The administration's argument is that the meaning of "hostilities" under the law is any engagement that puts US troops at risk from enemy action.
Then the Prez can throw the football at any time? If we do a sneaky enough first strike with nukes, no US troops are put at risk... Imagine the abuses of this change in definitions.
We don't NEED an "IT professional" when ALL we have is a couple of PCs and a wireless router
FTFY. If you're an actual business, you'll need an IT professional to advise you on what you really need (and to make IT policies, etc). If you're operating out of your basement, an IT pro can come in handy, but you might just accidentally use your computer securely without it being enforced.
Why is "shiny" and "hard" considered superior to "matte" and "cushy" in handheld communications technology? Why is aluminum and glass better than plastic?
Humans have liked shiny and hard for thousands of years, else precious metals and gemstones would have been worthless until the industrial age, when uses for highly ductile metals and abrasive diamond dust were discovered.
"No, I won't do that, that violates HIPAA," (or SOX or what have you) is not a valid answer. "We can do that, but I want to circle back through legal for the HIPAA implications," is the correct answer.
It's not your job to say, "no.' It most certainly is legal's job.
just saying HIPAA/SOX/PCI or mentioning legal is codeword of "no", and business types learn codewords quickly. They'll turn to the cloud because the cloud never checks with the in-house legal department.
And then the other 98% of the time, the relative security of the cloud vs internal is completely unknown and therefore can't be a factor in the decision.
Unknowns are anathema to business (unless they're researched risks). Of course businesses dont think about digital security except within a month of a well publicized security breach.
Are you telling me that police in US doesn't routinely shoot people who run afoul of the law?
"routinely" is a strong modifier. We'll often hear about the exceptional cases in the news. The prison companies wouldn't like it if the police regularly killed people.
You're telling there's no political oppression of parties other then two major allowed ones?
Maybe Communism, but other than that, even the Nazis get to have their parades and rallies.
No nepotism?
No comment.
Doesn't ignore the rule of the law when it suits it, including and not limited to its own constitution?
and oh look, they want to restrict access to bacillus anthracis, a soil-borne bacteria with spores that can be found on every continent.
They don't want to restrict it. They want it on a restricted list. It's the charge du jour for someone who hasn't committed a crime. "There's Anthrax in his garden!"
You would be when you find out you cant take a picture of your friends at a venue. You would post a question to apple.com forums, and it would be deleted. You would then post another question, thinking you made a mistake posting the first one, and your forum account would be banned. Then you'd google the problem and find this and other articles.
No, $500,000 in yens is $500,000 in US Dollars.
$500,000 in bit coins is $500,000 in Confederate Dollars, or $500,000 in nothings. Anyone who is foolish enough to accept the bitcoins will soon find out they spent $500,000 on something no one else will accept.
the only thing that was actually "lost" was the time and energy used to "create" the BitCoins.
Which represents no work for real creation of goods or services (the intended reason for money to be seen as valuable). I lost the saved game files for Halo on my PC; that's about how much those BitCoins were worth, and the saved games actually involved human interaction in their creation!
And all transfers from your savings account wallet to your spending wallet should be done on an offline computer so that your savings account wallet is never on a computer connected to the internet, otherwise you risk a digital intruder keylogging your passphrase to decrypt the savings account wallet, or just copying it while you have it decrypted or copying the unencrypted file from bits on the drive (where you erased it, but didn't shred it because you probably use a journaling filesystem).
I mentioned that the future of computing with further walled gardens is that compilers (and programmers) are licensed by the state. Looks like the EU will beat us to that punch.
if they knew that the only ones paying any attention to them were law enforcement, and the only reason they hadn't gotten caught yet is because they're waiting to collect enough evidence to ensure the sentences last multiple decades... maybe it would stop all on its own.
they're screwing with the CIA now. They can only be killed in their sleep once.
There's a lot of mucus and dead red blood cells that get dumped into the colon. Poop is brown because of the red blood cells (it would otherwise be yellowish).
I don't think this problem can be fixed by "forcing" users to choose long passwords
It can be fixed by forcing users to use long passwords: "Your new password is 'lately watching Seinfeld, I drink Pepsi'. Write it down, repeat it a hundred times, whatever. You can request a change, but you can't choose a password because we don't trust you." Bonus is that you can maybe get some ad money from Seinfeld or Pepsi for making people memorize the password.
There are a lot of other hacking groups out there doing it for profit, first for stealing, then spamming, then encryption ransom for a bit, now it's botnets for hire. The lulz days of hacking were much earlier in the 80s and 90s when viruses and worms were made for fun and breaking into accounts was a kids' sport. Lulzsec is a throwback.
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The administration's argument is that the meaning of "hostilities" under the law is any engagement that puts US troops at risk from enemy action.
Then the Prez can throw the football at any time? If we do a sneaky enough first strike with nukes, no US troops are put at risk... Imagine the abuses of this change in definitions.
Way to avoid criticism of American ignorance by making a fucking Simpsons reference.
Worst Anonymous Coward.. ever.
Get rid of planes and you don't need the blinking lights. Ergo planes are your real enemy.
We don't NEED an "IT professional" when ALL we have is a couple of PCs and a wireless router
FTFY. If you're an actual business, you'll need an IT professional to advise you on what you really need (and to make IT policies, etc). If you're operating out of your basement, an IT pro can come in handy, but you might just accidentally use your computer securely without it being enforced.
Anyone who's had to bring in their Mac to have it upgraded to Windows 7 has experienced this.
I'm not seeing the problem. Bootcamp drivers work fine with windows 7.
Why is "shiny" and "hard" considered superior to "matte" and "cushy" in handheld communications technology? Why is aluminum and glass better than plastic?
Humans have liked shiny and hard for thousands of years, else precious metals and gemstones would have been worthless until the industrial age, when uses for highly ductile metals and abrasive diamond dust were discovered.
"No, I won't do that, that violates HIPAA," (or SOX or what have you) is not a valid answer. "We can do that, but I want to circle back through legal for the HIPAA implications," is the correct answer.
It's not your job to say, "no.' It most certainly is legal's job.
just saying HIPAA/SOX/PCI or mentioning legal is codeword of "no", and business types learn codewords quickly. They'll turn to the cloud because the cloud never checks with the in-house legal department.
And then the other 98% of the time, the relative security of the cloud vs internal is completely unknown and therefore can't be a factor in the decision.
Unknowns are anathema to business (unless they're researched risks). Of course businesses dont think about digital security except within a month of a well publicized security breach.
Are you telling me that police in US doesn't routinely shoot people who run afoul of the law?
"routinely" is a strong modifier. We'll often hear about the exceptional cases in the news. The prison companies wouldn't like it if the police regularly killed people.
You're telling there's no political oppression of parties other then two major allowed ones?
Maybe Communism, but other than that, even the Nazis get to have their parades and rallies.
No nepotism?
No comment.
Doesn't ignore the rule of the law when it suits it, including and not limited to its own constitution?
Don't judge us by the sitting president.
It is if it's the abbreviation for Indiana (IN).
and oh look, they want to restrict access to bacillus anthracis, a soil-borne bacteria with spores that can be found on every continent.
They don't want to restrict it. They want it on a restricted list. It's the charge du jour for someone who hasn't committed a crime. "There's Anthrax in his garden!"
If it doesn't work, there's no truly secure way to store your wallet files.
You would be when you find out you cant take a picture of your friends at a venue. You would post a question to apple.com forums, and it would be deleted. You would then post another question, thinking you made a mistake posting the first one, and your forum account would be banned. Then you'd google the problem and find this and other articles.
$500,000 in bit coins is $500,000 in yens
No, $500,000 in yens is $500,000 in US Dollars.
$500,000 in bit coins is $500,000 in Confederate Dollars, or $500,000 in nothings. Anyone who is foolish enough to accept the bitcoins will soon find out they spent $500,000 on something no one else will accept.
the only thing that was actually "lost" was the time and energy used to "create" the BitCoins.
Which represents no work for real creation of goods or services (the intended reason for money to be seen as valuable). I lost the saved game files for Halo on my PC; that's about how much those BitCoins were worth, and the saved games actually involved human interaction in their creation!
And all transfers from your savings account wallet to your spending wallet should be done on an offline computer so that your savings account wallet is never on a computer connected to the internet, otherwise you risk a digital intruder keylogging your passphrase to decrypt the savings account wallet, or just copying it while you have it decrypted or copying the unencrypted file from bits on the drive (where you erased it, but didn't shred it because you probably use a journaling filesystem).
How about the liberty to build software?
I mentioned that the future of computing with further walled gardens is that compilers (and programmers) are licensed by the state. Looks like the EU will beat us to that punch.
if they knew that the only ones paying any attention to them were law enforcement, and the only reason they hadn't gotten caught yet is because they're waiting to collect enough evidence to ensure the sentences last multiple decades... maybe it would stop all on its own.
they're screwing with the CIA now. They can only be killed in their sleep once.
What if the 'feces producer' was a vegetarian ?
There's a lot of mucus and dead red blood cells that get dumped into the colon. Poop is brown because of the red blood cells (it would otherwise be yellowish).
Beat me to it. This is the obvious benefit. I doubt it will ever be the marketing coup that "astronaut ice cream" was, though.
This could be "astronaut soft serve"
They're going to weaponize Hasselhoff?!?
What do you think broke the Berlin Wall? Reaganomics? Hasselhoff has been keeping the Germans in line since the 80's.
Do not expose it to fire. "It's Alive!"
I don't think this problem can be fixed by "forcing" users to choose long passwords
It can be fixed by forcing users to use long passwords: "Your new password is 'lately watching Seinfeld, I drink Pepsi'. Write it down, repeat it a hundred times, whatever. You can request a change, but you can't choose a password because we don't trust you." Bonus is that you can maybe get some ad money from Seinfeld or Pepsi for making people memorize the password.
There are a lot of other hacking groups out there doing it for profit, first for stealing, then spamming, then encryption ransom for a bit, now it's botnets for hire. The lulz days of hacking were much earlier in the 80s and 90s when viruses and worms were made for fun and breaking into accounts was a kids' sport. Lulzsec is a throwback.
The truly sad part of that story us that the giant dragon turtle who hid all those coins in the bricks lost all his money. He should have diversified.