Personally, I think we should scrap the whole organization.
We don't need to replace them with anything except maybe the ordinary police presence that would be anywhere large pools of people are. But there's really very little benefit to screenings and such.
Just "be on the lookout" and maybe use dogs around the baggage handlers.
9/11 was over after the third plane. The passengers of the fourth plane got the message that the rules had changed, and took care of it themselves. (well, almost. It would be better if they'd regained control of the aircraft before it encountered terrain.)
It's not that "we can afford a few terrorist attacks." It's that the cost of building a wall to maybe prevent them is doing more damage to our economy, health, and civil rights than the actual attacks would do.
It's far more effective to build up the ability to react quickly (in terms of emergency services and military response), and use the armed forces like a spear, to find and address threats individually, than to try to build an all-protecting shield.
TSA doesn't even have the right to exist if you insist on a strict interpretation of the constitution (and.. what other kind of interpretation makes sense? It's not a "living document" because you can interpret it to mean whatever you want, it's because you can amend it after a furious debate to mean whatever you can convince everyone to agree to.)
Customs on the other hand... Article 1 Section 8, "To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization" maybe.
And if I was being convicted of a crime I didn't commit, I wouldn't care how willing the jury was to take the time to serve. I'd be just as upset. Maybe even more so....
It's a civic duty. People must be willing to take the time to ensure justice. It's a shared responsibility, and fortunately there aren't enough disputes to require a significant proportion of the population to be in jury duty at any given time.
Are your finances so tight that you can't donate even a chance of a few days of your time for justice? Or are you saying that you make so much money that your charitable contributions from the money made over the time in question would outweigh the benefit to society of your participation in the justice system?
Frankly, I don't care what your reasons are. Only an antisocial psychopath would think that avoiding jury duty is virtuous and getting "stuck" with it somehow contemptible.
You're missing the point. Rude help doesn't merely annoy techies who "get over" the rudeness. It also scares away the newbies, thus reducing potential sources of future help.
Classy move there, BTW, telling someone to "Grow up" as if they're immature for noticing immaturity...
The top three things on my 100 mile daily commute that never fail to cause people to drive erratically:
1) Road construction - For some reason, the commonwealth has decreed that there will be signs for road construction everywhere, but the fake-out signs will be larger and more important-looking than the actual signs indicating lane closures. Also, even more critically, everyone slows down at least 50% to be able to gawk at the backhoe/loader moving some dirt around.
2) Accidents - Worse than road construction, actually, but less frequent. Made worse by the fact that the police don't seem to know how to direct traffic (or that they ought to even try to direct traffic...). And the other lanes on a divided highway are also extra dangerous, because of the f'ing gawkers drifting and not paying attention to the business at hand.
3) Speed traps - Everyone slows down and/or lane-shifts to avoid the cop sitting on the side of the road, regardless of whether they were speeding or not. I'd really like to see some statistics on occurrence of collisions in the vicinity of speed traps.
The single biggest thing you could do to improve road safety due to distracted driving, imo, would be to put opaque barriers around construction and accidents, so there would literally be nothing to see there, move along. Probably would improve the outcome of those accidents too, by keeping the rescue crews from getting stuck in a monster traffic jam.
Unfortunately, that's the problem: the airlines are the ones doing the buying. I doubt most flight consumers even know what kind of plane they're in during the flight. It's not entirely their fault though. I'm sure it's very distracting to be given the choice of "nudie pics or molestation" just to get in the door.
Open themselves up to a potential lawsuit due to firing an employee with a disability? Maybe.
Surely the world has gone insane when an employer can make periodic random involuntary molestation a requirement of employment and no one even bats an eye.
It turns out that electric heat actually isn't that expensive. For one thing, liquid petro megajoules are approaching electric megajoules in price, but also, you don't have to heat 1200 square feet at a time. And that's even without the force-multiplier of a heat-pump.
The parity point for electric vehicles is about $3.00 per gallon. Which, IMO, is why OPEC is steadfastly keeping the price of oil as close to the level where where gasoline will cost that much as possible.
You say that in jest, but if you are on the no-fly list for a reason like that, I'm pretty sure your employer would have to accommodate you if they wanted to send you on a business trip. Getting on the no-fly list might very well be the best way to ensure that your employer will arrange less humiliating travel options when they need you to be somewhere....
Actually,THE law says that they can't make a law like that at all. I really don't understand why everyone seems to think the constitution doesn't apply if you have a long way to go and a short time to get there.
pfft. the chinese theory was always stupid. They haven't, historically, been interested in in that kind of bravado and provocation as to operate a weapon, unannounced, off the coast of an alleged ally. Our only major dispute with them, even, is the existence of Taiwan as an independent state.
North Korea is a much better fit to the rogue missile theory: fewer decision makers to veto the plan, and a recent history of deliberate attacks and provocation.
It shows a kink in the line of communication somewhere that this was cleared up almost immediately. And no, I am not saying the US military HAS to answer every question, but when a story breaks out like this and reaches around the globe, the military should have a better answer then "we don't what it is, we are fairly certain it wasn't our missle, but what it was, we don't know".
Yeah, even "we're looking into it" would be a better response than, "we don't know what it is, we're fairly certain it wasn't ours, we don't want to believe it was a potential enemy's, and we aren't going to bother investigating it, either."
I dunno.. it's the last 10% of the market, but at the moment, there are also fewer competitors, and there is also somewhat of an expectation that it might be a slightly more affluent 10% of the market (based the price of typical apple PCs vs. typical non-apple PCs).
In other words, 10% of the target market might not be only 10% of your sales.
Based on the above statements, I can confidently predict that switching to a non-apple phone is only going to remove "turtle-neck-wearing" from the way people look at you. And maybe not even then, if you actually wear turtle-necks from time to time...
There shouldn't be common passwords to anything anyway. Everyone should have their *own* credentials for access to stuff, so you don't have to inconvenience all the users when just one leaves the job, and so you can implement an access log to help with figuring out who caused problems after the fact.
Who's saving passwords to browser *cookies*? When your browser prompts you to save your password, it's putting it in an encrypted database file, sometimes using the OS's own key-storage service.
I only wish that I could hack my browser to ignore sites' settings on password storage so that I could keep all of them in the keychain behind a single, master password that I actually have hope of remembering without post-its.
If it does it without decrypting the contents, then the user shouldn't need to actually be logged in in order to get the benefit of the backup. It should back them up if it's changed since the last backup regardless of whether the user is logged at the precise moment backup begins.
OR,
It could require the user to be logged in, because it needs access to the unencrypted files. Obviously, it would encrypt the backup itself. The benefit here would that a logged-in filevault user would have the full functionality of time-machine that an unencrypted user has.
But it doesn't do either of those. It requires the user to be logged in, but still does a data-agnostic backup. a filevault user does NOT get a nicely indexed time machine. They can still explore the backup through the finder, but the nifty pick a file, then get any previous version of that file feature is missing.
As a result of which I've made the decision to generally work with an unencrypted account and have a separate, encrypted account for financials, to keep the amount of data that would need to be manually searched to a minimum.
Yeah, to quote a sporting legend, "Nobody goes there any more, it's too crowded!"
Also, where do you live that the plumbers and road-workers are in the 50th-ish percentile, wage-wise..? I'd love to live somewhere where they cost less, especially road workers, since plumbing isn't generally paid for out of my tax dollars.
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Interesting.
If a robot was better at my job than I could be, my solution would be to consider buying a robot....
Personally, I think we should scrap the whole organization.
We don't need to replace them with anything except maybe the ordinary police presence that would be anywhere large pools of people are. But there's really very little benefit to screenings and such.
Just "be on the lookout" and maybe use dogs around the baggage handlers.
9/11 was over after the third plane. The passengers of the fourth plane got the message that the rules had changed, and took care of it themselves. (well, almost. It would be better if they'd regained control of the aircraft before it encountered terrain.)
It's not that "we can afford a few terrorist attacks." It's that the cost of building a wall to maybe prevent them is doing more damage to our economy, health, and civil rights than the actual attacks would do.
It's far more effective to build up the ability to react quickly (in terms of emergency services and military response), and use the armed forces like a spear, to find and address threats individually, than to try to build an all-protecting shield.
TSA != Customs & Immigration...
TSA doesn't even have the right to exist if you insist on a strict interpretation of the constitution (and.. what other kind of interpretation makes sense? It's not a "living document" because you can interpret it to mean whatever you want, it's because you can amend it after a furious debate to mean whatever you can convince everyone to agree to.)
Customs on the other hand... Article 1 Section 8, "To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization" maybe.
You don't believe in trial by jury? Please tell us the alternative you do believe in.
And if I was being convicted of a crime I didn't commit, I wouldn't care how willing the jury was to take the time to serve. I'd be just as upset. Maybe even more so....
It's a civic duty. People must be willing to take the time to ensure justice. It's a shared responsibility, and fortunately there aren't enough disputes to require a significant proportion of the population to be in jury duty at any given time.
Are your finances so tight that you can't donate even a chance of a few days of your time for justice? Or are you saying that you make so much money that your charitable contributions from the money made over the time in question would outweigh the benefit to society of your participation in the justice system?
Frankly, I don't care what your reasons are. Only an antisocial psychopath would think that avoiding jury duty is virtuous and getting "stuck" with it somehow contemptible.
You're missing the point. Rude help doesn't merely annoy techies who "get over" the rudeness. It also scares away the newbies, thus reducing potential sources of future help.
Classy move there, BTW, telling someone to "Grow up" as if they're immature for noticing immaturity...
Pfft. Forum software doesn't index things in such a way that "using the forum search" is frequently useful for getting an answer to a question.
There's a difference between knowing that the answer is there, and being able to find it without actually knowing what the answer is.
And, anyway, if it really was answered, there's an even lazier option to being rude: put a link to the answer.
The top three things on my 100 mile daily commute that never fail to cause people to drive erratically:
1) Road construction - For some reason, the commonwealth has decreed that there will be signs for road construction everywhere, but the fake-out signs will be larger and more important-looking than the actual signs indicating lane closures. Also, even more critically, everyone slows down at least 50% to be able to gawk at the backhoe/loader moving some dirt around.
2) Accidents - Worse than road construction, actually, but less frequent. Made worse by the fact that the police don't seem to know how to direct traffic (or that they ought to even try to direct traffic...). And the other lanes on a divided highway are also extra dangerous, because of the f'ing gawkers drifting and not paying attention to the business at hand.
3) Speed traps - Everyone slows down and/or lane-shifts to avoid the cop sitting on the side of the road, regardless of whether they were speeding or not. I'd really like to see some statistics on occurrence of collisions in the vicinity of speed traps.
The single biggest thing you could do to improve road safety due to distracted driving, imo, would be to put opaque barriers around construction and accidents, so there would literally be nothing to see there, move along. Probably would improve the outcome of those accidents too, by keeping the rescue crews from getting stuck in a monster traffic jam.
We are the ultimate grey goo...
Unfortunately, that's the problem: the airlines are the ones doing the buying. I doubt most flight consumers even know what kind of plane they're in during the flight. It's not entirely their fault though. I'm sure it's very distracting to be given the choice of "nudie pics or molestation" just to get in the door.
Open themselves up to a potential lawsuit due to firing an employee with a disability? Maybe.
Surely the world has gone insane when an employer can make periodic random involuntary molestation a requirement of employment and no one even bats an eye.
Yeah, but your car can sound like this...
It turns out that electric heat actually isn't that expensive. For one thing, liquid petro megajoules are approaching electric megajoules in price, but also, you don't have to heat 1200 square feet at a time. And that's even without the force-multiplier of a heat-pump.
The parity point for electric vehicles is about $3.00 per gallon. Which, IMO, is why OPEC is steadfastly keeping the price of oil as close to the level where where gasoline will cost that much as possible.
You say that in jest, but if you are on the no-fly list for a reason like that, I'm pretty sure your employer would have to accommodate you if they wanted to send you on a business trip. Getting on the no-fly list might very well be the best way to ensure that your employer will arrange less humiliating travel options when they need you to be somewhere....
Actually,THE law says that they can't make a law like that at all. I really don't understand why everyone seems to think the constitution doesn't apply if you have a long way to go and a short time to get there.
pfft. the chinese theory was always stupid. They haven't, historically, been interested in in that kind of bravado and provocation as to operate a weapon, unannounced, off the coast of an alleged ally. Our only major dispute with them, even, is the existence of Taiwan as an independent state.
North Korea is a much better fit to the rogue missile theory: fewer decision makers to veto the plan, and a recent history of deliberate attacks and provocation.
It shows a kink in the line of communication somewhere that this was cleared up almost immediately. And no, I am not saying the US military HAS to answer every question, but when a story breaks out like this and reaches around the globe, the military should have a better answer then "we don't what it is, we are fairly certain it wasn't our missle, but what it was, we don't know".
Yeah, even "we're looking into it" would be a better response than, "we don't know what it is, we're fairly certain it wasn't ours, we don't want to believe it was a potential enemy's, and we aren't going to bother investigating it, either."
I dunno.. it's the last 10% of the market, but at the moment, there are also fewer competitors, and there is also somewhat of an expectation that it might be a slightly more affluent 10% of the market (based the price of typical apple PCs vs. typical non-apple PCs).
In other words, 10% of the target market might not be only 10% of your sales.
Based on the above statements, I can confidently predict that switching to a non-apple phone is only going to remove "turtle-neck-wearing" from the way people look at you. And maybe not even then, if you actually wear turtle-necks from time to time...
There shouldn't be common passwords to anything anyway. Everyone should have their *own* credentials for access to stuff, so you don't have to inconvenience all the users when just one leaves the job, and so you can implement an access log to help with figuring out who caused problems after the fact.
Browser *cookies*???
Who's saving passwords to browser *cookies*? When your browser prompts you to save your password, it's putting it in an encrypted database file, sometimes using the OS's own key-storage service.
I only wish that I could hack my browser to ignore sites' settings on password storage so that I could keep all of them in the keychain behind a single, master password that I actually have hope of remembering without post-its.
In 10.6, browser cache does not get backed up for a non-filevault user....
Here is what I would expect:
If it does it without decrypting the contents, then the user shouldn't need to actually be logged in in order to get the benefit of the backup. It should back them up if it's changed since the last backup regardless of whether the user is logged at the precise moment backup begins.
OR,
It could require the user to be logged in, because it needs access to the unencrypted files. Obviously, it would encrypt the backup itself. The benefit here would that a logged-in filevault user would have the full functionality of time-machine that an unencrypted user has.
But it doesn't do either of those. It requires the user to be logged in, but still does a data-agnostic backup. a filevault user does NOT get a nicely indexed time machine. They can still explore the backup through the finder, but the nifty pick a file, then get any previous version of that file feature is missing.
As a result of which I've made the decision to generally work with an unencrypted account and have a separate, encrypted account for financials, to keep the amount of data that would need to be manually searched to a minimum.
Yeah, to quote a sporting legend, "Nobody goes there any more, it's too crowded!"
Also, where do you live that the plumbers and road-workers are in the 50th-ish percentile, wage-wise..? I'd love to live somewhere where they cost less, especially road workers, since plumbing isn't generally paid for out of my tax dollars.