You might not care if your amazon purchase of a t-shirt is anonymous, but it might matter for other things (e.g., a donation to an activist organization like the NRA or Planned Parenthood). Once you have tied identifying information to your wallet ID once, you have to assume that association has been shared with everyone.
Contrast that with cash. I can buy groceries with a few $20 bills in my wallet and a saver card that has my name and address and not worry that the other $20 bills in my pocket will carry that same identification information elsewhere.
The implication is that an actor with ill-intent (like the NSA) obtains the CA's private key and uses it to generate certificates of their own for MITM attacks. Any browser that trusts the CA will automatically trust the new certificates, and the user will be none-the-wiser.
This has already happenedseveral times, resulting in browser vendors pushing out updates that removes compromised CAs from their trusted lists.
I want to point out that non-fat and gluten-free have legitimate reasons for existing.
How many people do you know that eat gluten-free foods because they suffer from celiac disease? I know plenty who only do so because they bought into the fad.
Compare that to software engineering. It's really hard to explain how software should actually be constructed without actually doing all the coding yourself. You can set guidelines for people to follow, but writing code isn't really as close to following instructions as following plans for assembling a bridge. There aren't really any low level jobs when it comes to building software. Each and every person writing code on the software project must be basically a software engineer. At best you could have a software engineer review the code written and send it back if it doesn't comply with the specification. But by the time you read the code and verify that it actually fits the spec and executes properly you probably could have written the code yourself. There isn't really any software equivalent of welding the beams together or driving a steamroller.
The mistake you're making is comparing coding to constructing the building. Coding is more like drawing blueprints. The compiler is the construction crew. The early specs/design are more like drawing pictures and building models of the building beforehand.
3) You mean to tell me that they don't already have this?
They do, but it requires they write checks to representatives and senators every decade or two to extend it again. If Disney could get rid of that pesky "limited" word in Article 1, Section 8, they could forego the cost of pretending it isn't de-facto unlimited copyright.
That is part of the Dunning-Kruger effect, exacerbated by the software industry's propensity to follow a Logan's Run-like purging of more experienced developers.
It is perfectly logical that the sheriffs across the USA do not have a master key to everyone's backdoor. If that key got out, the crooks could enter everyones house too. Why is it so hard to see backdoors for computers is just as bad and the same thing?
Remember we live in an era where TSA certified luggage does have master keys, and as one would expect, they were eventually leaked.
Taxes can be one way to moderate that excess, especially when more direct methods are out of fashion, as they are in the US thanks to 50+ years of extensive PR efforts.
To be clear, the US also used heavy taxation at the top end (90% in the top bracket!) in the past. From the Reagan era onward, we have continually decreased the top rates until you get what we have now - a very slightly progressive income tax scheme alongside a capital gains tax rate that ensures the top of the top wealthiest individuals pay less as a percentage of income than the average person does.
Let's not pretend that access to family connections, better schools, and better resources don't have any influence on success. In some cases (e.g., Trump, GWB), they are literally handed success by their families and need only keep it.
That's not to say that all successful people have those advantages, but we are specifically talking about people who were born with them here.
I think most assumed that rather than being backdoored, voting machines were simply half-assed. Hanlon's Razor and all that.
Now, if we could only convince everyone that the voting machines were really slot machines or ATMs, we might not only get more people to vote, but the software would be more secure, too.
In that case, it was decided on the idea that the gathering of metadata provided limited insight to a persons life, and that is no longer the case.
It was never the case, or law enforcement would never have started collecting it in the first place. It was merely a bullshit argument to get around that pesky 4th amendment.
There are vastly more resources going into protecting the 2nd amendment via the NRA than there are going into the ACLU, and there are other amendments (not the least of which is the 4th) which are in more dire trouble right now. Why does the ACLU need to focus on the 2nd?
Mass murder is becoming common because of ISIS. You don't like Newt's ideas.
What are your ideas?
Don't bring us a problem, we have enough of those. Bring us a solution.
The Orlando massacre, while tragic, would have to occur daily to crack the top 5 causes of death. Even then, I'm not sure it would. If you took the combined global death tolls of every terrorist act in the last two decades and condensed them into a single quarter, then put it on repeat, it still wouldn't make the top 5 annual US deaths.
Terrorism is vastly overblown as a threat to any of us. Far more damage is done to our daily lives in the name of stopping terrorism than has ever been done in the name of it.
So, I agree the best solution is not to do nothing - the best solution is to dismantle all the somethings people have done in the last two decades under the guise of protecting us from terrorism.
I have done similar, but with a twist: I have bought used cars with cash from my parents when they wanted to get something newer. I know the condition/history of the car, I get a good deal, and my state waives sales tax when transferring the property to another family member if you fill out the right forms.
Added bonus: since I primarily bike commute to work, I get another 5-10 years out of the car.
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You might not care if your amazon purchase of a t-shirt is anonymous, but it might matter for other things (e.g., a donation to an activist organization like the NRA or Planned Parenthood). Once you have tied identifying information to your wallet ID once, you have to assume that association has been shared with everyone.
Contrast that with cash. I can buy groceries with a few $20 bills in my wallet and a saver card that has my name and address and not worry that the other $20 bills in my pocket will carry that same identification information elsewhere.
The implication is that an actor with ill-intent (like the NSA) obtains the CA's private key and uses it to generate certificates of their own for MITM attacks. Any browser that trusts the CA will automatically trust the new certificates, and the user will be none-the-wiser.
This has already happened several times, resulting in browser vendors pushing out updates that removes compromised CAs from their trusted lists.
I want to point out that non-fat and gluten-free have legitimate reasons for existing.
How many people do you know that eat gluten-free foods because they suffer from celiac disease? I know plenty who only do so because they bought into the fad.
Compare that to software engineering. It's really hard to explain how software should actually be constructed without actually doing all the coding yourself. You can set guidelines for people to follow, but writing code isn't really as close to following instructions as following plans for assembling a bridge. There aren't really any low level jobs when it comes to building software. Each and every person writing code on the software project must be basically a software engineer. At best you could have a software engineer review the code written and send it back if it doesn't comply with the specification. But by the time you read the code and verify that it actually fits the spec and executes properly you probably could have written the code yourself. There isn't really any software equivalent of welding the beams together or driving a steamroller.
The mistake you're making is comparing coding to constructing the building. Coding is more like drawing blueprints. The compiler is the construction crew. The early specs/design are more like drawing pictures and building models of the building beforehand.
3) You mean to tell me that they don't already have this?
They do, but it requires they write checks to representatives and senators every decade or two to extend it again. If Disney could get rid of that pesky "limited" word in Article 1, Section 8, they could forego the cost of pretending it isn't de-facto unlimited copyright.
99% of them are people who try to use the excessive access they've been given to protect their country, which includes their families
And also to keep tabs on love interests, done commonly enough to garner its own official designation.
True, but he does control the branch responsible for law enforcement, and executive actions have not yet been struck down as unconstitutional.
East Germany had it rough for a little bit beyond the mid 40s, too.
That is part of the Dunning-Kruger effect, exacerbated by the software industry's propensity to follow a Logan's Run-like purging of more experienced developers.
1 Not being careful with floats. (Those can totally bite you including using floats when you should have used an int/uint type)
Some developers, when encountering a problem, say "I know, I'll use floating-point numbers!" Now, they have 1.9999999997 problems.
like his idea to start an independent libertarian utopia on an ocean platform.
Would you kindly vote Trump?
I blame XML and other formats that are used for the stupid reason that "we already have XML routines so lets use it for everything"
XML is like violence - if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't using enough of it.
It is perfectly logical that the sheriffs across the USA do not have a master key to everyone's backdoor. If that key got out, the crooks could enter everyones house too. Why is it so hard to see backdoors for computers is just as bad and the same thing?
Remember we live in an era where TSA certified luggage does have master keys, and as one would expect, they were eventually leaked.
Taxes can be one way to moderate that excess, especially when more direct methods are out of fashion, as they are in the US thanks to 50+ years of extensive PR efforts.
To be clear, the US also used heavy taxation at the top end (90% in the top bracket!) in the past. From the Reagan era onward, we have continually decreased the top rates until you get what we have now - a very slightly progressive income tax scheme alongside a capital gains tax rate that ensures the top of the top wealthiest individuals pay less as a percentage of income than the average person does.
Let's not pretend that access to family connections, better schools, and better resources don't have any influence on success. In some cases (e.g., Trump, GWB), they are literally handed success by their families and need only keep it.
That's not to say that all successful people have those advantages, but we are specifically talking about people who were born with them here.
I think most assumed that rather than being backdoored, voting machines were simply half-assed. Hanlon's Razor and all that.
Now, if we could only convince everyone that the voting machines were really slot machines or ATMs, we might not only get more people to vote, but the software would be more secure, too.
Languages without nulls usually solve that problem with option types. Non-existent values get the value None (or some equivalent).
For example, "cloud"'ing things is supposed to make things easier, but is 10 times more expensive and 3 times more time-consuming to deal with.
And significantly more fragile, as Nest and Ecobee3 owners can attest.
How does that effect you?
Most directly - what your neighbor does to their property influences the value of yours.
That certainly doesn't excuse how far some HOA's go, but do not pretend that what happens on your property does not affect others.
In that case, it was decided on the idea that the gathering of metadata provided limited insight to a persons life, and that is no longer the case.
It was never the case, or law enforcement would never have started collecting it in the first place. It was merely a bullshit argument to get around that pesky 4th amendment.
you do not want government involvement at any level for any reason.
The 13th Amendment says hi.
There are vastly more resources going into protecting the 2nd amendment via the NRA than there are going into the ACLU, and there are other amendments (not the least of which is the 4th) which are in more dire trouble right now. Why does the ACLU need to focus on the 2nd?
Mass murder is becoming common because of ISIS. You don't like Newt's ideas.
What are your ideas?
Don't bring us a problem, we have enough of those. Bring us a solution.
The Orlando massacre, while tragic, would have to occur daily to crack the top 5 causes of death. Even then, I'm not sure it would. If you took the combined global death tolls of every terrorist act in the last two decades and condensed them into a single quarter, then put it on repeat, it still wouldn't make the top 5 annual US deaths.
Terrorism is vastly overblown as a threat to any of us. Far more damage is done to our daily lives in the name of stopping terrorism than has ever been done in the name of it.
So, I agree the best solution is not to do nothing - the best solution is to dismantle all the somethings people have done in the last two decades under the guise of protecting us from terrorism.
the droppings smell bad
But apparently they make for great coffee.
I have done similar, but with a twist: I have bought used cars with cash from my parents when they wanted to get something newer. I know the condition/history of the car, I get a good deal, and my state waives sales tax when transferring the property to another family member if you fill out the right forms.
Added bonus: since I primarily bike commute to work, I get another 5-10 years out of the car.