Are fly by wire brakes even legal? It was my understanding that there must always be a mechanical linkage between the brake pedal and the brakes, just to give you a hail mary if your brake booter craps out.
No. For many years, Citroen sold cars with power-brakes -- not power-boosted, but power brakes. If you lost pressure in the pressure reservoir (due to a leak or pump failure), you lost all braking. The Citroen I drove had a big red warning light in the middle of the dash that would light up with the word "STOP" if you lost power in the braking/suspension system -- yes, the same pressure system was used for the suspension, so before you lost the brakes, the car would be riding on the suspension bump-stops. I believe Rolls-Royce used the same systems.
The firm added that it did not believe the RF Safe-Stop posed any risk to people using a pacemaker.
Clearly nothing for those pacemaker-carrying luddites to worry about. I mean, the company that created this can't possbly be wrong in their belief that it won't affect pacemakers.
If you doubt this in any way, go do some research. Go look at the cost of healthcare prior to medicare/medicaid, and then the cost of healthcare afterwards. Even a trivial bit of research will show you the huge spikes in costs. These spikes in cost are a direct result of the command economy approach to price setting in healthcare, and the fact that these rate tables are used as a basic for UNC.
While I don't discount the possiblity of some infuence from Medicare/Medicaid, I think that your argument is an over simplification. Look at just about every other country that provides univesal healthcare, yet costs are far lower.
The biggest problem is that healthcare providers are paid for failure. They bill for every procedure, whether it was necessary or effective. Hospitals with poor hygene can look forward to re-admission of patients (and more billing) with post-operative infections, etc..
You think that's bad? Here's my experience: hospital bill: $22k. The negotiated rate that the hospital received was $1.9k for full payment from the insurance company. That's less than 9% of the original bill. Not 90%: 9%.
The author of that article is a moron. The proposed ordinance it discusses defines "public places" for the purpose of that specific ordinance. It does not change their status as a private place for every other consideration except the smoking ban that the ordinance proposes.
We're talking about this in as of a "right to privacy," and there is no such right in a public place, and a restaurant is considered a public, not private, place, even though it is a private business -- as established by these protected class statutes as well as health-related statutes.
You are so wrong. The owner of a restaurant can deny service to anyone as long as it is not for a set of well-defined but limited reasons (racial discrimination, etc.) as evidenced by widespread rules requiring shirts and shoes in order to be served in many restaurants. The fact that there are health rules does not make it a public place.
If you say when it tells you that it can install a bitcoin miner than it isn't running an unauthorised miner. We can argue all day about the idea that EULAs should mean anything, and we'd probably agree, but the EULA tells users this is what they'll do so it's not unauthorised.
The only problem with that argument is that the EULA misrepresents the purpose of the "calculations" which might invalidate the ELUA:
your computer may do mathematical calculations for our affiliated networks to confirm transactions and increase security
Then again, perhaps you can explain why every other western country and some non-western countries in the world have voter ID laws
This assertion is simply not true. For example in the UK (except Northern Ireland), an ID is not required at the time of voting. Northern Ireland does have a real history of significant voter impersonation, so there is a genuine reason for the ID requirement.
It would be very easy when there is any sort of mismatch to have the voter sign a correction card affirming that they are the person and correcting the voter info. No one is prevented from voting.
Yes it would be easy. So why are the laws not written that way? Because the unwritten purpose of the laws is suppression of legal votes.
Some voter ID laws do give the opportunity to cast a provisional ballot, but then don't give enough time for the voter to obtain the necessary documents to prove that their vote was legal.
I'll wait, but I'm sure it's going to be filled with some form of "you're a racist" comment. Don't forget that it's more common than you think.
If you read more carefully, you will see that I said that the occurance of voter impersonation is approximately zero -- not that it doesn't happen, but that it is actually rare.
As to your second link, that is a problem with voter registrations, not voter ID. People illegally getting onto voter rolls is much more common and is a real problem that is largely unaffected by voter ID rules.
So, now laws that simply require presenting basic personal ID (which everybody would need to have to do almost anything in society) in order to prevent election fraud are now "anti-voting laws"?
LMAO!!
Sounds good in theory, but in practice: people have ID in slightly different names (middle names, etc.), these may not match their voter registration (not allowed to vote). Poor elderly people may not have any form of ID (yes, it happens), etc., etc.. There are lots of reasons why voter ID laws prevent people who should be able to vote from voting.
Meanwhile the occurance of voter impersonation is approximately zero. Yes, these are laws to counteract a problem which simply does not exist. Meanwhile, the real purpose of voter ID laws is to prevent votes.
There are lots of reports of this problem. HR departments screen resumes and in order to screen down to a manageable number, they specify (and match for) very specfic requirements.
Unfortunately, HR departments don't understand the hiring managers' actual requirements, leading to job posting that (for example) specify "x years of experience with Y language" when the language has not existed for x years.
I believe (and I'm not altogether clear whether this is accurate) that Zbot uses C&C domains that are generated programmatically based on the time of day, so CBL have managed to register some of those domains before the real bot owners and therefore set up a honeypot of C&C servers.
Some more googling suggests that the CBL tells you the honeypot IP after listing. If this is true, could you not look in your proxy logs to see what the URLs to the C&C servers look like and block them based on a pattern that matches the part after the domain name?
Also there seems to be something called "ZeuS Tracker" which provides the necessary IP addresses to block.
Remember how undersea cables kept getting broken by anchors? Was the NSA behind this? It could happen in at least 2 ways: 1. Break the cable, the repairer installs interception device. 2. Break the cable, tell the operator that breaks will keep happening unless the operator allows access to its network.
The issue is purely that the smarthost shares the same IP address as the web proxy and the CBL honeypot looks for *HTTP* traffic (which was leaving the network) rather than *SMTP* traffic.
It wasn't clear to me from the article that this was the problem. However, It's still not clear to me that this is the case. You assert that fetching some "spammy" URLs causes the listing, but the folks at CBL don't say what their listing criteria is, so I assume you have some hard evidence and not just suspicions that the fetching of honeypot URLs causes a listing?
From my reading about Zbot, the only URLs it fetches are from C&C servers, so the CBL operators would have to have taken over a Zbot C&C server (or have access to the logs from a someone who has gained control of a C&C server).
We've been having significant problems with the CBL's ill-thought-out policies
I am not sure what is ill-thought-out about their policies. In both scenarios, IP address is sending SPAM. IP address gets blocked. The author (you?) ask for a list of honeypot addresses, but you could be a spammer, who could use that list to delay blocking of the SPAM.
Also, I have not seen a SPAM bot that uses the smarthost. This doesn't mean that they don't exist, but I think that they are rare. Hence blocking direct access to port 25 through the firewall stops most spambots from actually sending spam.
If the spams are relayed through your own smarthosts, then how about some kind of rate-limiting mechanism with alerts to the administrator? Quick action by the admin would prevent listing.
Embarassed the powers that be... They got a hardon for him now.
Question: how can NSA employees travel outside the USA without fear of being arrested for espionage? What did Assange do that the NSA does not do? Spying on the communications of national leaders -- that's not a criminal offense in, for example, Germany?
Or do you believe that all slates are cleaned after jail time is finished?
In many civilized countries, juries don't get to hear about prior convictions, but the prior convictions are relevant to sentencing. So, no, slates are not wiped entirely clean, but juries are not swayed by the existence of a prior record.
and prohibit a person who has committed a first or second degree felony violation of aggravated trafficking in drugs from operating, possessing, or using a vehicle with a hidden compartment.
So the jury get to hear about prior convictions before deciding on the accused person's guilt. Neat!
Winston Groom [writer of "Forrest Gump"] was only made whole because he had you guys over a barrel: you couldn't make the sequel without his blessing, and he had been burned by the original movie.
At this point, any agent who recommends that his client accepts a contract that promises a percentage of the net profits should be dismissed immediately (as incompetent), or perhaps sued for not acting in his/her client's best interests.
You can also compartmentalise subscriptions with + in the email address.
I think spammers are smart enough to evade that trick.
You might think so, but many are not. In fact, the + often breaks the scripts or programs used by spammers -- my mailserver receives emails to addresses that are created by taking "<myname>+" off the local part of the address leaving only what was after the "+".
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A law with vague descriptions of actions that will be illegal. Perfect for use against those non-conformists when used capriciously.
No. For many years, Citroen sold cars with power-brakes -- not power-boosted, but power brakes. If you lost pressure in the pressure reservoir (due to a leak or pump failure), you lost all braking. The Citroen I drove had a big red warning light in the middle of the dash that would light up with the word "STOP" if you lost power in the braking/suspension system -- yes, the same pressure system was used for the suspension, so before you lost the brakes, the car would be riding on the suspension bump-stops. I believe Rolls-Royce used the same systems.
Clearly nothing for those pacemaker-carrying luddites to worry about. I mean, the company that created this can't possbly be wrong in their belief that it won't affect pacemakers.
While I don't discount the possiblity of some infuence from Medicare/Medicaid, I think that your argument is an over simplification. Look at just about every other country that provides univesal healthcare, yet costs are far lower.
The biggest problem is that healthcare providers are paid for failure. They bill for every procedure, whether it was necessary or effective. Hospitals with poor hygene can look forward to re-admission of patients (and more billing) with post-operative infections, etc..
Citation? Because you are absolutely wrong. Every business has the right to deny access to people, as long as it isn't illegal discrimination.
According to you, casinos in Las Vegas don't have the right to refuse entry to anyone. Really?
According to you, restaurants don't have the right to refuse service to people who don't meet their dress code. Really?
I let some people into my house, but I don't have a "private residence" sign. According to you, I have to let everyone in. Really?
You think that's bad? Here's my experience: hospital bill: $22k. The negotiated rate that the hospital received was $1.9k for full payment from the insurance company. That's less than 9% of the original bill. Not 90%: 9%.
The author of that article is a moron. The proposed ordinance it discusses defines "public places" for the purpose of that specific ordinance. It does not change their status as a private place for every other consideration except the smoking ban that the ordinance proposes.
You are so wrong. The owner of a restaurant can deny service to anyone as long as it is not for a set of well-defined but limited reasons (racial discrimination, etc.) as evidenced by widespread rules requiring shirts and shoes in order to be served in many restaurants. The fact that there are health rules does not make it a public place.
The only problem with that argument is that the EULA misrepresents the purpose of the "calculations" which might invalidate the ELUA:
This assertion is simply not true. For example in the UK (except Northern Ireland), an ID is not required at the time of voting. Northern Ireland does have a real history of significant voter impersonation, so there is a genuine reason for the ID requirement.
Yes it would be easy. So why are the laws not written that way? Because the unwritten purpose of the laws is suppression of legal votes.
Some voter ID laws do give the opportunity to cast a provisional ballot, but then don't give enough time for the voter to obtain the necessary documents to prove that their vote was legal.
If you read more carefully, you will see that I said that the occurance of voter impersonation is approximately zero -- not that it doesn't happen, but that it is actually rare.
As to your second link, that is a problem with voter registrations, not voter ID. People illegally getting onto voter rolls is much more common and is a real problem that is largely unaffected by voter ID rules.
Sounds good in theory, but in practice: people have ID in slightly different names (middle names, etc.), these may not match their voter registration (not allowed to vote). Poor elderly people may not have any form of ID (yes, it happens), etc., etc.. There are lots of reasons why voter ID laws prevent people who should be able to vote from voting.
Meanwhile the occurance of voter impersonation is approximately zero. Yes, these are laws to counteract a problem which simply does not exist. Meanwhile, the real purpose of voter ID laws is to prevent votes.
Your "LMAO" comes from ignorance on your part.
There are lots of reports of this problem. HR departments screen resumes and in order to screen down to a manageable number, they specify (and match for) very specfic requirements.
Unfortunately, HR departments don't understand the hiring managers' actual requirements, leading to job posting that (for example) specify "x years of experience with Y language" when the language has not existed for x years.
Even more.... the ZeuS Tracker web pages include information on how to use the C&C server lists in Squid.
Some more googling suggests that the CBL tells you the honeypot IP after listing. If this is true, could you not look in your proxy logs to see what the URLs to the C&C servers look like and block them based on a pattern that matches the part after the domain name?
Also there seems to be something called "ZeuS Tracker" which provides the necessary IP addresses to block.
Remember how undersea cables kept getting broken by anchors? Was the NSA behind this? It could happen in at least 2 ways:
1. Break the cable, the repairer installs interception device.
2. Break the cable, tell the operator that breaks will keep happening unless the operator allows access to its network.
It wasn't clear to me from the article that this was the problem. However, It's still not clear to me that this is the case. You assert that fetching some "spammy" URLs causes the listing, but the folks at CBL don't say what their listing criteria is, so I assume you have some hard evidence and not just suspicions that the fetching of honeypot URLs causes a listing?
From my reading about Zbot, the only URLs it fetches are from C&C servers, so the CBL operators would have to have taken over a Zbot C&C server (or have access to the logs from a someone who has gained control of a C&C server).
I am not sure what is ill-thought-out about their policies. In both scenarios, IP address is sending SPAM. IP address gets blocked. The author (you?) ask for a list of honeypot addresses, but you could be a spammer, who could use that list to delay blocking of the SPAM.
Also, I have not seen a SPAM bot that uses the smarthost. This doesn't mean that they don't exist, but I think that they are rare. Hence blocking direct access to port 25 through the firewall stops most spambots from actually sending spam.
If the spams are relayed through your own smarthosts, then how about some kind of rate-limiting mechanism with alerts to the administrator? Quick action by the admin would prevent listing.
Question: how can NSA employees travel outside the USA without fear of being arrested for espionage? What did Assange do that the NSA does not do? Spying on the communications of national leaders -- that's not a criminal offense in, for example, Germany?
T-Mobile USA effectively gives such a discount, because "unlocked" also means that the phone is "unsubsidized".
In many civilized countries, juries don't get to hear about prior convictions, but the prior convictions are relevant to sentencing. So, no, slates are not wiped entirely clean, but juries are not swayed by the existence of a prior record.
So the jury get to hear about prior convictions before deciding on the accused person's guilt. Neat!
At this point, any agent who recommends that his client accepts a contract that promises a percentage of the net profits should be dismissed immediately (as incompetent), or perhaps sued for not acting in his/her client's best interests.
You might think so, but many are not. In fact, the + often breaks the scripts or programs used by spammers -- my mailserver receives emails to addresses that are created by taking "<myname>+" off the local part of the address leaving only what was after the "+".