Please tell me where this check box is located. I tried using the help function and it claims I will find it in the summary pane but I just can't see it. I am using an iPod touch so maybe this capability is not supported for this model?
Nail, meet hammer. Specifically, the iPhone and iPod Touch models cannot be used as hard drives. Classic and the previous generations of Nano can be (not sure about the new video camera model). I'm not sure about shuffle - but you;d be better off with a USB stick anyway in that case.
And when you do, you fall under criminal statues for fraud (try doing that and selling the vehicle - same thing).
2> Who will read the odometers? How would it be enforced? Remember this is a federal asshat, not a state asshat. While various state agencies might have occasion to see your car on an anual basis now, that does not translate into federal access. Can you say "unfunded mandate"?
As far as reading the odometer goes, make it part of the annual safety inspection that every state requires. Info is electronically forwarded to the IRS, and you have to include the receipt and tax as part of your federal tax return. Done.
3> Reading odometers will not let the feds know where folks are driving. Do you really want a permanent government record of everywhere your car has been within 30 feet available to any curious civil servant with a web browser? How about 20 years from now? How might such a record affect your employment prospects? "Well Gee Top, we'd really like to hire you, but we see you seem to frequently patronize Hooters and that is not the sort of place that our firm approves of.
And this is why an odometer based system is vastly superior. No storing of location information, just a total number of miles driven.
4> And of course, GPS on cars have already been used to tack on additional fees by car rental companies for speeding. Do you always observe the speed limit? If not are you ready for local governments to be notified of all "speeding" cars in their jusrisdictions so they can give you a ticket as they are doing with red light cameras now?
Sure, one might think I am going a bit over the top here, but rather than talk about how to incorporate "safeguards" into such a system, I prefer that it be an admitted bad idea that should be killed in the womb.
I fully believe that GPS and other constantly-updating location systems should be legally barred from being used as evidence in any way if you have no legal and available option for turning it off. Same goes for toll collection systems, building passes, etc. If you don't want to be recorded, you should have a legally available option to take yourself off the grid. Once things like this are mandated, they are then used to prosecute and persecute.
And because they took all that loot in the 90s and burned everyone, they should have their big fat pipes seized immediately and nationalized.
No way man. Why should we (the taxpayers) get stuck with outdated equipment and lines, and have to pay again to get better stuff strung on the poles? I say we revoke the local monopoly on last line, string new fiber (or WiMax or something similar) and if they file suit to block it, they *then* have to pay the new infrastructure costs as well as be forced to move and lose every one of their existing lines once the new infrastructure is in place.
SSN is *not* a GUID. It is used in combination with your date of birth to make a GUID. It is entirely possible to *legally* have the same SSN as another person, but with a different birth date. It's amazing the number of people (including database designers) who dont understand this and make the SSN a Primary Key in the database....
How long before using a darknet or using encryption is defined as automatically infringing copyright (for purposes of accusation anyway)? You know that's the first reaction that Big Media already is planning... that would kill all the darknets and P2P really fast.
I'm actually looking forward to this, because I'm sure that once half or more of the country is banned from the Internet, you'll have all sorts of riots (primarily because everyone who *would* be home pirating things and consuming Big Media's soulless product don't have anything better to do without the Net).
So who's gonna be the first to send complaints about the entire *.fr domain for copyright infringement? And send it repeatedly? If it's 3-strikes you're out, we could get all of France kicked off really damn fast...
Wait, Handbrake comes from there. Could this be related???
Amen. This coming from a recent transplant to the area (yes, i look out from work and see Cannon every day), I much prefer the one mentioned at the Legacy Fund. No glass monstrosities visible from all angles, probably glowing at night (safety ya know!) at the top of the mountain for me please. Keep my view of nature undisturbed - even if it does cost a few tourism dollars.
Such a "secret court" is a good thing, because it provides the appearance of judicial review for actions that would otherwise not be subject to judicial review at all.
Fixed that for you.
Check out the denial records of that court since the 70s. That should tell you just how detailed the FISA rubber stamp looks at those warrant petitions.
And in that frame of mind, what's to keep any potential terrorists from buying tickets at the counter? Or on the phone from the lobby the same day as the flight? Or on a laptop? Nothing. In fact, they totally bypass this "Screening" technique, making it worthless. So drop the "security theatre" already, and start doing stuff that might actually work! Damn bureaucrats...
There is no question that Microsoft does not have any respectable ethics as a corporation You expect a corporation to have any ethics whatsoever? Read your own post.
employees are expected to do whatever is perceived to be profitable for them in money and power, especially in the short term This is exactly what corporations are designed to do. Make a profit, no matter the cost. Break the law? It's not a question of if it's legal. It's a question of how much the punishment will cost, and if that cost is greater than the profit of committing the act. In fact, if a publicly held company sees a way to make more money by bending (or sometimes breaking) the law, then does not do it because it may be illegal, the board can be liable to shareholder lawsuits! What a wonderful system we live under, eh?
Oh, and they specifically stated in the article that the data gathered would be moved to the FBI database tracking the same info. So yeah, they're shutting it down, but keeping the data. Yay us.
I'll believe it when (a) an indpendent agency - not a government one, but someone like the ACLU - verifies that they watched the procedure of wiping the drives per DoD standards of data erasure, and (b) pigs fly. Even if they invite an independent auditor in to watch the erasing and decommissioning of the database, you know for a fact there's a second (or third, or fourth) copy out there, simply for redundancy and disaster recovery. And I really doubt that the Bush administration will allow anyone into their secret data lairs. This is more PR to get the monkey to shift shoulders for a while.
There's no reference to this board/blade anywhere on the manufacturer's site. The only thing I can find is that this guy saw this board at a conference and took a shot and wrote a really short article about it. Ok, so a 3-way is a bit of a novelty, but good luck getting it to work. Isn't most microcode on the processors designed with 1, 2, or 4 way in mind? And isn't the cache coherency microcode embedded (at least in part) on the processors themselves? So setting up a 3-way using current processors would actually increase latency and error-checking, correct? IANAPD, but this seems like a dead end.
It was reported today that the factory boss who presided over the Mattel lead-painted toy manufacturing has killed himself. These factory towns are so supported by the local and national Chinese governments, that anything goes. Yes, the conditions at most factories are better than they were, but they are so far below US standards it's scary. Also, since most of the Chinese government wants to have people working in these factories to keep their economy growing, the factory bosses essentially becone the local government. We're back to the dark ages of the Industrial Revolution, but now it's government-enforced. And it's all paid for by you and me! Yay globalization!
I won't. I'd rather see him stuck in the White House, having to follow those rules for the next election cycle. This way, he can go "off the radar" and get the next Bushie elected, all without those annoying Congresscritters breathing down his back with their "rules". Watch for his influence in the next cycle - there's no way he's out of politics and just "taking time with his family". His "family" are those who can give him great power and lots of money, not his wife and kids. Look out now, here comes RangeRover again to run all over ya!
Except that I know plenty of non-computer savvy people who walk into Staples, pick up a drive off the shelf, get it installed, and then ask "But why is the size different from what it says on the box?" I'm waiting for the 1TB (not TiB) drive to result in lawsuits over people not getting their promised 1TiB.
I think this is a great idea. If everyone who owned a PC was required to assemble it, we might have a more tech-savvy computer user base. Obviously this wouldn't work for large businesses, but for home?
There's a huge amount of learning that goes on when just assembling a PC for the first time, let alone picking parts. The first thing to go is the "Where's the hard drive again? That big box under my desk?" type of questions. The next thing that goes is the "I can't do it! You click the mouse for me and make it work" mentality. Computers are not rockets (anymore). They're commodity parts thrown together in a case, running (for most systems sold today anyway) a crappy OS that most ppl find "ok". And assembling the system by hand would give most people the vocabulary to talk intelligently about their systems.
Not to mention the social (gasp!) aspect of putting a computer together. You can learn a lot from someone just having them help you - and that help makes a bond. Maybe we geeks could benefit socially as a group if we all had manditory "help the neighbor assemble his/her computer" day.
Two problems with this. 1) You assume that all nations want to cooperate and, as you so eloquently put it, "nail their collective goolies to a wall". That is very far from the truth. If we can't get a universal agreement about terrorists, how can we get a universal agreement about spammers/scammers? The only way one is going to be able to do this consisently is by doing vigilante justice - and then avoiding any law enforcement that wants to take you out for taking matters into your own hands. Good luck with that! 2) You also assume that "sending the heavies round" means that the "heavies" and the spammers are not colluding. I'll be willing to bet that many illegal spam operations are now owned by the same "entrepreneurs" that own the "heavies" you are referring to. Any bets on if they would be willing to beat down their own people for a few bucks? Many fewer bucks than their spam operation is bringing in?
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Refuse service is not the same as take your cash and kick you out. That's called robbery.
...perhaps you should try reading...
You're new here, aren't you?
...especially as my official title and job description is what I do only 10% of the time. But being "Genius in Residence" has it's perks :)
Please tell me where this check box is located. I tried using the help function and it claims I will find it in the summary pane but I just can't see it. I am using an iPod touch so maybe this capability is not supported for this model?
Nail, meet hammer. Specifically, the iPhone and iPod Touch models cannot be used as hard drives. Classic and the previous generations of Nano can be (not sure about the new video camera model). I'm not sure about shuffle - but you;d be better off with a USB stick anyway in that case.
No: 1> Odometers can be hacked (turned back)
And when you do, you fall under criminal statues for fraud (try doing that and selling the vehicle - same thing).
2> Who will read the odometers? How would it be enforced? Remember this is a federal asshat, not a state asshat. While various state agencies might have occasion to see your car on an anual basis now, that does not translate into federal access. Can you say "unfunded mandate"?
As far as reading the odometer goes, make it part of the annual safety inspection that every state requires. Info is electronically forwarded to the IRS, and you have to include the receipt and tax as part of your federal tax return. Done.
3> Reading odometers will not let the feds know where folks are driving. Do you really want a permanent government record of everywhere your car has been within 30 feet available to any curious civil servant with a web browser? How about 20 years from now? How might such a record affect your employment prospects? "Well Gee Top, we'd really like to hire you, but we see you seem to frequently patronize Hooters and that is not the sort of place that our firm approves of.
And this is why an odometer based system is vastly superior. No storing of location information, just a total number of miles driven.
4> And of course, GPS on cars have already been used to tack on additional fees by car rental companies for speeding. Do you always observe the speed limit? If not are you ready for local governments to be notified of all "speeding" cars in their jusrisdictions so they can give you a ticket as they are doing with red light cameras now?
Sure, one might think I am going a bit over the top here, but rather than talk about how to incorporate "safeguards" into such a system, I prefer that it be an admitted bad idea that should be killed in the womb.
I fully believe that GPS and other constantly-updating location systems should be legally barred from being used as evidence in any way if you have no legal and available option for turning it off. Same goes for toll collection systems, building passes, etc. If you don't want to be recorded, you should have a legally available option to take yourself off the grid. Once things like this are mandated, they are then used to prosecute and persecute.
And because they took all that loot in the 90s and burned everyone, they should have their big fat pipes seized immediately and nationalized.
No way man. Why should we (the taxpayers) get stuck with outdated equipment and lines, and have to pay again to get better stuff strung on the poles? I say we revoke the local monopoly on last line, string new fiber (or WiMax or something similar) and if they file suit to block it, they *then* have to pay the new infrastructure costs as well as be forced to move and lose every one of their existing lines once the new infrastructure is in place.
SSN is *not* a GUID. It is used in combination with your date of birth to make a GUID. It is entirely possible to *legally* have the same SSN as another person, but with a different birth date. It's amazing the number of people (including database designers) who dont understand this and make the SSN a Primary Key in the database....
Oh, if I was quicker (or had mod points)....
Welcome to the real world. MOST PEOPLE ARE INDEED STUPID and buy what is in front of them at the time. You might have realized that by now....
How long before using a darknet or using encryption is defined as automatically infringing copyright (for purposes of accusation anyway)? You know that's the first reaction that Big Media already is planning... that would kill all the darknets and P2P really fast.
I'm actually looking forward to this, because I'm sure that once half or more of the country is banned from the Internet, you'll have all sorts of riots (primarily because everyone who *would* be home pirating things and consuming Big Media's soulless product don't have anything better to do without the Net).
So who's gonna be the first to send complaints about the entire *.fr domain for copyright infringement? And send it repeatedly? If it's 3-strikes you're out, we could get all of France kicked off really damn fast... Wait, Handbrake comes from there. Could this be related???
Amen. This coming from a recent transplant to the area (yes, i look out from work and see Cannon every day), I much prefer the one mentioned at the Legacy Fund. No glass monstrosities visible from all angles, probably glowing at night (safety ya know!) at the top of the mountain for me please. Keep my view of nature undisturbed - even if it does cost a few tourism dollars.
Such a "secret court" is a good thing, because it provides the appearance of judicial review for actions that would otherwise not be subject to judicial review at all.
Fixed that for you.
Check out the denial records of that court since the 70s. That should tell you just how detailed the FISA rubber stamp looks at those warrant petitions.
And in that frame of mind, what's to keep any potential terrorists from buying tickets at the counter? Or on the phone from the lobby the same day as the flight? Or on a laptop? Nothing. In fact, they totally bypass this "Screening" technique, making it worthless. So drop the "security theatre" already, and start doing stuff that might actually work! Damn bureaucrats...
You expect a corporation to have any ethics whatsoever? Read your own post.
employees are expected to do whatever is perceived to be profitable for them in money and power, especially in the short term
This is exactly what corporations are designed to do. Make a profit, no matter the cost. Break the law? It's not a question of if it's legal. It's a question of how much the punishment will cost, and if that cost is greater than the profit of committing the act. In fact, if a publicly held company sees a way to make more money by bending (or sometimes breaking) the law, then does not do it because it may be illegal, the board can be liable to shareholder lawsuits! What a wonderful system we live under, eh?
Did you even read the second line of my post? That's exactly what I said if you look closely...
Oh, and they specifically stated in the article that the data gathered would be moved to the FBI database tracking the same info. So yeah, they're shutting it down, but keeping the data. Yay us.
I'll believe it when (a) an indpendent agency - not a government one, but someone like the ACLU - verifies that they watched the procedure of wiping the drives per DoD standards of data erasure, and (b) pigs fly. Even if they invite an independent auditor in to watch the erasing and decommissioning of the database, you know for a fact there's a second (or third, or fourth) copy out there, simply for redundancy and disaster recovery. And I really doubt that the Bush administration will allow anyone into their secret data lairs. This is more PR to get the monkey to shift shoulders for a while.
There's no reference to this board/blade anywhere on the manufacturer's site. The only thing I can find is that this guy saw this board at a conference and took a shot and wrote a really short article about it. Ok, so a 3-way is a bit of a novelty, but good luck getting it to work. Isn't most microcode on the processors designed with 1, 2, or 4 way in mind? And isn't the cache coherency microcode embedded (at least in part) on the processors themselves? So setting up a 3-way using current processors would actually increase latency and error-checking, correct? IANAPD, but this seems like a dead end.
It was reported today that the factory boss who presided over the Mattel lead-painted toy manufacturing has killed himself. These factory towns are so supported by the local and national Chinese governments, that anything goes. Yes, the conditions at most factories are better than they were, but they are so far below US standards it's scary. Also, since most of the Chinese government wants to have people working in these factories to keep their economy growing, the factory bosses essentially becone the local government. We're back to the dark ages of the Industrial Revolution, but now it's government-enforced. And it's all paid for by you and me! Yay globalization!
Wow that rant went a lot of places, didn't it?
You're new here aren't you?
I won't. I'd rather see him stuck in the White House, having to follow those rules for the next election cycle. This way, he can go "off the radar" and get the next Bushie elected, all without those annoying Congresscritters breathing down his back with their "rules". Watch for his influence in the next cycle - there's no way he's out of politics and just "taking time with his family". His "family" are those who can give him great power and lots of money, not his wife and kids. Look out now, here comes RangeRover again to run all over ya!
Except that I know plenty of non-computer savvy people who walk into Staples, pick up a drive off the shelf, get it installed, and then ask "But why is the size different from what it says on the box?" I'm waiting for the 1TB (not TiB) drive to result in lawsuits over people not getting their promised 1TiB.
I think this is a great idea. If everyone who owned a PC was required to assemble it, we might have a more tech-savvy computer user base. Obviously this wouldn't work for large businesses, but for home?
There's a huge amount of learning that goes on when just assembling a PC for the first time, let alone picking parts. The first thing to go is the "Where's the hard drive again? That big box under my desk?" type of questions. The next thing that goes is the "I can't do it! You click the mouse for me and make it work" mentality. Computers are not rockets (anymore). They're commodity parts thrown together in a case, running (for most systems sold today anyway) a crappy OS that most ppl find "ok". And assembling the system by hand would give most people the vocabulary to talk intelligently about their systems.
Not to mention the social (gasp!) aspect of putting a computer together. You can learn a lot from someone just having them help you - and that help makes a bond. Maybe we geeks could benefit socially as a group if we all had manditory "help the neighbor assemble his/her computer" day.
Two problems with this.
1) You assume that all nations want to cooperate and, as you so eloquently put it, "nail their collective goolies to a wall". That is very far from the truth. If we can't get a universal agreement about terrorists, how can we get a universal agreement about spammers/scammers? The only way one is going to be able to do this consisently is by doing vigilante justice - and then avoiding any law enforcement that wants to take you out for taking matters into your own hands. Good luck with that!
2) You also assume that "sending the heavies round" means that the "heavies" and the spammers are not colluding. I'll be willing to bet that many illegal spam operations are now owned by the same "entrepreneurs" that own the "heavies" you are referring to. Any bets on if they would be willing to beat down their own people for a few bucks? Many fewer bucks than their spam operation is bringing in?