>If you're toting that thing around with you every and you don't do photography professionally that's just foolishness.
Foolishness? I carry my SLR almost everywhere I go. I did in the film era too. Admittedly, I tend to use my snapshot camera a lot (A nice Canon), but I don't see where the foolishness comes in?
"No one is saying that they can't say whatever they want, just that they can't lie about who paid them to say it if there are, in fact, acting as paid shills for some other entity. "
Part of free speech means that it's not illegal to lie, and not illegal to keep such agreements and associations private.
So there are ways to report vulnerabilities safely:
1. Do it completely anonymously. Not only shouldn't you try to take credit for the discovery, but you should do it in such a way that you are completely disassociated with the report, personally. Have the report made by a person in your corporation or organization who has a PR/spokesperson role. Or have your attorney make the report.
2. Make the report as the person responsible for security on that system. (Being the target of litigation for doing something that is literally in your job description ought to be very lucrative when you countersue and win.)
But don't just make the report with your name on it, at random. Obviously that may not work out the way you'd like.
I don't care much for Sen. Stevens' politics, and less for his party, but... The phrase "Bridge to Nowhere" was repeated so many times that people accepted it at face value. But the problem is, the bridge in question was to connect a town to an airport. Granted, it's a small town, and, a small general aviation airport. But, how reasonable is it for someone to sit in a restaurant eating a Pacific Salmon that was flown in that morning from a fishing village, and call that place "nowhere", especially when what they really mean is that the people affected are "nobody." It's not right to do that. Smaller towns and even just small neighborhoods have had bigger construction projects, and people don't go on for years about how *those* places are "nowhwere" or try to make arguments about how the people who live there are somehow not deserving of roads or bridges. But otherwise reasonable people did this against Alaska, just because they wanted to follow a trend of criticizing Sen. Stevens.
As for the internet being "tubes", if he'd said "pipes" it would have gone over much better. Even network engineers who know better call it "pipes." Since I'm strictly application layer, I'm satisfied with "streams."
Geez, if I was a senator after being an IT geek for a few decades, would you guys make fun of me for talking about how we need a "fat pipe" for the capitol offices?
I'd have tried to get that on tape. Find a female Dean; wouldn't even have to be from the same college. That would be the end of the story. Or get several people to swear in depositions that the teacher said what you quoted, and then after failing, attach those depositions to the request to change the grade.
"Unknown if that professor still teaches. Nice, huh?"
Academia being what it is, we can check. Name and institution please? Or are you making this up?
"In the mid-80's I encountered a similar situation in high school where I was point-blank told by one of the teachers in final year that I should be enrolled in home economics not maths/physics/chemistry."
If you had simply asked the teacher to please make his recommendations in writing to the advisor, and send a copy to your parents, you would have *owned* that teacher.
Do you want people to behave like professionals? Treat them like professionals.
Pay a living wage. Provide a work environment that is at least as comfortable as what other professionals in other disciplines receive. Require reasonable hours, and do not make arbitrary schedule changes. Delegate authority to your IT professionals and accept and respect their decisions. Give them the incentive and genuine opportunity to have an ownership stake in the corporation. Hire adults, and be assured that you can ask them to behave like adults and hold them to well-specified performance standards.
If you treat a segment of your staff as second-class citizens, you should expect them to perform accordingly, and you should expect their loyalty to the organization and their concern for the bottom line to be in accordance as well.
>No, downloading a fake copyrighted work is not a crime...
Define "fake", and then explain how there is one copyright that covers that "fake" work, and another copyright that covers other work. Now resolve all this under "Equal Protection" doctrine.
>I'm going to take a wild guess as to why I don't think these anonymous surveys are really good:
I know from first-hand experience and from reliable second-hand information that some of those companies listed as "best places to work" actually can be a living hell.
>No, it isn't an example of comparison shopping. It's an example of someone applying for multiple accounts/loans.
Yes. Whenever I've bought real estate, I've applied for multiple loans, in order to shop rates and terms. That's comparison shopping, regardless of what you want to call it. In home loans, you don't actually get the rate quote before applying; it's late in the approval process when you get that.
>The only time the credit bureaus are involved is when you actually apply and the creditor requests a credit report. At >that point one would hope you had already picked one.
The bank or finance company certainly hopes that, but it's not their call to require it, thank you very much.
I'm in the sevens, and I own a fair amount of real estate including rental properties, a homestead estate, and a farm. When I talk to loan people *I* do most of the talking.
>it should be wholly unnecessary to keep "your" music under lock and key
Speaking as a songwriter/composer/arranger/producer, I have to say that I give no *consent* as the copyright holder with all rights reserved, to place any DRM whatsoever on *my* music. To be fair, very few systems actually do this. But I have a big problem with, say, SCMS. I don't give permission for my work to be "protected" in this way, and I consider it to be an abridgement of my Constitutional Rights. I have similar views on certain forms of copy protection of audio production software as well.
I once had a test account, first name "Test", last name "Account" turned over to a collection service by the company who I was doing the testing for. They actually pursued the collection, sometimes vigorously, sometimes dormant. It went on for years. It's not like I had any ability to fix it, and the company making the complaint was the party that initiated the transaction. Very strange. It's really funny to have someone obviously from an overseas call center, in all seriousness ask for a person by the name of "Test Account."
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>If you're toting that thing around with you every and you don't do photography professionally that's just foolishness.
Foolishness? I carry my SLR almost everywhere I go. I did in the film era too. Admittedly, I tend to use my snapshot camera a lot (A nice Canon), but I don't see where the foolishness comes in?
>I think there's too much of an obsession with Ohio
Ohio was the state that the chairman of Diebold said would be delivered to the president.
No court will uphold a law that does not pass equal protection muster, period.
There are already laws that cover conflicts of interest and fraud. Enforce those.
"No one is saying that they can't say whatever they want, just that they can't lie about who paid them to say it if there are, in fact, acting as paid shills for some other entity. "
Part of free speech means that it's not illegal to lie, and not illegal to keep such agreements and associations private.
This will fail on equal protection grounds: There is no legitimate interest compelling the state to allow discrimination against 18-29 year olds.
My uncientific survey duggests I am 6'4", drive a Porsche 356, and I once stuck gum under a table when nobody was looking.
You could just send a US snail mail with no return address. What would be nice, would be an single-blind return receipt.
Well, if the "credit" reward is worth the risk to them, there is clearly no problem.
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So there are ways to report vulnerabilities safely:
1. Do it completely anonymously. Not only shouldn't you try to take credit for the discovery, but you should do it in such a way that you are completely disassociated with the report, personally. Have the report made by a person in your corporation or organization who has a PR/spokesperson role. Or have your attorney make the report.
2. Make the report as the person responsible for security on that system. (Being the target of litigation for doing something that is literally in your job description ought to be very lucrative when you countersue and win.)
But don't just make the report with your name on it, at random. Obviously that may not work out the way you'd like.
"There is no way to report a vulnerability safely."
I don't care much for Sen. Stevens' politics, and less for his party, but... The phrase "Bridge to Nowhere" was repeated so many times that people accepted it at face value. But the problem is, the bridge in question was to connect a town to an airport. Granted, it's a small town, and, a small general aviation airport. But, how reasonable is it for someone to sit in a restaurant eating a Pacific Salmon that was flown in that morning from a fishing village, and call that place "nowhere", especially when what they really mean is that the people affected are "nobody." It's not right to do that. Smaller towns and even just small neighborhoods have had bigger construction projects, and people don't go on for years about how *those* places are "nowhwere" or try to make arguments about how the people who live there are somehow not deserving of roads or bridges. But otherwise reasonable people did this against Alaska, just because they wanted to follow a trend of criticizing Sen. Stevens.
As for the internet being "tubes", if he'd said "pipes" it would have gone over much better. Even network engineers who know better call it "pipes." Since I'm strictly application layer, I'm satisfied with "streams."
Geez, if I was a senator after being an IT geek for a few decades, would you guys make fun of me for talking about how we need a "fat pipe" for the capitol offices?
I'd have tried to get that on tape. Find a female Dean; wouldn't even have to be from the same college. That would be the end of the story. Or get several people to swear in depositions that the teacher said what you quoted, and then after failing, attach those depositions to the request to change the grade.
"Unknown if that professor still teaches. Nice, huh?"
Academia being what it is, we can check. Name and institution please? Or are you making this up?
"In the mid-80's I encountered a similar situation in high school where I was point-blank told by one of the teachers in final year that I should be enrolled in home economics not maths/physics/chemistry."
If you had simply asked the teacher to please make his recommendations in writing to the advisor, and send a copy to your parents, you would have *owned* that teacher.
Do you want people to behave like professionals? Treat them like professionals.
Pay a living wage. Provide a work environment that is at least as comfortable as what other professionals in other disciplines receive. Require reasonable hours, and do not make arbitrary schedule changes. Delegate authority to your IT professionals and accept and respect their decisions. Give them the incentive and genuine opportunity to have an ownership stake in the corporation. Hire adults, and be assured that you can ask them to behave like adults and hold them to well-specified performance standards.
If you treat a segment of your staff as second-class citizens, you should expect them to perform accordingly, and you should expect their loyalty to the organization and their concern for the bottom line to be in accordance as well.
>No, downloading a fake copyrighted work is not a crime...
Define "fake", and then explain how there is one copyright that covers that "fake" work, and another copyright that covers other work. Now resolve all this under "Equal Protection" doctrine.
>This means that live music, on its own, doesn't have enough value for a large enough market for sustainability.
It might mean that, for Chicago, 10 years ago.
You might get different results in Austin, Nederland CO, etc.
>K-Mart -- doesn't even exist anymore
Bought socks and dish soap there just about an hour ago, as a matter of fact.
>I'm going to take a wild guess as to why I don't think these anonymous surveys are really good:
I know from first-hand experience and from reliable second-hand information that some of those companies listed as "best places to work" actually can be a living hell.
>No, it isn't an example of comparison shopping. It's an example of someone applying for multiple accounts/loans.
Yes. Whenever I've bought real estate, I've applied for multiple loans, in order to shop rates and terms. That's comparison shopping, regardless of what you want to call it. In home loans, you don't actually get the rate quote before applying; it's late in the approval process when you get that.
>The only time the credit bureaus are involved is when you actually apply and the creditor requests a credit report. At
>that point one would hope you had already picked one.
The bank or finance company certainly hopes that, but it's not their call to require it, thank you very much.
I'm in the sevens, and I own a fair amount of real estate including rental properties, a homestead estate, and a farm.
When I talk to loan people *I* do most of the talking.
>it should be wholly unnecessary to keep "your" music under lock and key
Speaking as a songwriter/composer/arranger/producer, I have to say that I give no *consent* as the copyright holder with all rights reserved, to place any DRM whatsoever on *my* music. To be fair, very few systems actually do this. But I have a big problem with, say, SCMS. I don't give permission for my work to be "protected" in this way, and I consider it to be an abridgement of my Constitutional Rights. I have similar views on certain forms of copy protection of audio production software as well.
I once had a test account, first name "Test", last name "Account" turned over to a collection service by the company who I was doing the testing for. They actually pursued the collection, sometimes vigorously, sometimes dormant. It went on for years. It's not like I had any ability to fix it, and the company making the complaint was the party that initiated the transaction. Very strange. It's really funny to have someone obviously from an overseas call center, in all seriousness ask for a person by the name of "Test Account."
>So, instead of the DMV ... we want to turn it over to the same people who brought us the $500 hammer?
I know a machinist who has a $1600.00 hammer. There are trades where a broken or shattered tool equals death or lost body parts.
What's your point?
>I really hate it when they want you SSN.
Your bank, your employer, the IRS, and your insurance company can ask for your SSN.
Anybody else asks for it, you tell them to go pound sand. Or just make up a random string of numbers.
>Or move to Minnesota where only one party on a phone conversation has to agree, namely you.
Where can you go that you don't have to consent? When they say "this call may be monitored for quality assurance purposes", can you refuse that?