Not only will it take a while for people to learn how to pick it, it will take a while for the lock to even exist...
Quoting the article... "At the moment, the lock is a computer model. This money will allow us to see how these ideas will work and what the devices will actually look like."
Maybe it will be one of those situations where the lockpicks are invented before the vulnerability is found and fixed by the Microsoft, I mean, the manufacturer.
See the guy in the pink/red shirt? He just finished changing NYC from EST to EDT. Now he's walking over to SD to change that one too but the woman in maroon? (too dark to see clearly) stopped him for a chat.
What about Paris? (insert surrender joke here)
But seriously, is it worth the time to take a picture of three clocks and try to sell them? I assume they will bundle those into Lot #54 - Tons of Cheap Office Junk.
I was going to write a rant just like this, but you did it much better that I could.
I've tried helping a few friends pick out the best laptop and it's just getting to hard to pick between the 100 new quadrants. Gimme my 4 quadrants back!;)
Hey, at least we're not back at the point with identical Performas having different model numbers because of differing preloaded software packages. That was a nightmare.
Entering incorrect or humorous data is very easy. For example, you will find that the system readily accepts reports of getting sick eating "Goc" at the new Klingon restaurant in town, or most anything else that you can imagine. However, this particular web site is trying to help prevent the 5,000 to 8,000 deaths that occur each year due to foodborne disease. Please respect the important mission of the Forum by insuring that your submissions are accurate and well based on fact. It is also important to remember that all site visitors are on notice that submitted data will be shared with U.S., local, and state health departments; Forum users who submit false information may therefore be subject to civil or criminal liability for such acts.
Mods... this should be insightful or interesting, not funny. It's a real concern. However, in this case, it seems the fuels are waste products from other sources of processing. Therefore, the energy to fertilize and harvest them has already been spent. There is only the monor detail of the energy for the waste processing/burning itself.
1) Why would any bank give any of your info to your sister? Unless it's a joint account, no one else aside from the sole account holder should have any access whatsoever without express written authorization by that account holder (yes, just like they say for every baseball game).
2) Speaking from experience for the eBay situation, next time tell them that you are the hacker and now control the poor loser's account and that you will be fraudulently bidding with it starting in two hours. If your jurisdiction allows phone recordings with only one party's (yours) consent, then record the conversation. Then check back in two hours to see if the account is frozen. It might be hell to get it unfrozen, but that's better than the alternative.
Certain states require hella lot of documentation to be filled out when games of skill are involved. In this case, I doubt Rob has the time to do so. Therefore, he simply banned entries from those locations.
Games of chance are another story, but there are some states that are quite anal about that documentation too.
It certainly is very refreshing to read slashdot.jp. There may not be as many "inside jokes" but that tends to be a good thing when a penis bird is considered by some to be a joke. If you don't read slashdot.org for the funny mods, slashdot.jp is great.
I tend to (try to) read only and not post simply due to the fact that writing technical Japanese isn't my cup of tea. I can guess some of the meanings of the technical kanji words in context, but knowing them to write an informative answer is far out of my league.
Hint: Last time I checked, the text boxes for your user profile are in the same order and posisiton as slashdot.org. You could set up your own account without too much of a problem.
dman123 (#3794)
[praying to the karma gods] NB: I enjoy ontopic replies to offtopic posts just as long as the mods stay the *&^$ out of the way and let a couple people chat. [/praying to the karma gods]
Speaking of immigration interviews, I was slightly disappointed I never had to answer the "test for fraud" questions like, "What type of shampoo does your spouse use?" or "Where do you most often eat dinner and with what type of dishes?" I guess I watch too much TV. They just videotaped us swearing that we were obeying all the rules and sent us on our way.
Have you tried this? A serious question. From personal experience, I know that there is language in the fiance visa application or other similar document that states that it is illegal to enter the US with the intent of marriage without the correct fiance visa. When you petitioned to change to permanent residency (conditional or non-conditional) did they question you about this circumvention?
I assume they can, if they want, deny the change in status, deport the fiance and make you apply for a spouse visa and make life all around miserable
And the rules may have changed from several years ago, but in my case the visa was processed in about 2-3 months without any mandatory waiting period. In fact, after a year of planning, we almost had to move up the wedding date to accomodate the efficiency of the IRS and the three month expiry of the visa.
Ok, I've been in the same situation. Here's the most important question...
What level of video/audio quality do you need?
If you need something that can pass for a standard TV broadcast instead of M-M-Max Head-Head--------room, you've got to go higher end with $$$ hardware on each end. It's more like a minimum of $10,000 for each end. If you can get away with NetMeeting, then go for it.
Other questions to consider...
Q: Do you need to have a lot of people in on a conversation at one end? A: $$
Q: Do you need to talk to customers? A: One sale might make up for the $$$ you spend for a high end solution.
Q: Can you get away with just using the speakerphone? A: Major savings if you can. Just send your PowerPoints or whatever beforehand and then discuss a few hours later after a quick review.
Q: Will you save $$$ on not having to fly around the country and meet face to face? A: ?
You need to further define your needs. I am guessing that you told the consultant. If so, the laughing may have been justified.
Quoting your own source... "Is Biodiesel the same thing as raw vegetable oil? No!"
See? It isn't.
Can't be any clearer than that. As a member of the National Biodiesel Board @ www.biodiesel.org, your catchy URL, I know that biodiesel comes from animal or veg fats. But it is not the same as biodiesel. Next, you'll be telling me that fatty acid is the same as vegetable oil. Subtract a glycerin backbone and they are, right?
And if your argument was that the Grease Car has to do with biodiesel because it burns the precursor to biodiesel, well than I submit that a car burning LPG is the same a car burning any other fossil fuel. Why let a few chemical reactions complicate the issue?;-)
I know you meant well, but please don't call vegetable or animal fat "biodiesel."
Your first "FP" is a reasonable excuse to not be as detailed as you could have been. However, it's been said all over the media that veg oil IS biodiesel, and that is what gets me going. It's hard to be in the business of biodiesel (yes, I really am) and have to deal with KDUH or WDOH putting out reports on biodiesel that are in fact people who put straight veg oil in unmodified engines. At Mr. Grease Car modifies the engine and knows that it is not actually biodiesel.
FWIW, Veg oil will never be successfully registered with the EPA as an auto fuel. Seriously.
What you say is exactly right. However, that's not the point. The point is that the methanol is added to the fat to make a methyl ester. One could hardly consider the methanol to be the main component of the reaction. Therefore, the hog waste is not the source of biodiesel.
Unfortunately, the Grease Car has nothing to do with biodiesel. The Grease Car runs on straight vegetable oil. Vegetable oil is not the same as biodiesel.
The hog waste is being turned into methanol, not biodiesel. The methanol, among other things, is then added in the traditional manner to vegetable or animal fat to make biodiesel.
The headline is misleading and the equivalent of saying that hydrogen and oxygen can be made into beer, neglecting to mention that they are first combined to make water, then used in the traditional manner to make beer.
Articles like this (the original, not/.) make me shake my head in disgust. The production of the methanol from the hog waste has to stand on its own against the more efficient production of methanol from natural gas sources. I doubt it can.
Disclaimer: I have a vested interest in biodiesel and this article raises my blood pressure. Go to www.biodiesel.org to learn about what biodiesel is or is not.
Your delivery guy waits at the door? Lucky you. Mine rings the bell after he drops off the package on the step and is on his way back to the truck. If I am not home, or if he just knocks instead, I don't even know there is something there because I don't normally use the front door.
Yes, I always check the tracking to see when it might arrive, but it is not always accurate. Yes, this happens for "signature required" items. Yes, that's why I have switched to having important deliveries go to a work address. And yes, I know I am violating my sig.
Those UPS "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" commercials are a complete fraud.
You present a logical argument. It's just not practical.
This is redundant, but it needs to be in order to not be overshadowed by all the attempts at humor.
Give everyone a nice lunch or gift certs to his or her favorite restaurant (suggested by moc.tfosorcimgllib) or a day off.
These may not be "super-cool" but they are gender non-specific and relatively inexpensive considering that employees will just be goofing off anyway. Seriously, do I really need something with the company logo?
My company: We get US$20 in grocery store gift certs, a potluck lunch (yes, I live in the Midwest), and a nice lunch (on a different day, of course) at the local country club. It's not a lot, but it at the end of the day I don't have a gift just sitting around the house.
And, by the way, I prefer cash. It is a very valid gift! You cannot go wrong with cash!
If I had a micromanaging PHB that came over and said...
"Excuse me dman123, but you seem to be running MS Word and MS Excel at the same time. I am sure there is a performance degradation hit there somewhere when you try to open or save a doc. Please see Jan in Payroll about the immediate reduction in salary."
...I'd prolly get fired over what I would do to him just after that.
If performance really did take a hit, I would hope that the user would notice and do something about it.
I sincerly thank you for purchasing biodiesel. If you are not already politically active in this area, please do what you can to spread the word on biodiesel. I am afraid that federal or local mandates will not be enough to get the biodiesel market to succeed.
Please see my clarification post if you have any doubts about my motives.
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Quoting the article... "At the moment, the lock is a computer model. This money will allow us to see how these ideas will work and what the devices will actually look like."
Maybe it will be one of those situations where the lockpicks are invented before the vulnerability is found and fixed by the Microsoft, I mean, the manufacturer.
What about Paris? (insert surrender joke here)
But seriously, is it worth the time to take a picture of three clocks and try to sell them? I assume they will bundle those into Lot #54 - Tons of Cheap Office Junk.
I've tried helping a few friends pick out the best laptop and it's just getting to hard to pick between the 100 new quadrants. Gimme my 4 quadrants back! ;)
Hey, at least we're not back at the point with identical Performas having different model numbers because of differing preloaded software packages. That was a nightmare.
Get the PB. The iBook is 800 MHz, the PB is 1 GHz. The iBook has only half the L2 cache. Two major speed differences. You won't regret it.
No. All Powerbooks were upgraded last month. September 16, IIRC. It'll be a while for another upgrade.
I'm sure the new G5 PBs will come out only a few days after I get my new G4 PB.
Entering incorrect or humorous data is very easy. For example, you will find that the system readily accepts reports of getting sick eating "Goc" at the new Klingon restaurant in town, or most anything else that you can imagine. However, this particular web site is trying to help prevent the 5,000 to 8,000 deaths that occur each year due to foodborne disease. Please respect the important mission of the Forum by insuring that your submissions are accurate and well based on fact. It is also important to remember that all site visitors are on notice that submitted data will be shared with U.S., local, and state health departments; Forum users who submit false information may therefore be subject to civil or criminal liability for such acts.
Agreed. As long as they are not the Beardstown ladies, right?
Mods... this should be insightful or interesting, not funny. It's a real concern. However, in this case, it seems the fuels are waste products from other sources of processing. Therefore, the energy to fertilize and harvest them has already been spent. There is only the monor detail of the energy for the waste processing/burning itself.
Two comments:
1) Why would any bank give any of your info to your sister? Unless it's a joint account, no one else aside from the sole account holder should have any access whatsoever without express written authorization by that account holder (yes, just like they say for every baseball game).
2) Speaking from experience for the eBay situation, next time tell them that you are the hacker and now control the poor loser's account and that you will be fraudulently bidding with it starting in two hours. If your jurisdiction allows phone recordings with only one party's (yours) consent, then record the conversation. Then check back in two hours to see if the account is frozen. It might be hell to get it unfrozen, but that's better than the alternative.
Certain states require hella lot of documentation to be filled out when games of skill are involved. In this case, I doubt Rob has the time to do so. Therefore, he simply banned entries from those locations.
Games of chance are another story, but there are some states that are quite anal about that documentation too.
IANALegislator, etc., etc., duh.
It certainly is very refreshing to read slashdot.jp. There may not be as many "inside jokes" but that tends to be a good thing when a penis bird is considered by some to be a joke. If you don't read slashdot.org for the funny mods, slashdot.jp is great.
I tend to (try to) read only and not post simply due to the fact that writing technical Japanese isn't my cup of tea. I can guess some of the meanings of the technical kanji words in context, but knowing them to write an informative answer is far out of my league.
Hint: Last time I checked, the text boxes for your user profile are in the same order and posisiton as slashdot.org. You could set up your own account without too much of a problem.
dman123 (#3794)
[praying to the karma gods]
NB: I enjoy ontopic replies to offtopic posts just as long as the mods stay the *&^$ out of the way and let a couple people chat.
[/praying to the karma gods]
It's too bad your joke will never see the light of day in the minds of most /.ers.
Or should I say you are batting 1 for 1 in the joke department.
Or, even more obvious, that joke sucks!
Speaking of immigration interviews, I was slightly disappointed I never had to answer the "test for fraud" questions like, "What type of shampoo does your spouse use?" or "Where do you most often eat dinner and with what type of dishes?" I guess I watch too much TV. They just videotaped us swearing that we were obeying all the rules and sent us on our way.
I assume they can, if they want, deny the change in status, deport the fiance and make you apply for a spouse visa and make life all around miserable
And the rules may have changed from several years ago, but in my case the visa was processed in about 2-3 months without any mandatory waiting period. In fact, after a year of planning, we almost had to move up the wedding date to accomodate the efficiency of the IRS and the three month expiry of the visa.
What level of video/audio quality do you need?
If you need something that can pass for a standard TV broadcast instead of M-M-Max Head-Head--------room, you've got to go higher end with $$$ hardware on each end. It's more like a minimum of $10,000 for each end. If you can get away with NetMeeting, then go for it.
Other questions to consider...
Q: Do you need to have a lot of people in on a conversation at one end?
A: $$
Q: Do you need to talk to customers?
A: One sale might make up for the $$$ you spend for a high end solution.
Q: Can you get away with just using the speakerphone?
A: Major savings if you can. Just send your PowerPoints or whatever beforehand and then discuss a few hours later after a quick review.
Q: Will you save $$$ on not having to fly around the country and meet face to face?
A: ?
You need to further define your needs. I am guessing that you told the consultant. If so, the laughing may have been justified.
No, it is not (the same as biodiesel)!
Quoting your own source...
"Is Biodiesel the same thing as raw vegetable oil?
No!"
See? It isn't.
Can't be any clearer than that. As a member of the National Biodiesel Board @ www.biodiesel.org, your catchy URL, I know that biodiesel comes from animal or veg fats. But it is not the same as biodiesel. Next, you'll be telling me that fatty acid is the same as vegetable oil. Subtract a glycerin backbone and they are, right?
And if your argument was that the Grease Car has to do with biodiesel because it burns the precursor to biodiesel, well than I submit that a car burning LPG is the same a car burning any other fossil fuel. Why let a few chemical reactions complicate the issue? ;-)
I know you meant well, but please don't call vegetable or animal fat "biodiesel."
FWIW, Veg oil will never be successfully registered with the EPA as an auto fuel. Seriously.
Now the rendered hog fat may be another story...
Unfortunately, the Grease Car has nothing to do with biodiesel. The Grease Car runs on straight vegetable oil. Vegetable oil is not the same as biodiesel.
The headline is misleading and the equivalent of saying that hydrogen and oxygen can be made into beer, neglecting to mention that they are first combined to make water, then used in the traditional manner to make beer.
Articles like this (the original, not /.) make me shake my head in disgust. The production of the methanol from the hog waste has to stand on its own against the more efficient production of methanol from natural gas sources. I doubt it can.
Disclaimer: I have a vested interest in biodiesel and this article raises my blood pressure. Go to www.biodiesel.org to learn about what biodiesel is or is not.
3 Hours later: iCal 1.0.4 available for download via website
2nd Day of MW Expo: Announce iCal 1.0.6 (iCal 1.0.5 was an internal release only), iCal 1.0.4 available through Apple SW Update
End of MW Expo: iCal 1.2 released for only $129. That's only $129 for each new feature!! :-(
No, but seriously... FireWire 800Mbps. Yea!
Yes, I always check the tracking to see when it might arrive, but it is not always accurate. Yes, this happens for "signature required" items. Yes, that's why I have switched to having important deliveries go to a work address. And yes, I know I am violating my sig.
Those UPS "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" commercials are a complete fraud.
You present a logical argument. It's just not practical.
Give everyone a nice lunch or gift certs to his or her favorite restaurant (suggested by moc.tfosorcimgllib) or a day off.
These may not be "super-cool" but they are gender non-specific and relatively inexpensive considering that employees will just be goofing off anyway. Seriously, do I really need something with the company logo?
My company: We get US$20 in grocery store gift certs, a potluck lunch (yes, I live in the Midwest), and a nice lunch (on a different day, of course) at the local country club. It's not a lot, but it at the end of the day I don't have a gift just sitting around the house.
And, by the way, I prefer cash. It is a very valid gift! You cannot go wrong with cash!
If I had a micromanaging PHB that came over and said...
"Excuse me dman123, but you seem to be running MS Word and MS Excel at the same time. I am sure there is a performance degradation hit there somewhere when you try to open or save a doc. Please see Jan in Payroll about the immediate reduction in salary."
...I'd prolly get fired over what I would do to him just after that.
If performance really did take a hit, I would hope that the user would notice and do something about it.
Please see my clarification post if you have any doubts about my motives.