I've heard that the Germans are more apt to ticket reckless driving (e.g., tailgating/following too closely, weaving, cutting people off) which are the behaviours that lead to accidents.
I wonder if anyone has studied whether speed limits contribute to these behaviours? For example, based on my own observations while driving, the slower the rest of the traffic is going (e.g., speed limits set at 50 mph where people would prefer to be driving 70 mph), the more often the impatient drivers will weave through traffic.
I had Charter for a while, and rather than say "I want to cancel," I would call them up and say, "What deals are available?" After a couple "Um, uh..." moments, they were generally able to give me a good rate. I still do this with the Sirius radio that came with my car. That service is certainly not worth $13+ per month, but at around $5/mo., it's a nice feature.
Nope. Toll plazas in the US are designed for lefties. Forget EZPass - I can get my tokens in the basket at 12 MPH (any faster, and you'd hit the bar that prevents you from skipping the toll)!
Analog watches that use a winding knob (or pin for setting) are inherently right-handed, with the knob/pin on the right side of the watch face. If the watch is on your left wrist, you can (usually) easily access the pin with your right hand; on the right wrist, you have to reach around the watch face with your left hand, typically obscuring the face (a nuisance if you're trying to set it!).
Digital watches (which tend to have several buttons) are less handedness oriented, since one frequently has to push buttons on both sides of the watch face.
No, it's not. Opera Mobile is next to useless. It may be a marginal improvement over the bundled browser in Symbian, but it's much, much worse than every single version of mobile Safari or Chrome (on iOS/Android respectively). I say this having used it on a Nokia N8 and a Nokia C6-01; it's faster to enable the hotspot software and take out my iPod Touch to use Safari than it is to use Opera Mobile on my Nokia.
The term "dumb" clinically indicates muteness, or an inability to speak. Colloquially, "dumb," "stupid," "retarded," and others are used to indicate that someone's a few synapses short. Clinically, they mean specific things, which are not (strictly speaking) equivalent.
The point of the loopholes is that they encourage certain behaviours, and discourage others. The difference is between "Pay 35% in taxes" or "Pay loads of taxes, unless you do the following, in which case you pay 35% in taxes." We currently have certain tax loopholes that encourage donations to registered charities, home ownership (mortgage interest exemption), and procreation.
Money paid in wages is tax deductible. If businesses actually hired employees, they would be paying less in taxes. If your hypothetical "guy who makes 250K" were paying someone $50k/yr., he'd be taxed as though he only made $200K. If you lower the taxes, the rich get richer, and no longer have any incentive to hire anyone, since they can just flog their existing staff harder.
The key is silent access, as another poster mentioned. If hotel staff use the master key-card, that's logged to the security system. If police show up with a warrant, that warrant is part of the public record (in most cases) and shows up in the police logs. In any of those cases, there's a way to know about the breach nearly as soon as it happened. With this crack, there's no record that the security system was defeated, which makes recovery even more difficult. Consider the following:
a) Something was taken from your hotel room. You're insured (or the hotel is). If there were physical or digital evidence of a break-in, the insurance paperwork is probably a lot simpler.
b) Someone is being tricky. They decide to use your room to store some drugs (for example). Signs of forced entry? You have a case. No sign of any entry besides yours? You're going to prison.
When a hotel staffer uses a master key card, it's logged (the security system notes which key was used when). Presumably with this hack, that isn't necessary. Also, the ability to open the doors on 25% of hotel rooms is still a concern.
The lawyers I know tend to hate litigation. It's a lot more work for less return than "sensible" negotiation. Lawyers who actually work for a company (as opposed to firms where they're contracting out) are also a bit like sysadmins; they have plenty of work on their plates just keeping ahead of the day to day stuff, and a big lawsuit would be like throwing a big upgrade project at them; if it can be avoided without risk to the business, it will be avoided.
Actually, that determination is officially left up to local councils and regional leadership, now, though it's nigh impossible to drag that information out of the national office.
They needn't be a dwindling minority, they just need to be quiet, which they are. The problem is that nice people aren't generally as driven, or devoid of compunction, as the people that destroy the system to promote their own ends at the expense of everyone else.
It's true! I actually had a really interesting conversation with a guy I ran into outside a library on campus when we were both studying for Java finals.Only, mine was in the CS department, and his was in Linguistics. IIRC, Javanese has something like nine levels of formality (as compared to the three in Japanese, for example).
Business cards in the US are used very differently than they are in, e.g., Japan. I understand that there, effectively everyone has a card, and they're used to communicate names and other social details when you meet someone. In the US, giving out a business card implies that you're attempting to establish a business relationship (although many do use them for convenience, such as handing your business card to a family member or friend who needs your phone/e-mail because it's already printed on them).
Not that I necessarily agree with the parent poster's comment on free speech, but it's important to note that the activity described (handing out business cards) has a bit more to do with (at least attempting) to set up a profitable enterprise than it does elsewhere in the world.
For one thing: real estate. Real estate will always be a scarce commodity,
I would imagine that warp-driven spaceflight solves this problem. You don't have to replicate whole planets, just terraform a few (that tech was mentioned at least once). Add in the "holodeck" option for vacations, the presence of neighbors is less of an issue.
I've never used it myself, but some of the researchers I support are partial to Bookends. It happily supports both Pages, Word, and NisusWriter (and some others?). I think the original impetus for the switch was the EndNote/Word/MacOS X version hodgepodge that made support a nightmare a few years ago.
I would hope that even the v6 zealots would have to admit the usefulness of load balancing. However, it's useful to note that while this sort of LB is technically Network Address Translation, it's not dependent on using RFC 1918 un-routable addresses; you can set up a load balancer and have it split one end-to-end routable address out to two or more other end-to-end routable addresses. Your DNS will point end-users to the front-end virtual interface on the LB, but your balanced resources can just as easily have legit IP addresses.
I think the anti-NAT ranting comes up as a backlash against all the "But we can just use NAT, we don't need IPv6," comments. When the internet was first designed, it was meant to be a network of peer devices, which each device capable of being a client and a server. NAT (in the standard home cable/dsl gateway sense) breaks that model, which in the view of many, turns the internet back into another cable TV infrastructure (consumers consume, big studios who can afford hosting produce - I realize this is a bit simplified).
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I've heard that the Germans are more apt to ticket reckless driving (e.g., tailgating/following too closely, weaving, cutting people off) which are the behaviours that lead to accidents.
I wonder if anyone has studied whether speed limits contribute to these behaviours? For example, based on my own observations while driving, the slower the rest of the traffic is going (e.g., speed limits set at 50 mph where people would prefer to be driving 70 mph), the more often the impatient drivers will weave through traffic.
I had Charter for a while, and rather than say "I want to cancel," I would call them up and say, "What deals are available?" After a couple "Um, uh..." moments, they were generally able to give me a good rate. I still do this with the Sirius radio that came with my car. That service is certainly not worth $13+ per month, but at around $5/mo., it's a nice feature.
Nope. Toll plazas in the US are designed for lefties. Forget EZPass - I can get my tokens in the basket at 12 MPH (any faster, and you'd hit the bar that prevents you from skipping the toll)!
Analog watches that use a winding knob (or pin for setting) are inherently right-handed, with the knob/pin on the right side of the watch face. If the watch is on your left wrist, you can (usually) easily access the pin with your right hand; on the right wrist, you have to reach around the watch face with your left hand, typically obscuring the face (a nuisance if you're trying to set it!).
Digital watches (which tend to have several buttons) are less handedness oriented, since one frequently has to push buttons on both sides of the watch face.
No, it's not. Opera Mobile is next to useless. It may be a marginal improvement over the bundled browser in Symbian, but it's much, much worse than every single version of mobile Safari or Chrome (on iOS/Android respectively). I say this having used it on a Nokia N8 and a Nokia C6-01; it's faster to enable the hotspot software and take out my iPod Touch to use Safari than it is to use Opera Mobile on my Nokia.
The term "dumb" clinically indicates muteness, or an inability to speak. Colloquially, "dumb," "stupid," "retarded," and others are used to indicate that someone's a few synapses short. Clinically, they mean specific things, which are not (strictly speaking) equivalent.
The point of the loopholes is that they encourage certain behaviours, and discourage others. The difference is between "Pay 35% in taxes" or "Pay loads of taxes, unless you do the following, in which case you pay 35% in taxes." We currently have certain tax loopholes that encourage donations to registered charities, home ownership (mortgage interest exemption), and procreation.
Money paid in wages is tax deductible. If businesses actually hired employees, they would be paying less in taxes. If your hypothetical "guy who makes 250K" were paying someone $50k/yr., he'd be taxed as though he only made $200K. If you lower the taxes, the rich get richer, and no longer have any incentive to hire anyone, since they can just flog their existing staff harder.
Given that it's Windows 7, I'd recommend sdelete (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897443.aspx) for the free-space wipe.
The key is silent access, as another poster mentioned. If hotel staff use the master key-card, that's logged to the security system. If police show up with a warrant, that warrant is part of the public record (in most cases) and shows up in the police logs. In any of those cases, there's a way to know about the breach nearly as soon as it happened. With this crack, there's no record that the security system was defeated, which makes recovery even more difficult. Consider the following:
a) Something was taken from your hotel room. You're insured (or the hotel is). If there were physical or digital evidence of a break-in, the insurance paperwork is probably a lot simpler.
b) Someone is being tricky. They decide to use your room to store some drugs (for example). Signs of forced entry? You have a case. No sign of any entry besides yours? You're going to prison.
When a hotel staffer uses a master key card, it's logged (the security system notes which key was used when). Presumably with this hack, that isn't necessary. Also, the ability to open the doors on 25% of hotel rooms is still a concern.
The lawyers I know tend to hate litigation. It's a lot more work for less return than "sensible" negotiation.
Lawyers who actually work for a company (as opposed to firms where they're contracting out) are also a bit like sysadmins; they have plenty of work on their plates just keeping ahead of the day to day stuff, and a big lawsuit would be like throwing a big upgrade project at them; if it can be avoided without risk to the business, it will be avoided.
I'm not sure I agree with your use of the word "gainfully," but otherwise, spot on.
If it's not solving your problem, you're not using enough.
(I kid!)
Actually, that determination is officially left up to local councils and regional leadership, now, though it's nigh impossible to drag that information out of the national office.
They needn't be a dwindling minority, they just need to be quiet, which they are. The problem is that nice people aren't generally as driven, or devoid of compunction, as the people that destroy the system to promote their own ends at the expense of everyone else.
A 300-baud modem with acoustic coupler works really well for this, if you can find one. Although I suppose it'd be harder to use with a cell phone.
It's true! I actually had a really interesting conversation with a guy I ran into outside a library on campus when we were both studying for Java finals.Only, mine was in the CS department, and his was in Linguistics. IIRC, Javanese has something like nine levels of formality (as compared to the three in Japanese, for example).
Business cards in the US are used very differently than they are in, e.g., Japan. I understand that there, effectively everyone has a card, and they're used to communicate names and other social details when you meet someone. In the US, giving out a business card implies that you're attempting to establish a business relationship (although many do use them for convenience, such as handing your business card to a family member or friend who needs your phone/e-mail because it's already printed on them).
Not that I necessarily agree with the parent poster's comment on free speech, but it's important to note that the activity described (handing out business cards) has a bit more to do with (at least attempting) to set up a profitable enterprise than it does elsewhere in the world.
Wow. This just recast "Zombieland" in a whole different light. Neat.
For one thing: real estate. Real estate will always be a scarce commodity,
I would imagine that warp-driven spaceflight solves this problem. You don't have to replicate whole planets, just terraform a few (that tech was mentioned at least once). Add in the "holodeck" option for vacations, the presence of neighbors is less of an issue.
I've never used it myself, but some of the researchers I support are partial to Bookends. It happily supports both Pages, Word, and NisusWriter (and some others?). I think the original impetus for the switch was the EndNote/Word/MacOS X version hodgepodge that made support a nightmare a few years ago.
I would hope that even the v6 zealots would have to admit the usefulness of load balancing. However, it's useful to note that while this sort of LB is technically Network Address Translation, it's not dependent on using RFC 1918 un-routable addresses; you can set up a load balancer and have it split one end-to-end routable address out to two or more other end-to-end routable addresses. Your DNS will point end-users to the front-end virtual interface on the LB, but your balanced resources can just as easily have legit IP addresses.
I think the anti-NAT ranting comes up as a backlash against all the "But we can just use NAT, we don't need IPv6," comments. When the internet was first designed, it was meant to be a network of peer devices, which each device capable of being a client and a server. NAT (in the standard home cable/dsl gateway sense) breaks that model, which in the view of many, turns the internet back into another cable TV infrastructure (consumers consume, big studios who can afford hosting produce - I realize this is a bit simplified).
That's actually a good point. During the Olympics, accommodations will be able to fetch quite a bit.
I'm lucky; I'm only on-call one week out of 7(ish). I have to wonder if all the staff will be on hand, or just the "on-call" folks.