And before Obama Care it would have been This is absolutely absurd but you see now I will be subsidizing everyone else's care.
I am single 20 something male. I had enough in the bank that I could use a high deductible policy safely and the policy I have on the private market is really cheap. It only costs about $40 monthly for 3 million in coverage if I need it. In other words its actually an insurance policy. If something unexpected happens I get covered, I don't get regular visits paid for and don't coverage for things like maintenance drugs I don't take. I know as I get older this will no longer be an appropriate policy and I would have purchased something different if my life changed or when I just started getting older. I have to change next year though unless the courts strike down the universal coverage laws, because this plan won't pass muster.
So because I will now be paying for others care I DO WANT SOME SAY in how they live their lives. I was totally against the reform bill and support repeal but now that its here lets run with it. I am a librarian, I wanted everyone to just be responsible for themselves and free to make their own choices. If responsibility for others is going to be forced on me through taxation then I insist I get a voice in decision making so lets all go to ballot box and legislate what people can eat, what sports they can play, and what sort of work they can do without being hit with punitive taxes and fines; LETS JUST MAKE THEM UNDERSTAND ITS THE PRICE OF UNIVERSAL PUBLIC HEALTH CARE while we do it.
This is going to sound cruel and like crazy librarian ranting but I the only reason that anti-education and anti-intellectual thinking persists is because people can get away with it!
If not doing well in school (for a regular person not being disabled or something) doomed one to life of virtual slavery taking any job you can get for any pay someone might be willing to give you and usually not having enough to eat, I suspect few people would waste the opportunity public education affords them. Teenagers are not know for being at the top of the decision making game but even they can be driven by fear. Frankly the idea of being the guy under the bridge after mommy and daddy are gone is much scarier than collecting and unemployment check and watching cable TV half the day.
Most people donâ(TM)t use Algebra II in college, let alone in real life.
Most people must really suck at life then. I mean do they really never build anything? Do they never need to figure out if a business activity will be profitable? Do they not think and dream? What is like to live that way?
I guess you can go most of the time guessing and eyeballing your way through things I certainly do often enough, but Its also nice to know before you break out the plasma cutter, the modifications you are about to make to your car at least work on paper.
Oh they had a reason, his name is Barney Frank and because he was going to make it nearly impossible for them to do it later they were forced to while the gettin was good. Also because you actually ready their correspondence carefully enough to be aware this happen you fall into a category called likely to pay on time and without the expensive strong arming by the collections department, so just encase you ever do have a balance past 30 days well they just might make few dollars of you.
They got more then just Names and E-mail address. The address they got probably have a much higher validity rate than other sources. They know which list you were on and can probably do some joins to get figure out if you were on multiple lists.
That makes for some big wins for phising. If I am phishing I and I send you a mail about your Visa card chances are you have one and with a lots of luck you just might fall for it. If I send you a mail about your LL Bean Visa card well not nearly so many people have those and you are probably at least a little more likely to bite fall for it as its very specific and I can customize the thing with your name spelled just as you have it on the account.
I hope someone mods you up. SSL is trying to solve a bigger problem then just CC processing and e-commerce, but that is a really good idea as far handling CC security online. I hope others see it.
Ok great so by doing that you create a huge advantage of incumbency. That would lead to a whole lot of I'm just going to buy it from Amazon because I already trust their certificate, or whatever method you select. That will pretty bar every small site from the retail e-commerce world unless they sell some niche product you can't get anywhere else.
Honestly you don't really need to exchange the entire certificate, Lets assume you have some way of being sure you are talking to correct party out of band, such as on the phone. They could read you just the thumb print of the certificate. You then compare the thumb print and validate the other information on the certificate. Your system checks it matches a CA you trust. If all those things are true you are pretty safe.
In the Comodo case you would be safe because the thumb pints of the fraudulently acquired certs would not match those of the legitimate ones. Its not unreasonable for a Bank to have its customers call in and check a thumb print.
That would also completely break legitimate MITM proxies and such on corporate networks. At least today you can install you private CA certificate and then everything will just work; of course then its up to the people running the proxy to for the organization to decide who to trust.
Conservatives in the White House don't actually correlate with economic ruin at all. In fact some of our greatest economic booms have happened when we had presidents like Ike in office. Regan had arguably good reasons for the policy he pushed at the time, economic warfare with the soviets was preferable to a shooting war though costly probably did not cost much more than a shooting conflict would have. The economic disaster under Nixon was pretty much a direct result of war spending that LBJ got us into, and Nixon just lacked the good sense to get us out of soon enough.
Bush Sr. put us on a trajectory to realize the surpluses we saw under Clinton, Bush raised taxes if you recall even though during the election he said he would not. Clinton and his friends who sadly are still on the Senate Banking committee created the regulatory environment that let Fanny and Freddie get out of control, and pushed people like Greenspan to keep rates so low so long at their funny money printing organization the FED that Banks took stupid stupid risks. Under Bush Jr. There was not much growth but there was no contraction either until the crisis, which I don't think he can really be held to account on.
might not be computer bandwidth. It might be the agents don't have the time to look through all the crackpot submissions and are hopeful the added hurdle of having to actually mail something will be enough to limit the responses from the people who are truly crazy, have the actual solution, or have a useful part of one. As I recall the notes was broken in parts which were circled, that could mean each uses a different key for instance and a partial solution might have solved just one key.
At any rate it sounds like they are getting bombarded with crap in the form of idle speculation and imaginative nonsense.
Um you realize the article is about Apple moving orders away from Japan to AUO which is a Taiwanese company that Apple thinks is in a better position to fill them.
Mind you I am not knocking Apple, if you have a supply who can't deliver why is not your problem you find a new supplier.
Or maybe like a whole lot of men he wants to feel useful and wishes to please his wife. In which case its an entirely emotionally driven behavior rooted in empathy for someone else (his wife), which would be nothing like psychopathy or sociopathy. We don't know and really it does not matter. The results are the same, and I for one think a man should be judged by his actions.
I am not sure its a sound expansion of FTC powers to start conducting privacy audits of companies. If they are going to do it though Google is really the least of my concerns. I'd like to see Financials, Insurers, Cellular Carriers, and Utilities audited more so than Google. Google is going to use the information they have on me to try and market stuff to me and of course there is a risk it could get leaker. Those other guys are all in a position to do things of much greater consequence to my life with that same data and if anything more likely to leak it.
Ok but if you add that exception are you not blindly trusting the remote server is who it says it is? I guess you'll know if the cert changes but then what? Do you have someone at Amazon you can call ask why the cert changed before it expired or if it has really changed? Its not as if there are not plenty of totally legitimate reasons the certificate could change.
I am not saying you are wrong, I am just saying not trusting ANY CAs is not a practical option for most people.
Possibly you only use a small number of sites that you have contacts at, in which case it might be a good answer for you. When I was a Network Admin I always advocated my company and our parterres exchanged self signed certificates out of band whenever web service integrations were built etc. The CAs do a totally inadequate job of identity verification, but I don't know what joe enduser is to do about it other than not participate in any online commerce.
I mean really if you can get, or even just intercept e-mail at say root@,ssladmin@,hostmaster@,webmaster@,etc for your targets domain and determine their tax-id number (really easy) you can get a certificate in their name, from even the best CAs. I should think a low level engineer at just about any ISP could do that to at least his employers own customers without much trouble.
Here is the thing about that half century of use, we are just now reaching the end of life Cycle for many plants. Every plant that is EOLed has to be maintained indefinitely or the spent fuel and lots of hardware have to be shipped to some other storage location which also has to be maintained forever. The shipping part is risky as well.
There is PLENTY of time and OPPORTUNITY for the activities of that first half century to if not kill radically alter the lives of thousands if something goes wrong. When you shutdown a coal plant on the other hand things STOP getting worse, they may not get better but the don't get worse.
I know you are trolling, you stated as much but there are lots of people who misguidedly really think the things you wrote. I swear its like we are living
Atlas Shrugged
.
These people won't be happy until we are all living in Soviet Block style apartment buildings, working when there is work with no real incentive and no hope for bettering our own situation. All in warship of nature or something. If you are going to tell people they can't commute, can't ship goods or whatever you might as well just pass directive 10-289 now while you are at it.
These people are fixed on their desire to see progress stop they reject every solution to our problems except the one that has give up all the industrial progress we have made in the past 300 years. The ironic thing is they call themselves progressive. They don't care that their plan won't support our current population, they claim to be worried about the future but everything they do is about immediacy of today. Yea we can reduce pollution today and by spreading the wealth probably save millions more as well from starvation for while, at the price of everyone starving tomorrow.
I am with you, I try and make sure not one red cent of my mine goes to Sony and I am successful most of the time but not always. More then once I have been out with friends and spontaneously decided to see a film, only later to discover Sony Pictures had a hand in it. I have not been willing to get a smart phone just so I can avoid accidentally seeing their movies.
Supply and demand still apply even in the presence of monopoly. Nobody can restrict demand, supply yes demand no. The only place supply and demand don't work is for highly inelastic products. Gasoline is a good example. Its one of the last things people will stop demanding at any price because they have it to get to work.
if a supplier has nobody to complete with they can charge whatever they like for an inelastic product. In that case the taxes will be passed on directly If you raise taxes on a business and it can't pass the cost on its going to supply less, either now or in the future when it does not reinvest the profits into expansion of production because they are not there any more. If demand continues to grow, ie population expands more people start driving, more people want gasoline then prices will continue to climb slowly, while supply stagnates. The consumer still pays the cost!
There is just no escaping reality here. When you tax you always tax consumption, at least in the ultimate sense. Applying taxes elsewhere is generally pointless. Often it does create distortions which in the short term might be predictable and even useful but long term usually prove undesirable.
Tell me, since you don't come out and say it exactly but your post seems to imply that a public entity could run a Nuclear power station more safely. I don't think this is true because they will be subject to the same fiscal pressure a private corporation is.
Case 1: Chernobyl, was run by a communist government. They cut corners on the desing and materials used to build the plant, and finally on training and staffing to run it. The result was the worst accident in the history of nuclear power generation. Why did they cut corners? Well obviously they wanted to direct those resources elsewhere, it makes not difference whether it was to some officials pocket or to bread for orphans.
Case 2: New Orleans and Katrina. The Army Core of Engineers had informed the city government that the levies needed to be repaired in places and that they needed to be re-enforced and made higher in general. The local government was aware of this for years prior to the disaster. There was not even a project going to complete the work. Why? Because they were spending the tax revenue elsewhere (largely social programs).
If you put a public body in charge of plant maintenance they same thing will happen, managers will always place some perceived need of today over mitigation of some risk in the future. There is always going to be pressure to minimize the cost of operating these plants and its always going to push operation below the margin of safety.
I am big fan of COAL, because we have lots of it! The carbon emissions may or may not be an issue. The science on both sides to this point is so bad its not really worth considering. That said the cautionary principle applies and because we don't know what will happen if we radically alter the carbon cycle we should treed carefully and where is not to economically disruptive try and limit emissions.
Biofuels though are not net carbon emitters. In almost all cases growing them pulls as much carbon out of the atmosphere as burning them puts back. So in the emissions sense they may be a very good alternative. The larger issue when them is efficiency. So far its been a challenge to get more energy out than the input energy to produce the fuel substance, excluding the solar that biofuel really seeks to capture by growing algae/switch grass/soybeans/corn or whatever the biofuel crop du jour might be.
This may not be entirely true for smallish business in niche markets but for every other case it is. Corporations don't pay taxes, even if they write large checks to the IRS. Taxes are simply a cost of doing business and that gets built into the sale prices of the goods or services they offer. Its called supply and demand for a reason, business will offer less supply for a given price depending on their own costs, one of which being their tax liability.
Even if they sell to other business those business will pass the inflated costs on to their customers until it ultimately ends up in a consumer product. Money is fungible that is just the way it is. So lots of us don't really worry much about corporate taxes because we understand it only really makes sense to tax consumption anyway because no matter where you skim the tax monies from ultimately they show up in the final cost of the goods to be consumed.
Liberals like corporate taxes for some reasons despite their usual opposition to sales taxes and other regressive(just/fare) schemes. Any taxes on corporations are effectively the same as levying a sales. I have to think at least some high up in the progressive movement understand that and the truth is these so called friends of the common man actually hate them and just want to keep them in their current socioeconomic place to maintain power.
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And before Obama Care it would have been This is absolutely absurd but you see now I will be subsidizing everyone else's care.
I am single 20 something male. I had enough in the bank that I could use a high deductible policy safely and the policy I have on the private market is really cheap. It only costs about $40 monthly for 3 million in coverage if I need it. In other words its actually an insurance policy. If something unexpected happens I get covered, I don't get regular visits paid for and don't coverage for things like maintenance drugs I don't take. I know as I get older this will no longer be an appropriate policy and I would have purchased something different if my life changed or when I just started getting older. I have to change next year though unless the courts strike down the universal coverage laws, because this plan won't pass muster.
So because I will now be paying for others care I DO WANT SOME SAY in how they live their lives. I was totally against the reform bill and support repeal but now that its here lets run with it. I am a librarian, I wanted everyone to just be responsible for themselves and free to make their own choices. If responsibility for others is going to be forced on me through taxation then I insist I get a voice in decision making so lets all go to ballot box and legislate what people can eat, what sports they can play, and what sort of work they can do without being hit with punitive taxes and fines; LETS JUST MAKE THEM UNDERSTAND ITS THE PRICE OF UNIVERSAL PUBLIC HEALTH CARE while we do it.
This is going to sound cruel and like crazy librarian ranting but I the only reason that anti-education and anti-intellectual thinking persists is because people can get away with it!
If not doing well in school (for a regular person not being disabled or something) doomed one to life of virtual slavery taking any job you can get for any pay someone might be willing to give you and usually not having enough to eat, I suspect few people would waste the opportunity public education affords them. Teenagers are not know for being at the top of the decision making game but even they can be driven by fear. Frankly the idea of being the guy under the bridge after mommy and daddy are gone is much scarier than collecting and unemployment check and watching cable TV half the day.
Most people donâ(TM)t use Algebra II in college, let alone in real life.
Most people must really suck at life then. I mean do they really never build anything? Do they never need to figure out if a business activity will be profitable? Do they not think and dream? What is like to live that way?
I guess you can go most of the time guessing and eyeballing your way through things I certainly do often enough, but Its also nice to know before you break out the plasma cutter, the modifications you are about to make to your car at least work on paper.
Oh they had a reason, his name is Barney Frank and because he was going to make it nearly impossible for them to do it later they were forced to while the gettin was good. Also because you actually ready their correspondence carefully enough to be aware this happen you fall into a category called likely to pay on time and without the expensive strong arming by the collections department, so just encase you ever do have a balance past 30 days well they just might make few dollars of you.
They got more then just Names and E-mail address.
The address they got probably have a much higher validity rate than other sources.
They know which list you were on and can probably do some joins to get figure out if you were on multiple lists.
That makes for some big wins for phising. If I am phishing I and I send you a mail about your Visa card chances are you have one and with a lots of luck you just might fall for it. If I send you a mail about your LL Bean Visa card well not nearly so many people have those and you are probably at least a little more likely to bite fall for it as its very specific and I can customize the thing with your name spelled just as you have it on the account.
I hope someone mods you up. SSL is trying to solve a bigger problem then just CC processing and e-commerce, but that is a really good idea as far handling CC security online. I hope others see it.
Ok great so by doing that you create a huge advantage of incumbency. That would lead to a whole lot of I'm just going to buy it from Amazon because I already trust their certificate, or whatever method you select. That will pretty bar every small site from the retail e-commerce world unless they sell some niche product you can't get anywhere else.
Honestly you don't really need to exchange the entire certificate, Lets assume you have some way of being sure you are talking to correct party out of band, such as on the phone. They could read you just the thumb print of the certificate. You then compare the thumb print and validate the other information on the certificate. Your system checks it matches a CA you trust. If all those things are true you are pretty safe.
In the Comodo case you would be safe because the thumb pints of the fraudulently acquired certs would not match those of the legitimate ones. Its not unreasonable for a Bank to have its customers call in and check a thumb print.
That would also completely break legitimate MITM proxies and such on corporate networks. At least today you can install you private CA certificate and then everything will just work; of course then its up to the people running the proxy to for the organization to decide who to trust.
Conservatives in the White House don't actually correlate with economic ruin at all. In fact some of our greatest economic booms have happened when we had presidents like Ike in office. Regan had arguably good reasons for the policy he pushed at the time, economic warfare with the soviets was preferable to a shooting war though costly probably did not cost much more than a shooting conflict would have. The economic disaster under Nixon was pretty much a direct result of war spending that LBJ got us into, and Nixon just lacked the good sense to get us out of soon enough.
Bush Sr. put us on a trajectory to realize the surpluses we saw under Clinton, Bush raised taxes if you recall even though during the election he said he would not. Clinton and his friends who sadly are still on the Senate Banking committee created the regulatory environment that let Fanny and Freddie get out of control, and pushed people like Greenspan to keep rates so low so long at their funny money printing organization the FED that Banks took stupid stupid risks. Under Bush Jr. There was not much growth but there was no contraction either until the crisis, which I don't think he can really be held to account on.
might not be computer bandwidth. It might be the agents don't have the time to look through all the crackpot submissions and are hopeful the added hurdle of having to actually mail something will be enough to limit the responses from the people who are truly crazy, have the actual solution, or have a useful part of one. As I recall the notes was broken in parts which were circled, that could mean each uses a different key for instance and a partial solution might have solved just one key.
At any rate it sounds like they are getting bombarded with crap in the form of idle speculation and imaginative nonsense.
I got one for using all my mod points today!
Um you realize the article is about Apple moving orders away from Japan to AUO which is a Taiwanese company that Apple thinks is in a better position to fill them.
Mind you I am not knocking Apple, if you have a supply who can't deliver why is not your problem you find a new supplier.
Or maybe like a whole lot of men he wants to feel useful and wishes to please his wife. In which case its an entirely emotionally driven behavior rooted in empathy for someone else (his wife), which would be nothing like psychopathy or sociopathy. We don't know and really it does not matter. The results are the same, and I for one think a man should be judged by his actions.
I am not sure its a sound expansion of FTC powers to start conducting privacy audits of companies. If they are going to do it though Google is really the least of my concerns. I'd like to see Financials, Insurers, Cellular Carriers, and Utilities audited more so than Google. Google is going to use the information they have on me to try and market stuff to me and of course there is a risk it could get leaker. Those other guys are all in a position to do things of much greater consequence to my life with that same data and if anything more likely to leak it.
Ok but if you add that exception are you not blindly trusting the remote server is who it says it is? I guess you'll know if the cert changes but then what? Do you have someone at Amazon you can call ask why the cert changed before it expired or if it has really changed? Its not as if there are not plenty of totally legitimate reasons the certificate could change.
I am not saying you are wrong, I am just saying not trusting ANY CAs is not a practical option for most people.
Possibly you only use a small number of sites that you have contacts at, in which case it might be a good answer for you. When I was a Network Admin I always advocated my company and our parterres exchanged self signed certificates out of band whenever web service integrations were built etc. The CAs do a totally inadequate job of identity verification, but I don't know what joe enduser is to do about it other than not participate in any online commerce.
I mean really if you can get, or even just intercept e-mail at say root@,ssladmin@,hostmaster@,webmaster@,etc for your targets domain and determine their tax-id number (really easy) you can get a certificate in their name, from even the best CAs. I should think a low level engineer at just about any ISP could do that to at least his employers own customers without much trouble.
Here is the thing about that half century of use, we are just now reaching the end of life Cycle for many plants. Every plant that is EOLed has to be maintained indefinitely or the spent fuel and lots of hardware have to be shipped to some other storage location which also has to be maintained forever. The shipping part is risky as well.
There is PLENTY of time and OPPORTUNITY for the activities of that first half century to if not kill radically alter the lives of thousands if something goes wrong. When you shutdown a coal plant on the other hand things STOP getting worse, they may not get better but the don't get worse.
I know you are trolling, you stated as much but there are lots of people who misguidedly really think the things you wrote. I swear its like we are living
.
These people won't be happy until we are all living in Soviet Block style apartment buildings, working when there is work with no real incentive and no hope for bettering our own situation. All in warship of nature or something. If you are going to tell people they can't commute, can't ship goods or whatever you might as well just pass directive 10-289 now while you are at it.
These people are fixed on their desire to see progress stop they reject every solution to our problems except the one that has give up all the industrial progress we have made in the past 300 years. The ironic thing is they call themselves progressive. They don't care that their plan won't support our current population, they claim to be worried about the future but everything they do is about immediacy of today. Yea we can reduce pollution today and by spreading the wealth probably save millions more as well from starvation for while, at the price of everyone starving tomorrow.
I am with you, I try and make sure not one red cent of my mine goes to Sony and I am successful most of the time but not always. More then once I have been out with friends and spontaneously decided to see a film, only later to discover Sony Pictures had a hand in it. I have not been willing to get a smart phone just so I can avoid accidentally seeing their movies.
Supply and demand still apply even in the presence of monopoly. Nobody can restrict demand, supply yes demand no. The only place supply and demand don't work is for highly inelastic products. Gasoline is a good example. Its one of the last things people will stop demanding at any price because they have it to get to work.
if a supplier has nobody to complete with they can charge whatever they like for an inelastic product. In that case the taxes will be passed on directly If you raise taxes on a business and it can't pass the cost on its going to supply less, either now or in the future when it does not reinvest the profits into expansion of production because they are not there any more. If demand continues to grow, ie population expands more people start driving, more people want gasoline then prices will continue to climb slowly, while supply stagnates. The consumer still pays the cost!
There is just no escaping reality here. When you tax you always tax consumption, at least in the ultimate sense. Applying taxes elsewhere is generally pointless. Often it does create distortions which in the short term might be predictable and even useful but long term usually prove undesirable.
Tell me, since you don't come out and say it exactly but your post seems to imply that a public entity could run a Nuclear power station more safely. I don't think this is true because they will be subject to the same fiscal pressure a private corporation is.
Case 1: Chernobyl, was run by a communist government. They cut corners on the desing and materials used to build the plant, and finally on training and staffing to run it. The result was the worst accident in the history of nuclear power generation. Why did they cut corners? Well obviously they wanted to direct those resources elsewhere, it makes not difference whether it was to some officials pocket or to bread for orphans.
Case 2: New Orleans and Katrina. The Army Core of Engineers had informed the city government that the levies needed to be repaired in places and that they needed to be re-enforced and made higher in general. The local government was aware of this for years prior to the disaster. There was not even a project going to complete the work. Why? Because they were spending the tax revenue elsewhere (largely social programs).
If you put a public body in charge of plant maintenance they same thing will happen, managers will always place some perceived need of today over mitigation of some risk in the future. There is always going to be pressure to minimize the cost of operating these plants and its always going to push operation below the margin of safety.
I am big fan of COAL, because we have lots of it! The carbon emissions may or may not be an issue. The science on both sides to this point is so bad its not really worth considering. That said the cautionary principle applies and because we don't know what will happen if we radically alter the carbon cycle we should treed carefully and where is not to economically disruptive try and limit emissions.
Biofuels though are not net carbon emitters. In almost all cases growing them pulls as much carbon out of the atmosphere as burning them puts back. So in the emissions sense they may be a very good alternative. The larger issue when them is efficiency. So far its been a challenge to get more energy out than the input energy to produce the fuel substance, excluding the solar that biofuel really seeks to capture by growing algae/switch grass/soybeans/corn or whatever the biofuel crop du jour might be.
This may not be entirely true for smallish business in niche markets but for every other case it is. Corporations don't pay taxes, even if they write large checks to the IRS. Taxes are simply a cost of doing business and that gets built into the sale prices of the goods or services they offer. Its called supply and demand for a reason, business will offer less supply for a given price depending on their own costs, one of which being their tax liability.
Even if they sell to other business those business will pass the inflated costs on to their customers until it ultimately ends up in a consumer product. Money is fungible that is just the way it is. So lots of us don't really worry much about corporate taxes because we understand it only really makes sense to tax consumption anyway because no matter where you skim the tax monies from ultimately they show up in the final cost of the goods to be consumed.
Liberals like corporate taxes for some reasons despite their usual opposition to sales taxes and other regressive(just/fare) schemes. Any taxes on corporations are effectively the same as levying a sales. I have to think at least some high up in the progressive movement understand that and the truth is these so called friends of the common man actually hate them and just want to keep them in their current socioeconomic place to maintain power.
Single? or Married no children?
By cool stuff... the parent poster was likely talking about things like VMotion, DRS, hotsite replication and other stuff.
Post back when Virtual Box can migrate a VM from one host to another hot without even dropping my SSH session.