"And now to Chet Stevens for the weather. Using the State's most accurate Doppler Channel 7 Radar."
"Thaaanks Judy, moving to the corner of 5th and High st. we notice that 7,276,544 raindrops have fallen at that intersection in the last 2 minutes. However the recent 5 seconds have only seen 125,465 raindrops indicating that the volume of rain is trending downwards, so if you're waiting at that corner to turn left onto High St. you might just wanna wait a few more seconds before turning for your own safety..."
On the phone, you're paying by the bit. This means even the extra text that gets sent across the air to your phone is costing you money....
The answer to why mobile advertising remains largely untapped is fairly obvious: it directly impacts the customer's wallet.
Hmmm, what if there was some way for the advertiser to pay you back for the bandwidth they used? Like a discount on your phone bill later? And if you clicked on the ad they would pay for all further bits sent to your device while on their website. Or maybe the phone enters a "free" download state that is indicated to the user somehow And if you purchased from them they would discount your phone bill even more.
Yes, those 'help', but the hardware comes out of the same factories, with the same ethics, as most other electronics. So the problem is reduced, but not eliminated.
I discovered that simply hitting the "stop loading" button after the text loads but before all the other suff loads in is enough to prevent the pay wall notice from appearing. That's pretty easy. I don't know if this works on all browsers but it does on mine.
Is there any practical application to this sort of thing, either having the number itself, or whatever method this guy used to arrive at it? Or is this a thumb gazing exercise?
As an American citizen, if I go live and work in Ireland, or anywhere else, without ANY ties to the US at all, I still am required to pay US Federal income tax on the money I earn(in addition to that countries taxes.)
Nope, if you live in Ireland you do not have to pay US Federal tax. You only have to pay federal tax on money you earn from the USA. That also includes payroll taxes. However, you will not be paying into social security or medicare and that can affect your benefits later.
What you cannot do is pretend you live in Ireland, and still make money in the USA. That is what GE is doing.
- Women are their husband's property.
- Homosexuals should be stoned.
- Unruly children should be stoned.
- When ordered by God we should kill not just men but also women and children when invading a country.
- Eat a lobster and die.
- Divorce and be stoned.
- Etc...
I mean, discarding all of the scientific nonsense is a no-brainer. But we really need to get back to the good book as a source of moral authority.
Ok, no disrespect to you for seeing it that way, but I have to intervene and make a case for the Bible. It is much more subtle and nuanced than that characterization. Christians and non-Christians alike make this same mistake about the Bible. The laws in the Old Testament are not meant to be followed by me or you. They were for the Jewish nation state. The New Testament makes a clear break with the Old in terms of superseding it in many ways. The dietary laws are done away with- Peter is given a vision of "forbidden" animals in Acts and told to eat them as they are now "made clean" (other examples abound in the NT). The ceremonial laws are done away with as argued in the book of Hebrews which makes the case that the sacrificial system was simply symbolic and no longer should exist "The blood of bulls and goats could never take away sin". The eye for and eye motif is superseded: "Do not take vengeance, vengeance is mine says the Lord" and Jesus' "Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you". Women are called equal to men- unheard of in any ancient literature I know of: "There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." Jesus had women followers who sat and learned from him and later women were leaders in the first century Christian movement: "Aquila and Priscilla greet you warmly in the Lord, and so does the church that meets at their house." Lastly, the moral law is superseded in that it no longer needs to be followed: "I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!” The Law is replaced by the call to love one another "Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law."
The law of Moses to which your post refers was a stepping stone to Christian morality and it was actually a system for a specific people of a specific time. Much Western morality has come from the Bible and some of that is good: "Do unto others", "Good Samaritan", etc. Whenever somebody tries to take it from the Dietary/Ceremonial/Moral Mosaic law, it usually causes trouble.
As an analogy, discounting Christianity because of the Mosaic law is a bit like discounting evolution because strict Darwinism doesn't work. E.g. a fanatic creationist could poke holes in Darwinism and a scientist would protest because we don't interpret the evidence that way anymore (like in Punctuated equilibrium, etc.). I realize the analogy is not perfect but I hope you get the point.
You could of course still make the case as to why those harsh laws are there to begin with and I think there are answers to that, but I do hope you can see how even the morality you use to judge those things as "bad" is in part influenced by the morality that superseded them.
P.S. I don't think even the OT called women their husbands' property
I work for a K-12 public school system... and most of the passwords I see like this *are* [lastname][current year], or something equally guessable. Oh, and these are the faculty. I really want to send out an email at the beginning of every school year; "All faculty should make three copies each of their house and car keys, and attach them to 3"x5" index cards containing the address/license # and description of each property. Please have these delivered to the Technology Department as soon as possible, so we may have them distributed randomly about our schools when the students arrive to begin this year. If you take exception to this, please consider how we feel about your doing the same with our keys, the ones we call passwords." Think anyone would read it? No more than they do those annoying boxes which pop up asking for credentials...
I wonder if there is a way to actually provide physical keys to computer systems. The solution would be to insert a USB key that would unlock the computer. The sys admin could set all the passwords. That way, even if the user forgot their key, they could still use the password- they would just have to memorize it.
What I've always found to be impressive is that even with fairly loose travel restrictions people still return from western countries back to China.
That's because most people care about quality of life more than they do about political freedoms.
People also like to return to their culture and families. I have met some who have stayed. I have met some who just want to go home. And I have met some who, having tasted freedom, want to go back and fight.
This and the infamous Zune bug of a few years ago could be easily avoided if the coders would UNIT TEST DATE FUNCTIONS WITH REAL DATES! it's not hard and avoids all those embarrassing articles.
>>The reason that real Christians live seperated lives is that it helps keep down the tendency to sin.
> Maybe people wouldn't have such a problem with Christians and other religious folk if they were out in the world living the way they believe they should even with temptation around them
Indeed, the New Testament speaks to this very issue:
I Corinthians 5:9-12
I have written you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people-- not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat. What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?
The idea being, if someone inside the church is immoral, they should be ostracized, but there is no reason to judge anyone who is not a Christian. Christians are only to judge internally, not externally. Kinda puts the whole right wing gay-bashing, sex-focused BS in it's place doesn't it? The "leave this world" reference meaning that Christians are NOT to isolate themselves at all. So, don't isolate yourselves, and don't judge. Exactly the opposite of the hypocrisy we see today.
I once downloaded an open source project, checked the hash and found it was bad. Wrote the admin about it and NEVER got a response. Anybody else seen this or had a hash not check out? I can't remember what it was.
The offer for more money at work is part of the system. You provide a valuable service and they compensate you for it. They trust you to do useful labor, and you trust them to compensate you for it. It works because they make money off your labor and everybody is happy. If somebody was to write a program to take the.00001 cents rounded off from a company's transactions (a la Office Space) then they are trying to game the system. They are taking money without providing anything useful in return. It amounts to stealing and is in fact treated that way in law. I guess your point is taken in terms of "they" being unable to stop themselves if there is money to be made. So I rescind my call for "them" to stop being greedy and amend it to say "let's create laws to stop it". However, I will point out that many people, while wishing to have more money, would not try and game a system to get it even if they could. I would not call those people greedy.
Agreed. When are some of these people going to realize that greed is bad. Trying to game a system is inherently wrong. Not just morally, but wrong systemically. It will always result in harm to the system. These people soothe their conscience with excuses- "We're spreading the risk and that's a good thing", "It's only fractions of pennies off of many people, nobody will notice." , etc. Until the whole thing comes crashing down because in reality the financial system is core dependent on actual investment and trust, not on gambling. To quote Chinatown:
Jake Gittes: How much are you worth? Noah Cross: I have no idea. How much do you want? Jake Gittes: I just wanna know what you're worth. More than 10 million? Noah Cross: Oh my, yes! Jake Gittes: Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What could you buy that you can't already afford?
>Translation: it might not be a bad time to change your password if you use Facebook.
According to the article, the passwords are gleaned from malware installed on the user's machine. So even if you change your password, what is to prevent the same malware from sending the new password to this hacker guy and allowing him to resend the changed account info to his buyers?
I don't know what kind of 3.5s you were buying but mine failed regularly. I think I still have some in storage and I would wager they are all hosed. But I dunno, maybe I was buying the cheapo floppies. I can't remember.
Time and again do hear that the purpose of business is to generate profits for the owner, not care for the common good...Should it really come as a surprise when the rest of us say "fine" and jump in on the bandwagon?
IMHO this is one of the most insightful slashdot comments I have ever read. Thank you for this. The whole "We can be as greedy as we want because it's good for society, therefore you should act selflessly" argument has been totally eviscerated by your post. I'm actually going to save this in a file.
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The SSSS Eh? Isn't that carrying alliteration a little far?
Used to watch this on Saturday morning with "Superhost" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHtZ6Ixeqvs
The solution is to use hydrogen instead! It was good enough for the Hindenburg.
"And now to Chet Stevens for the weather. Using the State's most accurate Doppler Channel 7 Radar." "Thaaanks Judy, moving to the corner of 5th and High st. we notice that 7,276,544 raindrops have fallen at that intersection in the last 2 minutes. However the recent 5 seconds have only seen 125,465 raindrops indicating that the volume of rain is trending downwards, so if you're waiting at that corner to turn left onto High St. you might just wanna wait a few more seconds before turning for your own safety..."
On the phone, you're paying by the bit. This means even the extra text that gets sent across the air to your phone is costing you money....
The answer to why mobile advertising remains largely untapped is fairly obvious: it directly impacts the customer's wallet.
Hmmm, what if there was some way for the advertiser to pay you back for the bandwidth they used? Like a discount on your phone bill later? And if you clicked on the ad they would pay for all further bits sent to your device while on their website. Or maybe the phone enters a "free" download state that is indicated to the user somehow And if you purchased from them they would discount your phone bill even more.
Yes, those 'help', but the hardware comes out of the same factories, with the same ethics, as most other electronics. So the problem is reduced, but not eliminated.
Make your own candles?
I discovered that simply hitting the "stop loading" button after the text loads but before all the other suff loads in is enough to prevent the pay wall notice from appearing. That's pretty easy. I don't know if this works on all browsers but it does on mine.
I wonder what the chances are it would just go into Earth orbit instead of hitting us.
Is there any practical application to this sort of thing, either having the number itself, or whatever method this guy used to arrive at it? Or is this a thumb gazing exercise?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H20cKjz-bjw
Thanks Dave.
As an American citizen, if I go live and work in Ireland, or anywhere else, without ANY ties to the US at all, I still am required to pay US Federal income tax on the money I earn(in addition to that countries taxes.)
Nope, if you live in Ireland you do not have to pay US Federal tax. You only have to pay federal tax on money you earn from the USA. That also includes payroll taxes. However, you will not be paying into social security or medicare and that can affect your benefits later. What you cannot do is pretend you live in Ireland, and still make money in the USA. That is what GE is doing.
Agreed.
- Women are their husband's property. - Homosexuals should be stoned. - Unruly children should be stoned. - When ordered by God we should kill not just men but also women and children when invading a country. - Eat a lobster and die. - Divorce and be stoned. - Etc...
I mean, discarding all of the scientific nonsense is a no-brainer. But we really need to get back to the good book as a source of moral authority.
Ok, no disrespect to you for seeing it that way, but I have to intervene and make a case for the Bible. It is much more subtle and nuanced than that characterization. Christians and non-Christians alike make this same mistake about the Bible. The laws in the Old Testament are not meant to be followed by me or you. They were for the Jewish nation state. The New Testament makes a clear break with the Old in terms of superseding it in many ways. The dietary laws are done away with- Peter is given a vision of "forbidden" animals in Acts and told to eat them as they are now "made clean" (other examples abound in the NT). The ceremonial laws are done away with as argued in the book of Hebrews which makes the case that the sacrificial system was simply symbolic and no longer should exist "The blood of bulls and goats could never take away sin". The eye for and eye motif is superseded: "Do not take vengeance, vengeance is mine says the Lord" and Jesus' "Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you". Women are called equal to men- unheard of in any ancient literature I know of: "There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." Jesus had women followers who sat and learned from him and later women were leaders in the first century Christian movement: "Aquila and Priscilla greet you warmly in the Lord, and so does the church that meets at their house." Lastly, the moral law is superseded in that it no longer needs to be followed: "I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!” The Law is replaced by the call to love one another "Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law."
The law of Moses to which your post refers was a stepping stone to Christian morality and it was actually a system for a specific people of a specific time. Much Western morality has come from the Bible and some of that is good: "Do unto others", "Good Samaritan", etc. Whenever somebody tries to take it from the Dietary/Ceremonial/Moral Mosaic law, it usually causes trouble.
As an analogy, discounting Christianity because of the Mosaic law is a bit like discounting evolution because strict Darwinism doesn't work. E.g. a fanatic creationist could poke holes in Darwinism and a scientist would protest because we don't interpret the evidence that way anymore (like in Punctuated equilibrium, etc.). I realize the analogy is not perfect but I hope you get the point.
You could of course still make the case as to why those harsh laws are there to begin with and I think there are answers to that, but I do hope you can see how even the morality you use to judge those things as "bad" is in part influenced by the morality that superseded them.
P.S. I don't think even the OT called women their husbands' property
I work for a K-12 public school system... and most of the passwords I see like this *are* [lastname][current year], or something equally guessable. Oh, and these are the faculty. I really want to send out an email at the beginning of every school year; "All faculty should make three copies each of their house and car keys, and attach them to 3"x5" index cards containing the address/license # and description of each property. Please have these delivered to the Technology Department as soon as possible, so we may have them distributed randomly about our schools when the students arrive to begin this year. If you take exception to this, please consider how we feel about your doing the same with our keys, the ones we call passwords." Think anyone would read it? No more than they do those annoying boxes which pop up asking for credentials...
I wonder if there is a way to actually provide physical keys to computer systems. The solution would be to insert a USB key that would unlock the computer. The sys admin could set all the passwords. That way, even if the user forgot their key, they could still use the password- they would just have to memorize it.
What I've always found to be impressive is that even with fairly loose travel restrictions people still return from western countries back to China.
That's because most people care about quality of life more than they do about political freedoms.
People also like to return to their culture and families. I have met some who have stayed. I have met some who just want to go home. And I have met some who, having tasted freedom, want to go back and fight.
So what happens if the teacher calls the US a democracy? Do they go to jail? :P
This and the infamous Zune bug of a few years ago could be easily avoided if the coders would UNIT TEST DATE FUNCTIONS WITH REAL DATES! it's not hard and avoids all those embarrassing articles.
>>The reason that real Christians live seperated lives is that it helps keep down the tendency to sin.
> Maybe people wouldn't have such a problem with Christians and other religious folk if they were out in the world living the way they believe they should even with temptation around them
Indeed, the New Testament speaks to this very issue:
I Corinthians 5:9-12
I have written you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people-- not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat. What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?
The idea being, if someone inside the church is immoral, they should be ostracized, but there is no reason to judge anyone who is not a Christian. Christians are only to judge internally, not externally. Kinda puts the whole right wing gay-bashing, sex-focused BS in it's place doesn't it? The "leave this world" reference meaning that Christians are NOT to isolate themselves at all. So, don't isolate yourselves, and don't judge. Exactly the opposite of the hypocrisy we see today.
I once downloaded an open source project, checked the hash and found it was bad. Wrote the admin about it and NEVER got a response. Anybody else seen this or had a hash not check out? I can't remember what it was.
The offer for more money at work is part of the system. You provide a valuable service and they compensate you for it. They trust you to do useful labor, and you trust them to compensate you for it. It works because they make money off your labor and everybody is happy. If somebody was to write a program to take the .00001 cents rounded off from a company's transactions (a la Office Space) then they are trying to game the system. They are taking money without providing anything useful in return. It amounts to stealing and is in fact treated that way in law. I guess your point is taken in terms of "they" being unable to stop themselves if there is money to be made. So I rescind my call for "them" to stop being greedy and amend it to say "let's create laws to stop it". However, I will point out that many people, while wishing to have more money, would not try and game a system to get it even if they could. I would not call those people greedy.
Agreed. When are some of these people going to realize that greed is bad. Trying to game a system is inherently wrong. Not just morally, but wrong systemically. It will always result in harm to the system. These people soothe their conscience with excuses- "We're spreading the risk and that's a good thing", "It's only fractions of pennies off of many people, nobody will notice." , etc. Until the whole thing comes crashing down because in reality the financial system is core dependent on actual investment and trust, not on gambling. To quote Chinatown:
Jake Gittes: How much are you worth?
Noah Cross: I have no idea. How much do you want?
Jake Gittes: I just wanna know what you're worth. More than 10 million?
Noah Cross: Oh my, yes!
Jake Gittes: Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What could you buy that you can't already afford?
>Translation: it might not be a bad time to change your password if you use Facebook.
According to the article, the passwords are gleaned from malware installed on the user's machine. So even if you change your password, what is to prevent the same malware from sending the new password to this hacker guy and allowing him to resend the changed account info to his buyers?
I don't know what kind of 3.5s you were buying but mine failed regularly. I think I still have some in storage and I would wager they are all hosed. But I dunno, maybe I was buying the cheapo floppies. I can't remember.
Couldn't they just use two cloaks placed at the appropriate angles in relation to each other?
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
Time and again do hear that the purpose of business is to generate profits for the owner, not care for the common good...Should it really come as a surprise when the rest of us say "fine" and jump in on the bandwagon?
IMHO this is one of the most insightful slashdot comments I have ever read. Thank you for this. The whole "We can be as greedy as we want because it's good for society, therefore you should act selflessly" argument has been totally eviscerated by your post. I'm actually going to save this in a file.