Who is in charge of notifying the online retailer / ensuring compliance when a municipality changes the sales tax law?
There are for-profit businesses that do this. Vertex is big in the field. You can pay for their service which provides monthly updates to all sales and use tax rates in all jurisdictions in the US. Lots of software that business use to run their books is able to import and use this data.
You can make a case that there shouldn't be a need for this type of service, but it is available.
The closing line about justifying funding for pure physics research 'Do you use a mobile phone? Some of that technology came about by black hole research'."
To what bit of mobile phone technology is he referring?
The farmer's cow wasn't giving milk like she used to. He knew there was a very clever mathematics professor with a hobby farm down the road and figured he might be able to help. Farmer explains problem to math guy and math guy says to come back in a week. Farmer comes back in a week and math guy says he's solved the problem! "First, assume a spherical cow..."
(My Calc II prof got the same reaction from us)
What's the point of requiring postal addresses? Anyone with malicious intent is just going to enter a bogus address. Shoot, even if there's not malicious intent, people may enter bogus data just out of privacy concerns. I do it all the time. Are the companies going to required to somehow verify postal addresses?
I'm sure it's been referenced above, but Nova just ran a documentary on the making of Watson. Key word searches are useless in Jeopardy. It's all about understanding language: context, allusions, double-meanings. That kind of stuff. Key word search won't get you that.
Yeah, it's to help prevent fraud. The credit card company verifies the zip code on your account with the zip code entered at the pump. (I think the vendors get a little better deal if they provide the zip code for validation.) The assumption is that someone who steals a card won't know where you live. Of course by that logic a PIN should work too.
Thought this was worth including in/.
"Question (and not a rhetorical one): Do you think that if the US Congress issued a Letter of Marque and Reprisal to a licensed and bonded cyber privateer, and tasked that privateer to loot the bad guys, that the bad guys would think twice before plying their trade? In other words, is there a deterrent value?"
How long until a flame thrower lingers a bit too long on a patch of asphalt and the road starts burning? I guess the added fire would help clear the snow, though.
One of my professors at the time noted that there would have been no O-ring to fail if the thing had been built in one piece. And it could have been built in one piece if built local to the launch site. Which it could have been. But it had to come by train because the bid was won by someone who did not manufacture locally. And since train cars aren't big enough for a whole fuel tank, they had to make the tank in pieces. Supposedly the winning bid had been landed with help from someone in elected office to help out their district.
It can be very hard to predict the consequences of our actions.
That was my first thought. If it works well enough, I can imagine a number of scenarios where you'd want hands-free interaction with a device. Wouldn't have to be an ipad, though. Could be anything. Since it's infrared, it may work even if the device is in a protected space behind a thick plate of glass.
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Just ask Peter Graves and Tom Cruise. Well, I guess you can't ask Peter Graves anymore, but Tom Cruise is still available.
Why the "[sic]" in the post?
How will they find you if you're in an Undisclosed Location?
"Excrement"
Who is in charge of notifying the online retailer / ensuring compliance when a municipality changes the sales tax law?
There are for-profit businesses that do this. Vertex is big in the field. You can pay for their service which provides monthly updates to all sales and use tax rates in all jurisdictions in the US. Lots of software that business use to run their books is able to import and use this data.
You can make a case that there shouldn't be a need for this type of service, but it is available.
From TFA, this handy tool has an option to record the calls. Seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
It's what we know that they don't: been there done that
But I'm guessing a threat of HIPAA action would put your complaint at the top of the list. Noone wants to be the one charged with the third fine.
The closing line about justifying funding for pure physics research 'Do you use a mobile phone? Some of that technology came about by black hole research'."
To what bit of mobile phone technology is he referring?
The actual statement is something like "the love of money is the root of all sorts of evil."
I remember when IBM sold off its Selectric business. Death knells for Big Blue were sounding everywhere.
How are you going to bring enough food for all those people?
Soylent green
The farmer's cow wasn't giving milk like she used to. He knew there was a very clever mathematics professor with a hobby farm down the road and figured he might be able to help. Farmer explains problem to math guy and math guy says to come back in a week. Farmer comes back in a week and math guy says he's solved the problem! "First, assume a spherical cow ..."
(My Calc II prof got the same reaction from us)
What's the point of requiring postal addresses? Anyone with malicious intent is just going to enter a bogus address. Shoot, even if there's not malicious intent, people may enter bogus data just out of privacy concerns. I do it all the time. Are the companies going to required to somehow verify postal addresses?
What a strange person.
Data is a substance? The only physically substantive data I can think of is from TNG. And I miss him.
For the world is hollow... and I have touched the sky!
I'm sure it's been referenced above, but Nova just ran a documentary on the making of Watson. Key word searches are useless in Jeopardy. It's all about understanding language: context, allusions, double-meanings. That kind of stuff. Key word search won't get you that.
Yeah, it's to help prevent fraud. The credit card company verifies the zip code on your account with the zip code entered at the pump. (I think the vendors get a little better deal if they provide the zip code for validation.) The assumption is that someone who steals a card won't know where you live. Of course by that logic a PIN should work too.
Thought this was worth including in /.
"Question (and not a rhetorical one): Do you think that if the US Congress issued a Letter of Marque and Reprisal to a licensed and bonded cyber privateer, and tasked that privateer to loot the bad guys, that the bad guys would think twice before plying their trade? In other words, is there a deterrent value?"
How long until a flame thrower lingers a bit too long on a patch of asphalt and the road starts burning? I guess the added fire would help clear the snow, though.
One of my professors at the time noted that there would have been no O-ring to fail if the thing had been built in one piece. And it could have been built in one piece if built local to the launch site. Which it could have been. But it had to come by train because the bid was won by someone who did not manufacture locally. And since train cars aren't big enough for a whole fuel tank, they had to make the tank in pieces. Supposedly the winning bid had been landed with help from someone in elected office to help out their district. It can be very hard to predict the consequences of our actions.
Ok, I'll bite. The only parts I get are "WOOOSH" and "riaa". What about the rest?
That was my first thought. If it works well enough, I can imagine a number of scenarios where you'd want hands-free interaction with a device. Wouldn't have to be an ipad, though. Could be anything. Since it's infrared, it may work even if the device is in a protected space behind a thick plate of glass.
Troll Trifecta. I like the sound of that. I don't care about the meaning just the sound. Troll Trifecta. Troll Trifecta. Troll Trifecta.