Some of my groceries improve via interaction. My milk/eggs expire later, my meat is cut better and fresher, my beer is picked based on specials and delivery dates, my fruits/veggies are personally inspected prior to purchase. How many reasons do you need to buy your own groceries?
Grocery delivery is for sociophobes (may not actually be a word)...
These are interesting times. I'm a relatively new father (the elder of the two will turn 3 in a few weeks.) When I lived with my parents, I was the only one in my house with an e-mail account. My parents only had the vaguest idea what one was. It makes things complicated when making rules for young-uns. My eldest plays computer games, but only during approved times. He's (obviously) not myspacing yet, but I'm sure he will. And parents like me are in new territory. Fortunately, many of us are tech-savvy, but still in an awkward situation.
...but myspace will be able to say "hey, we are doing our best to stop them". I'm assuming that I'm one of a million of/.ers that has witnessed this, but this is incredibly common in my arena. There's a safety/security problem in a related facility, so we do something nonsensical but somewhat related. Productivity and morale go down, but we can say we responded to a potential problem proactively. Considering the litigious society we live in, it makes a sick kind of sense. Once you combine a half a dozen facilities all doing the same thing, the issue compounds exponentially.
On the bright side, the effect may aid start-ups...
And what is it going to do about my encryption keys? If things go really badly, they could pass legislation similar to the UK's that makes it illegal to withhold encryption keys and passwords if you're hit with a warrant. I'm sure if anyone has tried the "I forgot" defense yet.
It's fun to extend the limits of our display technology - High res looks nice. But can somebody explain to me why in the hell would we ever need a 28 Mbps audio stream even with 24 channels?
That's kind of tricky, but that seems to be China's whole purpose for trying to get there. You've got to respect the forward thinking even if it seems far-fetched. My understanding is that they want to mine Helium-3 for the fusion reactors that they assume will be functioning at some point. (Anyone with better information, feel free to correct me.) Seems like a long-shot (moon-shot?) to me, but more sensible than Bush's "Hey wouldn't it be cool if somebody put a footprint on Mars" idea. If we just have to show that we can do it, it would be cheaper to do it Capricorn-3 style and it would give the conspiracy theorists something more interesting to waste their time on than 9/11.
I know - Let's set up a moon colony under a dome and then set up a rail gun to launch mined resources back to earth. People who lived there may eventually feel a little disconnected and ignored - And that will need to be addressed at some point, but you know what they say... The moon is a harsh mistress. I think I read a thesis or something that addressed the details...
Even though it's been out of use for more than 100 years, the Hamilton method is very straightforward, comes to a single solution, and (FTA):
...the Hamilton method... is the only one that ensures a state won't be rounded up or down past the nearest integer. The Hamilton method is also understandable by your average [Joe|Jane]. I think that the hoopla over Hillary winning New Hampshire despite the fact that she and Obama won the same number of delegates shows that a lot of Americans just don't understand the system.
I'm really torn on this, but I think that the benefits are bigger than you're seeing. The big plus that I see to this is that a database could be set up to restrict alcohol purchases. For example, if a person was of legal age but was not allowed to drink as a probationary measure, the scanner could do a query and deny him a purchase. Recovering alcoholics could voluntarily surrender their right to buy alcohol to keep from falling off the wagon.
But you're right. Unfortunately, if the query goes out, it will certainly be logged and abused... Sigh... I think I'll go out and buy an Arrogant Bastard.
Actually, it doesn't say that he was a victim of "identity theft". It says that he is an "Identity Theft Skeptic" and that he is a "Fraud Victim". The article called the crime "identity fraud" which seems accurate. Somebody said "These is my account information, please accept my money." - Perfectly describable as "identity fraud" and nearly enough for the article submitter to assume that the fraudsters were "identity thieves" as he described them.
I know that, for US banks, this is fairly straight-forward. The institution needs the account number, routing number, and will often require a signature (that they have nothing to compare to.) Also, most banks require that the receiving entity be a valid business address (Diabetes UK should work just fine.)
I assume that the UK rules are similar, but don't know for sure. Looks like a £500 lesson learned and a chance to open a new account.
No, "agreed to do X things but said Y things are unfeasible" implies that there are at least X + Y things. "Agreed to do X things but said the the other Y things are unfeasible" would imply exactly X + Y things according to my interpretation.
"3 of the cars in my parking lot have sun-roofs, but 6 are hard-topped." Therefore there are at least 9 cars (there may be convertibles lurking about.)
"3 of the cars in my parking lot have sun-roofs, but the other 6 are hard-topped." In this sentence, we have a total of 9 cars (the potential convertibles have been banished.)
When I hear wiretap and FBI in the same phrase, my knee jerk reaction is, especially recently, to attack the FBI. But this is awful. The US does occasionally use wiretaps for their intended purpose and, when they do, it's damned important that they be in-place and reliable. The telecoms are certainly within their rights to refuse service for non-payment, but what kind of a dysfunctional organization can't even pay their phone-bill on time? If my company's phone service was terminated, heads would roll.
Well put, but I believe that the RIAA is successfully prosecuting people based on IP's alone. IIRC, there was a recent case where a woman lost a case after trying to counter that somebody could have been piggy-backing on her connection. I'd swear I read about it on/., but can't seem to find the link.
That's like saying we should "steal" music files because it's not a physical thing and EVERYONES doing it so it's okay. Besides, it'll be an important lesson to those who didn't secure it in the first place... Did you RTFA? He's not suggesting that everyone should go out and steal Wi-Fi, he's just saying that it's nice to leave your own Wi-Fi unsecured so that others can use it if they want.
That said, IANAL but the ones that he apparently spoke to seem awfully cavalier about the situation. I would be extremely uncomfortable explaining to a judge that I: 1) Published an article stating that I knew that my wireless connection could be used by others to commit crimes. 2) Left my connection unsecured anyway. 3) Was arrested because of illegal traffic. 4) Expect to be excused.
Well put - This is certainly interesting, but it would have been more surprising to learn that they had some completely different and unique skin structure. Sharks and many reptiles have been around a helluva long time because they're very well adapted to their niches. --- On a side note, I find it pleasantly surprising that Firefox's spell-check happily accepted 'helluva'.
I find that's only true if you want to recruit and manage projects. If that's your ambition (good $$$, but you don't get to get your hands dirty with code), then golf is indeed valuable. If instead you want to actually code / design projects / etc, I think it's more important to: 1) Exude confidence in your abilities 2) Have a knack (obsession helps) for IT stuff (coding, tinkering, general hacking, eating cold pizza at 3 AM, etc.) and 3) Root yourself with the basics (definitely C - maybe ASM), but be able to quickly and confidently navigate the borg world (C# and similar) - Many interviewers know little except that those are the most recently updated and therefore the most important.
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Some of my groceries improve via interaction. My milk/eggs expire later, my meat is cut better and fresher, my beer is picked based on specials and delivery dates, my fruits/veggies are personally inspected prior to purchase. How many reasons do you need to buy your own groceries?
Grocery delivery is for sociophobes (may not actually be a word)...
These are interesting times. I'm a relatively new father (the elder of the two will turn 3 in a few weeks.) When I lived with my parents, I was the only one in my house with an e-mail account. My parents only had the vaguest idea what one was. It makes things complicated when making rules for young-uns. My eldest plays computer games, but only during approved times. He's (obviously) not myspacing yet, but I'm sure he will. And parents like me are in new territory. Fortunately, many of us are tech-savvy, but still in an awkward situation.
...but myspace will be able to say "hey, we are doing our best to stop them". I'm assuming that I'm one of a million ofOn the bright side, the effect may aid start-ups...
It's fun to extend the limits of our display technology - High res looks nice. But can somebody explain to me why in the hell would we ever need a 28 Mbps audio stream even with 24 channels?
To be fair, in one of the two elections the majority of voters voted against W.
That's kind of tricky, but that seems to be China's whole purpose for trying to get there. You've got to respect the forward thinking even if it seems far-fetched. My understanding is that they want to mine Helium-3 for the fusion reactors that they assume will be functioning at some point. (Anyone with better information, feel free to correct me.) Seems like a long-shot (moon-shot?) to me, but more sensible than Bush's "Hey wouldn't it be cool if somebody put a footprint on Mars" idea. If we just have to show that we can do it, it would be cheaper to do it Capricorn-3 style and it would give the conspiracy theorists something more interesting to waste their time on than 9/11.
I know - Let's set up a moon colony under a dome and then set up a rail gun to launch mined resources back to earth. People who lived there may eventually feel a little disconnected and ignored - And that will need to be addressed at some point, but you know what they say... The moon is a harsh mistress. I think I read a thesis or something that addressed the details...
...the Hamilton methodI'm really torn on this, but I think that the benefits are bigger than you're seeing. The big plus that I see to this is that a database could be set up to restrict alcohol purchases. For example, if a person was of legal age but was not allowed to drink as a probationary measure, the scanner could do a query and deny him a purchase. Recovering alcoholics could voluntarily surrender their right to buy alcohol to keep from falling off the wagon.
But you're right. Unfortunately, if the query goes out, it will certainly be logged and abused... Sigh... I think I'll go out and buy an Arrogant Bastard.
Actually, it doesn't say that he was a victim of "identity theft". It says that he is an "Identity Theft Skeptic" and that he is a "Fraud Victim". The article called the crime "identity fraud" which seems accurate. Somebody said "These is my account information, please accept my money." - Perfectly describable as "identity fraud" and nearly enough for the article submitter to assume that the fraudsters were "identity thieves" as he described them.
I know that, for US banks, this is fairly straight-forward. The institution needs the account number, routing number, and will often require a signature (that they have nothing to compare to.) Also, most banks require that the receiving entity be a valid business address (Diabetes UK should work just fine.)
I assume that the UK rules are similar, but don't know for sure. Looks like a £500 lesson learned and a chance to open a new account.
No, "agreed to do X things but said Y things are unfeasible" implies that there are at least X + Y things. "Agreed to do X things but said the the other Y things are unfeasible" would imply exactly X + Y things according to my interpretation.
"3 of the cars in my parking lot have sun-roofs, but 6 are hard-topped." Therefore there are at least 9 cars (there may be convertibles lurking about.)
"3 of the cars in my parking lot have sun-roofs, but the other 6 are hard-topped." In this sentence, we have a total of 9 cars (the potential convertibles have been banished.)
No doubt. I'd like to see administrative action for screwing up the phone bill. I'd like to see arrests for warrantless wiretapping.
When I hear wiretap and FBI in the same phrase, my knee jerk reaction is, especially recently, to attack the FBI. But this is awful. The US does occasionally use wiretaps for their intended purpose and, when they do, it's damned important that they be in-place and reliable. The telecoms are certainly within their rights to refuse service for non-payment, but what kind of a dysfunctional organization can't even pay their phone-bill on time? If my company's phone service was terminated, heads would roll.
Well put, but I believe that the RIAA is successfully prosecuting people based on IP's alone. IIRC, there was a recent case where a woman lost a case after trying to counter that somebody could have been piggy-backing on her connection. I'd swear I read about it on /., but can't seem to find the link.
Maybe it was just a vivid nightmare...
That said, IANAL but the ones that he apparently spoke to seem awfully cavalier about the situation. I would be extremely uncomfortable explaining to a judge that I:
1) Published an article stating that I knew that my wireless connection could be used by others to commit crimes.
2) Left my connection unsecured anyway.
3) Was arrested because of illegal traffic.
4) Expect to be excused.
Well put - This is certainly interesting, but it would have been more surprising to learn that they had some completely different and unique skin structure. Sharks and many reptiles have been around a helluva long time because they're very well adapted to their niches.
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On a side note, I find it pleasantly surprising that Firefox's spell-check happily accepted 'helluva'.
I find that's only true if you want to recruit and manage projects. If that's your ambition (good $$$, but you don't get to get your hands dirty with code), then golf is indeed valuable. If instead you want to actually code / design projects / etc, I think it's more important to:
1) Exude confidence in your abilities
2) Have a knack (obsession helps) for IT stuff (coding, tinkering, general hacking, eating cold pizza at 3 AM, etc.)
and
3) Root yourself with the basics (definitely C - maybe ASM), but be able to quickly and confidently navigate the borg world (C# and similar) - Many interviewers know little except that those are the most recently updated and therefore the most important.