You have no idea how mandated insurance works, do you?
What country has requires insurance cover fro your own losses? Most* western countries mandate coverage for 3rd party losses, but not losses incurred by the car owner.
* Note. Many states in the USA require coverage, but the amount of coverage required is so low that the mandate might as well be removed.
This is baloney. I have mod points every other week and contribute comments, firehose, etc.
Did you consider that your experience may not be typical?
For about a year, maybe more, I always had mod points. Now, I have them very rarely. In my experience, having mod points has very little correlation (positive or negative) with posting, reading or metamod-ing.
The data from the NSA isn't going to be used for those silly trials (where a jury might find somebody not guilty). Instead, we'll use the data to put people on secret lists that will ensure that it is extremely unpleasant for them to...
Why the future tense? How do I know that the data collected by the NSA hasn't already been used to blackmail the politicians who are now the most vocal supporters of the NSA?
It's an open protocol. You send mail to the server, as plaintext, and it's then forwarded through a bunch of other servers, as plaintext, until it gets to it's recipient. This has always been the case. The only thing that's changed in modern times is the chain of servers has gotten a little shorter in most cases.
This is not true any more. You never heard of SMTP-TLS, SMTP with ssl, IMAPS, POP3S, etc? All the relevant protocols support encryption these days and encryption is in routine use. Yes, the servers that process the emails decrypt and access the plain text, but these should be limited to servers that either the sender or the recipient has a contractual relationship with.
Note that the packets that make up an email are forwarded by many routers, but the routers don't access the plaintext of the email.
Perhaps some enterprising jounalist, or the EFF could make some FOIA requests for phone records from the NSA, Whitehouse, etc.. Let the government say that the data is private!
And the Feds might have the power to "regulate" (which means "to keep regular... not to ban or dictate) interstate trade, but that doesn't mean they have authority to tell someone what they can do in their own state, which is what mail-order (and websites) do.
I'm sorry, but that boat sailed away a long time ago. If the feds can control what you grow on your own land for consumption by your own family, or can control your rights to grow your own weed for medicianl purposes, then the effect of the commerce clause is that the feds can tell anyone what they can do in their own state, unless such a law is explicitly prohibited by the constitution.
If the DEA wins, then surely Oregon's database (PDMP) is in violation of HIPAA, which means the database should be shut down, which means that there would no longer be any data for the DEA to collect.
I expect something more on the lines of: "In order to protect our smartphone business, we have purchased a number of patents from Fairfax.... . The terms of the deal include a limited license back of the patents"
Apple are unequivocally NOT "blocking" the use of unauthorized third-party Lightning cables. The summary/title is absolutely 100% bullshit. The article says, and I quote: "Apple will probably shut the door on the usage of [unauthorized third-party Lightning cables] in a future update."
It is you that has the reading/comprehension problem. From the first paragraph of the article:
In a move possibly triggered by stories of deadly electrical shocks coming from Apple iPhone and Apple iPad units, the Cupertino based tech giant is blocking the use of unauthorized third party Lightning cables with iOS 7.
See that: "is blocking"?. Not probably.
Where you quote "probably", you have taken that sentence out of context. Let's put it back in:
There is word going around that some unauthorized cables with cracked chips have been working with iOS 7. Apple will probably shut the door on the usage of the latter in a future update.
"the latter" clearly refers to "some unauthorized cables with cracked chips".
You take the warning "may not work reliably" and extrapolate this to mean: "will probably work". According to this page you cannot actually dismiss the dialog and get the cable to work. Users actually report that cables that used to work with beta releases of IOS7 do not work with the the production release of IOS7. Of course it is possible that with millions of cables in use, some just happened to fail between IOS7 beta and IOS production releases, nevertheless, your claims are not supported by any reports.
So, get off the Apple fanboi train and learn to read.
AND do not login to your email using the same browser you login to LinkedIn with.
I do use the same browser to log into gmail as I use for LinkedIn, yet, LinkedIn has never mined my gmail contacts. LinkedIn keeps nagging me to give it my gmail password so that it can mine my gmail contacts and I nearly did this once because of the less than clear information on the page. So, for the people who are complaining, either:
1. LinkedIn tried using their LinkedIn password against theim email login, or:
2. they misread the LinkedIn page and explicitly gave LinkedIn permission to mine their contacts.
note that option 1 implies that LinkedIn stores clear text passwords, contrary to claims made by LinkedIn in 2012 when some users' passwords were stolen.
Even more: think about who appoints federal judges. Does anyone think that a history of ruling against the government helps appointment to a federal bench?
In what way does that link contradict my statement? I posted that there are programs that can be watched via Hulu on a desktop computer, but not via Hulu on a Roku box.
You got the wrong link from the Hulu site. Try this one
I have to wonder at the thinking of Hulu execs: there are programs available on Hulu if you are using a Desktop computer, but not if you use a Roku box. Why?
The shift in policy is an intentional, if unwritten, strategy intended to keep America a competitive force in the world's economy.
That may have been thhe original intent, but both technology and money have caused it to fail at its intent.
Patents put US-based web/cloud services at a disadvantage.
The effect of many patents is to prevent competition, not to stimulate innovation. In other words, the effect is to concentrate wealth. Money and power have brought about this subversion.
I would like someone to explain why it is illegal to build a product without a license that is patented in the US,if the product is to be exported to a country where the product is not patented? There is no possible advantage to the US economy from this.
A lot of this was unintentional. They made the USPTO run on fees that were charged for patents which gave the USPTO and incentive to rubber stamp patents while not receiving sufficient funding to cover the cost of having patent examiners that could do the investigation that they used to do.
What makes you think that the effects of those changes were unintentional?
So what if it if the design is inspired by a Sci-Fi TV show? Show me that this would have cost way more than some other design had a non-Star Trek fan been responsible for its acquisition.
Do they even need this room? The question is not could it have been designed cheaper, but could the NSA simply not built it?
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What country has requires insurance cover fro your own losses? Most* western countries mandate coverage for 3rd party losses, but not losses incurred by the car owner.
* Note. Many states in the USA require coverage, but the amount of coverage required is so low that the mandate might as well be removed.
Why is it that free market principles don't apply to IT wages? If there is a shortage of IT workers, then salaries should rise.
Did you consider that your experience may not be typical?
For about a year, maybe more, I always had mod points. Now, I have them very rarely. In my experience, having mod points has very little correlation (positive or negative) with posting, reading or metamod-ing.
Why the future tense? How do I know that the data collected by the NSA hasn't already been used to blackmail the politicians who are now the most vocal supporters of the NSA?
Courts don't issue warrants, judges do. The article has a very cogent point.
Mmm, no. A lot of email is encrypted in the paths beween email servers.
This is not true any more. You never heard of SMTP-TLS, SMTP with ssl, IMAPS, POP3S, etc? All the relevant protocols support encryption these days and encryption is in routine use. Yes, the servers that process the emails decrypt and access the plain text, but these should be limited to servers that either the sender or the recipient has a contractual relationship with.
Note that the packets that make up an email are forwarded by many routers, but the routers don't access the plaintext of the email.
Perhaps some enterprising jounalist, or the EFF could make some FOIA requests for phone records from the NSA, Whitehouse, etc.. Let the government say that the data is private!
What's that you say, phone records are private? HYPOCRITE!
I'm sorry, but that boat sailed away a long time ago. If the feds can control what you grow on your own land for consumption by your own family, or can control your rights to grow your own weed for medicianl purposes, then the effect of the commerce clause is that the feds can tell anyone what they can do in their own state, unless such a law is explicitly prohibited by the constitution.
If the DEA wins, then surely Oregon's database (PDMP) is in violation of HIPAA, which means the database should be shut down, which means that there would no longer be any data for the DEA to collect.
So, great work DEA. Shut down a useful database.
I expect something more on the lines of: "In order to protect our smartphone business, we have purchased a number of patents from Fairfax .... . The terms of the deal include a limited license back of the patents"
It is you that has the reading/comprehension problem. From the first paragraph of the article:
See that: "is blocking"?. Not probably.
Where you quote "probably", you have taken that sentence out of context. Let's put it back in:
"the latter" clearly refers to "some unauthorized cables with cracked chips".
You take the warning "may not work reliably" and extrapolate this to mean: "will probably work". According to this page you cannot actually dismiss the dialog and get the cable to work. Users actually report that cables that used to work with beta releases of IOS7 do not work with the the production release of IOS7. Of course it is possible that with millions of cables in use, some just happened to fail between IOS7 beta and IOS production releases, nevertheless, your claims are not supported by any reports.
So, get off the Apple fanboi train and learn to read.
Now what was your point again?
And this annoyed me greatly because my non-US citizen children were required to take part in this when in a state school in the USA.
Which would require clear text storage of LinkedIn passwords. In 2012 when there was a compromise, LinkedIn claimed that they stored an unsalted hash.
I do use the same browser to log into gmail as I use for LinkedIn, yet, LinkedIn has never mined my gmail contacts. LinkedIn keeps nagging me to give it my gmail password so that it can mine my gmail contacts and I nearly did this once because of the less than clear information on the page. So, for the people who are complaining, either:
1. LinkedIn tried using their LinkedIn password against theim email login, or:
2. they misread the LinkedIn page and explicitly gave LinkedIn permission to mine their contacts.
note that option 1 implies that LinkedIn stores clear text passwords, contrary to claims made by LinkedIn in 2012 when some users' passwords were stolen.
Even more: think about who appoints federal judges. Does anyone think that a history of ruling against the government helps appointment to a federal bench?
In what way does that link contradict my statement? I posted that there are programs that can be watched via Hulu on a desktop computer, but not via Hulu on a Roku box.
You got the wrong link from the Hulu site. Try this one
I just got a $60/month reduction on my family plan from T-Mobile before all our contracts are finished.
I have to wonder at the thinking of Hulu execs: there are programs available on Hulu if you are using a Desktop computer, but not if you use a Roku box. Why?
Because some idiot with a poor knowledge of gerography doesn't realize that Dutch is spoken in countries other than the Netherlands?
That may have been thhe original intent, but both technology and money have caused it to fail at its intent.
,if the product is to be exported to a country where the product is not patented? There is no possible advantage to the US economy from this.
Patents put US-based web/cloud services at a disadvantage.
The effect of many patents is to prevent competition, not to stimulate innovation. In other words, the effect is to concentrate wealth. Money and power have brought about this subversion.
I would like someone to explain why it is illegal to build a product without a license that is patented in the US
What makes you think that the effects of those changes were unintentional?
Do they even need this room? The question is not could it have been designed cheaper, but could the NSA simply not built it?