and I suppose I'm "lucky" to live in an area where 100% of retailers take them.
You're lucky, and I don't even know which continent or country you're in.
The last time I wrote a cheque was... I'm not sure - some time in the early 1990s? I haven't seen a chequebook of mine since the last time I was clearing out the old box of bank statements from about then, and I think I took the chequebook back to the bank for them to destroy then. (I can't remember if they accepted them.)
As for a retailer that would accept a cheque - in this country most of the signs saying "we will not accept any cheques of any type after [DATE]" have grown yellow and faded, or fallen down. It must be 5 years since I saw someone write a cheque.
Sweeden, Denmark and Norway... in Europe we tend to call that "Scandinavia".
Except that most people hearing "Scandanavia" would expect to find Finland and most likely Iceland in there too, and not a few would expect to find Greenland to be there for administrative reasons (It may be formally independent of Denmark, but their relationship is still deep and strong.)
The OP is talking out his arse.
Except for the minor detail that it is very important that Norway is not a member of the EU, particularly if you have to deal with an industry that literally spans the border between EU and non-EU (which I do). You may not like this degree of pedanticism, but the OP is correct. If the Norwegians were to decide that, in their bailiwick, everything that was formerly red should now be made green (traffic lights, electrical cables, tomatoes...), then that is their country and their rules and the only comeback you've got apart from persuasion is invasion. If they were in the EU you might (NB : might ; subsidiarity may apply) have an alternative channel for forcing them back to at least the negotiating table. But they're not, so there is nothing you can try between persuasion and invasion.
If anyone else can replicate it, she's vindicated. If nobody else can, it never happened.
And if (say) 20% of the replication attempts succeed and the rest fail... there's some interesting science going on. Particularly if the reason is not immediately obvious.
if that's the case then global warming is not a science.
Which planet did you carry out your experiments on?
(There are some experiments that can't be carried out because we don't have the tools ; there are some that can't be done because we don't have the environments (like this one) ; and there are some that we don't have the materials for (e.g. determining which would have won in a Tyrannosaurus vs Giganotosaurus contest). At which point, you have to use modelling. Unless you've got a spare planet in your back pocket.)
When you live in a big city and you normally never come close to an animal while it is alive, switching to a mode where you eat no animals except those you've personally killed is "going off the deep end".
Not accepting your point (I've bred, killed, skinned, gutted and eaten pet rabbits while living in a medium-size town, and wouldn't have any moral concern about doing it again. The wife might object, but I wouldn't force her to eat Flopsy, Mopsy and Chewy.
But as a matter of information that I'm not particularly interested in - does Zuckerberg live in a city-centre apartment (where he'd be practically limited to chickens on the roof), in a suburban house (limited to something not much bigger than a goat or a pig), or in an out of town mansion (where getting a license to keep an elephant is likely to be the main constraint).
I also note that TFS does not say he'll only eat animals he raised himself. which renders the "room to raise" question above pretty moot.
It's the same thing as someone who has never worn a shirt other than one made by Brook's Brothers suddenly deciding he's going to plant the backyard in cotton, get himself a cotten gin, start weaving his own cloth, and wear nothing that he hasn't sewn togther himself. It's just looney. For him.
Ummm, not Zuckerberg, but that is pretty much what the Mahatma did. It may not fit your lifestyle, but neither you, the Mahatma, nor Zuckerberg are the same person, so... what?
Hmmm, I'll check my credentials... yes, still a professional geologist, as I have been for the last 24 years. I'll check my knowledge of Mediterranean geology... not terribly extensive - probably in the top 0.01% of the general population and top couple of percent of geologists (because I've worked in and holidayed in various parts of the Mediterranean basin in the last decade, so I've read up).
I wouldn't make a statement like that without doing a lot more research.
I certainly wouldn't make a statement like that about Britain, which I know considerably better than I know Sardinia.
I will grant that the earthquake risk in Sardinia is probably lower than that in most other parts of Italy. But that's not what you said, and you get judged on what you say, not on what you mean.
I think he's alluding to the Great Firewall of China and whatever is in place for Iran.
And the one(s) around Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, probably being formed around Australia (from what I hear on, ummm, SlashDot ; well maybe not so credible then).
Should be interesting to see if Texas can pave the way for grope-free flying fun.
Since when was flying ever meant to be fun? Except for a very small number of quite strange people (and pilots, I suppose), flying is a means of getting to an end ; whether that end is work, play, or... What other reasons would you have. Oh, I suppose going to people's funerals couldn't be classed as either work or play. "Duty" perhaps.
It's the same line that has been spun for years, as is the argument that Scotland will be financially devastated if we were to leave the Union.
Scotland wouldn't be financially devastated if it left the union and took the North Sea oil fields with it - which England won't let happen.
Scotland would be financially devastated when the Shetlanders (who have as much claim to cultural identity and historical distinctness w.r.t. Scotland as Scotland has w.r.t. the rest of the UK) do exactly the same as Scotland, and secede from Scotland, taking the oil in their waters with them. It's an open question whether they'd want to go freelance, or link up with the Norwegians.
Why would they want to do that? Money. Even a severely depleted East Shetland Basin (to say nothing of the still expanding "West of Shetland" basins) divided between 22k people is a lot better than divided between 5200k people.
This. And just as a little reminder, if Skype had been open source, no one would be worried about Microsoft buying the company.
True. And?
The people who developed Skype may have used some open protocols (I don't know the details) which they then modified for their own purposes. But that doesn't obligate them to open source their product. It might imply some sort of moral pressure, but even that is arguable. The protocol and software has always been closed source and proprietary because that's now the business men behind the product choose to do it.
Just sayin'.
John Holmes had a 17-inch cock. Which is also true (probably), and of similar relevance. Just sayin'.
Out of kindness for a fellow human being, I will graciously accept your silence as an acknowledgement of your error and as an apology for charging ahead despite your ignorance of how advertising works.
Out of contempt for a GenZ-er, I'll point out that some of us have work to do, most likely in different time zones to you, and that my silence is indicative of having something more important to do than jacking off onto Slashdot.
I don't see adverts as big blocks of colour, so I cease to give a shit. I don't pay for the bandwidth at this location, and I don't have Admin rights for this system, so I give even less of a shit about their IE not allowing me to blacklist advertising sites. (Their choice ; let their IT sort out the problems when I'm at the next client at the next location, next week. I'm not hired to do IT.)
If you're referring to "Slashvertisement" etc, well how the fuck is that different from how the entire "news" publishing industry has worked for the last several centuries? Not in the slightest.
You are forgiven, have a nice weekend.:)
You too are forgiven. The weekend has 2.5 hours to run, and I've 10 hours more on my shift, then a day of maybe or maybe not being able to get home.
Wait, people commonly refer to Americans as septic tanks?
Yes.
Speaking to people who were around at the time, the habit started in WW2, with lots of Yank soldiers and airmen being posted "over-paid, over-sexed and over here," and it wasn't exactly friendly.
The only guy I knew who could have commented on how things were in WW1 didn't say anything about this. But he was back in Flanders being gassed when the Americans turned up for that war, and he never said much because of the lung damage.
Slashdot, I feel let down by the lack of plans for jubilant partying!
Or hopefully, lots and lots of you have crawled out of your basements and spent the Rapture partying too hard to type.
On a downside though, with the 17:30 UTC/Saturday eruption of the Grimsvotn volcano in Iceland, the Raptards have been handed an excuse for not being dead.
Mighty Thor! I like your sense of humour. Oh, I get it - you thought this up at a pre-Rapture party with Loki. Nice one, God-Dudes!
So, how is this at all different from the way Apple has been making the same claim for the past several weeks?
Slashdot needs to serve ads and Apple hasn't done anything else to bitch about.
Slashdot serves ads? Oh yes, I remember seeing them when I access the site on client's systems. At least, until I've logged in. Then I find the little "Ads Disabled... Thanks again for helping make Slashdot great!" disply in the top corner.
Perhaps if you made more, highly-ranked comments and submissions, you too wouldn't be troubled by adverts?
Regardless, Apple still exist ; isn't that enough to bitch about?
most people will have a hard time gauging the spatial reference to something more meaningful, such as "about the size of the entire continent of North America."
An SF story of my acquaintance ("Meeting with Medusa"? Here) has a Jovenaut balloonist comparing the surface area of the Earth spread out on Jupiter as similar to the area of India on the Earth.
I'd have to work out a similar comparison for Saturn ; NA doesn't sound far off though.
All of the EU has decent data protection laws, as it's required by an EU directive.
Neither you nor the GP are wrong.
"European" =/= "EU".
Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, the various former Yugoslavs are "European" (well, culturally for Iceland ; for geologically/ geographically, you buy the beers and I'll set out the arguments), but not EU. Parts of former "European Russia" (west of the Urals) are also separate countries that are not EU (though they want to be) but are arguably also "European" in a cultural and geological/ geographical sense (again, if you want that argument, set up the beers).
Just to add to the complications - if Turkey ever gets into the EU (against the racist desires of the majority of EU residents), the probably Morocco and some North African states would try to get in too. But that's unlikely to happen soon, for various reasons.
Decent time sink to have each student turn on the calculator, wait for the checksum, verify it, move to the next student. Waiting for students to turn off their calculators because there will always be some who jump the gun.
Why is that a problem? That'll only affect those students who choose to use a calculator. Those who are quicker to do the work long-hand or using log tables will have a trivial amount more work to do (trivial because you'd still be required to write down the intermediate stages of your calculation) compared to those who choose to invest around 10 minutes of their exam time queueing (metaphorically, not literally) for their computation devices to be validated.
And in any case, you should spend the first 5-odd minutes of any exam READING THE FUCKING PAPER. You can perfectly well do that with one hand while waving your turned-off calculator in the air with the other. And if you can't spot the "easy points" questions to occupy the next 10 minutes, then you probably shouldn't be doing the exam.
Disclaimer - before I was allowed to take the home's calculator to school, I had to prove to my father that I could handle logarithms perfectly adequately. I don't know what year the school allowed calculators, because that rule wasn't relevant. If I were incredibly to have children of my own, or found myself looking after someone else's sprog, I don't see any reason to not follow the same rules.
I suspect because of autostereoscopic 3D in the horizon and all.
Will that work in audio, what with my monophonic hearing and all and all.
(If you see a company in your pension portfolio who are "betting the farm" on The Next Generation of TV formats being wildly successful, change your portfolio. Contrary to what the pumpers and dumpers of technology journalists are screaming every day, many people aren't going to be running out to get a new telly just because it's got flange sprockets instead of widgets. The market is nearly saturated, and most sales are going to be replacements. Unless the pundits can scream louder.)
Let 'em eat dialup. If the school system is going to subsidize their broadband connection, then it might work...outside of that, it won't.
TFS doesn't mention broadband. (And I'm not bothered to RTFA for some foreigner's problems.) Dialup is perfectly good for getting a number of pages of instructions by email, and for sending your answers back according to a deadline. Say, allow for a half-hour after the end of each lesson for your answers to have arrived or "truant" goes on the record. Dial up is plenty good for that.
Plus, of course, not having anything faster than dialup would discourage wasting time on facebookery and myspacery or whatever. Not got enough bandwidth for instant messaging? Well, duh, ain't it sad, you're going to have to do your homework yourself.
Couldn't have done that in my day - personal computers were vanishingly rare, and no small number of people didn't have phone lines. but with PCs almost ubiquitous and phone lines almost ubiquitous too... I don't see any problem.
At my workplace, all our PLCs are on a process control network. It is isolated from the business network and internet completely.
You are utterly kidding yourself if you think that your PLC network is "isolated".
It's not difficult.
1. decide what parameters are going to be reported from the secure system to the outside world and how frequently. Say "widget-count" and "sprocket-temperature", three sprocket temperatures per widget count.
2. code your PLC network to count widgets, measure sprocket temperatures, and transmit into a serial port "widget-count, sprocket-temperature, sprocket-temperature, sprocket-temperature [newline]". Burn it onto a ROM, and put through your QA/QC process.
3. connect the serial port of your PLC to the serial line out to the rest of the system after cutting the pin off the RX line of the connector (or cut 6m out of the cable ; whatever) ; plug in your ROM ; weld the cabinet shut.
And when someone comes back and tells you that the plan is now to have alternating temperatures and counts... go to stage 1.
It's perfectly possible to render a system invulnerable to malicious inputs - by disconnecting the inputs. Usability may be affected, but that can be designed around. (Notice - at no point do I imply that such design is easy.)
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You're lucky, and I don't even know which continent or country you're in.
The last time I wrote a cheque was ... I'm not sure - some time in the early 1990s? I haven't seen a chequebook of mine since the last time I was clearing out the old box of bank statements from about then, and I think I took the chequebook back to the bank for them to destroy then. (I can't remember if they accepted them.)
As for a retailer that would accept a cheque - in this country most of the signs saying "we will not accept any cheques of any type after [DATE]" have grown yellow and faded, or fallen down. It must be 5 years since I saw someone write a cheque.
Except that most people hearing "Scandanavia" would expect to find Finland and most likely Iceland in there too, and not a few would expect to find Greenland to be there for administrative reasons (It may be formally independent of Denmark, but their relationship is still deep and strong.)
Except for the minor detail that it is very important that Norway is not a member of the EU, particularly if you have to deal with an industry that literally spans the border between EU and non-EU (which I do). You may not like this degree of pedanticism, but the OP is correct. If the Norwegians were to decide that, in their bailiwick, everything that was formerly red should now be made green (traffic lights, electrical cables, tomatoes ...), then that is their country and their rules and the only comeback you've got apart from persuasion is invasion. If they were in the EU you might (NB : might ; subsidiarity may apply) have an alternative channel for forcing them back to at least the negotiating table. But they're not, so there is nothing you can try between persuasion and invasion.
And if (say) 20% of the replication attempts succeed and the rest fail ... there's some interesting science going on. Particularly if the reason is not immediately obvious.
You would want to bonk Farnsworth's woman? Not Leela or Amy (either of whom are worth a poke) but Mom of Momcorp?
Bleargh. Cheese grater!
Which planet did you carry out your experiments on?
(There are some experiments that can't be carried out because we don't have the tools ; there are some that can't be done because we don't have the environments (like this one) ; and there are some that we don't have the materials for (e.g. determining which would have won in a Tyrannosaurus vs Giganotosaurus contest). At which point, you have to use modelling. Unless you've got a spare planet in your back pocket.)
Not accepting your point (I've bred, killed, skinned, gutted and eaten pet rabbits while living in a medium-size town, and wouldn't have any moral concern about doing it again. The wife might object, but I wouldn't force her to eat Flopsy, Mopsy and Chewy.
But as a matter of information that I'm not particularly interested in - does Zuckerberg live in a city-centre apartment (where he'd be practically limited to chickens on the roof), in a suburban house (limited to something not much bigger than a goat or a pig), or in an out of town mansion (where getting a license to keep an elephant is likely to be the main constraint).
I also note that TFS does not say he'll only eat animals he raised himself. which renders the "room to raise" question above pretty moot.
Ummm, not Zuckerberg, but that is pretty much what the Mahatma did. It may not fit your lifestyle, but neither you, the Mahatma, nor Zuckerberg are the same person, so ... what?
Hmmm, I'll check my credentials ... yes, still a professional geologist, as I have been for the last 24 years. I'll check my knowledge of Mediterranean geology ... not terribly extensive - probably in the top 0.01% of the general population and top couple of percent of geologists (because I've worked in and holidayed in various parts of the Mediterranean basin in the last decade, so I've read up).
I wouldn't make a statement like that without doing a lot more research.
I certainly wouldn't make a statement like that about Britain, which I know considerably better than I know Sardinia.
I will grant that the earthquake risk in Sardinia is probably lower than that in most other parts of Italy. But that's not what you said, and you get judged on what you say, not on what you mean.
And the one(s) around Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, probably being formed around Australia (from what I hear on, ummm, SlashDot ; well maybe not so credible then).
Since when was flying ever meant to be fun? Except for a very small number of quite strange people (and pilots, I suppose), flying is a means of getting to an end ; whether that end is work, play, or ... What other reasons would you have. Oh, I suppose going to people's funerals couldn't be classed as either work or play. "Duty" perhaps.
But flying for the sake of flying?
There are people under the age of 35 here?
Get.
Off.
My.
Lawn.
Scotland wouldn't be financially devastated if it left the union and took the North Sea oil fields with it - which England won't let happen.
Scotland would be financially devastated when the Shetlanders (who have as much claim to cultural identity and historical distinctness w.r.t. Scotland as Scotland has w.r.t. the rest of the UK) do exactly the same as Scotland, and secede from Scotland, taking the oil in their waters with them. It's an open question whether they'd want to go freelance, or link up with the Norwegians.
Why would they want to do that? Money. Even a severely depleted East Shetland Basin (to say nothing of the still expanding "West of Shetland" basins) divided between 22k people is a lot better than divided between 5200k people.
True. And?
The people who developed Skype may have used some open protocols (I don't know the details) which they then modified for their own purposes. But that doesn't obligate them to open source their product. It might imply some sort of moral pressure, but even that is arguable. The protocol and software has always been closed source and proprietary because that's now the business men behind the product choose to do it.
John Holmes had a 17-inch cock. Which is also true (probably), and of similar relevance. Just sayin'.
That must be a pretty densely urbanised country. But even so, it's likely to be maybe 10 to 20% of the area of the country.
But that's pretty much the same for any country. It's in the nature of population distribution.
Out of contempt for a GenZ-er, I'll point out that some of us have work to do, most likely in different time zones to you, and that my silence is indicative of having something more important to do than jacking off onto Slashdot.
I don't see adverts as big blocks of colour, so I cease to give a shit. I don't pay for the bandwidth at this location, and I don't have Admin rights for this system, so I give even less of a shit about their IE not allowing me to blacklist advertising sites. (Their choice ; let their IT sort out the problems when I'm at the next client at the next location, next week. I'm not hired to do IT.)
If you're referring to "Slashvertisement" etc, well how the fuck is that different from how the entire "news" publishing industry has worked for the last several centuries? Not in the slightest.
You too are forgiven. The weekend has 2.5 hours to run, and I've 10 hours more on my shift, then a day of maybe or maybe not being able to get home.
More fun than pulling the wings off flies, and ethically far more defensible!
Yes.
Speaking to people who were around at the time, the habit started in WW2, with lots of Yank soldiers and airmen being posted "over-paid, over-sexed and over here," and it wasn't exactly friendly.
The only guy I knew who could have commented on how things were in WW1 didn't say anything about this. But he was back in Flanders being gassed when the Americans turned up for that war, and he never said much because of the lung damage.
Or hopefully, lots and lots of you have crawled out of your basements and spent the Rapture partying too hard to type.
On a downside though, with the 17:30 UTC/Saturday eruption of the Grimsvotn volcano in Iceland, the Raptards have been handed an excuse for not being dead.
Mighty Thor! I like your sense of humour. Oh, I get it - you thought this up at a pre-Rapture party with Loki. Nice one, God-Dudes!
Slashdot serves ads? Oh yes, I remember seeing them when I access the site on client's systems. At least, until I've logged in. Then I find the little "Ads Disabled ... Thanks again for helping make Slashdot great!" disply in the top corner.
Perhaps if you made more, highly-ranked comments and submissions, you too wouldn't be troubled by adverts?
Regardless, Apple still exist ; isn't that enough to bitch about?
An SF story of my acquaintance ("Meeting with Medusa"? Here) has a Jovenaut balloonist comparing the surface area of the Earth spread out on Jupiter as similar to the area of India on the Earth.
I'd have to work out a similar comparison for Saturn ; NA doesn't sound far off though.
Neither you nor the GP are wrong.
"European" =/= "EU".
Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, the various former Yugoslavs are "European" (well, culturally for Iceland ; for geologically/ geographically, you buy the beers and I'll set out the arguments), but not EU. Parts of former "European Russia" (west of the Urals) are also separate countries that are not EU (though they want to be) but are arguably also "European" in a cultural and geological/ geographical sense (again, if you want that argument, set up the beers).
Just to add to the complications - if Turkey ever gets into the EU (against the racist desires of the majority of EU residents), the probably Morocco and some North African states would try to get in too. But that's unlikely to happen soon, for various reasons.
Why is that a problem? That'll only affect those students who choose to use a calculator. Those who are quicker to do the work long-hand or using log tables will have a trivial amount more work to do (trivial because you'd still be required to write down the intermediate stages of your calculation) compared to those who choose to invest around 10 minutes of their exam time queueing (metaphorically, not literally) for their computation devices to be validated.
And in any case, you should spend the first 5-odd minutes of any exam READING THE FUCKING PAPER. You can perfectly well do that with one hand while waving your turned-off calculator in the air with the other. And if you can't spot the "easy points" questions to occupy the next 10 minutes, then you probably shouldn't be doing the exam.
Disclaimer - before I was allowed to take the home's calculator to school, I had to prove to my father that I could handle logarithms perfectly adequately. I don't know what year the school allowed calculators, because that rule wasn't relevant. If I were incredibly to have children of my own, or found myself looking after someone else's sprog, I don't see any reason to not follow the same rules.
Some of us can remember having X11R6 running on 8MiB machines. Now get off my lawn!
Will that work in audio, what with my monophonic hearing and all and all.
(If you see a company in your pension portfolio who are "betting the farm" on The Next Generation of TV formats being wildly successful, change your portfolio. Contrary to what the pumpers and dumpers of technology journalists are screaming every day, many people aren't going to be running out to get a new telly just because it's got flange sprockets instead of widgets. The market is nearly saturated, and most sales are going to be replacements. Unless the pundits can scream louder.)
TFS doesn't mention broadband. (And I'm not bothered to RTFA for some foreigner's problems.) Dialup is perfectly good for getting a number of pages of instructions by email, and for sending your answers back according to a deadline. Say, allow for a half-hour after the end of each lesson for your answers to have arrived or "truant" goes on the record. Dial up is plenty good for that.
Plus, of course, not having anything faster than dialup would discourage wasting time on facebookery and myspacery or whatever. Not got enough bandwidth for instant messaging? Well, duh, ain't it sad, you're going to have to do your homework yourself.
Couldn't have done that in my day - personal computers were vanishingly rare, and no small number of people didn't have phone lines. but with PCs almost ubiquitous and phone lines almost ubiquitous too ... I don't see any problem.
It's not difficult.
1. decide what parameters are going to be reported from the secure system to the outside world and how frequently. Say "widget-count" and "sprocket-temperature", three sprocket temperatures per widget count.
2. code your PLC network to count widgets, measure sprocket temperatures, and transmit into a serial port "widget-count, sprocket-temperature, sprocket-temperature, sprocket-temperature [newline]". Burn it onto a ROM, and put through your QA/QC process.
3. connect the serial port of your PLC to the serial line out to the rest of the system after cutting the pin off the RX line of the connector (or cut 6m out of the cable ; whatever) ; plug in your ROM ; weld the cabinet shut.
And when someone comes back and tells you that the plan is now to have alternating temperatures and counts ... go to stage 1.
It's perfectly possible to render a system invulnerable to malicious inputs - by disconnecting the inputs. Usability may be affected, but that can be designed around. (Notice - at no point do I imply that such design is easy.)