Doing some random searching myself, MSN Search seems to rank commercial sites considerably higher than personal sites. For example, searching my last name on Google revealed several sites about particular people with my last name, sometimes their personal website, sometimes a scholarly article referencing them. The same search on MSN gave magazines, retailers and news services in the top 10. This is a pretty significant difference as far as what you will find when searching.
The majority of professors in higher education might lean to the left; however, this survey was of high school students, and I think you might find that the majority of high school teachers lean more right than left, but I can't think of any survey to show one way or the other.
Vote Libertarian and ensure that the divide between rich and poor grows even larger as the uneducated remain uneducated and only the already priviledged have access to education and democracy!
In some cases, especially white-collar crime, a fine doesn't serve as a significant deterrant to someone with plenty of cash to burn. In those cases, jail time may be justified even if the crime is not violent.
.org has never been restricted to not for profits. It was originally intended to be used by non-commercial entities, but that was never held to, and more recently is open to anyone who wants one.
Thing is, a lot of people that have debit cards don't realize they can have it ran like a credit card, so they're always entering their pin. Of course, this also requires the thief to get the pin number as well, so that's probably why they don't cover it, because it's likely not be stolen.
As a follow-up to this; I've also found that having online access to my account information (something many people are weary of due to supposed security issues), enabled me to catch the unauthorized charges almost immediately (in one case, before the charge had even cleared). If I had to wait around for a statement in the mail, I imagine they would have been able to charge a lot more to my account.
Another thing is that you should never use your debit card at a retailer, only at an ATM ran by your bank (unless you're really desperate for cash.) Very few banks offer the same sort of protection against fraud that credit card companies do. Most credit card companies will excuse any liability for any charges that you did not make.
The two times I've had my credit card number stolen it was traced to a clerk or cashier at a location I had used my card. When it comes down to it, your information is only as secure as the people you give it to, and in most cases, it's the person standing behind the counter that you hand your card to that becomes the liability.
Which is why I now always pay at the pump, and try to avoid any situation where my card will be in the hands of someone else. Most places where you swipe the card yourself, the cashier does not have access to that information. Although, I used to work a grocery store, and while the receipt didn't contain the full credit card number, the roll that kept the transaction log at the register did, and it would have been very easy for myself or any other employee to simply take the roll when we were heading to count our cash drawer and pick a few names and numbers to use.
I imagine that most cases of "identity theft" are simply credit card fraud, and usually is not the result of someone dumpster diving for information.
The justices aren't stupid. The more liberal ones will hang in there until a president is in office which replace them with a similar counterpart. The same goes for the more conservative ones.
It's naive to think that the justices haven't and don't consider the political ramifications of the timing of their departure from the bench.
The words duplicate and triplicate actually vary little from their Latin roots; duplicatus and triplicatus; "to double" and "to triple." THe word "dupe" isn't officially recognized as a synonym for duplicate, so the argument is pretty much moot.
whether or not the site should be specific to IE or should work fine on other browsers
The funny thing is, that it should be easier to make it W3C compliant, and then you don't have to worry about what broser your users are using.
Too bad it doesn't seem to be that way in practice, although most of my banks online and other websites I visit regularly now work with Mozilla when they didn't before. In fact, the only website I need IE for is windowsupdate.
But not necessarily their website. It's certainly not a valuable research tool; and with the exception of music, movies, and games, you can get everything else they sell cheaper elsewhere.
Try a slashdot poll asking how many times in the last month people have visited any of those sites. They don't appeal to "everyone." They appeal to certain groups of people, but a large number of Internet users are left out of that survey. A number that may actually have a higher Firefox usage rate than the people that visit the sites used in the survey.
Whether global warming is natural doesn't really change that we need to develop some strategy to deal with it considering the potential impact it could have on life.
I had the understanding that there was already less oxygen in the atmosphere at the time anyway, which is evidenced in certain minerals. It's been awhile since I had a geology course, but that's the basics of it.
In fact, I thought the opposite of what they're proposing here is another theory. Essentially, there wasn't much oxygen around until there was significant plant life, which then led to a gradual increase in oxygen, which led to a mass extinction. (If you're adapted to handle a certain atmospher, and change that significantly, you're probably not going to survive long.)
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Doing some random searching myself, MSN Search seems to rank commercial sites considerably higher than personal sites. For example, searching my last name on Google revealed several sites about particular people with my last name, sometimes their personal website, sometimes a scholarly article referencing them. The same search on MSN gave magazines, retailers and news services in the top 10. This is a pretty significant difference as far as what you will find when searching.
The majority of professors in higher education might lean to the left; however, this survey was of high school students, and I think you might find that the majority of high school teachers lean more right than left, but I can't think of any survey to show one way or the other.
Vote Libertarian and ensure that the divide between rich and poor grows even larger as the uneducated remain uneducated and only the already priviledged have access to education and democracy!
Hotpoint IS GE.
In some cases, especially white-collar crime, a fine doesn't serve as a significant deterrant to someone with plenty of cash to burn. In those cases, jail time may be justified even if the crime is not violent.
.org has never been restricted to not for profits. It was originally intended to be used by non-commercial entities, but that was never held to, and more recently is open to anyone who wants one.
Asteriskist.
I'm pretty sure most PIN transactions wouldn't be processed by VISA, correct?
Thing is, a lot of people that have debit cards don't realize they can have it ran like a credit card, so they're always entering their pin. Of course, this also requires the thief to get the pin number as well, so that's probably why they don't cover it, because it's likely not be stolen.
As a follow-up to this; I've also found that having online access to my account information (something many people are weary of due to supposed security issues), enabled me to catch the unauthorized charges almost immediately (in one case, before the charge had even cleared). If I had to wait around for a statement in the mail, I imagine they would have been able to charge a lot more to my account.
Another thing is that you should never use your debit card at a retailer, only at an ATM ran by your bank (unless you're really desperate for cash.) Very few banks offer the same sort of protection against fraud that credit card companies do. Most credit card companies will excuse any liability for any charges that you did not make.
The two times I've had my credit card number stolen it was traced to a clerk or cashier at a location I had used my card. When it comes down to it, your information is only as secure as the people you give it to, and in most cases, it's the person standing behind the counter that you hand your card to that becomes the liability.
Which is why I now always pay at the pump, and try to avoid any situation where my card will be in the hands of someone else. Most places where you swipe the card yourself, the cashier does not have access to that information. Although, I used to work a grocery store, and while the receipt didn't contain the full credit card number, the roll that kept the transaction log at the register did, and it would have been very easy for myself or any other employee to simply take the roll when we were heading to count our cash drawer and pick a few names and numbers to use.
I imagine that most cases of "identity theft" are simply credit card fraud, and usually is not the result of someone dumpster diving for information.
90% of abuse@ addresses store their mail in /dev/null
Libertarians are the true conservatives.
The justices aren't stupid. The more liberal ones will hang in there until a president is in office which replace them with a similar counterpart. The same goes for the more conservative ones.
It's naive to think that the justices haven't and don't consider the political ramifications of the timing of their departure from the bench.
The words duplicate and triplicate actually vary little from their Latin roots; duplicatus and triplicatus; "to double" and "to triple." THe word "dupe" isn't officially recognized as a synonym for duplicate, so the argument is pretty much moot.
whether or not the site should be specific to IE or should work fine on other browsers
The funny thing is, that it should be easier to make it W3C compliant, and then you don't have to worry about what broser your users are using.
Too bad it doesn't seem to be that way in practice, although most of my banks online and other websites I visit regularly now work with Mozilla when they didn't before. In fact, the only website I need IE for is windowsupdate.
Let's see... spread this around on Slashdot, and then in a few weeks servers will succumb to the Slashdot effect 10-15 times faster than normal.
Google used to post such statistics on their Zeitgeist, but stopped in June 2004.
Here is the last one for which they had some data.
It was just a graph though, no hard numbers.
They have a few stores in Canada, that's about it. Best Buy has around 500-600 stores total.
have been to a Best Buy
But not necessarily their website. It's certainly not a valuable research tool; and with the exception of music, movies, and games, you can get everything else they sell cheaper elsewhere.
Try a slashdot poll asking how many times in the last month people have visited any of those sites. They don't appeal to "everyone." They appeal to certain groups of people, but a large number of Internet users are left out of that survey. A number that may actually have a higher Firefox usage rate than the people that visit the sites used in the survey.
Not much, could probably be explained away by pure error.
Also, the websites they use probably skew the results as well; Disney, Best Buy, Sony, and Liz Claiborne?
If they want accuracy they should try throwing a few porn sites in, or maybe popular search engines.
I imagine if you had a more accurate sample that Firefox's share might be a little higher.
Wisdom is the ability to discern right from wrong, truth from false. Perhaps it doesn't mean what you think it means?
Whether global warming is natural doesn't really change that we need to develop some strategy to deal with it considering the potential impact it could have on life.
I had the understanding that there was already less oxygen in the atmosphere at the time anyway, which is evidenced in certain minerals. It's been awhile since I had a geology course, but that's the basics of it.
In fact, I thought the opposite of what they're proposing here is another theory. Essentially, there wasn't much oxygen around until there was significant plant life, which then led to a gradual increase in oxygen, which led to a mass extinction. (If you're adapted to handle a certain atmospher, and change that significantly, you're probably not going to survive long.)