Most of the people who can't handle the gas station clerk position think exactly like you do, except they don't realize that they have to do paperwork at the end of each shift and quit because division is to hard.
The problem is that not every gas station is structured like that. I worked at a Gas station for 2 and a half years, and they basically had 3 people on duty at all times. 2 to run the tills, maintain the cleanliness of the store, and watch the pumps. 1 would be in the back office, doing that paperwork and occaisonally watching security cams. The only paperwork the front line people had to do was count out their till to $100 each time their shift began and ended. Anyone with a pulse could have worked that job. The only way to keep that job was to NOT steal money.)
And while I wouldn't expect much from even those people, I think they could identify a card reader if taught how. It's as easy as saying "Look at this specific part of the pump. Remember how it looks. Every morning I want you to look at it. If it ever looks different, inform me."
Gas stations generally aren't required to protect your info though, the only laws regarding that are that any reciepts which print the card # have to be *'d out.
There's no reason they have to even open the gas pump to pull it off though, and thats the problem. Pull up with a big SUV so that the Gas pump card reader isn't in view of any cameras. Next, pull your bluetooth reader, which can be smaller in size than a candy bar, put it on over the card reader and attach it with glue such that it is inconspicuous. Finish pumping gas. Go inside, Go to the bathroom. Hide your bluetooth reciever in the ceiling tiles. Come back every 3 days and be that creep that all the gas station attendants know as "that guy who goes straight to the washroom everytime. Gross". Grab the info, profit.
attackers don't have access to the inside of a gas pump either.
They are both done by attaching items on the pump, just gas stations can only do credit cards (because there is no viable way to set up a camera to watch your pin).
Which is why you can question how "green" these projects really are, what's the point to reduce consumption if it's immediately offset by an equal and opposite increase in consumption?
It can be difficult to increase consumption though - at least practically.
Like the car analogy, I can technically drive further on a tank of gas but thats less time I have for my vacation.
Often times there are more factors limitting the consumption than there are limitting efficiency. You can't just decide to run twice as many computers in a building that is already full of computers.
Well - okay - its not the profit motive directly, but I can spell out what I meant by that.
You can say capitalism is always the way to go no matter what - but until being green is the best way to make money - you won't see a corporation being green.
There are two ways to change that - by Law (which would be considered government regulation, so not very capitalistic) or by 'voting with your dollar'.
Until the public puts greater emphasis on having green products, by willing to spend more for a green product, (much like how they are willing to spend more for brand name, or even organic food!), than it won't come around.
So no, the profit motive is not the reason exactly, but the way things are right now, its not profitable to be green, and the issue comes up on how that should be changed. Essentially, by a Law proposed by the government or at the consumer level, both ways are democratic.
How Small is your data center though - and how does the density compare to larger datacenters?
I think the issue is that you found a great way to pack 100 servers in a room and keep it off the grid. Whereas companies like Microsoft have managed to fit 1000 servers in the same space and to deploy these green systems requires more space than what their building allows.
Both of them have UI's that are mostly button less (they still had keyboards and joysticks for various things that require tactile feedback) but for most of what they needed to do, it was all operated by hand gestures. Both those movies featured this.
In terms of a keyboard, yes, I could see where you come from, tactile feedback would be necessary.
A mouse on the other hand, does not require much tactile feedback, because there isn't any when you slide it around the desk anyways, not unless you've got a roller ball (which most people hate nowadays), and a mouse click is one of those general motions, moving your index finger a bit.
I think the only thing you might miss going from a physical mouse to an implied mouse is the scroll wheel.
You know, a lot of people like the movie Avatar. I think my favourite part was when the researcher with the curly hair and glasses had the interface in front of him - and he wanted to talk away and take it with him, he held up his hand to it, clenched, moved his hand to his mobile device, and sprawled it - and it came right up on the device.
We are getting so close to that cool Minority Report kind of interaction.
Lucasarts made a whole Smorgasbord of games based on education in the 90's. None of them did particularily well. I enjoyed Droidworks, but that was probably just me.
I think Role Playing Games arguably increase a person's math skills incredibly, as some kids younger than me work out the equation on how certain stats work. They learn to do reasoning based on HP vs Armour, to find the best balance of the two. Mana vs Damage vs time calculations. It's all usually basic math, that most kids can grab a hold of, but those with the knowledge can apply calculus to find the perfect amount and stay on top*.
I think the issue is that these kinds of games aren't given the credit that they are due, and that parents should be encouraging a kid to be a better rogue instead of 'gettin off that darn fangled box'.
I even found my English improved when I visitted the PlanetAVP forums (Aliens vs Predator) and found that most of the members were grammar nazis.**
*My Engineering friend did this and was The Top Mage on his server because he derived the best way to balance Crit%, overall damage, and efficiency based on DPS/DPMana (meaning longer fights need to be more mana efficient, where shorter fights need to be able to burst more). By the time he was awarded the best gear in the game, he found raiding so easy that he was doing Archimonde WHILE beating me at Halo 3.
** Keep in mind I'm still not perfect, so imagine how bad I was back then, lololololkthxbai
That the problem is that people are so hard-wired to find social ineptitude a problem.
There are times where I wouldn't want to hang out with people because I didn't like the people. At one point (it was between grade 8 and 9) I realized that I could be whoever I really wanted to be, and was not relegated to any kind of social outcast or nerdy clique for the rest of my days. I went out, bought some clothes, got a haircut, and emailed someone I didn't usually hang out with, and asked if they wanted to go Skateboarding. I - however - had never been great at skateboarding. However, this new friend of mine took my motion as a kind gesture and proceeded to teach me a bit so that I could hang out with him and his friends more. He understood that I had wanted to get out of any antisocial tendancies I might have had and wanted to have fun with more friends. Obviously, he was not the bullying type.
However, after a year or so of this, I began to miss the old things. Playing LAN Starcraft till 5 am, reading Fantasy Novels, and programming. Things I never had time for when there was a party that weekend, movie night at a friends house, or hanging out after class. Eventually, I went back to my old tendancies, and I really didn't care if I was labelled a nerd because I liked being alone a bit more.
In case you haven't noticed - when any organization has their budget cut, and they can't afford to keep their research and Dev team working in their closed little spaces, they farm it out to the general public. Essentially, why pay 5 Million to a team to work on 1 project that may or may not be a success, when you can get lots of teams working on tons of projects and give 5 million to the best developed choice.
As long as this strategy works, and NASA doesn't have much money to move around, this is what you're going to be seeing.
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Chile is a Thirld world country, silly.
Well, its no surprise that Net Neutrality would be first to come in the country where Hacking is legal.
Y'all got some religious prohibition about Reading The Fine Article
No, just usually too busy reading the rest of the articles on the net.
You just put it on in front.
Most of the people who can't handle the gas station clerk position think exactly like you do,
except they don't realize that they have to do paperwork at the end of each shift and quit because division is to hard.
The problem is that not every gas station is structured like that. I worked at a Gas station for 2 and a half years, and they basically had 3 people on duty at all times. 2 to run the tills, maintain the cleanliness of the store, and watch the pumps. 1 would be in the back office, doing that paperwork and occaisonally watching security cams. The only paperwork the front line people had to do was count out their till to $100 each time their shift began and ended. Anyone with a pulse could have worked that job. The only way to keep that job was to NOT steal money.)
And while I wouldn't expect much from even those people, I think they could identify a card reader if taught how. It's as easy as saying "Look at this specific part of the pump. Remember how it looks. Every morning I want you to look at it. If it ever looks different, inform me."
Gas stations generally aren't required to protect your info though, the only laws regarding that are that any reciepts which print the card # have to be *'d out.
There's no reason they have to even open the gas pump to pull it off though, and thats the problem. Pull up with a big SUV so that the Gas pump card reader isn't in view of any cameras. Next, pull your bluetooth reader, which can be smaller in size than a candy bar, put it on over the card reader and attach it with glue such that it is inconspicuous. Finish pumping gas. Go inside, Go to the bathroom. Hide your bluetooth reciever in the ceiling tiles. Come back every 3 days and be that creep that all the gas station attendants know as "that guy who goes straight to the washroom everytime. Gross". Grab the info, profit.
You know, that pun was good until you beat me over the head with it.
attackers don't have access to the inside of a gas pump either.
They are both done by attaching items on the pump, just gas stations can only do credit cards (because there is no viable way to set up a camera to watch your pin).
Which is why you can question how "green" these projects really are, what's the point to reduce consumption if it's immediately offset by an equal and opposite increase in consumption?
It can be difficult to increase consumption though - at least practically.
Like the car analogy, I can technically drive further on a tank of gas but thats less time I have for my vacation.
Often times there are more factors limitting the consumption than there are limitting efficiency. You can't just decide to run twice as many computers in a building that is already full of computers.
Well - okay - its not the profit motive directly, but I can spell out what I meant by that.
You can say capitalism is always the way to go no matter what - but until being green is the best way to make money - you won't see a corporation being green.
There are two ways to change that - by Law (which would be considered government regulation, so not very capitalistic) or by 'voting with your dollar'.
Until the public puts greater emphasis on having green products, by willing to spend more for a green product, (much like how they are willing to spend more for brand name, or even organic food!), than it won't come around.
So no, the profit motive is not the reason exactly, but the way things are right now, its not profitable to be green, and the issue comes up on how that should be changed. Essentially, by a Law proposed by the government or at the consumer level, both ways are democratic.
Who handles these kinds of cases?
I seriously have no clue how international law (especially with copyrights) work.
While true, the limitting factors usually boil down to either apathy for the problem, not enough money to deploy all solutions, or the profit motive.
How Small is your data center though - and how does the density compare to larger datacenters?
I think the issue is that you found a great way to pack 100 servers in a room and keep it off the grid. Whereas companies like Microsoft have managed to fit 1000 servers in the same space and to deploy these green systems requires more space than what their building allows.
Both of them have UI's that are mostly button less (they still had keyboards and joysticks for various things that require tactile feedback) but for most of what they needed to do, it was all operated by hand gestures. Both those movies featured this.
Well, yeah, if it's done in Windows...
In terms of a keyboard, yes, I could see where you come from, tactile feedback would be necessary.
A mouse on the other hand, does not require much tactile feedback, because there isn't any when you slide it around the desk anyways, not unless you've got a roller ball (which most people hate nowadays), and a mouse click is one of those general motions, moving your index finger a bit.
I think the only thing you might miss going from a physical mouse to an implied mouse is the scroll wheel.
Oh I completely agree - but I think most adults might be incorrectly identifying solitary nature as social ineptitude.
Even someone with great social skills will still find defusing the volatile situation of bullying very difficult to handle.
Why do you think Teachers like to stay out of and ignore bullying?
Would you settle for translucent?
Or perhaps you meant holographic (still in pre alpha stages)
You know, a lot of people like the movie Avatar. I think my favourite part was when the researcher with the curly hair and glasses had the interface in front of him - and he wanted to talk away and take it with him, he held up his hand to it, clenched, moved his hand to his mobile device, and sprawled it - and it came right up on the device.
We are getting so close to that cool Minority Report kind of interaction.
I asked a nearby person. It was 5 minutes of two people thinking, so 10 minutes in man-hours.
Lucasarts made a whole Smorgasbord of games based on education in the 90's. None of them did particularily well. I enjoyed Droidworks, but that was probably just me.
I think Role Playing Games arguably increase a person's math skills incredibly, as some kids younger than me work out the equation on how certain stats work. They learn to do reasoning based on HP vs Armour, to find the best balance of the two. Mana vs Damage vs time calculations. It's all usually basic math, that most kids can grab a hold of, but those with the knowledge can apply calculus to find the perfect amount and stay on top*.
I think the issue is that these kinds of games aren't given the credit that they are due, and that parents should be encouraging a kid to be a better rogue instead of 'gettin off that darn fangled box'.
I even found my English improved when I visitted the PlanetAVP forums (Aliens vs Predator) and found that most of the members were grammar nazis.**
*My Engineering friend did this and was The Top Mage on his server because he derived the best way to balance Crit%, overall damage, and efficiency based on DPS/DPMana (meaning longer fights need to be more mana efficient, where shorter fights need to be able to burst more). By the time he was awarded the best gear in the game, he found raiding so easy that he was doing Archimonde WHILE beating me at Halo 3.
** Keep in mind I'm still not perfect, so imagine how bad I was back then, lololololkthxbai
Yes. Damnit. I knew I wasn't right but after a good 10 minutes of solid thinking I couldn't come up with the actual name.
That the problem is that people are so hard-wired to find social ineptitude a problem.
There are times where I wouldn't want to hang out with people because I didn't like the people. At one point (it was between grade 8 and 9) I realized that I could be whoever I really wanted to be, and was not relegated to any kind of social outcast or nerdy clique for the rest of my days. I went out, bought some clothes, got a haircut, and emailed someone I didn't usually hang out with, and asked if they wanted to go Skateboarding. I - however - had never been great at skateboarding. However, this new friend of mine took my motion as a kind gesture and proceeded to teach me a bit so that I could hang out with him and his friends more. He understood that I had wanted to get out of any antisocial tendancies I might have had and wanted to have fun with more friends. Obviously, he was not the bullying type.
However, after a year or so of this, I began to miss the old things. Playing LAN Starcraft till 5 am, reading Fantasy Novels, and programming. Things I never had time for when there was a party that weekend, movie night at a friends house, or hanging out after class. Eventually, I went back to my old tendancies, and I really didn't care if I was labelled a nerd because I liked being alone a bit more.
In case you haven't noticed - when any organization has their budget cut, and they can't afford to keep their research and Dev team working in their closed little spaces, they farm it out to the general public. Essentially, why pay 5 Million to a team to work on 1 project that may or may not be a success, when you can get lots of teams working on tons of projects and give 5 million to the best developed choice.
As long as this strategy works, and NASA doesn't have much money to move around, this is what you're going to be seeing.