Give them a simple hard-nosed emotional solution, and they get an immediate neuro-chemical response, their adrenalin rises; it is like a cocaine rush, it is positive reenforcement. Politicians understand this, and they exploit this. They understand this not through the study of psychology, they understand this intuitively.
They also understand that, were they to respond rationally and perhaps not go along with this, their opponent in the next election would have a campaign attack ad that would have the headline "Rep. Joe Rational Refused To Protect Your Child From Internet Porn and Sexual Predators!" Which would go quite a way to putting a dent in Joe Rational's future in the legislature.
FUD for politicians isn't only a weapon they wield against their constituents. It's more frequent use is against other politicians.
"The wave could have been reflected by the liquid-ice boundary of a subsurface ocean of water and ammonia predicted by theoretical models," says Fernando Simões, CETP/IPSL-CNRS, France, and a member of the PWA team.
...And dirty windows everywhere called for the extermination of the Titanoids, who might one day unleash thousands of cubic kilometers of cold Windex on a hapless Earth...
SiteKey depends on users to expect the key image, but the absence of the image doesn't usually trigger warning bells because they're not very common. You need some sort of phishing detector which says, "Hey, this site is known to require a SiteKey and isn't sending it to you."
This brings up a rather interesting question: Suppose Bank Of America decided to come up with a better way of securing their web transactions than the SiteKey system. When this new thing popped up on my screen instead of the old BOA site, how would I know I wasn't being phished for?
Obviously, they could send out brochures to my house, and blast "NEW WEB SITE COMING IN N WEEKS!" messages all over their existing site, but the brochures would probably hit the trash before being read in most homes, and most people don't read what's on the info part of web pages anyway.
Plus, when your ZX81 finally bit the dust, (which could take a long time, as it had essentially no moving parts except for the knuckle busting membrane keyboard) it made a really cool wedge-shaped doorstop.
Bingo! Out in the sticks, where I live, it's Verizon EVDO for me or it's 28.8K dialup. No other alternatives, except for satellite, and that's not compatible with my company's VPN. And in the past when I have had to download something big (like a software install) from corporate headquarters, I've probably bumped up against the limit a few times.
Well, my experiences are somewhere between yours and the people who l-u-v Verizon. For me, in a rural area, coverage is okay, but dropped calls aren't that uncommon. Of course, given that there are mysterious areas on my ranch where I can't even get FM radio, maybe it's not their fault, as the dropped calls are usually being received at home.
Where they've been really good has been in their customer service for my laptop's wireless card. One day it died during a crucial week of hacking for my client. After doing some diagnostics and confirming the card was, indeed, toast, they had a new one for me at no charge via FedEx overnight, with a total turn-around time of about 18-20 hours. And they've always been pretty helpful with other data issues as well.
In terms of bad phone service, my landline is on Sprint (err, Embarq), and their customer service varies between laughable and homicidally infuriating. At one point, while trying to pay a late bill, I found a closed loop in their voice menu system. Obviously QA really spent a lot of time on that "helpful" product.
Distribution service? From where to where? From the car's MP3 unit to the vehicle occupant's ears? An earlier poster who has this service says that the MP3s are DRM'ed, can't be removed from the device, and have expiration dates. And how is this any different from the built-in Tivo-clone in my DISH Network satellite box? My guess is the DISH legal guys are probably tracking this case very carefully, if not actually planning to file an amicus brief.
The iPhone's problem is that it's attempting to redefine a market that's already been defined through market forces;
That was also the iPod's problem as well - It sure as hell wasn't the first digital music player to market. That product seemed to have worked out pretty well for Apple.
To me, the more interesting question concerns the market forces that seem to relegate the 10-years-ahead-of-the-US Japanese phones to largely their market. Is there some sort of aversion to re-programming these things for the en_US locale? Or are there other (possibly ergonomic) factors at work?
I've read Velikovsky, and I believe very, very little of what he writes. At the same time, you gotta give him props for his conceptual chutzpah, in thinking that the Solar System is essentially the result of a god-size game of cosmic 8-ball. ("Mars, in the side pocket, off the Earth...")
Maybe they pissed off some Russian Mob boss who was using PayPal to transfer ill-gotten funds, or receiving payments through PayPal (possibly by shutting down that account), so they sent them a warning?
From TFA:
The blast occurred near an outdoor corridor popular for employee breaks and was not visible from the street.
Another possibility: Maybe this was an inside job?...But for what reason?...
Good old advertising. People visit the domain mistakenly, whether through Google ads, mistyping, or whatnot, and see ads. These ads are targeted towards financial topics. People click them, owner makes money. No real scam, just advertising dollars coming in.
Yep, it works like this:
1.) Register bankofspamerica.com 2.) Get hits from fat-fingered clueless n00bs. 3.) Profit!
It's not just audio quality that you need not care about. It also helps if you don't care about anything but postage-stamp-sized cover art, or about who actually performed, produced, and/or engineered the music. I can live without the cover art, but the lack of full CD-style credits in iTunes (and other download services) is a real drag for those of us who think of music as more than just audio wallpaper.
Blossom A virtual plant that responds to productivity, not sunlight and water. Had a good session in Excel? Your plant will thrive. Play too much Warcraft? Expect some withering.
Read, post or moderate on Slashdot? Expect a gallon of virtual Roundup to be dumped on your soon-to-be deceased little vegetable.
The burning covering provided the soot that was able to glow and make the flames visible. Hydrogen flames are almost invisible.
I used to work with tiny hydrogen cutting torches. The flames are invisible. The only thing you can see is the rarefaction of the air in the shape of the flame. I was told the flame temperature was 5000 F, so I became very, very aware of exactly where the nozzle was at all times.
Well, given it's a presumably a large company, there's plenty of opportunity for people to miscommunicate. Nothing new there. Then again, I've met any number of HR people who could have easily been replaced with a script whose chief feature would have been
Exhale, and squeeze the trigger...Pulling on it with any force will cause solid deflection.
I forgot about that one - And, when you're doing that, you want to keep all but your trigger finger still, otherwise you'll pull the impact point to the opposite side of your body. (I.e, a right-handed shooter will pull the impact point left, and a lefty will pull it to the right.)
My experience is that shooting a handgun and hitting your intended target is actually hard to do. There are a million ways to miss, and only a few to hit what you wish to. But, I'm something of a n00b at this.
It's not just (mainly fore-) arm strength that's an issue with real handguns. There's also the variables of stance and breath control. I find that breath control becomes increasingly important once you're outside of about 10 yards from the target, and you're not gonna learn that from any game.
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Dude, I think you've just named my next band.
They also understand that, were they to respond rationally and perhaps not go along with this, their opponent in the next election would have a campaign attack ad that would have the headline "Rep. Joe Rational Refused To Protect Your Child From Internet Porn and Sexual Predators!" Which would go quite a way to putting a dent in Joe Rational's future in the legislature.
FUD for politicians isn't only a weapon they wield against their constituents. It's more frequent use is against other politicians.
This brings up a rather interesting question: Suppose Bank Of America decided to come up with a better way of securing their web transactions than the SiteKey system. When this new thing popped up on my screen instead of the old BOA site, how would I know I wasn't being phished for?
Obviously, they could send out brochures to my house, and blast "NEW WEB SITE COMING IN N WEEKS!" messages all over their existing site, but the brochures would probably hit the trash before being read in most homes, and most people don't read what's on the info part of web pages anyway.
Plus, when your ZX81 finally bit the dust, (which could take a long time, as it had essentially no moving parts except for the knuckle busting membrane keyboard) it made a really cool wedge-shaped doorstop.
Bingo! Out in the sticks, where I live, it's Verizon EVDO for me or it's 28.8K dialup. No other alternatives, except for satellite, and that's not compatible with my company's VPN. And in the past when I have had to download something big (like a software install) from corporate headquarters, I've probably bumped up against the limit a few times.
Man, if you're getting 2 cm sparks out of your sofa, according to Paschen's Law, that works out to about 61 KV. Zap!
Well, my experiences are somewhere between yours and the people who l-u-v Verizon. For me, in a rural area, coverage is okay, but dropped calls aren't that uncommon. Of course, given that there are mysterious areas on my ranch where I can't even get FM radio, maybe it's not their fault, as the dropped calls are usually being received at home.
Where they've been really good has been in their customer service for my laptop's wireless card. One day it died during a crucial week of hacking for my client. After doing some diagnostics and confirming the card was, indeed, toast, they had a new one for me at no charge via FedEx overnight, with a total turn-around time of about 18-20 hours. And they've always been pretty helpful with other data issues as well.
In terms of bad phone service, my landline is on Sprint (err, Embarq), and their customer service varies between laughable and homicidally infuriating. At one point, while trying to pay a late bill, I found a closed loop in their voice menu system. Obviously QA really spent a lot of time on that "helpful" product.
Distribution service? From where to where? From the car's MP3 unit to the vehicle occupant's ears? An earlier poster who has this service says that the MP3s are DRM'ed, can't be removed from the device, and have expiration dates. And how is this any different from the built-in Tivo-clone in my DISH Network satellite box? My guess is the DISH legal guys are probably tracking this case very carefully, if not actually planning to file an amicus brief.
That was also the iPod's problem as well - It sure as hell wasn't the first digital music player to market. That product seemed to have worked out pretty well for Apple.
To me, the more interesting question concerns the market forces that seem to relegate the 10-years-ahead-of-the-US Japanese phones to largely their market. Is there some sort of aversion to re-programming these things for the en_US locale? Or are there other (possibly ergonomic) factors at work?
Someone please mod this whole damn thread up. Slashdot collective humor at it's finest!
Unless you're Chuck Norris. In that case, you put on a pair of Ray-Ban aviators and just go about your business.
I've read Velikovsky, and I believe very, very little of what he writes. At the same time, you gotta give him props for his conceptual chutzpah, in thinking that the Solar System is essentially the result of a god-size game of cosmic 8-ball. ("Mars, in the side pocket, off the Earth...")
How long before some genius finds a way to make Defender delete itself?
From TFA:
Another possibility: Maybe this was an inside job?...But for what reason?...
Yep, it works like this:
1.) Register bankofspamerica.com
2.) Get hits from fat-fingered clueless n00bs.
3.) Profit!
It's not just audio quality that you need not care about. It also helps if you don't care about anything but postage-stamp-sized cover art, or about who actually performed, produced, and/or engineered the music. I can live without the cover art, but the lack of full CD-style credits in iTunes (and other download services) is a real drag for those of us who think of music as more than just audio wallpaper.
Wow, a video IM scheme with 60 seconds of latency! Sign me up!
Read, post or moderate on Slashdot? Expect a gallon of virtual Roundup to be dumped on your soon-to-be deceased little vegetable.
I used to work with tiny hydrogen cutting torches. The flames are invisible. The only thing you can see is the rarefaction of the air in the shape of the flame. I was told the flame temperature was 5000 F, so I became very, very aware of exactly where the nozzle was at all times.
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Really. I was gonna say I've got a backup drive on my desk that gets to 320GB in only 17 cm. And the best they can do is 10GB in a meter?!?!
I forgot about that one - And, when you're doing that, you want to keep all but your trigger finger still, otherwise you'll pull the impact point to the opposite side of your body. (I.e, a right-handed shooter will pull the impact point left, and a lefty will pull it to the right.)
My experience is that shooting a handgun and hitting your intended target is actually hard to do. There are a million ways to miss, and only a few to hit what you wish to. But, I'm something of a n00b at this.
It's not just (mainly fore-) arm strength that's an issue with real handguns. There's also the variables of stance and breath control. I find that breath control becomes increasingly important once you're outside of about 10 yards from the target, and you're not gonna learn that from any game.
Whoops, that should've read "Expedition 1", not "Expedition 2" in my previous post.