"Good communications skills" are often a job requirement; a cover letter shows whether or not you possess those skills.
it doesn't show any such thing! reading a cover letter is sort of like deciding whether to go on a blind date, you don't know anything about the person except what someone else told you...there is no garauntee that the cover letter was actually written by the person applying for the job! maybe a friend wrote it for them, or they could have even hired someone.
they aren't offereing a million to crack a simple key, they are offering the million to crack ECC entirely
a group of people have already won $10k for cracking one of the keys.
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those continuous shufflers aren't allways as good as the casino wants them to be...you are correct that you can't count them, but i believe sometimes they can have patterns as to how they shuffle.
some people are really good at tracking a shuffle of a normal dealer, i have seen it done before without use of anything but your own brain...you can use some of these same techniques on a continuous shuffler. it is a lot harder than counting though!
and it is a good thing that not everyone counts(successfully) otherwise all the casinos would switch to these continuous shufflers.
that isn't really the real problem on mars. the real problem on mars is that it is somewhere between 30 light seconds (on its closest aproach) and 16+ light minutes (on its furthest) away...meaning that it is not possible to communicate in realtime with the lander. the lander is on its own, we can moniter anything it sends us, but by the time we see something go wrong it is probably too late for us to do anything about it.
seems to me religion is very much like a corperation...especially the catholic church, but not limited to them. so comparing religion to a corperation does make sense. religion makes a LOT of money!
you have the ceo -- the pope district managers -- bishops middle management -- priests grunts/general labor -- the altar boys/choir/ushers
yes, though i would possibly sell it to him, but i would make him pay through the teeth for it. as i am sure it isn't cheap to ship it there to begin with and if they do sell it to them they definately shouldn't do it for a loss.
also i think the options they have already given him seem quite reasonable.
i agree with you what their priorities should be, but providing lodging and food for this person alone is eating into their resources and probably taking away some of their valuable time that they could be using for research.
the faster they can get rid of him the better, and if they receive enough money to recoop all their lost fuel then they should get rid of him as soon as they can fuel his plane so he stops distracting them from their research and taking other resources
it is possible that if the queen did get involved that this whole problem could be solved...
that way the bases can keep their hard stance against "encouraging tourism" and don't have to look like they faultered on their views, and by the queens intervention she could possibly get the NZ base to sell him some fuel so he can be on his way and possibly avoid some of the potentially bad publicity that this situation could cause.
yes, but where does it say they have to give them fuel? why would the queen need to get involved?
they have given him food and are willing to give him passage out. so indeed they are "allow[ing] the bearer to pass freely without let or hinrance" and are giving "assistance and protection as may be necessary"
if i were in a place as inhospitable as the antartic i would make sure i have enough fuel to last without receiving the next several shipments just in case they don't ever arrive. and i would make this a priority even at the expense of some science if i had to. so at least if i were running the place there would indeed be extra fuel, at least enough to get them through to the next shipment even if they did sell it to him. so i don't see why they can't sell him fuel.
why don't they charge him for the fuel what it would cost them to replace the fuel, and then possibly even a bit more so they can buy new earmuffs and steamy penguin posters or something. heck while you are at it charge him for all of his lodging and food, because that must be costing them valuable resources as well!
if they charge him enough but still gave him the option of buying fuel. hopefully if you charged enough it would not encourage him to return, would possibly get you some cool new toys from the money, and as a bonus would get rid of him as he will be merrily on his way flying out.
oh what a novel concept...competition! i don't think capitalism has ever seen multiple products competing against each other...that sounds like it should be illegal or something! [/sarcasm]
i have had plenty of hd's burn out, i have had monitors blow, and i have seen a proc/motherboard fried by lightning.
but i have never seen a proc or motherboard burn out on its own from normal usage. i run both athlon and pentium systems.
i have never seen a proc burn out and i still have an old pentium 1, and a 486 that i use occasionally. heck i even have an old computer with just 512k ram that still works...wish i knew what proc was in there.
normal people don't understand big words such as "formating" and "file system" they only want it to work, and if the camera can't format the media itself, then in their mind it doesn't work and is broken.
but because they don't understand the terminology to begin with it means nothing to them when the camera lists "format media" in its list of features.
If you started to do that, people could choose to not eat Maple Syrup Bread. They won't die.
a number of people would have long ago quit their job and now be exclusively eating his maple syrup bread...it is quite possible that some people would die! as they would no longer have the means to feed themselves they have become dependant on your giving out bread.
except at that point if the US is already going against the EU what is to stop them from taking more drastic steps of just shooting them down?
if i were the EU what i would do was comply with the US in giving them their jamming ability but secretly i would add to it the ability to broadcast at other frequencies and just not tell the US so in time of war against the US they can turn on these other frequencies if they so desire...at the very least it will take some time before the US realizes that the EU's galileo system is not being jammed because it is also working on other frequencies. though this relies on keeping secrets, and those aren't always easy to keep.
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"Good communications skills" are often a job requirement; a cover letter shows whether or not you possess those skills.
it doesn't show any such thing! reading a cover letter is sort of like deciding whether to go on a blind date, you don't know anything about the person except what someone else told you...there is no garauntee that the cover letter was actually written by the person applying for the job! maybe a friend wrote it for them, or they could have even hired someone.
they aren't offereing a million to crack a simple key, they are offering the million to crack ECC entirely
a group of people have already won $10k for cracking one of the keys.
those continuous shufflers aren't allways as good as the casino wants them to be...you are correct that you can't count them, but i believe sometimes they can have patterns as to how they shuffle.
some people are really good at tracking a shuffle of a normal dealer, i have seen it done before without use of anything but your own brain...you can use some of these same techniques on a continuous shuffler. it is a lot harder than counting though!
and it is a good thing that not everyone counts(successfully) otherwise all the casinos would switch to these continuous shufflers.
i think it is a valid point! i don't normally complain about the free registration required for the articles, but this article is a special case.
the article says tracking technology is bad, yet employs a tracking technology of its own!
ok, hypocrisy might work then.
does anyone else see the irony in a registration required article preaching against the invasion of privacy of another device that can track people?
that isn't really the real problem on mars.
the real problem on mars is that it is somewhere between 30 light seconds (on its closest aproach) and 16+ light minutes (on its furthest) away...meaning that it is not possible to communicate in realtime with the lander. the lander is on its own, we can moniter anything it sends us, but by the time we see something go wrong it is probably too late for us to do anything about it.
which just proves it isn't very accessible!!!
exactly, it is an exciting time, because there will be 3 probes on mars!
i am not trying to say hey look "our probe is bigger than your probe" that was sort of started in the by the article itself...
and competition is good, maybe the ESA will find something NASA doesn't
seems to me religion is very much like a corperation...especially the catholic church, but not limited to them. so comparing religion to a corperation does make sense. religion makes a LOT of money!
you have the
ceo -- the pope
district managers -- bishops
middle management -- priests
grunts/general labor -- the altar boys/choir/ushers
and your customers/clients are your parishioners.
seems to me that nasa has TWO probes that are to reach mars in january. instead of a single one like the ESA. so they haven't lost the edge yet
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they are censoring it for the USA market because they know what you are like
no, they merely think they know what we are like and are stereotyping us accordingly.
yes, though i would possibly sell it to him, but i would make him pay through the teeth for it. as i am sure it isn't cheap to ship it there to begin with and if they do sell it to them they definately shouldn't do it for a loss.
also i think the options they have already given him seem quite reasonable.
i agree with you what their priorities should be, but providing lodging and food for this person alone is eating into their resources and probably taking away some of their valuable time that they could be using for research.
the faster they can get rid of him the better, and if they receive enough money to recoop all their lost fuel then they should get rid of him as soon as they can fuel his plane so he stops distracting them from their research and taking other resources
it is possible that if the queen did get involved that this whole problem could be solved...
that way the bases can keep their hard stance against "encouraging tourism" and don't have to look like they faultered on their views, and by the queens intervention she could possibly get the NZ base to sell him some fuel so he can be on his way and possibly avoid some of the potentially bad publicity that this situation could cause.
yes, but where does it say they have to give them fuel? why would the queen need to get involved?
they have given him food and are willing to give him passage out. so indeed they are "allow[ing] the bearer to pass freely without let or hinrance" and are giving "assistance and protection as may be necessary"
if i were in a place as inhospitable as the antartic i would make sure i have enough fuel to last without receiving the next several shipments just in case they don't ever arrive. and i would make this a priority even at the expense of some science if i had to. so at least if i were running the place there would indeed be extra fuel, at least enough to get them through to the next shipment even if they did sell it to him. so i don't see why they can't sell him fuel.
why don't they charge him for the fuel what it would cost them to replace the fuel, and then possibly even a bit more so they can buy new earmuffs and steamy penguin posters or something. heck while you are at it charge him for all of his lodging and food, because that must be costing them valuable resources as well!
if they charge him enough but still gave him the option of buying fuel. hopefully if you charged enough it would not encourage him to return, would possibly get you some cool new toys from the money, and as a bonus would get rid of him as he will be merrily on his way flying out.
the article says he needs 104 gallons
oh what a novel concept...competition!
i don't think capitalism has ever seen multiple products competing against each other...that sounds like it should be illegal or something!
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that is a bad comparison because normally you don't die if your computer crashes...
i have had plenty of hd's burn out, i have had monitors blow, and i have seen a proc/motherboard fried by lightning.
but i have never seen a proc or motherboard burn out on its own from normal usage. i run both athlon and pentium systems.
i have never seen a proc burn out and i still have an old pentium 1, and a 486 that i use occasionally. heck i even have an old computer with just 512k ram that still works...wish i knew what proc was in there.
normal people don't understand big words such as "formating" and "file system" they only want it to work, and if the camera can't format the media itself, then in their mind it doesn't work and is broken.
but because they don't understand the terminology to begin with it means nothing to them when the camera lists "format media" in its list of features.
If you started to do that, people could choose to not eat Maple Syrup Bread. They won't die.
a number of people would have long ago quit their job and now be exclusively eating his maple syrup bread...it is quite possible that some people would die! as they would no longer have the means to feed themselves they have become dependant on your giving out bread.
you know, you have a point there...we have already invaded parts of europe twice!
yes, i do foresee a time when the US may need to invade europe as i said it has already happened twice why not a third time?
except at that point if the US is already going against the EU what is to stop them from taking more drastic steps of just shooting them down?
if i were the EU what i would do was comply with the US in giving them their jamming ability but secretly i would add to it the ability to broadcast at other frequencies and just not tell the US so in time of war against the US they can turn on these other frequencies if they so desire...at the very least it will take some time before the US realizes that the EU's galileo system is not being jammed because it is also working on other frequencies. though this relies on keeping secrets, and those aren't always easy to keep.