Not to put too fine a point on it, but the Constitution of the United States is a "living" document. However, that said, the amount of life in it is only equal to the interest of the People of the United States in maintaining and safeguarding it. The Federal Government's task is to interpret the will of the people and create consensus (not just majority rule), the modify the document accordingly. This has been done in the past to rectify the injustice of slavery, provide women their given right to vote, and even to limit the power of the President of the United States by limiting the number of terms possible to serve in the office to two.
If there's a problem with a "living" document, it's that it has been alive so long, that provisions contained within it have outlived their original intent and have not "evolved" to stay current with the progress of society. I think it's safe to say this is true of a great many non-Constitutional laws as well. I think a new breath of life needs to be applied to the Constitution if it is to continue to server the people in this century and those to come.
Only the mentally stunted or tech un-savvy amongst them would go back to work for the company that fired them only to hire them back at a lower rate. Anyone with more than just a little brains is going to be offended.
That makes sense... take your business that treats its employees like so much low-grade offal and transfer it to a company that thinks nothing of trying to swindle you... I'll pass.
Perhaps, but your average spoofer isn't going to show that URL in the link; it would probably look more like http://security.paypal.com/ and the average user isn't going to be aware that the source URL for that link is not the same as what's being displayed.
It's not hard, but the fact is, the average user doesn't understand that the path in a link may not go to the place they think it will. The truly web-savvy are knowledgeable but in the minority. What is needed is for email clients to have an option similar to what you see here on Slashdot, where the domain of the link is displayed, although it would need to be expanded to accommodate the intricate URLs spoofer sometimes use. If the average user could see a visual representation of the link, they might be more wary. But then URLs get more complicated all the time, and with the number of TLDs, it might be hard to ever bring the average user's web sense up to the necessary level.
Which isn't to say that I blame Kathy Sierra for being freaked out, but Scoble's comment that "We're putting ourselves out there in ways very few people do. We should be safe from death threats and other sexual attacks and stuff, especially from other bloggers." seems like classic blogonarcissism. That's just how the Internet is, even for low-low-level blogocelebrati.
Exactly. Sorry to say, but once you are live on the Internet, you cease being a private figure. If you're smart, you protect yourself and don't give out all your personal info (ala MySpace) to make it easier for the nut-jobs to find you. If you're looking for perfect safety, get rid of your high-speed access, frag your hard drive, and dump your computer in the crusher, followed by a trip to the witness protection program.
I'm sure there are people out there who dislike me or are unstable enough to believe I'm some threat to the universe. If I gave a squat about them, I'd be validating their world view; best to ignore them, until such a time as one gets too close for comfort -- then you sic the dogs on them.
A way of identifying all those people who soil themselves!
I believe it's safe to say that using someone's gait to determine their relative guilt/innocence, ranks right up there with dumping a woman in a river to see if she's a witch.
Forget the GeekSquad mess... Best Buy has been called out for having an internal web site that looks like their external one but with different prices. If they bring the same kind of quality to SpeakEasy, it's as good as dead.
Your experience points up the reason for the list in the first place: to block transactions that might be used by drug dealers, et. al. A cash transaction is exactly the kind of thing that could be labeled as suspicious, since drug dealers and their ilk often use legitimate purchases as a method of laundering money. And they don't do it in large amounts; a few thousand here and there is often good enough. So even though you were paying cash, that could still be construed as suspicious.
Mind you, I'm not defending the practice. I frankly think no drug dealer or terrorist in their right mind would use their name or the name of any of their known associates to move money around. far easier to get faceless minions to do it, whom they can disavow easily. It only seems to be a trap for law-abiding citizens who have the unfortunate problem of having a name similar to their local drug kingpin or international terrorist.
So are all other independent VoIP providers, when Verizon gets around to crushing them.
But Verizon won't... they won't have to. By picking on the popular kid, that will make the less popular kids fall into line and pay Verizon some cash for their transgressions rather than be bled to death by lawsuits. This kind of nonsense will only stop if Verizon decides to take on Comcast or Optimum Online.
Mrs. Carroll, my English teacher in high school, was unconvinced that science fiction was on a par with classic literature, even though I trotted out examples like "Farenheit 451", "Foundation", and "Childhood's End". I got very sick of Shakespeare, Henry James, and that lot as they were continuously pounded into my head as "great writing." And now that I am partner in a company that releases a science fiction journal, I can look back and laugh. If there's any problem with science fiction right now it's the scarcity of good writers; I have to say I don't read as much current work as I did when I was kid, when I absorbed Clarke, Asimov, Heilein, Niven, Pournelle, etc.
Even Asimov's "I, Robot" was butchered by Hollywood.
After "Bicentennial Man" (*shudder*), I had hoped that the Good Doctor's work would not be further reduced to trash by Hollywood... but I was wrong. I'll have no part of "I, Robot", the Holly-weird version. I was sad that Harlan Ellison's version didn't get made; although still not as close to the original book as i would have liked, it would have been a thousand times better.
...you have policies in place to prevent the transmission of sensitive material through easily corrupted/tapped systems. For example, where I work, passwords cannot be transmitted via email, IM, or text message. If I need a password for something, I have to write it down on paper, then destroy the paper. Of course you can stick the paper in your pocket, but without any other identifying information, it wouldn't do someone a lot of good.
While I applaud the move, Nebraska is but a minor annoyance to the deep pockets of the RIAA. For this to have the fullest effect, a large proportion of the colleges/universities in the country would have to band together and make a class-action case of it, IMHO. Individual schools can score points, but they won't score a clean enough victory to stop this nonsense.
It shows his concern for the political system. OTOH, it shows his political naïveté -- you're not going to get away with smacking Hilary Clinton. This combination of chutzpah and bad judgment is rare in Washington... for good reason.
Wish I still had mod points... someone mod this up. "Imagination" is sorely lacking in this day-and-age of the audio/video mash-up and the crap that Hollywood churns out. I'm constantly amazed at how my kids are "bored" when we won't them watch TV or play video games. They seem totally unable to come up with new, original games to play or things to do that aren't related to some TV show they watch or game they play.
He said, they said. He's probably chanting the "I quit" mantra to avoid the uncomfortable silence during his next job interview when asked "Just why were you fired from your last job?".
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but the Constitution of the United States is a "living" document. However, that said, the amount of life in it is only equal to the interest of the People of the United States in maintaining and safeguarding it. The Federal Government's task is to interpret the will of the people and create consensus (not just majority rule), the modify the document accordingly. This has been done in the past to rectify the injustice of slavery, provide women their given right to vote, and even to limit the power of the President of the United States by limiting the number of terms possible to serve in the office to two.
If there's a problem with a "living" document, it's that it has been alive so long, that provisions contained within it have outlived their original intent and have not "evolved" to stay current with the progress of society. I think it's safe to say this is true of a great many non-Constitutional laws as well. I think a new breath of life needs to be applied to the Constitution if it is to continue to server the people in this century and those to come.
Only the mentally stunted or tech un-savvy amongst them would go back to work for the company that fired them only to hire them back at a lower rate. Anyone with more than just a little brains is going to be offended.
That makes sense... take your business that treats its employees like so much low-grade offal and transfer it to a company that thinks nothing of trying to swindle you... I'll pass.
Perhaps, but your average spoofer isn't going to show that URL in the link; it would probably look more like http://security.paypal.com/ and the average user isn't going to be aware that the source URL for that link is not the same as what's being displayed.
It's not hard, but the fact is, the average user doesn't understand that the path in a link may not go to the place they think it will. The truly web-savvy are knowledgeable but in the minority. What is needed is for email clients to have an option similar to what you see here on Slashdot, where the domain of the link is displayed, although it would need to be expanded to accommodate the intricate URLs spoofer sometimes use. If the average user could see a visual representation of the link, they might be more wary. But then URLs get more complicated all the time, and with the number of TLDs, it might be hard to ever bring the average user's web sense up to the necessary level.
What do you mean I didn't get you anything for Valentine's Day!?! It's right here on this microscope slide...
Ummmm... you're not storing it all in the same place, are you? I mean... all lumped together or anything like that? [inching away]
Damne those Russions!!!
Sorry... couldn't help myself...
Exactly. Sorry to say, but once you are live on the Internet, you cease being a private figure. If you're smart, you protect yourself and don't give out all your personal info (ala MySpace) to make it easier for the nut-jobs to find you. If you're looking for perfect safety, get rid of your high-speed access, frag your hard drive, and dump your computer in the crusher, followed by a trip to the witness protection program.
I'm sure there are people out there who dislike me or are unstable enough to believe I'm some threat to the universe. If I gave a squat about them, I'd be validating their world view; best to ignore them, until such a time as one gets too close for comfort -- then you sic the dogs on them.
A way of identifying all those people who soil themselves!
I believe it's safe to say that using someone's gait to determine their relative guilt/innocence, ranks right up there with dumping a woman in a river to see if she's a witch.
...golden statuettes are doubled over in pain.
Forget the GeekSquad mess... Best Buy has been called out for having an internal web site that looks like their external one but with different prices. If they bring the same kind of quality to SpeakEasy, it's as good as dead.
True, but people have been arrested for less.
Your experience points up the reason for the list in the first place: to block transactions that might be used by drug dealers, et. al. A cash transaction is exactly the kind of thing that could be labeled as suspicious, since drug dealers and their ilk often use legitimate purchases as a method of laundering money. And they don't do it in large amounts; a few thousand here and there is often good enough. So even though you were paying cash, that could still be construed as suspicious.
Mind you, I'm not defending the practice. I frankly think no drug dealer or terrorist in their right mind would use their name or the name of any of their known associates to move money around. far easier to get faceless minions to do it, whom they can disavow easily. It only seems to be a trap for law-abiding citizens who have the unfortunate problem of having a name similar to their local drug kingpin or international terrorist.
...for April Fools, isn't it? I mean, this isn't serious, is it? It's a joke, right?
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But Verizon won't... they won't have to. By picking on the popular kid, that will make the less popular kids fall into line and pay Verizon some cash for their transgressions rather than be bled to death by lawsuits. This kind of nonsense will only stop if Verizon decides to take on Comcast or Optimum Online.
Don't forget Farenheit 451. Excellent Bradbury book made into a compelling movie. Was a lot of fire...
Mrs. Carroll, my English teacher in high school, was unconvinced that science fiction was on a par with classic literature, even though I trotted out examples like "Farenheit 451", "Foundation", and "Childhood's End". I got very sick of Shakespeare, Henry James, and that lot as they were continuously pounded into my head as "great writing." And now that I am partner in a company that releases a science fiction journal, I can look back and laugh. If there's any problem with science fiction right now it's the scarcity of good writers; I have to say I don't read as much current work as I did when I was kid, when I absorbed Clarke, Asimov, Heilein, Niven, Pournelle, etc.
After "Bicentennial Man" (*shudder*), I had hoped that the Good Doctor's work would not be further reduced to trash by Hollywood... but I was wrong. I'll have no part of "I, Robot", the Holly-weird version. I was sad that Harlan Ellison's version didn't get made; although still not as close to the original book as i would have liked, it would have been a thousand times better.
...you have policies in place to prevent the transmission of sensitive material through easily corrupted/tapped systems. For example, where I work, passwords cannot be transmitted via email, IM, or text message. If I need a password for something, I have to write it down on paper, then destroy the paper. Of course you can stick the paper in your pocket, but without any other identifying information, it wouldn't do someone a lot of good.
While I applaud the move, Nebraska is but a minor annoyance to the deep pockets of the RIAA. For this to have the fullest effect, a large proportion of the colleges/universities in the country would have to band together and make a class-action case of it, IMHO. Individual schools can score points, but they won't score a clean enough victory to stop this nonsense.
It shows his concern for the political system. OTOH, it shows his political naïveté -- you're not going to get away with smacking Hilary Clinton. This combination of chutzpah and bad judgment is rare in Washington... for good reason.
Wish I still had mod points... someone mod this up. "Imagination" is sorely lacking in this day-and-age of the audio/video mash-up and the crap that Hollywood churns out. I'm constantly amazed at how my kids are "bored" when we won't them watch TV or play video games. They seem totally unable to come up with new, original games to play or things to do that aren't related to some TV show they watch or game they play.
He said, they said. He's probably chanting the "I quit" mantra to avoid the uncomfortable silence during his next job interview when asked "Just why were you fired from your last job?".