The problem with inner cities in the US stem from the government's war on poverty. Back in the 1960's they built a bunch of housing projects to give safe and affordable housing to low income people. They did most of this in the inner cities and and picked the cheapest land available. unfortunately, this also placed all these low income people far away from any place to work with a public transit system that just doesn't work.
Long story short, and skipping a lot of details, kids started forming gangs but instead of it being groups of kids who eventually grew out of it, it started turning into criminal enterprises where drugs and other illicit activities were sources of income. Things progressed and skipping more details, it started getting dangerous.
A lot of the murders are either drug related, gang related, or people freaking out over the two and taking a shoot first ask questions later approach.
You also have an idiotic pride thing going on where a lot of Americans are somewhat comfortable around guns, knives, and so on so they don't necessarily just give the muggers what they want. A lot of them elevate into more then just a mugging. There are a lot of other reasons but I would say these account for a good portion of them.
Not only that, the problem is deeper then appeasing a 125 year old company.
In the past few years, they have raised taxes significantly on businesses. One of the most troublesome is the Commercial Activity Tax (CAT) which is like a sales tax but applied to gross receipts of companies with more then $150,000 gross receipts. Now don't get confused here, this isn't net profits or anything like that, If you are subject to this tax and buy something for a customer but don't mark it up, you are still going to pay the tax on the entire amount of that transaction. It doesn't consider inventory costs or anything, it if comes in, it gets taxed.
Anyways, NCR, just like several other companies didn't pick up and leave for a foreign labor market or anything. They went to another state that had a more friendly tax code, possible cheaper employees (DHL paid the same when it pulled out of Ohio and went to Kentucky), and likely other things like less regulation and taxes like the Kilowatt-hour tax which drives commercial electricity and natural gas costs up.
Ohio had just become too hostile to companies In a position to move. And guess what, they are moving to other states who aren't hostile and Ohio's unemployment rates have skyrocketed. It used to be that we always trailed the national average. Even with the northern problems with the steel mills and so on, we generally were half a percent below the national rate and at time, 2 percent lower. Now, we are like California and we are above the national unemployment average and are a driving force behind it.
Then you have the idiocy of certain towns like Columbus Ohio who is spending $165 million dollars to tear down a 20 year old mall and build a city park in it's place while threatening to lay off fire fighter, Paramedics, Police, suspend garbage collection or raise fees, and so on to encourage a income tax hike to cover a city budget shortfall of $15 million for 2009 and a projected shortfall of $115 million for 2010. The obvious answer is to let the damn City Center Mall sit for a couple of years at almost no costs until something can be done to bring the economy back around. But that's an entirely different topic.
You know, It may be true statistically speaking but I don't fear driving a car as I do standing on the street minding my own business while two idiots shoot at each other while trying to run away at the same time and emptying 8 or 9 or more rounds of ammo each.
I've seen it happen live on multiple occasions, one of which I was less then 5 foot from one of the gang bangers who got shot. I'm not scared of guns, I own my own, I wouldn't have any reservations shooting someone to protect myself or someone else, but I also down stand down range at a shooting/taget range. In the one instance, It was in Venice CA (a suburb of Los Angelos and within the greater LA area) on a business meeting, I went for a walk afterward to find some lunch, and next thing I know, I hear a gunshot right beside me and a bullet whizzing by, I ducked behind a car and was joined by a woman and her toddler sized kid as I heard several more gunshots. There was about a dozen more shots when we saw someone attempting to run backwards by the car go down while shooting. He dropped the gun as he hit the ground, the action was open signaling it was empty, and blood started pooling around his upper torso. The shooting stopped and everyone waited a minute or so before standing back up. It felt like it took forever when it happened, 5 or 10 minutes when thinking back about it, but it happened in less then 1 minute.
No one who wasn't in the gunfight was injured outside of emotionally, I mean watching a stranger die in front of you isn't exactly pleasant. I don't know if I witnessed the death blow or if he was hit before we saw him go down, there was no blood spray or bodies flying through the air like in the movies. The cops said they thought it was a rival gang ordeal where someone went into another territory.
If I had a choice of putting my kids through that or a car accident, I would pick the car accident any day. I doubt too many young kids can go through that without being fucked in the head for a while. That's probably one of the reasons why people don't make it out of the inner city.
Can't we just drop a nuke in that fault line an send California into the pacific like in the Superman movie?
It's seems like a win win, California will be gone, we would have reduced our nuclear stockpile in the process, and millions of people in Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Oregon, and maybe parts of Idaho will now have prime beach front property therefor increasing their values. Shipping will come further inland which means less Fossil fuels needed to transport good across country and so on.
The only down side is if we advertise this before hand and all the Fruits, Flakes, and Nuts move throughout other states.
We have to remember what the constitution is. It's a document that constituted a Federal government over several states to act as one. It really only describes what the federal government can do, specifies some things it specifically can't so, and places some limitations on the states. I bit of confusion here seems to be when people think they get rights from the government instead of already having the rights and the government being bared from transgressions on them. You have the right of free speech not because the government gave it to you with the first amendment, but because you have a right to have a say in how your life is effected/affected and the first amendment is only baring congress from trampling on that right.
If those people I mentioned are right, then the constitution already applies to the civil laws insomuch as it can't punish people without ensuring constitutional protections are in place. In other words, the laws have to be made in a constitutionally consistent manor. But, seeing how the difference between civil and criminal tends to be the party attempting to become whole again, when the state or federal government becomes a plaintiff in civil suit, they can't be suing in a way or over a law they are limited by the constitution. But this goes deeper because the law should have already been made in that it doesn't violate the constitution. The only questionable area should be areas of common law in which is more or less court decisions that have given people certain rights or abilities over the years.
So while yes, the civil laws should be made 100% in accordance with the constitution, applying it to the actions of you and me outside of us claiming there is no right for that law to exist, doesn't really fit. It's because the law being made is an action of the government so it's obligated to the constitution but you and I are citizens in which the constitution was never supposed to effect until we went into government.
***Note to Grammar nazi's, I used both affected and effected intentionally because the right to have a say is both in taking action yourself as well as actions others take impacting you. There was probably a better way of writing the sentence but I'm not sure I care enough to do so.
This is interesting because the Eighth Amendment refers to criminal charges. There are no punitive actions in civil cases like bail, fines, or punishment (even though there is punitive damages). Interestingly, there are some who are arguing that punitive damages need to be awarded only after a criminal trial because the constitution applies specific rules to punishments that aren't generally present in civil trials.
Anyways, excessive is one of those interpreted terms as well as cruel and unusual. Something that was either excessive, cruel or unusual 100 years ago could have been gradually worked towards and acceptable today or vice versa.
Sort of. That suspicion has to be because of some evidence that implies more could be there. Suspicion alone isn't enough to compel evidence or to get a suit past the filing stages. In this case, the Media Sentry reports along with ISP information naming her as the person who did X on Y dates is enough evidence to show the suspicion and warrant the preservation and discovery of other evidence.
The interesting thing is that regular mail goes through a government office which is the same as the NSA reading it. You can't really separate functions of government from the government altogether. I'm sure you would be just as disappointed of the Post Office was scanning your email instead of the NSA. Their bosses report to the same bosses.
Man, your taking could be's as if they are realities.1...
The manufacturers and third parties could do a lot of things, right now, they aren't. The cell phone companies seem to be. That's their argument, not mine. I didn't say I bought the argument nor did I say I agreed with it. The reality is that most of what Cell phone manufacturers do is implement basic concepts and the Cell phone provider customized it to thier network, labels it, and offers it as a feature.
Sure, third parties or the manufacturers could do things like that. They could be doing it right now with the minor Cellular telecoms who are complaining but they aren't. At least no on a large scale.
Then they will track down some single mother of three who's son was told to install it by an activist teacher at school wanting to make sure there was plenty of end point nodes availible for the "repressed".
It's deeper then that. It's that we have to protect the people we force to do the dirty work for us against any reasonable threat. We have long recognized the necessity of investigating any threat to see if it was some blowhard letting steam out or someone capable of committing harm. It doesn't help that the names and addresses of Jurors are generally publicly availible too.
It might be a different story if it was an all volunteer process but it isn't. If you register to vote, you are automatically placed into the jury pool and you can't get out of service easily. I generally claim I support jury nullification and don't have to sit on a trial, but others don't pull stunts like that so they are stuck with the jury duty as a result of expecting to have a voice in their community, state, and country with the right to vote.
This situation isn't anything new. The US government has had a program like this since the mid 90's and if you remember right, they abandoned their own software for doing so in favor of commercial software (produced by the hack club cult of the dead cow I think). It was project magic lantern or echelon or something of the sorts.
I'm not sure if this "recent" awareness of the program brings about anything new or any new applications but I believe that it was already settled in the courts where a judge said that because a computer and not a human was monitoring, it wasn't in conflict with the constitution.
Anyways, the people won't fire the people in congress. There are two reasons, one is in how the dems successfully played the role of the helpless idiots who didn't have enough power to do anything even though they had larger majorities then the republicans did in the last 8 years. The second is that they blamed everything on the republicans because they had a majority (even though they didn't in both houses buy one year of bush's term). So in short, you have the people who are basically too ignorant, lazy, or somehow otherwise preoccupied and couldn't check something as simple as the strength of either party in either house so they just believed what was said and voted for them anyways.
You also have the problem of not having anyone better to replace them with. A non of the above vote still allows them to be elected, if not just for the candidate and their family voting for them.
Because Civil right protester largely won. Government abuse only triumphs if the whoever is protesting doesn't win. The hippies didn't win, some of them didn't even protest.
I don't think a public network is a wise answer to much of anything.
History, at least in the states, show that the government will siphon off as much as possible for other pet projects then raise their hands in ignorance and claim there isn't enough money to fix the roads, we need another tax. Then after the levies fail and people ask why it wasn't maintained better and the investigation showed that project that would have directly effected the failure points in the levies were diverted to build a couple of bridges that most residents said wasn't needed but the council member had ties to the construction companies so they went in anyways. But I guess paying attention to all that just gives politicians excuses to raise taxes somewhere while shouting about the bridge collapsed from a faulty design that included the wrong size gussets despite the fact that it passed all the inspections and was considered safe (safe enough) up to the time of fell into the river.
I don't have confidence in publicly owned networks of any kind. Not because it isn't possible, but because of the willful abuse of any accumulated funds. Maybe Al Gore was right, we need a lock bock to put the lock box with the key to the other lock box in.
I think you might be confusing the internet protection suit with just the AV protection. I don't use the firewall BS and I always disable the link scanner (although it is working smoothly nowadays). Never had real-time-protection turned off either.
Anyways, I don't remember the one update that screwed everything. Actually, I remember the reports of it but none of the 150 instances across 7-8 sites I manage with AVG as the Antivirus had the issue. However, deleting innocent files, system files, email, Programs you have ran for years or screwing other installed programs for no apparent reason doesn't seem to be an isolated or uncommon issue. Then there was the MS root certificate expiration BS where symantec clients froze the system for 10 minutes anytime you opened a signed program like office or adobe or whatever.
I doubt your going to find one piece of software that doesn't give fits at some point in time. This is especially true when you consider the complexity of an AV product. If when it does, it throws you off from it, then by all means, use something else. But be realistic because you might be bouncing around for a while.
I'm all with you but it isn't exactly that easy. Some software packages to this day still require root access to the local machine even though the domain user is restricted and it is designed to run on a domain. QuickBooks used to be really bad with that but I don't think it is anymore. You also have the problem with approved sites being compromised and using browser exploits to defeat security limitations.
You also have the problem of some sites that don't even have a full time sysadmin. It's difficult to restrict US sticks and all if there isn't someone there to allow it when it's needed. I have used IPMI in the past but this gets tricky when you aren't there.
Your right though, those things should be considered and implemented. I try to set up proxy servers with access lists like Dan's guardian or something and redirect all zipped and executable downloads to a specific file where a script runs a virus scan on them before releasing it to the user. However, that is something easier accomplished at large sites more so then a 20 user site which the IT guy may be at it once every two weeks unless something goes wrong. I also just had an issue where an over priced app needed internet access and had no concept of networking so it wasn't able to grab the proxy settings from the workstation. It almost caused the entire proxy to go down until I figures out some IP-tables kung-fu where you can block all traffic except specifically allowed traffic and I basically had to set up a second network head.
The worse part about this was that I had the sales rep telling the owner we weren't smart for having the proxy in the first place, they are dangerous and we should get rid of it, to use a windows server instead. I won't give the name of the company, what the app did, or why the app needed to access the internet, but I ended up justifying the configuration by showing the PCI DSS standards and reminding the owner what it was like before we put the proxy in (he has kids supervising kids in the evenings, you can guess where that led to). He almost had me follow the rep's suggestion and rip the proxy out instead of insisting the app be fixed. The app wasn't fixed, I kludged a workaround in place, he uses it, and still and pays the annual license fee. It can be a real bitch implementing what you suggest- and yes, I agree with implementing it.
I see you already placed the biggest point I could make out there. It does it also if the old version is too old or isn't a networked version.
I actually had the same problem at a site with a laptop that somehow slipped through the cracks and didn't get updated to the latest version of AVG. In my case, it was a corporate version (network edition, but it was severely outdated) and I had to manually uninstall before being able to install the new client. I think the laptop ended up on a shelf in one of the partners closet so while we thought he was working with it periodically which should have already updated it if it was on the network. When we ended up seeing a version 7 in the management console after it hit the network fir the first time in over a year, and we were one 8.5, our eyes lit up.
I'm not sure I would consider a one time walk around in order to set things up as a big negative. Especially when the case is as you mentioned. All future pushes should work pretty well. I went from 8 to 8.5 buy upgrading the console machine first and then pushing it our to everyone else. Well, everything but the one laptop I mentioned earlier.
I think the subtle point the Cell phone companies were attempting to make is that you can have a phone with all sorts of gadgets, but it the Cell company doesn't support the backed for it, then it's pretty much useless gadgets.
That's where their innovation supposedly comes from. They do request features and stuff like that so they aren't necessarily reacting to what is being produced, in some cases, they are driving it's production.
However, I still fail to see how charging an outrageous amount of money for the phones they initiate development on then discounting them heavily for subscribers or subscribers who renew their contracts wouldn't work as a substitute. It's more or less what they do now with replacement phones and upgrades that are locked into thier network. I recently attempted to purchase a new phone, it would have been roughly $100 if I signed the contract and $500 if I didn't. Instead, I purchased one from Ebay and bought a new SIMS card for a grand total of $106 altogether. I suspect I will need to replace the battery sometime soon, but I generally use base chargers and swap batteries out once a day anyways so buying another is a given.
Not only are the licenses cheaper then the Symantec corporate edition, we got 2 years instead of one for about 2/3 the cost per seat. The management console seems to be better oriented and it can even force a reboot to remove an infection if needed. They even have Linux support.
I'm not going to the waste time. You can feel like you "won" if that helps your ego. "evidence" isn't so simple; your cited source didn't provide much detail for those stats and I don't have the time to waste checking it out. For example, fatal accidents could include many debatable situations including where a car runs over a pedestrian; the driver lacks a seat belt, drives off a cliff, has a medical condition, etc.
First, it isn't about winning. It's about the same thing you started off with, people doing things for the wrong reasons when they don't really have a clue.
As for the stats, they are the vehicles that people died in or were in before being ejected. Their methodology is on the site and the stats, at least one of them, specifically included pedestrians involved in an accident.
I'm not convinced. I do know the fact that cars are regulation tested for low speeds and higher speeds more potentially dangerous. If in fact the stats indicate people are more careful at higher speeds (which I don't concede) it does not change other issues involved. Such as your implication that lower numbers means its perfectly safe to continue because something else is worse. A big SUV is a problem at lower speeds too.
Actually, it's been explained that at higher legal speeds, the difference is in the quality of the roads. The roads are wider, there is less distraction, the curves are more gradual, oncoming traffic is usually separated and so on. You can be not convinced all you want, that is your prerogative. However, choosing to be uninformed doesn't mean that no one will correct you or the record when you claim something that isn't correct. SUVs are statistically safer as far as fatality accidents go.
BTW, I didn't say or attempt to imply that SUVs are fool proof or in any means infallible.
So, you like MAD huh? well then, why not apply that to cars as well? Both sides get equitable damage..
Because MAD is protection against an assault by a foreign country. The end game with MAD isn't equal damage, it's mutual annihilation. You on the other hand are free to drive anything you want and if you want to protect yourself in any legal way you want, then by all means go ahead. You are free to do so.
I can't make people GROW UP, give them courage, or a sense of responsibility to their community (let alone community itself which is dead.) I don't have to be accepting of such behavior and I have every right to say anything I want to anybody. I can also apply that bias in choosing a side of a debate; for example taxing cars on weight instead of value (BTW heavier ones wear the public roads more don't need to bring up other issues on that debate.) You take a libertarian position and then say I should shut up?
Almost all state I know of, certainly ever state I have lived in already tax cars on weight. Not when you purchase them, but when you register and license them. This tax is usually paid annually. For instance, My Toyota costs me $55 to license for a year, My Van and Pickup cost me $60 or 70 each. My Motorcycle costs $35.
As for you taking any side of an argument or standing on any position you want. Sure, that's just fine and you are free to do it. However, that does not mean no one else is restricted from criticizing you or correcting you. Just as if I am wrong, like I have been at least twice in other threads within the last day or so, it doesn't prevent anyone from correcting me.
Jack Bower? I don't watch TV.
Then how do you know the TV is telling everyone to buy SUVs because they will die if they don't. Seriously, that was your argument wasn't it? That people are acting stupid because the TV told them to?
BTW, Get off my lawn! Oh, and stop polluting our environment for your personal recreation.
Support comes in two brands. OS support from the OS vender as well as OS support from applications and services you need to use. One thing that catches a lot of people holding out is applications dropping support for certain software.
I'm in the opposite pickle with this because I have an app that won't support windows server 64 bit versions but 2009 server is the last 32 bit version. The app is actually recommending installing on 2003 server still and lists all sorts of problems with the newer version. I'm not particularly impressed with the app's quality either, but that's another topic entirely, Orders from above say we need it and we need to upgrade to the latest version of it.
But take crap like Quickbooks, I had to mix 98 and XP in an accounting firm because intuit dropped support for 98 yet a lot of people chose not to upgrade versions and XP wouldn't allow the installs of some versions just over a year old. (actually, I don't know where the problem was, XP or certain quickbooks versions). Now there was accountants with two systems in their office just to use software less then 3 years old because their customers did. After the software hit 3 years old, they started requiring their customers to use something less then three years old forcing a lot of them (*mom and pop shops) to upgrade all the way around.
I don't know, I stay away from purchasing TVs and other electronics because of reviews I read and personal experiences from other people's accounts.
People going from mac to windows are going to have the same problems that people going from windows to Linux usually do. Those problems are that it isn't the old OS they were using and things are done differently within it. If having to relearn things prevents a lot of Linux converts from staying with Linux, then I can't fault someone who doesn't want to do the same going from mac to windows.
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The problem with inner cities in the US stem from the government's war on poverty. Back in the 1960's they built a bunch of housing projects to give safe and affordable housing to low income people. They did most of this in the inner cities and and picked the cheapest land available. unfortunately, this also placed all these low income people far away from any place to work with a public transit system that just doesn't work.
Long story short, and skipping a lot of details, kids started forming gangs but instead of it being groups of kids who eventually grew out of it, it started turning into criminal enterprises where drugs and other illicit activities were sources of income. Things progressed and skipping more details, it started getting dangerous.
A lot of the murders are either drug related, gang related, or people freaking out over the two and taking a shoot first ask questions later approach.
You also have an idiotic pride thing going on where a lot of Americans are somewhat comfortable around guns, knives, and so on so they don't necessarily just give the muggers what they want. A lot of them elevate into more then just a mugging. There are a lot of other reasons but I would say these account for a good portion of them.
Not only that, the problem is deeper then appeasing a 125 year old company.
In the past few years, they have raised taxes significantly on businesses. One of the most troublesome is the Commercial Activity Tax (CAT) which is like a sales tax but applied to gross receipts of companies with more then $150,000 gross receipts. Now don't get confused here, this isn't net profits or anything like that, If you are subject to this tax and buy something for a customer but don't mark it up, you are still going to pay the tax on the entire amount of that transaction. It doesn't consider inventory costs or anything, it if comes in, it gets taxed.
Anyways, NCR, just like several other companies didn't pick up and leave for a foreign labor market or anything. They went to another state that had a more friendly tax code, possible cheaper employees (DHL paid the same when it pulled out of Ohio and went to Kentucky), and likely other things like less regulation and taxes like the Kilowatt-hour tax which drives commercial electricity and natural gas costs up.
Ohio had just become too hostile to companies In a position to move. And guess what, they are moving to other states who aren't hostile and Ohio's unemployment rates have skyrocketed. It used to be that we always trailed the national average. Even with the northern problems with the steel mills and so on, we generally were half a percent below the national rate and at time, 2 percent lower. Now, we are like California and we are above the national unemployment average and are a driving force behind it.
Then you have the idiocy of certain towns like Columbus Ohio who is spending $165 million dollars to tear down a 20 year old mall and build a city park in it's place while threatening to lay off fire fighter, Paramedics, Police, suspend garbage collection or raise fees, and so on to encourage a income tax hike to cover a city budget shortfall of $15 million for 2009 and a projected shortfall of $115 million for 2010. The obvious answer is to let the damn City Center Mall sit for a couple of years at almost no costs until something can be done to bring the economy back around. But that's an entirely different topic.
You know, It may be true statistically speaking but I don't fear driving a car as I do standing on the street minding my own business while two idiots shoot at each other while trying to run away at the same time and emptying 8 or 9 or more rounds of ammo each.
I've seen it happen live on multiple occasions, one of which I was less then 5 foot from one of the gang bangers who got shot. I'm not scared of guns, I own my own, I wouldn't have any reservations shooting someone to protect myself or someone else, but I also down stand down range at a shooting/taget range. In the one instance, It was in Venice CA (a suburb of Los Angelos and within the greater LA area) on a business meeting, I went for a walk afterward to find some lunch, and next thing I know, I hear a gunshot right beside me and a bullet whizzing by, I ducked behind a car and was joined by a woman and her toddler sized kid as I heard several more gunshots. There was about a dozen more shots when we saw someone attempting to run backwards by the car go down while shooting. He dropped the gun as he hit the ground, the action was open signaling it was empty, and blood started pooling around his upper torso. The shooting stopped and everyone waited a minute or so before standing back up. It felt like it took forever when it happened, 5 or 10 minutes when thinking back about it, but it happened in less then 1 minute.
No one who wasn't in the gunfight was injured outside of emotionally, I mean watching a stranger die in front of you isn't exactly pleasant. I don't know if I witnessed the death blow or if he was hit before we saw him go down, there was no blood spray or bodies flying through the air like in the movies. The cops said they thought it was a rival gang ordeal where someone went into another territory.
If I had a choice of putting my kids through that or a car accident, I would pick the car accident any day. I doubt too many young kids can go through that without being fucked in the head for a while. That's probably one of the reasons why people don't make it out of the inner city.
Can't we just drop a nuke in that fault line an send California into the pacific like in the Superman movie?
It's seems like a win win, California will be gone, we would have reduced our nuclear stockpile in the process, and millions of people in Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Oregon, and maybe parts of Idaho will now have prime beach front property therefor increasing their values. Shipping will come further inland which means less Fossil fuels needed to transport good across country and so on.
The only down side is if we advertise this before hand and all the Fruits, Flakes, and Nuts move throughout other states.
We have to remember what the constitution is. It's a document that constituted a Federal government over several states to act as one. It really only describes what the federal government can do, specifies some things it specifically can't so, and places some limitations on the states. I bit of confusion here seems to be when people think they get rights from the government instead of already having the rights and the government being bared from transgressions on them. You have the right of free speech not because the government gave it to you with the first amendment, but because you have a right to have a say in how your life is effected/affected and the first amendment is only baring congress from trampling on that right.
If those people I mentioned are right, then the constitution already applies to the civil laws insomuch as it can't punish people without ensuring constitutional protections are in place. In other words, the laws have to be made in a constitutionally consistent manor. But, seeing how the difference between civil and criminal tends to be the party attempting to become whole again, when the state or federal government becomes a plaintiff in civil suit, they can't be suing in a way or over a law they are limited by the constitution. But this goes deeper because the law should have already been made in that it doesn't violate the constitution. The only questionable area should be areas of common law in which is more or less court decisions that have given people certain rights or abilities over the years.
So while yes, the civil laws should be made 100% in accordance with the constitution, applying it to the actions of you and me outside of us claiming there is no right for that law to exist, doesn't really fit. It's because the law being made is an action of the government so it's obligated to the constitution but you and I are citizens in which the constitution was never supposed to effect until we went into government.
***Note to Grammar nazi's, I used both affected and effected intentionally because the right to have a say is both in taking action yourself as well as actions others take impacting you. There was probably a better way of writing the sentence but I'm not sure I care enough to do so.
This is interesting because the Eighth Amendment refers to criminal charges. There are no punitive actions in civil cases like bail, fines, or punishment (even though there is punitive damages). Interestingly, there are some who are arguing that punitive damages need to be awarded only after a criminal trial because the constitution applies specific rules to punishments that aren't generally present in civil trials.
Anyways, excessive is one of those interpreted terms as well as cruel and unusual. Something that was either excessive, cruel or unusual 100 years ago could have been gradually worked towards and acceptable today or vice versa.
Sort of. That suspicion has to be because of some evidence that implies more could be there. Suspicion alone isn't enough to compel evidence or to get a suit past the filing stages. In this case, the Media Sentry reports along with ISP information naming her as the person who did X on Y dates is enough evidence to show the suspicion and warrant the preservation and discovery of other evidence.
The interesting thing is that regular mail goes through a government office which is the same as the NSA reading it. You can't really separate functions of government from the government altogether. I'm sure you would be just as disappointed of the Post Office was scanning your email instead of the NSA. Their bosses report to the same bosses.
Man, your taking could be's as if they are realities.1...
The manufacturers and third parties could do a lot of things, right now, they aren't. The cell phone companies seem to be. That's their argument, not mine. I didn't say I bought the argument nor did I say I agreed with it. The reality is that most of what Cell phone manufacturers do is implement basic concepts and the Cell phone provider customized it to thier network, labels it, and offers it as a feature.
Sure, third parties or the manufacturers could do things like that. They could be doing it right now with the minor Cellular telecoms who are complaining but they aren't. At least no on a large scale.
Then they will track down some single mother of three who's son was told to install it by an activist teacher at school wanting to make sure there was plenty of end point nodes availible for the "repressed".
It's deeper then that. It's that we have to protect the people we force to do the dirty work for us against any reasonable threat. We have long recognized the necessity of investigating any threat to see if it was some blowhard letting steam out or someone capable of committing harm. It doesn't help that the names and addresses of Jurors are generally publicly availible too.
It might be a different story if it was an all volunteer process but it isn't. If you register to vote, you are automatically placed into the jury pool and you can't get out of service easily. I generally claim I support jury nullification and don't have to sit on a trial, but others don't pull stunts like that so they are stuck with the jury duty as a result of expecting to have a voice in their community, state, and country with the right to vote.
As a beer wrangler.. oops. you said bear wrangler
For a minute there, I was about to be offended.
This situation isn't anything new. The US government has had a program like this since the mid 90's and if you remember right, they abandoned their own software for doing so in favor of commercial software (produced by the hack club cult of the dead cow I think). It was project magic lantern or echelon or something of the sorts.
I'm not sure if this "recent" awareness of the program brings about anything new or any new applications but I believe that it was already settled in the courts where a judge said that because a computer and not a human was monitoring, it wasn't in conflict with the constitution.
Anyways, the people won't fire the people in congress. There are two reasons, one is in how the dems successfully played the role of the helpless idiots who didn't have enough power to do anything even though they had larger majorities then the republicans did in the last 8 years. The second is that they blamed everything on the republicans because they had a majority (even though they didn't in both houses buy one year of bush's term). So in short, you have the people who are basically too ignorant, lazy, or somehow otherwise preoccupied and couldn't check something as simple as the strength of either party in either house so they just believed what was said and voted for them anyways.
You also have the problem of not having anyone better to replace them with. A non of the above vote still allows them to be elected, if not just for the candidate and their family voting for them.
Because Civil right protester largely won. Government abuse only triumphs if the whoever is protesting doesn't win. The hippies didn't win, some of them didn't even protest.
Hmm.. And here I thought it was just puppies and kittens. Well, I guess your right, Here is proof, the Hebrew Hammer
I don't think a public network is a wise answer to much of anything.
History, at least in the states, show that the government will siphon off as much as possible for other pet projects then raise their hands in ignorance and claim there isn't enough money to fix the roads, we need another tax. Then after the levies fail and people ask why it wasn't maintained better and the investigation showed that project that would have directly effected the failure points in the levies were diverted to build a couple of bridges that most residents said wasn't needed but the council member had ties to the construction companies so they went in anyways. But I guess paying attention to all that just gives politicians excuses to raise taxes somewhere while shouting about the bridge collapsed from a faulty design that included the wrong size gussets despite the fact that it passed all the inspections and was considered safe (safe enough) up to the time of fell into the river.
I don't have confidence in publicly owned networks of any kind. Not because it isn't possible, but because of the willful abuse of any accumulated funds. Maybe Al Gore was right, we need a lock bock to put the lock box with the key to the other lock box in.
I think you might be confusing the internet protection suit with just the AV protection. I don't use the firewall BS and I always disable the link scanner (although it is working smoothly nowadays). Never had real-time-protection turned off either.
Anyways, I don't remember the one update that screwed everything. Actually, I remember the reports of it but none of the 150 instances across 7-8 sites I manage with AVG as the Antivirus had the issue. However, deleting innocent files, system files, email, Programs you have ran for years or screwing other installed programs for no apparent reason doesn't seem to be an isolated or uncommon issue. Then there was the MS root certificate expiration BS where symantec clients froze the system for 10 minutes anytime you opened a signed program like office or adobe or whatever.
I doubt your going to find one piece of software that doesn't give fits at some point in time. This is especially true when you consider the complexity of an AV product. If when it does, it throws you off from it, then by all means, use something else. But be realistic because you might be bouncing around for a while.
I'm all with you but it isn't exactly that easy. Some software packages to this day still require root access to the local machine even though the domain user is restricted and it is designed to run on a domain. QuickBooks used to be really bad with that but I don't think it is anymore. You also have the problem with approved sites being compromised and using browser exploits to defeat security limitations.
You also have the problem of some sites that don't even have a full time sysadmin. It's difficult to restrict US sticks and all if there isn't someone there to allow it when it's needed. I have used IPMI in the past but this gets tricky when you aren't there.
Your right though, those things should be considered and implemented. I try to set up proxy servers with access lists like Dan's guardian or something and redirect all zipped and executable downloads to a specific file where a script runs a virus scan on them before releasing it to the user. However, that is something easier accomplished at large sites more so then a 20 user site which the IT guy may be at it once every two weeks unless something goes wrong. I also just had an issue where an over priced app needed internet access and had no concept of networking so it wasn't able to grab the proxy settings from the workstation. It almost caused the entire proxy to go down until I figures out some IP-tables kung-fu where you can block all traffic except specifically allowed traffic and I basically had to set up a second network head.
The worse part about this was that I had the sales rep telling the owner we weren't smart for having the proxy in the first place, they are dangerous and we should get rid of it, to use a windows server instead. I won't give the name of the company, what the app did, or why the app needed to access the internet, but I ended up justifying the configuration by showing the PCI DSS standards and reminding the owner what it was like before we put the proxy in (he has kids supervising kids in the evenings, you can guess where that led to). He almost had me follow the rep's suggestion and rip the proxy out instead of insisting the app be fixed. The app wasn't fixed, I kludged a workaround in place, he uses it, and still and pays the annual license fee. It can be a real bitch implementing what you suggest- and yes, I agree with implementing it.
I see you already placed the biggest point I could make out there. It does it also if the old version is too old or isn't a networked version.
I actually had the same problem at a site with a laptop that somehow slipped through the cracks and didn't get updated to the latest version of AVG. In my case, it was a corporate version (network edition, but it was severely outdated) and I had to manually uninstall before being able to install the new client. I think the laptop ended up on a shelf in one of the partners closet so while we thought he was working with it periodically which should have already updated it if it was on the network. When we ended up seeing a version 7 in the management console after it hit the network fir the first time in over a year, and we were one 8.5, our eyes lit up.
I'm not sure I would consider a one time walk around in order to set things up as a big negative. Especially when the case is as you mentioned. All future pushes should work pretty well. I went from 8 to 8.5 buy upgrading the console machine first and then pushing it our to everyone else. Well, everything but the one laptop I mentioned earlier.
I think the subtle point the Cell phone companies were attempting to make is that you can have a phone with all sorts of gadgets, but it the Cell company doesn't support the backed for it, then it's pretty much useless gadgets.
That's where their innovation supposedly comes from. They do request features and stuff like that so they aren't necessarily reacting to what is being produced, in some cases, they are driving it's production.
However, I still fail to see how charging an outrageous amount of money for the phones they initiate development on then discounting them heavily for subscribers or subscribers who renew their contracts wouldn't work as a substitute. It's more or less what they do now with replacement phones and upgrades that are locked into thier network. I recently attempted to purchase a new phone, it would have been roughly $100 if I signed the contract and $500 if I didn't. Instead, I purchased one from Ebay and bought a new SIMS card for a grand total of $106 altogether. I suspect I will need to replace the battery sometime soon, but I generally use base chargers and swap batteries out once a day anyways so buying another is a given.
I second AVG.
Not only are the licenses cheaper then the Symantec corporate edition, we got 2 years instead of one for about 2/3 the cost per seat. The management console seems to be better oriented and it can even force a reboot to remove an infection if needed. They even have Linux support.
First, it isn't about winning. It's about the same thing you started off with, people doing things for the wrong reasons when they don't really have a clue.
As for the stats, they are the vehicles that people died in or were in before being ejected. Their methodology is on the site and the stats, at least one of them, specifically included pedestrians involved in an accident.
Actually, it's been explained that at higher legal speeds, the difference is in the quality of the roads. The roads are wider, there is less distraction, the curves are more gradual, oncoming traffic is usually separated and so on. You can be not convinced all you want, that is your prerogative. However, choosing to be uninformed doesn't mean that no one will correct you or the record when you claim something that isn't correct. SUVs are statistically safer as far as fatality accidents go.
BTW, I didn't say or attempt to imply that SUVs are fool proof or in any means infallible.
Because MAD is protection against an assault by a foreign country. The end game with MAD isn't equal damage, it's mutual annihilation. You on the other hand are free to drive anything you want and if you want to protect yourself in any legal way you want, then by all means go ahead. You are free to do so.
Almost all state I know of, certainly ever state I have lived in already tax cars on weight. Not when you purchase them, but when you register and license them. This tax is usually paid annually. For instance, My Toyota costs me $55 to license for a year, My Van and Pickup cost me $60 or 70 each. My Motorcycle costs $35.
As for you taking any side of an argument or standing on any position you want. Sure, that's just fine and you are free to do it. However, that does not mean no one else is restricted from criticizing you or correcting you. Just as if I am wrong, like I have been at least twice in other threads within the last day or so, it doesn't prevent anyone from correcting me.
Then how do you know the TV is telling everyone to buy SUVs because they will die if they don't. Seriously, that was your argument wasn't it? That people are acting stupid because the TV told them to?
Support comes in two brands. OS support from the OS vender as well as OS support from applications and services you need to use. One thing that catches a lot of people holding out is applications dropping support for certain software.
I'm in the opposite pickle with this because I have an app that won't support windows server 64 bit versions but 2009 server is the last 32 bit version. The app is actually recommending installing on 2003 server still and lists all sorts of problems with the newer version. I'm not particularly impressed with the app's quality either, but that's another topic entirely, Orders from above say we need it and we need to upgrade to the latest version of it.
But take crap like Quickbooks, I had to mix 98 and XP in an accounting firm because intuit dropped support for 98 yet a lot of people chose not to upgrade versions and XP wouldn't allow the installs of some versions just over a year old. (actually, I don't know where the problem was, XP or certain quickbooks versions). Now there was accountants with two systems in their office just to use software less then 3 years old because their customers did. After the software hit 3 years old, they started requiring their customers to use something less then three years old forcing a lot of them (*mom and pop shops) to upgrade all the way around.
I don't know, I stay away from purchasing TVs and other electronics because of reviews I read and personal experiences from other people's accounts.
People going from mac to windows are going to have the same problems that people going from windows to Linux usually do. Those problems are that it isn't the old OS they were using and things are done differently within it. If having to relearn things prevents a lot of Linux converts from staying with Linux, then I can't fault someone who doesn't want to do the same going from mac to windows.
You chose to be that way.
You UID which is slightly higher then mine which suggests that you were born before Linux meaning you fell in love/lust afterwords.