Then freedom is not possible to ever happen. Some peopel want to do things to others, and consider it a restriction of their freedoms to do those things to others.
Two heterosexual men, one an engineer and one a mathematician are standing at the end of a hallway. At the other end is a beautiful naked woman. The two men are told that they may walk halfway down the hallway, then halfway down the remaining hallway, then halfway down the remaining hallway, etc. If they reach the woman they can have sex with her. The mathematician immediately realizes this is Zeno's paradox and sits down. The engineer starts walking. When the mathematician asks "Why are you walking? You can never reach her!" the engineer replies "No, but I can get close enough!"
I don't have a problem with electronic voting, when it's done right. Use the computer to create a ballot that's uniform in appearance (no "hanging chads", no half-filled circles for a Scantron machine to puzzle over, etc.) and has the voting information stored in both human and machine readable form. Let the computer count its machine readable votes for the initial vote count. If there's a discrepancy, recount the human readable votes (and let that take precedence over the machine readable votes, if the two forms differ.)
So what's your solution, government issued photo IDs? Sounds good, but IMO the system for obtaining such a photo ID should be: * fast -- no standing or sitting in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles (or Registry of Motor Vehicles, here in Massachusetts) for an hour or two. * inexpensive -- in Massachusetts, it's $25 for an ID. At the minimum wage of $7.25 that's nearly 3 and a half hours of work. I don't know what the cost of an ID is in other states. Does a plastic card really cost $25 to produce? Even with the effort to process the application, that seems like there's some padding on the price. * convenient -- if the DMV or RMV office is only open 9-5 weekdays, someone who works one or two jobs may be working all 40 of those hours. Ideally, there should be some time outside "normal business hours" when the DMV/RMV office is open to accommodate those workers, or someplace else (town or city hall, the police office) that is open longer hours (or on weekends) where people can apply for their ID. Alternately, if the DMV/RMV offered the ability to obtain the ID right at the polling location, using the same staff members who would process the applications at the office, that would work too.
No, CNN and CBC are going to drag this out until the guy has to either drop the suit or move into a cardboard box and use the money from selling his house to continue the suit. In the latter case, when they continue dragging this out until he has to sell the box and move under a bridge, they'll drag it out even further. It's like the story of you, your friend, and the bear (you don't have to outrun the bear....) The broadcasters don't need to last until a judgment is made; they just need to last until he is too broke to go any further.
Parallel construction. It's a lot easier to find your way from point A to your destination when you know your destination is point B (due to cheating and taking a look at a map.) Can I prove that you cheated and looked at a map, and not that you were just lucky and/or good at navigating? If I never knew the map existed, probably not.
So what happens when Alice Black-Hat exploits the government back door and copies compromising photos from hundreds or thousands of users' phones in order to blackmail those users? Okay, you say that users shouldn't have compromising photos on their phones? [Debatable, but for the sake of this argument I'll allow it.]
So let's consider a slightly different scenario. Alice uses the back door to intercept a text message from Bob's bank to Bob. That text message contains a security code and is intended to allow Bob to reset his password for access to his online banking accounts if he's forgotten it. This approach is a two factor system; Bob's social security number or security question answer is something he knows, and his phone is something he has. Alice quickly logs in, transfers money from Bob's account to one she can access from an ATM, grabs the money, and runs.
Who's responsible for replacing the funds Bob lost? Bob did nothing wrong. Neither did his bank; they received a valid request and sent the response to the owner of the account as agreed. The smart phone manufacturer? The government?
Indeed. Clearly specifying that they will accept bug reports for the bug bounty program only from their customers and will only pay out a bug bounty if an Oracle engineer confirms that the issue is a bug (with no appeals process) would be, I think, a reasonable policy and could be clearly explained along the lines of your explanation.
According to the US code, perjury is a felony, isn't it? Would the person who committed perjury on a DMCA form be able to be placed under citizen's arrest?
Class action lawsuit for defamation? Claiming someone who holds copyright in their own work actually infringed another's copyright may taint their reputation as a content creator?
Black Hat Guy has the answer. [At least I assume it's Black Hat Guy; in most of his appearances in that comic he's in bed and it would be silly to wear his hat in bed. Unless his girlfriend likes that kind of thing.] Since his noisy neighbor moved away, it's been sitting in his closet; given his personality, I think he'd be happy to modify it for use as an anti-drone weapon.
So you follow the drone, remaining on public property and filming with your phone. If it lands on private property, like someone's yard, you call the cops to come to that location. If it lands on public property, like a park, you film the person or people that recover it and call the cops to come to that location.
This reminded me of a tool in Windows that's been around for a while. If you run "psr" from the Start menu or a Command Prompt, it opens up Problem Steps Recorder, a tool that can record where you click and type, what you type, and various comments. I've occasionally used it to record a series of steps to reproduce a bug so that I can send detailed instructions to the people who need to fix the bug.
I just read through the bill. If the podiatrist is a physician at a hospital, mental health institution, or emergency medical care facility (section 573.005, subsection a and item 2 of subsection b), they follow the policy created by the governing body of that facility (subsection b), and they document their decision under that policy (subsection d, item 2)? I'm willing to grant them that authority, knowing that if they abuse it the facility is likely to smack them down hard. If the detention under the policy is in good faith and without malice, the physician and facility are not civilly or criminally liable. If not, like if the authority is abused, the hospital etc. may be sued and no hospital is going to want that.
I would not be surprised if hospitals required a second opinion as part of their policy, and required both physicians to document their agreement, so that it's no longer one person's opinion but a medical consensus.
So all former and current members of Congress who served with any of the people on this list should be subject to the same level of scrutiny every single time they travel?
Okay, Pipistrel is going to have to deliver the engine back to Siemens. What if the way they choose to do that is by flying it from France across the Channel to a Siemens facility in England?
For the second example- so what? It's a one-time temporary password that you picked yourself. The risk of a compromise is minimal, the reward for a hacker is minimal. Is it poor security practice... maybe? But you have to weigh the cost-benefit ratio.
For someone who knows not to use the same password for multiple sites, it's a one-time temporary password. For someone who DOESN'T know better, it's probably the same password they use for many or all other sites.
In this particular example, HOPEFULLY everyone applying for an entry-level IT position falls into the first of those categories. But if that site is used to collect applications for IT positions and other positions, the applicants for those other positions may fall into the second category and the sites shouldn't make it worse than it already is.
(which is silly because you can yell fire in a theater if, you know, the theater is on fire).
Actually I don't believe you can legally. The law was created in the belief the panic from hearing fire yelled would do more harm than good as panic stricken patrons trampled over each other to get out.
I'm not sure how you notify them without striking fear into them but I'm sure the law addresses that in the details/s
You asked that with the sarcasm flag, but seriously if the fire alarm system doesn't sound, and only you noticed the fire, I would go to the movie theater staff and alert them so they can follow their emergency procedure. I'd imagine that procedure involves something like stopping the movie and asking patrons to exit the theater calmly and quietly, perhaps with the theater staff offering a partial or full refund or tickets to a later showing and implying (or outright stating) that the reason for the stoppage is nothing more than technical difficulties with the projection system.
In fact, is there anything in the law that requires the Nine to be judges or even lawyers? If Scalia resigns from that body of nine unelected lawyers, I put forth my name as a candidate for the post. I'm not a judge or lawyer (well, except when I'm playing a game, where I'm usually the one reviewing the rulebook when a rule disagreement occurs.)
If they get that going beyond the talking stage, I demand that they include a clause banning divorce in that proposed amendment. Vows that include the phrase "as long as we both shall live" should mean something, dammit!
You mean like the amendment banning slavery would have mortified the slave-owning authors of the Constitution?
The Founding Fathers got some things right. They got some things wrong. In hindsight there are a couple of things about which they probably should have elaborated (the Second Amendment is very concise, perhaps they should have spent a little more time explaining what they were thinking.) They were human.
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Then freedom is not possible to ever happen. Some peopel want to do things to others, and consider it a restriction of their freedoms to do those things to others.
Two heterosexual men, one an engineer and one a mathematician are standing at the end of a hallway. At the other end is a beautiful naked woman. The two men are told that they may walk halfway down the hallway, then halfway down the remaining hallway, then halfway down the remaining hallway, etc. If they reach the woman they can have sex with her. The mathematician immediately realizes this is Zeno's paradox and sits down. The engineer starts walking. When the mathematician asks "Why are you walking? You can never reach her!" the engineer replies "No, but I can get close enough!"
Let's aim to get close enough to freedom.
I don't have a problem with electronic voting, when it's done right. Use the computer to create a ballot that's uniform in appearance (no "hanging chads", no half-filled circles for a Scantron machine to puzzle over, etc.) and has the voting information stored in both human and machine readable form. Let the computer count its machine readable votes for the initial vote count. If there's a discrepancy, recount the human readable votes (and let that take precedence over the machine readable votes, if the two forms differ.)
So what's your solution, government issued photo IDs? Sounds good, but IMO the system for obtaining such a photo ID should be:
* fast -- no standing or sitting in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles (or Registry of Motor Vehicles, here in Massachusetts) for an hour or two.
* inexpensive -- in Massachusetts, it's $25 for an ID. At the minimum wage of $7.25 that's nearly 3 and a half hours of work. I don't know what the cost of an ID is in other states. Does a plastic card really cost $25 to produce? Even with the effort to process the application, that seems like there's some padding on the price.
* convenient -- if the DMV or RMV office is only open 9-5 weekdays, someone who works one or two jobs may be working all 40 of those hours. Ideally, there should be some time outside "normal business hours" when the DMV/RMV office is open to accommodate those workers, or someplace else (town or city hall, the police office) that is open longer hours (or on weekends) where people can apply for their ID. Alternately, if the DMV/RMV offered the ability to obtain the ID right at the polling location, using the same staff members who would process the applications at the office, that would work too.
No, CNN and CBC are going to drag this out until the guy has to either drop the suit or move into a cardboard box and use the money from selling his house to continue the suit. In the latter case, when they continue dragging this out until he has to sell the box and move under a bridge, they'll drag it out even further. It's like the story of you, your friend, and the bear (you don't have to outrun the bear ....) The broadcasters don't need to last until a judgment is made; they just need to last until he is too broke to go any further.
Parallel construction. It's a lot easier to find your way from point A to your destination when you know your destination is point B (due to cheating and taking a look at a map.) Can I prove that you cheated and looked at a map, and not that you were just lucky and/or good at navigating? If I never knew the map existed, probably not.
So what happens when Alice Black-Hat exploits the government back door and copies compromising photos from hundreds or thousands of users' phones in order to blackmail those users? Okay, you say that users shouldn't have compromising photos on their phones? [Debatable, but for the sake of this argument I'll allow it.]
So let's consider a slightly different scenario. Alice uses the back door to intercept a text message from Bob's bank to Bob. That text message contains a security code and is intended to allow Bob to reset his password for access to his online banking accounts if he's forgotten it. This approach is a two factor system; Bob's social security number or security question answer is something he knows, and his phone is something he has. Alice quickly logs in, transfers money from Bob's account to one she can access from an ATM, grabs the money, and runs.
Who's responsible for replacing the funds Bob lost? Bob did nothing wrong. Neither did his bank; they received a valid request and sent the response to the owner of the account as agreed. The smart phone manufacturer? The government?
Indeed. Clearly specifying that they will accept bug reports for the bug bounty program only from their customers and will only pay out a bug bounty if an Oracle engineer confirms that the issue is a bug (with no appeals process) would be, I think, a reasonable policy and could be clearly explained along the lines of your explanation.
According to the US code, perjury is a felony, isn't it? Would the person who committed perjury on a DMCA form be able to be placed under citizen's arrest?
Class action lawsuit for defamation? Claiming someone who holds copyright in their own work actually infringed another's copyright may taint their reputation as a content creator?
Black Hat Guy has the answer. [At least I assume it's Black Hat Guy; in most of his appearances in that comic he's in bed and it would be silly to wear his hat in bed. Unless his girlfriend likes that kind of thing.] Since his noisy neighbor moved away, it's been sitting in his closet; given his personality, I think he'd be happy to modify it for use as an anti-drone weapon.
So you follow the drone, remaining on public property and filming with your phone. If it lands on private property, like someone's yard, you call the cops to come to that location. If it lands on public property, like a park, you film the person or people that recover it and call the cops to come to that location.
It's The X-Files. Of course we know who's responsible.
This reminded me of a tool in Windows that's been around for a while. If you run "psr" from the Start menu or a Command Prompt, it opens up Problem Steps Recorder, a tool that can record where you click and type, what you type, and various comments. I've occasionally used it to record a series of steps to reproduce a bug so that I can send detailed instructions to the people who need to fix the bug.
I just read through the bill. If the podiatrist is a physician at a hospital, mental health institution, or emergency medical care facility (section 573.005, subsection a and item 2 of subsection b), they follow the policy created by the governing body of that facility (subsection b), and they document their decision under that policy (subsection d, item 2)? I'm willing to grant them that authority, knowing that if they abuse it the facility is likely to smack them down hard. If the detention under the policy is in good faith and without malice, the physician and facility are not civilly or criminally liable. If not, like if the authority is abused, the hospital etc. may be sued and no hospital is going to want that.
I would not be surprised if hospitals required a second opinion as part of their policy, and required both physicians to document their agreement, so that it's no longer one person's opinion but a medical consensus.
You mean like this person was detained for disturbing the peace?
So all former and current members of Congress who served with any of the people on this list should be subject to the same level of scrutiny every single time they travel?
Or put a locked cover on them that the cleaning staff has a key to open or knows the combination to open.
Okay, Pipistrel is going to have to deliver the engine back to Siemens. What if the way they choose to do that is by flying it from France across the Channel to a Siemens facility in England?
Cooking will be affected as well -- can you imagine the damage a chef's knife or cleaver could do to the human body?
Followed by sports, due to murders and assaults using baseball bats, golf clubs, hockey sticks, etc.
Carpentry is the next activity to require a license, due to saws, chisels, hammers, etc. all proving dangerous in the right/wrong hands.
Commas can completely change the meaning of a sentence and can save lives. Let's eat, Grandma!
For the second example- so what? It's a one-time temporary password that you picked yourself. The risk of a compromise is minimal, the reward for a hacker is minimal. Is it poor security practice... maybe? But you have to weigh the cost-benefit ratio.
For someone who knows not to use the same password for multiple sites, it's a one-time temporary password.
For someone who DOESN'T know better, it's probably the same password they use for many or all other sites.
In this particular example, HOPEFULLY everyone applying for an entry-level IT position falls into the first of those categories. But if that site is used to collect applications for IT positions and other positions, the applicants for those other positions may fall into the second category and the sites shouldn't make it worse than it already is.
(which is silly because you can yell fire in a theater if, you know, the theater is on fire).
Actually I don't believe you can legally. The law was created in the belief the panic from hearing fire yelled would do more harm than good as panic stricken patrons trampled over each other to get out.
I'm not sure how you notify them without striking fear into them but I'm sure the law addresses that in the details /s
You asked that with the sarcasm flag, but seriously if the fire alarm system doesn't sound, and only you noticed the fire, I would go to the movie theater staff and alert them so they can follow their emergency procedure. I'd imagine that procedure involves something like stopping the movie and asking patrons to exit the theater calmly and quietly, perhaps with the theater staff offering a partial or full refund or tickets to a later showing and implying (or outright stating) that the reason for the stoppage is nothing more than technical difficulties with the projection system.
In fact, is there anything in the law that requires the Nine to be judges or even lawyers? If Scalia resigns from that body of nine unelected lawyers, I put forth my name as a candidate for the post. I'm not a judge or lawyer (well, except when I'm playing a game, where I'm usually the one reviewing the rulebook when a rule disagreement occurs.)
If they get that going beyond the talking stage, I demand that they include a clause banning divorce in that proposed amendment. Vows that include the phrase "as long as we both shall live" should mean something, dammit!
You mean like the amendment banning slavery would have mortified the slave-owning authors of the Constitution?
The Founding Fathers got some things right. They got some things wrong. In hindsight there are a couple of things about which they probably should have elaborated (the Second Amendment is very concise, perhaps they should have spent a little more time explaining what they were thinking.) They were human.