As an example of more (probably) sloppy security, I just put a freeze on my credit with Equifax (and the others). Equifax gives you a pin number that you need to unfreeze your credit at a later date. Imagine my surprise when my pin is almost exactly the same as the one they issued my wife. It appears that they use sequential pin numbers for each freeze. Either that or it is generated using our personal info which would make it reversible I imagine. Seems to me that the pin should be random or at least pseudo random.
At least Experian allowed me to choose my own pin, which I let keepass pick.
I don't think steal is the right word in this context. The article doesn't state that anyone else lost their coins. More accurately would be "created", "unauthorized-mining", or perhaps most accurately "counterfeited"
I think that one benefit to personalized learning that is often overlooked is the transparent and clear assignments.
My high schooler was lost in his math and English classes and it was impossible for us as parents to help him at home. The teachers did not use the on-line system at their disposal to share upcoming assignments and due dates. Assignments were only posted on line after the due date and with no information as to what the assignment was.
Upon moving him into on-line classes for English and Math, he is now learning the material, able to know exactly what is expected, and is getting much better grades. It is unfortunate that in our case the solution was to remove him from the classroom and all the benefits having a teacher brings. I continually try to get my student's teachers to make assignments available on-line but with amazingly limited success.
While all the plastic is a pain, at least the carbon is sequestered in it. Or was. If all the plastic in all the landfills and the ocean was biodegraded I imagine we would see quite the CO2 increase in the atmosphere.
You are correct that individual wind/solar farms are stochastic. However, connect enough of those stochastic systems together, diversify their sources, spread them over a wide enough area and throw in some energy storage and your individually stochastic generators become pretty deterministic.
Considering that the delivery date keeps getting pushed back on new orders it looks like they sold out of their entire initial inventory and then some. Pricing seems in line with the market demands right now.
I am thinking more about the risk of earth organisms being rinsed off Cassini and falling back to Ecelandus during the pass. I wonder what the risks of that are.
Did he refuse to answer what it was? Seems to me he was pretty clear that it was a clock. The only thing he refused is to say was that it was anything other than a clock.
All currencies and even gold/silver/platinum only have value because people BELIEVE they have value.
No. Gold, platinum and sliver have actual uses that contribute to their value. While much of the value may be speculative, they do have intrinsic value which is specific to each of them individually.
Bitcoin has no similar intrinsic value that isn't easily copied (and possibly improved upon) by any number of altcoins.
Not quite accurate. The merchants where the fake/stolen card was used loses. They receive a chargeback notice and are debited the amount of the charge and are also out the merchandise that was purchased with the stolen card. This has happened to both my businesses (fortunately not often).
Natural gas valves could be shutoff at the building or even better at the substations. "The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 caused 90% of damage by fire." http://www.geo.mtu.edu/UPSeis/...
I too have a whole house Insteon system and pretty much concur with your wins/losses 100% with the following additions:
Wins:
-- A huge win is that outsiders need not know that the lighting is automated at all. Just use the light switch. Works pretty much like any other lighting system. In places with an 8 or 6 button switch is is still fairly obvious what button to hit to turn on the lights.
-- One button for all the kitchen lights.
-- One button for the whole main floor.
-- With my ISY994 the system smartly controls my irrigation system. It waters only when needed and avoids windy days and days with expected rain.
-- I can turn off all the lights in the house and tell the thermostat to go into setback mode with one button. I have that button programmed in the bedroom, by the front and back doors, and garage door. (programmed it to require three taps to prevent visitors from accidentally turning off the lights)
-- I have my thermostat setback when I leave the house.
-- I have my thermostat smartly look at the outside temp and adjust temperatures accordingly. Ie. it goes into setback mode if the outside temp is at all pleasant.
-- I have one button to turn on "Welcome home" mode when I enter the house.
-- I have timers to auto turn off the kids lights at night.
-- It is tied into my XBMC system and dims the lights when the movie playback starts.
-- The lights are set to come on in the case of a fire alarm trigger. (Hope I never need this).
Cons:
-- Very, very rarely (a couple times a year) there is some button press on my 6 button switches which turn on every light in the house. It is easy to turn everything back off with my all-off button but it still is weird.
-- Programming is a pain but I very very rarely change anything anymore. It just works.
-- Occasionally a program stops working right but a simple ISY reboot fixes it.
Yep. Pretty certain that Coal kills more birds than wind power. It's just that the birds that coal pollution kills are not killed at the site of the coal plant but all over the globe.
That system can easily be implemented using a series hookup with existing equipment. The downside is that all the kegs need to remain hooked to the system to get flow (you can't simply hook up one coupler). As you say it is really only helpful for very high volume locations with few taps. Here is an example of how to hook it up. http://www.bbssystems.com/kegs...
Umm... AC bar owner. You are 100% wrong. The kegs you buy ARE pressurized/carbonated. Kegs of beer are not like bag in a box soda. The kegs come fully carbonated. There is no difference between consumer and commercial kegs. The external CO2 tank (and hopefully you are really using either brew gas or a blender with separate co2 and nitro tanks) is used to push the beer out and keep the keg under pressure and thus carbonated as it is dispensed.
I think you are being overly paranoid. Even if there was a calculation error in the forms submitted, the IRS simply sends you a correction letter and either reduces your refund or charges you the difference. Now, missing a deduction or forgetting to include income is a completely different thing. However, you should print out your 1040 at the end anyway and check through it for just those kind of issues.
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Yep. Any day now I expect my Beanie Baby collection to go back to it's old value and continue it's inevitable upwards climb.
As an example of more (probably) sloppy security, I just put a freeze on my credit with Equifax (and the others). Equifax gives you a pin number that you need to unfreeze your credit at a later date. Imagine my surprise when my pin is almost exactly the same as the one they issued my wife. It appears that they use sequential pin numbers for each freeze. Either that or it is generated using our personal info which would make it reversible I imagine. Seems to me that the pin should be random or at least pseudo random. At least Experian allowed me to choose my own pin, which I let keepass pick.
I don't think steal is the right word in this context. The article doesn't state that anyone else lost their coins. More accurately would be "created", "unauthorized-mining", or perhaps most accurately "counterfeited"
The same reason they aren't in the rental car business. It's not their core function and they know it.
I think that one benefit to personalized learning that is often overlooked is the transparent and clear assignments.
My high schooler was lost in his math and English classes and it was impossible for us as parents to help him at home. The teachers did not use the on-line system at their disposal to share upcoming assignments and due dates. Assignments were only posted on line after the due date and with no information as to what the assignment was.
Upon moving him into on-line classes for English and Math, he is now learning the material, able to know exactly what is expected, and is getting much better grades. It is unfortunate that in our case the solution was to remove him from the classroom and all the benefits having a teacher brings. I continually try to get my student's teachers to make assignments available on-line but with amazingly limited success.
While all the plastic is a pain, at least the carbon is sequestered in it. Or was. If all the plastic in all the landfills and the ocean was biodegraded I imagine we would see quite the CO2 increase in the atmosphere.
You are correct that individual wind/solar farms are stochastic. However, connect enough of those stochastic systems together, diversify their sources, spread them over a wide enough area and throw in some energy storage and your individually stochastic generators become pretty deterministic.
Blockchain != Bitcoin.
The blockchain concept could be a success at the same time that bitcoin fails completely.
Considering that the delivery date keeps getting pushed back on new orders it looks like they sold out of their entire initial inventory and then some. Pricing seems in line with the market demands right now.
I am thinking more about the risk of earth organisms being rinsed off Cassini and falling back to Ecelandus during the pass. I wonder what the risks of that are.
Did he refuse to answer what it was? Seems to me he was pretty clear that it was a clock. The only thing he refused is to say was that it was anything other than a clock.
All currencies and even gold/silver/platinum only have value because people BELIEVE they have value.
No. Gold, platinum and sliver have actual uses that contribute to their value. While much of the value may be speculative, they do have intrinsic value which is specific to each of them individually.
Bitcoin has no similar intrinsic value that isn't easily copied (and possibly improved upon) by any number of altcoins.
NT
Not quite accurate. The merchants where the fake/stolen card was used loses. They receive a chargeback notice and are debited the amount of the charge and are also out the merchandise that was purchased with the stolen card. This has happened to both my businesses (fortunately not often).
Natural gas valves could be shutoff at the building or even better at the substations. "The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 caused 90% of damage by fire." http://www.geo.mtu.edu/UPSeis/...
Apparently not many reddit readers here that recognize this delicious copypasta.
In that case they would simply say "We have finished our audit." and leave it at that. The implications would be clear.
for bitcoin.
I too have a whole house Insteon system and pretty much concur with your wins/losses 100% with the following additions:
Wins:
-- A huge win is that outsiders need not know that the lighting is automated at all. Just use the light switch. Works pretty much like any other lighting system. In places with an 8 or 6 button switch is is still fairly obvious what button to hit to turn on the lights.
-- One button for all the kitchen lights.
-- One button for the whole main floor.
-- With my ISY994 the system smartly controls my irrigation system. It waters only when needed and avoids windy days and days with expected rain.
-- I can turn off all the lights in the house and tell the thermostat to go into setback mode with one button. I have that button programmed in the bedroom, by the front and back doors, and garage door. (programmed it to require three taps to prevent visitors from accidentally turning off the lights)
-- I have my thermostat setback when I leave the house.
-- I have my thermostat smartly look at the outside temp and adjust temperatures accordingly. Ie. it goes into setback mode if the outside temp is at all pleasant.
-- I have one button to turn on "Welcome home" mode when I enter the house.
-- I have timers to auto turn off the kids lights at night.
-- It is tied into my XBMC system and dims the lights when the movie playback starts.
-- The lights are set to come on in the case of a fire alarm trigger. (Hope I never need this).
Cons:
-- Very, very rarely (a couple times a year) there is some button press on my 6 button switches which turn on every light in the house. It is easy to turn everything back off with my all-off button but it still is weird.
-- Programming is a pain but I very very rarely change anything anymore. It just works.
-- Occasionally a program stops working right but a simple ISY reboot fixes it.
More = worse.
Yep. Pretty certain that Coal kills more birds than wind power. It's just that the birds that coal pollution kills are not killed at the site of the coal plant but all over the globe.
That system can easily be implemented using a series hookup with existing equipment. The downside is that all the kegs need to remain hooked to the system to get flow (you can't simply hook up one coupler). As you say it is really only helpful for very high volume locations with few taps. Here is an example of how to hook it up. http://www.bbssystems.com/kegs...
Umm... AC bar owner. You are 100% wrong. The kegs you buy ARE pressurized/carbonated. Kegs of beer are not like bag in a box soda. The kegs come fully carbonated. There is no difference between consumer and commercial kegs. The external CO2 tank (and hopefully you are really using either brew gas or a blender with separate co2 and nitro tanks) is used to push the beer out and keep the keg under pressure and thus carbonated as it is dispensed.
In other news, there is no point in cleaning your house because it will just get dirty again later.
I think you are being overly paranoid. Even if there was a calculation error in the forms submitted, the IRS simply sends you a correction letter and either reduces your refund or charges you the difference. Now, missing a deduction or forgetting to include income is a completely different thing. However, you should print out your 1040 at the end anyway and check through it for just those kind of issues.