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or there is an even more paranoid theory that this whole thing including the "3 year old data" and the terror alert was all manufactured my US intelligence for some political/military issue.
The political motivation right now is strong as this is an issue Bush polls better on than Kerry and the race is too close to call, so you cannot discount that this may have been in whole or part a polictical exercise. What with the timing (3 days after the DNC) as well, I put the chances of a political driving force at around 50%
The US Goverment is doing the same (ads to tell you how to prepare for a terrorist attack) which tells you nothing very useful at all.
It's already happened, the Bush administration has made this country into a fearful nation. I only hope the country wakes up and realizes how fear is being used to control us by our own goverment.
Name one corporate lobbyist that works to promote Amtrak
Oh wait what's that? There are none
Amtrak is not supported by influence by business, in fact it's barely supported at all. The only reason it's still alive is that there are some that understand that alternative transportation solutions are a good thing and keep it funded just enough to allow it to limp along
and yes Amtrak is an important part of the nations transportation system NorthEast of the US, and to a lesser extent in California/Chicago
From a legal perspective you may well be right, but in my book it's still negligent. You have information that could prevent many others from serious consequences to their financial stablity. Imagine if your bank account were emptied because you got a keylogger from cnn.com, and you only found out about it after the fact?
And yes you should be telling the public. defending yourself in keeping it secret is a disgrace in this kind of instance. You should be ashamed.
If your server was compromised, and served up a keylogger, which was then used to empty punters bank accounts, you bear responsibility for notifing your customers of the breach.
The point is Public Transportation and rail systems are optimised for high density travel. Obviously this doesn't work for many people, but it does take a lot of pressure of the road infrastructure, and at a lower cost than adding the equivelant road capacity.
Not to mention it reduces fossil fuel consumption and encourages high density development
A family in our neighbourhood travelled to Canada for vacation, but upon their return flight, they were refused entry into the US the Father's name was found on the Goverments no fly list.
After 3 months spent in Canada working the system, they were able to return
I agree, where I work is similar, and it's so much better than the over headheight cubes.
When everyone can see each other, they also tend to refrain from behavior such as using the speaker phone to check voice mail which drove me up the wall when I worked in a traditional cubed office.
And yes this works even for larger teams.
If I'm not mistaken, it was not a 'retarded programmer' but Gabe himself that got keylogged
If you are targetted, virus scanners and patches won't stop a keylogger, perhaps a trojan scanner would have, but we don't know what keylogger was installed. After all if I go and code up a keylogger now, and install it on your PC, your virus scanners/ trojan scanners won't detect it.
but yes they should have released the game already
This year it was only $11k
from the article
" While current quarter revenue is down from revenue of $21,369,000 from the comparable period of the prior year, this is primarily the result of a lack of SCOsource licensing revenue. SCOsource revenue was $8,250,000 in the second quarter of fiscal year 2003"
see the table at the end for this years figures (11k)
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or there is an even more paranoid theory that this whole thing including the "3 year old data" and the terror alert was all manufactured my US intelligence for some political/military issue.
The political motivation right now is strong as this is an issue Bush polls better on than Kerry and the race is too close to call, so you cannot discount that this may have been in whole or part a polictical exercise. What with the timing (3 days after the DNC) as well, I put the chances of a political driving force at around 50%
The US Goverment is doing the same (ads to tell you how to prepare for a terrorist attack) which tells you nothing very useful at all.
It's already happened, the Bush administration has made this country into a fearful nation. I only hope the country wakes up and realizes how fear is being used to control us by our own goverment.
I mean, does he actually know what he's talking about?
No
Name one corporate lobbyist that works to promote Amtrak Oh wait what's that? There are none Amtrak is not supported by influence by business, in fact it's barely supported at all. The only reason it's still alive is that there are some that understand that alternative transportation solutions are a good thing and keep it funded just enough to allow it to limp along and yes Amtrak is an important part of the nations transportation system NorthEast of the US, and to a lesser extent in California/Chicago
The newsletter writer obviously has a grudge against Amtrak.
Yes but it wouldn't be slashdot without a serious overreaction and misreading of a proposed bill now would it
It it is not used to visit unknown sites.
Point being here we don't know which sites were compromised, and by way of reports, they certainly were not unknown
so despite your prudent security procedures, you are not immune
From a legal perspective you may well be right, but in my book it's still negligent. You have information that could prevent many others from serious consequences to their financial stablity. Imagine if your bank account were emptied because you got a keylogger from cnn.com, and you only found out about it after the fact? And yes you should be telling the public. defending yourself in keeping it secret is a disgrace in this kind of instance. You should be ashamed.
If your server was compromised, and served up a keylogger, which was then used to empty punters bank accounts, you bear responsibility for notifing your customers of the breach.
To not do so is negligence
lets see your logic goes like this
A Republican sponsored a bad bill
A Democrat Sponsors said same bad bill
Therefor Repulicans = Democrats and vice versa
Buzzt sorry
Just because there are stupid D's and stupid R's doesn't mean they are the same, nor does it mean that other R's or other D's share the same views
Being a Democrat or Republican is not like being Borg
No s*&t sherlock
The point is Public Transportation and rail systems are optimised for high density travel. Obviously this doesn't work for many people, but it does take a lot of pressure of the road infrastructure, and at a lower cost than adding the equivelant road capacity.
Not to mention it reduces fossil fuel consumption and encourages high density development
I heard a somewhat similar story a few weeks ago.
A family in our neighbourhood travelled to Canada for vacation, but upon their return flight, they were refused entry into the US the Father's name was found on the Goverments no fly list.
After 3 months spent in Canada working the system, they were able to return
I agree, where I work is similar, and it's so much better than the over headheight cubes. When everyone can see each other, they also tend to refrain from behavior such as using the speaker phone to check voice mail which drove me up the wall when I worked in a traditional cubed office. And yes this works even for larger teams.
If I'm not mistaken, it was not a 'retarded programmer' but Gabe himself that got keylogged
If you are targetted, virus scanners and patches won't stop a keylogger, perhaps a trojan scanner would have, but we don't know what keylogger was installed. After all if I go and code up a keylogger now, and install it on your PC, your virus scanners/ trojan scanners won't detect it.
but yes they should have released the game already
This year it was only $11k from the article " While current quarter revenue is down from revenue of $21,369,000 from the comparable period of the prior year, this is primarily the result of a lack of SCOsource licensing revenue. SCOsource revenue was $8,250,000 in the second quarter of fiscal year 2003" see the table at the end for this years figures (11k)
Nice try, but (and I suspect many others) libertarians are definately on the right end of that spectrum you try to wash yourself of.
That being said, anyone with 1/2 a grain of sense realises that calling something left/right is an excerise in generalization.