I think that a lot of them, mainly by happenstance, just aren't interested in that kind of job. It's like asking why most men aren't interested in interior design.
Men and women have differently wired brains, more news at 11.
Anyways why is it such a "social problem" that they aren't interested? And I don't think that forcing them to be interested is a good idea either. That is like introducing programs to make more white people interested in hip-hop.
In the end you're still voting for a candidate that will harm you. Further, the more people who vote for them the more their office is legitimized.
This current president is a huge joke, but he's very much legitimate because people voted for him, even if they don't like him.
Honestly I'm not even bothering with the elections anymore. It's pretty much just a new form of strange entertainment, similar to most people's interest in the sex offender registries.
I think a more meaningful ballot is probably the one that comes around now and then where you vote for whether or not the Trix rabbit can finally have some of his much sought after kids cereal. At least in that ballot, people actually are honest with themselves about their voting choice.
You misunderstand. You don't have to sell your assets or anything; they tax you on what you have as if you have sold it right then and there, even without you actually doing so. They could very well be taxing you on money that you don't even have. Suppose you owned a house in France that was worth $500,000 at the time you expatriated (not even necessarily have it paid off, just had a loan on it and *technically* it was yours) that's about $150,000 you now owe the IRS. Don't have the cash to pay that off? Then you must sell something quick, because if you don't pay it off right away then the US will have you extradited and sent to prison, because that law assumes that if you have X amount of assets and renounce your citizenship, then you did it for the purpose of evading taxes.
They quite literally tax you for money or even income that you may not even have. Furthermore, you're also subject to US taxation for a full TEN YEARS after you've renounced your citizenship.
I'm still trying to figure out how it's bad when during earths periods of the highest biodiversity and quite literally greenest periods ever, the carbom PPM was 20 times as high as it is now. The climate was much warmer as well, and we had extremely large macro scale life (dinosaurs, very large dragonflies and mosquitos, etc.)
I keep hearing that if the carbon PPM gets too high, the oceans will acidify and/or evaporate. So why the fuck didn't that happen 100 million years ago? The earth was 8C warmer, never mind the 1C warmer people are fearing now, and yet life seemed to be doing pretty damn good at the time.
It seems that most of all of that "green"neess died some time during the cooling off, and left behind all of this oil in its place that we're now sticking in our gas tanks.
Yuck...I mean just coming from the perspective of being a network guy (I don't do programming at all) it seems rather strange to me to do it that way given that it has to involve thinking along the OSI model, which has existed since...the 80's I think?
I can accept the fact that the DS games were just intended to play on DS hardware and that would be that, but they couldn't have expected the network stack to stay the same forever, not to mention if things break somewhere how on earth do they update it?
I mean some basic stuff like: Do you have to enter your wifi password per game, and the game cartridge stores it? (Would be really lame to have one copy of your credentials for every one of those little games you own lying around.) And what happens if a hardcoded domain name is stolen? IPv6 was finalized in 1998 (though we've seen some revision since then) however I suspect they never added support for it.
That might be well worth it though. Take a few things into consideration here:
- Of all people, they sold it to Lenovo, who has been rather disruptive in the PC making industry; not an easy thing to do even when they first started. Remember, they took the hardware division from IBM that was doing so-so at best, crappy at worst. - Lenovo wanted to get into the mobile business before buying Moto. If I were to guess, they came to Google on this one rather than Google coming to them (there wasn't any rumors of "motorola for sale" that I recall...maybe I'm wrong here.) - Lenovo going into the mobile business with Android is a VERY GOOD THING for Google and Android in general. Think about it: The more OEM's you have pushing Android, the better, especially if they can take some of the market share away from Samsung, which I think they are probably the most well positioned OEM to do so.
I really doubt that would be the case. Every warm period in history hasn't been full of droughts, floods, and famine; usually quite the opposite. Almost every warm period in history has also had the highest biodiversity.
Nintendo 3DS also uses b when running DS games that aren't enhanced for the DSi.
Why on earth would they do that? Does the game talk directly with the wifi hardware or something? If so, I guess that would...sort of...make sense, but then I'd have to ask: Haven't they heard of a network stack to separate the two?
Or even 802.11b. Maybe if you got REALLY lucky you'd find a palm pilot that uses it. I can't recall the last time I owned a b device, I think it was a PCMCIA card for adding wifi to laptops that had them.
Brother laser printers are actually pretty damn good. Not only are they cheap, but the drivers *work* without installing a bunch of shit along with them. Not only that but I have an 8 year old printer that they stopped selling about 5 years ago and they still provide updated drivers for new versions of Windows and Linux.
Eric Holder is still trying to find a means of punishing a guy who was already found not guilty by a jury of his peers (Zimmerman,) I don't think he'd offer anything better to Snowden.
Wait, are you telling me that people who believe in global warming aren't just trying to profit from global disaster?
I think that's actually where Al Gore gets a lot of his money from. Selling books and movies, and selling carbon indulgences. I'm sure he's not the only one either.
The flaw in Godwin's law, for those who use it to try to claim a victory in their argument, is that the longer the discussion takes place, the probability of a comparison involving approaches 1.
Often times these comparisons are valid. It's only when they're not valid that you've lost the argument (e.g. just accusing somebody of being a nazi, a racist, etc. when they aren't anything close to that.)
Hmm not exactly. You still run copper alongside fiber - you need it mainly to power the repeaters, but on some fiber runs you also want it to encase the fiber line in a copper shielding to protect it while still being a little bit flexible. And copper does carry all of those drawbacks no matter what (though EMI is much easier to correct for.) In addition to that, in urban settings, you're more likely to run into people digging holes in seemingly arbitrary spots to say...put up a mailbox, fence post, etc. Digging tools and already laid fiber lines don't mix.
Of course, you can run these along power lines, but you still want the repeaters to be off of the grid, or at least have access to their own grid in case the main one falls (communication is pretty important during disasters.)
That would work, though I think 256-bit might be unnecessary. The reason you can have GUID collisions is because GUID (as per the name) assumes globally unique, as in these are numbers that everybody has to share as an identity for every possible thing, from filesystems to a can of beans.
This number is only important to that one card though, which is good for maybe 3 years before it has to be replaced (just like we already do with existing cards.) If the same random number gets used a second time in a different transaction for a different card, then that won't be a problem. That rule still applies for getting the same random number on a card that replaced the older card for the same account.
It's practically (emphasis on the word practical) impossible that you'll see the same random number twice, even if you did one transaction per second for those entire three years. By that I mean, you'd have a much better chance at winning the lottery than seeing that happen.
There are a few reasons you'd not want to make the numbers too large. For one, I think you'd want to put this random number on a receipt (in a hex code format resembling an IPv6 address) that way the customer is issued at least some form of proof of the transaction so that the merchant can't repudiate it. The signed result that your card gives them is so that your card can't repudiate (but you can if they can't prove it was you who held the card at the time; ways of proving it was you is e.g. security cameras seeing your car, your clothing, or even your face if they are high enough resolution.)
With a system like I described, you can keep the entire identifier number in your database. In fact, you'd probably want to. That number is useless to any hackers though, and the authentication result is only useful to the merchant you presented the card to. There would be no reason anywhere ever for another merchant to use that number. If they did use it, a red flag would show up at the bank as soon as they tried to bill the account, and they'd have a whole lot of 'splainin to do.
I haven't read much on EMV, but from what I heard it just encrypts the account number, but the account number alone is still stored in a merchant database somewhere and can be reused (and doesn't feature non-repudiation.)
This is kind of why I give him the nickname Richard Marx Stalin. Basically his idea is that nothing can be free unless it fits his idea of freedom, which in itself kind of negates the meaning of the word free (liberty.) Much like the historical figures depicted, their ideas of freedom required sacrificing other areas of your life in order to meet their definition, which is just paradoxical.
In general I'm supportive of the idea that releasing the source changes is required, but in the end the code belongs to whoever the original author is, and if they don't want to add that caveat, then they shouldn't be required to. Why RMS is so against that yet claims to be pro freedom, I'll never understand.
Could be...for Valve, though that's not a bad thing. I'm not even angry; I'm being so sincere right now.
If the debian developers were more interested in something consumer focused like games, then Linux could have a better chance at entering the consumer space (whereas right now it is mostly enterprise focused.) Free games that work with the thing you created isn't a bad way to attract that.
The terms of using the Android trademark require that you can't distribute any kind of fork of Android. This is why Amazon makes sure to NEVER use the word Android anywhere on its products, nor can they ever have anything to do with the Play store.
Android the OS itself is still very much open, but the Android trademark isn't (nor is any trademark for that matter - the whole point of a trademark is to be exclusive rather than open.)
Even if you take every security precaution imaginable, you still remain with a system that can be broken into. I think the idea that you can hold companies criminally liable is a stupid one (and am glad they don't do it) much in the same way that it would be stupid to hold a bank criminally liable in the event of an armed heist.
That said, I think the problem isn't that our systems aren't secure enough, rather the problem is that the way we identify and authenticate is now inadequate.
Let's take credit cards for example: All the person needs to obtain is the numbers written on it, and they can buy things in your name. Unfortunately that means each time you make a purchase with that card, you are handing it over to somebody who can abuse it. We have the technology to avoid this, so why don't we? Something like this would be great:
Make the credit card number be a public key, and the private key is contained ONLY in the card itself using ISO 7816. The bank doesn't even have the private key, only the card itself does. If you want to make a purchase, the merchant generates a random 128-bit number and asks your card to sign it. If it signs it, it has proven its identity, and the merchant can go ahead and bill that card. No internet communication is necessary, so the business can still operate even in the event of a network outage.
If the card is stolen, it can be reported and the merchant can see that its stolen so long as they have network connectivity. Keep existing laws so that the consumer is only liable for up to $50 (most banks already waive that to zero.) Require the merchant to retain the original 128-bit number as well as the signed response to verify that the merchant actually saw the real card and can prove that they didn't fraudulently bill a customer. The card itself stores each 128-bit number and doesn't ever sign the same number twice. If the same 128-bit number happens to be generated twice (this borders upon a statistical impossibility, by the way) then the card is to interpret that as a hack attempt and zero out its private key.
Now if the merchants database is compromised, all the attacker has gained is the public key. They can't sign messages with that, so the information is useless. If another merchant tries to bill based on having a stolen 128-bit number, signed result, and public key, then they'll be caught as being linked to the conspiracy so fast that it'll make their head spin off of its shoulders.
There, you've just defeated about 99.99% of the credit card fraud out there; no more posts spammed to your favorite web boards of people offering to sell credit cards because that information is now useless. All that remains is somebody physically stealing your card and buying gas with it, which could be prevented in 90% of the cases with a PIN system.
Online purchases could easily be done with a $10 USB smart card reader. Add NFC support and your existing smartphone could be the reader.
Set up a similar scheme with social security numbers (the SSA issues smart cards instead,) and identity theft would only exist in stories you tell to your grandkids.
If you think that's bad, just wait til their wish comes true and those companies actually leave.
Remember Detroit? Yeah well they were kind of hostile against the auto companies (mainly in the form of unions and legislation pricing themselves out of the market,) and then people wonder why Detroit is in the mess it is in now.
My credit union does free checking, and my bank has a deal where there's no minimum balance, but if you have at least $1,000 in it they'll pay you interest (USAA).
I must be grandfathered....I haven't had a steady income in years, yet I'm a huge credit card user. In fact two weeks ago somebody from another state tried to use my credit card information at seniorpeoplemeet.com and so I had to close the account and wait for them to send me a new card (I'm guessing some merchant had their database compromised.) Being used to living cashless for all of these years sucks when your only means of payment is gone for a week.
I use the credit card for literally everything, yet I also pay it off long before it is due so that I never pay interest either.
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I think that a lot of them, mainly by happenstance, just aren't interested in that kind of job. It's like asking why most men aren't interested in interior design.
Men and women have differently wired brains, more news at 11.
Anyways why is it such a "social problem" that they aren't interested? And I don't think that forcing them to be interested is a good idea either. That is like introducing programs to make more white people interested in hip-hop.
In the end you're still voting for a candidate that will harm you. Further, the more people who vote for them the more their office is legitimized.
This current president is a huge joke, but he's very much legitimate because people voted for him, even if they don't like him.
Honestly I'm not even bothering with the elections anymore. It's pretty much just a new form of strange entertainment, similar to most people's interest in the sex offender registries.
I think a more meaningful ballot is probably the one that comes around now and then where you vote for whether or not the Trix rabbit can finally have some of his much sought after kids cereal. At least in that ballot, people actually are honest with themselves about their voting choice.
You misunderstand. You don't have to sell your assets or anything; they tax you on what you have as if you have sold it right then and there, even without you actually doing so. They could very well be taxing you on money that you don't even have. Suppose you owned a house in France that was worth $500,000 at the time you expatriated (not even necessarily have it paid off, just had a loan on it and *technically* it was yours) that's about $150,000 you now owe the IRS. Don't have the cash to pay that off? Then you must sell something quick, because if you don't pay it off right away then the US will have you extradited and sent to prison, because that law assumes that if you have X amount of assets and renounce your citizenship, then you did it for the purpose of evading taxes.
They quite literally tax you for money or even income that you may not even have. Furthermore, you're also subject to US taxation for a full TEN YEARS after you've renounced your citizenship.
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I'm still trying to figure out how it's bad when during earths periods of the highest biodiversity and quite literally greenest periods ever, the carbom PPM was 20 times as high as it is now. The climate was much warmer as well, and we had extremely large macro scale life (dinosaurs, very large dragonflies and mosquitos, etc.)
I keep hearing that if the carbon PPM gets too high, the oceans will acidify and/or evaporate. So why the fuck didn't that happen 100 million years ago? The earth was 8C warmer, never mind the 1C warmer people are fearing now, and yet life seemed to be doing pretty damn good at the time.
It seems that most of all of that "green"neess died some time during the cooling off, and left behind all of this oil in its place that we're now sticking in our gas tanks.
Yuck...I mean just coming from the perspective of being a network guy (I don't do programming at all) it seems rather strange to me to do it that way given that it has to involve thinking along the OSI model, which has existed since...the 80's I think?
I can accept the fact that the DS games were just intended to play on DS hardware and that would be that, but they couldn't have expected the network stack to stay the same forever, not to mention if things break somewhere how on earth do they update it?
I mean some basic stuff like: Do you have to enter your wifi password per game, and the game cartridge stores it? (Would be really lame to have one copy of your credentials for every one of those little games you own lying around.) And what happens if a hardcoded domain name is stolen? IPv6 was finalized in 1998 (though we've seen some revision since then) however I suspect they never added support for it.
That might be well worth it though. Take a few things into consideration here:
- Of all people, they sold it to Lenovo, who has been rather disruptive in the PC making industry; not an easy thing to do even when they first started. Remember, they took the hardware division from IBM that was doing so-so at best, crappy at worst.
- Lenovo wanted to get into the mobile business before buying Moto. If I were to guess, they came to Google on this one rather than Google coming to them (there wasn't any rumors of "motorola for sale" that I recall...maybe I'm wrong here.)
- Lenovo going into the mobile business with Android is a VERY GOOD THING for Google and Android in general. Think about it: The more OEM's you have pushing Android, the better, especially if they can take some of the market share away from Samsung, which I think they are probably the most well positioned OEM to do so.
I really doubt that would be the case. Every warm period in history hasn't been full of droughts, floods, and famine; usually quite the opposite. Almost every warm period in history has also had the highest biodiversity.
Nintendo 3DS also uses b when running DS games that aren't enhanced for the DSi.
Why on earth would they do that? Does the game talk directly with the wifi hardware or something? If so, I guess that would...sort of...make sense, but then I'd have to ask: Haven't they heard of a network stack to separate the two?
Or even 802.11b. Maybe if you got REALLY lucky you'd find a palm pilot that uses it. I can't recall the last time I owned a b device, I think it was a PCMCIA card for adding wifi to laptops that had them.
Brother laser printers are actually pretty damn good. Not only are they cheap, but the drivers *work* without installing a bunch of shit along with them. Not only that but I have an 8 year old printer that they stopped selling about 5 years ago and they still provide updated drivers for new versions of Windows and Linux.
Eric Holder is still trying to find a means of punishing a guy who was already found not guilty by a jury of his peers (Zimmerman,) I don't think he'd offer anything better to Snowden.
Wait, are you telling me that people who believe in global warming aren't just trying to profit from global disaster?
I think that's actually where Al Gore gets a lot of his money from. Selling books and movies, and selling carbon indulgences. I'm sure he's not the only one either.
I wouldn't have brought it up, but you did ask...
The flaw in Godwin's law, for those who use it to try to claim a victory in their argument, is that the longer the discussion takes place, the probability of a comparison involving approaches 1.
Often times these comparisons are valid. It's only when they're not valid that you've lost the argument (e.g. just accusing somebody of being a nazi, a racist, etc. when they aren't anything close to that.)
EMI, shorts, corrosion, moisture and so on.
Hmm not exactly. You still run copper alongside fiber - you need it mainly to power the repeaters, but on some fiber runs you also want it to encase the fiber line in a copper shielding to protect it while still being a little bit flexible. And copper does carry all of those drawbacks no matter what (though EMI is much easier to correct for.) In addition to that, in urban settings, you're more likely to run into people digging holes in seemingly arbitrary spots to say...put up a mailbox, fence post, etc. Digging tools and already laid fiber lines don't mix.
Of course, you can run these along power lines, but you still want the repeaters to be off of the grid, or at least have access to their own grid in case the main one falls (communication is pretty important during disasters.)
That would work, though I think 256-bit might be unnecessary. The reason you can have GUID collisions is because GUID (as per the name) assumes globally unique, as in these are numbers that everybody has to share as an identity for every possible thing, from filesystems to a can of beans.
This number is only important to that one card though, which is good for maybe 3 years before it has to be replaced (just like we already do with existing cards.) If the same random number gets used a second time in a different transaction for a different card, then that won't be a problem. That rule still applies for getting the same random number on a card that replaced the older card for the same account.
It's practically (emphasis on the word practical) impossible that you'll see the same random number twice, even if you did one transaction per second for those entire three years. By that I mean, you'd have a much better chance at winning the lottery than seeing that happen.
There are a few reasons you'd not want to make the numbers too large. For one, I think you'd want to put this random number on a receipt (in a hex code format resembling an IPv6 address) that way the customer is issued at least some form of proof of the transaction so that the merchant can't repudiate it. The signed result that your card gives them is so that your card can't repudiate (but you can if they can't prove it was you who held the card at the time; ways of proving it was you is e.g. security cameras seeing your car, your clothing, or even your face if they are high enough resolution.)
With a system like I described, you can keep the entire identifier number in your database. In fact, you'd probably want to. That number is useless to any hackers though, and the authentication result is only useful to the merchant you presented the card to. There would be no reason anywhere ever for another merchant to use that number. If they did use it, a red flag would show up at the bank as soon as they tried to bill the account, and they'd have a whole lot of 'splainin to do.
I haven't read much on EMV, but from what I heard it just encrypts the account number, but the account number alone is still stored in a merchant database somewhere and can be reused (and doesn't feature non-repudiation.)
Correct me if I'm wrong, of course.
This is kind of why I give him the nickname Richard Marx Stalin. Basically his idea is that nothing can be free unless it fits his idea of freedom, which in itself kind of negates the meaning of the word free (liberty.) Much like the historical figures depicted, their ideas of freedom required sacrificing other areas of your life in order to meet their definition, which is just paradoxical.
In general I'm supportive of the idea that releasing the source changes is required, but in the end the code belongs to whoever the original author is, and if they don't want to add that caveat, then they shouldn't be required to. Why RMS is so against that yet claims to be pro freedom, I'll never understand.
Could be...for Valve, though that's not a bad thing. I'm not even angry; I'm being so sincere right now.
If the debian developers were more interested in something consumer focused like games, then Linux could have a better chance at entering the consumer space (whereas right now it is mostly enterprise focused.) Free games that work with the thing you created isn't a bad way to attract that.
The terms of using the Android trademark require that you can't distribute any kind of fork of Android. This is why Amazon makes sure to NEVER use the word Android anywhere on its products, nor can they ever have anything to do with the Play store.
Android the OS itself is still very much open, but the Android trademark isn't (nor is any trademark for that matter - the whole point of a trademark is to be exclusive rather than open.)
Even if you take every security precaution imaginable, you still remain with a system that can be broken into. I think the idea that you can hold companies criminally liable is a stupid one (and am glad they don't do it) much in the same way that it would be stupid to hold a bank criminally liable in the event of an armed heist.
That said, I think the problem isn't that our systems aren't secure enough, rather the problem is that the way we identify and authenticate is now inadequate.
Let's take credit cards for example: All the person needs to obtain is the numbers written on it, and they can buy things in your name. Unfortunately that means each time you make a purchase with that card, you are handing it over to somebody who can abuse it. We have the technology to avoid this, so why don't we? Something like this would be great:
Make the credit card number be a public key, and the private key is contained ONLY in the card itself using ISO 7816. The bank doesn't even have the private key, only the card itself does. If you want to make a purchase, the merchant generates a random 128-bit number and asks your card to sign it. If it signs it, it has proven its identity, and the merchant can go ahead and bill that card. No internet communication is necessary, so the business can still operate even in the event of a network outage.
If the card is stolen, it can be reported and the merchant can see that its stolen so long as they have network connectivity. Keep existing laws so that the consumer is only liable for up to $50 (most banks already waive that to zero.) Require the merchant to retain the original 128-bit number as well as the signed response to verify that the merchant actually saw the real card and can prove that they didn't fraudulently bill a customer. The card itself stores each 128-bit number and doesn't ever sign the same number twice. If the same 128-bit number happens to be generated twice (this borders upon a statistical impossibility, by the way) then the card is to interpret that as a hack attempt and zero out its private key.
Now if the merchants database is compromised, all the attacker has gained is the public key. They can't sign messages with that, so the information is useless. If another merchant tries to bill based on having a stolen 128-bit number, signed result, and public key, then they'll be caught as being linked to the conspiracy so fast that it'll make their head spin off of its shoulders.
There, you've just defeated about 99.99% of the credit card fraud out there; no more posts spammed to your favorite web boards of people offering to sell credit cards because that information is now useless. All that remains is somebody physically stealing your card and buying gas with it, which could be prevented in 90% of the cases with a PIN system.
Online purchases could easily be done with a $10 USB smart card reader. Add NFC support and your existing smartphone could be the reader.
Set up a similar scheme with social security numbers (the SSA issues smart cards instead,) and identity theft would only exist in stories you tell to your grandkids.
If you think that's bad, just wait til their wish comes true and those companies actually leave.
Remember Detroit? Yeah well they were kind of hostile against the auto companies (mainly in the form of unions and legislation pricing themselves out of the market,) and then people wonder why Detroit is in the mess it is in now.
My credit union does free checking, and my bank has a deal where there's no minimum balance, but if you have at least $1,000 in it they'll pay you interest (USAA).
My bank (USAA) has no minimum balance on my checking account, but if you have a $1,000 or higher balance they pay you interest.
I must be grandfathered....I haven't had a steady income in years, yet I'm a huge credit card user. In fact two weeks ago somebody from another state tried to use my credit card information at seniorpeoplemeet.com and so I had to close the account and wait for them to send me a new card (I'm guessing some merchant had their database compromised.) Being used to living cashless for all of these years sucks when your only means of payment is gone for a week.
I use the credit card for literally everything, yet I also pay it off long before it is due so that I never pay interest either.