You started to touch one the one thing that has changed that matters, IMO. And that's largely a policy change.
We used to operate under the assumption that would-be hijackers wanted political attention and/or money. Now we operate under the assumption they are willing to die if it means inflicting more casualties. This means we will never again open the [now reinforced] cockpit doors in any circumstances when there is a hostile scenario in the cabin.
So all of this talk about box-cutters and other mythical impromptu melee weapons is a false dilemma. This is no longer a viable threat. Virtually all threats to be considered at this point are ones capable of causing harm to a large number of passengers in the passenger cabin (firearms), or causing the plane to crash (explosives). There are of course fringe cases, but all things must be a balance of convenience/accessibility and security.
I know you couldn't be referring to our legal immigration policies, as we are the most welcoming country in the world in terms of gaining citizenship. We accept more immigrants as permanent residents than any other country in the world - over a million in 2008.
Imagine how many more we could let in if illegals weren't jumping the line because they don't respect our laws?
Ah. I look forward to 120 minutes of Nicolas Cage solving puzzles to determine that we actually built the Panama Canal as an eventual southern border for Los Estados Unidos.
Ah, so you're the asshole at the cable company who tries to get me to unplug my cable modem from the wall for 30 seconds when their DHCP server is down and I tell them so.
They have allegedly suffered many problems with internal security issues, simply due to the scale of their workforce. Whether through malice, ignorance, or simply bad luck - when you have 390,000 "targets" something will eventually go wrong.
Simply a 1 in 10,000 employee incident ratio for the lifetime of this database would mean 39 breaches..
The difference is that regardless of how much an asshole someone else is there is never an excuse to anything but polite in return. This is especially true with people who are doing their job.
In other words, you let everyone walk all over you.
In some states, an adult is legally required to provide ID to any cop who asks - it's actually illegal to walk down the street without a driver's license (or non-driver's ID).
Citation needed? I'm unaware of any state with such a law. And don't just name a state, please link to a law and/or the enforcement of said law.
What do we do to protect the police from rantings of ignorant bloggers who are pissed off because they got caught breaking the law in the past and can't except the results?
Damn that pesky first amendment! If it wasn't for you meddling bill of rights!
Now that you're on your ~tenth comment on this story along the same lines, it's pretty obvious that you're probably the type of cop that makes the us loathe all of you. That isn't fair to your innocent fellow officers.
Take your power trips to a nice fast food joint as the shift manager where you belong.
A quick trip to Wikipedia tells me that Entropia predates Second Life by more than 6 months. And as far as I know, their underlying model has always been based on real money, just like Second Life's.
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Damn that terribly dynamic terrain in the middle of the Atlantic! If only we had a system for measuring the high above the level of the "sea."
My voice is my passport; verify me.
You started to touch one the one thing that has changed that matters, IMO. And that's largely a policy change.
We used to operate under the assumption that would-be hijackers wanted political attention and/or money. Now we operate under the assumption they are willing to die if it means inflicting more casualties. This means we will never again open the [now reinforced] cockpit doors in any circumstances when there is a hostile scenario in the cabin.
So all of this talk about box-cutters and other mythical impromptu melee weapons is a false dilemma. This is no longer a viable threat. Virtually all threats to be considered at this point are ones capable of causing harm to a large number of passengers in the passenger cabin (firearms), or causing the plane to crash (explosives). There are of course fringe cases, but all things must be a balance of convenience/accessibility and security.
Can I sign up for your newsletter? I regret I have no mod points to give.
The economic and racist war on immigration?
How is deterring _illegal_ immigration racist?
I know you couldn't be referring to our legal immigration policies, as we are the most welcoming country in the world in terms of gaining citizenship. We accept more immigrants as permanent residents than any other country in the world - over a million in 2008.
Imagine how many more we could let in if illegals weren't jumping the line because they don't respect our laws?
Ah. I look forward to 120 minutes of Nicolas Cage solving puzzles to determine that we actually built the Panama Canal as an eventual southern border for Los Estados Unidos.
I am, for having subjected myself to the entirety of that summary.
tl;sr
Ah, so you're the asshole at the cable company who tries to get me to unplug my cable modem from the wall for 30 seconds when their DHCP server is down and I tell them so.
It really sucks that the whole world is ruled under English law..
Let's try another route.
The number of IBM worldwide employees is coincidentally also approximately 390,000.
They have allegedly suffered many problems with internal security issues, simply due to the scale of their workforce. Whether through malice, ignorance, or simply bad luck - when you have 390,000 "targets" something will eventually go wrong.
Simply a 1 in 10,000 employee incident ratio for the lifetime of this database would mean 39 breaches..
From the estimates I could find, the adult population of England is about 38 million.
This means more than 1% of the population has access to this database? Is that really necessary?
Mod -1, linking to wikia.
That doesn't work. But a simple blood test would work as a control.
The difference is that regardless of how much an asshole someone else is there is never an excuse to anything but polite in return. This is especially true with people who are doing their job.
In other words, you let everyone walk all over you.
In some states, an adult is legally required to provide ID to any cop who asks - it's actually illegal to walk down the street without a driver's license (or non-driver's ID).
Citation needed? I'm unaware of any state with such a law. And don't just name a state, please link to a law and/or the enforcement of said law.
You may want to get outside and tone the nerd-rage down some.
(don't buy a new ipod, before buying a printer check here or call me, etc.)
Sounds like it's ready for regular desktop usage to me!
I realize that's Apple and printer manufacturers' fault, but users don't care *why* something doesn't work.
What do we do to protect the police from rantings of ignorant bloggers who are pissed off because they got caught breaking the law in the past and can't except the results?
Damn that pesky first amendment! If it wasn't for you meddling bill of rights!
Now that you're on your ~tenth comment on this story along the same lines, it's pretty obvious that you're probably the type of cop that makes the us loathe all of you. That isn't fair to your innocent fellow officers.
Take your power trips to a nice fast food joint as the shift manager where you belong.
Fortunately, Antarctica is too big to fail - rest assured our representatives are hard at work on crafting a bailout.
until I inadvertently have myself logged in when visiting one of those cookie catcher sites
I do not think the web works the way you think it works.
PageRank (tm), et al. - none.
That said, Google does place a lot of value in determining the relevance of a page/URL on its' keyword contents (and/or lack thereof.)
but I assumed that such automated attacks were natively difficult on linux?
You assumed wrong. Incompetent configuration is cross-platform.
The fingers-in-the-ears-going-la-la-la tactic seems to be the standard approach for a lot of people.
That's RMS' fault.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf
A quick trip to Wikipedia tells me that Entropia predates Second Life by more than 6 months. And as far as I know, their underlying model has always been based on real money, just like Second Life's.