And that is exactly the DoJ's job when it is talking about judicial matters, not yet another cushy government job-filler. For the rest there's Snopes and Wikipedia or a host of sources that explain both viewpoints. If people won't be bothered to review both viewpoints then another agency won't make them.
The proposal however ("independent federal agency that no president could countermand or anything else") seems to be for yet another agency that cannot be taken out of power regardless of what anyone thinks and whoever controls them, controls their product. Look at the FCC - it's corrupt up and down and through but nobody can do anything about it even though they control a lot of our property (every molecule of air in your house), they got bought by the media companies and no legislator can fix it.
Currently the Internet allows for left, right and independent media, there is no reason to create an agency that defines what is independent.
It depends on where you go really. The main articles are usually well-written and sourced but in the fringe articles on controversial science, religion in the US or that explain the controversial practices of certain cults, editors with power come in and reverse edits that are not according to their belief system.
Anything can really. I can (and have) disassembled parts of my seat (or the one in front of me) and they are much more dangerous (size of a club) as a weapon. Much of the cheaper airlines have been cutting cost on maintenance to the absolute bare minimum and as a result the interiors are literally falling apart. Most of them have loose components on or around the chairs which can easily be bent off or loosened by hand, one of them I traveled in had duct-taped one of those plastic divider walls because it had come loose. If they still have those in-chair computers (some don't anymore) you can easily loosen them too. Some of them run Linux, others Windows CE.
First of all, it's a bit hard to get into it but you should try using the full array of game controls and you'll boost up to Gold level easy even if you have low APM (Actions Per Minute). Simply putting your buildings on a hot key does wonders. Heck, there are players in the pro-level that have a mediocre APM (Axslav for example has ~80 APM), they just have well-thought out strategies and know what they're doing. Bronze yielded me some good games since everybody's trying stuff out, Silver and Gold is for cheesers and griefers it seems like.
Chess is relatively "boring". It's gameplay is very abstract and doesn't involve a whole lot of action since it's Turn Based, it's also very focused and can be completely cast with a single camera. StarCraft is a Real-Time Strategy Game with a huge area of play, lots of possibilities and a lot more things going on at once and every caster can bring their own viewpoint, change camera's and it will be a completely different cast every time. Chess also has very few 'units' and not a whole lot of animation.
Don't worry, the anonymized it by removing your name and address. All they use as an identifier is that random 16-digit number on your card. They have to keep the expiration date as well so they can properly put their data on a time line.
The MAFIAA started paying congress critters to force educational institutions and some other smaller ISP's to pay for, implement and maintain products from Audible Magic. (No, I didn't make that up. Let's hope they stay out of your particular ISP)
I don't think it's safe however to keep running a computer after it has gotten malware installed. If somebody comes to me with a virus on their computer, I copy the necessities (documents) and wipe the computer.
I've never gotten an up-to-date Mac or Linux system with a malware infection however, I did on an old Linux server nobody updated and had gotten rooted and on a Mac server system where somebody chose a too simple password and their account was being used to run an IRC bot. Windows however seems to catch a virus like an anemic leukemia patient out of the hospital.
Not even close;-) They have been had the same problem in Europe. Nuclear fuel waste from France (very low radioactivity since France actually reprocesses their waste from older reactors into fuel for newer reactors) had to be transported by train to Germany recently but before that there were debacles in Belgium and the Netherlands as well as to the logistics and why it was kept a secret where the trains would be.
Good designs should last longer than 30 years. Most classic power plants have run for over a 100 years with the right upgrades. Heck, we have servers running that are older than 30 years (data warehouses) and those are supposed to be old and outdated every 3-5 years.
The problem is that nobody wants to do anything about it because it's political suicide to do so. Decommissioning might cause a small (inconsequential) spill but if the local populace hears the mayor approved it, he won't be re-elected. If they hear that a senator approved transportation of nuclear fuel or waste through their state, they won't be re-elected even though it's perfectly safe to do so. If they hear that a congressman approved building a modern-tech reactor or a bunker for nuclear waste storage in the area they come from, they won't be re-elected.
Nuclear energy is safer and cleaner than coal but it's pretty much a break-even industry (lots of risk and investment up front, lots of maintenance and thus jobs are created but a larger payoff the longer you keep it running) and because of that they don't have the political power like oil, coal or even corn producers.
It costs you what to produce the book exactly? 6 months, 1 year? Even with high income figures this would be $50,000 you need to recoup or sell all your books about 65,656 times per year (+30% @ $0.99 per item). Given that your average app sells 1,000 times/day and your e-book sells at least 100 times/day and usually goes for ~$10 I would say that is not entirely unreasonable from Apple to take ~$15,000/year for publishing, hosting, promoting and distributing your book or app.
Maybe your book or app didn't make you money because a) It was worthless to begin with b) You asked too much money c) You asked somebody else to take another chunk of money out to do the services Apple already provided you with d) You didn't diversify to a bigger audience and didn't work on the fact that you are an obscure writer/programmer/category to begin with.
There are many people that are writers and app programmers. Just don't quit your day job yet just because of the success of someone who thought that shooting ill-mannered birds into a stack of blocks was hilarious.
I remember the good old days when we tunneled IPX/SPX over TCP/IP in order to play multiplayer games. TCP/IP support in games was very late imho with most games supporting IPX/SPX, Null Modem or *shudder* DirectPlay support.
Not necessarily, depending on the age of your components this can actually be a liability since the 2 extra pins were never standardized. Some (bad) designers have used it historically to carry a destructive current over it.
It is common in a lot of smaller to midsize companies that a dedicated cleaning guy/group or janitors (not a rent-a-cleaner) have their own e-mail address and can subsequently logon to the computers at work even if it's just to see special tasks (clean up the break room before a meeting) or log their time.
[conspiracy theory mode]I thought the CIA had put bombs in the WTC in order to make it come down, according to my sources planes can't make buildings come down in such an organized fashion (the building waffled as if it was a planned demolition), the fuel doesn't burn/doesn't burn hot enough[/conspiracy theory mode]
Even so, if you rent a car and the police goes to chase that car and it ends up in a big killing spree, you are not necessarily guilty of that chase or it's outcome. You may be liable to the rental car place in a civil suit (negligence for leaving the key in the car or leaving it unlocked or allowing somebody else to drive it) but in a criminal suit you won't be found guilty unless the prosecution can place you in that car at that time with evidence. Likewise if the car brand company decides to sue you for destroying their property (maybe the rental company leased it), unless they can place you in that car, they have no grounds for it.
Same goes here, if you rent out your IP address you may be liable to the ISP for breaking the contract in a civil suit but the judge correctly ruled that it does not mean another company that is not your ISP can sue you because you may or may not have been using that computer.
Exactly. You also have to look at the budgets. What they're going to cut in the USPS is next to nothing compared to the massive debt we're incurring thanks to 4 wars we're now directly engaged in as well as buying weapons development time by major corporations on the tax payers dime.
If you rtfa, the software (trojan) has to be installed somehow. The payload has to get on a computer and be executed.
FTFA: The original propagation vector of IncognitoRAT is a Windows executable, but apparently it was created using the tool JarToExe, which includes, among other features, the ability to convert.jar files into.exe files, to add program icons and version information, and protect and encrypt Java programs...However, we’ve seen only the PC version in a downloader/dropper in the wild.
Yes, I can run a Java-based botnet client (it may be one of the first) but I have to get it to run on a computer without user interaction or demands for passwords or administrative rights - Windows excels in that part of the attack vector.
Cisco is the Microsoft of networking. Only stupid managers think that Cisco certification amounts to anything (it's slightly better than MS certificates but nonetheless useless in a real environment) and once you go that way you will be indoctrinated to think that every problem is a nail (or requires a Cisco 3800 series device) and you'll be unable to see the concepts behind it or run any unit without IOS.
Back in the 50's-80's the Federal Government somehow built a large network of roads called Highways boosting the economy for a minimal increase in taxes. Look at this graph: http://nationalpriorities.org/tools/taxday/breakdown-one-dollar/ You see the very first big bar? That could easily be cut down to 1/4 or 1/8 (the UK, the next largest military spender spends 1/10th of this per capita) without affecting actual defensive measures. Since the 60's the spending has doubled (inflation adjusted) and over the last decade the interest over the debt incurred on those figures are going up exponentially. And that's not including Iraq and Afghanistan which Bush (and the big O hasn't fixed it either) decided to cut out of the public numbers a couple of years ago.
Imho electronic distribution is the modern spinny disk format. Blu-Ray is more expensive than DVD and doesn't add anything except higher resolution that nobody notices on a 32" 720p display (the average TV these days). If you're a movie buff you don't even buy DVD's anymore but use Netflix or a similar service.
Given that cars usually don't go much faster than 90-120 and suck at mileage and maintenance at those levels I don't think it will be a huge problem unless you give everyone exotic sports cars. 80 is a good speed and you'll get much better mileage on cruise control than continuously accelerating and braking for slow people that drive 50 while everyone else drives 65. My car doesn't even go into it's 5th gear at 55mph unless I maintain the speed for a while so I'm usually stuck in 4th. You'll also get less traffic problems - a lot of highways reduce 1 lane if there are a lot of bridges or exits and especially around cities this usually also involves a 10mph reduction in allowed speed resulting in daily traffic jams.
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And that is exactly the DoJ's job when it is talking about judicial matters, not yet another cushy government job-filler. For the rest there's Snopes and Wikipedia or a host of sources that explain both viewpoints. If people won't be bothered to review both viewpoints then another agency won't make them.
The proposal however ("independent federal agency that no president could countermand or anything else") seems to be for yet another agency that cannot be taken out of power regardless of what anyone thinks and whoever controls them, controls their product. Look at the FCC - it's corrupt up and down and through but nobody can do anything about it even though they control a lot of our property (every molecule of air in your house), they got bought by the media companies and no legislator can fix it.
Currently the Internet allows for left, right and independent media, there is no reason to create an agency that defines what is independent.
It depends on where you go really. The main articles are usually well-written and sourced but in the fringe articles on controversial science, religion in the US or that explain the controversial practices of certain cults, editors with power come in and reverse edits that are not according to their belief system.
Anything can really. I can (and have) disassembled parts of my seat (or the one in front of me) and they are much more dangerous (size of a club) as a weapon. Much of the cheaper airlines have been cutting cost on maintenance to the absolute bare minimum and as a result the interiors are literally falling apart. Most of them have loose components on or around the chairs which can easily be bent off or loosened by hand, one of them I traveled in had duct-taped one of those plastic divider walls because it had come loose. If they still have those in-chair computers (some don't anymore) you can easily loosen them too. Some of them run Linux, others Windows CE.
First of all, it's a bit hard to get into it but you should try using the full array of game controls and you'll boost up to Gold level easy even if you have low APM (Actions Per Minute). Simply putting your buildings on a hot key does wonders. Heck, there are players in the pro-level that have a mediocre APM (Axslav for example has ~80 APM), they just have well-thought out strategies and know what they're doing. Bronze yielded me some good games since everybody's trying stuff out, Silver and Gold is for cheesers and griefers it seems like.
Chess is relatively "boring". It's gameplay is very abstract and doesn't involve a whole lot of action since it's Turn Based, it's also very focused and can be completely cast with a single camera. StarCraft is a Real-Time Strategy Game with a huge area of play, lots of possibilities and a lot more things going on at once and every caster can bring their own viewpoint, change camera's and it will be a completely different cast every time. Chess also has very few 'units' and not a whole lot of animation.
Don't worry, the anonymized it by removing your name and address. All they use as an identifier is that random 16-digit number on your card. They have to keep the expiration date as well so they can properly put their data on a time line.
The MAFIAA started paying congress critters to force educational institutions and some other smaller ISP's to pay for, implement and maintain products from Audible Magic.
(No, I didn't make that up. Let's hope they stay out of your particular ISP)
I don't think it's safe however to keep running a computer after it has gotten malware installed. If somebody comes to me with a virus on their computer, I copy the necessities (documents) and wipe the computer.
I've never gotten an up-to-date Mac or Linux system with a malware infection however, I did on an old Linux server nobody updated and had gotten rooted and on a Mac server system where somebody chose a too simple password and their account was being used to run an IRC bot. Windows however seems to catch a virus like an anemic leukemia patient out of the hospital.
Not even close ;-) They have been had the same problem in Europe. Nuclear fuel waste from France (very low radioactivity since France actually reprocesses their waste from older reactors into fuel for newer reactors) had to be transported by train to Germany recently but before that there were debacles in Belgium and the Netherlands as well as to the logistics and why it was kept a secret where the trains would be.
Good designs should last longer than 30 years. Most classic power plants have run for over a 100 years with the right upgrades. Heck, we have servers running that are older than 30 years (data warehouses) and those are supposed to be old and outdated every 3-5 years.
The problem is that nobody wants to do anything about it because it's political suicide to do so. Decommissioning might cause a small (inconsequential) spill but if the local populace hears the mayor approved it, he won't be re-elected. If they hear that a senator approved transportation of nuclear fuel or waste through their state, they won't be re-elected even though it's perfectly safe to do so. If they hear that a congressman approved building a modern-tech reactor or a bunker for nuclear waste storage in the area they come from, they won't be re-elected.
Nuclear energy is safer and cleaner than coal but it's pretty much a break-even industry (lots of risk and investment up front, lots of maintenance and thus jobs are created but a larger payoff the longer you keep it running) and because of that they don't have the political power like oil, coal or even corn producers.
It costs you what to produce the book exactly? 6 months, 1 year? Even with high income figures this would be $50,000 you need to recoup or sell all your books about 65,656 times per year (+30% @ $0.99 per item). Given that your average app sells 1,000 times/day and your e-book sells at least 100 times/day and usually goes for ~$10 I would say that is not entirely unreasonable from Apple to take ~$15,000/year for publishing, hosting, promoting and distributing your book or app.
Maybe your book or app didn't make you money because
a) It was worthless to begin with
b) You asked too much money
c) You asked somebody else to take another chunk of money out to do the services Apple already provided you with
d) You didn't diversify to a bigger audience and didn't work on the fact that you are an obscure writer/programmer/category to begin with.
There are many people that are writers and app programmers. Just don't quit your day job yet just because of the success of someone who thought that shooting ill-mannered birds into a stack of blocks was hilarious.
I remember the good old days when we tunneled IPX/SPX over TCP/IP in order to play multiplayer games. TCP/IP support in games was very late imho with most games supporting IPX/SPX, Null Modem or *shudder* DirectPlay support.
Not necessarily, depending on the age of your components this can actually be a liability since the 2 extra pins were never standardized. Some (bad) designers have used it historically to carry a destructive current over it.
Yes, the Elo CarrollTouch Touchscreens use this technique.
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with Elo but we have 2 of these screens for primate research.
It is common in a lot of smaller to midsize companies that a dedicated cleaning guy/group or janitors (not a rent-a-cleaner) have their own e-mail address and can subsequently logon to the computers at work even if it's just to see special tasks (clean up the break room before a meeting) or log their time.
[conspiracy theory mode]I thought the CIA had put bombs in the WTC in order to make it come down, according to my sources planes can't make buildings come down in such an organized fashion (the building waffled as if it was a planned demolition), the fuel doesn't burn/doesn't burn hot enough[/conspiracy theory mode]
They do, especially when they are cousins. They just don't recognize it as evolution.
Even so, if you rent a car and the police goes to chase that car and it ends up in a big killing spree, you are not necessarily guilty of that chase or it's outcome. You may be liable to the rental car place in a civil suit (negligence for leaving the key in the car or leaving it unlocked or allowing somebody else to drive it) but in a criminal suit you won't be found guilty unless the prosecution can place you in that car at that time with evidence. Likewise if the car brand company decides to sue you for destroying their property (maybe the rental company leased it), unless they can place you in that car, they have no grounds for it.
Same goes here, if you rent out your IP address you may be liable to the ISP for breaking the contract in a civil suit but the judge correctly ruled that it does not mean another company that is not your ISP can sue you because you may or may not have been using that computer.
Exactly. You also have to look at the budgets. What they're going to cut in the USPS is next to nothing compared to the massive debt we're incurring thanks to 4 wars we're now directly engaged in as well as buying weapons development time by major corporations on the tax payers dime.
Yes, because there are no exploits that bypass UAC, none at all. I don't need to put sarcastic tags in it right?
If you rtfa, the software (trojan) has to be installed somehow. The payload has to get on a computer and be executed.
FTFA: The original propagation vector of IncognitoRAT is a Windows executable, but apparently it was created using the tool JarToExe, which includes, among other features, the ability to convert .jar files into .exe files, to add program icons and version information, and protect and encrypt Java programs...However, we’ve seen only the PC version in a downloader/dropper in the wild.
Yes, I can run a Java-based botnet client (it may be one of the first) but I have to get it to run on a computer without user interaction or demands for passwords or administrative rights - Windows excels in that part of the attack vector.
Cisco is the Microsoft of networking. Only stupid managers think that Cisco certification amounts to anything (it's slightly better than MS certificates but nonetheless useless in a real environment) and once you go that way you will be indoctrinated to think that every problem is a nail (or requires a Cisco 3800 series device) and you'll be unable to see the concepts behind it or run any unit without IOS.
Back in the 50's-80's the Federal Government somehow built a large network of roads called Highways boosting the economy for a minimal increase in taxes. Look at this graph: http://nationalpriorities.org/tools/taxday/breakdown-one-dollar/
You see the very first big bar? That could easily be cut down to 1/4 or 1/8 (the UK, the next largest military spender spends 1/10th of this per capita) without affecting actual defensive measures. Since the 60's the spending has doubled (inflation adjusted) and over the last decade the interest over the debt incurred on those figures are going up exponentially. And that's not including Iraq and Afghanistan which Bush (and the big O hasn't fixed it either) decided to cut out of the public numbers a couple of years ago.
Imho electronic distribution is the modern spinny disk format. Blu-Ray is more expensive than DVD and doesn't add anything except higher resolution that nobody notices on a 32" 720p display (the average TV these days). If you're a movie buff you don't even buy DVD's anymore but use Netflix or a similar service.
Given that cars usually don't go much faster than 90-120 and suck at mileage and maintenance at those levels I don't think it will be a huge problem unless you give everyone exotic sports cars. 80 is a good speed and you'll get much better mileage on cruise control than continuously accelerating and braking for slow people that drive 50 while everyone else drives 65. My car doesn't even go into it's 5th gear at 55mph unless I maintain the speed for a while so I'm usually stuck in 4th. You'll also get less traffic problems - a lot of highways reduce 1 lane if there are a lot of bridges or exits and especially around cities this usually also involves a 10mph reduction in allowed speed resulting in daily traffic jams.