takes 45 minutes. Not a significant issue.
2)Delete it on versions of websites popular/based/focused on in Germany, but leaving it visible on similar websites popular in other countries?
3) Delete it if it originates in Germany?
These things are important, it affects whether Germany et. al.'s laws are affecting non-Germans. #1 is the most fair to non-germans but isn't really deleting anything, #3 may technically comply but leave Germany with many issues - chief among them watching citizens from other countries break their law willynilly. #2 seems to comply with the German law, but lets Germans say whatever they want in another language - say English for example
So we have the right (free speech) to say anything we want, we just don't have the right to HEAR/see/read anything we want.
The Supreme Court would have a field day with that idiot.
He needs to take more class the Constition, rather than teach them.
The reason for the first amendment still makes sense - better to letter fools speak freely so you know who they are, rather than punish men for doing doing so. The most powerful and dangerous of speech is true speech and by stopping speech you are more likely to spread lies than truth.
The US government needs a good way to track ISIS supporters, and spying on those that visit their websites makes a lot more sense than arresting them.
One of the problems they have with the health care privacy law is that there is no legal punishment. That is, if you get caught giving or selling away healthcare information, you don't do jail time. Usually they get off with a warning - even if it was your ex-employer who gave a private detective health care information and tried to hire them to look for incriminating evidence.
At best, the people get sued - which is often an expensive proposition.
Put in a real fine - say $1000 per incident PLUS all legal fees - non-waivable regardless of contract.
The majority of devices used for a crime are not purchased for that crime. Instead, people buy them, use them, and then think "hey, I could..."
In addition there are a bunch of idiots that don't know that doing certain obvious things are illegal.
More often than not it's, "Hey there's a fire across town - let's use my drone to take a picture of it!" Rather than 'hm. lets buy a drone and illegally use it to annoy the firefighters.
They are Mathematicians (String Theorists) rather than Physicists (String Theorists).
The difference is simple. Mathematics (and philosophy) describe possibilities, rather than actualities. They are more like languages, not sciences. They don't use the Scientific Method to test reality. If you don't test your theories, then you are not doing science.
This is not an insult, we need mathematicians just as much as we need physicists and their work is just as hard.
It is a rather technical distinction, but a real one.
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1) We make it VERY hard to change social security numbers, which would deal with a lot of the issues.
2) They refuse to offer effective, optional enhanced security methods as well.
What they should do is offer a free "Secure Replacement Number", SRN, to anyone that is the victim of ID theft. Charge $50 to do it, get a picture (updated yearly), thumb print, and signature on the SRN card. Have the SRN card always start with the letter R, so your new SRN would be something along the lines of "R23-87-1234"
Make it illegal for any business or government to require/forbid the use of an SRN, or even to offer price changes for it's use. Have an online database that lets people enter the SRN and see a picture of the
This lets people that want to get extra security do so, does not affect the existing SSN limitations, and in general makes ID theft much harder.
The only real problem is dealing with all the existing code that expects SSN to have digits only.
What we really should do is dump the penny, and create a new $3 coin with Lincoln on it.
$3 is actually USEFUL as a coin, as opposed to a dollar, as $3 makes getting change from a vending machine easier for products costing over $1, and also makes paying tolls with coins feasible again.
I guarantee that people would use them more than they use the penny right now.
In my grandfather's day, kids were let loose and they were far more likely to be targeted. Now that we have made a safe place for kids to grow up, people have become paranoid and refuse to leave them alone to play.
It would be a huge boon to the deaf, and might encourage people to learn sign language.
Furthermore there are a lot of US laws that derive from that right. A right to privacy is part of the basis for the right to home schooling, as well as the right to get an abortion, and the legal right for sodomy. (Lawrence vs Texas). Does that mean that consensual sex with a dolphin is now legal in the state of New Jersey?
To be clear, it is overly expensive - and most of the cost is profit. The company could recover the cost to research it and manufacture it within one year, if it cost just 1/5 the current price. But that excludes the money they spent on many other drugs that failed to make a profit. Most drugs they research fail to ever become profitable - success rates vary between 5 and 15%.
As such, a profit ratio of 5:1 is not unreasonable. It is a little bit on the greedy side, but no where near as much as the anti-vaxer 100% profit, 0% research and 0% results offer.
True. But there are so many lobbyists. Harder to do than just the actual representatives.
Let's start with a set of drones programmed to follow every single US Governor, Congressman, Senator, President or candidate for any of those jobs 24 hours a day, live streaming and recording it, viewable by any IP address located inside the USA.
We can put in an exclusion for when they actually meat on top secret/confidential meetings - as long as those meetings only consist of people directly employed by the US government.
Simple rule - camera? Drone. No Camera? Model airplane.
The 2012 FMRA law talks about models, not drones. They are not the same thing and never have been.
Just as the US can regulate and outlaw machine guns without regulating semi-automatic guns, the US can regulate Drones without regulating Model airplanes.
2) This is a clear example of how absurd our copyright laws have become. This HEIRS author of this ditty deserves NOTHING. The song should have become public domain 50 years after it was created, not have it's copyright life repeatedly extended by Congress drunk on lobbyist donations.
Something that generic is almost bound to have multiple varieties, all with amazing uses.
It's kind of like being surprised at how many different and powerful types of mammals there are, or how many different types of internal combustion engines. Did you know there is an internal combustion engine designed to FLY? An another one to run a submarine?
Wow, that's so impressive.
Now, if we were talking something more specific, such as cyanoacrylate based adhesives, that would have no where near as many different properties.
The video doesn't have working sound (for me), but the information below is worth it.
Basically, the distances involved make this a foolish idea.
Ask to avoid the scanner? Why that's a clear sign you have something to hide. You therefore must be a terrorist - go through the scanner.
But that's beside the point. The point was that keeping it there is a very stupid idea. It has to be moved and should be moved inland. Preferably some place with low population, and low rain fail.
That puts Nevada high on the list of possible locations. They don't want They tried and failed to move it before money was spent. No one else wanted it, they lost the battle. The fact that they got out of it, after already spending billions is also fine - if they were willing to pay the federal government back the money already spent in Nevada.They didn't pay the money back, so they should have to take it. They owe us money a tone of it. Pay us back the money the federal government spent in their state and will be fine.
Drones have cameras, models do not.
And far more commonly, if you've had 12 shots in 2 hours, can you get arrested for being the driver in a driverless car? Will the cop even notice? Will the car test your breath?
Because these are the primary reasons for a normal customer to buy one of these things.
Miami Beach Florida already has issues with tides - certain high tides of the year flood the city, leaving it deep enough for fish to swim into major roads. In some areas they had to raise the roads a full meter above land level so that at least the roads are clear. Of course this leaves the houses, parking lots, businesses all flooded.
The main problem with Florida is that the water doesn't come from one direction it comes from all six directions. Rivers flow from the other states into Florida, sea water on 3 sides, rain falls down onto it and finally the land itself is porous limestone that sea water seeps into and UP out of the ground. Basically, most of the state of Florida is not solid land, but a sponge. That's why it has sink holes and why floods are so bad. Florida, unlike Holland, does not have a sealing salt/anihydrite layer that blocks water movement.
For this reason, unlike the Dutch, merely building a huge dike is not enough. As global warming raises the sea level it invades deeper into the center of Florida's porous, limestone ground. What used to be safe relatively dry land, miles from the dangerous shore, is now wet, eroded limestone. Fresh water wells turn into salt water wells, sink holes open up, new springs suddenly appear where there were none before.
Some of those new springs will be INSIDE the grounds protected by the dikes built around the nuclear power plants.
In such circumstances, to truly protect a nuclear power plant, you have to put a solid layer of water proof concrete UNDER it, connect that to the water proof 10 ft wall around the nuclear power plant and then arrange for a pumping station to drain out any rain water that falls into the plant area. Good luck with that.
If you can sit back and read/rock/watch a video. the time delay - which saves you fuel (and reduces air pollution) becomes meaningless. So your 30 minute commute takes 45 minutes. Not a significant issue.
1) Make it not visible within Germany?
2)Delete it on versions of websites popular/based/focused on in Germany, but leaving it visible on similar websites popular in other countries?
3) Delete it if it originates in Germany?
These things are important, it affects whether Germany et. al.'s laws are affecting non-Germans. #1 is the most fair to non-germans but isn't really deleting anything, #3 may technically comply but leave Germany with many issues - chief among them watching citizens from other countries break their law willynilly. #2 seems to comply with the German law, but lets Germans say whatever they want in another language - say English for example
The Supreme Court would have a field day with that idiot.
He needs to take more class the Constition, rather than teach them.
The reason for the first amendment still makes sense - better to letter fools speak freely so you know who they are, rather than punish men for doing doing so. The most powerful and dangerous of speech is true speech and by stopping speech you are more likely to spread lies than truth.
The US government needs a good way to track ISIS supporters, and spying on those that visit their websites makes a lot more sense than arresting them.
One of the problems they have with the health care privacy law is that there is no legal punishment. That is, if you get caught giving or selling away healthcare information, you don't do jail time. Usually they get off with a warning - even if it was your ex-employer who gave a private detective health care information and tried to hire them to look for incriminating evidence.
At best, the people get sued - which is often an expensive proposition.
Put in a real fine - say $1000 per incident PLUS all legal fees - non-waivable regardless of contract.
In addition there are a bunch of idiots that don't know that doing certain obvious things are illegal.
More often than not it's, "Hey there's a fire across town - let's use my drone to take a picture of it!" Rather than 'hm. lets buy a drone and illegally use it to annoy the firefighters.
The difference is simple. Mathematics (and philosophy) describe possibilities, rather than actualities. They are more like languages, not sciences. They don't use the Scientific Method to test reality. If you don't test your theories, then you are not doing science.
This is not an insult, we need mathematicians just as much as we need physicists and their work is just as hard.
It is a rather technical distinction, but a real one.
Saying "This may be racist" does not excuse you from being a racist.
Saying "many Mexicans aren't rapists" doesn't excuse Trump.
No, they don't get credit for admitting they are nerd hating fascists attempting to discourage/criminalize normal, healthy behavior.