A company started it. I don't have any inside information but it seems like they asked all the banks to give them an API so they could send the requests. In fact the banks don't really work together on this, they work together with Currence, which they already worked together with (for PIN and Chipknip.)
By the way: I can only assume there is a similar system for creditcards (to a limited extend). A shop doesn't have multiple credit card readers now does it? That means there is a company that provides them with one reader that'll take multiple cards.
I left it once they changed their stuff to allow them to pull finances from my bank account. I did use it a few times by pushing money to them and using that to pay, but once I made a typo and I pushed to little money. They just pulled it from my bank account. That is not something I want possible under only a password layer (although my passwords are always well chosen. Nobody expects me to use "Hunter2" anymore).
Here in the Netherlands we have iDEAL which redirects me to my bank account. To me it seems to be as safe as paying directly, because it simply sends me to a page on my bank's website. Then I sign the transaction with my bank account, the bank sends a confirmation to iDeal, which sends a confirmation to the webshop and the transaction is complete. As safe as my normal banking and that includes several protections against several different attacks.
It's a relatively good solution. Way above "You can't sell it. Only one activation. You can't even buy it, legally it's a lease, so you don't own it" that seems to be the norm.
What happens if you buy a device for an employee and they leave the job a month later?
The device is property of the company. It can go to someone who can use it. If no such employee exists the device can go to the issuer (or the employee who handles that stuff), who shall issue it to the next employee who asks for a device of that type.
I have been in a couple of different companies, and it always worked that way. Only once I have gotten a new computer when I started. And that was because they were expanding and there was no old computer available. Every other time it I got old equipment: a PC that was used by my predecessor, a phone that was used by someone who went on his pension. And that's fine.
I wouldn't want BYOD unless there is a good solution for erasing the company secrets on the device without erasing my own stuff. I would demand extra pay for BYOD because it means I have to buy stuff for it, and replace it once it breaks.
Is there any research into coral that can stand the heat? "Natural" coral dies because it bleaches.
It bleaches because it kicks the algae out that give it it's color
It kicks out the algae because they are producing to much food for the polyps to survive.
The algae produce to much food because the water temperature rises.
Now that seems to me to be a chain of events we can influence a couple of different things in:
We could breed polyps that don't kick all the algae out, just enough to lower the food influx to a reasonable level.
We could breed algae to stabilize their production, despite of heat.
We could breed polyps that survive a higher food input.
Keeping the water cool may be the best long term solution, but it isn't the only one and it may be to long term. The water temperature will probably keep rising for years, even if we stop all sources for the rise now (which we can't realistically).
Correction: It's not practical without cheap-room temperature superconductors. They don't break the laws of physics, we just don't know how to make em yet.
Through a superconducting cable a mm in diameter you can easily run a couple of MA. You can lower the voltage to something safe (50V) and run 960.000 A through it. Now where did I leave my recepie for cheap room temperature superconducting cables? But until that dream is realized we could just replace the empty battery with a full one by means of a robot arm. The capacity decrease makes that necessary anyways.
As to your last remark: I do agree that bikes should be the future for short distance, trains for long distance. But we'll never get most fat bastards on a bike. Since we can't have the world we want, we got to make the world we have as good as we can. Electric cars are better (CO2 wise) than gasoline cars, although they aren't perfect.
It would be:
1. More expensive (any way you slice it: it would be terribly heavy and thus terribly expensive to get there)
2. Not more detailed
3. Extremely expensive to correct mistakes (anyone remember that blasted piece of tape that f&(^(ked up the polishing of the HST?)
So, no it wouldn't be more effective at a Langrangian point.
They may even be able to build useful capacitors in the package. That is difficult with current lithographic processes, but if one could use more low precision layers one may be able to build a capacitor with more than a couple of pF of capacitance (and not too many of those pesky pH's). Slapping a couple of dozen low precision layers on a normal wafer would be difficult and expensive. Using this tech to assemble a chip after litho could mean useful in chip capacitors. In chip resistors could be improved too. These things may seem relatively useless (chip manufacturers spend a lot of time preventing capacitance) but a well placed capacitor or resistor can do wonders for your EMC performance.
Blinding is hardly a side effect here. Yes you are blind if you are dead. However calling that a side effect would include blinding as a side effect to a bullet through the brain.
Is it still legal to operate a coal plant without scrubbing the fly ash from the exhaust gasses? (most of the radioactive stuff is in the fly ash) Is it still feasible (fly ash is worth money, as a concrete supplement)
While I believe coal plants should be abolished and replaced by nukes, the fly ash shouldn't be a reason. Fly ash should be scrubbed out.
The total weight of the plane + the cargo (in this case humans) is limited. This does not mean the weight of the plane should be counted that way. You have to drag the plane around to be able to drag the cargo around. The cost of flying a 200 pound person somewhere is probably closer to 1.5 times the cost of flying a 100 pound person (not a factor 2, the chair and that kind of stuff does count)
This is in addition to the points brought up by my sibling posters.
And that is fine. Most people drive a car because they want to get somewhere. Do you really think there were much more capable drivers before ESP and ABS? Of course not, most people don't really care for driving, they just want to get where they are going. If you don't really care for it then you'll never get good in the edge cases, where ABS and ESP help a lot. Most people will never respect the fact that they are using a 1000 kg killing machine to get from A to B. Technology can, should and is used to help them control the damn things. Now I do agree with the sentiment that someone who has only driven with ABS and ESP should not be allowed to drive in a 50 year old oldtimer because they will not be able to handle it in the edge cases where ABS and ESP can save your neck. But I feel this doesn't happen oft enough to make a law against it (just in case you meant that).
Yes I am extrapolating your opinion from your post.
Don't forget:
18) Humans live where the climate allows it. If the climate changes, the places where humans can live change to.
19) The way from livable to unlivable is fast, the way from unlivable to livable is slow.
20) During the changes there will be less places to live.
The criminal may be an environmental friendly criminal. They abhor the consumption based society we live in. A disposable gun is terrible for the environment.
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A company started it. I don't have any inside information but it seems like they asked all the banks to give them an API so they could send the requests. In fact the banks don't really work together on this, they work together with Currence, which they already worked together with (for PIN and Chipknip.)
By the way: I can only assume there is a similar system for creditcards (to a limited extend). A shop doesn't have multiple credit card readers now does it? That means there is a company that provides them with one reader that'll take multiple cards.
The creature in frame 1633 sure does look like a squirrel. And nobody knows what clothes Megan wears. She may very well be a bikini model.
I left it once they changed their stuff to allow them to pull finances from my bank account. I did use it a few times by pushing money to them and using that to pay, but once I made a typo and I pushed to little money. They just pulled it from my bank account. That is not something I want possible under only a password layer (although my passwords are always well chosen. Nobody expects me to use "Hunter2" anymore).
Here in the Netherlands we have iDEAL which redirects me to my bank account. To me it seems to be as safe as paying directly, because it simply sends me to a page on my bank's website. Then I sign the transaction with my bank account, the bank sends a confirmation to iDeal, which sends a confirmation to the webshop and the transaction is complete. As safe as my normal banking and that includes several protections against several different attacks.
It's a relatively good solution. Way above "You can't sell it. Only one activation. You can't even buy it, legally it's a lease, so you don't own it" that seems to be the norm.
What happens if you buy a device for an employee and they leave the job a month later?
The device is property of the company. It can go to someone who can use it. If no such employee exists the device can go to the issuer (or the employee who handles that stuff), who shall issue it to the next employee who asks for a device of that type.
I have been in a couple of different companies, and it always worked that way. Only once I have gotten a new computer when I started. And that was because they were expanding and there was no old computer available. Every other time it I got old equipment: a PC that was used by my predecessor, a phone that was used by someone who went on his pension. And that's fine.
I wouldn't want BYOD unless there is a good solution for erasing the company secrets on the device without erasing my own stuff. I would demand extra pay for BYOD because it means I have to buy stuff for it, and replace it once it breaks.
For some a lot of fun can be had in combined experiments with electrons and sex, but that falls in the category SM.
The FDA compliant software is probably not written for anything but Windows.
Is there any research into coral that can stand the heat? "Natural" coral dies because it bleaches.
It bleaches because it kicks the algae out that give it it's color
It kicks out the algae because they are producing to much food for the polyps to survive.
The algae produce to much food because the water temperature rises.
Now that seems to me to be a chain of events we can influence a couple of different things in:
We could breed polyps that don't kick all the algae out, just enough to lower the food influx to a reasonable level.
We could breed algae to stabilize their production, despite of heat.
We could breed polyps that survive a higher food input.
Keeping the water cool may be the best long term solution, but it isn't the only one and it may be to long term. The water temperature will probably keep rising for years, even if we stop all sources for the rise now (which we can't realistically).
I know I don't want to prolong the risk of drunk drivers slamming into people waiting in line at the moves longer than necessary.
Correction: It's not practical without cheap-room temperature superconductors. They don't break the laws of physics, we just don't know how to make em yet.
Through a superconducting cable a mm in diameter you can easily run a couple of MA. You can lower the voltage to something safe (50V) and run 960.000 A through it.
Now where did I leave my recepie for cheap room temperature superconducting cables?
But until that dream is realized we could just replace the empty battery with a full one by means of a robot arm. The capacity decrease makes that necessary anyways.
As to your last remark: I do agree that bikes should be the future for short distance, trains for long distance. But we'll never get most fat bastards on a bike. Since we can't have the world we want, we got to make the world we have as good as we can.
Electric cars are better (CO2 wise) than gasoline cars, although they aren't perfect.
Become a politician.
Nope, my liver is fine. Its my kidneys that are fucked up.
By the way: this technique may be cross-organ applicable.
It would be:
1. More expensive (any way you slice it: it would be terribly heavy and thus terribly expensive to get there)
2. Not more detailed
3. Extremely expensive to correct mistakes (anyone remember that blasted piece of tape that f&(^(ked up the polishing of the HST?)
So, no it wouldn't be more effective at a Langrangian point.
Is it web-enabled, cloud and smart? No? Then you ain't got nothing these days.
They may even be able to build useful capacitors in the package. That is difficult with current lithographic processes, but if one could use more low precision layers one may be able to build a capacitor with more than a couple of pF of capacitance (and not too many of those pesky pH's). Slapping a couple of dozen low precision layers on a normal wafer would be difficult and expensive. Using this tech to assemble a chip after litho could mean useful in chip capacitors.
In chip resistors could be improved too.
These things may seem relatively useless (chip manufacturers spend a lot of time preventing capacitance) but a well placed capacitor or resistor can do wonders for your EMC performance.
Nah, that's simply Hex. Useful if he wants to be, but disturbingly sentient at times.
Yes, such things as salt, paprika flavor (or cheese and union). It makes for far more tasty chips.
Blinding is hardly a side effect here. Yes you are blind if you are dead. However calling that a side effect would include blinding as a side effect to a bullet through the brain.
Yep, we all bought something at Gamestation on the 1st of April 2010
Is it still legal to operate a coal plant without scrubbing the fly ash from the exhaust gasses? (most of the radioactive stuff is in the fly ash)
Is it still feasible (fly ash is worth money, as a concrete supplement)
While I believe coal plants should be abolished and replaced by nukes, the fly ash shouldn't be a reason. Fly ash should be scrubbed out.
The total weight of the plane + the cargo (in this case humans) is limited. This does not mean the weight of the plane should be counted that way. You have to drag the plane around to be able to drag the cargo around.
The cost of flying a 200 pound person somewhere is probably closer to 1.5 times the cost of flying a 100 pound person (not a factor 2, the chair and that kind of stuff does count)
This is in addition to the points brought up by my sibling posters.
And that is fine. Most people drive a car because they want to get somewhere.
Do you really think there were much more capable drivers before ESP and ABS? Of course not, most people don't really care for driving, they just want to get where they are going. If you don't really care for it then you'll never get good in the edge cases, where ABS and ESP help a lot.
Most people will never respect the fact that they are using a 1000 kg killing machine to get from A to B. Technology can, should and is used to help them control the damn things.
Now I do agree with the sentiment that someone who has only driven with ABS and ESP should not be allowed to drive in a 50 year old oldtimer because they will not be able to handle it in the edge cases where ABS and ESP can save your neck. But I feel this doesn't happen oft enough to make a law against it (just in case you meant that).
Yes I am extrapolating your opinion from your post.
Don't forget: 18) Humans live where the climate allows it. If the climate changes, the places where humans can live change to. 19) The way from livable to unlivable is fast, the way from unlivable to livable is slow. 20) During the changes there will be less places to live.
The prison corporations have their own future in hand. Useless rehabilitation gives repeat customers!
The criminal may be an environmental friendly criminal. They abhor the consumption based society we live in. A disposable gun is terrible for the environment.
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