Also, someone might be able to compromise the VM Hypervisor and get in that way. The lesson here is that nothing in an interconnected environment is fully secure. The most "secure" thing you can do is quit using technology altogether but that would make things incredibly cumbersome in the modern era.
I'm failing to see the issue. If someone is claiming state benefit then the state is entirely within its rights to withhold or limit payments if it believes someone is deliberately not doing all they could regain employment. This is not a new concept. That said, the original article sounds sensational and credits the state with more intelligence than it possesses. I expect if they do anything at all it will be to run a nightly batch job that adds a few rows to the existing unemployment records of a person which say the last time they visited the site, how many jobs they looked at and how many they applied for. It might provide ammunition during an interview and help a decision stick but it's not going to tell welfare officers anything they probably didn't know from talking to a person.
I think a payment card (which the article also discussed) is way overdue and would cut down benefit fraud and stop people using money they should be spending on food using it to spend on drugs, booze, cigarettes or the geegees.
Who cares if they spend the payment card funds on booze or cigarettes? I sure don't. Why do you feel the need to tighten the noose around people?
This makes a strong argument for unplugging from technology altogether. I realize this article is probably a whole lot of sensationalism but it also serves as a slippery slope warning. If laws were enacted similar to this one, I would go old fashioned in my job search altogether. The reality of the situation is that only a small number of people will find ways to take advantage of a system. Should the majority be punished for the transgressions of the few? No, that is tyranny.
This was a really great submission and the other links within the TFA were interesting as well. I always had a wary eye cast towards the for-profit educational sector but I honestly had no idea that taxpayers were responsible for a significant amount of their profits. At one point, I was thinking about the University of Phoenix because I suspected that they were at least legitimate. Now, I'm glad I did not!
From TFA:
[quote]Of course, Westboro denied the charges and taunted Anonymous as incompetent hackers. They claimed their website was protected by God. Big mistake[\quote]
That just made my fucking morning! Holy shit that was funny!
Cisco never did anything with Linksys anyway. Cisco treated Linksys as a red-headed step child. Often the firmware updates didn't fix the bugs I was hoping. The IPSEC implementation on many of their Linksys brand routers is still broken and I could go on and on.
I was just about to ditch my iPhone for an Android due primarily to the terrible Apple Maps app. I only like the iPhone for the accuracy of its on screen keyboard. Otherwise, I prefer Android.
This kind of a momentous occasion because it represents many, many man hours of work. I think Samba 4.0 has been under development since 2003. Nine long years and the fruits of the labor have been realized.
Absolutely ban electronics during takeoff and landing! Those are the two most dangerous times of the entire flight and passengers need to be alert and attentive to flight attendants and the pilots should emergency information need to be conveyed. Passengers engrossed in their electronic devices are likely to miss important information. I'm not impressed with Julius Genachowski over this! Those bans are in place for a good reason. Furthermore, I think the ban on cellular phones should continue to be enforced during flight. The conditions are crowded enough on an airplane. The flights are long and the service is absolutely lacking unless you are lucky enough to be able to afford, or have the mileage to take avance of, first class.
I hate these sayings because many people don't have jobs with sick leave or even medical benefits to allow seeing a doctor. I personally don't want to be told to stay home when I need money to pay bills and to take care of family. Maybe a little less corporate greed and a little more generosity is in order to allow people to stay home when they are sick and get healthy.
Ookay, this sounds like corporate speak. Translation: This is costing us more money than we are earning through ad-based revenue so we have to transition to a non-free model. This has absolutely zilch to do with providing adequate customer support.
I thought BitCoin was dead... a failed social experiment in monetary systems with no centralized clearance house. I was under the impression that BitCoin was an abysmal failure.
Employers have enough power to force employees to sign contracts as a condition of employment not unlike what you'd find in an EULA. No signature, no job.
So it doesn't really matter in the long run what laws we pass unless we make it illegal for employers to ask for certain concessions.
Employers count on our fear of being unemployed to bully the prospective employee to sign away their rights.
If you've invented this on your own time, money, and resources there is no way in the shady side of hell that your employer should have any ownership of it. If you did this while being compensated by your employer, the situation is different. If you've used your employer's money and resources, then it is fair.
But here is why it will never happen. The world's pharmaceutical companies that make money through yearly flu vaccinations will be fighting this thing tooth and nail. The profit loss from effectively eradicating the flu virus stands to be in the billions. Big Pharma will try and get it banned, labeled as unsafe, or do some other shifty thing to see that this idea is buried.
8 months with no trial has completely violated his constitutional rights, therefore the state should not be able to charge him.
Under ordinary circumstances, you would be correct. However, in issues of National Security, I don't think the speedy trial legal clauses apply but I'm not a lawyer.
No, Leahy's stance should never have been pro anything that erodes 4th Amendment protections. Our elected representatives are supposed to protect our rights, not sell them away. This is further proof positive that we need a third party. Both Democrats and Republicans want increasing control over us.
Good thing those nasty old Republicans aren't running the show. They might force the Feds to get a search warrant or something.
Not quite. The Republicans would do exactly the same thing and this is why we desperately need a viable third party. The Libertarians would never propose or stand for this. Ditch both parties, become a Libertarian - honestly about a small, far less intrusive government.
This has got to be a garbage study. All it takes for a techie to remain viable is for him or her to commit to lifelong learning, reading, and experimenting with new technologies. I guess it must be true because a wealthy executive said it so we should all immediately believe him and say, "Oh whoa is me. When I turn 40 I'll irrelevant." Bollocks!
ZTE and Huawei cannot be used in any sensitive infrastructure in information-sensitive environs within the US Government; nor can Lenovo for that matter.
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Also, someone might be able to compromise the VM Hypervisor and get in that way. The lesson here is that nothing in an interconnected environment is fully secure. The most "secure" thing you can do is quit using technology altogether but that would make things incredibly cumbersome in the modern era.
The acts of jackassery that result from fear are amazing. Fear throws out rational thinking.
I'm failing to see the issue. If someone is claiming state benefit then the state is entirely within its rights to withhold or limit payments if it believes someone is deliberately not doing all they could regain employment. This is not a new concept. That said, the original article sounds sensational and credits the state with more intelligence than it possesses. I expect if they do anything at all it will be to run a nightly batch job that adds a few rows to the existing unemployment records of a person which say the last time they visited the site, how many jobs they looked at and how many they applied for. It might provide ammunition during an interview and help a decision stick but it's not going to tell welfare officers anything they probably didn't know from talking to a person.
I think a payment card (which the article also discussed) is way overdue and would cut down benefit fraud and stop people using money they should be spending on food using it to spend on drugs, booze, cigarettes or the geegees.
Who cares if they spend the payment card funds on booze or cigarettes? I sure don't. Why do you feel the need to tighten the noose around people?
This makes a strong argument for unplugging from technology altogether. I realize this article is probably a whole lot of sensationalism but it also serves as a slippery slope warning. If laws were enacted similar to this one, I would go old fashioned in my job search altogether. The reality of the situation is that only a small number of people will find ways to take advantage of a system. Should the majority be punished for the transgressions of the few? No, that is tyranny.
This was a really great submission and the other links within the TFA were interesting as well. I always had a wary eye cast towards the for-profit educational sector but I honestly had no idea that taxpayers were responsible for a significant amount of their profits. At one point, I was thinking about the University of Phoenix because I suspected that they were at least legitimate. Now, I'm glad I did not!
From TFA: [quote]Of course, Westboro denied the charges and taunted Anonymous as incompetent hackers. They claimed their website was protected by God. Big mistake[\quote] That just made my fucking morning! Holy shit that was funny!
Cisco never did anything with Linksys anyway. Cisco treated Linksys as a red-headed step child. Often the firmware updates didn't fix the bugs I was hoping. The IPSEC implementation on many of their Linksys brand routers is still broken and I could go on and on.
I was just about to ditch my iPhone for an Android due primarily to the terrible Apple Maps app. I only like the iPhone for the accuracy of its on screen keyboard. Otherwise, I prefer Android.
This kind of a momentous occasion because it represents many, many man hours of work. I think Samba 4.0 has been under development since 2003. Nine long years and the fruits of the labor have been realized.
Absolutely ban electronics during takeoff and landing! Those are the two most dangerous times of the entire flight and passengers need to be alert and attentive to flight attendants and the pilots should emergency information need to be conveyed. Passengers engrossed in their electronic devices are likely to miss important information. I'm not impressed with Julius Genachowski over this! Those bans are in place for a good reason. Furthermore, I think the ban on cellular phones should continue to be enforced during flight. The conditions are crowded enough on an airplane. The flights are long and the service is absolutely lacking unless you are lucky enough to be able to afford, or have the mileage to take avance of, first class.
I hate these sayings because many people don't have jobs with sick leave or even medical benefits to allow seeing a doctor. I personally don't want to be told to stay home when I need money to pay bills and to take care of family. Maybe a little less corporate greed and a little more generosity is in order to allow people to stay home when they are sick and get healthy.
Ookay, this sounds like corporate speak. Translation: This is costing us more money than we are earning through ad-based revenue so we have to transition to a non-free model. This has absolutely zilch to do with providing adequate customer support.
My company uses VOIP soft phones. They work pretty well
I thought BitCoin was dead ... a failed social experiment in monetary systems with no centralized clearance house. I was under the impression that BitCoin was an abysmal failure.
If anything, censorship will only harden the resolve of terrorists and will only further fuel their personal justifications for enaging in the act.
Employers have enough power to force employees to sign contracts as a condition of employment not unlike what you'd find in an EULA. No signature, no job.
So it doesn't really matter in the long run what laws we pass unless we make it illegal for employers to ask for certain concessions.
Employers count on our fear of being unemployed to bully the prospective employee to sign away their rights.
If you've invented this on your own time, money, and resources there is no way in the shady side of hell that your employer should have any ownership of it. If you did this while being compensated by your employer, the situation is different. If you've used your employer's money and resources, then it is fair.
But here is why it will never happen. The world's pharmaceutical companies that make money through yearly flu vaccinations will be fighting this thing tooth and nail. The profit loss from effectively eradicating the flu virus stands to be in the billions. Big Pharma will try and get it banned, labeled as unsafe, or do some other shifty thing to see that this idea is buried.
8 months with no trial has completely violated his constitutional rights, therefore the state should not be able to charge him.
Under ordinary circumstances, you would be correct. However, in issues of National Security, I don't think the speedy trial legal clauses apply but I'm not a lawyer.
When the ACLU and a conservative group are loudly on the same side of something, you know whatever it is is bad.
The age old adage applies, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
No, Leahy's stance should never have been pro anything that erodes 4th Amendment protections. Our elected representatives are supposed to protect our rights, not sell them away. This is further proof positive that we need a third party. Both Democrats and Republicans want increasing control over us.
Guardians of our Liberties and Privacy!
Good thing those nasty old Republicans aren't running the show. They might force the Feds to get a search warrant or something.
Not quite. The Republicans would do exactly the same thing and this is why we desperately need a viable third party. The Libertarians would never propose or stand for this. Ditch both parties, become a Libertarian - honestly about a small, far less intrusive government.
This has got to be a garbage study. All it takes for a techie to remain viable is for him or her to commit to lifelong learning, reading, and experimenting with new technologies. I guess it must be true because a wealthy executive said it so we should all immediately believe him and say, "Oh whoa is me. When I turn 40 I'll irrelevant." Bollocks!
I'm 35 and I'd love to code now!
ZTE and Huawei cannot be used in any sensitive infrastructure in information-sensitive environs within the US Government; nor can Lenovo for that matter.