My guess is that they call everything "beta" so as to limit the amount of complaints they get when something breaks. "Oh, wait, you were using a beta application to conduct your important company communications? I'm sorry, didn't anyone tell you that beta software doesn't come with the same expectations for reliability and data integrity as released, production code? Silly rabbit!"
With beta software they can break or alter anything at will and our only course of action is to say "Thank you; may I please have another?"
The problem, if you will reread my post dumb@ss, is that it isn't the politician feeling the pain. How would you feel if you, or your spouse/so or your mother or father's email address happened to be found in the contact list of some polarizing individual whose account happened to get hacked? The people who disliked that individual would be certain to bombard a perfectly innocent person's address simply because they were associated with said individual.
I think she was foolish for using an account so easily penetrated but her associates did nothing for which to be attacked and my sympathies lie with them and my anger at the person for messing their lives up.
I am extremely disappointed at the perpetrators of this publishing Palin's contacts' email addresses. If she was using a Yahoo! account for state business then she should be reprimanded for it but the fact is that even the POTUS may want to send personal communications to friends and family of a completely private nature that should be off limits to anyone but the sender and recipient. A politician discussing state policy is doing state business but a friend asking for advice on how to handle a problem teenager simply is not public business. Her friends and family don't deserve what they are certain to get as a result of their addresses being made public. I am sure that even now every one of those email inboxes is being bombarded with email, probably to the point that they are rejecting new email for being too large. I really feel for Bristol; the garbage that is certain to be arriving in her inbox must be simply horrible. A good friend had an accidental pregnancy at 17 and believe me, girls in this situation are already having enough problems that they don't need to world to say word one to make things worse. I suspect that every one of her contacts will now need to get a new address because somebody else violated the law and Yahoo's rules.
Politicians put themselves in the spotlight by running for office but their families are no part of this. While I oppose Obama and almost everything he endorses, I would be equally upset if his mailbox were hacked and his contacts' emails were exposed. Michelle and Todd and all these candidates' kids simply don't deserve to have their lives invaded because somebody opposes their parent/spouse.
You hit that one on the head. It's called people, specifically Americans. Americans don't want to drive little bitty cars. Most people can't afford to have an extra car for runabout driving and the econoboxes that get 40+ mpg are worthless when it comes time to put the family in a car and take a day trip away from city sprawl and we don't want to feel like the 1.8 liter hampsters under the hood are going to have a collective heart attack trying to merge onto the freeway. In Europe, the concept of getting away from it all is a relic of the past. Go to Google earth sometime and look at Germany and try to find wilderness. We have to have a car that will serve all our needs so if a car needs room for 4 plus luggage then a Fit is no longer an option.
Once upon a time, high mpg cars were made, in fact, I have one; a 1986 Honda CRX. It is big enough for two adults and minimal cargo. I can tell very quickly when I have any amount of weight in it because it feels very underpowered, very quickly and I have the Si sport model.
Cars are about tradeoff and the tradeoffs we are willing to make as consumers do not currently include high gas efficiency.
I know you want to think there is some kind of nefarious plot going on to keep mpg down but every one of the big 3 are in trouble. If one of them had a way to make a car that would sell in huge numbers you can be certain that they would do it. Wall Street is talking seriously about Chrysler going under and GM having to close or sell divisions. Detroit is doing everything they can to sell cars and not one of them would let a significant improvement go unmarketed.
I'm more interested to know if this has any impact on nuclear waste. If decay can be sped up artificially one of the biggest objection points against widescale adoption of nuclear power in the US goes away.
Wow. I can only assume that you are either in a very low tax bracket, don't have a clue about investing or are so left leaning that you refuse to acknowledge reality. The return on "investment" for people paying into Social Security today is in the range of 1.5-2.0%. In comparison, a long term investment in the S&P 500 would return approximately 10% annualized, so from that standpoint, investing in Social Security is "costing" me 8% per year in lost returns. That is worse than even the highest load mutual funds. Who needs high overhead when you only have to realize a low single digit return on assets?
It is true that SS & Medicare are self funding; this works only because it was started right before the baby boom, so the numbers of people paying in far outweighed the demands of those receiving money from SS. Once they start to retire, and it has already started, the system as the benefits and tax rates are paid now will collapse.
Do you know who owns Halliburton et al? Shareholders. While it is true that some executives and former executives hold large positions, 86% of all shares are held by nearly 800 different institutional investors like mutual funds and pensions. The biggest "fat cat" shareholder holds a grand total of 961K shares, barely 1/10th of 1% of the nearly 900 million shares outstanding. I guess you don't really care to know that HAL is a component of the S&P 500 and as such is held by such corporate pirates as every S&P 500 Index fund, very common investment vehicles in the 401(k) plans held by millions of Americans and even pension plans like CALPERS and TIAA-CREF. Yes, a few people hold decent sized blocks of stock but by and large it is the mutual fund owners who benefit from the monies paid to these companies. You are free to object to the expenditures but don't for a minute think that there is some small handful of individuals who are banking huge amounts of money from this. These companies aren't like MS or ORCL wherein the founders hold signficant blocks of the outstanding shares. When HAL gets a contract the benefit goes to its equity owners. If you know a US retiree with a pension or 401(k) they probably benefit from the money paid to HAL et al.
You ignorant people really piss me off. I understand objecting to the invasion and the money being spent, but this idea that some small group of people is siphoning money out of our government into their bank accounts merely points out how little you understand about the nature of corporate ownership. Companies today aren't like Standard Oil or US Steel in which the company is owned wholely or in large part by one individual. Executives, current and former, often own non-trivial amounts of stock numbering hundreds of thousands of shares but as a percentage of the number of shares outstanding, often numbering in the hundreds of millions of shares they almost always represent less than 1% of the total unless the person is a company founder.
We can agree to disagree on the merits of stealing from the rich to give to the poor through the social welfare system called the US tax code but at least get your facts straight on who it is that benefits from government contracts won by or handed outright through "no-bids" to publicly traded companies.
Since you seem to support the forced redistribution of wealth, here's a little nugget for you to chew on: over 90% of the American public has exposure to the stock market through either direct personal investment or retirement plans. According to the IRS, 71% of all taxes are paid by the top 10% of income earners (more than at any point in history, btw) and the bottom 40% pay zero net taxes. Assuming that the same 10% with no stock market exposure also pay zero net taxes, 30% of the US public benefits from the payments made to defense contractors out of the funds taken from the top 10% so not only do they not pay taxes because someone else is, they benefit from the expenditure of the money taken from those same taxpayers as well.
I know it feels good to believe that the military-industrial complex is raiding the federal till, but the fact is that Social Security, Medicare/Medical and other social assistance programs consume right at 50% of all federal expenditures. Interest on the debt, the military and everything else make up the other 50% and military spending, a large portion of which is the salaries of our servicemen and women, represents only 20% of the overall total. If you want to find the recipients of the largess of our bloated federal budget start and end with the entitlement programs.
Okay, I'm curious. Is is really better? Given the choice between a calorie intake low enough to guarantee eventual death and a higher calorie diet but expected death from exposure to toxic substances, which is the better existence?
I have to think that anything that lets me live longer is the preferable way to go.
And there's no easy way for me to know if I'm near an airport unless I'm using a GPS
You should always know where you are, even if you aren't using a GPS. At 140 MPH you are traveling at ~2.5 miles a minute. If you knew where you were at some point, you should be able to locate yourself pretty quickly from there. If you don't have GPS, you should be flying with the sectional open and flying from landmark to landmark anyway. My CFII will regularly pull out a sectional and ask me to show him where we are "just in case." And if you were thinking "I'll never need that", two months ago my dad lost power to his panel and lost GPS and NAV radios. He had to pull out his ICON handheld and use a sectional to get to his destination and then use the light guns to get on the ground. The GPS, while wonderful, is a terrible crutch to get dependent upon.
In reality they can't. If a third of the US population gave only $5 each to the cause the number start to get to the point that countering it would be noticable to stockholders. We peons lack organization, not funds. It really wouldn't be hard to make our voices heard. Have someone draft a paper stating "We think X about issue Y" and give the effort some memorable name. Then you have thousands of people send $5 each in support of named effort. You can be certain that when the politicians office starts getting all these they will notice because at the end of the day elections are decided by votes and when re-election comes up those numbers of people are going to speak pretty loudly.
I wondered about why they couldn't use animals. Put a pole in a room whose base sits in a collector in the floor. Put a water source slightly off the ground in one wall and let male dogs in. With nothing else to target save a flat wall soon one will pee on the pole and then every other male dog that comes through will mark the territory marked by the previous dog. This wouldn't be difficult.
but it is a good practice so as not to annoy those who own the domains the submitter used
So I guess you are expecting that/.'ers are going to start sending email to that domain to try it out? I thought common sense would dictate that he could have put jsmith@us.ibm.com or any other realish email address in his post and it still wouldn't have resulted in any email being sent to that address because people here understand his point. This is definitely a case of the perfect being the enemy of the good.
On the one hand, it is great for Linux that any version is being sold by a mainstream retailer. It is one thing for some local computer store to sell it but a chain like Best Buy has to make a decision like this pretty high up. Simply seeing on the shelf at a big box retailer gives it legitimacy in many people's eyes.
On the other hand, I wonder about the downsides of this. Linux is still a pain the butt for the newbie to use. While a great number of the things the average person wants to do are automatically configured, should a user want to do something a little different they descend quickly in xterm and hand editing.config files. Given that I still have people who are impressed that I diagnose things in Windows with a command prompt, the idea of navigating a hard drive, via a keyboard no less, with a character based interface is as foreign a concept as speaking Farsi. I wonder how many people will give it a try and throw up their hands in frustration and give up. The next time that person hears Linux mentioned they'll be quick to inject a comment about having tried it and how complicated it was. At that point, the Linux community best pray that the listener isn't like a number of people in this community and makes the original speaker feel stupid because they couldn't get it to work and Heaven forbid they have any piece of hardware not supported by Linux or the fact that "it wouldn't even work on my machine" will be added when the person *knows* that Windows worked.
I hope Best Buy has a good support line set up to help people or this could get ugly quickly.
it is good to have a sysadmin who can write programs in binary
I'd like to meet one of these sysadmins. I've written system stuff in C and other stuff in Pascal, C++ and Perl over the years but the guy that can write direct to binary must really know his stuff. Just think, his keyboard only needs two keys!
So now you are going to spend the people's money by having a trial and spend the company's (read: shareholding mutual funds, pensions & individuals) money to defend itself at a trial. If the act is legal then everyone benefits by it being declared as so formally.
My father in law wrote a fundamentals of electronics & electricity textbook used at community college/ITT Tech kinds of schools. He is currently doing a rewrite of the textbook and has been for over year. Mind you, he has a BS & MS in Engineering and a PhD in Education and has real work to be doing as he holds a full time job at 70 in industry. Students would not be served by teaching this subject from material approaching 10 years in age, so every 6-7 years he puts in a couple hundred man hours of time outside his normal work to perform what is essentially a rewrite of the entire book. He will update the graphics, restructure text and create pdf chapter reviews and his basement is lined with stacks of chapters each with piles for submitted, edited, reviewed and accepted with source references and artwork. As a former professor, he feels an obligation to do right by the students but if the book is pirated you can be certain he'll throw in the towel and let someone else write it. Eventually students are going to suffer because none of the people who should be writing books like this will because it isn't worth it anymore.
I've had to exploit social engineering on occasion in the past for legitimate purposes. The beauty of convincing someone that you are a person they trust is that you not only get through security, you gain knowledge of process. You can make a simple request of them in English and they know what systems need to be accessed to make your requested change. Unfortunately, it is more likely that somebody will write a bug free Linux distribution on their first compile than employee awareness being raised to the level of preventing social engineering. As long as we have users that call IT when they make their Windows font white on a white background (yep, happened last month) social engineering will always work.
When will people understand that ExxonMobile et al do not control the sale price of their product? Oil is sold on futures markets. Representatives of XOM sell production contracts to buyers for whatever price the buyer is willing to offer. XOM can try to set a price but if it is too high nobody will buy. At the end of the day the margin is determined by the buyers, not the sellers.
If you change ALL PEOPLE to ALL US CITIZENS I can agree with you. The Bill of Rights is a collection of those right necessary to sustain "The United States of America", a country formed by choice for the purposes outlined in the Preamble. Nowhere did the founders ever say that other countries or peoples needed these rights, only that these rights were required for this republic to exist. The only rights the founders believed apply to all people are those of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
I couldn't disagree more. The same men that wrote the Constitution wrote the Declaration of Independence and the rights they listed as inalienable do not include anything in the bill of rights; furtherore, the 4th amendment actually provides an exception to the right to life.
Our founders believed the items in the Bill of Rights to be necessary freedoms for this nation, as envisioned under the Constitution, to continue. Nowhere do they say that these are rights for all people, only that they are rights for American citizens and as the guardians of its citizens, the government is obligated to go no further than the protection of its own citizens rights. We have no obligation to concern ourselves for the rights of foreigners and the option to apply to others a different standard is a necessary one.
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My guess is that they call everything "beta" so as to limit the amount of complaints they get when something breaks. "Oh, wait, you were using a beta application to conduct your important company communications? I'm sorry, didn't anyone tell you that beta software doesn't come with the same expectations for reliability and data integrity as released, production code? Silly rabbit!"
With beta software they can break or alter anything at will and our only course of action is to say "Thank you; may I please have another?"
The problem, if you will reread my post dumb@ss, is that it isn't the politician feeling the pain. How would you feel if you, or your spouse/so or your mother or father's email address happened to be found in the contact list of some polarizing individual whose account happened to get hacked? The people who disliked that individual would be certain to bombard a perfectly innocent person's address simply because they were associated with said individual.
I think she was foolish for using an account so easily penetrated but her associates did nothing for which to be attacked and my sympathies lie with them and my anger at the person for messing their lives up.
I am extremely disappointed at the perpetrators of this publishing Palin's contacts' email addresses. If she was using a Yahoo! account for state business then she should be reprimanded for it but the fact is that even the POTUS may want to send personal communications to friends and family of a completely private nature that should be off limits to anyone but the sender and recipient. A politician discussing state policy is doing state business but a friend asking for advice on how to handle a problem teenager simply is not public business. Her friends and family don't deserve what they are certain to get as a result of their addresses being made public. I am sure that even now every one of those email inboxes is being bombarded with email, probably to the point that they are rejecting new email for being too large. I really feel for Bristol; the garbage that is certain to be arriving in her inbox must be simply horrible. A good friend had an accidental pregnancy at 17 and believe me, girls in this situation are already having enough problems that they don't need to world to say word one to make things worse. I suspect that every one of her contacts will now need to get a new address because somebody else violated the law and Yahoo's rules.
Politicians put themselves in the spotlight by running for office but their families are no part of this. While I oppose Obama and almost everything he endorses, I would be equally upset if his mailbox were hacked and his contacts' emails were exposed. Michelle and Todd and all these candidates' kids simply don't deserve to have their lives invaded because somebody opposes their parent/spouse.
There's something behind the scenes.
You hit that one on the head. It's called people, specifically Americans. Americans don't want to drive little bitty cars. Most people can't afford to have an extra car for runabout driving and the econoboxes that get 40+ mpg are worthless when it comes time to put the family in a car and take a day trip away from city sprawl and we don't want to feel like the 1.8 liter hampsters under the hood are going to have a collective heart attack trying to merge onto the freeway. In Europe, the concept of getting away from it all is a relic of the past. Go to Google earth sometime and look at Germany and try to find wilderness. We have to have a car that will serve all our needs so if a car needs room for 4 plus luggage then a Fit is no longer an option.
Once upon a time, high mpg cars were made, in fact, I have one; a 1986 Honda CRX. It is big enough for two adults and minimal cargo. I can tell very quickly when I have any amount of weight in it because it feels very underpowered, very quickly and I have the Si sport model.
Cars are about tradeoff and the tradeoffs we are willing to make as consumers do not currently include high gas efficiency.
I know you want to think there is some kind of nefarious plot going on to keep mpg down but every one of the big 3 are in trouble. If one of them had a way to make a car that would sell in huge numbers you can be certain that they would do it. Wall Street is talking seriously about Chrysler going under and GM having to close or sell divisions. Detroit is doing everything they can to sell cars and not one of them would let a significant improvement go unmarketed.
That would take too much time. Why not just see if she weighs the same as a duck?
I'm more interested to know if this has any impact on nuclear waste. If decay can be sped up artificially one of the biggest objection points against widescale adoption of nuclear power in the US goes away.
How much energy does it take to create those solar panels in the first place? At what point do you break even on energy?
Wow. I can only assume that you are either in a very low tax bracket, don't have a clue about investing or are so left leaning that you refuse to acknowledge reality. The return on "investment" for people paying into Social Security today is in the range of 1.5-2.0%. In comparison, a long term investment in the S&P 500 would return approximately 10% annualized, so from that standpoint, investing in Social Security is "costing" me 8% per year in lost returns. That is worse than even the highest load mutual funds. Who needs high overhead when you only have to realize a low single digit return on assets?
It is true that SS & Medicare are self funding; this works only because it was started right before the baby boom, so the numbers of people paying in far outweighed the demands of those receiving money from SS. Once they start to retire, and it has already started, the system as the benefits and tax rates are paid now will collapse.
merely line the pockets of their corporate owners
Do you know who owns Halliburton et al? Shareholders. While it is true that some executives and former executives hold large positions, 86% of all shares are held by nearly 800 different institutional investors like mutual funds and pensions. The biggest "fat cat" shareholder holds a grand total of 961K shares, barely 1/10th of 1% of the nearly 900 million shares outstanding. I guess you don't really care to know that HAL is a component of the S&P 500 and as such is held by such corporate pirates as every S&P 500 Index fund, very common investment vehicles in the 401(k) plans held by millions of Americans and even pension plans like CALPERS and TIAA-CREF. Yes, a few people hold decent sized blocks of stock but by and large it is the mutual fund owners who benefit from the monies paid to these companies. You are free to object to the expenditures but don't for a minute think that there is some small handful of individuals who are banking huge amounts of money from this. These companies aren't like MS or ORCL wherein the founders hold signficant blocks of the outstanding shares. When HAL gets a contract the benefit goes to its equity owners. If you know a US retiree with a pension or 401(k) they probably benefit from the money paid to HAL et al.
You ignorant people really piss me off. I understand objecting to the invasion and the money being spent, but this idea that some small group of people is siphoning money out of our government into their bank accounts merely points out how little you understand about the nature of corporate ownership. Companies today aren't like Standard Oil or US Steel in which the company is owned wholely or in large part by one individual. Executives, current and former, often own non-trivial amounts of stock numbering hundreds of thousands of shares but as a percentage of the number of shares outstanding, often numbering in the hundreds of millions of shares they almost always represent less than 1% of the total unless the person is a company founder.
We can agree to disagree on the merits of stealing from the rich to give to the poor through the social welfare system called the US tax code but at least get your facts straight on who it is that benefits from government contracts won by or handed outright through "no-bids" to publicly traded companies.
Since you seem to support the forced redistribution of wealth, here's a little nugget for you to chew on: over 90% of the American public has exposure to the stock market through either direct personal investment or retirement plans. According to the IRS, 71% of all taxes are paid by the top 10% of income earners (more than at any point in history, btw) and the bottom 40% pay zero net taxes. Assuming that the same 10% with no stock market exposure also pay zero net taxes, 30% of the US public benefits from the payments made to defense contractors out of the funds taken from the top 10% so not only do they not pay taxes because someone else is, they benefit from the expenditure of the money taken from those same taxpayers as well.
I know it feels good to believe that the military-industrial complex is raiding the federal till, but the fact is that Social Security, Medicare/Medical and other social assistance programs consume right at 50% of all federal expenditures. Interest on the debt, the military and everything else make up the other 50% and military spending, a large portion of which is the salaries of our servicemen and women, represents only 20% of the overall total. If you want to find the recipients of the largess of our bloated federal budget start and end with the entitlement programs.
Okay, I'm curious. Is is really better? Given the choice between a calorie intake low enough to guarantee eventual death and a higher calorie diet but expected death from exposure to toxic substances, which is the better existence?
I have to think that anything that lets me live longer is the preferable way to go.
And there's no easy way for me to know if I'm near an airport unless I'm using a GPS
You should always know where you are, even if you aren't using a GPS. At 140 MPH you are traveling at ~2.5 miles a minute. If you knew where you were at some point, you should be able to locate yourself pretty quickly from there. If you don't have GPS, you should be flying with the sectional open and flying from landmark to landmark anyway. My CFII will regularly pull out a sectional and ask me to show him where we are "just in case." And if you were thinking "I'll never need that", two months ago my dad lost power to his panel and lost GPS and NAV radios. He had to pull out his ICON handheld and use a sectional to get to his destination and then use the light guns to get on the ground. The GPS, while wonderful, is a terrible crutch to get dependent upon.
In reality they can't. If a third of the US population gave only $5 each to the cause the number start to get to the point that countering it would be noticable to stockholders. We peons lack organization, not funds. It really wouldn't be hard to make our voices heard. Have someone draft a paper stating "We think X about issue Y" and give the effort some memorable name. Then you have thousands of people send $5 each in support of named effort. You can be certain that when the politicians office starts getting all these they will notice because at the end of the day elections are decided by votes and when re-election comes up those numbers of people are going to speak pretty loudly.
I wondered about why they couldn't use animals. Put a pole in a room whose base sits in a collector in the floor. Put a water source slightly off the ground in one wall and let male dogs in. With nothing else to target save a flat wall soon one will pee on the pole and then every other male dog that comes through will mark the territory marked by the previous dog. This wouldn't be difficult.
I can't answer that one but I'll take Alicia Witt (Alia) or Francesca Annis (Jessica) of 1984...
It also leads to at least one secondary character being killed in a particularly gruesome fashion.
but it is a good practice so as not to annoy those who own the domains the submitter used
So I guess you are expecting that /.'ers are going to start sending email to that domain to try it out? I thought common sense would dictate that he could have put jsmith@us.ibm.com or any other realish email address in his post and it still wouldn't have resulted in any email being sent to that address because people here understand his point. This is definitely a case of the perfect being the enemy of the good.
On the one hand, it is great for Linux that any version is being sold by a mainstream retailer. It is one thing for some local computer store to sell it but a chain like Best Buy has to make a decision like this pretty high up. Simply seeing on the shelf at a big box retailer gives it legitimacy in many people's eyes.
.config files. Given that I still have people who are impressed that I diagnose things in Windows with a command prompt, the idea of navigating a hard drive, via a keyboard no less, with a character based interface is as foreign a concept as speaking Farsi. I wonder how many people will give it a try and throw up their hands in frustration and give up. The next time that person hears Linux mentioned they'll be quick to inject a comment about having tried it and how complicated it was. At that point, the Linux community best pray that the listener isn't like a number of people in this community and makes the original speaker feel stupid because they couldn't get it to work and Heaven forbid they have any piece of hardware not supported by Linux or the fact that "it wouldn't even work on my machine" will be added when the person *knows* that Windows worked.
On the other hand, I wonder about the downsides of this. Linux is still a pain the butt for the newbie to use. While a great number of the things the average person wants to do are automatically configured, should a user want to do something a little different they descend quickly in xterm and hand editing
I hope Best Buy has a good support line set up to help people or this could get ugly quickly.
it is good to have a sysadmin who can write programs in binary
I'd like to meet one of these sysadmins. I've written system stuff in C and other stuff in Pascal, C++ and Perl over the years but the guy that can write direct to binary must really know his stuff. Just think, his keyboard only needs two keys!
Let them defend themselves in court.
So now you are going to spend the people's money by having a trial and spend the company's (read: shareholding mutual funds, pensions & individuals) money to defend itself at a trial. If the act is legal then everyone benefits by it being declared as so formally.
My father in law wrote a fundamentals of electronics & electricity textbook used at community college/ITT Tech kinds of schools. He is currently doing a rewrite of the textbook and has been for over year. Mind you, he has a BS & MS in Engineering and a PhD in Education and has real work to be doing as he holds a full time job at 70 in industry. Students would not be served by teaching this subject from material approaching 10 years in age, so every 6-7 years he puts in a couple hundred man hours of time outside his normal work to perform what is essentially a rewrite of the entire book. He will update the graphics, restructure text and create pdf chapter reviews and his basement is lined with stacks of chapters each with piles for submitted, edited, reviewed and accepted with source references and artwork. As a former professor, he feels an obligation to do right by the students but if the book is pirated you can be certain he'll throw in the towel and let someone else write it. Eventually students are going to suffer because none of the people who should be writing books like this will because it isn't worth it anymore.
I've had to exploit social engineering on occasion in the past for legitimate purposes. The beauty of convincing someone that you are a person they trust is that you not only get through security, you gain knowledge of process. You can make a simple request of them in English and they know what systems need to be accessed to make your requested change. Unfortunately, it is more likely that somebody will write a bug free Linux distribution on their first compile than employee awareness being raised to the level of preventing social engineering. As long as we have users that call IT when they make their Windows font white on a white background (yep, happened last month) social engineering will always work.
When will people understand that ExxonMobile et al do not control the sale price of their product? Oil is sold on futures markets. Representatives of XOM sell production contracts to buyers for whatever price the buyer is willing to offer. XOM can try to set a price but if it is too high nobody will buy. At the end of the day the margin is determined by the buyers, not the sellers.
If you change ALL PEOPLE to ALL US CITIZENS I can agree with you. The Bill of Rights is a collection of those right necessary to sustain "The United States of America", a country formed by choice for the purposes outlined in the Preamble. Nowhere did the founders ever say that other countries or peoples needed these rights, only that these rights were required for this republic to exist. The only rights the founders believed apply to all people are those of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
I couldn't disagree more. The same men that wrote the Constitution wrote the Declaration of Independence and the rights they listed as inalienable do not include anything in the bill of rights; furtherore, the 4th amendment actually provides an exception to the right to life.
Our founders believed the items in the Bill of Rights to be necessary freedoms for this nation, as envisioned under the Constitution, to continue. Nowhere do they say that these are rights for all people, only that they are rights for American citizens and as the guardians of its citizens, the government is obligated to go no further than the protection of its own citizens rights. We have no obligation to concern ourselves for the rights of foreigners and the option to apply to others a different standard is a necessary one.