I'm guessing the person you're referring to is from the UK. Over here, the boxes on ballot papers are HUGE, and the pencils used are sharpened regularly. Marking outside the box should indeed be seen as an indication of incompetence. I mean, they're not picking whether they want an apple or orange in their lunch box; They're picking who they want to run the country.
What's that business concept called where they run the business to its crashing point, then try to run it just a hair above that? They do it to try to figure out where the rock bottom is on what they can get away with to maximize profits.
I'm thinking the same thing goes on in government. They do something that has people breaking out their guillotines so they can do juuuuuuust slightly less than that.
Yes. Yes I do expect that. Anything less is smoke and mirrors. The infrastructure is in place for the bank, all they need to do is replace that "Verified by Visa" / "Mastercard Securecode" bullshit with this service.
Verified by Visa: Bypassed with a date of birth. What a joke.
I signed up for a service to send a one-time-pad by SMS to my mobile phone for every online purchase. I've yet to receive a single request for a code, or a code itself, and it's been over 3 months.
Dump it and get ESET's enterprise protection. 1/3 the memory footprint, and significantly faster scanning time. If I had the option, I'd drop Sophos like a ginger stepchi... uhhh... A bad case of the cla.... errr... A hot potato. Unfortunately, due to bulk licensing, they come out around 50% cheaper than competitors, and bean counters are tight-fisted nowadays.
I think it's pretty clear that in the taxi driver example there's a difference between a willing and an unwilling actor. A taxi driver who gets threatened with a weapon unless he drives...probably not going to get into too much trouble.
Your analogy falls down under extrapolation. Why does the taxi driver need to be threatened? It's his job to take me to where I want to go in exchange for money. If I walk into a building with one backpack and emerge 5 minutes later with a different one, what business is that of his? Should he even be paying attention? Is he liable if he doesn't report anything suspicious? Should he be liable for aiding and abetting, regardless of knowledge? What if he doesn't notice, or the coke in the backpack changes for money but the bag is the same?
These hollow coins might provide some level of protection. I've never seen one up close, but they claim to be milled from real currency. Not much good if you're not American, though.
I was taught that there were seven requirements for something to be considered "alive".
Cribbed from Wikipedia: "Living organisms undergo metabolism, maintain homeostasis, possess a capacity to grow, respond to stimuli, reproduce and, through natural selection, adapt to their environment in successive generations."
So, a doomsday clock that started at 11:53 in 1947 is now at 11:55... based upon that rate of advancement (2 minutes per 65 years, obviously ignoring any other adjustments), we should be safe for over a century and a half. I've heard far more alarming predictions than that. Nothing to see here.
They're saving the final 4 minutes for 23.56, 23.57, 23.58, and 23.59 December 20th.
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But money costs money!
I'm guessing the person you're referring to is from the UK. Over here, the boxes on ballot papers are HUGE, and the pencils used are sharpened regularly. Marking outside the box should indeed be seen as an indication of incompetence. I mean, they're not picking whether they want an apple or orange in their lunch box; They're picking who they want to run the country.
but it's "open", so it must be good!
The way things are looking at the moment, the Acts with the least ominous names turn out to be the most harmful to society.
What's the betting that they call the Act denying CxO bonuses for failure and increasing taxation on high-income individuals the PEDO4PRESIDENT Act?
... all three of both...
My brain just HCF'd.
What's that business concept called where they run the business to its crashing point, then try to run it just a hair above that? They do it to try to figure out where the rock bottom is on what they can get away with to maximize profits. I'm thinking the same thing goes on in government. They do something that has people breaking out their guillotines so they can do juuuuuuust slightly less than that.
Capitalism.
Yes. Yes I do expect that. Anything less is smoke and mirrors. The infrastructure is in place for the bank, all they need to do is replace that "Verified by Visa" / "Mastercard Securecode" bullshit with this service.
Verified by Visa: Bypassed with a date of birth. What a joke.
Well shit, man. It's called "work" for a reason. Someone has to pay you to do it.
They don't call it "happy fun times" for a reason. Just how many hours after 18 years old did it take you to realise this?!
For clarity; IMHO, NOD32 > MSE > Everything else.
Pre-emptively calling Muphry's Law on myself.
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You types this on your "Smart TV", right?
Oh, right... I see. It's only used for online banking transactions, not online purchasing. Fat lot of good that's doing to combat online fraud.
I signed up for a service to send a one-time-pad by SMS to my mobile phone for every online purchase. I've yet to receive a single request for a code, or a code itself, and it's been over 3 months.
Then again, Santander are completely rubbish.
That is exactly what I meant. It's no better than NOD32, and NOD32 is, as far as I'm concerned, the best.
I was almost sad when I stopped sending them my £40 per year for Smart Security.
Dump it and get ESET's enterprise protection. 1/3 the memory footprint, and significantly faster scanning time. If I had the option, I'd drop Sophos like a ginger stepchi... uhhh... A bad case of the cla.... errr... A hot potato. Unfortunately, due to bulk licensing, they come out around 50% cheaper than competitors, and bean counters are tight-fisted nowadays.
I've found that Microsoft Security Essentials is no better than ESET NOD32 for anti-virus protection.
Then again, against anything but zero-day exploits, a properly configured OS and good browsing practices would make a potato a good AV solution.
I think it's pretty clear that in the taxi driver example there's a difference between a willing and an unwilling actor. A taxi driver who gets threatened with a weapon unless he drives...probably not going to get into too much trouble.
Your analogy falls down under extrapolation. Why does the taxi driver need to be threatened? It's his job to take me to where I want to go in exchange for money. If I walk into a building with one backpack and emerge 5 minutes later with a different one, what business is that of his? Should he even be paying attention? Is he liable if he doesn't report anything suspicious? Should he be liable for aiding and abetting, regardless of knowledge? What if he doesn't notice, or the coke in the backpack changes for money but the bag is the same?
Yes, sorry; I meant powerful compared to identical transmission power from an omnidirectional antenna. Inverse square law, and all that.
You can sue anyone for anything. I can sue you for owning a cat against my will; It doesn't mean I'll win.
In the UK, however, loser pays costs. It can get pretty expensive to sue frivolously.
So then they'll sue... God.
Billy Connolly calls prior art
This is why I would encrypt the data and put it onto Dropbox or similar. Or mail it to my destination.
I don't fly to America, though, so this idiocy is unlikely to affect me.
These hollow coins might provide some level of protection. I've never seen one up close, but they claim to be milled from real currency. Not much good if you're not American, though.
Signals to / from Voyager are directional, and more than likely very high power.
I was taught that there were seven requirements for something to be considered "alive".
Cribbed from Wikipedia:
"Living organisms undergo metabolism, maintain homeostasis, possess a capacity to grow, respond to stimuli, reproduce and, through natural selection, adapt to their environment in successive generations."
We needed someone to man the phones.
*Sniff*
So, a doomsday clock that started at 11:53 in 1947 is now at 11:55... based upon that rate of advancement (2 minutes per 65 years, obviously ignoring any other adjustments), we should be safe for over a century and a half. I've heard far more alarming predictions than that. Nothing to see here.
They're saving the final 4 minutes for 23.56, 23.57, 23.58, and 23.59 December 20th.