The first picture is what we Americans think of as bacon. The "back bacon" is closer to what I've been served in Ireland (I assume the same is true in England). Your bacon is closer to what we call "Canadian Bacon". That makes sense, considering Canada's past...
I actually prefer the back bacon with breakfast. An yes, the full fry is one of the best parts about visiting Ireland. It comes standard with the B&B I stay at. I've not weighed myself, but I wouldn't be surprised to find several pounds increase from the daily breakfast...
Ah, when I was living in Twickenham, for school, I loved breakfast tea with some sugar and cream. Plus, the Brits. had an easy water boiler to make the hot water. That and all the toast and jam on the table. I enjoyed that.
And you can recreate the experience. A couple of minutes to boil and three minutes to steep. Beware, though, once you start buying loose teas you'll want to try them all... So much nicer (and cheaper!) than bagged teas.
This is how I start every morning these days. Sometimes a bagel if I feel like walking the 1/4 mile to buy fresh bagels.
I had no end of problems with my Philips doing this if I just change input sources for a few seconds while content is playing. The only way I could get things to work again after the handshaking failed was power-cycling the DVD player. This, obviously, was not a viable option. I returned it for another cheap upconversion model (LG). It handles switching away without a hitch. My conclusion is the Philips is particularly bad at doing its job. The interface was horrible, too, so it wasn't a hard choice to get rid of it.
Assuming the "them" is HD videos (blu-ray or HD-DVD), you might be pleasantly surprised to find out that you can rent them currently. Netflix is offering many movies in both formats. HD-DVD seems to be more prevalent, but they do have Blu-Ray stuff as well. Of course, that shifts your $20/video to $20/month, but it is possible to rent them.
When I call my bank [...] They ask for 2 random digits [of my pin].
This would concern me to no end - it sounds like the bank staff can see your PIN on their screens.
Only if the design is braindead. If they need the whole PIN, then they can see your entire PIN (or they type in everything you say). If they only ask for a piece of the PIN, then they only need to see the piece. Maybe even an interface that just says "Ask customer for piece 4 [enter here] and piece 9 [enter here]".
Whenever I call a credit card company or the like, it's obvious they have most of my information up for display. For example, I just had to confirm my mailing address when I called a few minutes ago. There's no way they are typing it in - I dictate it quickly enough they are obviously just comparing what I say to what's already on the screen.
Gmail sends the mail as coming from your domain, but the sender header is listed as coming from your gmail address. Because of this, the SPF testers seem to care about Gmail's SPF check, not your domain's. For example, send an email to the address given by this site:
I would pay extra to delete ABS on a new car purchase.
From my understanding, you can usually disable the ABS just by pulling the ABS fuse. So just do like I do and rig a switch up to the fuse block (or just manually pull the ABS fuse as needed). If I'm driving on loose surfaces, I want the accumulation to help slow me down, so I flip the switch off. If I'm driving on wet surfaces, or letting someone borrow my car, I flip the switch on. On dry pavement, it's usually off.
That's only because you were goofy enough to quote what you previously made to a recruiter. You NEVER EVER quote what you last made, because it gives the recruiter the ability to know how much he can squeeze you and increase the margin against what he charges the client.
It's probably too late for you to see this, but don't recruiters typically work for a fee that is the percentage of your negotiated salary? I've never had occasion to work with one, so my understanding might be pretty far off. Anyway, if that were the case, the recruiter's best interest is you getting the salary you want.
There are certain Mobil stations that you run across where you have to punch in your zip code to be able to use Speedpass every time you use Speedpass there.
I'd suspect those are stations that were hit by Speedpass fraud.
Possibly, but is that Speedpass fraud as in "RFID read remotely and then the Speedpass device was duplicated", or is it Speedpass fraud as in "someone dropped their Speedpass in the parking lot, and then someone else used it"?
What if you are standing too close to the RFID reader and it picks up your card details instead of the person who is paying in front of you?
I used a similar service, Speedpass a few+ years ago, and this honestly was not a possibility. I never got it to read my chip from more than 2cm away from the reading area - and usually not even that far worked. Same with my door pass to get in my building - I've got to touch my wallet to the reader to get it to register - meaning 1" or so at most. Same thing with the DC metro's readers - 2" is about the best you'll ever get.
That's not to say a stronger reader component couldn't be built that could read from a further distance. However, in practice, these devices are engineered to only work at a very short distance.
You can't make online transactions without the last 3 digits of the security number on the back of the card. That security number isn't stored electronically on the card - so it can't be read by any means expect visually examining the back of the card.
Sure you can. I did last night at cafepress. All I provided was my account number and expiration date. The security number on the back has been adopted by a large percentage of the stores I deal with, but it is not universally used.
These are non-powered RFID tags. There is no "on/off" for them.
It's still a circuit. It'd be entirely possible to make a switch. It'd probably be too bulky as it'd have to be a non-momentary switch to maintain state after power is lost to the circuit. Still, the "non-powered" part doesn't mean the switch is impossible.
i would go to Mars even if i knew i wouldn't be able to get back
Not the boldest of statements given you'll never have a chance to put your money where your mouth is... If you truly feel that way, then I have but one thing to say to you: "Here's the chair, here's the rope." A one-way trip to the afterlife is about as close as you'll come to a one-way trip to Mars.
As someone who shares a similar view to the grandparent, I don't see how those two are similar at all. I would gladly give up any chance of returning back to Earth if I could go to Mars today (and have some chance of survival for a reasonable amount of time, I'm not looking to commit suicide). It's all about living out what has been a dream of mine for a long long time. Just because it's not possible to do it currently doesn't mean I'm any less genuine claiming I would...
Another possibility is the atMega8 based Arduino platform. It's open source, and uses an ATMega8 with a bootloader already installed, so you can easily put programs on it over the USB interface. Plus the entire kit is cheap (~$30 USD), so you could conceivably wire the board into a one-off project. Or, if you choose, pull the actual IC out and put it in a circuit with the necessary support hardware - for a lot less than the $30 for the full kit. Looks like fun stuff.
Disclaimer, I've never seen one of these in person (although I will have by the end of this week). My last microcontroller work was with the PIC. I think I'm more impressed overall with the PIC's abilities vs. price in projects where you'd end up buying just the chip and putting it in the circuit. The PIC line just has a wide range of chips with a lot of capability, ranging from the dirt cheap to the expensive. However, for picking up a mcu and playing around with schematics/software, the Arduino platform looks intriguing. Looks like it would be good for rapid prototyping where you need to get the circuit figured out and the software isn't the most important part, too.
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Dude, you're not helping the "Make the Internet Look Clean" cause. You just sacrificed 2 bytes to the porn side of the equation. Imagine what would happen if EVERYONE did that...
The biggest problem I see is that the Medical Savings Account provision in the tax law is a "use it or lose it" policy. I'd happily buy an MSA if I could save my deductible portion that way (or one of my deductible portions).
Look into the Health Savings Account. It's similar to the old Flex style savings, but it works more like an IRA. Yearly tax deferred contributions up to the amount of your deductible (although there may be another IRS imposed hard limit that's lower than your $10,000 deductible.
The best part is you can deduct tax free and without penalty from the HSA for any health related expense (including paying the deductible). There's no "use it or lose it" aspect, because it works just like an IRA. If you never touch it, it just keeps accumulating. I also believe the mandatory withdraw after 67.5 (I think?) does not apply to HSAs. Finally, as I understand it, you can withdraw for non-health related fees (taxed) after the retirement age.
I'm VERY happy with mine, although my deductible is only a mere $1800. The way I see it, it's an extra $1800 I'm putting towards my retirement. My old insurance was a copay (80% on most stuff), and was costing me as much each month as my current monthly HSA contribution ($1800/12) plus my current monthly insurance premium. If I have to claim my insurance, I end up breaking even. If I don't use insurance (and I haven't in 10+ years), then I make an extra 1800/year. It's a win-win for me. To put it another way, if I'd been using HSA for the last 5 years, I'd have put over $10,000 into retirement instead of the insurance company's pockets.
Of course, for this to work you have to treat medical insurance like insurance. This won't work for people who go to the doctor monthly. Big expenses only! It helps if you're young, too.
Just FYI, my HSA is through ExanteBankHSA.com. I'm not horribly pleased with their rate structure, but they are the one who was supported directly by my Health Insurance agency. If anyone has a better HSA provider, please let me know!
If someone goes to give you a hard shove, and your friend pushes back with the exact same energy at the exact same time (with a slight delay due to reaction time), you don't get shoved.
By your logic the energy of your friend's shove is somehow going to push on you.
Except, in your example, the friend's shove WILL push on you. So will that of the asshole who pushed you in the first place. You still have the possibility of bruises from both of them (if they pushed hard enough). The two pushes will just cancel out so that you're not going to go anywhere (assuming they both push equally).
It seems to me that giving an analogy where physical pain is a very possible outcome doesn't really make sense when trying to explain why noise canceling won't hurt you.
Second thing I think of is that game that is kinda like bejeweled - only without the shapes... Again, greens and yellows (or blues an purples depending on the version)
There's an arcade game I played once (I can't remember the name) that was a bit like Snood (I guess Snood adapted the idea for its own use). Anyway, I got trounced by the person I was playing against after a single level. The reason? I couldn't tell any of the colours apart, and the shapes were too close to quickly identify (or maybe shapes weren't distinct, I don't remember).
That doesn't bother me so much as playing FPS games where the enemies are distinguished by colour. Call of Duty is an example of one that gives me no end of trouble. I simply cannot tell the enemies and allies apart (aside from the fact the enemies tend to shoot at me)... I'll watch other people play and be astounded by how quickly they recognize friend from foe. It doesn't keep me from playing the game (or enjoying it), but it is a real problem.
World of Warcraft has the same problem with character labels. IIRC, a non-PvP enemy, a PvP ally, and a non-PvP ally all look similar enough to me that it would cost me some time if I had to figure out which they were. I still played the game, though!
You probably haven't had to complain much because color seldom carries vital information that can't be obtained in any other way, but a good part of the reason is that somebody actually bothered to think of that.
One notable example where colour is often the only means for providing information is in the use of an LED for indicating status. There are times I curse the invention of the multi-colour LED, because electronics almost always use them, and I almost never can tell the colours apart. Green/red - I sometimes can, but green/yellow/orange/red all look very similar. Sure, it's not something that's caused me a great deal of grief, but I can never tell when my battery charger is finished.
I'm not so sure people design specifically around colour blindness. I think the factor working in our favour is that some degree colour blindness is really quite common. The Wikipedia entry on colour blindness claims that as many as 10% of men have red-green colour blindness. I'd imagine most major products go through many more than 10 people throughout the entire process, so major colour problems get pointed out along the way.
This makes me wonder if you could make money by remotely managing somebody's computer for them.
If you listen to XM talk channels long enough, you're going to hear commercials for several different companies that are doing exactly this. I don't know if they actually make money, but they're certainly giving it a go.
An animal study suggests that consuming the spice, black pepper, when drinking green tea can significantly increase the amount of epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) absorbed. In this study, rats and mice given green tea along with piperine (a bioactive component in black pepper) absorbed 130% more EGCG than control animals receiving EGCG alone.
Yes you do. If you have an e-ticket, you must show ID to the airline before you can board.
That's a separate requirement from the TSA security lines.
I don't know about the rest of the airlines, but that's most certainly not the case for Southwest. They usually even announce during boarding that identification is not necessary.
If you want to make that information public then by all means do. But programs like Excel and Quicken are there to keep finances private. That's a good thing.
The way I see it, that kind of information is already out there anyway. There are companies that certainly know a lot more about my finances than I do - as evidenced by the fact I have to pay them a fear each year just to find it out for myself...
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Indeed. See the Wikipedia entry:
Wikipedia on Bacon
The first picture is what we Americans think of as bacon. The "back bacon" is closer to what I've been served in Ireland (I assume the same is true in England). Your bacon is closer to what we call "Canadian Bacon". That makes sense, considering Canada's past...
I actually prefer the back bacon with breakfast. An yes, the full fry is one of the best parts about visiting Ireland. It comes standard with the B&B I stay at. I've not weighed myself, but I wouldn't be surprised to find several pounds increase from the daily breakfast...
Get yourself:
A water kettle
A teapot (with infuser)
and
some English Breakfast tea
And you can recreate the experience. A couple of minutes to boil and three minutes to steep. Beware, though, once you start buying loose teas you'll want to try them all... So much nicer (and cheaper!) than bagged teas.
This is how I start every morning these days. Sometimes a bagel if I feel like walking the 1/4 mile to buy fresh bagels.
I had no end of problems with my Philips doing this if I just change input sources for a few seconds while content is playing. The only way I could get things to work again after the handshaking failed was power-cycling the DVD player. This, obviously, was not a viable option. I returned it for another cheap upconversion model (LG). It handles switching away without a hitch. My conclusion is the Philips is particularly bad at doing its job. The interface was horrible, too, so it wasn't a hard choice to get rid of it.
Assuming the "them" is HD videos (blu-ray or HD-DVD), you might be pleasantly surprised to find out that you can rent them currently. Netflix is offering many movies in both formats. HD-DVD seems to be more prevalent, but they do have Blu-Ray stuff as well. Of course, that shifts your $20/video to $20/month, but it is possible to rent them.
Well, that certainly ramps up the security, doesn't it? I'm sure someone with malicious intent is doing the same thing.
Only if the design is braindead. If they need the whole PIN, then they can see your entire PIN (or they type in everything you say). If they only ask for a piece of the PIN, then they only need to see the piece. Maybe even an interface that just says "Ask customer for piece 4 [enter here] and piece 9 [enter here]".
Whenever I call a credit card company or the like, it's obvious they have most of my information up for display. For example, I just had to confirm my mailing address when I called a few minutes ago. There's no way they are typing it in - I dictate it quickly enough they are obviously just comparing what I say to what's already on the screen.
Gmail sends the mail as coming from your domain, but the sender header is listed as coming from your gmail address. Because of this, the SPF testers seem to care about Gmail's SPF check, not your domain's. For example, send an email to the address given by this site:
http://senderid.espcoalition.org/
For example, in my case, I see:
In the headers send in the email, I see:
For a while I actually had my domain's SPF records set to deny all. Worked out well enough, since Gmail sent all of my domain's email back then.
Possibly, but is that Speedpass fraud as in "RFID read remotely and then the Speedpass device was duplicated", or is it Speedpass fraud as in "someone dropped their Speedpass in the parking lot, and then someone else used it"?
I wouldn't be surprised if it's the latter.
I used a similar service, Speedpass a few+ years ago, and this honestly was not a possibility. I never got it to read my chip from more than 2cm away from the reading area - and usually not even that far worked. Same with my door pass to get in my building - I've got to touch my wallet to the reader to get it to register - meaning 1" or so at most. Same thing with the DC metro's readers - 2" is about the best you'll ever get.
That's not to say a stronger reader component couldn't be built that could read from a further distance. However, in practice, these devices are engineered to only work at a very short distance.
As someone who shares a similar view to the grandparent, I don't see how those two are similar at all. I would gladly give up any chance of returning back to Earth if I could go to Mars today (and have some chance of survival for a reasonable amount of time, I'm not looking to commit suicide). It's all about living out what has been a dream of mine for a long long time. Just because it's not possible to do it currently doesn't mean I'm any less genuine claiming I would...
Another possibility is the atMega8 based Arduino platform. It's open source, and uses an ATMega8 with a bootloader already installed, so you can easily put programs on it over the USB interface. Plus the entire kit is cheap (~$30 USD), so you could conceivably wire the board into a one-off project. Or, if you choose, pull the actual IC out and put it in a circuit with the necessary support hardware - for a lot less than the $30 for the full kit. Looks like fun stuff.
Disclaimer, I've never seen one of these in person (although I will have by the end of this week). My last microcontroller work was with the PIC. I think I'm more impressed overall with the PIC's abilities vs. price in projects where you'd end up buying just the chip and putting it in the circuit. The PIC line just has a wide range of chips with a lot of capability, ranging from the dirt cheap to the expensive. However, for picking up a mcu and playing around with schematics/software, the Arduino platform looks intriguing. Looks like it would be good for rapid prototyping where you need to get the circuit figured out and the software isn't the most important part, too.
Arduino
Did I mention it's all Open Source?
Dude, you're not helping the "Make the Internet Look Clean" cause. You just sacrificed 2 bytes to the porn side of the equation. Imagine what would happen if EVERYONE did that...
Look into the Health Savings Account. It's similar to the old Flex style savings, but it works more like an IRA. Yearly tax deferred contributions up to the amount of your deductible (although there may be another IRS imposed hard limit that's lower than your $10,000 deductible.
The best part is you can deduct tax free and without penalty from the HSA for any health related expense (including paying the deductible). There's no "use it or lose it" aspect, because it works just like an IRA. If you never touch it, it just keeps accumulating. I also believe the mandatory withdraw after 67.5 (I think?) does not apply to HSAs. Finally, as I understand it, you can withdraw for non-health related fees (taxed) after the retirement age.
I'm VERY happy with mine, although my deductible is only a mere $1800. The way I see it, it's an extra $1800 I'm putting towards my retirement. My old insurance was a copay (80% on most stuff), and was costing me as much each month as my current monthly HSA contribution ($1800/12) plus my current monthly insurance premium. If I have to claim my insurance, I end up breaking even. If I don't use insurance (and I haven't in 10+ years), then I make an extra 1800/year. It's a win-win for me. To put it another way, if I'd been using HSA for the last 5 years, I'd have put over $10,000 into retirement instead of the insurance company's pockets.
Of course, for this to work you have to treat medical insurance like insurance. This won't work for people who go to the doctor monthly. Big expenses only! It helps if you're young, too.
Just FYI, my HSA is through ExanteBankHSA.com. I'm not horribly pleased with their rate structure, but they are the one who was supported directly by my Health Insurance agency. If anyone has a better HSA provider, please let me know!
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I don't know about that, but with workstation:
Except, in your example, the friend's shove WILL push on you. So will that of the asshole who pushed you in the first place. You still have the possibility of bruises from both of them (if they pushed hard enough). The two pushes will just cancel out so that you're not going to go anywhere (assuming they both push equally).
It seems to me that giving an analogy where physical pain is a very possible outcome doesn't really make sense when trying to explain why noise canceling won't hurt you.
There's an arcade game I played once (I can't remember the name) that was a bit like Snood (I guess Snood adapted the idea for its own use). Anyway, I got trounced by the person I was playing against after a single level. The reason? I couldn't tell any of the colours apart, and the shapes were too close to quickly identify (or maybe shapes weren't distinct, I don't remember).
That doesn't bother me so much as playing FPS games where the enemies are distinguished by colour. Call of Duty is an example of one that gives me no end of trouble. I simply cannot tell the enemies and allies apart (aside from the fact the enemies tend to shoot at me)... I'll watch other people play and be astounded by how quickly they recognize friend from foe. It doesn't keep me from playing the game (or enjoying it), but it is a real problem.
World of Warcraft has the same problem with character labels. IIRC, a non-PvP enemy, a PvP ally, and a non-PvP ally all look similar enough to me that it would cost me some time if I had to figure out which they were. I still played the game, though!
One notable example where colour is often the only means for providing information is in the use of an LED for indicating status. There are times I curse the invention of the multi-colour LED, because electronics almost always use them, and I almost never can tell the colours apart. Green/red - I sometimes can, but green/yellow/orange/red all look very similar. Sure, it's not something that's caused me a great deal of grief, but I can never tell when my battery charger is finished.
I'm not so sure people design specifically around colour blindness. I think the factor working in our favour is that some degree colour blindness is really quite common. The Wikipedia entry on colour blindness claims that as many as 10% of men have red-green colour blindness. I'd imagine most major products go through many more than 10 people throughout the entire process, so major colour problems get pointed out along the way.
If you listen to XM talk channels long enough, you're going to hear commercials for several different companies that are doing exactly this. I don't know if they actually make money, but they're certainly giving it a go.
First I've heard of it (black pepper in green tea), but it doesn't appear to be his own invention:
http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice &dbid=146
Goodie, I want more EGCG in my diet!
I don't know about the rest of the airlines, but that's most certainly not the case for Southwest. They usually even announce during boarding that identification is not necessary.