Sorry, but you're wrong, at least for Texas (I've seen mention of similar laws for other states, but only verified them for Texas). Also, look how the government conveniently excludes itself from this restriction. I also thought that there was no way surcharges could be illegal, that surely it was just in the contract between the merchant and the card processor, but I shouldn't be surprised at the reach of government these days.
Sounds like the hidden credit card tax. Everything you buy is a few cents extra to cover credit card costs.
A few cents?!? If only... card processing fees are several percent of the transaction, so for a $100 item, try several dollars extra.
Laws/card processor contracts prevent merchants from adding a surcharge if you pay with credit card, but they do allow giving you a discount if you pay with cash. Anytime you're making a large purchase, bring this up with the cashier, asking for a manager if necessary. If their card processing fee is X%, ask to have an (X-1)% discount for using cash. They avoid the card fee, get a little extra, and you get a discount; everyone wins (except the credit card company... boo hoo).
I'm trying to decode the message. Does it mean something like "Play an Atari 2600 game involving aliens instead of wasting your time on this telescope"?
If you put it on a card, then the chips will sit vertically, and the data will leak out of the bottom. They have to be put in a disk enclosure and mounted horizontally so that they bits stay inside the chip.
Obviously he was planning on using memory chips with perpendicular technology. With these, they are better stacked vertically. Keep up, man!
Someone here on Slashdot recently offered a resolution to this issue: begging the question (intransitive) refers to a claimed proof which assumes that which it is proving, while begging the question of... (transitive) refers to something which prompts a question. I must obsess as well since this resolution puts me somewhat at ease, keeping the meanints distinct and clear from context based on grammatical use.
This is one good thing that comes with economic hardship. Idiotic, wasteful, inefficient ideas like this get swept away in the tide while people start focusing on more important issues
Except when the bad ones get bailed out, and thus make the good ones suffer more than the bad ones.:(
I remember early prototypes of this when I was a kid, called Air Jammers. You'd pump them up, then give them a push and a one-cylinder engine would move them along. Of course being a budding Slashdotter, I removed the air motor and connected it to a can of Freon (when you could still buy it) and made it really run fast.
What, vaccine doesn't mean "something related to either preventing or causing more of something"? Next you'll be telling me that theft doesn't mean "something I don't like", and bricked doesn't mean "problems with electronic device that I'm not able to find the immediate cause of"...
That pony included with your iPhone will only eat iFood, use iWater, and can only be housed in iStable. Unfortunately, all of which must be purchased from Apple as well.
Unfortunately all you get with your iPony is iPonyShit, but that was rejected from the App Store so you'll have to deal with it on your own.
Like H1N1 vaccines, this anti-smoking vaccine will help eradicate anti-smoking once and for all, along with all the ill effects it's caused. People will be able to stop worrying about anti-smoking when around other people.
(Brought to you by the people who brought you cooler temperatures, larger sizes, wider width shoes, and cheaper price tags.)
I can understand a zero-day exploit: one written within a day of a vulnerability being discovered. But what's a zero-day vulnerability? Presumably the vulnerability existed for days or months already. I'd think the zero-day would denote some duration between two events, like discovery and exploitation, as above.
It's not necessarily cheapness. Netbooks are named differently than laptops because they have different characteristics, ones which allow more convenient use in different environments. So my first guess was that the explanation is likely "Netbooks used in harsher environments than laptops". They're smaller, so a person might carry one around more, put more wear on it per unit time.
To summarize: netbooks have higher failure rate than laptops, cellphones have higher failure rates than cordless phones, and desktop computers have a higher failure rate than museum-piece computers that are never turned on.
Yes, quite interesting. I wonder if the similar brain activity patterns could be explained merely by the motor functions related to said object, and the areas of the brain used for those functions being hard-wired. Usually brain scan interpretations are full of unresearched assumptions, but the similarities that you describe say a lot and rule out a lot of things, even without one having to make many assumptions.
I imagine you could determine every device's on/off status by monitoring what these meters monitor. As an ideal example, let's say the wattage uses are 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256 for various devices. Then no matter their on/off patterns, you can determine all devices in use. But real devices won't have such a useful wattage distribution, however their patterns in time can help differentiate, as well as inrush current when first turned on. A refrigerator will run in a regular cycle around an hour, with a fairly consistent duty cycle. Same for the air conditioner. It might have a different pattern, due to a much larger compressor and fan (it'd also draw quite a bit more).
Google Powermeter ought to be interesting once supported widely. You'll be able to see how much is really collected.
So, with a brute force attack, I've only got 36,030,233,524,592,808,479,552,335 years before they will reach mine!
Thanks, we'll just skip ahead to the password we would have be trying 36,030,233,524,592,808,479,552,335 years from now, and crack your encryption today!
it's highly probably we're dealing with a very classic not so funny sign extension bug here [...] It's casting this to a signed 32 bit variable which means that during the 24.5 days it is miscast to a negative number
This involves truncation, not sign-extension, actually. Sign-extension occurs when widening a value, not narrowing it. A value outside the range representable by a two's complement 32-bit integer is being cast to one, and apparently this platform simply truncates to 32 bits and treats the highest bit as having the value -2^31, rather than 2^31 as it had in the input value. This isn't the only way to handle such a situation; common alternatives are raising an exception or saturating (i.e. anything >= 2^31 converts to 2^31-1, and anything less than -2^31 converts to -2^31).
Replying to clear "overrated" moderation my fucking browser selected instead of "informative" which I selected (after selection, I hit page down, but apparently the popup was selected and thus it chose the last one, without me realizing it). Sorry. Argh.
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I don't know about you, but when I cross a road, I look left and right, regardless of what country I'm in.
Sorry, but you're wrong, at least for Texas (I've seen mention of similar laws for other states, but only verified them for Texas). Also, look how the government conveniently excludes itself from this restriction. I also thought that there was no way surcharges could be illegal, that surely it was just in the contract between the merchant and the card processor, but I shouldn't be surprised at the reach of government these days.
A few cents?!? If only... card processing fees are several percent of the transaction, so for a $100 item, try several dollars extra.
Laws/card processor contracts prevent merchants from adding a surcharge if you pay with credit card, but they do allow giving you a discount if you pay with cash. Anytime you're making a large purchase, bring this up with the cashier, asking for a manager if necessary. If their card processing fee is X%, ask to have an (X-1)% discount for using cash. They avoid the card fee, get a little extra, and you get a discount; everyone wins (except the credit card company... boo hoo).
"Please type the following on your command-line:
rm -rf *
Thank you."
I'm trying to decode the message. Does it mean something like "Play an Atari 2600 game involving aliens instead of wasting your time on this telescope"?
Yeah, but it's even easier to have someone else do the searching for us. Good work; keep it up!
Obviously he was planning on using memory chips with perpendicular technology. With these, they are better stacked vertically. Keep up, man!
Someone here on Slashdot recently offered a resolution to this issue: begging the question (intransitive) refers to a claimed proof which assumes that which it is proving, while begging the question of ... (transitive) refers to something which prompts a question. I must obsess as well since this resolution puts me somewhat at ease, keeping the meanints distinct and clear from context based on grammatical use.
Except when the bad ones get bailed out, and thus make the good ones suffer more than the bad ones. :(
I remember early prototypes of this when I was a kid, called Air Jammers. You'd pump them up, then give them a push and a one-cylinder engine would move them along. Of course being a budding Slashdotter, I removed the air motor and connected it to a can of Freon (when you could still buy it) and made it really run fast.
Warning: Do not read above post if you want to have an appetite anytime soon after.
What, vaccine doesn't mean "something related to either preventing or causing more of something"? Next you'll be telling me that theft doesn't mean "something I don't like", and bricked doesn't mean "problems with electronic device that I'm not able to find the immediate cause of"...
The source code was leaked, unfortunately it's not too exciting:
Unfortunately all you get with your iPony is iPonyShit, but that was rejected from the App Store so you'll have to deal with it on your own.
Like H1N1 vaccines, this anti-smoking vaccine will help eradicate anti-smoking once and for all, along with all the ill effects it's caused. People will be able to stop worrying about anti-smoking when around other people.
(Brought to you by the people who brought you cooler temperatures, larger sizes, wider width shoes, and cheaper price tags.)
I can understand a zero-day exploit: one written within a day of a vulnerability being discovered. But what's a zero-day vulnerability? Presumably the vulnerability existed for days or months already. I'd think the zero-day would denote some duration between two events, like discovery and exploitation, as above.
It's not necessarily cheapness. Netbooks are named differently than laptops because they have different characteristics, ones which allow more convenient use in different environments. So my first guess was that the explanation is likely "Netbooks used in harsher environments than laptops". They're smaller, so a person might carry one around more, put more wear on it per unit time. To summarize: netbooks have higher failure rate than laptops, cellphones have higher failure rates than cordless phones, and desktop computers have a higher failure rate than museum-piece computers that are never turned on.
Yes, quite interesting. I wonder if the similar brain activity patterns could be explained merely by the motor functions related to said object, and the areas of the brain used for those functions being hard-wired. Usually brain scan interpretations are full of unresearched assumptions, but the similarities that you describe say a lot and rule out a lot of things, even without one having to make many assumptions.
No, really, I have a direct neural input from the Playboy channel just for the articles.
Google Powermeter ought to be interesting once supported widely. You'll be able to see how much is really collected.
I think Slashdot is the wrong crowd to have go post about eating pussy, unless you want everyone to lie.
Well, only people who are logged can read the log. This is to protect accountability and uhhh ensure log integrity.
Thanks, we'll just skip ahead to the password we would have be trying 36,030,233,524,592,808,479,552,335 years from now, and crack your encryption today!
This involves truncation, not sign-extension, actually. Sign-extension occurs when widening a value, not narrowing it. A value outside the range representable by a two's complement 32-bit integer is being cast to one, and apparently this platform simply truncates to 32 bits and treats the highest bit as having the value -2^31, rather than 2^31 as it had in the input value. This isn't the only way to handle such a situation; common alternatives are raising an exception or saturating (i.e. anything >= 2^31 converts to 2^31-1, and anything less than -2^31 converts to -2^31).
Replying to clear "overrated" moderation my fucking browser selected instead of "informative" which I selected (after selection, I hit page down, but apparently the popup was selected and thus it chose the last one, without me realizing it). Sorry. Argh.