One of my favorites, though, is the story of a guy applying for a job at Yahoo! He registered the email account "iwanttowork(@yahoo.com)," and used that to send his resume. They hired him.
I wish I could find my source for that, but I'm damn sure it happened.
Water on its own? Boiler explosions are amazing. The almost instantaneous expansion of the steam from 150 to 180 pounds per square inch of atmospheric pressure produced a terrific force, which was usually violent enough to rip the firebox sheets and tear the entire locomotive boiler off of the locomotive frames. The effect was pretty much like a rocket taking off and exploding. Boilers were sometimes hurled hundreds of feet away.http://small-leavedshamrock.blogspot.com/2008/05/1892-pottsville-train-explosion-how-why.html
Well, perhaps not. As I think off-the-cuff, I'd say that you can't simply store the value alone on the card. No matter how you look at it, if you store the number "$250" once, you can store the same encrypted bit pattern again and the system will always read $250.
I think the most practical way to handle things would be to load the card value database into the bus computers when they hit the transit station. Cards given increased value during the rest of the day would include one of a number of daily "magic numbers" in the card in addition to the value. The bus would accept cards showing a higher-than-recorded number when they have a valid magic number on them as well.
Even if the card lies about its value, the system is secure against all but the most minimal value fraud. Subway turnstiles always read against the database, buses are updated regularly and only accept higher values when given a daily secret, and disconnected / down systems can still record the transactions files and accept the card value as basically true. Upon rejoining, the "real" card balance is fixed. The transit system database would only make adjustments to the card value, never accepting what the card said except for those disconnected situations.
Thoughts? The only compromise I can see is the magic number list getting out. That would require an HR defect, or somebody getting access to the MBTA machines. Of course, I just thought all this up, so more holes may exist.
Well, my complaint was reading their comparison of total power consumption for the time of the task. Since the time required for different processors was different, I was expecting something equivalent to joules or kWH. It appears the article says "watt-seconds (joules)" when I checked it now, so they either fixed it, or I really messed up reading it in the first place.
For those commenting on the "," and "." being interchangeable, yes... but why read watts out to that precision? Indeed, with the comment on joules, they didn't.
However you look at it, the advantage of the implementation of the systems may have given 3.8% to the VIA CPU system, but we know the processor itself scored differently. I wish that had somehow be taken into consideration.
It seems they may be measuring the whole system load in comparing the efficiency of the processors, which is more than a little unfair. What sticks out more, though are numbers like "63,434 watts". Uhmm... no? Besides being a clearly invalid measurement, it should probably be expressed at watt-hours. No way either machine drew 63 kilowatt hours either.
The NRC regulates the operation of the plants. It does not control them.
The State regulates my operation of a motor vehicle. I'm in control of it. Very important distinction.
That would too quickly fall to a computer. The reason CAPTCHAs (did) work is because the number of possible answers was respectably high. If you put 10 people in a line, a computer would probably get the right answer the 5th time around. If you put 100 people in a line, you'd get a very pissed off user.
You should have modded him up, because the comment you just made has negative value.
My comment's awesome because/. loves crotchety elitist bastards like myself. PLUS I'm going to start a whole new thread below by commenting on how relatively damn old my UID is, you newbie punk. I bet you can guess what happens next.
In Soviet Slashdot, I pick where the moderators click!
Oh, it gets better. During the time that I was running for State House, many local publications listed the names / info about people running for office. Gay Portland must have done some great maneuvering with Page Rank, 'cause they won slot #1.
Your link, at least, doesn't show anything in the first ten that could be mistaken for me... as opposed to the similarly aged bank robber who lived in Massachusetts.
Originally I was the only person who showed up in search results with my name. Unfortunately, that has changed. I'm very curious how many would-be dates have not happened because of this Google search:
http://www.google.com/search?q=jeffrey+ferland
I used to be 181xxxxx, but somehow I lost control of that number. I became 258xxxxx. Thought I never use the accounts, those numbers will probably be in my head 'til I die. I'm pretty sure your numbers are more circa 1998. I definitely got my 181 pre-millennium.
No, it can't. A bill of attainder is specific in that it is equivalent to Congress being able to pass a law saying an individual is guilty of a crime. Nobody's picking up a criminal record or judicial punishment from this law. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder
You never hear about it because the phrase primarily is interpreted as applying when somebody passes a law that marks an individual guilty. Making them not guilty isn't so much of an issue (whatever would we have done with slavery laws then?). eggoeater's quote from the wiki addresses that.
What that basically means is that Congress can't say "John is guilty" (bill of attainder), nor can they say "Wearing blue socks on July 4th, 2007 is illegal" if they pass the law on July 5th, 2007 or later.
Although, I admit when thinking about it now, that changing a civil liability law retroactively may not be tested. Curiouser and curiouser.
The best comment I have to that is, "Think back to Fight Club."
The cost of the lawsuits versus the cost of the recall just isn't enough, so a few soccer moms can burn. I do have to say, though, I'm way more comfy with a bank saying, "Ehh, we'll lose the money in customer's accounts," provided the bank is the one that takes the loss.
I am on the job, and I understand the fair portion of drudge work. Indeed, it lands on my desk often. It is still, for the past 3 years, a fulfilling job. It also comes with a paycheck, as opposed to be something I'm paying for the "honor and opportunity" of suffering.
I propose a question to you that I ask you think about, but not post a reply to. Why is it that you so quickly gloss over what I said to find something negative you may post a scathing reply to? Indeed, you could have had a much better statement if you left out the last sentence. Did you consider any other alternative to who I might be?
You have another recent comment in reply to another poster which you ended in the same way: "To even compare the two situations is a sign of a severely warped personality."
Same thing my life was in school. I was variously enrolled in and kicked out of "normal" classes during my time as a student. I would be placed in the "gifted" programs, and I would find the work itself no more intellectually appealing than the standard track classes, but I always did find the work load to be much higher.
I hated it. English classes? We wrote more papers, we did more work, but it was pointless work. We never had a greater intellectual discussion over the material covered. We never developed deeper ideas, nor were we to be taught better styles of writing. Indeed, the quality of papers could be correlated only to the quality of writing skill harbored by the students when they entered the class. My papers eventually degenerated into B grade first-drafts. Whatâ(TM)d it matter anymore anyway, when my first drafts despite their stupid mistakes could score that.
In the end, I left high school with no AP scores. I still have one year of college left, and I LOATH it. I've spent the last 3 years while in college as a programmer analyst tackling some fairly interesting problems in the âoereal world.â At best, Iâ(TM)ll be graduating on the five year plan, but I do have a slightly reduced schedule and even ran for the State House at one point. Ironically, I went to the college yesterday and paid the fee to take a CLEP test for the ENG 100 course I never passed (missed turning in that last paper of the class my first semester, and I certainly don't want to do the work again).
I'm sure the point of my ranting is confusing, mostly because I'm making two nearly opposing points at once, but I suppose that's what a closing summary is for. I suggest letting your son ride through 7th and 8th grade in the style he is right now, and engage his mind in as much interesting stimulation as possible that the school doesn't provide. When he gets to high school, though, have him tackle all the AP work he can. 40 or so credits upon graduation will be great, and he can skip all the bullshit classes he would have had to take come college.
That second point? This whole system sucks, primarily for failing me in terms of being interesting (and therefore informative and something I learned from), and secondarily for never getting the potential value of sitting through those drudge classes in the first place. Take careful note of that order, and know that fixing the secondary part of the point doesn't excuse the first at all.
Myself? I'm the disgruntled 23 year guy who doesn't turn in all the homework, has clients who end up teaching the same classes he's in, and really, really wishes I knew what I know now when I was younger. I'd also like to know what I'll know in 10 years now, but I guess it's not an option.
I did my homework, and that's why they have my credit card on the back end (which, thankfully, can tell them to get stuffed). You're right about linking to any account that keeps cash on hand in it. PayPal also has a long history of locking cash in its customer accounts. Really, they're just terrible to everybody involved. I don't believe I've bought anything with my account since that time.
From a seller's point of view: The EBay style of charging the seller commission, then charging the seller a percentage of PayPal too kinda gets me. Sure, they're treating them like the separate company they used to be, but come on. I suppose you get what you get for having something less than a true credit card merchant account (which costs).
As an aside rant, I'm sad that nobody does a cash discount anymore. I'd happily pay you on a 2% reduction to save you the 3% or whatever my CC company charges. Well, really to save myself 2%, but you'd profit as a vendor!
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I think they should have just gone ahead with the presentation. Contempt of an invalid order doesn't stand, does it?
One of my favorites, though, is the story of a guy applying for a job at Yahoo! He registered the email account "iwanttowork(@yahoo.com)," and used that to send his resume. They hired him.
I wish I could find my source for that, but I'm damn sure it happened.
Now I wont be able to sleep.
That's ok, that's genetic too.
Add sodium.
Water on its own? Boiler explosions are amazing. The almost instantaneous expansion of the steam from 150 to 180 pounds per square inch of atmospheric pressure produced a terrific force, which was usually violent enough to rip the firebox sheets and tear the entire locomotive boiler off of the locomotive frames. The effect was pretty much like a rocket taking off and exploding. Boilers were sometimes hurled hundreds of feet away. http://small-leavedshamrock.blogspot.com/2008/05/1892-pottsville-train-explosion-how-why.html
Well, perhaps not. As I think off-the-cuff, I'd say that you can't simply store the value alone on the card. No matter how you look at it, if you store the number "$250" once, you can store the same encrypted bit pattern again and the system will always read $250.
I think the most practical way to handle things would be to load the card value database into the bus computers when they hit the transit station. Cards given increased value during the rest of the day would include one of a number of daily "magic numbers" in the card in addition to the value. The bus would accept cards showing a higher-than-recorded number when they have a valid magic number on them as well.
Even if the card lies about its value, the system is secure against all but the most minimal value fraud. Subway turnstiles always read against the database, buses are updated regularly and only accept higher values when given a daily secret, and disconnected / down systems can still record the transactions files and accept the card value as basically true. Upon rejoining, the "real" card balance is fixed. The transit system database would only make adjustments to the card value, never accepting what the card said except for those disconnected situations.
Thoughts? The only compromise I can see is the magic number list getting out. That would require an HR defect, or somebody getting access to the MBTA machines. Of course, I just thought all this up, so more holes may exist.
Well, my complaint was reading their comparison of total power consumption for the time of the task. Since the time required for different processors was different, I was expecting something equivalent to joules or kWH. It appears the article says "watt-seconds (joules)" when I checked it now, so they either fixed it, or I really messed up reading it in the first place.
For those commenting on the "," and "." being interchangeable, yes... but why read watts out to that precision? Indeed, with the comment on joules, they didn't.
However you look at it, the advantage of the implementation of the systems may have given 3.8% to the VIA CPU system, but we know the processor itself scored differently. I wish that had somehow be taken into consideration.
It seems they may be measuring the whole system load in comparing the efficiency of the processors, which is more than a little unfair. What sticks out more, though are numbers like "63,434 watts". Uhmm... no? Besides being a clearly invalid measurement, it should probably be expressed at watt-hours. No way either machine drew 63 kilowatt hours either.
TFA is broken.
That's because of all the cameras (at least, in Britain).
The NRC regulates the operation of the plants. It does not control them. The State regulates my operation of a motor vehicle. I'm in control of it. Very important distinction.
That would too quickly fall to a computer. The reason CAPTCHAs (did) work is because the number of possible answers was respectably high. If you put 10 people in a line, a computer would probably get the right answer the 5th time around. If you put 100 people in a line, you'd get a very pissed off user.
You should have modded him up, because the comment you just made has negative value.
My comment's awesome because /. loves crotchety elitist bastards like myself. PLUS I'm going to start a whole new thread below by commenting on how relatively damn old my UID is, you newbie punk. I bet you can guess what happens next.
In Soviet Slashdot, I pick where the moderators click!
Oh, it gets better. During the time that I was running for State House, many local publications listed the names / info about people running for office. Gay Portland must have done some great maneuvering with Page Rank, 'cause they won slot #1.
Your link, at least, doesn't show anything in the first ten that could be mistaken for me... as opposed to the similarly aged bank robber who lived in Massachusetts.
Originally I was the only person who showed up in search results with my name. Unfortunately, that has changed. I'm very curious how many would-be dates have not happened because of this Google search: http://www.google.com/search?q=jeffrey+ferland
Accountants + alcohol. They appear to be slightly crazier than frat / sorority crowds when intoxicated.
I used to be 181xxxxx, but somehow I lost control of that number. I became 258xxxxx. Thought I never use the accounts, those numbers will probably be in my head 'til I die. I'm pretty sure your numbers are more circa 1998. I definitely got my 181 pre-millennium.
You should not be.
It might not be a good idea to tattoo gang signs all over your body. I think that analogy may help make the point in itself.
No, it can't. A bill of attainder is specific in that it is equivalent to Congress being able to pass a law saying an individual is guilty of a crime. Nobody's picking up a criminal record or judicial punishment from this law. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder
You never hear about it because the phrase primarily is interpreted as applying when somebody passes a law that marks an individual guilty. Making them not guilty isn't so much of an issue (whatever would we have done with slavery laws then?). eggoeater's quote from the wiki addresses that.
What that basically means is that Congress can't say "John is guilty" (bill of attainder), nor can they say "Wearing blue socks on July 4th, 2007 is illegal" if they pass the law on July 5th, 2007 or later.
Although, I admit when thinking about it now, that changing a civil liability law retroactively may not be tested. Curiouser and curiouser.
Not familiar? Oh, your /. account has SO been revoked. n00b. :)
The best comment I have to that is, "Think back to Fight Club."
The cost of the lawsuits versus the cost of the recall just isn't enough, so a few soccer moms can burn. I do have to say, though, I'm way more comfy with a bank saying, "Ehh, we'll lose the money in customer's accounts," provided the bank is the one that takes the loss.
I am on the job, and I understand the fair portion of drudge work. Indeed, it lands on my desk often. It is still, for the past 3 years, a fulfilling job. It also comes with a paycheck, as opposed to be something I'm paying for the "honor and opportunity" of suffering.
I propose a question to you that I ask you think about, but not post a reply to. Why is it that you so quickly gloss over what I said to find something negative you may post a scathing reply to? Indeed, you could have had a much better statement if you left out the last sentence. Did you consider any other alternative to who I might be?
You have another recent comment in reply to another poster which you ended in the same way: "To even compare the two situations is a sign of a severely warped personality."
Same thing my life was in school. I was variously enrolled in and kicked out of "normal" classes during my time as a student. I would be placed in the "gifted" programs, and I would find the work itself no more intellectually appealing than the standard track classes, but I always did find the work load to be much higher.
I hated it. English classes? We wrote more papers, we did more work, but it was pointless work. We never had a greater intellectual discussion over the material covered. We never developed deeper ideas, nor were we to be taught better styles of writing. Indeed, the quality of papers could be correlated only to the quality of writing skill harbored by the students when they entered the class. My papers eventually degenerated into B grade first-drafts. Whatâ(TM)d it matter anymore anyway, when my first drafts despite their stupid mistakes could score that.
In the end, I left high school with no AP scores. I still have one year of college left, and I LOATH it. I've spent the last 3 years while in college as a programmer analyst tackling some fairly interesting problems in the âoereal world.â At best, Iâ(TM)ll be graduating on the five year plan, but I do have a slightly reduced schedule and even ran for the State House at one point. Ironically, I went to the college yesterday and paid the fee to take a CLEP test for the ENG 100 course I never passed (missed turning in that last paper of the class my first semester, and I certainly don't want to do the work again).
I'm sure the point of my ranting is confusing, mostly because I'm making two nearly opposing points at once, but I suppose that's what a closing summary is for. I suggest letting your son ride through 7th and 8th grade in the style he is right now, and engage his mind in as much interesting stimulation as possible that the school doesn't provide. When he gets to high school, though, have him tackle all the AP work he can. 40 or so credits upon graduation will be great, and he can skip all the bullshit classes he would have had to take come college.
That second point? This whole system sucks, primarily for failing me in terms of being interesting (and therefore informative and something I learned from), and secondarily for never getting the potential value of sitting through those drudge classes in the first place. Take careful note of that order, and know that fixing the secondary part of the point doesn't excuse the first at all.
Myself? I'm the disgruntled 23 year guy who doesn't turn in all the homework, has clients who end up teaching the same classes he's in, and really, really wishes I knew what I know now when I was younger. I'd also like to know what I'll know in 10 years now, but I guess it's not an option.
It's the new style. Ever since CmdrTaco pulled it off, well, the rest of us have had no excuse ;)
I did my homework, and that's why they have my credit card on the back end (which, thankfully, can tell them to get stuffed). You're right about linking to any account that keeps cash on hand in it. PayPal also has a long history of locking cash in its customer accounts. Really, they're just terrible to everybody involved. I don't believe I've bought anything with my account since that time.
From a seller's point of view: The EBay style of charging the seller commission, then charging the seller a percentage of PayPal too kinda gets me. Sure, they're treating them like the separate company they used to be, but come on. I suppose you get what you get for having something less than a true credit card merchant account (which costs).
As an aside rant, I'm sad that nobody does a cash discount anymore. I'd happily pay you on a 2% reduction to save you the 3% or whatever my CC company charges. Well, really to save myself 2%, but you'd profit as a vendor!