I believe that the missing verb referred to is "is" or "has been". Still, to save space,that type of word is often left as implicitly understood in headlines rather than explicitly stated.
Since when is a retirement fund that they worked for something "handed to them from cradle to grave"?
Employer pension plans were very common before theboomers joined the workforce. Very few boomers had a pension plan from their employer, other than 401Ks that were taken out of their paycheck. But I know a few that had pension plans as part of their compensation to entice them to stay with their employer. These "went poof" because they were funded from corporate cash flow rather than proper investments and the company went "bankrupt" to get out of the debt caused in part by mismanagement like borrowing from their own pension fund. How is that the fault of the employees? The 401Ks didn't quite go poof, but neither have they grown as promised. As far as Social Security, the problem is that by law it invests only in government notes, so the general funds will have to pay off those bonds in order to pay out full promised benefits. Even so, it will only fall 25% short or so after the trust fund is gone. Again, not a problem caused by boomers, since that started before baby boomers had any significant input into governmental decisions.
This is so full of self-righteous bullshit, I hardly know where to begin.
I guess I'll just say one thing: "Baby Boomers" are by no means a homogeneous group with a single mind.
That's because Alaska taxes the oil industry so heavily. And still its' politicians campaign as if taxing industry is an evil that will lead to loss of jobs and closing of enterprises.
The one area where use tax does get enforced, is in vehicle sales. Since you have to register the vehicle and get a license plate, the state knows about it. Since it is a large purchase with a lot of tax at stake, the state collects.
That might not be a big deal if you are only computing sales taxes exactly where you have physical stores, since the physical store managers will have to figure out the local taxes anyway. But if you are a small internet start-up, it will be almost impossible to keep track of all the locations you might sell to, and you'd have to keep track whether or not you make any sales to there, just in case.
For example, I work in downtown Chicago. There is a state sales tax, a County sales tax, a Chicago municipal sales tax, and, since Chicago would rather tax visitors and suburban commuters than citizens, a special taxing district between McCormick Place (a convention center South of downtown) and Navy Pier (a tourist attraction North of downtown). Now, some of those tax codes have exemptions for food and medicine, but don't always agree on what exactly counts as food and medicine (fruit juice? pop? granola bars? is a Deli a restaurant or a grocery store? does a given over-the-counter drug, dietary supplement, or remedy get an exemption? etc.). Surrounding municipalities and counties have different tax rates and structures. Now multiply those possibilities by 50 states, hundreds of counties, thousands of municipalities, and try to manage the year-to-year changes in the laws.
Exactly. I need to create a separate folder for each job because they will need to be archived with that job, not in some arbitrary -email archive with hundreds of jobs and thousands of e-mails jumbled together. If I can't find something easily, I search the inbox or the job folder.
It used 3 tons of CFC for cooling. By law they had to no longer use this 3 tons.
If this was a closed system, I call BS. If it was an open system, they were releasing the CFCs into the atmosphere, anyway.
Nothing in the law prevented one from continuing to use an existing closed system with CFCs in it, though eventually, it would get very expensive to replace the CFCs since they quit manufacturing them. I designed several projects where old chillers were replaced or refurbished in anticipation of the CFC ban, and one of the fundamental spec items was to recover the refrigerant and hand it over to the Owner for their use in maintaining old equipment. There's nothing especially hard about doing that.
Also, refrigerant is typically measured in pounds (in the US). Are you sure you mean 6,000 lbs of CFC, or do you mean a 3-Ton system (36,000 btu/hr) with CFCs. If the latter, it is a small system and any Joe Blow refrigerant technician could recover the CFCs.
If the creator of the DRM scheme published the source code, it would be cracked much faster than it is now.
One reason DRM is crackable is because they are trying to keep the key secret from the person who uses it to decrypt the message. This is not the same problem as keeping the key secret for yourself to use. Most DRM schemes are published, though not the source code.
Your analogy is flawed, fundamentally you are assuming someone leaves a key lying around in an easily accessible area. No security we have isn't fundamentally based on obscurity. None.
Secrecy is not identical to obscurity. The meaning of obscurity in "Security Through Obscurity" refers to the overall scheme and methods. The secured secrecy of keys and the like is assumed and does not mean that the security system is based on obscurity as understood in the context of discussing security through obscurity.
From the Wikipedia article linked in TFS:
Using secure cryptography is supposed to replace the difficult problem of keeping messages secure with a much more manageable one, keeping relatively small keys secure.. A system that requires long-term secrecy for something as large and complex as the whole design of a cryptographic system obviously cannot achieve that goal. It only replaces one hard problem with another. However, if a system is secure even when the enemy knows everything except the key, then all that is needed is to manage keeping the keys secret.
Think of going to two banks to decide where to store some irreplaceable valuables. In one bank, they tell you about their armed security guards, they show you the vault and describe how thick the steel is, how it operates on a timeclock and a combination They detail how they give you one key to the safety deposit box and how they keep the other, and that you need both keys to open the box. They tell you know that before they let you past the armed guards they require you to show identification and sign in, and only then will they accompany you to your box to turn their key while you turn yours to open the box. They even give you the blueprints to the bank to assure you how well it's built.
The other bank tells you that they can't say what they do with your valuables, because they need to keep it a secret in order to maintain security.
Which bank would you prefer?
Of course, if you are handling your own security, adding multiple layers, including obscurity, can help. But at the core, you need to implement similar protections as the first bank, or you are just fooling yourself to think you are being as secure as it.
someone could be forcibly conscripted into a foreign military.
That reminds me that when I was a teenager, my next-door neighbor was drafted by the French army when he turned 18. Turns out that even though he lived all his life in the USA, and the US considered him a US citizen, France considered him a French citizen since his mother was French (WWII bride of a US soldier). He never went into the French army, of course; I think he had to officially denounce his French citizenship.
The Cold War was definitely not a war.
Neither was the war on poverty.
Nor the war on drugs.
Nor the war on terrorism.
Metaphors, all - unless you insist on changing the definition of war.
except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger
Which seems from the context to be meant to allow the armed forces to hold a court martial in times of war or rebellion without needing to convene a grand jury, not to allow an assassination. (Assassination, even if not unconstitutional, is explicitly illegal by act of Congress.)
The bit you seemed to only glance over:
. . . nor shall any person be . . . deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law
So "happens all the time" is on a time scale with a period longer than modern humans have been around? That's not what us humans consider "all the time". Further up in that article it shows that the ice volume is lower than it has been over the last 100,000 years. So evidence that that volume is decreasing at an accelerating rate does not reassure me that it is natural.
But when you centralize control, you also centralize failure.
Systems like this are common in large buildings and campuses. In almost all modern systems the control is distributed direct digital. That is, the actual control of any part is handled at its' controller - if communication is lost, the local program runs independently. The only "centralized" controls are things like monitoring, scheduling, alarms, setpoint adjustments, etc., which can been done both centrally and locally at each device. Communication from any device location to any other is usually possible using a laptop or handheld plugged in to a controller. Remote, offsite, monitoring, troubleshooting, alarms, etc. are often possible, too. You will always have failures, and TFA seems to be somewhat pie-in-the-sky, but a properly set up system will not create a single point for system-wide failure.
The USA has already officially adopted the metric system, even though those units are not in common use in the US: Feet, pounds, etc., were legally defined in terms of metric measures more than 100 years ago.
I believe what he was criticized for was calling social security a ponzi scheme. Other than the fact that all the "investors" are compelled into participating, I fail to see how SS is not like a ponzi scheme.
SS pays beneficiaries from current income, plus some from "savings". (the unfortunate part is that the savings are in Treasury notes and the Federal government might not have the money to pay them off). The difference between payouts and income is publicly accounted for and deducted from or added to the savings or debt.
Employers pay employees from current income, plus some savings or borrowings to tide over rough spots when income lags. The difference between payroll out and income is accounted for and deducted from or added to the savings or debt.
Ponzi schemes pay "interest" and "dividends" from new investor capital. The payouts are not accounted for and everyone is led to believe that their original investment is still there available to be withdrawn whenever they want.
Social Security may be in trouble, but it is not a Ponzi scheme by any stretch of the imagination.
(And, assuming the Feds can pay back SS, the projected shortfall can be patched by small increases in retirement age, and/or the top income for SS tax cutoff.)
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Actually, there are plenty of jobs in North Dakota, if you're willing to move there and take the type of job that's available.
Setting timestamps to local time has been done (thanks Microsoft), and it sucks for networks like the internet that cross time zones.
I believe that the missing verb referred to is "is" or "has been". Still, to save space,that type of word is often left as implicitly understood in headlines rather than explicitly stated.
Since when is a retirement fund that they worked for something "handed to them from cradle to grave"?
Employer pension plans were very common before theboomers joined the workforce. Very few boomers had a pension plan from their employer, other than 401Ks that were taken out of their paycheck. But I know a few that had pension plans as part of their compensation to entice them to stay with their employer. These "went poof" because they were funded from corporate cash flow rather than proper investments and the company went "bankrupt" to get out of the debt caused in part by mismanagement like borrowing from their own pension fund. How is that the fault of the employees?
The 401Ks didn't quite go poof, but neither have they grown as promised.
As far as Social Security, the problem is that by law it invests only in government notes, so the general funds will have to pay off those bonds in order to pay out full promised benefits. Even so, it will only fall 25% short or so after the trust fund is gone. Again, not a problem caused by boomers, since that started before baby boomers had any significant input into governmental decisions.
This is so full of self-righteous bullshit, I hardly know where to begin.
I guess I'll just say one thing: "Baby Boomers" are by no means a homogeneous group with a single mind.
Any sort of CAD software is all Windows-based, pretty much across the board, . . There’s nothing suitable out there that really runs on the Mac.
From AutoDesk:
AutoCAD for Mac CAD software delivers powerhouse 3D design tools and timesaving drafting tools.
That's because Alaska taxes the oil industry so heavily. And still its' politicians campaign as if taxing industry is an evil that will lead to loss of jobs and closing of enterprises.
The one area where use tax does get enforced, is in vehicle sales. Since you have to register the vehicle and get a license plate, the state knows about it. Since it is a large purchase with a lot of tax at stake, the state collects.
That might not be a big deal if you are only computing sales taxes exactly where you have physical stores, since the physical store managers will have to figure out the local taxes anyway. But if you are a small internet start-up, it will be almost impossible to keep track of all the locations you might sell to, and you'd have to keep track whether or not you make any sales to there, just in case.
For example, I work in downtown Chicago. There is a state sales tax, a County sales tax, a Chicago municipal sales tax, and, since Chicago would rather tax visitors and suburban commuters than citizens, a special taxing district between McCormick Place (a convention center South of downtown) and Navy Pier (a tourist attraction North of downtown). Now, some of those tax codes have exemptions for food and medicine, but don't always agree on what exactly counts as food and medicine (fruit juice? pop? granola bars? is a Deli a restaurant or a grocery store? does a given over-the-counter drug, dietary supplement, or remedy get an exemption? etc.). Surrounding municipalities and counties have different tax rates and structures. Now multiply those possibilities by 50 states, hundreds of counties, thousands of municipalities, and try to manage the year-to-year changes in the laws.
Exactly. I need to create a separate folder for each job because they will need to be archived with that job, not in some arbitrary -email archive with hundreds of jobs and thousands of e-mails jumbled together. If I can't find something easily, I search the inbox or the job folder.
If this was a closed system, I call BS.
If it was an open system, they were releasing the CFCs into the atmosphere, anyway.
Nothing in the law prevented one from continuing to use an existing closed system with CFCs in it, though eventually, it would get very expensive to replace the CFCs since they quit manufacturing them. I designed several projects where old chillers were replaced or refurbished in anticipation of the CFC ban, and one of the fundamental spec items was to recover the refrigerant and hand it over to the Owner for their use in maintaining old equipment. There's nothing especially hard about doing that.
Also, refrigerant is typically measured in pounds (in the US). Are you sure you mean 6,000 lbs of CFC, or do you mean a 3-Ton system (36,000 btu/hr) with CFCs. If the latter, it is a small system and any Joe Blow refrigerant technician could recover the CFCs.
One reason DRM is crackable is because they are trying to keep the key secret from the person who uses it to decrypt the message. This is not the same problem as keeping the key secret for yourself to use.
Most DRM schemes are published, though not the source code.
It was a known risk, not some freak that could not be foreseen.
I'm pretty sure that vbscript is not the same as VBA. MS Office uses VBA for its' macros.
Secrecy is not identical to obscurity. The meaning of obscurity in "Security Through Obscurity" refers to the overall scheme and methods. The secured secrecy of keys and the like is assumed and does not mean that the security system is based on obscurity as understood in the context of discussing security through obscurity.
From the Wikipedia article linked in TFS:
Think of going to two banks to decide where to store some irreplaceable valuables.
In one bank, they tell you about their armed security guards, they show you the vault and describe how thick the steel is, how it operates on a timeclock and a combination They detail how they give you one key to the safety deposit box and how they keep the other, and that you need both keys to open the box. They tell you know that before they let you past the armed guards they require you to show identification and sign in, and only then will they accompany you to your box to turn their key while you turn yours to open the box. They even give you the blueprints to the bank to assure you how well it's built.
The other bank tells you that they can't say what they do with your valuables, because they need to keep it a secret in order to maintain security.
Which bank would you prefer?
Of course, if you are handling your own security, adding multiple layers, including obscurity, can help. But at the core, you need to implement similar protections as the first bank, or you are just fooling yourself to think you are being as secure as it.
I, for one, don't trust certificate "authorities"
Probably the level at which the small cost of an MS Windows license doesn't make sense on a sub-$100 phone.
That reminds me that when I was a teenager, my next-door neighbor was drafted by the French army when he turned 18. Turns out that even though he lived all his life in the USA, and the US considered him a US citizen, France considered him a French citizen since his mother was French (WWII bride of a US soldier). He never went into the French army, of course; I think he had to officially denounce his French citizenship.
The Cold War was definitely not a war.
Neither was the war on poverty.
Nor the war on drugs.
Nor the war on terrorism.
Metaphors, all - unless you insist on changing the definition of war.
Which seems from the context to be meant to allow the armed forces to hold a court martial in times of war or rebellion without needing to convene a grand jury, not to allow an assassination. (Assassination, even if not unconstitutional, is explicitly illegal by act of Congress.)
The bit you seemed to only glance over:
(IANACL, YMMV, etc.)
So "happens all the time" is on a time scale with a period longer than modern humans have been around? That's not what us humans consider "all the time". Further up in that article it shows that the ice volume is lower than it has been over the last 100,000 years. So evidence that that volume is decreasing at an accelerating rate does not reassure me that it is natural.
Systems like this are common in large buildings and campuses. In almost all modern systems the control is distributed direct digital. That is, the actual control of any part is handled at its' controller - if communication is lost, the local program runs independently. The only "centralized" controls are things like monitoring, scheduling, alarms, setpoint adjustments, etc., which can been done both centrally and locally at each device. Communication from any device location to any other is usually possible using a laptop or handheld plugged in to a controller. Remote, offsite, monitoring, troubleshooting, alarms, etc. are often possible, too. You will always have failures, and TFA seems to be somewhat pie-in-the-sky, but a properly set up system will not create a single point for system-wide failure.
The USA has already officially adopted the metric system, even though those units are not in common use in the US: Feet, pounds, etc., were legally defined in terms of metric measures more than 100 years ago.
SS pays beneficiaries from current income, plus some from "savings". (the unfortunate part is that the savings are in Treasury notes and the Federal government might not have the money to pay them off). The difference between payouts and income is publicly accounted for and deducted from or added to the savings or debt.
Employers pay employees from current income, plus some savings or borrowings to tide over rough spots when income lags. The difference between payroll out and income is accounted for and deducted from or added to the savings or debt.
Ponzi schemes pay "interest" and "dividends" from new investor capital. The payouts are not accounted for and everyone is led to believe that their original investment is still there available to be withdrawn whenever they want.
Social Security may be in trouble, but it is not a Ponzi scheme by any stretch of the imagination.
(And, assuming the Feds can pay back SS, the projected shortfall can be patched by small increases in retirement age, and/or the top income for SS tax cutoff.)
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