What do they call planted evidence? Grab the guy, claim a dog alerted, start rifling through his stuff, then the police announce they "found something" and magically produce a small packet one of the cops had in the palm of his hand the whole time...
And you'll only disagree with me until the point one of the douches driving whilst uninsured hits your car or runs you over.
Unless of course you are one of those douches. Driving a car is a privilege not a right.
Fail.
I disagree with you. This is a bad solution to a real problem.
I have been hit by uninsured and unlicensed drivers while driving and while parked! -my last car was "totaled" while parked in front of my home near the end of a cul-de-sac.
So, stuff your ad-hominem and explain what you think is so awesome about a system that automatically denies you purchase unless it shows you on the "approved" list...
There is no reason for remote access to a desktop PC in a business environment.
I can understand remote access to data and remote application sessions (citrix/terminal services/remote desktop server/etc), but what is the business case justification for remotely logging in to the PC on your desktop at work?
Before the Department of Homeland Security took over the United States it was unconstitutional to arrest a member of Congress while Congress is in session.
Don't know whether that's accurate, but in any case he wasn't arrested so it doesn't really apply. From TFA, he was briefly detained (not detained at all according to the TSA) and missed his flight, then booked a different flight and passed through security without an issue.
Of course, if he wasn't a senator he probably would have been arrested for refusing to complete the security process.
The idea is that preventing a Senator or Representative from reaching Congress could change the very laws of the land.
The Senators and Representatives shall receive a compensation for their services, to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the treasury of the United States. They shall in all cases, except treason, felony and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any speech or debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other place.
It is only in modern times that we have been convinced that there is a difference between "arrest" and "detention"... it is a fiction passed off by the police in order to extend their powers. In the parlance of the time when the US Constitution was drafted, detaining was arresting.
1. to bring to a stop, check, slow, to make inactive.
2. seize, capture; specifically : to take or keep in custody by authority of law
I generally feel that politicians are spoiled rich kids who get their jollies by screwing over the masses, deserving of any misfortune that may befall them. I expect that this incident will either turn into a very public dick-waving-contest or be quietly swept under the carpet, depending on what back-room deal is made.
If only there were some automated system we could use to retrieve the tax % breakdown given a zipcode.
The problem is zip code is not fine-grained enough to cover the different tax jurisdictions.
For example: California has multiple overlapping tax rates ranging from state, to county, to city, to school district, to water district, etc. The tax rate can literally be different from one side of the street to the other. Also the changes in the tax rates do not occur on a single date. Many of these taxes were created through special ballot initiatives to pay for specific public works, and run for a period of time calculated to pay off the specific debt, meaning one can end today, and another next week and another in 6 months... and new ones can be added any time.
As a brick and mortar store, this isn't too difficult to deal with -when you get your business license you get a sheet of paper that tells you what tax rates apply to your location and to whom you must submit your payments. You (usually) get a piece of paper in the mail telling you when something is about to change.
For an online business it is incredibly difficult to determine what taxes apply to each and every individual purchaser everywhere in the USA.
Food for thought: The 5th Amendment says you can't be compelled to be a witness against yourself but the Government can still compel you to testify in a criminal proceeding by offering you immunity against any crimes laid bare as a result of your testimony.
That is not compelling your testimony...that is coercing your testimony. You can say no. They are simply making you an offer too good to refuse.
Why wouldn't you tell someone how to set it up? Are you too busy on yet another smoke break to be bothered by a simple request such as, "will you please help me setup my iPhone on the Exchange server."? I mean, I understand you are terribly important in your own mind, but god forbid if we ask you to take a few minute to, you know, do your job. Hell, if I knew how to do it, and a coworker asked me to help, I'd help them, even though it really wouldn't be my job (unlike your excuse).
Because it is not the IT staff's job to assist you in violating company policy.
Face it, IT's job is to facilitate the rest of the company's performance of the real purposes of the company.
Okay, everybody tell me how wrong I am.
You are wrong.
IT's goal is to facilitate the rest of the company's performance of the real purposes of the company. IT staff have the job of following policy and performing daily duties (much as everyone else in the company does).
Policy is not written by IT staff, it is written by upper management / board of directors. There are reasons neither you nor I are privy too (ranging from the random opinion of whomever wrote the policy to actual legal requirements) for the policies. If you don't like the policy, go up the ladder and request the company change the policy to one you do like.
My smart phone paid for itself the afternoon I accidentally misconfigured the firewall on the company's ecommerce server (which is in a colo several hours drive from me). Misconfigured as in blocked my own IP address instead of whitelisting it. I was able to download a SSH client, open a terminal session and revert the firewall settings from my phone.
You miss the point. Google is required by law to take down anything that a DMCA notice is filed against. It is irrelevant whether the DMCA notice is correct or not. The law states that they MUST TAKE IT DOWN. It is up to the owner to file a DMCA counter-notice to have it put back -at which point it legally becomes an issue between the poster, and the filer of the DMCA notice to resolve in court -leaving Google out of it.
Having humans employed to process the DMCA notices would not change the fact that they are required to take it down, irrespective of their feelings on the validity of the notice.
I am currently on the fence trying to decide between Sprint and Verizon. I think Sprint just tipped me to their side with this.
Somewhere deep in the bowels of Sprint, a marketing exec is getting a nice Christmas bonus.
Why am I suddenly recalling the end of "Little Nicky" -the scene with the pineapple and Hitler... Oh, wait, you said a nice Christmas bonus, not a well deserved Christmas bonus.
Based on their website, if they did I would feel secure that it didn't work properly.
In my experience... everything Verizon offered worked well -at 2x the price of what I have now (MetroPCS -which works most of the time, but occasionally fails in frustrating ways.)
The ubiquity of the technology may contribute to the ease of surveillance, but authoritarian governments were already doing bad things. Ubiquity of technology empowers protest movements just as much as it empowers government, creating a public accountability that wasn't there previously and enabling a transfer of information beyond government restrictions. I believe the tradeoff is worth it because ubiquitous technology in the hands of citizens can be more powerful than in the hands of government.
This sounds like the government's justification for increased surveillance and restrictions on sharing information.
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Which raises the question:
What do they call planted evidence? Grab the guy, claim a dog alerted, start rifling through his stuff, then the police announce they "found something" and magically produce a small packet one of the cops had in the palm of his hand the whole time...
They call it "Guilty."
I completely disagree.
This is an excellent solution.
And you'll only disagree with me until the point one of the douches driving whilst uninsured hits your car or runs you over.
Unless of course you are one of those douches. Driving a car is a privilege not a right.
Fail.
I disagree with you. This is a bad solution to a real problem.
I have been hit by uninsured and unlicensed drivers while driving and while parked! -my last car was "totaled" while parked in front of my home near the end of a cul-de-sac.
So, stuff your ad-hominem and explain what you think is so awesome about a system that automatically denies you purchase unless it shows you on the "approved" list...
The fact that Google still exists is confirmation that they comply with whatever the NSA asks of them.
ergo
The fact that you still exist is confirmation that you comply with whatever the NSA asks of you.
OMG RUN!
like a Starbucks competitor giving away coffee and trying to recoup the money by advertising on the cups.
I smell a new business launching... gotta go get in line for some free coffee while I can!
Just say no to ACTA.
There is no reason for remote access to a desktop PC in a business environment.
I can understand remote access to data and remote application sessions (citrix/terminal services/remote desktop server/etc), but what is the business case justification for remotely logging in to the PC on your desktop at work?
"Symantec Tells Customers To Stop Using pcAnywhere" ...IT staff have been begging users to stop using pcAnywhere for years.
Before the Department of Homeland Security took over the United States it was unconstitutional to arrest a member of Congress while Congress is in session.
Don't know whether that's accurate, but in any case he wasn't arrested so it doesn't really apply. From TFA, he was briefly detained (not detained at all according to the TSA) and missed his flight, then booked a different flight and passed through security without an issue.
Of course, if he wasn't a senator he probably would have been arrested for refusing to complete the security process.
The idea is that preventing a Senator or Representative from reaching Congress could change the very laws of the land.
It is only in modern times that we have been convinced that there is a difference between "arrest" and "detention"... it is a fiction passed off by the police in order to extend their powers. In the parlance of the time when the US Constitution was drafted, detaining was arresting.
I generally feel that politicians are spoiled rich kids who get their jollies by screwing over the masses, deserving of any misfortune that may befall them. I expect that this incident will either turn into a very public dick-waving-contest or be quietly swept under the carpet, depending on what back-room deal is made.
If only there were some automated system we could use to retrieve the tax % breakdown given a zipcode.
The problem is zip code is not fine-grained enough to cover the different tax jurisdictions.
For example: California has multiple overlapping tax rates ranging from state, to county, to city, to school district, to water district, etc. The tax rate can literally be different from one side of the street to the other. Also the changes in the tax rates do not occur on a single date. Many of these taxes were created through special ballot initiatives to pay for specific public works, and run for a period of time calculated to pay off the specific debt, meaning one can end today, and another next week and another in 6 months... and new ones can be added any time.
As a brick and mortar store, this isn't too difficult to deal with -when you get your business license you get a sheet of paper that tells you what tax rates apply to your location and to whom you must submit your payments. You (usually) get a piece of paper in the mail telling you when something is about to change.
For an online business it is incredibly difficult to determine what taxes apply to each and every individual purchaser everywhere in the USA.
Why are bribes even legal?
Because the people accepting the bribes are the people deciding what is and is not legal.
Mandylion password management token
Food for thought: The 5th Amendment says you can't be compelled to be a witness against yourself but the Government can still compel you to testify in a criminal proceeding by offering you immunity against any crimes laid bare as a result of your testimony.
That is not compelling your testimony...that is coercing your testimony. You can say no. They are simply making you an offer too good to refuse.
Why wouldn't you tell someone how to set it up? Are you too busy on yet another smoke break to be bothered by a simple request such as, "will you please help me setup my iPhone on the Exchange server."? I mean, I understand you are terribly important in your own mind, but god forbid if we ask you to take a few minute to, you know, do your job. Hell, if I knew how to do it, and a coworker asked me to help, I'd help them, even though it really wouldn't be my job (unlike your excuse).
Because it is not the IT staff's job to assist you in violating company policy.
You know, I have, on occasion, considered a career in industrial espionage, during the darker moments of my life.
Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals
Face it, IT's job is to facilitate the rest of the company's performance of the real purposes of the company.
Okay, everybody tell me how wrong I am.
You are wrong.
IT's goal is to facilitate the rest of the company's performance of the real purposes of the company. IT staff have the job of following policy and performing daily duties (much as everyone else in the company does).
Policy is not written by IT staff, it is written by upper management / board of directors. There are reasons neither you nor I are privy too (ranging from the random opinion of whomever wrote the policy to actual legal requirements) for the policies. If you don't like the policy, go up the ladder and request the company change the policy to one you do like.
Ancedote:
My smart phone paid for itself the afternoon I accidentally misconfigured the firewall on the company's ecommerce server (which is in a colo several hours drive from me). Misconfigured as in blocked my own IP address instead of whitelisting it. I was able to download a SSH client, open a terminal session and revert the firewall settings from my phone.
I'm worried with all this effective border patrolling it suddenly makes more sense to have domestic drug production.
Domestic Job Creation Plan...
You miss the point. Google is required by law to take down anything that a DMCA notice is filed against. It is irrelevant whether the DMCA notice is correct or not. The law states that they MUST TAKE IT DOWN. It is up to the owner to file a DMCA counter-notice to have it put back -at which point it legally becomes an issue between the poster, and the filer of the DMCA notice to resolve in court -leaving Google out of it.
Having humans employed to process the DMCA notices would not change the fact that they are required to take it down, irrespective of their feelings on the validity of the notice.
fuck off grammar nazi
I am currently on the fence trying to decide between Sprint and Verizon. I think Sprint just tipped me to their side with this.
Somewhere deep in the bowels of Sprint, a marketing exec is getting a nice Christmas bonus.
Why am I suddenly recalling the end of "Little Nicky" -the scene with the pineapple and Hitler... Oh, wait, you said a nice Christmas bonus, not a well deserved Christmas bonus.
Based on their website, if they did I would feel secure that it didn't work properly.
In my experience... everything Verizon offered worked well -at 2x the price of what I have now (MetroPCS -which works most of the time, but occasionally fails in frustrating ways.)
Quality is not their failing -price is.
The ubiquity of the technology may contribute to the ease of surveillance, but authoritarian governments were already doing bad things. Ubiquity of technology empowers protest movements just as much as it empowers government, creating a public accountability that wasn't there previously and enabling a transfer of information beyond government restrictions. I believe the tradeoff is worth it because ubiquitous technology in the hands of citizens can be more powerful than in the hands of government.
This sounds like the government's justification for increased surveillance and restrictions on sharing information.
From the article....
The first 90% of the hhvm project is done; now we're on to the second 90% as we make it really shine.
Good at math they are not...
psychological vs chemical
California != Chicago.
The economic comparison is not valid. There are specific points where the comparison is valid, but many more points where it is not.