that we should have started drilling in ANWR in 2002?
If we're applying psychic powers, we should have started drilling there in 1992. Then the oil would be flowing around 2002... at which point BP's pipes start falling apart, requiring them to shut the whole thing down a few years ago to replace the pipes. These new pipes would be in place and ready to flow just in time for them to start pumping again right... about... now!
is a very competent attorney who happens to be a neo-Nazi member of KKK and NAMBLA
That's a good question. Is he actually competent, or is he going to let running around with little boys in white hoods with swastikas on top get in the way of his work?
How about the other extreme: a very competent attorney who has spent his life sucking up to the Republican party? If the theory is that the NAMBLA guy isn't going to work so hard to bust pedophiles, why should I expect the Republican to work so hard to bust Republicans, or the Democrat to bust Democrats?
Maybe the law should be rewritten to require that the people hired for these positions have never expressed a political leaning in any direction or held a membership in any club once they're too old to be a Boy (or Girl) Scout.
Sadly, "peers" doesn't mean what we wish it did, and one of the questions during voir dire will almost certainly be "have you ever worked as a network administrator before?" with an affirmative answer as grounds for dismissal from the jury pool.
Whoever wrote the BIOS put out a great deal of effort, as their BIOS apparently goes beyond accepting the identifier given by the OS (At least as of January, Linux identifies as "Microsoft Windows NT" after a brief bout of identifying as "Linux" and breaking a lot of BIOSes that flipped out when they couldn't recognize the OS) to some other nonstandard method that is capable of identifying Linux even if Linux identifies itself to the BIOS as Windows.
Correcting for erratic and imperfect human drivers is the big problem.
On a freeway, once you've located the lane markings (this is a feat in and of itself, and why we're probably well more than 20 years from robotic cars: there's no way governments are going to pay for fancy radio or magnetic markers when they can't even be bothered to keep the damn lines painted on a regular basis) robotic cars are trivial: don't go faster than the guy in front of you, and don't change lanes if there's a car beside you. You could even program in some courtesy: if a car slightly ahead of you has their blinker on, slow to allow it in front of you unless its slowing down, likewise if you're changing lanes with a car even with or slightly ahead of you, slow to fit in behind them.
Dealing with humans really doesn't change that much, all you have to do is decide how large of a cannon to equip for when some idiot breaks the rules above.
one uses his car as often as possible, other other hardly
Well, in the first case, the family can own their car, pay whatever taxes (property, registration, etc), and pay for their fuel, just like they do now. It will also conveniently drop them off at the front of the grocery store in the rain (and be right there to pick them up as they come out the door).
In the second case, the guy could just contract with Electro Rent-a-Car to have a car appear at his curb when he does need to go out. His rate includes the cost of the taxes, the fuel used while he's using it, and so on. It will also drop him off and pick him up at the airport (without having to take the bus from the rental lot), and when he's done with it, it just drives off into the sunset.
its about commercial interests
Commercial interests are the only way anyone's going to do it without God coming down and smiting at random until people comply.
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To what? If you're going to halfass your description, expect halfass understanding. You didn't say that the applet transmits the location of the click to the server, you just said that it moves around on the screen, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do since it's well known that one of the responses to graphical keypads (which was a response to key loggers recording the password being typed in) are mouse loggers that log the locations of mouse clicks (though these days, these even take a screen shot with every click).
Of course, the applet has to be told by the server "display the pad at 532,312" so that the applet can display it in the right place, so the script simply needs to get that message and figure out the location of the letters from there.
Ding ding ding! PageRank's patent is simply one of thousands upon thousands of useless patents exactly like this. Take, for instance, this lawsuit over this patent. Read the line items there, and tell me how one would go about creating a "video codec" using "a single semiconductor chip". I'm almost willing to bet that this "Advanced Video Technologies" couldn't tell me either, but I'm sure they thought that it sounded like it would be a good idea.
That's where Google's pal "Trade Secret" comes in, after all, it's not like they list the algorithm they use to rank pages on their front page. Their patent reads more like "PageRank exists and we use it to order results from most relevant to least relevant and then display those results with links to the user, doing so is hereby patented" i.e. business process at its finest, with not a word that can be used to actually implement PageRank.
The point was that at some point along the line, a message is sent from your computer to the server, and any message a "graphics typepad" can send, so can a script, only 50000 times faster.
Diesel is toxic - what's it matter if the algae it comes from is too?
Grandparent's post is wacky FUD, but diesel's toxicity would be of greater relevance if you had to fish your dinner out of it.
As for the original post, harvesting the stuff would be making the best of a bad situation, but the better answer is to keep it from happening in the first place.
Hm, you're right, there's only a few dozen websites out there claim Bob Urosevich was the CEO of Diebold Election Systems.
As far as I can tell his "official" title was, Bob Urosevich was the President of Diebold Election Systems from January 2002 until the second half of 2004. Prior to 2002, he was the Chief Operating Officer and President of Global Election Systems (which was bought by Diebold).
Those transfers could occur through SWIFT, WebMoney, Pecunix gold or e-gold or other such push oriented systems.
Credit cards work because (for non-prepaid cards) they are backed by the credit card company, not by having my personal cash locked up in someone else's account earning interest for that other person. They are also processed immediately at the time of ordering: when the person checks out, they are done.
When US banks finally reach the point where they're serious about money transfers then push payment will actually become a real contender. And by "serious" I mean issuing "write-only" account numbers that can only be used for deposits, the ability for the consumer to perform money transfers into those accounts, and rates that are competitive with credit card processors' rates.
Even then, commerce sites will hate it every step of the way because buyers will mistype account numbers, mistype invoice numbers, or just flat out forget to pay then bitch at the customer service when they don't get the item. Meanwhile, their systems clog up with stale unpaid orders.
Of course, they could just use PayPal, assuming they trust it with their bank and credit card details.
There may be nothing you can do if someone who doesn't bother to double-check types your domain wrong and gets a phishing site, then doesn't bother to verify that the site is encrypted, then doesn't bother to check that the site looks right, then types their credit card number in.
But there is one thing that by not doing, reduces the amount of damage that phishers can do: do not turn SSL into an unverified free-for-all. If this happens, then people who DO bother to check will be suckered in as well, because the phishers will all get certificates of their own.
Multiple the number of certs you think such a company can process by $25
Yeah, that'd suck if all you could do was process one cert a week.
Anytime I hear a statement such as "I realize the person doesn't have experience running a business or understand economics." I realize that the person hasn't got a clue what he's talking about.
How do we know that you're not? How do we know that you didn't forget to renew your domain and now some hokey-untrusted individual is running your site for you (or that your domain got stolen out from under your nose?) How do we know that our ISP didn't forget to patch their DNS servers and that I'm not getting a copy of your site on hokey-untrusted individual's server thanks to a cache poisoning attack?
I contend that your site is hokey-untrusted.
I realized that Google Checkout payments (or at least automated CGI processing of them) would only be done through web sites with SSL certificates
Or you could have them pay through google's site, sure it's not exactly professional-looking but it beats expecting people to send their credit card details to some hokey-untrusted site.
This FF3 problem is even worse
As for FF3, I think they are a little overboard with the current dialog boxes. They should just state 1) That the site's owner cannot be verified automatically, 2) That the connection is still encrypted but due to 1 you don't know who is reading it, and 3) Don't provide any credit card numbers or secure information without manually validating the fingerprint of the certificate through some other means.
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that we should have started drilling in ANWR in 2002?
If we're applying psychic powers, we should have started drilling there in 1992. Then the oil would be flowing around 2002... at which point BP's pipes start falling apart, requiring them to shut the whole thing down a few years ago to replace the pipes. These new pipes would be in place and ready to flow just in time for them to start pumping again right... about... now!
Really?
Anonymous tip lines work for the cops, and what can be more of an attack on a character than reporting that they committed a crime?
Neither are anonymous attacks on one's character credible
No matter how much you assert it, it's not going to come true.
Beat everyone else to the Laughing Man reference.
is a very competent attorney who happens to be a neo-Nazi member of KKK and NAMBLA
That's a good question. Is he actually competent, or is he going to let running around with little boys in white hoods with swastikas on top get in the way of his work?
How about the other extreme: a very competent attorney who has spent his life sucking up to the Republican party? If the theory is that the NAMBLA guy isn't going to work so hard to bust pedophiles, why should I expect the Republican to work so hard to bust Republicans, or the Democrat to bust Democrats?
Maybe the law should be rewritten to require that the people hired for these positions have never expressed a political leaning in any direction or held a membership in any club once they're too old to be a Boy (or Girl) Scout.
"Copy our game and do a better job than us, and we will let you pay us to use it rather than prosecuting you"
Sounds so much better when you spin it the other way.
Sadly, "peers" doesn't mean what we wish it did, and one of the questions during voir dire will almost certainly be "have you ever worked as a network administrator before?" with an affirmative answer as grounds for dismissal from the jury pool.
That would still require effort on their part.
Que?
Whoever wrote the BIOS put out a great deal of effort, as their BIOS apparently goes beyond accepting the identifier given by the OS (At least as of January, Linux identifies as "Microsoft Windows NT" after a brief bout of identifying as "Linux" and breaking a lot of BIOSes that flipped out when they couldn't recognize the OS) to some other nonstandard method that is capable of identifying Linux even if Linux identifies itself to the BIOS as Windows.
That's not lazy. Nor is it incompetent.
Correcting for erratic and imperfect human drivers is the big problem.
On a freeway, once you've located the lane markings (this is a feat in and of itself, and why we're probably well more than 20 years from robotic cars: there's no way governments are going to pay for fancy radio or magnetic markers when they can't even be bothered to keep the damn lines painted on a regular basis) robotic cars are trivial: don't go faster than the guy in front of you, and don't change lanes if there's a car beside you. You could even program in some courtesy: if a car slightly ahead of you has their blinker on, slow to allow it in front of you unless its slowing down, likewise if you're changing lanes with a car even with or slightly ahead of you, slow to fit in behind them.
Dealing with humans really doesn't change that much, all you have to do is decide how large of a cannon to equip for when some idiot breaks the rules above.
one uses his car as often as possible, other other hardly
Well, in the first case, the family can own their car, pay whatever taxes (property, registration, etc), and pay for their fuel, just like they do now. It will also conveniently drop them off at the front of the grocery store in the rain (and be right there to pick them up as they come out the door).
In the second case, the guy could just contract with Electro Rent-a-Car to have a car appear at his curb when he does need to go out. His rate includes the cost of the taxes, the fuel used while he's using it, and so on. It will also drop him off and pick him up at the airport (without having to take the bus from the rental lot), and when he's done with it, it just drives off into the sunset.
its about commercial interests
Commercial interests are the only way anyone's going to do it without God coming down and smiting at random until people comply.
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The microwave radiation from the sun is far more powerful than a cell phone. So don't walk outside!
If we have sunscreen to avert cancer from the sun, can we get a bottle of phonescreen to avert cancer from a cellphone?
Can't employers simply choose to reject someone who graduates from an institution that makes no effort to verify who is taking their students' tests?
Sure they can. Just as soon as someone gets around to inventing that perfect lie detector.
Please pay attention!
To what? If you're going to halfass your description, expect halfass understanding. You didn't say that the applet transmits the location of the click to the server, you just said that it moves around on the screen, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do since it's well known that one of the responses to graphical keypads (which was a response to key loggers recording the password being typed in) are mouse loggers that log the locations of mouse clicks (though these days, these even take a screen shot with every click).
Of course, the applet has to be told by the server "display the pad at 532,312" so that the applet can display it in the right place, so the script simply needs to get that message and figure out the location of the letters from there.
If the patent is really like that it is useless
Ding ding ding! PageRank's patent is simply one of thousands upon thousands of useless patents exactly like this. Take, for instance, this lawsuit over this patent. Read the line items there, and tell me how one would go about creating a "video codec" using "a single semiconductor chip". I'm almost willing to bet that this "Advanced Video Technologies" couldn't tell me either, but I'm sure they thought that it sounded like it would be a good idea.
other search engines can legally use PageRank
That's where Google's pal "Trade Secret" comes in, after all, it's not like they list the algorithm they use to rank pages on their front page. Their patent reads more like "PageRank exists and we use it to order results from most relevant to least relevant and then display those results with links to the user, doing so is hereby patented" i.e. business process at its finest, with not a word that can be used to actually implement PageRank.
And it uses telepathy to communicate back to the server, or does it just request https://bank.com/login?letter1=p&letter2=a&letter3=s&letter4=s and so on?
The point was that at some point along the line, a message is sent from your computer to the server, and any message a "graphics typepad" can send, so can a script, only 50000 times faster.
that made someone some money, and piling behind it thinking it will make you money too seems naive at very least.
Not to mention that if it already made someone else money, you've probably missed the boat.
Diesel is toxic - what's it matter if the algae it comes from is too?
Grandparent's post is wacky FUD, but diesel's toxicity would be of greater relevance if you had to fish your dinner out of it.
As for the original post, harvesting the stuff would be making the best of a bad situation, but the better answer is to keep it from happening in the first place.
Hm, you're right, there's only a few dozen websites out there claim Bob Urosevich was the CEO of Diebold Election Systems.
As far as I can tell his "official" title was, Bob Urosevich was the President of Diebold Election Systems from January 2002 until the second half of 2004. Prior to 2002, he was the Chief Operating Officer and President of Global Election Systems (which was bought by Diebold).
Those transfers could occur through SWIFT, WebMoney, Pecunix gold or e-gold or other such push oriented systems.
Credit cards work because (for non-prepaid cards) they are backed by the credit card company, not by having my personal cash locked up in someone else's account earning interest for that other person. They are also processed immediately at the time of ordering: when the person checks out, they are done.
When US banks finally reach the point where they're serious about money transfers then push payment will actually become a real contender. And by "serious" I mean issuing "write-only" account numbers that can only be used for deposits, the ability for the consumer to perform money transfers into those accounts, and rates that are competitive with credit card processors' rates.
Even then, commerce sites will hate it every step of the way because buyers will mistype account numbers, mistype invoice numbers, or just flat out forget to pay then bitch at the customer service when they don't get the item. Meanwhile, their systems clog up with stale unpaid orders.
Of course, they could just use PayPal, assuming they trust it with their bank and credit card details.
not much you can do.
There may be nothing you can do if someone who doesn't bother to double-check types your domain wrong and gets a phishing site, then doesn't bother to verify that the site is encrypted, then doesn't bother to check that the site looks right, then types their credit card number in.
But there is one thing that by not doing, reduces the amount of damage that phishers can do: do not turn SSL into an unverified free-for-all. If this happens, then people who DO bother to check will be suckered in as well, because the phishers will all get certificates of their own.
Multiple the number of certs you think such a company can process by $25
Yeah, that'd suck if all you could do was process one cert a week.
Anytime I hear a statement such as "I realize the person doesn't have experience running a business or understand economics." I realize that the person hasn't got a clue what he's talking about.
My singing voice is terrible. As terrible as a webpage with stupid spelling errors right on the front.
some hokey-untrusted individual!
How do we know that you're not? How do we know that you didn't forget to renew your domain and now some hokey-untrusted individual is running your site for you (or that your domain got stolen out from under your nose?) How do we know that our ISP didn't forget to patch their DNS servers and that I'm not getting a copy of your site on hokey-untrusted individual's server thanks to a cache poisoning attack?
I contend that your site is hokey-untrusted.
I realized that Google Checkout payments (or at least automated CGI processing of them) would only be done through web sites with SSL certificates
Or you could have them pay through google's site, sure it's not exactly professional-looking but it beats expecting people to send their credit card details to some hokey-untrusted site.
This FF3 problem is even worse
As for FF3, I think they are a little overboard with the current dialog boxes. They should just state 1) That the site's owner cannot be verified automatically, 2) That the connection is still encrypted but due to 1 you don't know who is reading it, and 3) Don't provide any credit card numbers or secure information without manually validating the fingerprint of the certificate through some other means.