Therefore at the most, someone could possibly collect your social security reimbursements by impersonating you.
Well, no, they couldn't, because you can't collection social security without proof of ID, you can't just go in and give them a number and no ID and expect to collect money. Surely they have similar checks in the US?
The problem is that many entities use the SSN *as* a check of identity. If I call my bank to conduct a transaction, I give them my name and account number. Then they ask me for either my SSN (possibly just the last four digits) or my mother's maiden name to verify that I'm me. Fortunately, I started giving a different name many years ago, but since EVERYONE uses the same pieces of information, someone who gets your authentication from one institution could use it to impersonate you at another one.
Ok, my SSN was issued in Year X, and has as its first three digits ABC.
My husband's SSN was issued in the same city, state, and county in Year X-9, and its first three digits are ABC-64.
My first son's SSN was issued in Year X+18 with the same geographic location, and has as its first three digits ABC-14.
His brother's SSN was issued in Year X+22 with the same geographic location, and the first three digits are ABC+4.
So, if they were issuing numbers sequentially from series ABC 22 years earlier, and they managed to wrap back around and then blast PAST series ABC in the previous four years, how confident are you that they would have caught any collisions? Especially if in nine years a few decades ago they went through 64 series?
- The right shoes can be a weapon if you have the appropriate melee skill.
- Rockerboys are mostly just good for "creating a distraction."
- You may have come up with a great narrative, but you need the numbers to back it up. (I'm a grant writer for a living; I can write up a great proposal, but if the budget doesn't work, it's irrelevant. When I tried my hand as a GM the first time, I had a good storyline, but hadn't actually specced out my NPCs at all, so combat fell apart.)
These are all things that can be trace back to books written hundreds of years before our time. for example The Book of Five Rings and The Art of War, these two books have pretty much the blue print on problem solving. You can pretty much apply them to business, school, games, women, etc..
So what *you* learned from D&D is, pay attention to the lore... the answer is already there.
I find your analysis to be faulty. Sure people could have learned them from other places, but this particular guy claims that he learned them from this game.
The author claims to have a husband. While same-sex marriage is becoming legal in more and more places, this still makes it statistically more likely that the author is female.
Not really a total misquote; he has maybe half a dozen sight words and can sometimes work stuff out from context, but he can't "read" for any practical purpose yet.
If it's cheaper, it's more competitive. No communist-like government price controls needed.
Depends what you mean by "cheaper." The total costs of existing silicon-based solar panels are FAR lower than the costs of fossil fuel generation. However, the out-of-pocket costs are not, at least not in the short run. Those costs don't take into account the environmental damage of mining/drilling required to collect fossil fuels, the pollution they engender, or the eventual "cost" to society of being dependent on exhaustible resources.
Unfortunately, people (and the corporations that they make) are notoriously bad at accounting for these types of external costs. Cap & trade converts external costs to internal costs, and, unlike command and control regulation, it incentivizes exceeding standards. That way, one company can "go green" and reduce themselves well below the cap, then trade their credits to some other company that has no desire to change what they're doing. It gives people choice, creates competition, and captures external costs.
But I guess some people just HAVE to complain about them pesky humans who want to preserve their habitat. I mean, those environmentalists act like they own the world... or at least are responsible for it.
For cooling look at evaporative cooling or simply pumping the heat into a local river or ocean... Most of California's cities are sited near the Pacific... Yet air conditioning is the single largest consumer of electricity, by far.
Well, yes, our cities are near the Pacific... but Downtown Los Angeles is some 15-20 miles from the ocean, and the LA River, while it is recovering its riparian habitat these days, is hardly up to taking on any significant amount of waste heat. You're talking about *maybe* being able to cool a few beach hotels this way... and that would probably have a detrimental effect on near-shore habitats.
There's TWO aliens: hostile invader alien, and friendly alien who left machine in Earth's core to protect humanity via termites. Alien #2 repels Alien #1's invasion "singlehandedly", although probably using thousands of termites, none of which have any actual hands. Having never heard of the story before the GP's post, I'm not sure.
You're 'startled' mostly because parents spend a great deal of time compromising their [parenting] ethics away. It's hard to raise kids the way you think you will when you don't have - and 99% of all parents give up trying, while convincing themselves they aren't.
There is definitely an element of that (google project yes badmommymoments for a really awesome essay about getting back on track).
But I also see a metric ton of people who say they'll do this or that differently from people they know, and what they don't realize is, it WON'T WORK. Or, might not work with their kids. It turns out that children, far from being the blank slate at birth hypothesized by Piaget, have inborn personalities and temperaments that require individualized responses.
My oldest is "low persistence," which was highly convenient in the toddler years, because I could just hold a cabinet closed for a couple minutes and then he'd forget he ever wanted to open it... but it'll be a really difficult thing for him to cope with as he gets older, and has to work at things that don't come naturally. My younger son is VERY persistent, and if I just hold the cabinet closed, he will keep trying for a good minute, then will scream and rant (at 14 months, he may not be much for talking, but yes, he can RANT), then will, I kid you not, try to FAKE ME OUT so I will let go and he can go back and open that cabinet. We never needed to install child locks and such for kid #1, but definitely need them for kid #2.
A friend of mine followed the Continuum Concept parenting approach with her oldest, teaching him how to use the tools in his environment properly, rather than simply restricting access. At just over a year, he could put a DVD in the player right-side up, and they never had to worry about him sticking a cracker in there instead. So I asked her for advice when my oldest turned out to be the Implacable Destructo-Baby, who would systematically toss everything left on the coffee table over his shoulder, for example. She smiled, and nodded, and sort of implied I wasn't trying hard enough. Then her second hit that age, and she emailed me an apology... she now had her own Implacable Destructo-Baby, and wanted MY advice!
So people who have never raised a kid talk about how *their* kids will do this or won't do that, but the truth is, they have NO IDEA what the implementation is going to look like until they get there.
So while I agree that there's the issue of getting lazy and compromising one's parental ethics, I think a large part of the difference between what people say they will do and what they actually do has to do with having no idea how to actually implement their grand designs with the children they get.
The site actually requires you to certify that you're 13 or older, or else you're not allowed to get access to certain parts of the site (like private messages from other members) unless your parent faxes in a consent form.
There's games that appeal to the younger generation, but there's a TON of monitors watching out for scammers, too. I wouldn't let my 5-year-old run around unsupervised (thankfully he's not quite literate enough yet to really go it alone anyway), but it's not some wretched hive of scum and villainy.
[1] The Daily Show. Definitely not trying to be "real news," but always good for a laugh when they catch Fox News doing something blatantly dishonest and stupid.
You get mod points for having good karma. Believe me, not a whole lot of people on here who think they are intelligent and are also defending conservative dogma have a lot of mod points.
(Me, on the other hand, I get mod points every couple weeks if I don't use them; every few days if I do. It's kinda weird.)
I think the crackdown should be on Visa and Mastercard. Think about it; it's illegal to receive stolen goods, or sell stolen property, but the credit card companies are acting as intermediaries for these crooks. And, oh yeah, taking a cut (something like 3 - 5%). If the credit card companies had to take more responsibility for who they granted merchant accounts, under penalty of law, I'll bet these fraudsters would find it a lot harder to operate.
Interesting thought. How, though, are the CC companies supposed to judge who is a legitimate business and who is committing fraud? What procedures would you have them put in place? What is their burden to examine their customers' business practices? What rights do they have to terminate a merchant account based on what kind of business they conduct? Would merchants have reciprocal rights protecting them from wrongful termination? What would be the limits on the CC company's liability for loss of business if they terminate a legitimate account by mistake?
It might be more feasible to give CC companies the responsibility to forward complaints of fraud to the appropriate authorities. Maybe if someone challenges a charge, they can ask that person if they would like to file a fraud investigation request. That request would include authorization for the CC company to turn over that particular customer's records of transactions with that particular merchant to appropriate law enforcement officials for investigative purposes. Then they'd have sort of a "mandated reporter" status, where if they don't pass on the information to the authorities, they could be held liable, but they are not *themselves* responsible for enforcing law.
That's not what they mean by "Think of the children!" you pervert!
Offtopic funny story...
When my older son was learning to talk, he went through a period where he was saying certain words backwards. For example, "cup" was "puck." He'd ask for a "puck" for water (which he said "wow", strangely). He also said "game" backwards, and would substitute m's and n's in the middle or end of words with hard consonants, so it took us a long time to figure out what "bayg" was.
One day, he acquired the word "kid." But he said it backwards, too.
We were SO glad when he got that turned around! Fortunately it didn't last long.
On the contrary, that's about all you can teach kids. Anything else is just guided rote memorization.
You need to give them tools and resources and freedom and leave them alone until they ask you for help. The education system combines with the economic system to prevent people from having these things, which causes them to be fatalistic and unmotivated. Let people be pioneers and explorers and inventors and they will learn obsessively.
That works for some, but not for all. A good teacher guides students in the manner that suits them best, individualizing the experience across the classroom. Kids with high persistence will teach themselves what they need to know, getting help when they REALLY need it, but some need to be led or guided to the knowledge that will be worth the effort for them to retain.
Teaching a kid how to learn is about figuring out what their strengths, weaknesses, and temperament are, and coaching them to turn those innate faculties into knowledge and insight. The same stuff doesn't work for every kid (or adult).
Why aren't more schools doing something like that? Issue/sell USB flash sticks with the OS on it to kids, that way they can essentially carry their entire computer with them to home and school.
Because Sugar on a Stick just came out, and they haven't had time to implement it yet?
The second major change implemented by TSA that was likely the death knell for CLEAR is the new identification rule that went into effect on June 15th, and will beginincreased phase-in over the next 6 months. TSA now requires all tickets to be reserved/purchased in the EXACT full name that is on your government issued ID. For example, if your full legal name on your DL/Passport is Jonathan Quincy Public, but you are known by and go by Jon Public & in the past you bought your ticket for 'Jon Public', that is no longer acceptable, your ticket will now need to be issued to 'Jonathan Quincy Public'.
Q. If the name printed on my boarding pass is different than what appears on my government ID, will I still be able to fly?
A. Boarding passes may not always display the exact name you provided when booking your travel. The name you provide when booking your travel is used to perform the watch list matching before a boarding pass is ever issued, so small differences should not impact your travel. Secure Flight is a behind-the-scenes process that TSA and airlines collaborate on to compare the information you provide against government watch lists. The additional data elements that you may be asked to provide, such as date of birth and gender, serve to better differentiate you from individuals on the government watch list.
You should ensure that the name provided when booking your travel matches the government ID that you will use when traveling. However, TSA has built some flexibility into the processes regarding passenger name accuracy. For the near future, small differences between the passenger's ID and the passenger's reservation information, such as the use of a middle initial instead of a full middle name or no middle name/initial at all, should not cause a problem for the passenger. Over time, passengers should strive to obtain consistency between the name on their ID and their travel information.
So eventually, maybe, they'll require it be like you said, but for now, it's not that big a deal.
Which is good, because the DMV made a mess of my middle names on my driver license, and I can't imagine any airline employee duplicating it precisely.
Slashdot Mirror
Therefore at the most, someone could possibly collect your social security reimbursements by impersonating you.
Well, no, they couldn't, because you can't collection social security without proof of ID, you can't just go in and give them a number and no ID and expect to collect money. Surely they have similar checks in the US?
The problem is that many entities use the SSN *as* a check of identity. If I call my bank to conduct a transaction, I give them my name and account number. Then they ask me for either my SSN (possibly just the last four digits) or my mother's maiden name to verify that I'm me. Fortunately, I started giving a different name many years ago, but since EVERYONE uses the same pieces of information, someone who gets your authentication from one institution could use it to impersonate you at another one.
Ok, my SSN was issued in Year X, and has as its first three digits ABC.
My husband's SSN was issued in the same city, state, and county in Year X-9, and its first three digits are ABC-64.
My first son's SSN was issued in Year X+18 with the same geographic location, and has as its first three digits ABC-14.
His brother's SSN was issued in Year X+22 with the same geographic location, and the first three digits are ABC+4.
So, if they were issuing numbers sequentially from series ABC 22 years earlier, and they managed to wrap back around and then blast PAST series ABC in the previous four years, how confident are you that they would have caught any collisions? Especially if in nine years a few decades ago they went through 64 series?
- The right shoes can be a weapon if you have the appropriate melee skill.
- Rockerboys are mostly just good for "creating a distraction."
- You may have come up with a great narrative, but you need the numbers to back it up. (I'm a grant writer for a living; I can write up a great proposal, but if the budget doesn't work, it's irrelevant. When I tried my hand as a GM the first time, I had a good storyline, but hadn't actually specced out my NPCs at all, so combat fell apart.)
These are all things that can be trace back to books written hundreds of years before our time. for example The Book of Five Rings and The Art of War, these two books have pretty much the blue print on problem solving. You can pretty much apply them to business, school, games, women, etc..
So what *you* learned from D&D is, pay attention to the lore... the answer is already there.
I find your analysis to be faulty. Sure people could have learned them from other places, but this particular guy claims that he learned them from this game.
The author claims to have a husband. While same-sex marriage is becoming legal in more and more places, this still makes it statistically more likely that the author is female.
Stepping on a d4 hurts a hell of a lot more than stepping on a d20.
Or to put it another way... when you have more choices, you're less likely to get hoisted on your own petard.
Maybe Tetris was just an early attempt at cloud computing to solve the backpack problem?
Not really a total misquote; he has maybe half a dozen sight words and can sometimes work stuff out from context, but he can't "read" for any practical purpose yet.
the only things worth talking about are consumer products
You forgot about celebrity antics.
Hey, celebrity antics shouldn't be discussed until they've got definite proof-of-concept either. Or so says Jeff Goldblum's estate.
Is it cheaper or not? Make up your mind.
If it's cheaper, it's more competitive. No communist-like government price controls needed.
Depends what you mean by "cheaper." The total costs of existing silicon-based solar panels are FAR lower than the costs of fossil fuel generation. However, the out-of-pocket costs are not, at least not in the short run. Those costs don't take into account the environmental damage of mining/drilling required to collect fossil fuels, the pollution they engender, or the eventual "cost" to society of being dependent on exhaustible resources.
Unfortunately, people (and the corporations that they make) are notoriously bad at accounting for these types of external costs. Cap & trade converts external costs to internal costs, and, unlike command and control regulation, it incentivizes exceeding standards. That way, one company can "go green" and reduce themselves well below the cap, then trade their credits to some other company that has no desire to change what they're doing. It gives people choice, creates competition, and captures external costs.
But I guess some people just HAVE to complain about them pesky humans who want to preserve their habitat. I mean, those environmentalists act like they own the world... or at least are responsible for it.
For cooling look at evaporative cooling or simply pumping the heat into a local river or ocean... Most of California's cities are sited near the Pacific... Yet air conditioning is the single largest consumer of electricity, by far.
Well, yes, our cities are near the Pacific... but Downtown Los Angeles is some 15-20 miles from the ocean, and the LA River, while it is recovering its riparian habitat these days, is hardly up to taking on any significant amount of waste heat. You're talking about *maybe* being able to cool a few beach hotels this way... and that would probably have a detrimental effect on near-shore habitats.
The public license on recursive acronyms doesn't preclude commercial appropriation of the method, apparently.
I've never been more confused.
I hope for your sake that's true.
There's TWO aliens: hostile invader alien, and friendly alien who left machine in Earth's core to protect humanity via termites. Alien #2 repels Alien #1's invasion "singlehandedly", although probably using thousands of termites, none of which have any actual hands. Having never heard of the story before the GP's post, I'm not sure.
Joke #403 - NSFW.
You're 'startled' mostly because parents spend a great deal of time compromising their [parenting] ethics away. It's hard to raise kids the way you think you will when you don't have - and 99% of all parents give up trying, while convincing themselves they aren't.
There is definitely an element of that (google project yes badmommymoments for a really awesome essay about getting back on track).
But I also see a metric ton of people who say they'll do this or that differently from people they know, and what they don't realize is, it WON'T WORK. Or, might not work with their kids. It turns out that children, far from being the blank slate at birth hypothesized by Piaget, have inborn personalities and temperaments that require individualized responses.
My oldest is "low persistence," which was highly convenient in the toddler years, because I could just hold a cabinet closed for a couple minutes and then he'd forget he ever wanted to open it... but it'll be a really difficult thing for him to cope with as he gets older, and has to work at things that don't come naturally. My younger son is VERY persistent, and if I just hold the cabinet closed, he will keep trying for a good minute, then will scream and rant (at 14 months, he may not be much for talking, but yes, he can RANT), then will, I kid you not, try to FAKE ME OUT so I will let go and he can go back and open that cabinet. We never needed to install child locks and such for kid #1, but definitely need them for kid #2.
A friend of mine followed the Continuum Concept parenting approach with her oldest, teaching him how to use the tools in his environment properly, rather than simply restricting access. At just over a year, he could put a DVD in the player right-side up, and they never had to worry about him sticking a cracker in there instead. So I asked her for advice when my oldest turned out to be the Implacable Destructo-Baby, who would systematically toss everything left on the coffee table over his shoulder, for example. She smiled, and nodded, and sort of implied I wasn't trying hard enough. Then her second hit that age, and she emailed me an apology... she now had her own Implacable Destructo-Baby, and wanted MY advice!
So people who have never raised a kid talk about how *their* kids will do this or won't do that, but the truth is, they have NO IDEA what the implementation is going to look like until they get there.
So while I agree that there's the issue of getting lazy and compromising one's parental ethics, I think a large part of the difference between what people say they will do and what they actually do has to do with having no idea how to actually implement their grand designs with the children they get.
The site actually requires you to certify that you're 13 or older, or else you're not allowed to get access to certain parts of the site (like private messages from other members) unless your parent faxes in a consent form.
There's games that appeal to the younger generation, but there's a TON of monitors watching out for scammers, too. I wouldn't let my 5-year-old run around unsupervised (thankfully he's not quite literate enough yet to really go it alone anyway), but it's not some wretched hive of scum and villainy.
+1 Self-referential.
[1] The Daily Show. Definitely not trying to be "real news," but always good for a laugh when they catch Fox News doing something blatantly dishonest and stupid.
You get mod points for having good karma. Believe me, not a whole lot of people on here who think they are intelligent and are also defending conservative dogma have a lot of mod points.
(Me, on the other hand, I get mod points every couple weeks if I don't use them; every few days if I do. It's kinda weird.)
I think the crackdown should be on Visa and Mastercard. Think about it; it's illegal to receive stolen goods, or sell stolen property, but the credit card companies are acting as intermediaries for these crooks. And, oh yeah, taking a cut (something like 3 - 5%). If the credit card companies had to take more responsibility for who they granted merchant accounts, under penalty of law, I'll bet these fraudsters would find it a lot harder to operate.
Interesting thought. How, though, are the CC companies supposed to judge who is a legitimate business and who is committing fraud? What procedures would you have them put in place? What is their burden to examine their customers' business practices? What rights do they have to terminate a merchant account based on what kind of business they conduct? Would merchants have reciprocal rights protecting them from wrongful termination? What would be the limits on the CC company's liability for loss of business if they terminate a legitimate account by mistake?
It might be more feasible to give CC companies the responsibility to forward complaints of fraud to the appropriate authorities. Maybe if someone challenges a charge, they can ask that person if they would like to file a fraud investigation request. That request would include authorization for the CC company to turn over that particular customer's records of transactions with that particular merchant to appropriate law enforcement officials for investigative purposes. Then they'd have sort of a "mandated reporter" status, where if they don't pass on the information to the authorities, they could be held liable, but they are not *themselves* responsible for enforcing law.
Sugar on a Kid?
That's not what they mean by "Think of the children!" you pervert!
Offtopic funny story...
When my older son was learning to talk, he went through a period where he was saying certain words backwards. For example, "cup" was "puck." He'd ask for a "puck" for water (which he said "wow", strangely). He also said "game" backwards, and would substitute m's and n's in the middle or end of words with hard consonants, so it took us a long time to figure out what "bayg" was.
One day, he acquired the word "kid." But he said it backwards, too.
We were SO glad when he got that turned around! Fortunately it didn't last long.
You can't teach a kid to learn.
On the contrary, that's about all you can teach kids. Anything else is just guided rote memorization.
You need to give them tools and resources and freedom and leave them alone until they ask you for help. The education system combines with the economic system to prevent people from having these things, which causes them to be fatalistic and unmotivated. Let people be pioneers and explorers and inventors and they will learn obsessively.
That works for some, but not for all. A good teacher guides students in the manner that suits them best, individualizing the experience across the classroom. Kids with high persistence will teach themselves what they need to know, getting help when they REALLY need it, but some need to be led or guided to the knowledge that will be worth the effort for them to retain.
Teaching a kid how to learn is about figuring out what their strengths, weaknesses, and temperament are, and coaching them to turn those innate faculties into knowledge and insight. The same stuff doesn't work for every kid (or adult).
Why aren't more schools doing something like that? Issue/sell USB flash sticks with the OS on it to kids, that way they can essentially carry their entire computer with them to home and school.
Because Sugar on a Stick just came out, and they haven't had time to implement it yet?
Canada, eh?
Try this page then:
http://www.catsa-acsta.gc.ca/english/index.shtml
The second major change implemented by TSA that was likely the death knell for CLEAR is the new identification rule that went into effect on June 15th, and will beginincreased phase-in over the next 6 months. TSA now requires all tickets to be reserved/purchased in the EXACT full name that is on your government issued ID. For example, if your full legal name on your DL/Passport is Jonathan Quincy Public, but you are known by and go by Jon Public & in the past you bought your ticket for 'Jon Public', that is no longer acceptable, your ticket will now need to be issued to 'Jonathan Quincy Public'.
This doesn't appear to actually be true:
http://www.tsa.gov/what_we_do/layers/secureflight/index.shtm
Q. If the name printed on my boarding pass is different than what appears on my government ID, will I still be able to fly?
A. Boarding passes may not always display the exact name you provided when booking your travel. The name you provide when booking your travel is used to perform the watch list matching before a boarding pass is ever issued, so small differences should not impact your travel. Secure Flight is a behind-the-scenes process that TSA and airlines collaborate on to compare the information you provide against government watch lists. The additional data elements that you may be asked to provide, such as date of birth and gender, serve to better differentiate you from individuals on the government watch list.
You should ensure that the name provided when booking your travel matches the government ID that you will use when traveling. However, TSA has built some flexibility into the processes regarding passenger name accuracy. For the near future, small differences between the passenger's ID and the passenger's reservation information, such as the use of a middle initial instead of a full middle name or no middle name/initial at all, should not cause a problem for the passenger. Over time, passengers should strive to obtain consistency between the name on their ID and their travel information.
So eventually, maybe, they'll require it be like you said, but for now, it's not that big a deal.
Which is good, because the DMV made a mess of my middle names on my driver license, and I can't imagine any airline employee duplicating it precisely.