MI-Drivers_license_number uniquely identifies me, and I'm pretty sure most states will issue an ID card to people who don't/can't get a drivers license.
So requiring an SSN is laziness.
(any requirement I have seen for a lifelong persistent identifier has been stated in a very vague manner, so that isn't a real terrific reason to use SSNs, not to mention that they are not necessarily persistent)
Taken out of the context of using the SSN as authentication and identification, it seems pretty unreasonable.
The collections agency should have to go through some pretty serious checking before they even pester NixieBunny about the line of credit their client opened with minimal checking.
The problem is that the banks (and similar) have convinced you that you are the one being defrauded.
Sure, someone opens an account using your details and it sucks for you, but it wasn't your mistake, it was the institution that opened the account that made the mistake.
I figure, as much as anything, they are trying to de-brand the network. Some of the shows on USA appear to be generating equally strong ratings as the BSG final, with much lower production costs:
(I'm not confident that the ratings listed in those articles are a fair comparison, but the viewer totals for both Burn Notice and Royal Pains are higher than the BSG finale; I doubt those shows are ridiculously cheap, but I can't imagine they cost more than BSG)
Yes, but that is different than actually having cash equal to their deposits. "Your bank balance is made up of physical currency" at least implies that they are actually holding cash for you, which they are not. If you had left out 'physical', there would be less room to quibble, but you put it in.
That's clever, but there is a difference: if I have $5 and you decide that it isn't worth anything anymore, I don't have anything. If I have 5 pounds of grain and you decide that it isn't worth anything anymore, I can still eat it.
(said comparison takes place on a desert island or something, where there aren't a bunch of other people involved. Put down that knife, I am not a tasty meal.)
Not in the U.S. (under certain limits anyway, large accounts can substantially disappear), all U.S. banks are required to participate in the FDIC, usually the accounts are simply transferred to another institution (under some arrangement with the FDIC).
(DKIM is a scheme for message signing, if a message contains an organization's signature, it is quite likely that the organization did handle the message)
Hence the hedging and waffling; lots of...small fraction...majority of.
If you take face time (which I admit is overwhelmingly favorable to my argument compared to cycles used/cycles available), computers spend far more time waiting for users than vice versa (because of the huge numbers of people that check email and the like).
Nah, CPUs got fast. It went from, say circa 2000, where lots of tasks would use most of the processing power available on a cheap computer to circa 2005 where some small fraction of tasks (and poorly written flash) use most of the processing power available on a cheap computer. For the majority of users, everything since then has been a numbers game, with little real impact.
Hopefully they figure out a way to enable experimenting with the social organization on top of the foundation's infrastructure (this presumes that something like a majority of the content is at least useful). Things like trust networks (allowing the creation of many presentations), some way of quickly visualizing how an article came together, or mechanisms that limit process as much as possible (because it seems like a lot of the bullshit happens when someone 'in the know' uses 'established procedures' against someone making a casual edit).
I wasn't really trying to praise mathematicians and slam engineers, I was pointing out that 'mathematical literacy' is a poorly defined concept, and I was using my personal educational experience (a BSME) as a point of reference (I have received, compared to the general population, a great deal of mathematical education, and yet I am not particularly well versed).
This gets to the situation where Trigonometry and Calculus are emphasized in High school (well, increasingly, Michigan is only up to requiring Algebra II for graduation, so Calculus doesn't quite fit there, but Trig does), but for most people, making it a certainty that they understand around half of the concepts from Algebra I and sit through a practical treatment of statistics would be far more useful than struggling through Trigonometry and Algebra II. So to me, the interesting question is more about what math the general population should be encouraged to understand, not how much of it (because there is already too much even for mathematicians...).
You should contact the legal teams at the various universities listed in the summary and tell them about your orientation, so that they can stop misleading their international students. For instance, before commenting, I read the section "What about taxes?" at this link:
The summary is stupid, but the point is that there are fewer required taxes for some foreign students (because they are not presumed to be eligible for social security benefits in the future, they are not required to pay into the system (though it apparently depends on the precise residency status of the student)).
But what is remedial math? I'm pretty decent as far as math knowledge goes (for a non mathematician...this is only my vague estimate, but I'm at a higher level of knowledge than almost everyone I know, including most of my extended family), and I can barely even read something like this:
And that is from a paper written 85 years ago. So a college degree in engineering apparently barely starts to touch on many of the concepts that have been explored by mathematicians.
The entire point of checking hashes against a database is to automatically disqualify uninteresting files. Custom exes and images are interesting files. It doesn't mean it will be easy to find the data after the uninteresting files have been discarded, but it means that a bunch of data tacked onto the end of notepad.exe or the like will be really easy to find, and it will narrow the number of files that need to be examined in directories like Program Files, or the main windows directory.
If there is a large seizure, some drug or the other might not be available at any price, at least for a short period of time. Some owners might not be willing to part with art at any price, putting the value they place on the item far above any buyer (or even a variety of buyers). Hence the dysfunctional markets.
The comment system neuters your Google-fu (rel="nofollow") and the moderation system will quickly hide your comment from most viewers, so you are pretty much entirely wasting your time here.
Of course, I would speculate you are wasting your time pulling that shit pretty much anywhere.
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MI-Drivers_license_number uniquely identifies me, and I'm pretty sure most states will issue an ID card to people who don't/can't get a drivers license.
So requiring an SSN is laziness.
(any requirement I have seen for a lifelong persistent identifier has been stated in a very vague manner, so that isn't a real terrific reason to use SSNs, not to mention that they are not necessarily persistent)
Taken out of the context of using the SSN as authentication and identification, it seems pretty unreasonable.
The collections agency should have to go through some pretty serious checking before they even pester NixieBunny about the line of credit their client opened with minimal checking.
When exactly do you need a private key that actually identifies someone? I am feeling a bit thick and can't think of such a thing.
The problem is that the banks (and similar) have convinced you that you are the one being defrauded.
Sure, someone opens an account using your details and it sucks for you, but it wasn't your mistake, it was the institution that opened the account that made the mistake.
Still, it would be kind of silly to load Firefox, navigate to Gmail and proceed to request web pages over email.
I figure, as much as anything, they are trying to de-brand the network. Some of the shows on USA appear to be generating equally strong ratings as the BSG final, with much lower production costs:
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/03/24/battlestar-galactica-finale-blasts-away-the-competition/15054
http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/content_display/news/cable-tv/e3ic888e7d7726537250dc61eea82e93a48
(I'm not confident that the ratings listed in those articles are a fair comparison, but the viewer totals for both Burn Notice and Royal Pains are higher than the BSG finale; I doubt those shows are ridiculously cheap, but I can't imagine they cost more than BSG)
Yes, but that is different than actually having cash equal to their deposits. "Your bank balance is made up of physical currency" at least implies that they are actually holding cash for you, which they are not. If you had left out 'physical', there would be less room to quibble, but you put it in.
Technically, they don't have enough currency on hand to cover their deposits.
That's clever, but there is a difference: if I have $5 and you decide that it isn't worth anything anymore, I don't have anything. If I have 5 pounds of grain and you decide that it isn't worth anything anymore, I can still eat it.
(said comparison takes place on a desert island or something, where there aren't a bunch of other people involved. Put down that knife, I am not a tasty meal.)
Not in the U.S. (under certain limits anyway, large accounts can substantially disappear), all U.S. banks are required to participate in the FDIC, usually the accounts are simply transferred to another institution (under some arrangement with the FDIC).
Paper money is a collective delusion (it is a useful one, but money is only worth anything if you can exchange it for something with intrinsic value).
Only if it is implemented extremely poorly, which is unlikely. For instance, Domainkeys/DKIM has not been defeated yet (that I have noticed, anyway):
http://www.dkim.org/
(DKIM is a scheme for message signing, if a message contains an organization's signature, it is quite likely that the organization did handle the message)
Hence the hedging and waffling; lots of...small fraction...majority of.
If you take face time (which I admit is overwhelmingly favorable to my argument compared to cycles used/cycles available), computers spend far more time waiting for users than vice versa (because of the huge numbers of people that check email and the like).
Nah, CPUs got fast. It went from, say circa 2000, where lots of tasks would use most of the processing power available on a cheap computer to circa 2005 where some small fraction of tasks (and poorly written flash) use most of the processing power available on a cheap computer. For the majority of users, everything since then has been a numbers game, with little real impact.
Hopefully they figure out a way to enable experimenting with the social organization on top of the foundation's infrastructure (this presumes that something like a majority of the content is at least useful). Things like trust networks (allowing the creation of many presentations), some way of quickly visualizing how an article came together, or mechanisms that limit process as much as possible (because it seems like a lot of the bullshit happens when someone 'in the know' uses 'established procedures' against someone making a casual edit).
I wasn't really trying to praise mathematicians and slam engineers, I was pointing out that 'mathematical literacy' is a poorly defined concept, and I was using my personal educational experience (a BSME) as a point of reference (I have received, compared to the general population, a great deal of mathematical education, and yet I am not particularly well versed).
This gets to the situation where Trigonometry and Calculus are emphasized in High school (well, increasingly, Michigan is only up to requiring Algebra II for graduation, so Calculus doesn't quite fit there, but Trig does), but for most people, making it a certainty that they understand around half of the concepts from Algebra I and sit through a practical treatment of statistics would be far more useful than struggling through Trigonometry and Algebra II. So to me, the interesting question is more about what math the general population should be encouraged to understand, not how much of it (because there is already too much even for mathematicians...).
You should contact the legal teams at the various universities listed in the summary and tell them about your orientation, so that they can stop misleading their international students. For instance, before commenting, I read the section "What about taxes?" at this link:
http://iss.wisc.edu/intemployer.html
Civ III is the only real dud of the four Civilization games, and apparently, if you play Alpha Centauri you get Civ II improved.
Even Civ III wasn't too bad, but it didn't improve on Civ II in the same way that Civ II had improved on the original.
The summary is stupid, but the point is that there are fewer required taxes for some foreign students (because they are not presumed to be eligible for social security benefits in the future, they are not required to pay into the system (though it apparently depends on the precise residency status of the student)).
How worried are you about winning?
Here is some fun context:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/24/the-blue-and-the-green/
Of course, it might be fair to describe the perceptual difference there as a different color, rather than a different shade.
But what is remedial math? I'm pretty decent as far as math knowledge goes (for a non mathematician...this is only my vague estimate, but I'm at a higher level of knowledge than almost everyone I know, including most of my extended family), and I can barely even read something like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach%E2%80%93Tarski_paradox#Formal_treatment
And that is from a paper written 85 years ago. So a college degree in engineering apparently barely starts to touch on many of the concepts that have been explored by mathematicians.
The entire point of checking hashes against a database is to automatically disqualify uninteresting files. Custom exes and images are interesting files. It doesn't mean it will be easy to find the data after the uninteresting files have been discarded, but it means that a bunch of data tacked onto the end of notepad.exe or the like will be really easy to find, and it will narrow the number of files that need to be examined in directories like Program Files, or the main windows directory.
If there is a large seizure, some drug or the other might not be available at any price, at least for a short period of time. Some owners might not be willing to part with art at any price, putting the value they place on the item far above any buyer (or even a variety of buyers). Hence the dysfunctional markets.
The comment system neuters your Google-fu (rel="nofollow") and the moderation system will quickly hide your comment from most viewers, so you are pretty much entirely wasting your time here.
Of course, I would speculate you are wasting your time pulling that shit pretty much anywhere.