Really? Most travelers don't really care or have a choice. Air France is still around even though it has made headlines a few years ago, American Airlines is still around even though it is the deadliest airline of them all.
And it holds true there as well. If my boss heard that I was a terrorist without any proof, I doubt they could even legally let me go on those grounds but my boss wouldn't take it seriously either. If you work for an employer that has so little trust in you that anything will get you fired you won't enjoy working there and you have practically already been fired.
I'm not an American, I immigrated from Europe to the US, partly because nearly everything I earned was taken away by the government to pay for people that are never going to repay it.
The US sure has it problems but the majority of issues within society are self-inflicted. Sure there are always people falling through the cracks (and that is true in Europe as well) but the amount of entitlement within the US populace is mind-boggling. If you pay 50k/year for a "Women's and Gender Studies" major and can't pay it off, that's your own doing, if you're in anything that actually is useful, your education pays back well within your repayment schedule (if you're not financially wasteful). If you don't pay for insurance and you end up in the hospital footing your own bills, that's on you. If you don't repay your debts and you go bankrupt, that's your own fault. A lot of the US populace wants a socialist-style handout from the government, they want the police to clean up their neighborhood without imprisoning their children, they want the government to raise their kids in schools and after-hour programs without paying for it, they want the government to intervene when they make bad investments (the housing crisis was fueled by both greedy lenders and greedy borrowers), they want health care and insurance without paying for it through either taxes or direct payments. They want their bad decisions to be payed for by someone else (privatize the profits, socialize the losses)
I personally have been able to pay for my own insurance throughout the time I've lived here because I know that's what you need to do although I do take some risk (I have a higher deductible so I pay less but I'm also healthy). I've been both self-employed as well as employed through employers that do and don't provide insurance, I've made as little as 20k and as much as 80k/y and I have kids as well, I live within my means and lo-and-behold, I can pay for all my necessities including insurance, a useful car, a humble home. I think the insurance market can be improved through some regulation but Obamacare missed it's target by a wide margin, simply forcing people to pay for the same limited selection of insurance.
In Europe it's practically impossible to do all of the above, you can't not pay for your insurance, you can't go in debt nearly as deep as the US banks allow you but you pay through the nose for the privilege of all your bad decisions being managed away. You can also immigrate from anywhere in the world and the country of your choosing rewards you with a paycheck, free housing, language classes and jobs, stuff you don't always qualify for if you are a native that makes 'a decent wage'. In Europe I could not afford a car, I could barely afford my rent and public transportation to my job, I sure as hell couldn't buy a house but I made too much to qualify for the free housing, the free insurance and the free public transportation. If I had done that for a decade, I could pull myself out of it and probably afford a house and a car when I was about 30. In the US I did it in two years, I owned a home and a car before my 25th and currently own two houses, planning on a third (investment income).
Regards the hollowed out funds, the US has it's problems as well but that's because people tend to make noise when their programs run out of funding. The reason the US has it's debt crisis is primarily due to (IMHO) excessive military spending and could be easily managed by cutting that particular thing down. The EU has a similar debt crisis but theirs is almost entirely due to entitlement spending that are so engrained, if cut, would result in massive social upheaval.
Spews of solids anywhere near Earth's gravity also has major impact for any further missions you might want to plan. It's already a worry for NASA and we have relatively few things out there that never spewed anything.
Air lines have to pay out of their own pockets to get something fixed, if the plane falls out of the sky, the insurance will pay for it.
While that is cynical boiling down of the issue, the airlines do try to squeeze out every penny out of their routes and that does include (well documented across the business) lack of training and lack of maintenance.
Complain about the lack of qualified candidates and churn out as many pilots out of schools regardless of their passion or grades as you can so you can pay them 30k/year, do the same for the techs.
If a baseless accusation of being a John ruins your marriage, you got bigger problems to worry about. I'd recommend you visit a good divorce attorney tomorrow.
So you'd have to find objects that provide: oil/kerosene (a fuel), liquid oxygen and/or hydrogen (a catalyst) and your precious metal all in close proximity near earth, find multi-billion dollar investors to mine stuff we can easily find on earth.
Alternatively you could just make a bunch of those metal things impact earth and mine it from there (businesses of your proposed magnitude wouldn't care much about environmental or people issues such as wiping a small country off the map).
In the US any of these programs would be considered racist since they require you to qualify in high school. It's also being paid for by insane income (averaging 55%) and sales taxes (averaging 20% for regular goods and up to 150% for fuel). The EU model is great for poor people but those that emerge victorious from the poor house after lots of effort and pain (eg. yours truly) will still want to immigrate to the US so as not to piss away their hard earned money into hollowed out funds (they've all been used up to pay for other things and all of them are deeply in debt).
Regardless, the free degree doesn't mean fuck and you'll still end up at McDonalds afterwards, going back to school until your retirement in order to stave off making the payments.
My iPhone lasts 3 days with moderate e-mail and web surfing use, occasional text and phone calls. I'm sure if you're on the phone all day, it would last only a day but that has been true since the inception of the cell phone. I remember the old bricks that weighed close to a kg, the Nokia's, the SonyEricsson's, the Motorola's lasted only a few days with moderate use (and very tiny screens). You can still buy a 'dumb phone' or 'feature phones' with modern battery technology and those might last a few days to a week with moderate use but then we're also giving up all the features of a modern smart phone.
No, they dropped it long after 100MB ZIP drives and CDR's became available and nobody was using the floppy anymore except for device drivers. Kind of like the CD these days. You got to understand that Apple never got stuck with a decades-old Basic Input/Output System that requires (to this day) 8088 Real Mode in the CPU, VGA support in your graphics card and a Floppy to boot the system or heck, drivers in the OS.
This is more of a browser issue that allows content to be loaded from domains not in the original request. A lot of malware can be prevented that way. If you really need to use 3rd party content, let your domain http server proxy the request (and cache it), that way you also prevent content being loaded you didn't intend to load. It also will reduce load times on your pages as there is no overhead on a million dns requests and different servers being involved.
Still the cost of platinum per pound is about $1500. The cost to put anything in space is ~$10k/lbs without even returning anything. Say that you need at least 2000lbs of mining material and people going up and down on a regular basis (and you whittle the cost down to a cool $1M/launch) to mine 500lbs of platinum, your.5M worth of platinum would have to cost 1M before profits. In addition, if you sold at market prices hoping to improve your profits in the future by technological advances you would pressure the market cost of platinum due to excess availability so your platinum would be as worthless as gold or silver and cost you a pretty penny.
The question is why. Unless our survival is threatened there is no impetus for us to go out there. Even if fuel costs were subsidized, the cost of mining asteroids wouldn't be profitable, the risks alone of encountering the energy and debris of your average space rock. It's far more profitable to mine out our existing trash heaps for resources than doing it in space and even searching our scraps isn't profitable yet over mining it straight out of the crust. By the time we've depleted the local resources to rival costs of space mining, it will be well beyond the time to escape this rock and then survival (aka governments) will be the main driver for space, not private profits.
People told us to replace chip and pin before it was even used in the EU a decade ago because it was broken then. We don't need chip and pin, we need to keep magstripes, implement a method of out-of-band authorization and keep banks liable for their hacks.
What's limiting right now is car manufacturers failing to provide a product because electric is inherently less costly to produce and maintain than ICE vehicles thus margins are going to be a lot smaller.
There is also no governmental support to come up with an open standard for charging across existing and upcoming brands or mandate gas stations to install a single charger per dozen or so pumps.
Tesla is making top-end, well supported cars (ala Ferrari/Rolls Royce) for the price of an average outfitted luxury brand (Mercedes/Lexus/Cadillac) and they're getting better/cheaper daily. You can't tell me GM/Toyota or the dozen or so other manufacturers' engineers are intellectually incapable of producing something better/cheaper on existing frames in the last decade or don't have the cash if they had to steal Tesla employees to do so.
Current language in ISP contracts certainly do not agree. If ISPs want to charge Netflix for service, forbid or shape your torrents and sell premium 'channels' on their service or do DNS hijacking they do not fall under the legal protections of common carriers
Settlements are approved by judges and stand in stead of a final judgment. It's a judgment without the expensive judicial process. Therefore it stands that the transfer was ordered and legal unless a higher court decided otherwise in appeals and I think the time for appeal has long passed. This might not be the case in another jurisdiction (Germany vs USA) and that is the interesting part about international agreements.
The contractor was probably ordered by a court order to hand over the code. The contractor cannot be penalized for following a legal court order. I don't know if Bossforce even has a claim to any supposedly illegal property that changed hands by legal order.
They already get paid more than men on an absolute level. The statistic used in unfair wages arguments is the estimated lifetime income which tends to be lower for women because they tend to stay home with kids while dad goes to work.
If you hire someone and explicitly pay them less based on gender, you're a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Information security is not a career. It's a buzzword for another management level over systems, database and network admins. If you are a good admin, you know about the prevalent threats and mitigate them, that is your job.
Typically an infosec person is someone who you report to in addition to your boss that concentrates on beating some type of C-level report regardless of the underlying facts. Oh your PHP is out of date, fix that regardless of the fact that the security patches are back ported or no issues affect the install. Debian is the bane of my infosec group.
I have a barcode reader from a more professional place. It needs to be put in a programming mode to do that. Then you indeed use bar codes to program it. The point still is that these attacks are niche. It's cheaper and easier and less criminal to just walk out of the store with your groceries than to use technology to do it. If you get caught hacking it, you do 25y of time because you used a computer, walking out of the store nets you community service at best.
IMHO the mass surveillance is just to line someone's pockets. It doesn't work, nobody is listening before or after the facts. They might find how they communicated but unless Facebook or Google kept track of it, the government sure as hell didn't or can't find it.
So it is basically a method of siphoning tax money towards companies and developers and since nobody cares or is listening it doesn't matter to our 'rights' whether or not they do it.
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Really? Most travelers don't really care or have a choice. Air France is still around even though it has made headlines a few years ago, American Airlines is still around even though it is the deadliest airline of them all.
And it holds true there as well. If my boss heard that I was a terrorist without any proof, I doubt they could even legally let me go on those grounds but my boss wouldn't take it seriously either. If you work for an employer that has so little trust in you that anything will get you fired you won't enjoy working there and you have practically already been fired.
I'm not an American, I immigrated from Europe to the US, partly because nearly everything I earned was taken away by the government to pay for people that are never going to repay it.
The US sure has it problems but the majority of issues within society are self-inflicted. Sure there are always people falling through the cracks (and that is true in Europe as well) but the amount of entitlement within the US populace is mind-boggling. If you pay 50k/year for a "Women's and Gender Studies" major and can't pay it off, that's your own doing, if you're in anything that actually is useful, your education pays back well within your repayment schedule (if you're not financially wasteful). If you don't pay for insurance and you end up in the hospital footing your own bills, that's on you. If you don't repay your debts and you go bankrupt, that's your own fault. A lot of the US populace wants a socialist-style handout from the government, they want the police to clean up their neighborhood without imprisoning their children, they want the government to raise their kids in schools and after-hour programs without paying for it, they want the government to intervene when they make bad investments (the housing crisis was fueled by both greedy lenders and greedy borrowers), they want health care and insurance without paying for it through either taxes or direct payments. They want their bad decisions to be payed for by someone else (privatize the profits, socialize the losses)
I personally have been able to pay for my own insurance throughout the time I've lived here because I know that's what you need to do although I do take some risk (I have a higher deductible so I pay less but I'm also healthy). I've been both self-employed as well as employed through employers that do and don't provide insurance, I've made as little as 20k and as much as 80k/y and I have kids as well, I live within my means and lo-and-behold, I can pay for all my necessities including insurance, a useful car, a humble home. I think the insurance market can be improved through some regulation but Obamacare missed it's target by a wide margin, simply forcing people to pay for the same limited selection of insurance.
In Europe it's practically impossible to do all of the above, you can't not pay for your insurance, you can't go in debt nearly as deep as the US banks allow you but you pay through the nose for the privilege of all your bad decisions being managed away. You can also immigrate from anywhere in the world and the country of your choosing rewards you with a paycheck, free housing, language classes and jobs, stuff you don't always qualify for if you are a native that makes 'a decent wage'. In Europe I could not afford a car, I could barely afford my rent and public transportation to my job, I sure as hell couldn't buy a house but I made too much to qualify for the free housing, the free insurance and the free public transportation. If I had done that for a decade, I could pull myself out of it and probably afford a house and a car when I was about 30. In the US I did it in two years, I owned a home and a car before my 25th and currently own two houses, planning on a third (investment income).
Regards the hollowed out funds, the US has it's problems as well but that's because people tend to make noise when their programs run out of funding. The reason the US has it's debt crisis is primarily due to (IMHO) excessive military spending and could be easily managed by cutting that particular thing down. The EU has a similar debt crisis but theirs is almost entirely due to entitlement spending that are so engrained, if cut, would result in massive social upheaval.
Spews of solids anywhere near Earth's gravity also has major impact for any further missions you might want to plan. It's already a worry for NASA and we have relatively few things out there that never spewed anything.
Air lines have to pay out of their own pockets to get something fixed, if the plane falls out of the sky, the insurance will pay for it.
While that is cynical boiling down of the issue, the airlines do try to squeeze out every penny out of their routes and that does include (well documented across the business) lack of training and lack of maintenance.
Complain about the lack of qualified candidates and churn out as many pilots out of schools regardless of their passion or grades as you can so you can pay them 30k/year, do the same for the techs.
If a baseless accusation of being a John ruins your marriage, you got bigger problems to worry about. I'd recommend you visit a good divorce attorney tomorrow.
So you'd have to find objects that provide: oil/kerosene (a fuel), liquid oxygen and/or hydrogen (a catalyst) and your precious metal all in close proximity near earth, find multi-billion dollar investors to mine stuff we can easily find on earth.
Alternatively you could just make a bunch of those metal things impact earth and mine it from there (businesses of your proposed magnitude wouldn't care much about environmental or people issues such as wiping a small country off the map).
In the US any of these programs would be considered racist since they require you to qualify in high school. It's also being paid for by insane income (averaging 55%) and sales taxes (averaging 20% for regular goods and up to 150% for fuel). The EU model is great for poor people but those that emerge victorious from the poor house after lots of effort and pain (eg. yours truly) will still want to immigrate to the US so as not to piss away their hard earned money into hollowed out funds (they've all been used up to pay for other things and all of them are deeply in debt).
Regardless, the free degree doesn't mean fuck and you'll still end up at McDonalds afterwards, going back to school until your retirement in order to stave off making the payments.
My iPhone lasts 3 days with moderate e-mail and web surfing use, occasional text and phone calls. I'm sure if you're on the phone all day, it would last only a day but that has been true since the inception of the cell phone. I remember the old bricks that weighed close to a kg, the Nokia's, the SonyEricsson's, the Motorola's lasted only a few days with moderate use (and very tiny screens). You can still buy a 'dumb phone' or 'feature phones' with modern battery technology and those might last a few days to a week with moderate use but then we're also giving up all the features of a modern smart phone.
No, they dropped it long after 100MB ZIP drives and CDR's became available and nobody was using the floppy anymore except for device drivers. Kind of like the CD these days. You got to understand that Apple never got stuck with a decades-old Basic Input/Output System that requires (to this day) 8088 Real Mode in the CPU, VGA support in your graphics card and a Floppy to boot the system or heck, drivers in the OS.
This is more of a browser issue that allows content to be loaded from domains not in the original request. A lot of malware can be prevented that way. If you really need to use 3rd party content, let your domain http server proxy the request (and cache it), that way you also prevent content being loaded you didn't intend to load. It also will reduce load times on your pages as there is no overhead on a million dns requests and different servers being involved.
Still the cost of platinum per pound is about $1500. The cost to put anything in space is ~$10k/lbs without even returning anything. Say that you need at least 2000lbs of mining material and people going up and down on a regular basis (and you whittle the cost down to a cool $1M/launch) to mine 500lbs of platinum, your .5M worth of platinum would have to cost 1M before profits. In addition, if you sold at market prices hoping to improve your profits in the future by technological advances you would pressure the market cost of platinum due to excess availability so your platinum would be as worthless as gold or silver and cost you a pretty penny.
The question is why. Unless our survival is threatened there is no impetus for us to go out there. Even if fuel costs were subsidized, the cost of mining asteroids wouldn't be profitable, the risks alone of encountering the energy and debris of your average space rock. It's far more profitable to mine out our existing trash heaps for resources than doing it in space and even searching our scraps isn't profitable yet over mining it straight out of the crust. By the time we've depleted the local resources to rival costs of space mining, it will be well beyond the time to escape this rock and then survival (aka governments) will be the main driver for space, not private profits.
People told us to replace chip and pin before it was even used in the EU a decade ago because it was broken then. We don't need chip and pin, we need to keep magstripes, implement a method of out-of-band authorization and keep banks liable for their hacks.
What's limiting right now is car manufacturers failing to provide a product because electric is inherently less costly to produce and maintain than ICE vehicles thus margins are going to be a lot smaller.
There is also no governmental support to come up with an open standard for charging across existing and upcoming brands or mandate gas stations to install a single charger per dozen or so pumps.
Tesla is making top-end, well supported cars (ala Ferrari/Rolls Royce) for the price of an average outfitted luxury brand (Mercedes/Lexus/Cadillac) and they're getting better/cheaper daily. You can't tell me GM/Toyota or the dozen or so other manufacturers' engineers are intellectually incapable of producing something better/cheaper on existing frames in the last decade or don't have the cash if they had to steal Tesla employees to do so.
Current language in ISP contracts certainly do not agree. If ISPs want to charge Netflix for service, forbid or shape your torrents and sell premium 'channels' on their service or do DNS hijacking they do not fall under the legal protections of common carriers
Settlements are approved by judges and stand in stead of a final judgment. It's a judgment without the expensive judicial process. Therefore it stands that the transfer was ordered and legal unless a higher court decided otherwise in appeals and I think the time for appeal has long passed. This might not be the case in another jurisdiction (Germany vs USA) and that is the interesting part about international agreements.
The contractor was probably ordered by a court order to hand over the code. The contractor cannot be penalized for following a legal court order. I don't know if Bossforce even has a claim to any supposedly illegal property that changed hands by legal order.
All those arrests came after good ole police detective work. None of those cases were aided by mass surveillance and the US has admitted as much.
They already get paid more than men on an absolute level. The statistic used in unfair wages arguments is the estimated lifetime income which tends to be lower for women because they tend to stay home with kids while dad goes to work.
If you hire someone and explicitly pay them less based on gender, you're a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Information security is not a career. It's a buzzword for another management level over systems, database and network admins. If you are a good admin, you know about the prevalent threats and mitigate them, that is your job.
Typically an infosec person is someone who you report to in addition to your boss that concentrates on beating some type of C-level report regardless of the underlying facts. Oh your PHP is out of date, fix that regardless of the fact that the security patches are back ported or no issues affect the install. Debian is the bane of my infosec group.
I have a barcode reader from a more professional place. It needs to be put in a programming mode to do that. Then you indeed use bar codes to program it. The point still is that these attacks are niche. It's cheaper and easier and less criminal to just walk out of the store with your groceries than to use technology to do it. If you get caught hacking it, you do 25y of time because you used a computer, walking out of the store nets you community service at best.
That's why I'm always late for work.
IMHO the mass surveillance is just to line someone's pockets. It doesn't work, nobody is listening before or after the facts. They might find how they communicated but unless Facebook or Google kept track of it, the government sure as hell didn't or can't find it.
So it is basically a method of siphoning tax money towards companies and developers and since nobody cares or is listening it doesn't matter to our 'rights' whether or not they do it.