That ignores a HUGE 'industry' in web/mail order fraud. It takes the form of either the case I mentioned of sending it to someone who isn't home during the day to massive operations shipping to repackagers (who generally don't know they're working for a crime ring) who bounce the package around a few times to confuse matters.
That's the problem. We're just chasing the fraud from one form to another when we could wipe it out.
The frustrating part is that since they are including the chip, they COULD eliminate all of those forms of fraud (and more) using signed transactions, but instead they managed to not even eliminate stolen card present transactions.
Classic management problem. They ticke the checkbox so everything is rainbows and unicorns now. They don't understand that the new POS checkbox is meaningless without the upgrade from 300 baud modem checkbox.
It's pretty much useless in any event. A handwriting expert sufficiently qualified to decide who wrote the signature is going to cost at least $10,000 per analysis. That is, more then 10 times the amount of the transaction. Through no fault of their own, they aren't 100% accurate. They are going to be far less accurate when all they have is a digital capture of a signature to work with.
In other words, the signature thing is mostly theater.
One, they must have been using ancient devices. They are talking about variable voltage settings on the devices. Modern ecigs are set in terms of wattage (they measure resistance and compute the voltage setting). It would be more helpful if they would report on coil temperature directly since that appears to be the actual significant factor. The voltage tells us practically nothing about the actual temperature (that would vary GREATLY based on the coil).
Since most good e-cigs (read, not the ones produced by the tobacco companies or advertised on TV) have temperature control, knowing the temperatures involved would obviously be useful.
Note that while 'cloud chasers' inhale for 5 seconds, others are closer to 3 or less. I observed myself today and found I inhale for about 3 seconds for the first puff (and sometimes the second) after letting it sit for a while and then take a few additional puffs of a bit less than a second each. Sometimes the followup puffs don't reach my lungs at all.
Next, they show that the worst case was 1/4th the level of a cigarette. That certainly sounds safer to me. Nobody I know of has claimed e-cigs to be perfectly safe, just significantly safer than smoking. It is known that many far more potent carcinogens in cigarette smoke are absent from e-cigs.
It would be useful to know the levels emitted by other common activities likely to involve decomposition, such as cooking or exposure to auto exhaust.
It's not like they didn't try. It's just that they've been serving up turd sandwich for so long, giant douche looked like a breath of fresh air and Trump had enough money to render the usual bag of dirty tricks ineffective.
True, but it would seem sensible to at least maintain compatibility with the much preferred Windows 7. At this rate, I'm guessing businesses will cling more tenaciously to Win 7 than even XP.
It wouldn't hurt them to at least have a small skunk works project to make it run using Winelib.
It's statutory damages as set by law. It's tripled because Getty is a repeat offender. Unlike the many cases of *AA vs. Grandma where the same statutory damages were applied, Getty is exactly the sort of defendant the lawmakers had in mind when they wrote the law and the evidence is much more clear.
If the courts do not award the full amount, they will demonstrate once and for all that natural people are second class citizens.
As long as you promise to quit driving and telecommute like a sensible person. Why should I have to pay higher premiums because you engage in a known risky activity.
We'll send someone around next week to confiscate your kitchen knives. You should be nuking pre packaged approved meals.
Even many stoners back their way into the workforce. It starts with constructing ever more entertaining and artistic ways to smoke and eventually ends up in a small informal business doing the same for others. From there it's a slippery slope down to general woodworking and non smoking related decorations.
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That ignores a HUGE 'industry' in web/mail order fraud. It takes the form of either the case I mentioned of sending it to someone who isn't home during the day to massive operations shipping to repackagers (who generally don't know they're working for a crime ring) who bounce the package around a few times to confuse matters.
That's the problem. We're just chasing the fraud from one form to another when we could wipe it out.
The frustrating part is that since they are including the chip, they COULD eliminate all of those forms of fraud (and more) using signed transactions, but instead they managed to not even eliminate stolen card present transactions.
Classic management problem. They ticke the checkbox so everything is rainbows and unicorns now. They don't understand that the new POS checkbox is meaningless without the upgrade from 300 baud modem checkbox.
He probably DOES. He just realizes there's no point in putting an expensive vault door and lock on a canvas tent.
Order over the web. Send it to an address where nobody is home during the day. When tracking says it's delivered, go get it.
Or steal the card.
Now add in that because it's chip and signature it adds little to security and that it hasn't done much to stop crooks from making fraudulent charges.
It's pretty much useless in any event. A handwriting expert sufficiently qualified to decide who wrote the signature is going to cost at least $10,000 per analysis. That is, more then 10 times the amount of the transaction. Through no fault of their own, they aren't 100% accurate. They are going to be far less accurate when all they have is a digital capture of a signature to work with.
In other words, the signature thing is mostly theater.
With the exception of snus (real snus, not the stuff being passed off as snus in the U.S.), oral tobacco is known to be a significant cancer risk.
One, they must have been using ancient devices. They are talking about variable voltage settings on the devices. Modern ecigs are set in terms of wattage (they measure resistance and compute the voltage setting). It would be more helpful if they would report on coil temperature directly since that appears to be the actual significant factor. The voltage tells us practically nothing about the actual temperature (that would vary GREATLY based on the coil).
Since most good e-cigs (read, not the ones produced by the tobacco companies or advertised on TV) have temperature control, knowing the temperatures involved would obviously be useful.
Note that while 'cloud chasers' inhale for 5 seconds, others are closer to 3 or less. I observed myself today and found I inhale for about 3 seconds for the first puff (and sometimes the second) after letting it sit for a while and then take a few additional puffs of a bit less than a second each. Sometimes the followup puffs don't reach my lungs at all.
Next, they show that the worst case was 1/4th the level of a cigarette. That certainly sounds safer to me. Nobody I know of has claimed e-cigs to be perfectly safe, just significantly safer than smoking. It is known that many far more potent carcinogens in cigarette smoke are absent from e-cigs.
It would be useful to know the levels emitted by other common activities likely to involve decomposition, such as cooking or exposure to auto exhaust.
Sometimes clerical errors are costly. This one is no exception...
Apparently, you have an allergy to PG. There will be a number of foods and drinks you will want to avoid.
If it makes you feel better, by the time a vaper exhales, they have absorbed a significant portion of the nicotine the vape contained.
It's not like they didn't try. It's just that they've been serving up turd sandwich for so long, giant douche looked like a breath of fresh air and Trump had enough money to render the usual bag of dirty tricks ineffective.
True, but it would seem sensible to at least maintain compatibility with the much preferred Windows 7. At this rate, I'm guessing businesses will cling more tenaciously to Win 7 than even XP.
It wouldn't hurt them to at least have a small skunk works project to make it run using Winelib.
So you think they'll update it to the OS their customers are running screaming from?
It's statutory damages as set by law. It's tripled because Getty is a repeat offender. Unlike the many cases of *AA vs. Grandma where the same statutory damages were applied, Getty is exactly the sort of defendant the lawmakers had in mind when they wrote the law and the evidence is much more clear.
If the courts do not award the full amount, they will demonstrate once and for all that natural people are second class citizens.
Actually, it disperses much quicker and is devoid of particulates. Do you get choked up at concerts or parties where they use a fog machine?
Actually, TC is spreading like wildfire, including the low cost devices. Ironically, the FDA regs will put a stop to new safer designs.
So you think they should use chewing tobacco instead?
As long as you promise to quit driving and telecommute like a sensible person. Why should I have to pay higher premiums because you engage in a known risky activity.
We'll send someone around next week to confiscate your kitchen knives. You should be nuking pre packaged approved meals.
Not in evidence.
But it didn't put a time-frame on it. Perhaps by the time we actually come up with universal constructors or replicator technology, that will be true.
It's also possible that by then when it's just not that impressive anymore, we'll be more utilitarian.
Nobody said Mao was a nice guy. Even the USSR didn't like him.
But the whole communism thing did catch them up fast. It can't take them into the future. That's why they've introduced markets and entrepreneurship.
Many of the scientists you read about in text books are examples of well off people looking for something to do.
So? Many WWI veterans addicted to heroine lead productive lives.
Even many stoners back their way into the workforce. It starts with constructing ever more entertaining and artistic ways to smoke and eventually ends up in a small informal business doing the same for others. From there it's a slippery slope down to general woodworking and non smoking related decorations.
It's not just Carlin, I've seen it happen.