First, credit card fraud or theft is not the same thing as identity theft, (even though the credit card banks have tried to spin it that way.)
True identity theft is when somebody opens new accounts using your identity, obtained using surreptitious means.
Now having said that, isn't the fault really with the credit issuers for making it too simple for credit to be obtained fraudulently? Why should it fall back on the poor, unsuspecting consumer, when the credit issuers are really to blame?
A very interesting theory. However, in this case, practice certainly trumps theory. Does CAPS claim to have caused the capture of any terrorists. It certainly has been in place long enough that it should have by now.
Between that and cops using Blackberries to tap into commercial databases about you (see CNN today), Big Brother isn't coming, he's already here, and he's a bad-a** m-f
Jim
" But, in the broader picture, why are American jobs more important than foreign jobs? Are American lives intrinsically more important than say, Iraqi lives? Are Americans the "chosen people" living in the Promised Land by a divine right conferred on them by God? Maybe Lord Krisna made the same promises to his followers..."
No, but if an American corporation is employing foreign workers just to fatten their bottom line, then displaced American workers have a right to be incensed. If it were an Indian company buying cheaper labour from the Philippines, the Indian workers would probably feel the same.
If we were talking hard manufactured product, there would be appropriate tariffs in place to protect the American worker. Virtually every developed country has this system in place.
What's even worse is that this often involves government contracts or sub-contracts so we are paying taxes to take our own jobs away! I just heard the CT Senator Chris Dodd is going to introduce legislation to at least restrict the government contracts, but with the Republican controlled Congress and Administration, I doubt that it has a hope in hell of passing.
Part of what makes Microsoft who they are is their long-term straegic scheming. (Remember that Bill Gates already thinks that he invented and owns the Internet. He won't rest until his lawyers report back that the conquest is complete.)
Anyway, for the topic at hand, here's my cut. "If spam is outlawed (by Microsoft's lawsuits), only Microsoft will be able to send spam". Can you imagine how much richer they will become if they corner the entire global market on spam?
Call me cynical, but I'll bet that's where they are headed. It may take 5 years, it may take ten, but Uncle Bill will be able to buy the entire world with his riches.
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True identity theft is when somebody opens new accounts using your identity, obtained using surreptitious means.
Now having said that, isn't the fault really with the credit issuers for making it too simple for credit to be obtained fraudulently? Why should it fall back on the poor, unsuspecting consumer, when the credit issuers are really to blame?
A very interesting theory. However, in this case, practice certainly trumps theory. Does CAPS claim to have caused the capture of any terrorists. It certainly has been in place long enough that it should have by now.
Between that and cops using Blackberries to tap into commercial databases about you (see CNN today), Big Brother isn't coming, he's already here, and he's a bad-a** m-f Jim
" But, in the broader picture, why are American jobs more important than foreign jobs? Are American lives intrinsically more important than say, Iraqi lives? Are Americans the "chosen people" living in the Promised Land by a divine right conferred on them by God? Maybe Lord Krisna made the same promises to his followers..."
No, but if an American corporation is employing foreign workers just to fatten their bottom line, then displaced American workers have a right to be incensed. If it were an Indian company buying cheaper labour from the Philippines, the Indian workers would probably feel the same.
If we were talking hard manufactured product, there would be appropriate tariffs in place to protect the American worker. Virtually every developed country has this system in place.
What's even worse is that this often involves government contracts or sub-contracts so we are paying taxes to take our own jobs away! I just heard the CT Senator Chris Dodd is going to introduce legislation to at least restrict the government contracts, but with the Republican controlled Congress and Administration, I doubt that it has a hope in hell of passing.
J
Part of what makes Microsoft who they are is their long-term straegic scheming. (Remember that Bill Gates already thinks that he invented and owns the Internet. He won't rest until his lawyers report back that the conquest is complete.) Anyway, for the topic at hand, here's my cut. "If spam is outlawed (by Microsoft's lawsuits), only Microsoft will be able to send spam". Can you imagine how much richer they will become if they corner the entire global market on spam? Call me cynical, but I'll bet that's where they are headed. It may take 5 years, it may take ten, but Uncle Bill will be able to buy the entire world with his riches.