A Notary Public can be held responsible but an auditing firm isn't? I would have thought they already were held liable. If they're not, what a great job! Like a Notary Public that can stamp, validate and vouch for anything without cause for concern. It's probably because the Notary is people. The auditors are corporations. Corporations are just like people absent accountability or morals. Corporations are like Sociopaths. And as they're running the show, corporations are like Sociopaths in an Anarchy.
Don't make the email sound like you are both wealthy and desperate
I don't know. I get requests for a few of my domains all the time. The one liners, in fact, the more plain the email... The more wealthy and desperate I assume they are. The "chatty" emails I assume are from John/Jane Doe.
The one line, try not to reveal anything emails, get the 7-8 figure quote. The "chatty" emails where he tells me it was his nickname in high school or his dogs name and he wants to setup a tribute to the dog that saved his life..., they get the better deal.
Seems to me it depends on who the seller is which method would work better. The one line email might work better on a Cybersquatter. If it's a human being, the backstory might be useful.
I thank God I grew up before cell phones and this 24/7 parental obsession. My son has several friends in those last few years of parental control and it's driving me nutz. We can't even get together and watch a movie uninterrupted.
One friend, his parents will call to tell him they're leaving his dinner in the fridge. Then call to tell him that the potatoes were over cooked, then call again to ask about next weeks soccer game. And it's literally every 10-20 minutes. If he doesn't answer, they call, call again and again... We'll stop the movie while he takes the call only to find out it's his mom wanting to tell him that next Saturday he has to go to Grandmas or something just as meaningless. If he complains "I'm in the middle of a movie!" She'll bark back "Too bad!, that's why we pay for unlimited cell usage, blah, blah, blah... so we can get a hold of you when we have too. Emphasis on "when we have too" is mine as it's apparently very subjective.
It's absurd. And, yes, I'm a father.
If I can't go a night not knowing where my son is, I didn't do my job as a parent. The world is not that scary nor dangerous. My son has a cell and knows how and when to dial 911 if he needs too. And I can certainly go a night not following a red dot on some tracking web page. I am sorry sir, but your fear is way over the top. Of course, as with anything else, that's just my opinion. Is is however a fear that you do share with a lot of other parents. Fear of what I wouldn't know as I don't share it.
Even in this case of a younger female home late from elementary school because she got on the wrong bus. I still don't see the need for this level of panic or overreaction. But, that's just me. I suspect my son appreciates the levelheadedness of the home he grows up in. I expect his friends do as it's here they all congregate.
Linux has enough market share that there are 10s of thousands of people supporting it. Linux has enough market share that I get an outstanding Desktop OS. An OS that I gladly pay for through donations and purchasing vendor products. Linux has enough market share to provide me with the most stable, safe and feature rich platform available. It has enough market share that Linksys, nVidia and other high-end hardware manufactures support it.
1%, 10% or 90%... Linux has enough market share for me.
"Erotic services" was created to solve a problem in the "personals". If the new monitored "adult section" (new name for the old link) starts to delete, not allow or delay the ads they'll just go right back to where they were to start with. The (unmonitored BTW) "personals" is where everybody advertised before the "erotic services" was created.
Sheeez. Are these prosecutors really this stupid? I suppose if I have to ask the question.....
I'm beginning to wonder if there isn't in fact a group of smart men behind the scenes running the show. That the face put forward as stupid politicians is just that.
Any Google on "exponential growth human population" or "failure understand exponential growth" will help illustrate what we're looking forward to. It will be in our lifetime where the population will grow beyond the ability for the state to police it using just human manpower (police-person). Very soon maintaining civil order will require automation. It already does.
Whomever is running the show does seem to understand and are taking steps necessary building the infrastructure we're going to need in 25-50 years. And a 25-50 year build-out for infrastructure is about right. The ratio of citizen to state will easily rise to hundreds of thousands to one. Cameras are needed, the ability to mass collect people will be needed.
Anyone familure with the courts already know. If 100% of the population demanded jury trials the system would collapse. The only way they're able to hold it together is that +90% plea to "lessor" charges. The courts are already like the Airline industry as in hurdling cattle. When the population doubles even this stop gap measure won't be enough.
This automation of state control is evidence to me that either the politicians aren't as stupid as the face they put forward or there is a group behind the scenes running the show that do understand exponents.
"Yes" said the Time Warner representative, The $55 Lobster dinner was subsidized by the $5 Salad eater when they both equally split the bill at $30 each.
Now, under our new pricing plan, the Lobster diner will pay $95, their fair share after we total their usage and the Salad eater will continue to pay $30. Well actually they'll pay $35 after our proposed price increase. That seems fair to us. Why would any consumer have a problem when we level the playing field so everyone is treated equally? Currently only one consumer, the Salad diner, is getting screwed. With our new pricing plan both the Lobster diner and the Salad diner will be treated equally.
I've returned each and every defective product I've ever purchased from Amazon. Why hasn't my account been deactivated? There's more to this story.
My sister used to work at a large national kids toy store chain. At the time it had a no questions asked, no restrictions type return guarantee. After a length of time you'd only get store credit but they would take anything back no matter what. Every October masses of certain types would haul in 'defective' wading pools. In fact, every Autumn a wave of Summer products were returned as 'defective'. Basketballs warn so the lettering was missing were returned as 'defective'. Roller Skates that were obviously years old returned as 'defective'. With of course the child in tow to go get another pair 1-2 sizes larger.
It was seasonal and predictable within certain types of people. Some out there just feel entitled. They'll use merchandise then return it when they're finished or for any reason. It's the wrong color. "Yes, I picked the red one but now I want the blue one" kind of attitude. "I changed my mind" is another justification they use. Anyone who has worked retail will have stories.
I don't like that the Kindle is a service. What the complainer describes brings that to light. For that reason and that I never buy books retail I wouldn't purchase a one anyway. But before I'd go all ape sh*t on Amazon I'd want to know the facts, not just someone touting that all his returns were justified. Some people can justify anything.
I got a letter in the mail just yesterday from my Credit Union saying they're issuing me a new credit card. The reason they stated was specifically because of the Heartland breach by name.
I think it costs them $10.00-$15.00 for a new card when all is said and done. I don't know if they're issuing new cards to everyone or just those who have had activity at a merchant tied to Heartland. Even limited this is going to cost the banks money and that's they way it should be. When fraud become more expensive than the fix, that's when it will get fixed. We legislated corporations into person-hood but never legislated morals to go with it.
Simply put, security seems to be an orthogonal issue. Open source does not seem to automatically or inherently guarantee fewer vulnerabilities or better in-depth protections. It doesn't seems to make it worse, though.
Claiming so will only make you vulnerable to counter-examples (of which there are many) and will allow the MS lackeys to paint you as an ideology-driven zealot.
Chunk it down. Point to the security track record of the products you recommend. Leave out the claim that they are more secure because they are OS, just claim that the products are produced by vendors that are accountable, dependable and transparent with proven security records.
I'm not sure I'm going to fall for that crap. I believe your "simply put" is wrong. I believe OS does automatically and inherently guarantee fewer vulnerabilities. The paradigm of OS development pretty much takes care of that. Beyond that is common sense attributed to experience. You can't even install Windows while plugged into the INet. You'll be compromised within 12 seconds even before you get a chance to logon.
I'm not a OS zealot but I'm not stupid either. And if someone attributes to me the label of zealot because I speak the truth that's their failing not mine. Your advice to sit down and shutup is offensive. OS is what it is. Speaking that truth no more makes the case worse for the acceptance of OS than disagreeing with GW made me a terrorist.
Of course, we're all allowed our opinion and that's mine.
We are smarter than they are. Remember "Tubes"? Don't want government in your server? Serve the pages from country X, put the database in country Y. For that matter distribute the database from Y, X and Z.
There are solutions. When what's available today quits working by then very smart college students will have designed a web server similar to P2P. They had better get used to having the free flow of information. We're only one generation removed from the catch phrase "Information Wants to be Free." It's what the Internet is based upon.
and the amendment applies whether it's criminal or civil. What am I missing here?
What you're missing is the 'So What?'. A lot of things are unconstitutional. The first that comes to mind is drug forfeiture. If I'm driving down the highway and get stopped and have what the officer considers too much money he takes it. I forfeit all my money unless I can prove it's not drug related. If they steal up to 20-30 thousand it's essentially gone due to the high cost of attorneys fees to get it back.
Then there's the stop in the first place. I've watched the television show COPS and heard an officer remark 'He has a cracked windshield that gives us probable cause'. I've witnessed searches that were far from reasonable.
How about drug laws themselves. In the old days they knew it took an amendment to outlaw a substance and passed prohibition. Today all it takes is an administrator in a department agency to classify a substance as schedule 1.
How about plea bargaining where you get 3 years if you plead guilty or 30 years minimum if exercise your right to trial. Sounds like coercion or even blackmail to me.
The list is endless. Our constitution is so watered down we don't even recognize when another law is passed exceeding it's limits. Which is likely to be the attitude of the judge. My bet is he/she won't even see it.
...is the memory of how I kept scanning the horizon for explosions when I was driving....how we in the US have tolerated such a rapid erosion of civil liberty.
Tolerated it? Judging by your fear my guess is, you voted for it. If you didn't, others did.
2,100,000 have died since then from cholesterol and I suspect like the rest of us you're probably a little over weight. 5,000 teenagers died that year because we gave them drivers licenses. 150,000 died that year from medical malpractice. And you turned to Jello over 3,000.
Not to minimize the tragic loss of 3,000 innocent lives. But in the grand scheme of things... I'd just say be cognoscente of where we take this country November.
The whole reason Palin is using Yahoo instead of government sponsored email...
Do you have any evidence of this, other than a few isolated emails? People use a variety of communication systems. They talk on the phone, talk in person, email from various accounts, etc.
Allow me to rephrase. "He is a serial murderer". "Do you have any evidence of this, other than a few isolated murders he committed? People die all the time, car accidents, slipping on soap..."
You know... Our current president lists the felonies he's committed in the thousands. Palin has already committed felonies and she's not even in the White House yet. This is a pattern I do not care to repeat.
A November 2007 Gallup poll reveals that Republicans by a wide margin across all age, gender, income, and education levels report significantly better mental health than Democrats and Independents.
Just to be clear. They rate their own mental health as excellent. They believe they're the ones who are sane and everybody else is crazy.
PRINCETON, NJ -- Republicans are significantly more likely than Democrats or independents to rate their mental health as excellent, according to data from the last four November Gallup Health and Healthcare polls.
It appears Democrats at least have an open mind to the possibility of being wrong.
On the other hand, consider a fresh-off-the-windows-boat user, had this happened to them, Ubuntu would lose those customers left and right, no questions asked - back to windows...
Had this been a Windows user they would not have had the freedom to explore changes to their system. Welcome to a world where you control your own system and continue having fun tweaking your system. Even if you do trash it every now and again at least you're free to do so. A standard Ubuntu install works 100% including the updates.
The world doesn't function without toilets very well either. You don't see plumbers making MBA wages now do you?
You're right they don't. Most make more. The average rate for a licensed plummer is as high as $250 an hour. You can get an attorney for that much in municipal cases were I'm at and my doctor cost me about that much during my last checkup. In most if not all states plumbers have to have a licensed, etc...
I wonder about your your perception of plumbers. That maybe they're somehow less than a MBA. I have it the other way around. Owning your own home will give you a new appreciation for the trades as owning a car will for the mechanic making $75 an hour. Maybe you're still young and living with mom and dad. It's MHO that it's the MBAs we can do without as a society rather than the trades. It is in this I disagree with Plato's social rank.
I'm reminded of a conversation I had some 25 years ago with a co-worker IBM mainframe technician. IBM management was incensed that uneducated morons turning screwdrivers could make 70k a year. Back then as much as what they were paying top MBA stuff shirt types. They were on a mission to get salary levels down to "reality" paying these screwdriver wielding monkeys what they were (in their minds) really worth.
Attitudes have changed but not a lot. 93% of companies that loose their data center for 10 days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year. 50% filed bankruptcy immediately (National Archives & Records Administration in Washington). One can't say the same thing about those over paid MBAs.
It may be awhile before IT matures into a "profession" like doctor or lawyer however I personally believe we're holding the keys. The world can't function now without us.
Pure genius. Take a system you don't really understand, but depend on for living, and drastically modify a variable to see what happens.
At least, after that, the farmers affected with drought, or torrential rains, or whatever, will be able to sue somebody.
My first thought was what happens when all that salt rains down on our farm lands. But I'm sure they've thought of that and considered all the ramifications:)
This is the way it worked when I was out there. Some private company writes the building codes. They put together a package of thousands of building regulations, codes, etc. They call it a model and create/print a book. Then the private company copyrights it. They submit the building codes to the state legislators who adopt it as their building code model and thus they become law.
To get a building code book you have to pay the company who developed them $2,000+ for their printed version. The state didn't have their own version, they used the same books I had to buy from the private company. The state didn't have a copy to give/sell me if they wanted too. When I protested (20 years ago) the state said not our problem we don't control the copyright, the company who developed and prints the books owns the copyright. We just adopted it as law.
The article seems to be saying that now that the state owns the copyright. Things can change in 20+ years. Maybe as part of the deal the private company now transfers the copyright when the model is adopted or the reporter misunderstood. Still doesn't matter. It needs to get fixed. It's definitely a racket by the companies writing all these laws. The state will support them too. If it wasn't for the private companies the state would actually have to write their own laws and they're not setup to do that.
250 Gig is a lot... That's not the point. It's the precedent. Today it's a lot. Tomorrow it will be 200GB. Then 100GB Then they'll offer basic service at 50GB and everything else will be considered premium. This is just the first step in limiting unlimited service.
This cap is Comcast starting a 5 year year plan. Of course they're not going to set a limit today that we can complain about. They'll go after the top 1% and when they're taken care of they'll go after the next top 10%...
Remember when ATMs were free? Because they saved the bank money?
Thank you but I'll wait for FireFox's implementation of privacy browsing that won't store my history for the authorities to retrieve. If I'm not doing anything wrong they have no reason to watch me. If I am, I'm under no obligation to make it easier for them.
I write code for a living. I send nothing across a wire I haven't encrypted (AES). Nothing I store in a data base is human readable. If my program needs a parameter file, I convert each entry even to something as simple as ROT13, then for fun maybe I'll swap the first and last bytes. It doesn't have to be fancy just enough that scanners won't pick it up.
The only way the Government is going to be able to mass search everything is if they don't have to work for it. And as programmers we've been feeding them nothing but plain text. No wonder they're so twittered about reading everybody's stuff. They can!
The next time you write code and create a file convert it to something non-readable. The next time you design a system that connects over a wire use secure sockets. We're the solution. Quit handing your data over on a silver platter. I don't.
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A Notary Public can be held responsible but an auditing firm isn't? I would have thought they already were held liable. If they're not, what a great job! Like a Notary Public that can stamp, validate and vouch for anything without cause for concern. It's probably because the Notary is people. The auditors are corporations. Corporations are just like people absent accountability or morals. Corporations are like Sociopaths. And as they're running the show, corporations are like Sociopaths in an Anarchy.
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Don't make the email sound like you are both wealthy and desperate
I don't know. I get requests for a few of my domains all the time. The one liners, in fact, the more plain the email... The more wealthy and desperate I assume they are. The "chatty" emails I assume are from John/Jane Doe.
The one line, try not to reveal anything emails, get the 7-8 figure quote. The "chatty" emails where he tells me it was his nickname in high school or his dogs name and he wants to setup a tribute to the dog that saved his life..., they get the better deal.
Seems to me it depends on who the seller is which method would work better. The one line email might work better on a Cybersquatter. If it's a human being, the backstory might be useful.
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I thank God I grew up before cell phones and this 24/7 parental obsession. My son has several friends in those last few years of parental control and it's driving me nutz. We can't even get together and watch a movie uninterrupted.
One friend, his parents will call to tell him they're leaving his dinner in the fridge. Then call to tell him that the potatoes were over cooked, then call again to ask about next weeks soccer game. And it's literally every 10-20 minutes. If he doesn't answer, they call, call again and again... We'll stop the movie while he takes the call only to find out it's his mom wanting to tell him that next Saturday he has to go to Grandmas or something just as meaningless. If he complains "I'm in the middle of a movie!" She'll bark back "Too bad!, that's why we pay for unlimited cell usage, blah, blah, blah... so we can get a hold of you when we have too. Emphasis on "when we have too" is mine as it's apparently very subjective.
It's absurd. And, yes, I'm a father.
If I can't go a night not knowing where my son is, I didn't do my job as a parent. The world is not that scary nor dangerous. My son has a cell and knows how and when to dial 911 if he needs too. And I can certainly go a night not following a red dot on some tracking web page. I am sorry sir, but your fear is way over the top. Of course, as with anything else, that's just my opinion. Is is however a fear that you do share with a lot of other parents. Fear of what I wouldn't know as I don't share it.
Even in this case of a younger female home late from elementary school because she got on the wrong bus. I still don't see the need for this level of panic or overreaction. But, that's just me. I suspect my son appreciates the levelheadedness of the home he grows up in. I expect his friends do as it's here they all congregate.
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Linux has enough market share that there are 10s of thousands of people supporting it. Linux has enough market share that I get an outstanding Desktop OS. An OS that I gladly pay for through donations and purchasing vendor products. Linux has enough market share to provide me with the most stable, safe and feature rich platform available. It has enough market share that Linksys, nVidia and other high-end hardware manufactures support it.
1%, 10% or 90%... Linux has enough market share for me.
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"Erotic services" was created to solve a problem in the "personals". If the new monitored "adult section" (new name for the old link) starts to delete, not allow or delay the ads they'll just go right back to where they were to start with. The (unmonitored BTW) "personals" is where everybody advertised before the "erotic services" was created.
Sheeez. Are these prosecutors really this stupid? I suppose if I have to ask the question.....
I'm beginning to wonder if there isn't in fact a group of smart men behind the scenes running the show. That the face put forward as stupid politicians is just that.
Any Google on "exponential growth human population" or "failure understand exponential growth" will help illustrate what we're looking forward to. It will be in our lifetime where the population will grow beyond the ability for the state to police it using just human manpower (police-person). Very soon maintaining civil order will require automation. It already does.
Whomever is running the show does seem to understand and are taking steps necessary building the infrastructure we're going to need in 25-50 years. And a 25-50 year build-out for infrastructure is about right. The ratio of citizen to state will easily rise to hundreds of thousands to one. Cameras are needed, the ability to mass collect people will be needed.
Anyone familure with the courts already know. If 100% of the population demanded jury trials the system would collapse. The only way they're able to hold it together is that +90% plea to "lessor" charges. The courts are already like the Airline industry as in hurdling cattle. When the population doubles even this stop gap measure won't be enough.
This automation of state control is evidence to me that either the politicians aren't as stupid as the face they put forward or there is a group behind the scenes running the show that do understand exponents.
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"Yes" said the Time Warner representative, The $55 Lobster dinner was subsidized by the $5 Salad eater when they both equally split the bill at $30 each.
Now, under our new pricing plan, the Lobster diner will pay $95, their fair share after we total their usage and the Salad eater will continue to pay $30. Well actually they'll pay $35 after our proposed price increase. That seems fair to us. Why would any consumer have a problem when we level the playing field so everyone is treated equally? Currently only one consumer, the Salad diner, is getting screwed. With our new pricing plan both the Lobster diner and the Salad diner will be treated equally.
That makes sense to me.
I've returned each and every defective product I've ever purchased from Amazon. Why hasn't my account been deactivated? There's more to this story.
My sister used to work at a large national kids toy store chain. At the time it had a no questions asked, no restrictions type return guarantee. After a length of time you'd only get store credit but they would take anything back no matter what. Every October masses of certain types would haul in 'defective' wading pools. In fact, every Autumn a wave of Summer products were returned as 'defective'. Basketballs warn so the lettering was missing were returned as 'defective'. Roller Skates that were obviously years old returned as 'defective'. With of course the child in tow to go get another pair 1-2 sizes larger.
It was seasonal and predictable within certain types of people. Some out there just feel entitled. They'll use merchandise then return it when they're finished or for any reason. It's the wrong color. "Yes, I picked the red one but now I want the blue one" kind of attitude. "I changed my mind" is another justification they use. Anyone who has worked retail will have stories.
I don't like that the Kindle is a service. What the complainer describes brings that to light. For that reason and that I never buy books retail I wouldn't purchase a one anyway. But before I'd go all ape sh*t on Amazon I'd want to know the facts, not just someone touting that all his returns were justified. Some people can justify anything.
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I got a letter in the mail just yesterday from my Credit Union saying they're issuing me a new credit card. The reason they stated was specifically because of the Heartland breach by name.
I think it costs them $10.00-$15.00 for a new card when all is said and done. I don't know if they're issuing new cards to everyone or just those who have had activity at a merchant tied to Heartland. Even limited this is going to cost the banks money and that's they way it should be. When fraud become more expensive than the fix, that's when it will get fixed. We legislated corporations into person-hood but never legislated morals to go with it.
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Simply put, security seems to be an orthogonal issue. Open source does not seem to automatically or inherently guarantee fewer vulnerabilities or better in-depth protections. It doesn't seems to make it worse, though.
Claiming so will only make you vulnerable to counter-examples (of which there are many) and will allow the MS lackeys to paint you as an ideology-driven zealot.
Chunk it down. Point to the security track record of the products you recommend. Leave out the claim that they are more secure because they are OS, just claim that the products are produced by vendors that are accountable, dependable and transparent with proven security records.
I'm not sure I'm going to fall for that crap. I believe your "simply put" is wrong. I believe OS does automatically and inherently guarantee fewer vulnerabilities. The paradigm of OS development pretty much takes care of that. Beyond that is common sense attributed to experience. You can't even install Windows while plugged into the INet. You'll be compromised within 12 seconds even before you get a chance to logon.
I'm not a OS zealot but I'm not stupid either. And if someone attributes to me the label of zealot because I speak the truth that's their failing not mine. Your advice to sit down and shutup is offensive. OS is what it is. Speaking that truth no more makes the case worse for the acceptance of OS than disagreeing with GW made me a terrorist.
Of course, we're all allowed our opinion and that's mine.
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"Quit being a bitch and claim it," Schiefer told an juvenile apprentice named Adam, according to court documents.
How the tables turn. Now it's Schiefer who's going to be told, "You're my bitch now, I claimed it".
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We are smarter than they are. Remember "Tubes"? Don't want government in your server? Serve the pages from country X, put the database in country Y. For that matter distribute the database from Y, X and Z.
There are solutions. When what's available today quits working by then very smart college students will have designed a web server similar to P2P. They had better get used to having the free flow of information. We're only one generation removed from the catch phrase "Information Wants to be Free." It's what the Internet is based upon.
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and the amendment applies whether it's criminal or civil. What am I missing here?
What you're missing is the 'So What?'. A lot of things are unconstitutional. The first that comes to mind is drug forfeiture. If I'm driving down the highway and get stopped and have what the officer considers too much money he takes it. I forfeit all my money unless I can prove it's not drug related. If they steal up to 20-30 thousand it's essentially gone due to the high cost of attorneys fees to get it back.
Then there's the stop in the first place. I've watched the television show COPS and heard an officer remark 'He has a cracked windshield that gives us probable cause'. I've witnessed searches that were far from reasonable.
How about drug laws themselves. In the old days they knew it took an amendment to outlaw a substance and passed prohibition. Today all it takes is an administrator in a department agency to classify a substance as schedule 1.
How about plea bargaining where you get 3 years if you plead guilty or 30 years minimum if exercise your right to trial. Sounds like coercion or even blackmail to me.
The list is endless. Our constitution is so watered down we don't even recognize when another law is passed exceeding it's limits. Which is likely to be the attitude of the judge. My bet is he/she won't even see it.
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...is the memory of how I kept scanning the horizon for explosions when I was driving. ...how we in the US have tolerated such a rapid erosion of civil liberty.
Tolerated it? Judging by your fear my guess is, you voted for it. If you didn't, others did.
2,100,000 have died since then from cholesterol and I suspect like the rest of us you're probably a little over weight. 5,000 teenagers died that year because we gave them drivers licenses. 150,000 died that year from medical malpractice. And you turned to Jello over 3,000.
Not to minimize the tragic loss of 3,000 innocent lives. But in the grand scheme of things... I'd just say be cognoscente of where we take this country November.
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The whole reason Palin is using Yahoo instead of government sponsored email...
Do you have any evidence of this, other than a few isolated emails? People use a variety of communication systems. They talk on the phone, talk in person, email from various accounts, etc.
Allow me to rephrase. "He is a serial murderer". "Do you have any evidence of this, other than a few isolated murders he committed? People die all the time, car accidents, slipping on soap..."
You know... Our current president lists the felonies he's committed in the thousands. Palin has already committed felonies and she's not even in the White House yet. This is a pattern I do not care to repeat.
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A November 2007 Gallup poll reveals that Republicans by a wide margin across all age, gender, income, and education levels report significantly better mental health than Democrats and Independents.
Just to be clear. They rate their own mental health as excellent. They believe they're the ones who are sane and everybody else is crazy.
PRINCETON, NJ -- Republicans are significantly more likely than Democrats or independents to rate their mental health as excellent, according to data from the last four November Gallup Health and Healthcare polls.
It appears Democrats at least have an open mind to the possibility of being wrong.
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On the other hand, consider a fresh-off-the-windows-boat user, had this happened to them, Ubuntu would lose those customers left and right, no questions asked - back to windows...
Had this been a Windows user they would not have had the freedom to explore changes to their system. Welcome to a world where you control your own system and continue having fun tweaking your system. Even if you do trash it every now and again at least you're free to do so. A standard Ubuntu install works 100% including the updates.
The world doesn't function without toilets very well either. You don't see plumbers making MBA wages now do you?
You're right they don't. Most make more. The average rate for a licensed plummer is as high as $250 an hour. You can get an attorney for that much in municipal cases were I'm at and my doctor cost me about that much during my last checkup. In most if not all states plumbers have to have a licensed, etc...
I wonder about your your perception of plumbers. That maybe they're somehow less than a MBA. I have it the other way around. Owning your own home will give you a new appreciation for the trades as owning a car will for the mechanic making $75 an hour. Maybe you're still young and living with mom and dad. It's MHO that it's the MBAs we can do without as a society rather than the trades. It is in this I disagree with Plato's social rank.
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I'm reminded of a conversation I had some 25 years ago with a co-worker IBM mainframe technician. IBM management was incensed that uneducated morons turning screwdrivers could make 70k a year. Back then as much as what they were paying top MBA stuff shirt types. They were on a mission to get salary levels down to "reality" paying these screwdriver wielding monkeys what they were (in their minds) really worth.
Attitudes have changed but not a lot. 93% of companies that loose their data center for 10 days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year. 50% filed bankruptcy immediately (National Archives & Records Administration in Washington). One can't say the same thing about those over paid MBAs.
It may be awhile before IT matures into a "profession" like doctor or lawyer however I personally believe we're holding the keys. The world can't function now without us.
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Pure genius. Take a system you don't really understand, but depend on for living, and drastically modify a variable to see what happens.
At least, after that, the farmers affected with drought, or torrential rains, or whatever, will be able to sue somebody.
My first thought was what happens when all that salt rains down on our farm lands. But I'm sure they've thought of that and considered all the ramifications :)
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This is the way it worked when I was out there. Some private company writes the building codes. They put together a package of thousands of building regulations, codes, etc. They call it a model and create/print a book. Then the private company copyrights it. They submit the building codes to the state legislators who adopt it as their building code model and thus they become law.
To get a building code book you have to pay the company who developed them $2,000+ for their printed version. The state didn't have their own version, they used the same books I had to buy from the private company. The state didn't have a copy to give/sell me if they wanted too. When I protested (20 years ago) the state said not our problem we don't control the copyright, the company who developed and prints the books owns the copyright. We just adopted it as law.
The article seems to be saying that now that the state owns the copyright. Things can change in 20+ years. Maybe as part of the deal the private company now transfers the copyright when the model is adopted or the reporter misunderstood. Still doesn't matter. It needs to get fixed. It's definitely a racket by the companies writing all these laws. The state will support them too. If it wasn't for the private companies the state would actually have to write their own laws and they're not setup to do that.
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250 Gig is a lot... That's not the point. It's the precedent. Today it's a lot. Tomorrow it will be 200GB. Then 100GB Then they'll offer basic service at 50GB and everything else will be considered premium. This is just the first step in limiting unlimited service.
This cap is Comcast starting a 5 year year plan. Of course they're not going to set a limit today that we can complain about. They'll go after the top 1% and when they're taken care of they'll go after the next top 10%...
Remember when ATMs were free? Because they saved the bank money?
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Thank you but I'll wait for FireFox's implementation of privacy browsing that won't store my history for the authorities to retrieve. If I'm not doing anything wrong they have no reason to watch me. If I am, I'm under no obligation to make it easier for them.
I write code for a living. I send nothing across a wire I haven't encrypted (AES). Nothing I store in a data base is human readable. If my program needs a parameter file, I convert each entry even to something as simple as ROT13, then for fun maybe I'll swap the first and last bytes. It doesn't have to be fancy just enough that scanners won't pick it up.
The only way the Government is going to be able to mass search everything is if they don't have to work for it. And as programmers we've been feeding them nothing but plain text. No wonder they're so twittered about reading everybody's stuff. They can!
The next time you write code and create a file convert it to something non-readable. The next time you design a system that connects over a wire use secure sockets. We're the solution. Quit handing your data over on a silver platter. I don't.
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I was getting 2000 a month. For the last few days I've been getting maybe 5-7 a day. Big drop. I noticed it too.