I got my cards revoked on both incidents. No direct losses, but cost me about 5 hrs each time re-configuring various bill pays and such, and these were just months apart.
Multiply that against the affected cardholder base and these people are just parasites on society. Sure, it's 2013 and VISA's authentication sucks, but it takes two to tango.
I don't have the numbers, but how much did it cost when they first got those cables to homes?
Don't forget, there are millions of households that get phone and electricity - end of story. If anybody thinks 20-by-20 will happen, they better get the trucks rolling yesterday.
Startups usually start with a small application and small infrastructure. To "do local" would require massive infrastructure and fairly sophisticated applications that can cater to the differences among the millions of local businesses. If somebody can "do local" it'll probably be Amazon. I've thought of more than a few ways they could work symbiotically with local businesses in partnerships which would own the Anti-Walmart crowd (and the ambivalent in many cases).
I got some good calls-to-action from Vint Cerf (Google's Internet Evangelist) on SOPA and PIPA, and a free and open Internet in general, but haven't heard anything from him on CISPA since last year. I wonder if he's still on payroll.
Isn't this CISPA crap evidence enough that the type of government we have today has either been designed to abuse the People or is of a flawed designed, such that such abuse cannot be prevented?
Now check the replies to this comment, defending 'democracy', hollering on about Somalia, blood in the streets, cats and dogs living together, and you'll have your answer.
I just bought six $20 bulbs from HD last week because there was a $10-per-bulb rebate slip on the shelf for any bulb over $15.
Looking at the fine print on the slip now it says, "Must purchase an Energy Star -certified LED or pin-based CFL fixture".
Hold on then, can this be?:internet: EPA has a spreadsheet - sorting by A-type size yields 98 rows:
:stupid slash filter won't let me post them:
In excerpt then:
The Home Depot EcoSmart LED A19 ECS A19 V2 WW The Home Depot EcoSmart A19 LED Lamp ECS A19 WW V1 120
which matches the packaging, but there's no Energy Star label on the package. Phew.
FWIW, I was at the Big City HD yesterday and they had the new Cree bubs in, so I picked one up to try. I really like the $20->$10 HD lights, but the Crees look nicer ($13, not rebate eligible). Too bad HD won't sell those to me for $15.
Some of the accidents that happened on B5 were the universe's way of improving the story. Switching leads actually improved the story (and JMS's way of handling it was nothing short of brilliant). Cramming Season 5 into Season 4 made the pacing of Season 4 fantastic. I agree, Season 5 suffered, but there's little need to watch it to enjoy the Seasons 1-4 story, which is probably the best thing to ever be on TV.
TV? Isn't this story here because he's taken the next step beyond TV, to get scifi funded?
Then again, JMS knew how to do good-enough visuals with a few guys on Amigas. Virtual sets aren't convincing but they're good enough, and good scifi is all about story - if it's all expensive visuals and sets, then there's probably not a very good story to be had. Some of my very favorite scifi spends most of its time on dialogue in a small room - it could be on a sparse stage for all I'd care.
I suppose my question then would be, "why is is so darn hard to connect the plethora of very good writers that we have with the process of getting stories on TV?"
I think it's more like, "It's a quantum thing! Nobody understands!". Yes, we have equations that balance, but to my knowledge there's no mechanism explaining simultaneous action separated by light years.
I have my money on that separation being merely illusory - that the two particles aren't actually two, but just how we perceive the mapping of reality onto (or into) 4D spacetime, but that's just my speculation.
Laugh it up, but that really is most peoples' excuse for voting for those parties.
It's actually not a bad excuse - plurality voting guarantees that it will be one or the other. I don't know about you, but I donated to the Approval Voting Video on IndyGoGo.
Yeah, a poll tax is the ultimate in fair taxation, but the entire political system is based upon promising unfair taxation, so you know how that will go.
the same asshole who thought iraq was trying to kill us
The two are unrelated. We've known that Russian Mafia has been running commercial botnets for, what, a decade? He's hopelessly behind the entire security industry, but he's not proposing a wild, unproven theory.
It's a mistake to choose politicians based upon who you agree with 100% of the time and who you disagree with 0% of the time. Support them when they're right, rain down righteous indignation when they're not. It's policy, not tribal warfare.
There's a story from the USSR that one time an automated nuclear counter-strike system was erroneously triggered and it was only human intervention that stopped it.
I was not being literal. I meant go after the biggest consumers of the resource.
I know - it's just ironic that people cry for the EPA or NOAA or whomever to save the menhadden fry in the Bay when the best alternative to overfishing them is illegal due to some completely reason-free legislation. I know, the CIA makes mint on drug running, but the whole refer-madness excuses are complete bunk.
some libertarian/Randian hellhole... at least partly democratically accountable existing governments
The body count for those governments, for the 20th Century, is about 320 Million, for the last century. The proof of burden lies with those who conjecture that a system based on freedom and liberty would do worse. To be fair, the insane Objectivists are war-mongers, Rand included, so let's not group opposites together and treat them as a whole.
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hey, give them some credit - at least it's a testable prediction that can falsify their model. That's progress.
Yay, fascism.
I got my cards revoked on both incidents. No direct losses, but cost me about 5 hrs each time re-configuring various bill pays and such, and these were just months apart.
Multiply that against the affected cardholder base and these people are just parasites on society. Sure, it's 2013 and VISA's authentication sucks, but it takes two to tango.
I don't have the numbers, but how much did it cost when they first got those cables to homes?
Don't forget, there are millions of households that get phone and electricity - end of story. If anybody thinks 20-by-20 will happen, they better get the trucks rolling yesterday.
Speeds comparable to FTTH can be achieved for so much less money by using Fiber to the Neighborhood instead of to the home.
Comcast is charging customers (where they don't feel like building) $60K per mile here. A local group doing PON is under $20K.
Startups usually start with a small application and small infrastructure. To "do local" would require massive infrastructure and fairly sophisticated applications that can cater to the differences among the millions of local businesses. If somebody can "do local" it'll probably be Amazon. I've thought of more than a few ways they could work symbiotically with local businesses in partnerships which would own the Anti-Walmart crowd (and the ambivalent in many cases).
The Cree I got is 2700 degrees. I think I actually prefer the Home Depot 3000 degree one, but it looks 'odd'.
I got some good calls-to-action from Vint Cerf (Google's Internet Evangelist) on SOPA and PIPA, and a free and open Internet in general, but haven't heard anything from him on CISPA since last year. I wonder if he's still on payroll.
Seriously, who are these people fooling?
Easy enough to answer. Watch:
Isn't this CISPA crap evidence enough that the type of government we have today has either been designed to abuse the People or is of a flawed designed, such that such abuse cannot be prevented?
Now check the replies to this comment, defending 'democracy', hollering on about Somalia, blood in the streets, cats and dogs living together, and you'll have your answer.
Well, crap-ola on a stick.
I just bought six $20 bulbs from HD last week because there was a $10-per-bulb rebate slip on the shelf for any bulb over $15.
Looking at the fine print on the slip now it says, "Must purchase an Energy Star -certified LED or pin-based CFL fixture".
Hold on then, can this be? :internet: EPA has a spreadsheet - sorting by A-type size yields 98 rows:
:stupid slash filter won't let me post them:
In excerpt then:
which matches the packaging, but there's no Energy Star label on the package. Phew.
FWIW, I was at the Big City HD yesterday and they had the new Cree bubs in, so I picked one up to try. I really like the $20->$10 HD lights, but the Crees look nicer ($13, not rebate eligible). Too bad HD won't sell those to me for $15.
people looking for jobs are all going to switch to firefox and chrome
Muwahahahahah. Evil plan working as predicted.
Some of the accidents that happened on B5 were the universe's way of improving the story. Switching leads actually improved the story (and JMS's way of handling it was nothing short of brilliant). Cramming Season 5 into Season 4 made the pacing of Season 4 fantastic. I agree, Season 5 suffered, but there's little need to watch it to enjoy the Seasons 1-4 story, which is probably the best thing to ever be on TV.
TV? Isn't this story here because he's taken the next step beyond TV, to get scifi funded?
Then again, JMS knew how to do good-enough visuals with a few guys on Amigas. Virtual sets aren't convincing but they're good enough, and good scifi is all about story - if it's all expensive visuals and sets, then there's probably not a very good story to be had. Some of my very favorite scifi spends most of its time on dialogue in a small room - it could be on a sparse stage for all I'd care.
I suppose my question then would be, "why is is so darn hard to connect the plethora of very good writers that we have with the process of getting stories on TV?"
I suspect JMS's writing experience was voice by Zathras. "Not the one."
They use Time Travel as a way to create the plot, not a way to resolve it.
Very insightful. Contrast with crap like ST:Voyager. Wait, there was no ST:Voyager.
"It's a quantum thing! You wouldn't understand!"
I think it's more like, "It's a quantum thing! Nobody understands!". Yes, we have equations that balance, but to my knowledge there's no mechanism explaining simultaneous action separated by light years.
I have my money on that separation being merely illusory - that the two particles aren't actually two, but just how we perceive the mapping of reality onto (or into) 4D spacetime, but that's just my speculation.
Laugh it up, but that really is most peoples' excuse for voting for those parties.
It's actually not a bad excuse - plurality voting guarantees that it will be one or the other. I don't know about you, but I donated to the Approval Voting Video on IndyGoGo.
and still save the humongous chunk of that money that ends up in the pockets of the non-productive class
What, the political campaign funds?
Yeah, a poll tax is the ultimate in fair taxation, but the entire political system is based upon promising unfair taxation, so you know how that will go.
I think you mean 'the Apple App Store'.
Was this article submitted just to surreptitiously slip the phrase into current use to bolster Apple's bogus trademark application?
the same asshole who thought iraq was trying to kill us
The two are unrelated. We've known that Russian Mafia has been running commercial botnets for, what, a decade? He's hopelessly behind the entire security industry, but he's not proposing a wild, unproven theory.
It's a mistake to choose politicians based upon who you agree with 100% of the time and who you disagree with 0% of the time. Support them when they're right, rain down righteous indignation when they're not. It's policy, not tribal warfare.
There's a story from the USSR that one time an automated nuclear counter-strike system was erroneously triggered and it was only human intervention that stopped it.
Agreed, humans need to be at the switch.
and pilots avoid thunderstorms.
Except during take-offs and landings. Those are tremendously fun, but many disagree.
I was not being literal. I meant go after the biggest consumers of the resource.
I know - it's just ironic that people cry for the EPA or NOAA or whomever to save the menhadden fry in the Bay when the best alternative to overfishing them is illegal due to some completely reason-free legislation. I know, the CIA makes mint on drug running, but the whole refer-madness excuses are complete bunk.
some libertarian/Randian hellhole ... at least partly democratically accountable existing governments
The body count for those governments, for the 20th Century, is about 320 Million, for the last century. The proof of burden lies with those who conjecture that a system based on freedom and liberty would do worse. To be fair, the insane Objectivists are war-mongers, Rand included, so let's not group opposites together and treat them as a whole.