I understand why you have this opinion. You scored because of it.;-)
In all seriousness, I agree with the idea of not doing the panicking thing. I knew a girl who was overprotected till she was 18. Then she became the school slut.
I did such a trace once, but came to a system I could not enter so the bad guy got away. If only I had known then that all I needed to type was "override" I would have gotten him.
I doubt that the billing adress would be the place where he was or where he even would be related to. They just give a person of the lower ranks money to pay the bills that will be put in his name. I am not sure if it is possible, but it could even be that they used pre-paid cards.
As this is the mafia, you can bet that they will have some stores that sell this stuff and it won't be too difficult to do the first buy under a false name. As long as you pay all your bills all the time, nobody will be the wiser. I can even imagine that he will have a different subsription with a new phone each month.
although whether the law enforcement agencies get access to this kind of data depends on the laws of your country.
That should be coverd by a court order. Not by the police asking the provider and the provider giving the data. If that was what happend, he will be laughing all his way back to freedom due to procedure error. And rightfully so.
You specificaly state that you had no influence over the lab (and most likely also not over anything else), yet you claim that that is the disadvatage of a one payer system. As far as I can see, there is no difference concerning the influence you have.
I live in Belgium, where we have health insurance and auto insurance and bicycles and none of the problems you imply. My parents live in Spain and also none f those issues. My sister in Germany? No problems there.
People have faked wine in the cheap ranges as well. So only the high price is not an excuse for a quick buck. Money is the reason, not the price. People will fake enything. They would fake the stuff at Wallmart if they would be able to make money out of it.
The price itself depends on simple supply and demand. If the demand is high enough and the supply is not, then there will be a higher price payed for it. There are people who pay thousands of dollars for a specific commic, while I can get comics for free with my free newspaper. People pay extra if the comic is "damaged" by the autograph of the writer.
That does not make the quality of the comic any different or even better then what you can get now.
With wine there is the added issue of time. There is only a certain moment in time where the wine will be drinkable. Wine will start at a value and will become more expensive as the date you will be able to drink it is closer. When it is not yet drinkable, it is seen as an investment.
After that it might still be sold at very high prices as collecters items. That wiskey(cognag?) they found on the south pole? Bet people will pay a LOT for that, but not to drink it.
Nowadays not many wines can be bought that you can store for a LONG time. Most wines are now sold when they can be drunk, where in te past you could buy a wine and store it yourself for many years.
recruiting salespeople who paid a monthly fee to be part of a sales program. [...] Salespeople were promised payment based on how many other salespeople they signed up to the program,
That has pyramid scheme written all over it. I wonder why it took so long and why no legal action was taken against them. Or are these scams legal in the US?
The moment somebody comes to me and tells me I can earn a lot of money, but first I need to pay a bit up front will NOT be my new employer. The will NOT be my business partner. They will be sorted under scammer. If I need to recruit people and payed on basis of how many people I can enlist, I will NOT work for that company (unless I am HR.)
Why were they not closed sooner? Even without the links to other dubious companies, this sounds like a first class pyramid scam.
I do as well. Once I replied on a posting on Usenet in a Usenet abuse group which was about childporn. I also send complaints to the (Belgian) police and the provider about the site.
The police then tried to treaten me with distribution of childporn (the reply still had the URL), onstruction of an onghoing investigation (as I also had contacted the newspaper that the link was still there after a week or so) and to be on topic falcification of data as I had not enterd my real details in the free account.
Luckily my then employer was very understanding after talking 30 seconds to me after the call from the police who told them they needed to talk to me concerning a child porn investigation. I just showed the IT manager what I had posted.
As I had done nothing wrong, I was happily willing to go to them. I even thought they might thank me for informing them about the site. It was the opposite and only afterwards I realized I could have lost my job due to their handling things they did. Strangely since then I have not seen anything illigal on the Internets.
So depending on where you live, they could use the fact that you falsify your data against you. That said, I still use fake information. I use a gmail account solely for the purpose of entering an adress (named houghi.spam@gmail.com) or if no verification f the adress is needed, I use abuse@example.com where example.com is the FQDN of the site I am visiting.
The first Windows95 CD was without Internet Explorer. My ISP send me one floppy with Netscape 1.0 on it. Also Trupet WInsock for Win3.1 and an emailprogram, but for Windows 95, the connection was already available.
They should never have gone with the generic domain names. nstead just the country names. That would ahve been *.us for the USA. "What about debian.org" you might ask or shlashdot.org? They would have been debian.org.us. "But that is not international!" you might moan. Well, neither is.com,.net or.org. Basically they are US domains. So instead of a.com, people or companies would have a.com.us name.
Even names like nato.int should be registerd in each country that wants it.
It would then be up to each country (just as it is now) if they would accept registration from other countries or not and what other restrictions (or not) they would want. That way each country can device their subdomain to whatever they desire.
Obviously this will never happen now, so it is only an afterthought.
Also as an afterthought reversing the order would be much more logic, so instead of having example.com.us you would have us.com.example or even/us/com/example. That way the comments page for/. would be http://us/com/slashdot/tech/comments.pl
With the current DNS system that won't work for obvious reasons, but it would have been nice. Again just as an afterthought. I am sure that many people will see issues as they will compare it with what we have now. However if we would have started with the above, we would have found solutions to any issue.
When I proposed that to our IT department, they just looked at me with some blank stare and nothing came of it.
To me this should be a default for any laptop that leaves the factory. I bet the reason they do not do that is because they would get too many calls from people who forgot their password and blame the company for the data they lost.
It is not only passwords, but also usernames. I use some 10 different usernames. Most of them are variations of my first and last name, but in different order, but some are not. They are given by sites or departments and sometimes I am not able to change the login and/or the password.
The worst changing of password I had was where I needed to change every week.
At a place I used to work I conviniently 'forgot' my new password each month. IT did a reset and I was able to re-use my password again. Now I change about 7 passwords every month the first of the month, but one has an expiration date of 30 days (instead of 31).
So yes, I also do have a file with URL or filename, logins and passwords.
They could even go one step further and have everything still in the box and turn it into a real machine. Two HDs, processor, heatsink, memory, CD/DVD player and obviously the motherboard. Time should only be valid if the PC boots and all hardware responds correctly.
OTOH it is a neat little attention grabber for a fair.
That would asume alien life is looking for and aware of inteligent life. Next it would asume that they have studies us AND understood what we are about. Half of the time we don't even know these things ourselves.
And I would think that any form of life would be interesting. If we find some sort of bacteria on Mars, we will be extremely interested. I am sure that anybody interested in exploring the universe will be interested in us.
It could well be that they are just not interested in exploring the universe.
Belgium has an opt-out. This results in sometimes people moarning in front of empty graves or people not knowing that their loved ones are cut to pieces. Also next of kin deciding not to do it, even though that is against the law.
The advantage is that there is an opt-out law. The disadvantage is that many people are not aware of it and it is seldom discussed.
Now they can make a law that will allow police to search your data without any court order in the interst of Queen and country. Because YOU could be the one that has that unknown data. As such you are also the potential criminal, so your DNS can be taken.
So all people owning a portable will be searched and their DNA will be taken. Also people who live together, are related to, work together with, know somebody who or have ever seen somebody who either owns a portable, a computer, a device connected to the Internet or heard about it, will be searched and added to the database.
No worries. Nobody can access that database or even hack it. It is placed on a portable so it moves around to avoid any physical attacks.
How bad are things if you mix up a company and a country. Google vs China? So apparently things are so bad that Google can represent a country.
For me it is simple. A company either respects the laws of the country it is in or it should stop doing business there. This goes for Google in China as well as for Disney in the USofA. People should change laws, not companies.
So they looked up data in a phonebook and linked the outcome to the google maps wiki. Wow. Strangely the things that are not genrally known it had wrong.
A better thing would be to just use google to find stuff and people. I used the site above for someone who I know in the states and it found nothing. Google gave me much more detail.
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I understand why you have this opinion. You scored because of it. ;-)
In all seriousness, I agree with the idea of not doing the panicking thing. I knew a girl who was overprotected till she was 18. Then she became the school slut.
I did such a trace once, but came to a system I could not enter so the bad guy got away. If only I had known then that all I needed to type was "override" I would have gotten him.
I doubt that the billing adress would be the place where he was or where he even would be related to. They just give a person of the lower ranks money to pay the bills that will be put in his name. I am not sure if it is possible, but it could even be that they used pre-paid cards.
As this is the mafia, you can bet that they will have some stores that sell this stuff and it won't be too difficult to do the first buy under a false name. As long as you pay all your bills all the time, nobody will be the wiser. I can even imagine that he will have a different subsription with a new phone each month.
That should be coverd by a court order. Not by the police asking the provider and the provider giving the data. If that was what happend, he will be laughing all his way back to freedom due to procedure error. And rightfully so.
You are right. But then we own the largest brewery company in the world and thus control the world.
My friend fell
- Does he move?
Nope, I think he is dead.
- Make sure he is dead.
(shot in the background) OK, I am sure, now what?
You specificaly state that you had no influence over the lab (and most likely also not over anything else), yet you claim that that is the disadvatage of a one payer system. As far as I can see, there is no difference concerning the influence you have.
I live in Belgium, where we have health insurance and auto insurance and bicycles and none of the problems you imply. My parents live in Spain and also none f those issues. My sister in Germany? No problems there.
People have faked wine in the cheap ranges as well. So only the high price is not an excuse for a quick buck. Money is the reason, not the price. People will fake enything. They would fake the stuff at Wallmart if they would be able to make money out of it.
The price itself depends on simple supply and demand. If the demand is high enough and the supply is not, then there will be a higher price payed for it. There are people who pay thousands of dollars for a specific commic, while I can get comics for free with my free newspaper. People pay extra if the comic is "damaged" by the autograph of the writer.
That does not make the quality of the comic any different or even better then what you can get now.
With wine there is the added issue of time. There is only a certain moment in time where the wine will be drinkable. Wine will start at a value and will become more expensive as the date you will be able to drink it is closer. When it is not yet drinkable, it is seen as an investment.
After that it might still be sold at very high prices as collecters items. That wiskey(cognag?) they found on the south pole? Bet people will pay a LOT for that, but not to drink it.
Nowadays not many wines can be bought that you can store for a LONG time. Most wines are now sold when they can be drunk, where in te past you could buy a wine and store it yourself for many years.
I think what he means to say is that about half the people is below the 50% avarage. That is a lot.
That has pyramid scheme written all over it. I wonder why it took so long and why no legal action was taken against them. Or are these scams legal in the US?
The moment somebody comes to me and tells me I can earn a lot of money, but first I need to pay a bit up front will NOT be my new employer. The will NOT be my business partner. They will be sorted under scammer. If I need to recruit people and payed on basis of how many people I can enlist, I will NOT work for that company (unless I am HR.)
Why were they not closed sooner? Even without the links to other dubious companies, this sounds like a first class pyramid scam.
I do as well. Once I replied on a posting on Usenet in a Usenet abuse group which was about childporn. I also send complaints to the (Belgian) police and the provider about the site.
The police then tried to treaten me with distribution of childporn (the reply still had the URL), onstruction of an onghoing investigation (as I also had contacted the newspaper that the link was still there after a week or so) and to be on topic falcification of data as I had not enterd my real details in the free account.
Luckily my then employer was very understanding after talking 30 seconds to me after the call from the police who told them they needed to talk to me concerning a child porn investigation. I just showed the IT manager what I had posted.
As I had done nothing wrong, I was happily willing to go to them. I even thought they might thank me for informing them about the site. It was the opposite and only afterwards I realized I could have lost my job due to their handling things they did.
Strangely since then I have not seen anything illigal on the Internets.
So depending on where you live, they could use the fact that you falsify your data against you. That said, I still use fake information. I use a gmail account solely for the purpose of entering an adress (named houghi.spam@gmail.com) or if no verification f the adress is needed, I use abuse@example.com where example.com is the FQDN of the site I am visiting.
The first Windows95 CD was without Internet Explorer. My ISP send me one floppy with Netscape 1.0 on it. Also Trupet WInsock for Win3.1 and an emailprogram, but for Windows 95, the connection was already available.
They should never have gone with the generic domain names. nstead just the country names. That would ahve been *.us for the USA. "What about debian.org" you might ask or shlashdot.org? They would have been debian.org.us. .com, .net or .org. Basically they are US domains. So instead of a .com, people or companies would have a .com.us name.
"But that is not international!" you might moan. Well, neither is
Even names like nato.int should be registerd in each country that wants it.
It would then be up to each country (just as it is now) if they would accept registration from other countries or not and what other restrictions (or not) they would want. That way each country can device their subdomain to whatever they desire.
Obviously this will never happen now, so it is only an afterthought.
Also as an afterthought reversing the order would be much more logic, so instead of having example.com.us you would have us.com.example or even /us/com/example. That way the comments page for /. would be http://us/com/slashdot/tech/comments.pl
With the current DNS system that won't work for obvious reasons, but it would have been nice. Again just as an afterthought. I am sure that many people will see issues as they will compare it with what we have now. However if we would have started with the above, we would have found solutions to any issue.
Indeed not always, but always on portables.
When I proposed that to our IT department, they just looked at me with some blank stare and nothing came of it.
To me this should be a default for any laptop that leaves the factory. I bet the reason they do not do that is because they would get too many calls from people who forgot their password and blame the company for the data they lost.
It is not only passwords, but also usernames. I use some 10 different usernames. Most of them are variations of my first and last name, but in different order, but some are not. They are given by sites or departments and sometimes I am not able to change the login and/or the password.
The worst changing of password I had was where I needed to change every week.
At a place I used to work I conviniently 'forgot' my new password each month. IT did a reset and I was able to re-use my password again. Now I change about 7 passwords every month the first of the month, but one has an expiration date of 30 days (instead of 31).
So yes, I also do have a file with URL or filename, logins and passwords.
They could even go one step further and have everything still in the box and turn it into a real machine. Two HDs, processor, heatsink, memory, CD/DVD player and obviously the motherboard.
Time should only be valid if the PC boots and all hardware responds correctly.
OTOH it is a neat little attention grabber for a fair.
That would asume alien life is looking for and aware of inteligent life. Next it would asume that they have studies us AND understood what we are about. Half of the time we don't even know these things ourselves.
And I would think that any form of life would be interesting. If we find some sort of bacteria on Mars, we will be extremely interested. I am sure that anybody interested in exploring the universe will be interested in us.
It could well be that they are just not interested in exploring the universe.
Belgium has an opt-out. This results in sometimes people moarning in front of empty graves or people not knowing that their loved ones are cut to pieces. Also next of kin deciding not to do it, even though that is against the law.
The advantage is that there is an opt-out law. The disadvantage is that many people are not aware of it and it is seldom discussed.
You could still register as an organ donor. The fact that they won't use it is their decision, not yours.
Oh and in Belgium EVERYBODY is an organ donor by law.
I am tempted to proove you right/wrong.
Now they can make a law that will allow police to search your data without any court order in the interst of Queen and country. Because YOU could be the one that has that unknown data. As such you are also the potential criminal, so your DNS can be taken.
So all people owning a portable will be searched and their DNA will be taken. Also people who live together, are related to, work together with, know somebody who or have ever seen somebody who either owns a portable, a computer, a device connected to the Internet or heard about it, will be searched and added to the database.
No worries. Nobody can access that database or even hack it. It is placed on a portable so it moves around to avoid any physical attacks.
How bad are things if you mix up a company and a country. Google vs China? So apparently things are so bad that Google can represent a country.
For me it is simple. A company either respects the laws of the country it is in or it should stop doing business there. This goes for Google in China as well as for Disney in the USofA. People should change laws, not companies.
So they looked up data in a phonebook and linked the outcome to the google maps wiki. Wow.
Strangely the things that are not genrally known it had wrong.
A better thing would be to just use google to find stuff and people. I used the site above for someone who I know in the states and it found nothing. Google gave me much more detail.