You'll have to excuse my ignorance here, but in NZ we have GST (like many other countries) at 12.5% on all goods and services (with only a couple of exceptions), but naturally those who supply goods and services effectively do not pay the GST on the goods and services they procure during the course of the business activity as GST is a tax on the end-of-the-chain (the GST they paid to thier suppliers is deducted from the GST they recieved from thier customers before they remit it to the inland revenue).
I would have assumed that the various "Sales Taxes" in the states worked in a similar way, that being a tax for the consumer, not the supplier.
In that case, as "custom programming" is really not something your average consumer needs, but more often something your average business (supplier) needs, isn't it mostly a moot point, as the supplier wouldn't effectively be paying that tax anyway? Or is "Sales Tax" levied to all, and not reclaimable by registered suppliers, that would seem to be pretty crazy as it would be being levied at each level of the supply chain!
The current Javascript has a lot of bad bits, though. [... snip...] There are a hundred problems, not necessarily with Javascript, but with Javascript's interaction with the DOM and browser.
You just said it yourself. All of the issues you pointed out there are nothing to do with the language, that's all API, it's all libraries. How would developing a new language solve any of these?
This is in fact the classical reason that Javascript has such a bad name, because so many so called developers are incapable of differentiating between library and language, they say "man, javascript is so crap, how come IE and Gecko don't give me the same dimensions here!", when that is nothing to do with the language, and everything to do with the implementation of the libraries.
It's the libraries that need to be fixed in general, not the language, change it if you want, but it's not going to resolve any of those problems.
Javascript is a beautiful ulimately flexible language, implementations of it (esp Microsoft's) may suck, but the language itself is very good. Learn to use it properly, prototypes, closures, higher order functions... and you will soon learn what a remarkable language for scripting it is.
Helicopters under power want to do one thing, they want to screw themselves into the ground, as quickly and violently as possible, flying one is remarkably similar to balancing yourself on the head of a pin, unless you are always and forever on top of that ball, the ground is going to come up real quick.
Helicopters without power want do do one thing, which is worryingly less like flying and more like falling, even autorotation means you're going to land in the fairly immediate vicinity without a whole lot of choice.
A fixed wing aircraft wants to do one thing, they want to fly, doesn't matter if it's got power or not, they still want to fly in a usually stable state, without power your range may be limited but you've at least got some choice (if you're at cruising altitude in an airliner you might have 100 miles of choice!).
Now helicopters are cool and all, if I could afford it (and didn't have this stupid Type 1 Diabetes) I'd love to get me a PPL-H or even CPL-H, but I'm not about to fool myself into thinking they are "safer" in any way shape or form.
Right you are, there's no whois for it, and no (online) registrar that I know of, so I just assumed it was an inactive tld, but as usual, google knows all.
First. Tasers were not "withdrawn", the trial period ended and the results of said period are now being examined to determine if they should become a permanant fixture.
Second. NZ Police are supposed to be an unarmed force (although I believe certain situations allow an officer to carry, they are fairly rare). One can only assume that the victim was directly threatening the life another officer and so the shooter had time to retrieve a firearm from the patrol car where it was secured.
Third. This is all under investigation, both by police and the pca (police complaints authority), witness accounts don't paint a good picture for the police though so far.
Sorry, perhaps my choice of wording was not entirely accurate.
When *I* say "hot" that encompasses more than physical appearance, which is why I specifically said that Dana Scully lost some of her hotness, Gillian Anderson was never in my opinion particularly hot, because ultimately, while not bad looking (I mean, she's ok, no supermodel, but your average nice looking woman), she doesn't strike me as particularly intelligent, or stable (three marriages now I think?), or reason and logic following, all of which are traits that I find attractive when present and off-putting when not.
Dana Scully changed (as characters, and people, are wont to do) from questioning, with logic and reason, the antithesis to Mulder's fairly unfailing belief in the paranormal, into something close to opposite that. The younger, logical, reasoning, skeptic Scully was hotter than the later accepting, believing, non-skeptic, perhaps even you could say, defeated Scully. Appearance, had not so much to do with it.
I watch shows that I find appealing, character hotness is only one of the factors contributing to the appeal of a TV show, Scully being hot made the show more appealing, Scully being not so hot made the show less appealing, but nether hotness status is the sole reason for appeal. Note here that I specifically identify this as Scully's hotness, not Anderson's - there is more to hotness than physical appearance, infact, Anderson wasn't then and isn't now particularly hot in my opinion.
Being straight, Duchovny's hotness or lack thereof did not noticably affect the appeal of the show for me and so the fact that he may have become less hot with age did not adversly modify my desire to tune in.
CSM was more appealing than both mulder Mulder and Scully to me, through intrigue alone, CSM in an episode made the episode for me more appealing, CSM not being in an episode made the episode less appealing.
To summarize... Movie_Based_Around(CSM) > Movie_Based_Around(Fox+Dana)...in my opionion.
Meh. I never really liked Fox Mulder, Dana Scully was hot initially, but over time she got older, and whinier, and then the whole hooking up with Fox, and the child and the.... oh man, totally sucked the hot right out and replaced it with booooring.
An X-Files movie would be great. But you don't need Fox or Dana to do it. Fresh faces, fresh talent, less annoying. Although, if they could get W. B. Davis back as the C.S.M in a major plot part that would be fine by me, I liked that guy. It could be a pre-quel, before the X-Files, examining some aspect of the origins of the whole back story. That'd be cool.
Have you read your employment contract? Your rental agreement? Your credit card agreement?
Hell yes! How can you even consider not reading through agreements such as those, ESPECIALLY those!
If you have not made yourself aware of what is in these documents then you deserve any and all hurt that comes from that ignorance. An EULA, especially a click-wrap one, is a legally dubious thing which seldom has any bearing on anything and is generally full of crap. Your Employment Contract has a direct and enforced effect on you and your employer every day of your working career!
It's not enough to shoot fast, you have to shoot fast and reasonably accuratly at a moving and realtively small target. Certainly possible, but he'd have to be a pretty good shot I think.
A special domain name isn't going to help, people are careless and blind to things of this nature, people will still get phished.
What I think is needed is an actual "Trusted Client" issued by the customer's bank which can only interact with that bank, in fact only with that customer's account.
It needn't be difficult either, infact it could be very simple, picture a small VMWare virtual machine, the VM would contain a linux kernel, basic X server with no WM, and a browser which has been totally locked down, it could be supplied on a write-locked USB thumbdrive.
Stick in the thumbdrive, and you will be prompted to install the VMWare player if it's not already installed, once installed you can run the VM (described to the user as "Connect to Your Bank"). The VM loads up, the X server comes up, browser loads and opens on the bank site.
The browser has been modified so that it can ONLY access stuff from the bank's domain over SSL, ONLY, nothing else. There is no email client in this VM, many banks offer web-based email communication with the bank to thier customers and that's all that's needed there.
But here is the real clincher, each VM given to a customer contains an access code (signature, hash, whatever you want to call it), this code is transmitted to the bank when logging in along with the usual username/password combination - the key forms the "something you have" part of a 3 factor authentication.
And then once this system is available, the bank shuts off all outside access for "internet banking", only connections through this client will be accepted, all three authentication factors must be present and correct. The client VM could also be signed in some manner to ensure that it is legitimate and hasn't been modified in any way.
It would render phishing and viral attacks extremely hard to accomplish.
If somebody got your typical phising email, first they could see that a bank is sending them an email instead of using the "Bank Program". Second the phisher can only provide a link which will open in a real web browser on a copy of the bank's site so even if they provided the 2 factors of authentication that critical third is still safely in the "Bank Program". Third, even if they convinced the user somehow to open the "Bank Program" they can't get them to thier site because the VM's browser doesn't permit any other domain than the Bank's. If a virus got in and managed to steal the VM, all they've got is the 3rd factor, no u/p.
About the only way it would be possible to be broken is if a virus got in and managed to steal the VM with 3rd factor, and used a keylogger or some such to try and catch the user entering the u/p. And I expect some engineer's who have put far more thought into this than I could find a way to make that even more difficult.
Four people per day for a year would only be $14.60.
It sounds like such a small amount, but this here is the root of the business, $14.60 is close to 100% profit on that domain name, maybe more depending on the volume discount the registrant is getting.
Consider that these people may have thousands upon thousands of domains, and well that adds up to a lot of very easy money (easy in so far as it's basically automated, set and forget).
Surely anybody doing anything like that would be rolling thier own kernel anyway? The only time I've used the Debian supplied kernels is when installing, soon as that's done I always compile a fresh one.
When chimp #1 violates chimp #2's right to life, will there be no consequences?
Replace chimp with 5-year-old-child in that sentance. 5 Year olds still have basic human rights, but we do not generally hold them legally accountable for actions such as that; adult chimps are not much different than a 5 year old child.
From memory, setTimeout forms a time-delayed but synchronous entry into the execution stream, you will not get two threads in the same javascript code pile running simultaneously, the timeout will not fire until the execution stream is idle.
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"beep boop, the aircraft you are tracking has crashed or is outside of the coverage area, please try again later"
You'll have to excuse my ignorance here, but in NZ we have GST (like many other countries) at 12.5% on all goods and services (with only a couple of exceptions), but naturally those who supply goods and services effectively do not pay the GST on the goods and services they procure during the course of the business activity as GST is a tax on the end-of-the-chain (the GST they paid to thier suppliers is deducted from the GST they recieved from thier customers before they remit it to the inland revenue).
I would have assumed that the various "Sales Taxes" in the states worked in a similar way, that being a tax for the consumer, not the supplier.
In that case, as "custom programming" is really not something your average consumer needs, but more often something your average business (supplier) needs, isn't it mostly a moot point, as the supplier wouldn't effectively be paying that tax anyway? Or is "Sales Tax" levied to all, and not reclaimable by registered suppliers, that would seem to be pretty crazy as it would be being levied at each level of the supply chain!
You just said it yourself. All of the issues you pointed out there are nothing to do with the language, that's all API, it's all libraries. How would developing a new language solve any of these?
This is in fact the classical reason that Javascript has such a bad name, because so many so called developers are incapable of differentiating between library and language, they say "man, javascript is so crap, how come IE and Gecko don't give me the same dimensions here!", when that is nothing to do with the language, and everything to do with the implementation of the libraries.
It's the libraries that need to be fixed in general, not the language, change it if you want, but it's not going to resolve any of those problems.
Javascript is a beautiful ulimately flexible language, implementations of it (esp Microsoft's) may suck, but the language itself is very good. Learn to use it properly, prototypes, closures, higher order functions... and you will soon learn what a remarkable language for scripting it is.
Ha. A Ha. Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Helicopters under power want to do one thing, they want to screw themselves into the ground, as quickly and violently as possible, flying one is remarkably similar to balancing yourself on the head of a pin, unless you are always and forever on top of that ball, the ground is going to come up real quick.
Helicopters without power want do do one thing, which is worryingly less like flying and more like falling, even autorotation means you're going to land in the fairly immediate vicinity without a whole lot of choice.
A fixed wing aircraft wants to do one thing, they want to fly, doesn't matter if it's got power or not, they still want to fly in a usually stable state, without power your range may be limited but you've at least got some choice (if you're at cruising altitude in an airliner you might have 100 miles of choice!).
Now helicopters are cool and all, if I could afford it (and didn't have this stupid Type 1 Diabetes) I'd love to get me a PPL-H or even CPL-H, but I'm not about to fool myself into thinking they are "safer" in any way shape or form.
Right you are, there's no whois for it, and no (online) registrar that I know of, so I just assumed it was an inactive tld, but as usual, google knows all.
.aq is Antarctica, not currently in use, but assigned none-the-less
Probably: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TN3JjUUdjWU
First. Tasers were not "withdrawn", the trial period ended and the results of said period are now being examined to determine if they should become a permanant fixture.
Second. NZ Police are supposed to be an unarmed force (although I believe certain situations allow an officer to carry, they are fairly rare). One can only assume that the victim was directly threatening the life another officer and so the shooter had time to retrieve a firearm from the patrol car where it was secured.
Third. This is all under investigation, both by police and the pca (police complaints authority), witness accounts don't paint a good picture for the police though so far.
Fourth. This is completely off topic.
You're crazy! You're probably not even wearing a properly fitted tin foil hat!
I wrote your script, here it is
#!/bin/sh
sudo apt-get install exim4
Because helicopters and aeroplanes never land anywhere except officially designanted airports/heliports?
I've got news for you buddy, and it's all bad.
Sorry, perhaps my choice of wording was not entirely accurate.
When *I* say "hot" that encompasses more than physical appearance, which is why I specifically said that Dana Scully lost some of her hotness, Gillian Anderson was never in my opinion particularly hot, because ultimately, while not bad looking (I mean, she's ok, no supermodel, but your average nice looking woman), she doesn't strike me as particularly intelligent, or stable (three marriages now I think?), or reason and logic following, all of which are traits that I find attractive when present and off-putting when not.
Dana Scully changed (as characters, and people, are wont to do) from questioning, with logic and reason, the antithesis to Mulder's fairly unfailing belief in the paranormal, into something close to opposite that. The younger, logical, reasoning, skeptic Scully was hotter than the later accepting, believing, non-skeptic, perhaps even you could say, defeated Scully. Appearance, had not so much to do with it.
I watch shows that I find appealing, character hotness is only one of the factors contributing to the appeal of a TV show, Scully being hot made the show more appealing, Scully being not so hot made the show less appealing, but nether hotness status is the sole reason for appeal. Note here that I specifically identify this as Scully's hotness, not Anderson's - there is more to hotness than physical appearance, infact, Anderson wasn't then and isn't now particularly hot in my opinion.
...in my opionion.
Being straight, Duchovny's hotness or lack thereof did not noticably affect the appeal of the show for me and so the fact that he may have become less hot with age did not adversly modify my desire to tune in.
CSM was more appealing than both mulder Mulder and Scully to me, through intrigue alone, CSM in an episode made the episode for me more appealing, CSM not being in an episode made the episode less appealing.
To summarize... Movie_Based_Around(CSM) > Movie_Based_Around(Fox+Dana)
Meh. I never really liked Fox Mulder, Dana Scully was hot initially, but over time she got older, and whinier, and then the whole hooking up with Fox, and the child and the.... oh man, totally sucked the hot right out and replaced it with booooring.
An X-Files movie would be great. But you don't need Fox or Dana to do it. Fresh faces, fresh talent, less annoying. Although, if they could get W. B. Davis back as the C.S.M in a major plot part that would be fine by me, I liked that guy. It could be a pre-quel, before the X-Files, examining some aspect of the origins of the whole back story. That'd be cool.
Fuckin A man, Fuckin A.
Hell yes! How can you even consider not reading through agreements such as those, ESPECIALLY those!
If you have not made yourself aware of what is in these documents then you deserve any and all hurt that comes from that ignorance. An EULA, especially a click-wrap one, is a legally dubious thing which seldom has any bearing on anything and is generally full of crap. Your Employment Contract has a direct and enforced effect on you and your employer every day of your working career!
I expect there will be far more poor quality videos of knockers than knobs.
It's not enough to shoot fast, you have to shoot fast and reasonably accuratly at a moving and realtively small target. Certainly possible, but he'd have to be a pretty good shot I think.
A special domain name isn't going to help, people are careless and blind to things of this nature, people will still get phished.
What I think is needed is an actual "Trusted Client" issued by the customer's bank which can only interact with that bank, in fact only with that customer's account.
It needn't be difficult either, infact it could be very simple, picture a small VMWare virtual machine, the VM would contain a linux kernel, basic X server with no WM, and a browser which has been totally locked down, it could be supplied on a write-locked USB thumbdrive.
Stick in the thumbdrive, and you will be prompted to install the VMWare player if it's not already installed, once installed you can run the VM (described to the user as "Connect to Your Bank"). The VM loads up, the X server comes up, browser loads and opens on the bank site.
The browser has been modified so that it can ONLY access stuff from the bank's domain over SSL, ONLY, nothing else. There is no email client in this VM, many banks offer web-based email communication with the bank to thier customers and that's all that's needed there.
But here is the real clincher, each VM given to a customer contains an access code (signature, hash, whatever you want to call it), this code is transmitted to the bank when logging in along with the usual username/password combination - the key forms the "something you have" part of a 3 factor authentication.
And then once this system is available, the bank shuts off all outside access for "internet banking", only connections through this client will be accepted, all three authentication factors must be present and correct. The client VM could also be signed in some manner to ensure that it is legitimate and hasn't been modified in any way.
It would render phishing and viral attacks extremely hard to accomplish.
If somebody got your typical phising email, first they could see that a bank is sending them an email instead of using the "Bank Program". Second the phisher can only provide a link which will open in a real web browser on a copy of the bank's site so even if they provided the 2 factors of authentication that critical third is still safely in the "Bank Program". Third, even if they convinced the user somehow to open the "Bank Program" they can't get them to thier site because the VM's browser doesn't permit any other domain than the Bank's. If a virus got in and managed to steal the VM, all they've got is the 3rd factor, no u/p.
About the only way it would be possible to be broken is if a virus got in and managed to steal the VM with 3rd factor, and used a keylogger or some such to try and catch the user entering the u/p. And I expect some engineer's who have put far more thought into this than I could find a way to make that even more difficult.
It sounds like such a small amount, but this here is the root of the business, $14.60 is close to 100% profit on that domain name, maybe more depending on the volume discount the registrant is getting.
Consider that these people may have thousands upon thousands of domains, and well that adds up to a lot of very easy money (easy in so far as it's basically automated, set and forget).
Surely anybody doing anything like that would be rolling thier own kernel anyway? The only time I've used the Debian supplied kernels is when installing, soon as that's done I always compile a fresh one.
Replace chimp with 5-year-old-child in that sentance. 5 Year olds still have basic human rights, but we do not generally hold them legally accountable for actions such as that; adult chimps are not much different than a 5 year old child.
Punch cards? Luxury! In my day we had to carry around bundles of hookup wire...
From memory, setTimeout forms a time-delayed but synchronous entry into the execution stream, you will not get two threads in the same javascript code pile running simultaneously, the timeout will not fire until the execution stream is idle.