that seems like an awful lot of effort, for very little gain, other than to show that you can be an ass. What's the point?
His point is that it only takes one asshat to pollute the system, and it's guaranteed that there's more than one. I also remember reading something recently related to this, showing that false info can be fed to google to create non-existant traffic jams in Maps.
I have a general question: why does the Social Security Number endure as the primary key of, well, every kind of financial account or transaction in the United States.
Because it's the only common identifier assigned to all US citizens. Not everybody has a drivers license, passport, address or phone number.. but almost everybody born within the confines of society has a SSN. There really isn't any better or more consistent means of identifying an individual on a national scale. We're well beyond the days of opening a line of credit at the general store based on personal relationships and a handshake.
When I was in school, from about 8th grade on, we were always told the schools didn't have enough money to supply even pens and paper. The teachers had to shell out for it, or we had to bring our own. Class sizes grew as teachers were cut. After school activities lacked funding. But now this is the second time in a month I've heard of entire school districts issuing tablets to their students? Where'd this money come from? Why is it being spent on toys? Toys that have their own costs to upkeep and repair, and are of dubious value in the first place?
Doubtful. I'd go vegetarian before I ever considered eating insects, and I'm sure many others would as well. Some things are just so culturally repellant that they won't be accepted as an alternative except in extreme cases.
carSdirect.com. You went to the wrong website. Carsdirect shows me a price right up front, and then updates as you add/remove options. No personal information given.
Carsdirect.com is as close as you're going to get to this for now. You still have to technically go through a dealer, but without all of the bullshit associated with buying directly from them. When I bought a car through CD, I just showed up, signed the papers, signed a check, and drove off. With my current car, Carsdirect couldn't get me the color I wanted, so I used their price as leverage to get the one I did want from a local dealer. They tried to play hardball, so I walked. The next day I got a call saying they caved, and they matched the price. Car dealers are still around because people are ignorant and hasty. Arm yourself with knowledge, concrete numbers, and be prepared to walk if you don't feel all warm and fuzzy. You usually don't need a car TODAY, but they sure want the sale yesterday.
There is no cable pulled taught directly between Washington and Chicago. You will have curves, elevation changes, etc. Even more important, there is going to be switching/routing hardware in between the two end points, which adds a certain amount of delay as well.
Do you really think they wouldn't still be trying to lock out third-party products if no-one had been electrocuted?
This reeks of "think of the children". Instead of going nanny-corp on us, why not spin the positive marketing angle? "Official Apple Accessories: Ours WON'T electrocute the shit out of you".
It may be $1 worth of plastic, but if this specific part fails on, say 0.3% of the cars that use that it, you are looking at a nationwide market of a few hundred units per year.
They had to create the molds for the part before they rolled the car off the line. They produced two(?) of them for ever unit, plus scrap factor, plus extra stock for whatever failure rate they expected for x amount of years. The cost of the tooling was already factored into the cost of producing the car. The only reason why there should ever be extra cost incurred is many, many years down the line when the spare stock is depleted and there exists a sufficient demand for more. A $1 piece of plastic on a recently produced car should not cost $100+.
Do combat personnel feel emotions regarding the loss of other pieces of equipment, such as rifles or transport vehicles? If a pilot has to ditch a multi-million dollar aircraft, does he not feel anger/sadness/guilt? Have these feelings been shown to be an emotional attachment, or feelings of personal failure, etc?
To add to my previous post, I'm seeing that diablo 3 was beaten in 7 hours on normal on the same day it was released.
Normal was a cakewalk; almost a tutorial. The difficulty did not scale in a linear fashion after that. They also adjusted the difficulty after release, and fixed some bugs and exploits..
So you played through the game 5 times without seeing any legendary items and though to yourself "ehhh... I'll give it one more shot." Sixth time's the charm, right?
Even if a legendary dropped, the chance of it being of any use to me was extremely small, so I wasn't holding my breath. I just realized after I quit playing, that I had never seen one drop, ever.
Completely ruined the sensation of actually see something nice drop.
Which would be a valid point, if anything nice ever dropped. I played through the game 6 times, on two characters (one through hell, one half way through inferno), and never saw a single legendary item drop. True upgrades to gear petered out after Nightmare, which pretty much forced you into the AH to just be able to advance without being slaughtered. Diablo has always been about buckets of trash and vendor loot, with the occasional gem thrown in to make it worth your while. I found none of that in D3, just mounds and mounts of garbage. Unless they tune the loot rates to account for NOT having the AH, it'll be even less desirable for me to give the game another shot.
They could go through all this trouble to try and capture your code, defeat your security system.. Or, they could go to one of the other hundreds of thousands of houses in the country that have no security system whatsoever. You want to keep a burglar at bay? Get a dog with a mean sounding bark.
Japan has earthquakes too, much more often and intense than we have on the west coast (we haven't actually had a large one since 1999). Japan has a fairly substantial rail system, complete with high speed lines. If they can do it, why can't we?
Three? How about four. Nobody ever talks about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_Reactor_Experiment
It's effects are still being felt in my city today, with elevated rates of certain types of cancer, and Boeing generally being dicks about cleaning up the massive amount of contamination in the mountains immediately above a town of 100,000+
This was at least partially explained by the Cylon's disappearance for decades. How do you build systems to fight and defend against an enemy you haven't seen in 40 years, but who have also infiltrated your society and military? They know your weaknesses while you can only guess at theirs, with zero time to adapt due to the surprise assaults.
It looks like you've pissed somebody off and now they're just screwing with you. What would motivate a stranger to randomly open free online accounts under your email address, which they presumably don't yet control, when they can get one of their own just as easily? The days of breaking into and squatting somebody's paid AOL account are long gone. If this was true identity theft, things would start showing up on your credit report, you'd be getting nastygrams in the mail, and the collectors would start calling. Go change your passwords and move on with life.
When you factor in the various tax credits/deductions, I think I paid effectively $0 in tuition for my AS degree. Books and parking were my only major expenses, and some of the book costs can be offset by buybacks/ebay. School was more an investment in time, in my case.
The "cyber attacks" against Israel are about as impressive as Palestinian missile technology.
Care to elaborate on this? I'm quite impressed by their homebrewed rockets. Far more effective than anything you or I could conjure up, for sure. They're extremely effective as a psychological weapon as well. Even if they never hit their target, they're still causing damage to the enemy.
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that seems like an awful lot of effort, for very little gain, other than to show that you can be an ass. What's the point?
His point is that it only takes one asshat to pollute the system, and it's guaranteed that there's more than one. I also remember reading something recently related to this, showing that false info can be fed to google to create non-existant traffic jams in Maps.
I have a general question: why does the Social Security Number endure as the primary key of, well, every kind of financial account or transaction in the United States.
Because it's the only common identifier assigned to all US citizens. Not everybody has a drivers license, passport, address or phone number.. but almost everybody born within the confines of society has a SSN. There really isn't any better or more consistent means of identifying an individual on a national scale. We're well beyond the days of opening a line of credit at the general store based on personal relationships and a handshake.
When I was in school, from about 8th grade on, we were always told the schools didn't have enough money to supply even pens and paper. The teachers had to shell out for it, or we had to bring our own. Class sizes grew as teachers were cut. After school activities lacked funding. But now this is the second time in a month I've heard of entire school districts issuing tablets to their students? Where'd this money come from? Why is it being spent on toys? Toys that have their own costs to upkeep and repair, and are of dubious value in the first place?
Doubtful. I'd go vegetarian before I ever considered eating insects, and I'm sure many others would as well. Some things are just so culturally repellant that they won't be accepted as an alternative except in extreme cases.
carSdirect.com. You went to the wrong website. Carsdirect shows me a price right up front, and then updates as you add/remove options. No personal information given.
Carsdirect.com is as close as you're going to get to this for now. You still have to technically go through a dealer, but without all of the bullshit associated with buying directly from them. When I bought a car through CD, I just showed up, signed the papers, signed a check, and drove off. With my current car, Carsdirect couldn't get me the color I wanted, so I used their price as leverage to get the one I did want from a local dealer. They tried to play hardball, so I walked. The next day I got a call saying they caved, and they matched the price. Car dealers are still around because people are ignorant and hasty. Arm yourself with knowledge, concrete numbers, and be prepared to walk if you don't feel all warm and fuzzy. You usually don't need a car TODAY, but they sure want the sale yesterday.
Switches, routers, processing time by the trading software to come to a decision; all will add delay.
There is no cable pulled taught directly between Washington and Chicago. You will have curves, elevation changes, etc. Even more important, there is going to be switching/routing hardware in between the two end points, which adds a certain amount of delay as well.
What's stupid is paying $900 for a phone.
Fixed that for you.
Do you really think they wouldn't still be trying to lock out third-party products if no-one had been electrocuted?
This reeks of "think of the children". Instead of going nanny-corp on us, why not spin the positive marketing angle? "Official Apple Accessories: Ours WON'T electrocute the shit out of you".
I don't think that's what George Washington intended, when he wrote the Constitution.
It's not, because he didn't..
It may be $1 worth of plastic, but if this specific part fails on, say 0.3% of the cars that use that it, you are looking at a nationwide market of a few hundred units per year.
They had to create the molds for the part before they rolled the car off the line. They produced two(?) of them for ever unit, plus scrap factor, plus extra stock for whatever failure rate they expected for x amount of years. The cost of the tooling was already factored into the cost of producing the car. The only reason why there should ever be extra cost incurred is many, many years down the line when the spare stock is depleted and there exists a sufficient demand for more. A $1 piece of plastic on a recently produced car should not cost $100+.
Do combat personnel feel emotions regarding the loss of other pieces of equipment, such as rifles or transport vehicles? If a pilot has to ditch a multi-million dollar aircraft, does he not feel anger/sadness/guilt? Have these feelings been shown to be an emotional attachment, or feelings of personal failure, etc?
To add to my previous post, I'm seeing that diablo 3 was beaten in 7 hours on normal on the same day it was released.
Normal was a cakewalk; almost a tutorial. The difficulty did not scale in a linear fashion after that. They also adjusted the difficulty after release, and fixed some bugs and exploits..
So you played through the game 5 times without seeing any legendary items and though to yourself "ehhh... I'll give it one more shot." Sixth time's the charm, right?
Even if a legendary dropped, the chance of it being of any use to me was extremely small, so I wasn't holding my breath. I just realized after I quit playing, that I had never seen one drop, ever.
Completely ruined the sensation of actually see something nice drop.
Which would be a valid point, if anything nice ever dropped. I played through the game 6 times, on two characters (one through hell, one half way through inferno), and never saw a single legendary item drop. True upgrades to gear petered out after Nightmare, which pretty much forced you into the AH to just be able to advance without being slaughtered. Diablo has always been about buckets of trash and vendor loot, with the occasional gem thrown in to make it worth your while. I found none of that in D3, just mounds and mounts of garbage. Unless they tune the loot rates to account for NOT having the AH, it'll be even less desirable for me to give the game another shot.
They could go through all this trouble to try and capture your code, defeat your security system.. Or, they could go to one of the other hundreds of thousands of houses in the country that have no security system whatsoever. You want to keep a burglar at bay? Get a dog with a mean sounding bark.
It's bad for another reason too. Earth Quakes.
Japan has earthquakes too, much more often and intense than we have on the west coast (we haven't actually had a large one since 1999). Japan has a fairly substantial rail system, complete with high speed lines. If they can do it, why can't we?
Three? How about four. Nobody ever talks about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_Reactor_Experiment It's effects are still being felt in my city today, with elevated rates of certain types of cancer, and Boeing generally being dicks about cleaning up the massive amount of contamination in the mountains immediately above a town of 100,000+
Infantry, light armor, and air support are ALL networked these days. Do you think they still relay intel by semaphore?
This was at least partially explained by the Cylon's disappearance for decades. How do you build systems to fight and defend against an enemy you haven't seen in 40 years, but who have also infiltrated your society and military? They know your weaknesses while you can only guess at theirs, with zero time to adapt due to the surprise assaults.
It looks like you've pissed somebody off and now they're just screwing with you. What would motivate a stranger to randomly open free online accounts under your email address, which they presumably don't yet control, when they can get one of their own just as easily? The days of breaking into and squatting somebody's paid AOL account are long gone. If this was true identity theft, things would start showing up on your credit report, you'd be getting nastygrams in the mail, and the collectors would start calling. Go change your passwords and move on with life.
When you factor in the various tax credits/deductions, I think I paid effectively $0 in tuition for my AS degree. Books and parking were my only major expenses, and some of the book costs can be offset by buybacks/ebay. School was more an investment in time, in my case.
They are not homebrewn but smuggled from Iran through Egypt.
The Qassam series of rockets are certainly manufactured by the Palestinians. The longer range rockets are of Iranian, Chinese, and Russian origins.
The "cyber attacks" against Israel are about as impressive as Palestinian missile technology.
Care to elaborate on this? I'm quite impressed by their homebrewed rockets. Far more effective than anything you or I could conjure up, for sure. They're extremely effective as a psychological weapon as well. Even if they never hit their target, they're still causing damage to the enemy.