This is one of those problems that solves itself. This is just another of MANY attempts to do something new and attention-getting to market products or services, and it won't be financially viable if the majority expresses a strong dislike for it.
Sure. Because spam and scams are so popular with a majority of the population; that's why they have become so prevalent.
His first fatality was a computer store owner. He wounded a police officer, a secretary, two graduate students, a research assistant, professors in engineering, psychology, and computer science, a geneticist, twelve airline passengers, and the president of United Airlines. He also murdered an advertising executive and a timber industry lobbyist. Sort of random, wouldn't you say?
While the armed forces purchase supplies from the private sector, they do the job of training, deploying, fighting - and sometimes dying - themselves.
We in the US are witnessing the "privatization" of services that have historically been provided by government. "Privately owned prisons" for example - what a travesty!
The United States Postal Service went from usps.gov to usps.com. What will happen now to the stringent federal policies on the "sanctity" of mail? Sold off to the highest bidder the way that phone carriers sell subscriber info?
Cities (NYC is an example I'm familiar with) provide sanitation services (garbage pickup) for their residents. Commercial entities have to pay private carters for this service. That could be a template for the IRS: provide filing services for individuals and require commercial taxes to be handled by the private sector.
Guess who doesn't get audited? That's right, the rich guys, because the same congress has cut funding to the IRS and the IRS is so busy dealing with mandated audit compliance they don't have the manpower to go after traditional audit targets as much.
I am pretty sure that this is by design; anything that would make it easier to audit the very rich is exactly what these Congressional Critters want to prevent.
An IRS-provided electronic filing would also be easier for IRS to audit. To the extent that they don't have the wherewithal to do that, especially to the very rich who can afford to outspend the IRS on attorneys to fight the audit, the bought and paid for legislators have done their job.
Publicly owned (or government owned) and operated I guess.
But the right wing just loves to spend more money to get lesser results by farming out government work to private businesses. Instead of just paying public employee salaries they prefer to also pony up the cash for companies to build profit into the cost. Go figure.
I didn't say anything about people not on the lease, however NYS law is that at least one person who is not on the lease may reside with the leaseholder (the "roommate law").
But as I replied to Altus, it is definitely false that there is "no problem if you don't show up often or anything like that". The NYS rent stabilization law requires that you show up often - specifically at least (1 + 365/2) days per year. Landlords love to claim that the tenant is there less frequently as a means to evict them.
I didn't mention subletting. The rent-stabilization rule in NY is not that "the people who were the original tenants under rent control still live in the apartment" as you state but rather that the original tenant(s) must be physically in that apartment for (1 + 365/2) days per year, every year. So it's a bit like being under house arrest except without having committed any crime beforehand.
Stay at your SO's home some nights, they stay at yours some nights. If you're not tucked in to your rent-regulated apartment at least (1 + 365/2) days every year then it's not considered your "primary residence". So you can sleep on the street from then on. These cameras are intended to provide easy data collection for that.
But try to get the landlord to fix the peeling paint, the broken toilet, the hole in the ceiling, the hole in the floor, the windows that their contractor broke while doing exterior "maintenance". It's no longer a residence for the tenant, it's a part time job.
Landlords in NYC have always refused to "open their books" when demanding rent increases. It's a very one-sided arrangement even with the increased enforcement now in NYC.
The landlord in general would be happy as a pig in mud to void the leases of rent-regulated tenants. The whole point of this exercise is to obtain evidence that the tenant isn't coming and going frequently enough to prove that it's his/her "primary residence" so that the landlord can evict them.
It's not for security. It's not to make it easier for the tenants to enter without carrying a key. It's to claw back the few remaining affordable apartments.
However they don't really need to register anybody, just collect the data and have the super tag the photos.
But note that the summary says that this is being done in buildings containing rent-regulated apartments, where the obvious goal is to identify those tenants who don't come and go regularly so the landlord can evict them.
It's not being done for security; you don't need facial recognition to provide recorded video to the police after a crime has been committed.
Possibly because they might get sued for blocking any call without prior permission.
There are still, I think, some clever individuals who make a decent profit by suing telemarketers in court for violating the DNC regulations. If those calls were blocked before they reached these individuals that income would be lost.
Or more likely some spammer would sue claiming somehow "restraint of trade" (or pretending to simply be a customer who objects).
Just set your contacts to have an audible ringtone and set the default ringtone to silent. Same behavior as what you describe without giving away your call metadata (and/or content) to a possibly untrustworthy third party.
Nah, your tax money pays for policing your neighborhood. Except in those tax-free places where only vigilante protection is available.
It's more akin to paying a getaway car service to not deliver home intruders to your home. Skip the payment one month and you meet an entirely new set of "visitors".
I don't like the idea of having all my calls listened to by a third party (NSA excluded).
There's still the free "It's Lenny" service though; you can add Lenny to the conversation manually. I think he's still the best spammer/scammer time-waster out there.
My experience is that the scammers/spammers use the same handful of spoofed numbers over and over again, so if "Rachel from Card Services" calls using a given spoofed number, then for the next few months at least, calls from that number are overwhelmingly likely to be "Rachel from Card Services".
The problem may arise though if you're blocking it after "Rachel from Card Services" has abandoned it and you block a legitimate caller. Or if Rachel happens to spoof a number that is assigned to someone you may want to receive calls from, especially if it ends up being some emergency services number (e.g., hospital ER calling to tell you that your kid's in the hospital).
You can do that yourself manually without an app - just add the number to your address book (maybe a group called "scammers") and set the ringtone to silent. They can still leave voicemail though, which I prefer to blocking them completely because a spoofed number one day may be a real caller the next. Suppose the once-upon-a-time spoofed number is that of a local hospital ER for example - a total block could leave you unable to receive a message about someone you know who is ill.
At least for domestic calls, providing ANI instead of CallID would be a good start. But the telcos won't offer that unless it's legally required.
A word Barak uses frequently is hafrada--separation. "They are there and we are here," he has said on many occasions. The implication is that disentanglement, rather than peace as it might be more loftily defined outside the region, is Israel's best hope for being able to maintain a vibrant Western democracy and a high-tech economy. The alternative is for Israel to continue exhausting its energies as its army and settlers remain intertwined with a hostile Palestinian population. For their part, the Palestinians would be foolish to miss the Barak moment, as there will not be a more forthcoming Israeli government. They will have to do their part to make Barak's message credible, by making clear that an agreement will be permanent and their renunciation of violence will be irreversible.
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So. "vi" or "emacs"?
Sure. Because spam and scams are so popular with a majority of the population; that's why they have become so prevalent.
His first fatality was a computer store owner. He wounded a police officer, a secretary, two graduate students, a research assistant, professors in engineering, psychology, and computer science, a geneticist, twelve airline passengers, and the president of United Airlines. He also murdered an advertising executive and a timber industry lobbyist. Sort of random, wouldn't you say?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski
While the armed forces purchase supplies from the private sector, they do the job of training, deploying, fighting - and sometimes dying - themselves.
We in the US are witnessing the "privatization" of services that have historically been provided by government. "Privately owned prisons" for example - what a travesty!
The United States Postal Service went from usps.gov to usps.com. What will happen now to the stringent federal policies on the "sanctity" of mail? Sold off to the highest bidder the way that phone carriers sell subscriber info?
Cities (NYC is an example I'm familiar with) provide sanitation services (garbage pickup) for their residents. Commercial entities have to pay private carters for this service. That could be a template for the IRS: provide filing services for individuals and require commercial taxes to be handled by the private sector.
Yeah, it always seemed to me that the mercenary sector got a raw deal what with Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force. So unfair.
Money coming in from the tax preparation industry and from super rich tax dodgers who don't want IRS to have the means to audit them successfully.
Just sayin'
I am pretty sure that this is by design; anything that would make it easier to audit the very rich is exactly what these Congressional Critters want to prevent.
An IRS-provided electronic filing would also be easier for IRS to audit. To the extent that they don't have the wherewithal to do that, especially to the very rich who can afford to outspend the IRS on attorneys to fight the audit, the bought and paid for legislators have done their job.
And how is that different from stores advertising "up to 90 percent off" when it's mostly all MSRP or maybe 5 or 10 percent off?
Folks in general need to become more critical of advertised benefits. Reading the fine print is not fun though.
Publicly owned (or government owned) and operated I guess.
But the right wing just loves to spend more money to get lesser results by farming out government work to private businesses. Instead of just paying public employee salaries they prefer to also pony up the cash for companies to build profit into the cost. Go figure.
I didn't say anything about people not on the lease, however NYS law is that at least one person who is not on the lease may reside with the leaseholder (the "roommate law").
But as I replied to Altus, it is definitely false that there is "no problem if you don't show up often or anything like that". The NYS rent stabilization law requires that you show up often - specifically at least (1 + 365/2) days per year. Landlords love to claim that the tenant is there less frequently as a means to evict them.
I didn't mention subletting. The rent-stabilization rule in NY is not that "the people who were the original tenants under rent control still live in the apartment" as you state but rather that the original tenant(s) must be physically in that apartment for (1 + 365/2) days per year, every year. So it's a bit like being under house arrest except without having committed any crime beforehand.
Stay at your SO's home some nights, they stay at yours some nights. If you're not tucked in to your rent-regulated apartment at least (1 + 365/2) days every year then it's not considered your "primary residence". So you can sleep on the street from then on. These cameras are intended to provide easy data collection for that.
But try to get the landlord to fix the peeling paint, the broken toilet, the hole in the ceiling, the hole in the floor, the windows that their contractor broke while doing exterior "maintenance". It's no longer a residence for the tenant, it's a part time job.
Landlords in NYC have always refused to "open their books" when demanding rent increases. It's a very one-sided arrangement even with the increased enforcement now in NYC.
The landlord in general would be happy as a pig in mud to void the leases of rent-regulated tenants. The whole point of this exercise is to obtain evidence that the tenant isn't coming and going frequently enough to prove that it's his/her "primary residence" so that the landlord can evict them.
It's not for security. It's not to make it easier for the tenants to enter without carrying a key. It's to claw back the few remaining affordable apartments.
I agree with your last sentence, unfortunately.
However they don't really need to register anybody, just collect the data and have the super tag the photos.
But note that the summary says that this is being done in buildings containing rent-regulated apartments, where the obvious goal is to identify those tenants who don't come and go regularly so the landlord can evict them.
It's not being done for security; you don't need facial recognition to provide recorded video to the police after a crime has been committed.
VoIP providers may help. CallCentric has a good user-configurable filtering mechanism (included in the basic price, not an add-on).
Possibly because they might get sued for blocking any call without prior permission.
There are still, I think, some clever individuals who make a decent profit by suing telemarketers in court for violating the DNC regulations. If those calls were blocked before they reached these individuals that income would be lost.
Or more likely some spammer would sue claiming somehow "restraint of trade" (or pretending to simply be a customer who objects).
You don't need a 3rd party app for that.
Just set your contacts to have an audible ringtone and set the default ringtone to silent. Same behavior as what you describe without giving away your call metadata (and/or content) to a possibly untrustworthy third party.
Nah, your tax money pays for policing your neighborhood. Except in those tax-free places where only vigilante protection is available.
It's more akin to paying a getaway car service to not deliver home intruders to your home. Skip the payment one month and you meet an entirely new set of "visitors".
I don't like the idea of having all my calls listened to by a third party (NSA excluded).
There's still the free "It's Lenny" service though; you can add Lenny to the conversation manually. I think he's still the best spammer/scammer time-waster out there.
Just remember to cancel before the end of the free trial period.
My experience is that the scammers/spammers use the same handful of spoofed numbers over and over again, so if "Rachel from Card Services" calls using a given spoofed number, then for the next few months at least, calls from that number are overwhelmingly likely to be "Rachel from Card Services".
The problem may arise though if you're blocking it after "Rachel from Card Services" has abandoned it and you block a legitimate caller. Or if Rachel happens to spoof a number that is assigned to someone you may want to receive calls from, especially if it ends up being some emergency services number (e.g., hospital ER calling to tell you that your kid's in the hospital).
You can do that yourself manually without an app - just add the number to your address book (maybe a group called "scammers") and set the ringtone to silent. They can still leave voicemail though, which I prefer to blocking them completely because a spoofed number one day may be a real caller the next. Suppose the once-upon-a-time spoofed number is that of a local hospital ER for example - a total block could leave you unable to receive a message about someone you know who is ill.
At least for domestic calls, providing ANI instead of CallID would be a good start. But the telcos won't offer that unless it's legally required.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2000/07/16/baraks-separate-peace/a7beab75-2478-4c2e-8db8-e9d79281db84/
Rape Prevention: The only way to stop a bad guy with balls and a dick is a good guy with balls and dick. Just like guns. See.
This other potential treatment sounds interesting:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/health/alzheimers-memory.html
And it sounds like it may even be made available in a home setting.