I don't think our spin has much to do with being sideswiped (but I could be incorrect since I haven't read up on it). The martian day is pretty close to an earth day and there isn't any evidence that mars was hit as the earth may have been. Essentially spin is a byproduct of matter spinning down into a smaller diameter as it collects into a planet or star. Mercury is the exception being small and close to the sun is tidally locked but still has a slow spin due to it's eccentric orbit.
Venus appears to be the one that was hit by something at some point as it has an extremely slow rotation and is the only planet that spins in retrograde. It's hard to say what will happen with the earth since the sun will probably expire before the earth gets tidally locked, and the moon is slowly escaping. Nature has already adjusted so I don't think it'll be that much of an issue. If a day is longer by 1.7 seconds every century, and you extrapolate that over millions of years then an "earth day" has already changed by "hours" over time. So whatever is still around should be well adapted to the tidal lock with the moon.
No, the horror is different this time. Didn't like ME? Stick with 98. If you had some money, shell out for Win2k. Just around the corner was Windows XP.
What is there this time? Nothing. Perhaps you could stick to XP, but the EOL is approaching very fast. And lets face reality here; Microsoft has spent many YEARS only to come out with a piece of crap like Vista, how long will it take for them to make another OS that doesn't suck like Vista does? Can they even do it at this point? I think MS is completely mired in it's own cooperate BS. No the true horror of Vista is that there is no where to turn - you at least had the option of not using ME.
The real misadventure I want to see is Direct X. If Vista goes no where, will they backtrack on all their propaganda and make DirectX 10 work with XP, or are they going to allow DirectX to suffer because of the ego of the OS department? Actually for that matter Microsoft may have actually imploded without actually realizing it. How much technology has MS tied to the OS for years and tries to push in the future - it's a lot. Now all of these products have hit a brick wall. IE, DirectX, PowerShell, etc - it's all been tangled up with Vista as it goes down the toilet. It's not going to take MS down, but they just helped the entire free software community more than all of the efforts put forth by them combined. Microsoft may be trapped as much as we are (but at least we can buy a Mac).
Actually I'd love to see proof that Windows DNS is less secure than BIND. I mean, seriously people this is BIND we're talking about here - only sendmail stands in this class of software with that many security holes.
I think from a security perspective the problem isn't Windows DNS, it's the fact that it runs on Windows, with all the baggage that entails. Reality is this "survey" seems to extrapolate that people are for some reason switching away from windows DNS for security. Out of the millions of reasons someone could go to another DNS server, they ass-u-me that it is for better security. So for better security we'll switch to BIND? Yeah right. I moved my networks to djbdns and never looked back.
It's sort of sad that we go from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3 and when posed the question "Is Firefox going to be better" the answer is simply I think so. But then again I don't have many complaints for Firefox if it would just work a bit better. Aside from that it seems like there has to be a better way for bookmarks, and I'm assuming that they're going to the new database format in FF3, but that isn't even mentioned here. Someone on slashdot brought up the awesome idea of having a homepage option that displays your bookmarks (maybe even drag and drop for organize). I guess that would be a cool feature I'd like to see.
I donno, I mean the Telecrapper 2000 works astonishingly well. Keep in mind that most telemarketers aren't paid much and check their brain in at the door. The sheer repetition of reading off their prompts probably makes them less adept at figuring out that ti's a computer right away.
You seem to miss exploiting the tcp stack itself, although I'm not sure a firewall would help you there much either. It seems like this is another job for IPSEC more than anything.
Except that you have a budget and if you do what engineers always want you may not have enough money to even accomplish what you are supposed to. Not to mention the fact that time is a factor in many instances which also causes problems. And trying to coordinate the gaggle of contractors that build your parts and provide services - possibly incorrectly. And on top of that you have the government sticking its nose in everything.
It's a bit more complicated than just doing what everyone else tells you to.
Sometimes I think the most innovative element a new MMORPG could introduce was permanent death upon achieving the top level
Possible to work in theory (like communism) but probably not workable due to human nature. Generally you look at accomplishment in obtaining levels and obtaining gear. Finally getting that then having the character die pretty much negates all you worked for at that point if you want to keep it. Aside from that you've invented a new grind where you simply cycle from low to high instead of doing high level things.
A lot of this stems from the fact that all these games take their heritage from Dungeons and Dragons. You hit a few points about the SIMS though. In the end the only way to really eliminate grind is to eliminate "leveling", and to some extent hording things. The SIMS is fun more so due to the process of game play then from the results of game play. A game may do better than World of Warcraft, but the next real revelation in online gaming will be something very different which is more well rounded in day to day fun.
Does Linux work well with SATA dvd drives? I have a Samsung sata drive that Linux cannot figure out what to do with, despite the fact that it works perfectly with Windows 2000 (no drivers needed). I was wondering if it was just bad luck with model specific support of if it was an SATA problem.
If there's one thing I think I've learned with upgrading, it's that it's best to keep away from the bleeding edge until you've seen the shakeout with hardware issues - and saves money obviously. Well I think I've learned anyway. I've been very picky about main boards, but obviously I may have jumped the gun on drives.
Speak for yourself dude. Grandma can heal and I can buy a new house. Now being stuck on an isolated island with a bunch of hot women? THAT'S priceless!
Yeah that's democracy for you, a bunch of unelected political bosses deciding whether to even give someone a *chance* for people to vote for them.
Actually it is. Is anything stopping him for running for president? no. Is anyone prevented from voting for him? no. Honestly I don't see how we can blame the democrats for the fact that this country has painted itself into a corner with the "two party system". The fact that the democrats won't let him run is insignificant. The fact that we for some reason think he can't run if he isn't in one of the "two parties" actually is.
Yeah, it's sort of strange but I always install gnuls myself (and bash) myself. The main reason being that gnuls compacts directory listings while bsd ls tends to use more white spacing. That ended up being annoying in some directories because it meant the difference between a page full of text or more so you end up scrolling.
That is one of the nice things about bsd though. I mean if you don't like something like 'ls' then you're free to use another one.
Actually the video is sorta interesting. I was actually half tempted to just post a cut from Star Wreck where the P-fleet officers all get wasted at a party. I mean who could tell with a bunch of people dressed up with star-fleet outfits? Just photoshop in some slashdot banners. But obviously that would take away the thunder of honest to goodness slashdot parties. That and I don't think I could explain the shooting the beer can off of someone's head with a phaser part.
While true, he also donated the extra cash to the EFF so seriously, who is going to give this guy crap? For that matter even if I had an extra $10k I don't think I'd shell out to the EFF even with low uid, Natalie Portman and the hot grits included. So cheers to user id 41. You've probably helped defend our digital freedoms more than any other two digit id.
As was pointed out, the key thing is that this is a default of the machine, not people necessarily tinkering with settings. This sounds much like a problem I had with FreeBSD on an Dell Inspiron where I had acpi completely disabled - if you plugged a battery into the machine it shut down, so acpi didn't buy me much as it was always plugged in anyway. But for some odd reason the drive would spin up, click, then spin down. Sometimes it would do this every 10-15 seconds or so. I used it for testing for quite a while until mysteriously it didn't spin up anymore. I saw that coming though since I figured all those spin-ups could NOT be good. So there you go, drive death with no acpi.
Another workaround for crap bugged hardware. Nothing to see here. Move along.
c) We don't use placeholders. Originally because DBD::mysql didn't take advantage of them, and now because we think any speed increase in a reasonably-optimized web app should be a trivial payoff for non-self-documenting argument order. Discuss!
I guess speed might be one consideration. Generally I like to use place holders because it adds simplicity when passing some types of queries. If there's one thing I've seen a problem with, it's failing to properly sanitize incoming information that is passed to the database. A LOT of php code out there is rather easy to blow a hole through due to this. It also simplifies a lot of junk I'd rather not deal with like quoting and such. In either case you're an idiot if you don't sanitize everything first anyway, but my mantra is safety first. I actually loath doing many applications where I can't use them (like the ruby database libraries).
Well that's my take anyway. There's some rather nice code in slash that taut me some better methods in perl, and I'd say you guys are way above my level.
You can already download the command line tools, or at least the scripting part of it. If you're into MS stuff then check out the Microsoft Power Shell. I've started scripting with it and I am very impressed with it. It's a godsend for people like me who were begging for mercy at the hands of Jscript (I refuse to use vbscript) There are some limitations to Microsoft's approach however. In Vim I can insert the output of a program into my document using ":r ls" or something similar. Because most of this type of functionality is built into the shell, it's not available to programs this way.
Honestly I don't think I'll touch 2008 with a 10 foot pole, Windows 2003R2 is probably the best server OS they've produced. I'm not sure what in the hell they were doing with all that manpower to produce something like Vista, so it makes me weary to use any of their other OS products at this point.
Gen X has the unique position with computers in that we actually saw them evolve from a pile of circuit boards, and thus we view them as actual physical piles of parts. It seems like Gen X is also the last generation (for now) willing to tear things apart and monkey with them to get them working again, while Gen Y is only willing to buy a new one. Gen X is only willing to go so far though, in that we are willing to replace parts, where preceding generations seem much more willing to actually MAKE parts in order to do repairs - not necessarily with computers, but in general.
And for that matter I'd at least be FINE with freaking shaping. Sure your connection sucks for bittorrent but it at least works, albeit slow. I mean if something is offered by bittorent only I just can't download it period. Suddenly the utility of the Internet itself is diminished quite a bit by this, especially as this is an arbitrary policy. Maybe they'll block VOIP next unless you use theirs. Maybe they'll decide World of Warcraft users are "too expensive".
No, and pretty much all broadband companies are fairly clever with this. They all advertise that you can "download faster", watch video on the web, listen to music etc. Most of that is ambiguous stuff that you could do on dial-up but not with any practicality.
I'm about done with Comcast. Adelphia may have had incompetence end to end, I had to reboot my cable modem all the time, but at least I got what I got. Since comcast took over my connection speeds have dropped dramatically. Using Vonage is extremely frustrating at this point as the QOS is so bad. I purposly throttle my bittorrent downloads, and go through bouts of downloads on and off, now within the last week or so, bit torrent is dead altogether. And I still have to reboot my freaking modem. None of my problems conflicts with what they advertise it's just really really crappy service.
I pay for an 8mbps connection grandfathered in from Adelphia, but most speed tests show I get a max of 1mbps. It seems to me if I get verizon DSL and they lie and only give me HALF of what they promise then I'm still ahead. Honestly I'm an idiot if I stay with Comcast because it's also $50 more a month. And I've watched TV once in the last 3 years. At some point no one is going to stick with them unless they have to, but screw comcast I hope they go into the gutter: they deserve it. They wont of course because of the cable TV cartel, which is of course another reason they don't care because they essentially can't go out of business.
Actually startup costs are extremely low. This will most likely give rise to what many were predicting: middle class musicians. Instead of having slaves to the music company's with a few shining examples at the top, a few signed bands that get no where, and a bunch of bands never signed, you get a more even mix. Many bands used to blow a more money making crap demo tapes than you can now pool into a respectable recording session with modern tech.
Basically you have low barrier of entry, and relatively low cost of production. The main hurdle is marketing your stuff, and as another poster insightfully pointed out, there's going to be a growing segment of marketers for just these types of bands. Those with talent may soon find their ship has finally come in. In the end this may finally start to redistribute the wealth more evenly then the extremes between the traditional starving artists and Britney class megastars. Well unless the government somehow manages to fuck all this up which is quite possible.
I got World of Warcraft around 3 days ago. Normally my bittorrent traffic caps at around 120Kb combined. WoW downloaded at above 200Kbs. Keep in mind that I'm on a former Adelphia network which has gotten worse and worse as each month has gone by so it's only a matter of time before they screw that up too I'm sure.
I also pay for the 8Mb service which all bandwidth tests seem to indicate I max out at 1000bps, so I'm not sure what to make of my connection. I'm milling over switching to DSL which I should get a 50% increase in performance assuming my performance is 50% of what Verison actually promises for about 40% of the cost.
Unfortunately I don't think the way the current system works would allow for dismantling the way the credit system works. Essentially the entire credit system hinges on risk assessment, and the only way to asses that risk with any amount of accuracy is to pool together the different resources a person is involved with, ala - the infamous "credit score". With no way to know what person is more risky than the next we get a more universal spread which tends to punish people with good credit, and reward those without good credit.
I can't say I disagree with you, just that it seems sort of puzzling how society actually got to this point where we have this linchpin concept of 'identity', yet no real way to protect it. And the only reason that 'identity' even matters is because of things like insurance, credit, and so forth - risk assessment. I guess now that I think about it, I wonder if a solution wouldn't be to punish the credit card company for identity theft. That gives them two options. Either take better precautions against it, or stop utilizing that information at all.
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I don't think our spin has much to do with being sideswiped (but I could be incorrect since I haven't read up on it). The martian day is pretty close to an earth day and there isn't any evidence that mars was hit as the earth may have been. Essentially spin is a byproduct of matter spinning down into a smaller diameter as it collects into a planet or star. Mercury is the exception being small and close to the sun is tidally locked but still has a slow spin due to it's eccentric orbit.
Venus appears to be the one that was hit by something at some point as it has an extremely slow rotation and is the only planet that spins in retrograde. It's hard to say what will happen with the earth since the sun will probably expire before the earth gets tidally locked, and the moon is slowly escaping. Nature has already adjusted so I don't think it'll be that much of an issue. If a day is longer by 1.7 seconds every century, and you extrapolate that over millions of years then an "earth day" has already changed by "hours" over time. So whatever is still around should be well adapted to the tidal lock with the moon.
No, the horror is different this time. Didn't like ME? Stick with 98. If you had some money, shell out for Win2k. Just around the corner was Windows XP.
What is there this time? Nothing. Perhaps you could stick to XP, but the EOL is approaching very fast. And lets face reality here; Microsoft has spent many YEARS only to come out with a piece of crap like Vista, how long will it take for them to make another OS that doesn't suck like Vista does? Can they even do it at this point? I think MS is completely mired in it's own cooperate BS. No the true horror of Vista is that there is no where to turn - you at least had the option of not using ME.
The real misadventure I want to see is Direct X. If Vista goes no where, will they backtrack on all their propaganda and make DirectX 10 work with XP, or are they going to allow DirectX to suffer because of the ego of the OS department? Actually for that matter Microsoft may have actually imploded without actually realizing it. How much technology has MS tied to the OS for years and tries to push in the future - it's a lot. Now all of these products have hit a brick wall. IE, DirectX, PowerShell, etc - it's all been tangled up with Vista as it goes down the toilet. It's not going to take MS down, but they just helped the entire free software community more than all of the efforts put forth by them combined. Microsoft may be trapped as much as we are (but at least we can buy a Mac).
Actually I'd love to see proof that Windows DNS is less secure than BIND. I mean, seriously people this is BIND we're talking about here - only sendmail stands in this class of software with that many security holes.
I think from a security perspective the problem isn't Windows DNS, it's the fact that it runs on Windows, with all the baggage that entails. Reality is this "survey" seems to extrapolate that people are for some reason switching away from windows DNS for security. Out of the millions of reasons someone could go to another DNS server, they ass-u-me that it is for better security. So for better security we'll switch to BIND? Yeah right. I moved my networks to djbdns and never looked back.
It's sort of sad that we go from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3 and when posed the question "Is Firefox going to be better" the answer is simply I think so. But then again I don't have many complaints for Firefox if it would just work a bit better. Aside from that it seems like there has to be a better way for bookmarks, and I'm assuming that they're going to the new database format in FF3, but that isn't even mentioned here. Someone on slashdot brought up the awesome idea of having a homepage option that displays your bookmarks (maybe even drag and drop for organize). I guess that would be a cool feature I'd like to see.
I donno, I mean the Telecrapper 2000 works astonishingly well. Keep in mind that most telemarketers aren't paid much and check their brain in at the door. The sheer repetition of reading off their prompts probably makes them less adept at figuring out that ti's a computer right away.
You seem to miss exploiting the tcp stack itself, although I'm not sure a firewall would help you there much either. It seems like this is another job for IPSEC more than anything.
I am still at a loss to wonder why a PC does not have a white noise generator built into it yet.
Isn't that what computers have users for?
Except that you have a budget and if you do what engineers always want you may not have enough money to even accomplish what you are supposed to. Not to mention the fact that time is a factor in many instances which also causes problems. And trying to coordinate the gaggle of contractors that build your parts and provide services - possibly incorrectly. And on top of that you have the government sticking its nose in everything.
It's a bit more complicated than just doing what everyone else tells you to.
Sometimes I think the most innovative element a new MMORPG could introduce was permanent death upon achieving the top level
Possible to work in theory (like communism) but probably not workable due to human nature. Generally you look at accomplishment in obtaining levels and obtaining gear. Finally getting that then having the character die pretty much negates all you worked for at that point if you want to keep it. Aside from that you've invented a new grind where you simply cycle from low to high instead of doing high level things.
A lot of this stems from the fact that all these games take their heritage from Dungeons and Dragons. You hit a few points about the SIMS though. In the end the only way to really eliminate grind is to eliminate "leveling", and to some extent hording things. The SIMS is fun more so due to the process of game play then from the results of game play. A game may do better than World of Warcraft, but the next real revelation in online gaming will be something very different which is more well rounded in day to day fun.
And then there's vista...
Does Linux work well with SATA dvd drives? I have a Samsung sata drive that Linux cannot figure out what to do with, despite the fact that it works perfectly with Windows 2000 (no drivers needed). I was wondering if it was just bad luck with model specific support of if it was an SATA problem.
If there's one thing I think I've learned with upgrading, it's that it's best to keep away from the bleeding edge until you've seen the shakeout with hardware issues - and saves money obviously. Well I think I've learned anyway. I've been very picky about main boards, but obviously I may have jumped the gun on drives.
Speak for yourself dude. Grandma can heal and I can buy a new house. Now being stuck on an isolated island with a bunch of hot women? THAT'S priceless!
Yeah that's democracy for you, a bunch of unelected political bosses deciding whether to even give someone a *chance* for people to vote for them.
Actually it is. Is anything stopping him for running for president? no. Is anyone prevented from voting for him? no. Honestly I don't see how we can blame the democrats for the fact that this country has painted itself into a corner with the "two party system". The fact that the democrats won't let him run is insignificant. The fact that we for some reason think he can't run if he isn't in one of the "two parties" actually is.
Yeah, it's sort of strange but I always install gnuls myself (and bash) myself. The main reason being that gnuls compacts directory listings while bsd ls tends to use more white spacing. That ended up being annoying in some directories because it meant the difference between a page full of text or more so you end up scrolling.
That is one of the nice things about bsd though. I mean if you don't like something like 'ls' then you're free to use another one.
Actually the video is sorta interesting. I was actually half tempted to just post a cut from Star Wreck where the P-fleet officers all get wasted at a party. I mean who could tell with a bunch of people dressed up with star-fleet outfits? Just photoshop in some slashdot banners. But obviously that would take away the thunder of honest to goodness slashdot parties. That and I don't think I could explain the shooting the beer can off of someone's head with a phaser part.
While true, he also donated the extra cash to the EFF so seriously, who is going to give this guy crap? For that matter even if I had an extra $10k I don't think I'd shell out to the EFF even with low uid, Natalie Portman and the hot grits included. So cheers to user id 41. You've probably helped defend our digital freedoms more than any other two digit id.
As was pointed out, the key thing is that this is a default of the machine, not people necessarily tinkering with settings. This sounds much like a problem I had with FreeBSD on an Dell Inspiron where I had acpi completely disabled - if you plugged a battery into the machine it shut down, so acpi didn't buy me much as it was always plugged in anyway. But for some odd reason the drive would spin up, click, then spin down. Sometimes it would do this every 10-15 seconds or so. I used it for testing for quite a while until mysteriously it didn't spin up anymore. I saw that coming though since I figured all those spin-ups could NOT be good. So there you go, drive death with no acpi.
Another workaround for crap bugged hardware. Nothing to see here. Move along.
c) We don't use placeholders. Originally because DBD::mysql didn't take advantage of them, and now because we think any speed increase in a reasonably-optimized web app should be a trivial payoff for non-self-documenting argument order. Discuss!
I guess speed might be one consideration. Generally I like to use place holders because it adds simplicity when passing some types of queries. If there's one thing I've seen a problem with, it's failing to properly sanitize incoming information that is passed to the database. A LOT of php code out there is rather easy to blow a hole through due to this. It also simplifies a lot of junk I'd rather not deal with like quoting and such. In either case you're an idiot if you don't sanitize everything first anyway, but my mantra is safety first. I actually loath doing many applications where I can't use them (like the ruby database libraries).
Well that's my take anyway. There's some rather nice code in slash that taut me some better methods in perl, and I'd say you guys are way above my level.
You can already download the command line tools, or at least the scripting part of it. If you're into MS stuff then check out the Microsoft Power Shell. I've started scripting with it and I am very impressed with it. It's a godsend for people like me who were begging for mercy at the hands of Jscript (I refuse to use vbscript) There are some limitations to Microsoft's approach however. In Vim I can insert the output of a program into my document using ":r ls" or something similar. Because most of this type of functionality is built into the shell, it's not available to programs this way.
Honestly I don't think I'll touch 2008 with a 10 foot pole, Windows 2003R2 is probably the best server OS they've produced. I'm not sure what in the hell they were doing with all that manpower to produce something like Vista, so it makes me weary to use any of their other OS products at this point.
Gen X has the unique position with computers in that we actually saw them evolve from a pile of circuit boards, and thus we view them as actual physical piles of parts. It seems like Gen X is also the last generation (for now) willing to tear things apart and monkey with them to get them working again, while Gen Y is only willing to buy a new one. Gen X is only willing to go so far though, in that we are willing to replace parts, where preceding generations seem much more willing to actually MAKE parts in order to do repairs - not necessarily with computers, but in general.
And for that matter I'd at least be FINE with freaking shaping. Sure your connection sucks for bittorrent but it at least works, albeit slow. I mean if something is offered by bittorent only I just can't download it period. Suddenly the utility of the Internet itself is diminished quite a bit by this, especially as this is an arbitrary policy. Maybe they'll block VOIP next unless you use theirs. Maybe they'll decide World of Warcraft users are "too expensive".
No, and pretty much all broadband companies are fairly clever with this. They all advertise that you can "download faster", watch video on the web, listen to music etc. Most of that is ambiguous stuff that you could do on dial-up but not with any practicality.
I'm about done with Comcast. Adelphia may have had incompetence end to end, I had to reboot my cable modem all the time, but at least I got what I got. Since comcast took over my connection speeds have dropped dramatically. Using Vonage is extremely frustrating at this point as the QOS is so bad. I purposly throttle my bittorrent downloads, and go through bouts of downloads on and off, now within the last week or so, bit torrent is dead altogether. And I still have to reboot my freaking modem. None of my problems conflicts with what they advertise it's just really really crappy service.
I pay for an 8mbps connection grandfathered in from Adelphia, but most speed tests show I get a max of 1mbps. It seems to me if I get verizon DSL and they lie and only give me HALF of what they promise then I'm still ahead. Honestly I'm an idiot if I stay with Comcast because it's also $50 more a month. And I've watched TV once in the last 3 years. At some point no one is going to stick with them unless they have to, but screw comcast I hope they go into the gutter: they deserve it. They wont of course because of the cable TV cartel, which is of course another reason they don't care because they essentially can't go out of business.
Actually startup costs are extremely low. This will most likely give rise to what many were predicting: middle class musicians. Instead of having slaves to the music company's with a few shining examples at the top, a few signed bands that get no where, and a bunch of bands never signed, you get a more even mix. Many bands used to blow a more money making crap demo tapes than you can now pool into a respectable recording session with modern tech.
Basically you have low barrier of entry, and relatively low cost of production. The main hurdle is marketing your stuff, and as another poster insightfully pointed out, there's going to be a growing segment of marketers for just these types of bands. Those with talent may soon find their ship has finally come in. In the end this may finally start to redistribute the wealth more evenly then the extremes between the traditional starving artists and Britney class megastars. Well unless the government somehow manages to fuck all this up which is quite possible.
I got World of Warcraft around 3 days ago. Normally my bittorrent traffic caps at around 120Kb combined. WoW downloaded at above 200Kbs. Keep in mind that I'm on a former Adelphia network which has gotten worse and worse as each month has gone by so it's only a matter of time before they screw that up too I'm sure.
I also pay for the 8Mb service which all bandwidth tests seem to indicate I max out at 1000bps, so I'm not sure what to make of my connection. I'm milling over switching to DSL which I should get a 50% increase in performance assuming my performance is 50% of what Verison actually promises for about 40% of the cost.
Unfortunately I don't think the way the current system works would allow for dismantling the way the credit system works. Essentially the entire credit system hinges on risk assessment, and the only way to asses that risk with any amount of accuracy is to pool together the different resources a person is involved with, ala - the infamous "credit score". With no way to know what person is more risky than the next we get a more universal spread which tends to punish people with good credit, and reward those without good credit.
I can't say I disagree with you, just that it seems sort of puzzling how society actually got to this point where we have this linchpin concept of 'identity', yet no real way to protect it. And the only reason that 'identity' even matters is because of things like insurance, credit, and so forth - risk assessment. I guess now that I think about it, I wonder if a solution wouldn't be to punish the credit card company for identity theft. That gives them two options. Either take better precautions against it, or stop utilizing that information at all.