Not if done correctly... Sales tax on non essentials basically taxes people on leisure items (and therefore those with enough money to spend on leisure) while letting others live. It's actually one of the things done correctly in my home state, food, clothing etc are not taxed but tv's video games eating at restaurants are.
Well yes actually.. there are only 2 outcomes for a La carte programming:
1. Cable companies only offer the most popular channels, which probably don't line up with what I like.
2. Cable companies will charge a high fee per channel to cover the less purchased channels and I end up paying the same or more for less.
Now you can find that troll and punch him/her in the face... All you have to do is hack their computer, sniff the traffic until you see something from the WiFi router, use this database to find the approximate location of the user then knock on every door withing a 100 meter radius and punch the people that answer... I'm sure one of them will be the troll.
You could allow login for any account but if the password or user is incorrect they end up in a private VM which has files that look enticing to hackers... All these files would actually be trojans. The hacker would then take back the trojan to his own computer and bang hacker pwned.
It may hurt the sale of a book, but may increase sales of books in general. Basically once there enough books old that there is always one up for resale then no one will buy a new one so the sale of a single book might end sooner. However the net affect is people are able to anonymously pool their money to buy more books.
That means that Ubuntu and Fedora can do as they want, as they release patches in public. They are not obliged to have it in mainline kernel - and neither Linus is obliged to support them. He maybe splits hair at first, but then he justifies his POV quite clearly. It's technical decision.
Just to be clear I agree with his decision, he didn't have to be an ass hat about it though. But saying anyone can go ahead maintain their own kernel baseline is a little silly, As soon as you stray from the baseline on something like the LINUX kernel you are loosing a lot of what you gained by using LINUX. Now you personally have to reintegrate/test every time a new kernel release is put out to the public and the cost of doing this is very high.
And I'm gonna be harsh a bit.. since we're all "evolution theorists" here (meaning: you should be able to accept ugly truth).. so we should accept the fact, that if you gonna die from something benign as flue..hey.. that 'design' carried us to where you are now. What more do you want... it works.
Maybe we shouldn't wear clothes, or start fires to stay worm I mean if something as benign as the environment we live in is gonna kill you then that that 'design' carried us to where you are now. What more do you want... it works.
So, is the solution is to grin and bear it? Drones mean we don't have to invade Pakistan, which we certainly don't want to do given that they are a nuclear power - unlike Iraq they actually DO have weapons of mass destruction. Drones also mean that US pilots won't get shot down or crash to be captured by Al Qaeda or create an embarrassing situation if Pakistani politicians debate whether to return the pilot to the Americans or try him under a number of laws, from illegal immigration to espionage to murder.
The issue is that drones do just that they make the decision of killing someone easier, and therefore the need to validate the target lessened. If you had a possible target and you had to risk full out war/soldiers/embarrassing prisoner trades then you weigh the risk vs reward and the risk may be to high but at least your going to make damn sure he's worth it. Drones offset the risk so we are more apt to kill targets that are more grey then we would otherwise.
Before drones these types of attacks were more costly and therefore somewhat self limiting. IMO With drones new rules need to be put in place because with out the self limiting repercussions of the past we are a little to free to kill first ask questions later.
I don't have the option of buying a plan that does not have a phone subsidy already imbedded in it, so If I buy the phone at full price then I am not only buying a full price phone but paying the subsidy the same as had I not.
Being able to resell games helps the overall market but may not be apparent when looking at one title. Lets take this scenario: Game costs 60 bucks gamer 1 has 100 to spend gamer 2 has 40 dollars to spend, in the current scenario gamer one can buy a 60 dollar game get 20 for it and buy a second 60 dollar game while gamer 2 who has to wait a few weeks for gamer 1 to be done with the game now purchases the the game for 35. Industry nets 120 dollars and both gamers get what they want. however in a no resail scenario gamer 1 buys a 60 dollar game and spends the rest of his money on Mountain Dew and Nachos while gamer 2 just buys Mountain Dew and Nachos and plays a game he already has... Everyone gets fatter an diabetes and the industry only nets 60 dollars... no one wins. In essence being able to resell games allows people to pool their money and buy more games.
Seriously, don't run Acunetix or Retina scans or whatever on other people's systems. It looks like you are probing for vulnerabilities because, well, that's exactly what it's doing.
And if I'm a sys-admin, I'm going to see that and think you're an attacker. From my point of view, you've just cased the joint. That's what I'm going to report up, and from there everything gets ugly.
I don't give a flying f what a sys-admin thinks, there is no law, rule, or even a sign that says you may not do these things. Hell in this day and age of incompetent web developers/admins it seems prudent to check that the site is some what secure before handing over personal information that you don't want stolen.
In the real world you can at least asses the physical security of place you are doing business with, in the cyber world without scanning (which IMHO is the equivalent of having a good look around). I mean would you store your valuables in a bank that uses cardboard boxes as safety deposit boxes? or if they said you cant see where we are storing your stuff but trust me it's perfectly safe?
stating you should know better then run a scan is giving in to a thought paradigm that when on the interwebs we should just bend over and take it because if we don't someone is going to ram something bigger up you ass.
1st flaw seems to be the point of the article that since the government has a certain amount of power to look into your private life then you should not care if they have more... So by this logic we should be ok if the government no longer needs warrants to get things hell they can get them now if they have a warrant anyway.
2nd Flaw "It isn't a real risk to law-abiding citizens" . There is no such thing as a "law-abiding citizen"; You probably broke several laws already today that you don't know about... Many states its illegal to spit or get a blow job, most of you at least broke the speed limit on a public road.
3rd Flaw he state that he Odds of the government becoming NAZI like are the same as be a meteor. This may be true at the federal level.... But the government is made up of many people at many levels and anyone of them could start giving you issues where an invasion of privacy could be a real concern, especially if you some how differ from the norm in their fiefdom. EX being gay, black, a different religion or political affiliation.
No where does it say in TFA that the data is not yours in a cloud environment. It states that the contract you agreed to with a 3rd party for holding your data limits some of your data rights. And yes this is the same as a public storage or a safety deposit box. In both those real world cases you loose certain property rights when you sign a contract with them to hold your stuff. The biggest example of this is that they get to keep your crap if you do not pay for storage...
Besides that if your storing your crap in a storage facility and the rest of the facility is being used for illegal drug trafficking it will be just as hard to get your stuff back and the cops will search your storage unit as well.
It could be seen this way.. If while giving me a tour of your land I fumble my wallet onto the ground, do you own the wallet? if so when does it become yours? the instant it hits the ground, when i have move 50ft from it years etc...
If you extend this to treasure the person burying the treasure may not have been the land owner. So the land owner never owned the treasure, it was just like the fumbled wallet. The land owner not owning the treasure cannot legally change ownership of the treasure. Reasonably the treasure should be disseminated to the descendents of the real owner.
It appears that under British law, when the owner cannot be established it is automatically claimed by the crown.
First off if your reason for not letting your developer touch the production server is that they might hack it up, I suggest getting a new developer. With that said I assume you are running a business which really makes this a resource issue. There may be a couple of reasons why developers would do the installation.
1. The cost in time for developing/maintaining an install system is more than is required for the developer to do the installs themselves.
2. The systems could be very unique and having installers with enough knowledge to install even with a good installer is not as cost effective as having a developer that does it part time.
I had a client with a RAID 5 3 drives, it was explained that they could loose 1 drive and if they should call me and I would help them order a new drive and install it. Instead the customer removed the drive and "dusted it" after replacing it the light went green . He immediately removed a second drive to dust it too, just to be safe. Now this was an accountant at the height of tax season. I asked if they had been changing the tapes in the back up regularly, they said they stopped it from backing up last year. This client learned the hard way what data recovery services cost.
In the government old equipment does not loose value so if they loose track of a 10 year old 5000 dollar laptop they still report loosing 5000 dollars not the 10 it is worth. Much of the "lost" equipment in the government is worthless and simply was not thrown away with the correct paperwork. But the way they do accounting makes it look a lot worse.
Ok first off I don't think this happened but just to play devils advocate heres some counter points to the naysayers
1. Why would the gov want to do this? They are are looking for an individual in the crowd and a swarm of photo happy insects make a prefect solution. 2. What about the power? Something this small should require very little power possibly a ground based power system. 3. Why risk using it here when we risk exposure? See 2 if it has a ground based power system then it would have a very limited range and would only be useful for situations where you have large amounts of people in a contained space that you can easily get close to. Also field testing.
Ok I gotta put on my hip waders just reading this. First if you are only doing a 5-10 minute evaluation before wiping a michine you are not doing much of any sort of evaluation. Second sure back up the data... What data? most poeple I find don't even know where their data is, Sure you can spend an hour or 2 hunting down anything that looks like the customer might need it. Now 2 hours to reinstall? reinstall what the OS windows XP takes atleast that long if you hace to download patches it could be longer. Do you expect the customer to have driver disks? 1/2 the time you have to open the machines to ID the cards. Now after 4-5 hours the machine is running all the data is on(except last years taxes and saved user passwords for their email that they don't know and you didnt find). You are now ready to install software. OMG ! why this shits is for windows 3.1 how did it ever run? or hey this is some crappy VB acounting or realestate software that requires atleast 2 hours of hold time waiting to get the product key and installation secrets. ok 7 hours into it and lets install office..... ugh 45 minutes later.... Tell the customer here you go at 150 dollars an hour 8 hours of work... arnt you glad I didn't spend 25 minutes diagnosing the problem and removing a few viruses.
WARNING! Will Robbinson Waring! (Flail Arms)
Just looking at the higlighted titles on each paragraph it is clear that this is just to scare and cause reaction:
WARNING:
Disturbing stats.
Disturbing research
Conditions children to be violent.
Desensitizes children to violence.
It's developmentally incorrect.
it's physiologically disturbing.
It's more dangerous than TV
it's habit forming
it interferes with self-esteem
it's poor role modeling.
It's a fearful world
It's scary.
come on how many times can you print the words disturbing without looking like a tabloid? (non) they even use the word scary. This article has 1 intent to scare people with acurate statisticly numbers like most and many as well as comparing video games to other things, I can't even believe they associated it with cancer! is this some kind of sick joke?
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Not if done correctly... Sales tax on non essentials basically taxes people on leisure items (and therefore those with enough money to spend on leisure) while letting others live. It's actually one of the things done correctly in my home state, food, clothing etc are not taxed but tv's video games eating at restaurants are.
Well yes actually.. there are only 2 outcomes for a La carte programming:
1. Cable companies only offer the most popular channels, which probably don't line up with what I like.
2. Cable companies will charge a high fee per channel to cover the less purchased channels and I end up paying the same or more for less.
Now you can find that troll and punch him/her in the face... All you have to do is hack their computer, sniff the traffic until you see something from the WiFi router, use this database to find the approximate location of the user then knock on every door withing a 100 meter radius and punch the people that answer... I'm sure one of them will be the troll.
I always thought that smart guns would be better implemented with a sub dermal RFID. It would make it alot more reliable,
You could allow login for any account but if the password or user is incorrect they end up in a private VM which has files that look enticing to hackers... All these files would actually be trojans. The hacker would then take back the trojan to his own computer and bang hacker pwned.
It may hurt the sale of a book, but may increase sales of books in general. Basically once there enough books old that there is always one up for resale then no one will buy a new one so the sale of a single book might end sooner. However the net affect is people are able to anonymously pool their money to buy more books.
That means that Ubuntu and Fedora can do as they want, as they release patches in public. They are not obliged to have it in mainline kernel - and neither Linus is obliged to support them. He maybe splits hair at first, but then he justifies his POV quite clearly. It's technical decision.
Just to be clear I agree with his decision, he didn't have to be an ass hat about it though. But saying anyone can go ahead maintain their own kernel baseline is a little silly, As soon as you stray from the baseline on something like the LINUX kernel you are loosing a lot of what you gained by using LINUX. Now you personally have to reintegrate/test every time a new kernel release is put out to the public and the cost of doing this is very high.
And I'm gonna be harsh a bit.. since we're all "evolution theorists" here (meaning: you should be able to accept ugly truth).. so we should accept the fact, that if you gonna die from something benign as flue..hey.. that 'design' carried us to where you are now. What more do you want... it works.
Maybe we shouldn't wear clothes, or start fires to stay worm I mean if something as benign as the environment we live in is gonna kill you then that that 'design' carried us to where you are now. What more do you want... it works.
So, is the solution is to grin and bear it? Drones mean we don't have to invade Pakistan, which we certainly don't want to do given that they are a nuclear power - unlike Iraq they actually DO have weapons of mass destruction. Drones also mean that US pilots won't get shot down or crash to be captured by Al Qaeda or create an embarrassing situation if Pakistani politicians debate whether to return the pilot to the Americans or try him under a number of laws, from illegal immigration to espionage to murder.
The issue is that drones do just that they make the decision of killing someone easier, and therefore the need to validate the target lessened. If you had a possible target and you had to risk full out war/soldiers/embarrassing prisoner trades then you weigh the risk vs reward and the risk may be to high but at least your going to make damn sure he's worth it. Drones offset the risk so we are more apt to kill targets that are more grey then we would otherwise.
Before drones these types of attacks were more costly and therefore somewhat self limiting. IMO With drones new rules need to be put in place because with out the self limiting repercussions of the past we are a little to free to kill first ask questions later.
I don't have the option of buying a plan that does not have a phone subsidy already imbedded in it, so If I buy the phone at full price then I am not only buying a full price phone but paying the subsidy the same as had I not.
Being able to resell games helps the overall market but may not be apparent when looking at one title. Lets take this scenario: Game costs 60 bucks gamer 1 has 100 to spend gamer 2 has 40 dollars to spend, in the current scenario gamer one can buy a 60 dollar game get 20 for it and buy a second 60 dollar game while gamer 2 who has to wait a few weeks for gamer 1 to be done with the game now purchases the the game for 35. Industry nets 120 dollars and both gamers get what they want. however in a no resail scenario gamer 1 buys a 60 dollar game and spends the rest of his money on Mountain Dew and Nachos while gamer 2 just buys Mountain Dew and Nachos and plays a game he already has... Everyone gets fatter an diabetes and the industry only nets 60 dollars... no one wins. In essence being able to resell games allows people to pool their money and buy more games.
Seriously, don't run Acunetix or Retina scans or whatever on other people's systems. It looks like you are probing for vulnerabilities because, well, that's exactly what it's doing.
And if I'm a sys-admin, I'm going to see that and think you're an attacker. From my point of view, you've just cased the joint. That's what I'm going to report up, and from there everything gets ugly.
I don't give a flying f what a sys-admin thinks, there is no law, rule, or even a sign that says you may not do these things. Hell in this day and age of incompetent web developers/admins it seems prudent to check that the site is some what secure before handing over personal information that you don't want stolen.
In the real world you can at least asses the physical security of place you are doing business with, in the cyber world without scanning (which IMHO is the equivalent of having a good look around). I mean would you store your valuables in a bank that uses cardboard boxes as safety deposit boxes? or if they said you cant see where we are storing your stuff but trust me it's perfectly safe?
stating you should know better then run a scan is giving in to a thought paradigm that when on the interwebs we should just bend over and take it because if we don't someone is going to ram something bigger up you ass.
1st flaw seems to be the point of the article that since the government has a certain amount of power to look into your private life then you should not care if they have more... So by this logic we should be ok if the government no longer needs warrants to get things hell they can get them now if they have a warrant anyway.
2nd Flaw "It isn't a real risk to law-abiding citizens" . There is no such thing as a "law-abiding citizen"; You probably broke several laws already today that you don't know about... Many states its illegal to spit or get a blow job, most of you at least broke the speed limit on a public road.
3rd Flaw he state that he Odds of the government becoming NAZI like are the same as be a meteor. This may be true at the federal level.... But the government is made up of many people at many levels and anyone of them could start giving you issues where an invasion of privacy could be a real concern, especially if you some how differ from the norm in their fiefdom. EX being gay, black, a different religion or political affiliation.
Did you show ID or nut up and refuse?
No where does it say in TFA that the data is not yours in a cloud environment. It states that the contract you agreed to with a 3rd party for holding your data limits some of your data rights. And yes this is the same as a public storage or a safety deposit box. In both those real world cases you loose certain property rights when you sign a contract with them to hold your stuff. The biggest example of this is that they get to keep your crap if you do not pay for storage...
Besides that if your storing your crap in a storage facility and the rest of the facility is being used for illegal drug trafficking it will be just as hard to get your stuff back and the cops will search your storage unit as well.
It could be seen this way.. If while giving me a tour of your land I fumble my wallet onto the ground, do you own the wallet? if so when does it become yours? the instant it hits the ground, when i have move 50ft from it years etc...
If you extend this to treasure the person burying the treasure may not have been the land owner. So the land owner never owned the treasure, it was just like the fumbled wallet. The land owner not owning the treasure cannot legally change ownership of the treasure. Reasonably the treasure should be disseminated to the descendents of the real owner.
It appears that under British law, when the owner cannot be established it is automatically claimed by the crown.
First off if your reason for not letting your developer touch the production server is that they might hack it up, I suggest getting a new developer. With that said I assume you are running a business which really makes this a resource issue. There may be a couple of reasons why developers would do the installation.
1. The cost in time for developing/maintaining an install system is more than is required for the developer to do the installs themselves.
2. The systems could be very unique and having installers with enough knowledge to install even with a good installer is not as cost effective as having a developer that does it part time.
I had a client with a RAID 5 3 drives, it was explained that they could loose 1 drive and if they should call me and I would help them order a new drive and install it. Instead the customer removed the drive and "dusted it" after replacing it the light went green . He immediately removed a second drive to dust it too, just to be safe. Now this was an accountant at the height of tax season. I asked if they had been changing the tapes in the back up regularly, they said they stopped it from backing up last year. This client learned the hard way what data recovery services cost.
Wtf are they looking for anyway? Do they take laptops on the way in? I'm guessing right now they laptops go to the HLS laptop rewards program. much like the pie issue http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/2006/11/25/update-pie-apparently-a-threat-to-security-after-all/
In the government old equipment does not loose value so if they loose track of a 10 year old 5000 dollar laptop they still report loosing 5000 dollars not the 10 it is worth. Much of the "lost" equipment in the government is worthless and simply was not thrown away with the correct paperwork. But the way they do accounting makes it look a lot worse.
Ok first off I don't think this happened but just to play devils advocate heres some counter points to the naysayers
1. Why would the gov want to do this? They are are looking for an individual in the crowd and a swarm of photo happy insects make a prefect solution.
2. What about the power? Something this small should require very little power possibly a ground based power system.
3. Why risk using it here when we risk exposure? See 2 if it has a ground based power system then it would have a very limited range and would only be useful for situations where you have large amounts of people in a contained space that you can easily get close to. Also field testing.
Ok I gotta put on my hip waders just reading this. First if you are only doing a 5-10 minute evaluation before wiping a michine you are not doing much of any sort of evaluation. Second sure back up the data... What data? most poeple I find don't even know where their data is, Sure you can spend an hour or 2 hunting down anything that looks like the customer might need it. Now 2 hours to reinstall? reinstall what the OS windows XP takes atleast that long if you hace to download patches it could be longer. Do you expect the customer to have driver disks? 1/2 the time you have to open the machines to ID the cards. Now after 4-5 hours the machine is running all the data is on(except last years taxes and saved user passwords for their email that they don't know and you didnt find). You are now ready to install software. OMG ! why this shits is for windows 3.1 how did it ever run? or hey this is some crappy VB acounting or realestate software that requires atleast 2 hours of hold time waiting to get the product key and installation secrets. ok 7 hours into it and lets install office..... ugh 45 minutes later.... Tell the customer here you go at 150 dollars an hour 8 hours of work... arnt you glad I didn't spend 25 minutes diagnosing the problem and removing a few viruses.
Heh in my state theres like 120% tax on cigs they cost about 6 bucks a pack.
Ha not to worry a little Ritalin will take care of all those problems.
WARNING! Will Robbinson Waring! (Flail Arms)
Just looking at the higlighted titles on each paragraph it is clear that this is just to scare and cause reaction:
WARNING:
Disturbing stats.
Disturbing research
Conditions children to be violent.
Desensitizes children to violence.
It's developmentally incorrect.
it's physiologically disturbing.
It's more dangerous than TV
it's habit forming
it interferes with self-esteem
it's poor role modeling.
It's a fearful world
It's scary.
come on how many times can you print the words disturbing without looking like a tabloid? (non) they even use the word scary. This article has 1 intent to scare people with acurate statisticly numbers like most and many as well as comparing video games to other things, I can't even believe they associated it with cancer! is this some kind of sick joke?