I don't know about other countries, but at least in Mexico and the Cayman Islands, devices like the one you describe (RSA SecureID) are commonly used for online bank transactions.
It would seem trivial to extend the use to ATM and POS terminals, it would end this type of scam for good.
Bad example for your position. Mozart was playing by the time he was four years-old and composing a year later. How much sheet music could he have read from the time he was born?
The truth is that we don't know. We might find out soon, perhaps never.
But I don't suscribe to the idea that we all basically have the same brain potential, it is not true for other functions of the body, why should it be true for the brain?
Examples abound: lactose intolerance, color blindness, alcohol metabolism difference by genre, etc.
Again, no one knows if indeed we have the same brain potential or how and why it varies, if it does.
No wonder the English language is so very difficult to learn.
I sometimes wonder how we manage to communicate at all!
We'll begin with a box and the plural is boxes.
But the plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes.
The one fowl is a goose but two are called geese ,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may found a lone mouse or a whole set of mice,
Yet the plural of house is houses not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,
Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I speak of a foot and you show me your feet,
And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why should not the plural of booth be called beeth?
Then one may be that and three would be those,
Yet hat in the plural wouldn't be hose.
And the plural of cat is cats and not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
But though we say Mother, we never say Methren,
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine she, shis and shim,
So English, I fancy you will all agree,
Is the funniest language you ever did see.
Why can’t people from all over the world speak English?
Sorry to disagree with you, but clearly the physical properties of the brain matter.
Which physical properties? Well, we need to find out.
Think about it for a while. All my life I would have given a leg and an arm to learn to play any musical instrument (went to schools for years) and could never get beyond the really easy stuff; a seven year-old child could out-play me every time. But I have a gift for analisys and abstraction, thus I'm good at writing software.
You say upbringing, education and will-power. Well I had all three: mom was a music director who wrote music and poetry, I went to very good music schools and I yearned to be able to play music; I simply don't have the right "hardware".
Try running Deep Blue's software in your bog standard PC, see how far it gets.
Anyway, I've been playing around with Android looking for a project, I don't want to waste my time doing the upteenth "fart" app; so I something comes up about your idea, I'm game to do the programming for free.
When you challenge the world saying your post is worded precisely as intended, does that include misspelled words?
This I can definitely agree with
There Fixed That For Ya!
So now, mod me down!
But goddamn it, consult a dictionary or using a spelling checker before challenging the world!. Particularly if you tend to misspell words (I count at least three such mistakes, without going into proper grammar and such.)
So now, expenditure over six years (Jan 2004 - Dec 2009) is $300,000,000,000.00 divided by six is around $50,000,000,000.00 per year
Per capita is $1,716.96 or more than double the GDP per capita of the country!
I would think that the US would get better resultsif the money was simply given to each inhabitant, the $800 they already make plus $1,700 from the US, would triple the GDP per capita, no small feat.
Just smile for the camera and show that you have not handled explosives or fired guns in the last week (paraffin test) and you get your weekly expenditure; you don't show up for a week then you lose the privilege, i.e. you knew you couldn't pàss the test.
Who said "You Can Rent an Afghan But Never Buy One"? It would rent the whole lot of them for a long time!
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I don't know about other countries, but at least in Mexico and the Cayman Islands, devices like the one you describe (RSA SecureID) are commonly used for online bank transactions.
It would seem trivial to extend the use to ATM and POS terminals, it would end this type of scam for good.
Getting an advert for a $99 DMCA takedown notices in a RIAA article...Priceless!
The Internet is like a public park, you are free to wander anywhere unless it is locked down or a notice posted saying "Keep out the grass."
It sounds like they not only didn't lock the door, they forgot to put a door in the first place.
Second that motion!
I kept thinking WTF??? It's not a troll unless the metamod is TSA employee...
Please thank the KDE guys who came up with KHTML which then was forked by Apple and others into WebKit.
It's not like Apple all by itself created the WebKit, so give credit to the KDE guys every time you use a browser in your phone.
One would do well to remember that Earth itself was terraformed by algae, given that primeval Earth was not amenable to our kind of life.
Maybe we won't see it, but if we sent some extremophiles over to Mars they might create a biosphere..
Of course, the lack of a magnetosphere is quite a hurdle to keep a decent atmosphere; but then again not all life needs a thick gaseous envelope.
Just remember to be buried facedown, nine-edge first
Those were the days!
Any youngsters reading this, GET OFF MY LAWN!
WTF??!!
Geeks are by definition NOT mainstream.
Next you'll tell me Joe Sixpack is a geek!
Get off my lawn!
You should be quoting Clarke, Asimov, Sheffield, Stephenson or other people who appeal to geeks only.
Next you will be saying that geek use Windows!
Puhleese, the Simpsons are mainstream, if you don't know the difference stop masquerading a geek.
Bad example for your position. Mozart was playing by the time he was four years-old and composing a year later. How much sheet music could he have read from the time he was born?
The truth is that we don't know. We might find out soon, perhaps never.
But I don't suscribe to the idea that we all basically have the same brain potential, it is not true for other functions of the body, why should it be true for the brain?
Examples abound: lactose intolerance, color blindness, alcohol metabolism difference by genre, etc.
Again, no one knows if indeed we have the same brain potential or how and why it varies, if it does.
The Funny English Language
No wonder the English language is so very difficult to learn.
I sometimes wonder how we manage to communicate at all!
We'll begin with a box and the plural is boxes.
But the plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes.
The one fowl is a goose but two are called geese
, Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may found a lone mouse or a whole set of mice,
Yet the plural of house is houses not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,
Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I speak of a foot and you show me your feet,
And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, Why should not the plural of booth be called beeth?
Then one may be that and three would be those,
Yet hat in the plural wouldn't be hose.
And the plural of cat is cats and not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
But though we say Mother, we never say Methren,
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine she, shis and shim, So English, I fancy you will all agree,
Is the funniest language you ever did see.
Why can’t people from all over the world speak English?
Someone has suggested implanting an eye in Mr. Ellison's backside..
So that he can see where his shit is going!
I would never take the spelling nazis' fun away! I'm a civilized being -.__.-
Now I'll know if you're English or American!
Analysis is a word I always have trouble with, in my native language is "analisis" and I always get confused as to where the "y" goes.
Sorry to disagree with you, but clearly the physical properties of the brain matter.
Which physical properties? Well, we need to find out.
Think about it for a while. All my life I would have given a leg and an arm to learn to play any musical instrument (went to schools for years) and could never get beyond the really easy stuff; a seven year-old child could out-play me every time. But I have a gift for analisys and abstraction, thus I'm good at writing software.
You say upbringing, education and will-power. Well I had all three: mom was a music director who wrote music and poetry, I went to very good music schools and I yearned to be able to play music; I simply don't have the right "hardware".
Try running Deep Blue's software in your bog standard PC, see how far it gets.
Hey, dude! Getting down to your mom's basement doesn't count as "walking to work"!
Remember that at ./ we know!
Sorry for the joke. I completely agree with you, a nice V8 has no comparison in sound, acceleration and moving a large, massive car.
Darn! I lost the moderation I've done to reply
Anyway, I've been playing around with Android looking for a project, I don't want to waste my time doing the upteenth "fart" app; so I something comes up about your idea, I'm game to do the programming for free.
Cheers
I love your mistake, freudian slip or not.
If tax funds were used to help mate, then us geeks would be lucky finally!
Maybe we should write our congresspersons about it...
When you challenge the world saying your post is worded precisely as intended, does that include misspelled words?
This I can definitely agree with
There Fixed That For Ya!
So now, mod me down!
But goddamn it, consult a dictionary or using a spelling checker before challenging the world!. Particularly if you tend to misspell words (I count at least three such mistakes, without going into proper grammar and such.)
Now get off my lawn!
You migh want to check out the consequences of the oil spill and the use of dispersants before making such comments!
From a scientist a the scene: The oil spill's toxic trade-off
Thanks for the reply, I agree with your points entirely.
My beef is: what the hell is the US goverment (I don't think the people are getting anything out of this war) trying to accomplish?
Back in the 80's, it was clearly a way to keep the Soviets out of the regions, but today?
Do you think Julian waves his hand and documents appear?
He gets documents from people inside the war machine, those sources are able to tell him what parts would be detrimental to the people on the field.
Who elected Martin Luther King? Who elected Gandhi? Who elected Mohter Theresa? They do what they think is right to make a better world.
What's your age? Like sixteen / seventeen? Grow up! Now get off my lawn!
You are right, but some of the money goes to Halliburton and one has to wonder why..
Thanks for the reply, but it has been done before, like the Marshall Plan or McArthur's occupantion of Japan
People with nothing to lose, become suicide bombers, people with children and a way to feed them, do not.
You mean like the Marshall Plan or were you thinking of another example?
According to the CIA World Fact Book:
So now, expenditure over six years (Jan 2004 - Dec 2009) is $300,000,000,000.00 divided by six is around $50,000,000,000.00 per year
Per capita is $1,716.96 or more than double the GDP per capita of the country!
I would think that the US would get better resultsif the money was simply given to each inhabitant, the $800 they already make plus $1,700 from the US, would triple the GDP per capita, no small feat.
Just smile for the camera and show that you have not handled explosives or fired guns in the last week (paraffin test) and you get your weekly expenditure; you don't show up for a week then you lose the privilege, i.e. you knew you couldn't pàss the test.
Who said "You Can Rent an Afghan But Never Buy One"? It would rent the whole lot of them for a long time!