Maybe YOU can, with your handy electron microscope, but mine is still on layaway.
Also, suppose you were trying to recover a specific file from my disk, and you had to use an electron microscope to recover every single bit. There are 1,889,785,610,240 bits on my 220gb hard disk. Assuming one-tenth of a second per bit to scan, you'd still spend about 6,000 years reading the drive to collect all the data. Trust me: the value of that data will have long expired by then.
Check all your Ethernet connections, at all terminations, especially if you are a bank or R&D place. Has someone snuck a battery-operated Linux gumstick somewhere, transparently mimicking the MAC address at both ends of its traffic, secretly recording and transmitting all your traffic to a nefarious third source? You don't usually notice somebody ADDING something to your network -- of course, in the two seconds of downtime it took to insert it, you probably just thought it was a blip. Maybe you didn't even notice.
On the contrary, Slashdot is always wrong, so there's no point in remarking on the fact. You might as well say, "We're going to have some weather today."
GPS on the Google Maps app is kind of sketchy in my neighborhood... often its range is not focused enough. And once in awhile, it thinks I am in the Grand Canyon, and I have to turn off the iPhone and turn it back on for it to fix itself.
It was rather humorous, watching myself drive around the Grand Canyon, because it did actually move in sync with my true GPS movements... just thousands of miles off. (I was in Maine.)
So... will TomTom think I'm somewhere else, when I'm not? Or should I wait for the little car-mounting-GPS-booster?
I understand. But as someone who remembers apartheid, all I needed was to read the plot and its location, and I knew immediately that it was meant as commentary on apartheid. Anyone who has studied international politics, even in the slightest high-school education sense, ought to remember apartheid in connection with South Africa.
As I mentioned initially, and as several others have since replied to you, the 20-year-old Alien Nation is exactly that movie. The main difference is that the aliens are slightly more integrated with human society (in California), mainly because they look pretty much like people. Alien Nation was a great movie, you should see it. The TV show that followed was rather lame by comparison.
Well, "completely original" except that it is a blend of Alien Nation and the Last Samurai (sorry, I know there must be a better example of a Man-Who-Ends-Up-Fighting-For-The-Other-Side flick, but I really need some sleep).
Don't get me wrong, I really liked D9. But it did not feel that original.
And if they do a credit check, and it fails because of a fake SSN, I'm sure they will either (a) alert me and ask WTF, or (b) ignore it because there is NO GOOD REASON they would need it anyway.
Certainly. But why would my grocer run a credit check on me? I don't have any kind of credit account with them. Same with the dentist. Or the auto mechanic.
Lately it seems everyone wants to know my SSN: my dentist, my grocery store, my heating fuel supplier, the guy who changes my oil, etc. When credit checks are required, I ask them to try running it without the SSN (just address data) and often they will try. Other times, they are simply using the SSN as a convenient identifier for customers -- !!!! -- so I politely suggest a different number, or insist on only giving 3-4 digits of it. Thankfully my health insurance company will generate an internal ID# for you, if you request it, so that your SSN is not printed on your insurance card and therefore stored at your physician's office.
Other than to the government, and to organizations directly attached to my banking needs, what's wrong with giving a different number in place of the SSN? As long as you can remember it, that is. Would that be considered some kind of fraud?
Maybe it was a mercy kill... you know, they told Fincher "If you don't do it, we've got Boll lined up already" and Fincher was like, "Oh man, don't do that to the world, please."
"William is languishing in a tower, having been kidnapped by a group of birds who are anxious for revenge after he has killed one of their number."... "Hans has promised to rescue him. The Woman With No Name is off to her biochemistry laboratory to make a potion to let people speak to the birds."
This will only be surpassed when Uwe Boll makes a movie based on MySpace.
I'm sorry, but I own the trademark on "Open Source Cloud Crowdsourcing 2.0" (R), so prepare for a call from my lawyers.
I also own the phrases "Enterprise Blogging for the Dynamic Synergy Framework" (R) and "Proactively Empowering the Long-Tail Social Paradigm Shift" (R).
They'll have to rename the movie, "North by the Direction Opposite of Southeast".
But, seriously: the tourist site is not technically in the same industry as the airline. It doesn't even offer sales of airline tickets. I thought that you could use similar names as long as the industries were different (e.g. Apple Corps versus Apple Computer). The site has also been up for ten years. They could've sued a lot earlier if it really was an issue.
...it returns "number of years it will take before True# turns a profit."
I'm seriously confused how many companies will jump at this -- and why someone like Google won't just do it for free? Couldn't you use Google Base for something like this?
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Maybe YOU can, with your handy electron microscope, but mine is still on layaway.
Also, suppose you were trying to recover a specific file from my disk, and you had to use an electron microscope to recover every single bit. There are 1,889,785,610,240 bits on my 220gb hard disk. Assuming one-tenth of a second per bit to scan, you'd still spend about 6,000 years reading the drive to collect all the data. Trust me: the value of that data will have long expired by then.
Check all your Ethernet connections, at all terminations, especially if you are a bank or R&D place. Has someone snuck a battery-operated Linux gumstick somewhere, transparently mimicking the MAC address at both ends of its traffic, secretly recording and transmitting all your traffic to a nefarious third source? You don't usually notice somebody ADDING something to your network -- of course, in the two seconds of downtime it took to insert it, you probably just thought it was a blip. Maybe you didn't even notice.
On the contrary, Slashdot is always wrong, so there's no point in remarking on the fact. You might as well say, "We're going to have some weather today."
Example: No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
But this t-shirt will transform your life!
I suppose.
I just remembered Enemy Mine, as well, which has some relevance.
GPS on the Google Maps app is kind of sketchy in my neighborhood... often its range is not focused enough. And once in awhile, it thinks I am in the Grand Canyon, and I have to turn off the iPhone and turn it back on for it to fix itself.
It was rather humorous, watching myself drive around the Grand Canyon, because it did actually move in sync with my true GPS movements... just thousands of miles off. (I was in Maine.)
So... will TomTom think I'm somewhere else, when I'm not? Or should I wait for the little car-mounting-GPS-booster?
I understand. But as someone who remembers apartheid, all I needed was to read the plot and its location, and I knew immediately that it was meant as commentary on apartheid. Anyone who has studied international politics, even in the slightest high-school education sense, ought to remember apartheid in connection with South Africa.
As I mentioned initially, and as several others have since replied to you, the 20-year-old Alien Nation is exactly that movie. The main difference is that the aliens are slightly more integrated with human society (in California), mainly because they look pretty much like people. Alien Nation was a great movie, you should see it. The TV show that followed was rather lame by comparison.
Those apartheid references were not subtle.
Um, Alien Nation is definitely a movie. It led to the TV show, in fact.
Well, "completely original" except that it is a blend of Alien Nation and the Last Samurai (sorry, I know there must be a better example of a Man-Who-Ends-Up-Fighting-For-The-Other-Side flick, but I really need some sleep).
Don't get me wrong, I really liked D9. But it did not feel that original.
Maybe they were, but they were also right: lots of companies ARE running credit checks for no good reason.
Well, that's just stupid.
And if they do a credit check, and it fails because of a fake SSN, I'm sure they will either (a) alert me and ask WTF, or (b) ignore it because there is NO GOOD REASON they would need it anyway.
Certainly. But why would my grocer run a credit check on me? I don't have any kind of credit account with them. Same with the dentist. Or the auto mechanic.
Lately it seems everyone wants to know my SSN: my dentist, my grocery store, my heating fuel supplier, the guy who changes my oil, etc. When credit checks are required, I ask them to try running it without the SSN (just address data) and often they will try. Other times, they are simply using the SSN as a convenient identifier for customers -- !!!! -- so I politely suggest a different number, or insist on only giving 3-4 digits of it. Thankfully my health insurance company will generate an internal ID# for you, if you request it, so that your SSN is not printed on your insurance card and therefore stored at your physician's office.
Other than to the government, and to organizations directly attached to my banking needs, what's wrong with giving a different number in place of the SSN? As long as you can remember it, that is. Would that be considered some kind of fraud?
I, for one, welcome our Wikipedia Information Nazi overlords.
Don't worry, it all evens out in the end: the Slashdot commenters are full of the same people.
Maybe it's merely a self-fulfilling protocol?
You thinking of Gibson's Virtual Light?
Maybe it was a mercy kill... you know, they told Fincher "If you don't do it, we've got Boll lined up already" and Fincher was like, "Oh man, don't do that to the world, please."
Maybe.
"William is languishing in a tower, having been kidnapped by a group of birds who are anxious for revenge after he has killed one of their number." ... "Hans has promised to rescue him. The Woman With No Name is off to her biochemistry laboratory to make a potion to let people speak to the birds."
This will only be surpassed when Uwe Boll makes a movie based on MySpace.
Mmmm.... pi.
I'm sorry, but I own the trademark on "Open Source Cloud Crowdsourcing 2.0" (R), so prepare for a call from my lawyers.
I also own the phrases "Enterprise Blogging for the Dynamic Synergy Framework" (R) and "Proactively Empowering the Long-Tail Social Paradigm Shift" (R).
They'll have to rename the movie, "North by the Direction Opposite of Southeast".
But, seriously: the tourist site is not technically in the same industry as the airline. It doesn't even offer sales of airline tickets. I thought that you could use similar names as long as the industries were different (e.g. Apple Corps versus Apple Computer). The site has also been up for ten years. They could've sued a lot earlier if it really was an issue.
...it returns "number of years it will take before True# turns a profit."
I'm seriously confused how many companies will jump at this -- and why someone like Google won't just do it for free? Couldn't you use Google Base for something like this?