I just looked at the most recent ESTA questionaire, and had several WTH moments as they've added a whole bunch of questions since I last went through it. Examples:
1. National ID numer other than passport (er... wth?). Mandatory.
2. Parents' names (wtbh??). Mandatory.
3. Current employer (wtgdbh!?). Mandatory.
4. Additional citizienships/nationalities.
5. Past national ID documents of any other country.
So... what's the big deal with asking for social media stuff? That's just a drop in the ocean compared to the questions above.
Newsflash, TSA! There are multiple people with the same name on FB (and other social media). How does one indicate which of hundreds of John Smith's one is?
You can't. And the TSA will use the absolutely worst of those profiles and deny you entry. You may then prove that it isn't yours. Have a nice day.
If the the 3 letter agencies can't figure it out without making everyone fill out a form, that's yet another reason to get rid of the 3 letter agencies.
The TLAs already know. The point of the changes is to create a nice and official way to use this information, without having to reveal the means and capabilities of said TLAs.
Clearly, I could invent random responses and the interviewer would not know any better
That's not the point of the interview. The real point is that at some point in the future, if it becomes necessary or convenient, you can and will be charged with lying to immigration official, sentenced, and jailed/deported.
The'yre already there. Anyone that does a US tax return (even for just a holiday home income), has to state all of their overseas bank details, and balances.
In fact, you may have to state all of your oversears bank details even if you don't have to file US taxes. (see: FBAR)
I can't think of any good reason not to put the thing in park when you turn off the engine and want it to stay in place. Engage the parking brake while you're at it, single fault safety and all that.
Wait... why do these cards have a "good mode" and a "shitty mode" in the first place, and why is the shitty one called "gaming mode"?
No, they have a "we guarantee this performance and if your card burns up, we'll replace it" mode and a "we don't guarantee this performance, and if your card burns up, you'll need to replace it" mode. The latter is faster. Usually. Unless it fries your card.
Smartphones are getting more hostile, to certain users. Like those who want to synch things locally with a PC without putting all of their data in $COMPANY cloud first.
I'm sure a user-friendly smartphone could find quite a few customers.
The definition of theft usually requires the victim to be deprived of a possession, i.e. after the theft, the victim is no longer in possession.
and then the company you wrote the program for refused to because you
I assume there's a "pay you" missing. Anyway, that wouldn't be theft (you were never in possession of the money, so it cannot be stolen from you), but fraud. (And breach of contract, but that is a civil matter.)
Normally it's pretty straightforward to extradite someone given the evidence.
Germany does not extradite its citizens (with very limited exceptions). It's in the constitution. Germany extraditing a German citizen to the US is about as straightforward as introducing a blanket ban on guns in the US - not gonna happen.
Heck, we haven't even reached the mantle with the most ambitious drilling program
Yes yes, but no one has seriously thought about developing technology for this.
Accessing Earth's core would have many benefits. Mining heavy metals is one of them; communications would be another one (cuts the communication latency by 1/pi compared to a communication line running on Earth's surface).
Because assholes who renounce it to dodge taxes shouldn't be allowed to without paying a penalty.
I don't think anyone who's dodging taxes will worry about small change like $2500.
However, US citizens who simply live abroad and are cut off from simple financial services (say, a stock market account, loans, savings accounts, certain life insurance policies) in the country they live in due to to FATCA shenanigans - they often don't have $2500 to spend on paperwork. And often they wouldn't even have to pay US taxes due to taxation treaties (you still have to file them, though, and claim the exemptions states in the corresponding treaty).
Suppose I'm in the database, having entered the US on multiple occsions... what is the false positive rate of the systems, and with what probability can I expect to be confused with some criminal and denied entry/arrested/diappeared off to some island?
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Yes. Of course *Republicans* will be highly ciritical of government mandatated encryption backdoors, if "government" means "those Democrats!".
This lack of a decision should always be legal.
They always hold when all changes are considered. And if two "universes" can exchange energy in any way, they are not two universes, but one.
1. National ID numer other than passport (er ... wth?). Mandatory.
2. Parents' names (wtbh??). Mandatory.
3. Current employer (wtgdbh!?). Mandatory.
4. Additional citizienships/nationalities.
5. Past national ID documents of any other country.
So ... what's the big deal with asking for social media stuff? That's just a drop in the ocean compared to the questions above.
You can't. And the TSA will use the absolutely worst of those profiles and deny you entry. You may then prove that it isn't yours. Have a nice day.
The TLAs already know. The point of the changes is to create a nice and official way to use this information, without having to reveal the means and capabilities of said TLAs.
That's not the point of the interview. The real point is that at some point in the future, if it becomes necessary or convenient, you can and will be charged with lying to immigration official, sentenced, and jailed/deported.
In fact, you may have to state all of your oversears bank details even if you don't have to file US taxes. (see: FBAR)
"They are taking him nowhere, Mr. jittles."
Not versus users of ESTA, who have very little to no legal standing in the first place.
Looks like they just want to make it official.
If someone can circumvent the first or second law of thermodynamics, they can call themselves a deity for all intents and purposes.
Even a billion dollar company has to justify wasteful decisions to its shareholders.
I can't think of any good reason not to put the thing in park when you turn off the engine and want it to stay in place. Engage the parking brake while you're at it, single fault safety and all that.
No, they have a "we guarantee this performance and if your card burns up, we'll replace it" mode and a "we don't guarantee this performance, and if your card burns up, you'll need to replace it" mode. The latter is faster. Usually. Unless it fries your card.
I'm sure a user-friendly smartphone could find quite a few customers.
Yes, oblivious to the fact that the brain lacks pain receptors.
Now, I wonder what happens when I type in the symptoms of an actual CNS tumor.
The definition of theft usually requires the victim to be deprived of a possession, i.e. after the theft, the victim is no longer in possession.
and then the company you wrote the program for refused to because you
I assume there's a "pay you" missing. Anyway, that wouldn't be theft (you were never in possession of the money, so it cannot be stolen from you), but fraud. (And breach of contract, but that is a civil matter.)
What blocks extradition isn't being a hacker, it's having German citizenship. If someone doesn't have it, he's fair game for extradition.
Any such 'cooperation' would have been highly (i.e. constitutionally) illegal, anyway.
Germany does not extradite its citizens (with very limited exceptions). It's in the constitution. Germany extraditing a German citizen to the US is about as straightforward as introducing a blanket ban on guns in the US - not gonna happen.
Yes yes, but no one has seriously thought about developing technology for this.
Accessing Earth's core would have many benefits. Mining heavy metals is one of them; communications would be another one (cuts the communication latency by 1/pi compared to a communication line running on Earth's surface).
Yes. Probably because most of it sank into the core while Earth's surface was still liquid.
Maybe we should compare the costs of looking for gold there vs. looking for asteroids containing gold?
I don't think anyone who's dodging taxes will worry about small change like $2500.
However, US citizens who simply live abroad and are cut off from simple financial services (say, a stock market account, loans, savings accounts, certain life insurance policies) in the country they live in due to to FATCA shenanigans - they often don't have $2500 to spend on paperwork. And often they wouldn't even have to pay US taxes due to taxation treaties (you still have to file them, though, and claim the exemptions states in the corresponding treaty).
Suppose I'm in the database, having entered the US on multiple occsions ... what is the false positive rate of the systems, and with what probability can I expect to be confused with some criminal and denied entry/arrested/diappeared off to some island?