I'm not a rich Republican that can't keep track of how many websites he has paid subscriptions to...
In all honesty I am pretty sick of all the politics. Newsflash, everyone in office, running for office, or visiting the offices are all self serving, lying, overpaid scumbags. With nearly every branch of our government with elected officials having alltime lows in satisfaction, incumbants will still be winning. People thing "it's not my self serving asshole representative that is the problem, its all those other ones". Everyone makes jokes about the McCain housing thing, but please please please find me a Democrat in a high office that makes less than six figures and maybe I will start to buy the diatribe about rich Republicans. The difference between making a 7 figure and 8 figure income is much smaller than the difference in making a 5 figure and 6 figure income.
A bit of a tangent, but thank you for providing me an excellent link on why militant atheists are just as insane as fundamentalists. Aside from the fact that this guy abuses the hell out of what the word "theory" means, he takes a pretty screwball approach to saying you can prove a negative. Really it all boils down to splitting hairs and saying "close enough" in an elaborate attempt to mock Christianity. The fact that he would dedicate so much time to building up this construct to attack Christainity (which according to him is irrelevant because the Christian god can't exist) pretty much proves how irrelevant he really is.
I'm not even Christian and I find this kind of tripe unbelievably ignorant.
Yeah...I bet anyone who loses their house or family member because emergency services couldn't get there in time is going to be more than happy to join their cause. This is why I hold nothing but contempt for those idiot students that thought it would be a good idea to march out and lay down in the road to represent dead soldiers. I only wish that a firetruck would have run them all over.
Protesting in a public area is not the same thing as being an irritating asshole looking for 15 minutes of fame. People that pull this kind of crap also are the ones that allow for justification of these kind of gestapo tactics. It is a bit harder to justify "we raided and arrested 1000 people that were going to show up in the park across the street" rather than "we raided and arressted 1000 people that were going to cause major disturbances and endager innocent people"
A nearly unlimited source of hot air.
Everyone wants to benefit from the, but noone wants them near them.
Too many in one place tends to cause horrible reactions.
Disposing of them is a terribly difficult task.
You frequently can get your way by threatening to use one.
I'm not really sure how to take the news that bug testing in Vista was quadrupled.
Where they focused more on the game than on actual bug testing?
Where there that many bugs that a quadrupled test force still allowed it to be shipped as it was?
I mean really...I don't know what to think other than they should have released a better product if they had quadruple the bug testing as previous versions. With any luck those wristbands were actually shock collars to deal with the consequences of allowing so many bugs to go out the door.
I am being quite serious, however, a still bit tongue in cheek. I am well aware that Xerox had it first. The big difference is that Xerox wasn't exactly in that business, nor did it seem to care much about the issue. MS signed up as a partner to see the super secret development, then stole it, ported it, and called it their own.
Look at the MS history of "innovation". They are are not an innovative company by hardly any standard, however, they are terribly good copycats and thieves. Shit, look at the Aero (you know...the competitor to Aqua...) interface, and then compare their Sideboard to Dashboard. I used OSX first, and only about a few months ahead of Vista, and it was painfully obvious how much of a blatant knockoff half of the new "innovative" features were, they just were implemented in the standard MS craptastic way.
We have Active Directory, a screwed up copy of the whole Novell and LDAP thing
We have their entire GUI from day one being little more than an Mac OS knockoff or stolen outright
We have IE which was purchased in a deliberately deceptive deal
We have Media player which was WAY behind the curve in supporting MP3s
Microsofts only innovation is in methods to copy, buy, or steal and then market other peoples ideas.
I do feel for Xerox a little, since the clearly didn't know what they had on their hands at the time. Top of the game in the copy market to the point that their brand was eventually diluted into "Xerox machine" meaning any copy machine.
Yes to P2P, Yes to Telnet, Yes to SSH (both incoming and outgoing), Yes to POP3, Yes to IMAP, Yes to...oh well hell...you can figure it out, it is a BSD system on a phone, sure Apple may not support you doing all those things with it, but it CAN do them.
Oh and yes to both VNC and RDP. I use RDP quite frequently from my iPhone and while it is a bit of a pain in the ass with such a small screen, the interface for zooming in and out is actually quite tolerable.
And you told the government how to do it? The government that has changed FBI regs to allow spying on citizens not suspected of crimes? The government involved in that whole illegal wiretapping?
Funny...I seem to remember three pretty high profile hijackings where they DID want to take over the plane...and succeeded. So, aside from the inaccuracy, the screwball dig about afterlife virgins either tells me you are joking, or you are a joke. You sound pretty fundie yourself with those statements.
They steal code from IBM and Apple remember? They purchased IE for a small lump sum + 25% of all sales of IE and then gave it away for free bundled to the OS they lifed from Apple. DOS was even someone elses creation originally.
Oh I wasn't really specifically refering to the decompression thing which is why I wouldn't be terribly concerned about bullet holes. I meant more of the problem of it potentially hitting something important like hydrolics, electrical systems, or fuel. A bullet could still bring a plane down if it happens to hit the right(wrong?) spot. However, even without explosive decompression, the decompression involved in holes in the plane would likely be enough to make the rest of the trip really suck. If you ever fly in a plane that isn't all nice and controlled environment like an airliner you will know what I mean. That rapid pressure change may not kill you, but if it is big enough it will cause enough pain in your ears that you will wish you were dead.
Personally, my solution revolves largely around the death of that whole corporate "non-person" crap. I would have to sit and think and research on the subject a long while before deciding if it is a good angle (unintended consequences and all), but if you hold C*O types PERSONALLY liable (hell, they make the big bucks right, let's make them take some risk) I think many of our problems would go away overnight. Darl, Carly, the folks from Union Carbide, and all the leaders involved in almost every corporate atrocity still keep their golden parachute and walk away unscathed. You can bet your ass that if the CEOs of Union Carbide knew they would face multiple life sentences for the negligence that lead to thousands of deaths that they would have chosen safety over profit. Instead they wound up paying something like $2-3k to each family killed in the Bhopal disaster.
As far as holding noone responsible, that is EXACTLY what blaming the corporate 'non-persons' does. You don't hold anyone accountable for their actions. That is our faults as individuals in society. As more individuals subscribe to the "blame someone else" idea it grows until our society does that in general and it becomes the accepted norm. Then we find "those evil corporations" to blame. There are good leaders, and bad leaders. We have allowed ourselves to blame the nonperson because it is easy, which gives rise to lots of bad leaders that never are held accountable for their poor decisions.
I see tons of protestors crying about the war, I haven't seen very many actually DO anything other than get their 15 minutes of fame being unmitigated morons and assholes for the local news. If I were an emergency services driver when those moron students laid down in the highway to protest the war I would not have thought twice about allowing them to commit suicide while I went to help someone in need. Its the all about me and no personal accountability that is fucking it up. I want to see protestors go campaign for local government spots, to actually go out and do something productive other than make a bunch of noise. How many lives would be saved if those idiot asshole anti-abortionists weren't busy trying to get their 15 minutes of fame and set up adoption centers next door to every abortion clinic from coast to coast. They sure as hell can rally enough resources to put billboards up every 10 miles, get TV ads, and mail plastic fetuses out.
There would never have been a problem in the first place with hotels demanding information if there was more personal accountability in place. People demand the government fix all their problems, that the government should know everyone checking into hotels so they can track criminals or terrorists or whatever. People expect anything to go wrong to be someone elses problem, so they make no effort to protect themselves. Hell, it is a lucrative business being involved in someone elses fuckup these days, big settlement checks all around. You would have people giving out their personal information to anyone who even pretend to be legit just for the shot of a big payout if they screwed up.
With no security checks people could bring their knives and guns and tazers and so on. It would be a damned risky endeavor to highjack that plane. I would much rather deal with the problems caused by a bullet hole in the plane from shooting a highjacker than with an automatic detonation, being shot down by jet, or being flown into a building or something.
I could maybe even see you having to check your guns just because of the potential 'hole in the plane' problems. But the easy remedy is to give everyone an asp baton. Planes are a close quarters place, even if someone sneaks a gun on and tries something, a half dozen people with metal rods should be able to stop them relatively quickly.
Then, for bonus security. Anyone who participates in stopping a highjacking gets to fly for free for life, a shiney trinket, and maybe a nice check too.
That isn't always a reasonable expectation. Hospitals are an excellent example of the problem with personal information and IT staff. Most industries can't afford to just hire more IT people because it would help. The groups that will get murdered by this kind of punishment aren't the big megacorps with lawyer hordes. It will be the smaller places that can't afford the extra staff and horde of lawyers. The megacorps will release the lawyer horde or burn their own IT staff and noone that matters will really feel any pain for the fuckup.
That said, a great deal of the personal information stuff is also on the onus of the individual as well. The notion that we should hold everyone else but ourselves responsible is a growing trend in all aspects of modern American life. Don't want people to know you have buying porno every payday...pay cash. My real irritation comes from the "we require credit cards". But, again, as irritating of a policy as that is if people actually gave a shit that policy would have died out when it resulted in lost business, instead, people whip out the plastic. We dug our own grave by giving up our personal information to anyone who asked, and now we are crying because the people we gave our information to lost it.
Negligence translated is "Why did the undermanned, underpaid, and underfunded IT staff allow this to happen? If 4 guys can't manage 1,000 workstations and know every application on the network that could have potential vulnerabilities then they deserve to go to jail!"
I'm sorry...so you expect that staff of 4 people to do penetration testing to that degree on every application installed? You certainly live in an interesting reality if that is the case. Here is one...I bothered...I found that every major OS on the market has had multiple vulnerabilities that could grant administrator access both locally and remotely in the last 5 years. Clearly this means we should use pen and paper. This personal data isn't just retained shopping habits either. Medical information, hotel reservations, flight information, bus tickets, and credit card companies and banks need it for more than tracking shopping habits, employers need it for tax purposes. There are tons of places that information will reside, inside tons of programs, databases, etc home grown or professionaly developed. Again...it is completely and totally moronic to demand criminal charges against IT staff for this.
Names and Addresses are hardly "private" information. Marital status, SSN, etc are private information. As for exceptions...yeah...that has totally worked out in our legal system thus far. Wonder why healthcare costs so fucking much? The insurance companies are involved on every level from malpractice insurance on the doctors side increasing the cost of doing business to protect himself from every litigious asshole that assumes doctors cannot make mistakes, to the medical insurance provider gouging the shit out of consumers with magic numbers and writeoffs and all kinds of other fancy accounting.
End result, our healthcare system is totally fucked due to that "make exceptions for some and punish the rest" mentality that has been applied to doctors. Now, doctors cannot make honest mistakes without losing their asses because the default assumption is malpractice. The only thing that has really protected doctors jobs is the fact that people NEED doctors and they need them locally. You can bet your ass this will lead to stupid loopholes with offshoring the IT staff so they can't be held criminally liable here causing the loss of tons of jobs.
I agree something needs to be done, but the proposed solution of criminal charges is nothing more than a poorly thought out moronic kneejerk reaction to the problem. Most cases of "fine them big bucks" is just as bad paving the way for rampant fraud, further hiding of data breeches, or just increasing the cost to consumers. The problem needs to be fixed, not just punished.
Clearly you are confused. If we take away the ability for people to spend themselves into oblivion with easy credit the terrorists win! I want the prices of everything on the market artificially inflated by peoples spending habits of imaginary money. I am simply not satisfied until I have to pay $50 for a $5 item because the supply and demand curve is completely screwed due to the massive influx of imaginary money into the consumers hands!
You must be some kind of dirty pinko commie bedwetter if you want to stop the massive debt spending credit system.
Sure...while we are at it lets put a cop in jail every time someone in their city gets mugged, murdered, raped, etc.
I will be exiting the field the moment some kind of stupidity like what is suggested goes in place. I have a family, and I have no intention spending time in jail being a scapegoat for something like this. It is stupid to expect an individual to be held accountable criminally for something like this. Why should I spend time in jail or face fines personally because Vendor X couldn't be bothered to employ better programmers or test their stuff. Nevermind there will ALWAYS be vulnerabilities. Or maybe I go to jail because some worker brought in an infected USB photo frame. The only way you can really secure the desktop computer completely from the user is to cut the power cable and give them a pad of paper and a pen.
That said...I think there should be something to "encourage" companies to actually invest the resources in protecting that data, or just to stop collecting it. Seems to me not collecting it is far easier and more viable in many many cases. I agree that there is a problem in the value that data provides the company and their lack of "encouragement" to protect it. The notion of holding already overtaxed administrators criminally liable will only make the problem worse. The field will shrink even further and I imagine many of the competent ones will find work elsewhere not wanting to be a whipping boy under idiotic laws like this.
Shut up you liberal scum! How is our economy going to make it out of this recession if people "save"? Burn all the energy you can! Be wasteful! Spend more!
You and your rational approach crap! This "warming" and "climate change" crap are all godless liberal lies, besides Jesus is going to come save us before anything like that could happen anyways. If people start "saving" or "being green" our economy might slow down, rich people might stop getting richer and then how is Jesus supposed to know who to save!?
Well...I'm glad it was effective. Glad that their actions caused less collateral damage. Glad that the Nazis lost that one. However, it still made it far easier for a German soldier to put bullets in the head of any civilian they encountered rather than risking that they are facing a resistance member.
I have never said it didn't take some pretty despicable shit to win a war, in fact I would suggest it is probably pretty necessary. That is one of the reasons I think the concept of the rules of war stuff is so funny. Ok...we are going to come out here and kill and destroy each other until one of us gives up or is wiped out...so here are the rules... I think a civilian populace (doubly so on the politicians involved in making war) that uses the military as human shields is pretty despicable as well, if the threat is that great why didn't they all take up arms? I'm not some mindless pacifist that thinks we can all hold hands and sing to stop war, I believe there have been more than a few necessary wars. By all means, feel free to point out a conflict that didn't involve both sides doing some pretty horrible things to win.
As for those good old French. There wouldn't really have been a French Resistance had they not initially welcomed the Nazis to town in the first place.
How many innocent civilians died when it was decided they should use a passanger ship to try and smuggle weapons past the German uboat blockade to England? Even more so knowing full well that the sinking of a passenger ship would be the propoganda needed to bring America into that war. I believe the Nazis had to be stopped, but lets not pretend there were good guys and bad guys in this fight.
No. I don't see how that was even remotely offensive in any way shape or form. The winner of numerous science awards is a crafty chick that figured out an incredibly impressive new way of doing something using really simple pieces. Having read the summary, and the article, "crafy chick" does describe her quite accurately. She is crafty, and she is a chick (and a cute chick at that from the picture). Now if the article said "this clever bimbo" I might agree with you due to negative connotation, but I have never heard chick used in a specifically bad way. To me "that chick" is no different than "that guy". The tone I got out of the summary actually seems rather flattering. I don't understand how a cute girl making the front page of a geek news site by being incredibly geeky could possibly be portrayed in a negative manner. The summary even goes out of the way to say profound (and a good profound). I see nothing even remotely negative.
No. It is still despicable. It puts innocent civilians in the line of fire (more than they already would be). That it was done with good intent or good results is tangent. You seem to be falling victim to the notion that one side must be right and the other side must be wrong. That the Nazis did even more horrific things than hiding combatants among the civilian populace does not take away from the bad of hiding combatants among the innocent civilians.
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Wrong place to ask that question my friend...
Though I must say it brings an interesting connotation and often overlooked piece of the Apple logo (just one bite missing...)
I'm not a rich Republican that can't keep track of how many websites he has paid subscriptions to...
In all honesty I am pretty sick of all the politics. Newsflash, everyone in office, running for office, or visiting the offices are all self serving, lying, overpaid scumbags. With nearly every branch of our government with elected officials having alltime lows in satisfaction, incumbants will still be winning. People thing "it's not my self serving asshole representative that is the problem, its all those other ones". Everyone makes jokes about the McCain housing thing, but please please please find me a Democrat in a high office that makes less than six figures and maybe I will start to buy the diatribe about rich Republicans. The difference between making a 7 figure and 8 figure income is much smaller than the difference in making a 5 figure and 6 figure income.
I had wondered about that myself. How is it that Slashdot has so many McCain ads?
A bit of a tangent, but thank you for providing me an excellent link on why militant atheists are just as insane as fundamentalists. Aside from the fact that this guy abuses the hell out of what the word "theory" means, he takes a pretty screwball approach to saying you can prove a negative. Really it all boils down to splitting hairs and saying "close enough" in an elaborate attempt to mock Christianity. The fact that he would dedicate so much time to building up this construct to attack Christainity (which according to him is irrelevant because the Christian god can't exist) pretty much proves how irrelevant he really is.
I'm not even Christian and I find this kind of tripe unbelievably ignorant.
Yeah...I bet anyone who loses their house or family member because emergency services couldn't get there in time is going to be more than happy to join their cause. This is why I hold nothing but contempt for those idiot students that thought it would be a good idea to march out and lay down in the road to represent dead soldiers. I only wish that a firetruck would have run them all over.
Protesting in a public area is not the same thing as being an irritating asshole looking for 15 minutes of fame. People that pull this kind of crap also are the ones that allow for justification of these kind of gestapo tactics. It is a bit harder to justify "we raided and arrested 1000 people that were going to show up in the park across the street" rather than "we raided and arressted 1000 people that were going to cause major disturbances and endager innocent people"
Lawyers are indeed like nuclear tech.
A nearly unlimited source of hot air.
Everyone wants to benefit from the, but noone wants them near them.
Too many in one place tends to cause horrible reactions.
Disposing of them is a terribly difficult task.
You frequently can get your way by threatening to use one.
Well that blows...
I bet if they offered a years salary for finding a bug that lead to system level access they would have even more deeper level testing.
I'm not really sure how to take the news that bug testing in Vista was quadrupled.
Where they focused more on the game than on actual bug testing?
Where there that many bugs that a quadrupled test force still allowed it to be shipped as it was?
I mean really...I don't know what to think other than they should have released a better product if they had quadruple the bug testing as previous versions. With any luck those wristbands were actually shock collars to deal with the consequences of allowing so many bugs to go out the door.
I am being quite serious, however, a still bit tongue in cheek. I am well aware that Xerox had it first. The big difference is that Xerox wasn't exactly in that business, nor did it seem to care much about the issue. MS signed up as a partner to see the super secret development, then stole it, ported it, and called it their own.
Look at the MS history of "innovation". They are are not an innovative company by hardly any standard, however, they are terribly good copycats and thieves. Shit, look at the Aero (you know...the competitor to Aqua...) interface, and then compare their Sideboard to Dashboard. I used OSX first, and only about a few months ahead of Vista, and it was painfully obvious how much of a blatant knockoff half of the new "innovative" features were, they just were implemented in the standard MS craptastic way.
We have Active Directory, a screwed up copy of the whole Novell and LDAP thing
We have their entire GUI from day one being little more than an Mac OS knockoff or stolen outright
We have IE which was purchased in a deliberately deceptive deal
We have Media player which was WAY behind the curve in supporting MP3s
Microsofts only innovation is in methods to copy, buy, or steal and then market other peoples ideas.
I do feel for Xerox a little, since the clearly didn't know what they had on their hands at the time. Top of the game in the copy market to the point that their brand was eventually diluted into "Xerox machine" meaning any copy machine.
Yes to P2P, Yes to Telnet, Yes to SSH (both incoming and outgoing), Yes to POP3, Yes to IMAP, Yes to...oh well hell...you can figure it out, it is a BSD system on a phone, sure Apple may not support you doing all those things with it, but it CAN do them.
Oh and yes to both VNC and RDP. I use RDP quite frequently from my iPhone and while it is a bit of a pain in the ass with such a small screen, the interface for zooming in and out is actually quite tolerable.
And you told the government how to do it? The government that has changed FBI regs to allow spying on citizens not suspected of crimes? The government involved in that whole illegal wiretapping?
Thanks...
Asshole...
Funny...I seem to remember three pretty high profile hijackings where they DID want to take over the plane...and succeeded. So, aside from the inaccuracy, the screwball dig about afterlife virgins either tells me you are joking, or you are a joke. You sound pretty fundie yourself with those statements.
They steal code from IBM and Apple remember? They purchased IE for a small lump sum + 25% of all sales of IE and then gave it away for free bundled to the OS they lifed from Apple. DOS was even someone elses creation originally.
Oh I wasn't really specifically refering to the decompression thing which is why I wouldn't be terribly concerned about bullet holes. I meant more of the problem of it potentially hitting something important like hydrolics, electrical systems, or fuel. A bullet could still bring a plane down if it happens to hit the right(wrong?) spot. However, even without explosive decompression, the decompression involved in holes in the plane would likely be enough to make the rest of the trip really suck. If you ever fly in a plane that isn't all nice and controlled environment like an airliner you will know what I mean. That rapid pressure change may not kill you, but if it is big enough it will cause enough pain in your ears that you will wish you were dead.
Personally, my solution revolves largely around the death of that whole corporate "non-person" crap. I would have to sit and think and research on the subject a long while before deciding if it is a good angle (unintended consequences and all), but if you hold C*O types PERSONALLY liable (hell, they make the big bucks right, let's make them take some risk) I think many of our problems would go away overnight. Darl, Carly, the folks from Union Carbide, and all the leaders involved in almost every corporate atrocity still keep their golden parachute and walk away unscathed. You can bet your ass that if the CEOs of Union Carbide knew they would face multiple life sentences for the negligence that lead to thousands of deaths that they would have chosen safety over profit. Instead they wound up paying something like $2-3k to each family killed in the Bhopal disaster.
As far as holding noone responsible, that is EXACTLY what blaming the corporate 'non-persons' does. You don't hold anyone accountable for their actions. That is our faults as individuals in society. As more individuals subscribe to the "blame someone else" idea it grows until our society does that in general and it becomes the accepted norm. Then we find "those evil corporations" to blame. There are good leaders, and bad leaders. We have allowed ourselves to blame the nonperson because it is easy, which gives rise to lots of bad leaders that never are held accountable for their poor decisions.
I see tons of protestors crying about the war, I haven't seen very many actually DO anything other than get their 15 minutes of fame being unmitigated morons and assholes for the local news. If I were an emergency services driver when those moron students laid down in the highway to protest the war I would not have thought twice about allowing them to commit suicide while I went to help someone in need. Its the all about me and no personal accountability that is fucking it up. I want to see protestors go campaign for local government spots, to actually go out and do something productive other than make a bunch of noise. How many lives would be saved if those idiot asshole anti-abortionists weren't busy trying to get their 15 minutes of fame and set up adoption centers next door to every abortion clinic from coast to coast. They sure as hell can rally enough resources to put billboards up every 10 miles, get TV ads, and mail plastic fetuses out.
There would never have been a problem in the first place with hotels demanding information if there was more personal accountability in place. People demand the government fix all their problems, that the government should know everyone checking into hotels so they can track criminals or terrorists or whatever. People expect anything to go wrong to be someone elses problem, so they make no effort to protect themselves. Hell, it is a lucrative business being involved in someone elses fuckup these days, big settlement checks all around. You would have people giving out their personal information to anyone who even pretend to be legit just for the shot of a big payout if they screwed up.
With no security checks people could bring their knives and guns and tazers and so on. It would be a damned risky endeavor to highjack that plane. I would much rather deal with the problems caused by a bullet hole in the plane from shooting a highjacker than with an automatic detonation, being shot down by jet, or being flown into a building or something.
I could maybe even see you having to check your guns just because of the potential 'hole in the plane' problems. But the easy remedy is to give everyone an asp baton. Planes are a close quarters place, even if someone sneaks a gun on and tries something, a half dozen people with metal rods should be able to stop them relatively quickly.
Then, for bonus security. Anyone who participates in stopping a highjacking gets to fly for free for life, a shiney trinket, and maybe a nice check too.
That isn't always a reasonable expectation. Hospitals are an excellent example of the problem with personal information and IT staff. Most industries can't afford to just hire more IT people because it would help. The groups that will get murdered by this kind of punishment aren't the big megacorps with lawyer hordes. It will be the smaller places that can't afford the extra staff and horde of lawyers. The megacorps will release the lawyer horde or burn their own IT staff and noone that matters will really feel any pain for the fuckup.
That said, a great deal of the personal information stuff is also on the onus of the individual as well. The notion that we should hold everyone else but ourselves responsible is a growing trend in all aspects of modern American life. Don't want people to know you have buying porno every payday...pay cash. My real irritation comes from the "we require credit cards". But, again, as irritating of a policy as that is if people actually gave a shit that policy would have died out when it resulted in lost business, instead, people whip out the plastic. We dug our own grave by giving up our personal information to anyone who asked, and now we are crying because the people we gave our information to lost it.
Negligence translated is "Why did the undermanned, underpaid, and underfunded IT staff allow this to happen? If 4 guys can't manage 1,000 workstations and know every application on the network that could have potential vulnerabilities then they deserve to go to jail!"
I'm sorry...so you expect that staff of 4 people to do penetration testing to that degree on every application installed? You certainly live in an interesting reality if that is the case. Here is one...I bothered...I found that every major OS on the market has had multiple vulnerabilities that could grant administrator access both locally and remotely in the last 5 years. Clearly this means we should use pen and paper. This personal data isn't just retained shopping habits either. Medical information, hotel reservations, flight information, bus tickets, and credit card companies and banks need it for more than tracking shopping habits, employers need it for tax purposes. There are tons of places that information will reside, inside tons of programs, databases, etc home grown or professionaly developed. Again...it is completely and totally moronic to demand criminal charges against IT staff for this.
Names and Addresses are hardly "private" information. Marital status, SSN, etc are private information. As for exceptions...yeah...that has totally worked out in our legal system thus far. Wonder why healthcare costs so fucking much? The insurance companies are involved on every level from malpractice insurance on the doctors side increasing the cost of doing business to protect himself from every litigious asshole that assumes doctors cannot make mistakes, to the medical insurance provider gouging the shit out of consumers with magic numbers and writeoffs and all kinds of other fancy accounting.
End result, our healthcare system is totally fucked due to that "make exceptions for some and punish the rest" mentality that has been applied to doctors. Now, doctors cannot make honest mistakes without losing their asses because the default assumption is malpractice. The only thing that has really protected doctors jobs is the fact that people NEED doctors and they need them locally. You can bet your ass this will lead to stupid loopholes with offshoring the IT staff so they can't be held criminally liable here causing the loss of tons of jobs.
I agree something needs to be done, but the proposed solution of criminal charges is nothing more than a poorly thought out moronic kneejerk reaction to the problem. Most cases of "fine them big bucks" is just as bad paving the way for rampant fraud, further hiding of data breeches, or just increasing the cost to consumers. The problem needs to be fixed, not just punished.
Clearly you are confused. If we take away the ability for people to spend themselves into oblivion with easy credit the terrorists win! I want the prices of everything on the market artificially inflated by peoples spending habits of imaginary money. I am simply not satisfied until I have to pay $50 for a $5 item because the supply and demand curve is completely screwed due to the massive influx of imaginary money into the consumers hands!
You must be some kind of dirty pinko commie bedwetter if you want to stop the massive debt spending credit system.
Sure...while we are at it lets put a cop in jail every time someone in their city gets mugged, murdered, raped, etc.
I will be exiting the field the moment some kind of stupidity like what is suggested goes in place. I have a family, and I have no intention spending time in jail being a scapegoat for something like this. It is stupid to expect an individual to be held accountable criminally for something like this. Why should I spend time in jail or face fines personally because Vendor X couldn't be bothered to employ better programmers or test their stuff. Nevermind there will ALWAYS be vulnerabilities. Or maybe I go to jail because some worker brought in an infected USB photo frame. The only way you can really secure the desktop computer completely from the user is to cut the power cable and give them a pad of paper and a pen.
That said...I think there should be something to "encourage" companies to actually invest the resources in protecting that data, or just to stop collecting it. Seems to me not collecting it is far easier and more viable in many many cases. I agree that there is a problem in the value that data provides the company and their lack of "encouragement" to protect it. The notion of holding already overtaxed administrators criminally liable will only make the problem worse. The field will shrink even further and I imagine many of the competent ones will find work elsewhere not wanting to be a whipping boy under idiotic laws like this.
Shut up you liberal scum! How is our economy going to make it out of this recession if people "save"? Burn all the energy you can! Be wasteful! Spend more!
You and your rational approach crap! This "warming" and "climate change" crap are all godless liberal lies, besides Jesus is going to come save us before anything like that could happen anyways. If people start "saving" or "being green" our economy might slow down, rich people might stop getting richer and then how is Jesus supposed to know who to save!?
Well...I'm glad it was effective. Glad that their actions caused less collateral damage. Glad that the Nazis lost that one. However, it still made it far easier for a German soldier to put bullets in the head of any civilian they encountered rather than risking that they are facing a resistance member.
I have never said it didn't take some pretty despicable shit to win a war, in fact I would suggest it is probably pretty necessary. That is one of the reasons I think the concept of the rules of war stuff is so funny. Ok...we are going to come out here and kill and destroy each other until one of us gives up or is wiped out...so here are the rules... I think a civilian populace (doubly so on the politicians involved in making war) that uses the military as human shields is pretty despicable as well, if the threat is that great why didn't they all take up arms? I'm not some mindless pacifist that thinks we can all hold hands and sing to stop war, I believe there have been more than a few necessary wars. By all means, feel free to point out a conflict that didn't involve both sides doing some pretty horrible things to win.
As for those good old French. There wouldn't really have been a French Resistance had they not initially welcomed the Nazis to town in the first place.
How many innocent civilians died when it was decided they should use a passanger ship to try and smuggle weapons past the German uboat blockade to England? Even more so knowing full well that the sinking of a passenger ship would be the propoganda needed to bring America into that war. I believe the Nazis had to be stopped, but lets not pretend there were good guys and bad guys in this fight.
No. I don't see how that was even remotely offensive in any way shape or form. The winner of numerous science awards is a crafty chick that figured out an incredibly impressive new way of doing something using really simple pieces. Having read the summary, and the article, "crafy chick" does describe her quite accurately. She is crafty, and she is a chick (and a cute chick at that from the picture). Now if the article said "this clever bimbo" I might agree with you due to negative connotation, but I have never heard chick used in a specifically bad way. To me "that chick" is no different than "that guy". The tone I got out of the summary actually seems rather flattering. I don't understand how a cute girl making the front page of a geek news site by being incredibly geeky could possibly be portrayed in a negative manner. The summary even goes out of the way to say profound (and a good profound). I see nothing even remotely negative.
No. It is still despicable. It puts innocent civilians in the line of fire (more than they already would be). That it was done with good intent or good results is tangent. You seem to be falling victim to the notion that one side must be right and the other side must be wrong. That the Nazis did even more horrific things than hiding combatants among the civilian populace does not take away from the bad of hiding combatants among the innocent civilians.