nope, never did catch any, nor did i ever hear anything of the store getting conned.
another poster said the pens work by detecting bleach in the paper, probably because it's possible to strip the ink off a small bill (like a 1 or 5) using bleach and then print on a larger bill. if you're a counterfeiter, solution is to not use bleach. it really was only to stop the people using a standard printer.
my guess is that you worked for the trasury dept, or maybe even the secret service or elsewhere in law enforcement. i have a family member who works for ss, and too says that the pens are mostly useless. but for me, it was one of those things from the store security manager that you dont question and blindly say yes to, especially if you're a high schooler like I was (at the time).
Single colour currency is one of the hardest thing I've had to get used to in the US.
My guess is you grew up in Australia and not the US, and are familiar with multi-colored currency. I'm the other way around, and would probably find having different colors harder than single color. For me, it's easier to thumb through my wallet and glance at the upper corners of note where a "5" or "1" or "20" is printed. I also keep my wallet sorted - smaller bills toward the front, all facing the same way.
how many checkout chicks carefully look over every note?
Well, I'm not a chick, but was once a checkout boy during HS. We were given a detector pen to use on 20s or higher that turns brown on real money, black on most everything else. When the new bills came out in the late 90s, we were specifically instructed to check for that color-shifting ink in addition to that pen. It's also very easy to tell that a bill is suspect based on feel alone (one of the main focuses of my original post), as the US paper currency has a distinctive feel against other forms of paper.
But that only stops people who try to print their own at home, it doesnt stop those who bleach the ink off a $5 and print on a $100. Yeah - that's one of the problems with US money being all green. They have watermarks now (which are added at the mill where the paper is made, and cant be removed), but those are hard to check for at a checkout counter. I personally think that the paper should have some kind of varying color (like that new 20 that's coming soon) that differs between denominations.
How does the plastic money handle? What exactly is in that window - some sort of hologram or other image? I take it each denomination has its own color and size, but I think differing size would make it hard to carry around in your wallet.
Plastic would be a great idea for US Currency, given it's probably the most (easily) counterfeited, but it's aslo expensive. I think one of hte best security features of US paper money is the paper it's printed on.
The feel of it is not like normal printer paper or other common paper forms. You can blindfold yourself and handle a random piece of paper and know whether it's a US paper currency or not. (It's not really "paper" - it's a linens and cotton mixture with little red and blue fibers mixed in.)
I personally would still prefer paper money. Though - I could just see our US gov't go start printing $1 plastic cards that cost $4 to print.
I have a drafty apartment, with a bedroom of about 15 ft by 10 ft. Last summer I bought a box air conditioner that goes in the window. It's a 6000 BTU that I got at Wal-Mart for around (I think, dont quote me) $160.
Some nice things about it is that it attempts to maintain a certain temperature. You can set it to a desired temperature and it'll (try to) maintain that temperature by varying it's output over time. I cant tell for sure how accurate it is, but it gets the job of done from the standpoint of maintaining a consistent "feel".
You can also set a timer to turn it off after so many hours, or on after so many hours. This good for when I go to bed, I can set the timer to turn the a/c off after 2 hours so that it's not running all night, and then, when leaving for work/school in the morning, set it to how long I plan on being out minus one hour, this way my room is cool by the time I get home without the system running all day with no one there.
As for how much it's added to the electric bill, I cant really tell (nor remember). I have two roomates, each of whom have their own a/c boxen in their bedrooms. But yes - the bill will go up by a significant margin.
If you choose a box air conditioner - pick one suitable for the size of the room it'll be installed in. If it's a small room like mine, 5000 or 6000 BTUs will do, but if it's larger, go something with more strength. I highly recommend the features like those I noted above.
oh - and the best feature of my air conditioner - It has a Remote Control!
Excuse me while I interrupt your flaming rant, but I have spent several years working with both Java and Java Security, including research on how static analysis (better known as reverse engineering) can improve code security. This includes READING research papers (you know, from academic journals) that would make the normal person's head spin. Point: I know a lot more than the typical slashdotter, which is what you appear to be given your childish flamage.
I've also spent more years in Object-Oriented languages where the terms public, private, and protected are used to control the scope of a class attribute (it's called encapsulation, in case you've never heard of it). Having it be so simple to violate the protection on a private attribute as easily as it was described to do in.NET is a complete atrocity and undoes the concept and idea of OO-design and it's principles.
I have no idea what you refer to as "versioning", not to mention it wasnt discussed in my post. Deployment was also never discussed in my post.
MS's "millions of dollars" of work was just a rehashing and facelifting of the real grunt work done by Gosling and others at Sun Microsystems. Do you know who James Gosling is?
Perhaps it would help you to know that.NET's security model is so complex it's near impossible to get working correctly (it's been described as having too many bells and whistles). I've seen demonstrations (by MS employees) that would not work because of a security glitch that caused the user to be denied access.
every presentation I've seen on.NET, C#, etc, have all had curious parallels to Java. What MS calls the CLR, Sun calls the JVM. What MS calls IDL, Sun calls bytecode. What MS calls Just-In-Time compiling, Sun calls HotSpot. All three pairings are the same basic ideas, and there are more of them.
It's mostly a set of renamed technologies and concepts and MS is trying to push it as being totally new and previously unheard of. This is why Sun is pissed at MS for the whole Microsoft & Java issue, as.NET is simply all of Sun's research and development work embraced (and not even extended) by Microsoft.
As for scoping, in Java, visibility scoping (ie, public vs private) is checked by the compiler (and will refuse to compile if there are errors), but this also has to be enforced at runtime, sandbox or no sandbox. My (educated) guess is that the spec would stipulate enforcement, though MS's.NET implementaion simply either doesnt enforce it at all or blatently ignores visibility scoping. My (also educated) guess is that the OSS community knew that scope checking was necessary, and hence implemented it in Mono regardless of what the spec says.
while we're at it - do a similar analysis on the movie industry and DVDs, which are currently on what you call the "replacement period." Many people are buying up DVDs of movies made before the widespread availibility of DVD players.
probably not. google does simple spell-checking of your query, not searches based on first few letters. Though there may be an option (in google or other search engines) somewhere that allows the user to say "po*" to search for terms starting with the letters "po", but that would not infringe on this amazon patent as google wont care what the current hot selling item is. (IANAL)
I know in the US someone can register for religious recognition if they have something like 100 followers. (i dont know the exact number) The application can be accepted as long as no animal or person is sacrificed or otherwise eliminated as part of the religion's practice. Other requirements probably have to be met, but I do know that religious killings are a no-no.
Canada probably has something similar. Maybe someone should consider institutionalizing the Jedi religion and filing the proper paperwork.
police in many cities worldwide do video surviellence of major demonstrations/protests/etc - but as part of their own defense. Some protest groups, for whatever reason, are quick to say there was undue police force involved if they get arrested, deny things like resisting arrest, etc. The tapes are used to counter those arguments.
Think I'm off my rocker? Guess what - protest groups bring their own cameras to do their own surveillence of the police. It's used both ways to keep everyone (protesters and police) in check.
Linus's book Just For Fun specifically mentions this concept. Somewhere in there (I dont have the book in front of me), he says something along the lines of "the wife and I somehow figured out how to conceive a child"
the press is still clinging to this clonaid clan. they're not a company, they havent cloned anything, they refuse to let their claims be tested, and their claims have been dismissed entirely.
the press is just feeding into what they want: publicity for that whacked group the two employees belong to.
that's the kind of thing I was expecting, but I dont think a phone goes through enough vibes to generate the amount of power needed.
A watch on a wrist moves much more than a phone on a person's belt or in a bag. Compare the amount of movement there would while the person is sitting down of the watch with a phone, and the amount of energy needed for each device. Watch wins both in terms of amount of movement and that it needs far less power.
Besides - the poster was "imagining" - the article itself was about small sensors that need to be placed in odd spots. Their power requirements are small - they only need to transmit data a short distance and need just enough juice to do their analysis. The raw data would probably be the only thing transmitted and the processing be done on a more full-powered computer.
actually - i dont think lobbying is it. DARPA provides a lot (and I do mean a LOT) of money for projects that eventually releases OSS code. Even ReiserFS (a russian company at that!) is a recipient of DARPA funding.
CHATS, is one such program specifically for OSS, which is where Reiser's funding comes from. TIA, believe it or not, will be generating OSS code in the next few years, assuming privacy extremists let it get off the ground.
Yet the people who pirate products rarely have any of the above mentioned problems. OK, so they have to keep up-to-date with keygens and no-CD patches, but my point is that ordinary consumers are penalised for the crimes of others.
That has to be one of the most insightful comments ever stated on slashdot. good show!
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nope, never did catch any, nor did i ever hear anything of the store getting conned.
another poster said the pens work by detecting bleach in the paper, probably because it's possible to strip the ink off a small bill (like a 1 or 5) using bleach and then print on a larger bill. if you're a counterfeiter, solution is to not use bleach. it really was only to stop the people using a standard printer.
my guess is that you worked for the trasury dept, or maybe even the secret service or elsewhere in law enforcement. i have a family member who works for ss, and too says that the pens are mostly useless. but for me, it was one of those things from the store security manager that you dont question and blindly say yes to, especially if you're a high schooler like I was (at the time).
Single colour currency is one of the hardest thing I've had to get used to in the US.
My guess is you grew up in Australia and not the US, and are familiar with multi-colored currency. I'm the other way around, and would probably find having different colors harder than single color. For me, it's easier to thumb through my wallet and glance at the upper corners of note where a "5" or "1" or "20" is printed. I also keep my wallet sorted - smaller bills toward the front, all facing the same way.
how many checkout chicks carefully look over every note?
Well, I'm not a chick, but was once a checkout boy during HS. We were given a detector pen to use on 20s or higher that turns brown on real money, black on most everything else. When the new bills came out in the late 90s, we were specifically instructed to check for that color-shifting ink in addition to that pen. It's also very easy to tell that a bill is suspect based on feel alone (one of the main focuses of my original post), as the US paper currency has a distinctive feel against other forms of paper.
But that only stops people who try to print their own at home, it doesnt stop those who bleach the ink off a $5 and print on a $100. Yeah - that's one of the problems with US money being all green. They have watermarks now (which are added at the mill where the paper is made, and cant be removed), but those are hard to check for at a checkout counter. I personally think that the paper should have some kind of varying color (like that new 20 that's coming soon) that differs between denominations.
How does the plastic money handle? What exactly is in that window - some sort of hologram or other image? I take it each denomination has its own color and size, but I think differing size would make it hard to carry around in your wallet.
Plastic would be a great idea for US Currency, given it's probably the most (easily) counterfeited, but it's aslo expensive. I think one of hte best security features of US paper money is the paper it's printed on.
The feel of it is not like normal printer paper or other common paper forms. You can blindfold yourself and handle a random piece of paper and know whether it's a US paper currency or not. (It's not really "paper" - it's a linens and cotton mixture with little red and blue fibers mixed in.)
I personally would still prefer paper money. Though - I could just see our US gov't go start printing $1 plastic cards that cost $4 to print.
I have a drafty apartment, with a bedroom of about 15 ft by 10 ft. Last summer I bought a box air conditioner that goes in the window. It's a 6000 BTU that I got at Wal-Mart for around (I think, dont quote me) $160.
Some nice things about it is that it attempts to maintain a certain temperature. You can set it to a desired temperature and it'll (try to) maintain that temperature by varying it's output over time. I cant tell for sure how accurate it is, but it gets the job of done from the standpoint of maintaining a consistent "feel".
You can also set a timer to turn it off after so many hours, or on after so many hours. This good for when I go to bed, I can set the timer to turn the a/c off after 2 hours so that it's not running all night, and then, when leaving for work/school in the morning, set it to how long I plan on being out minus one hour, this way my room is cool by the time I get home without the system running all day with no one there.
As for how much it's added to the electric bill, I cant really tell (nor remember). I have two roomates, each of whom have their own a/c boxen in their bedrooms. But yes - the bill will go up by a significant margin.
If you choose a box air conditioner - pick one suitable for the size of the room it'll be installed in. If it's a small room like mine, 5000 or 6000 BTUs will do, but if it's larger, go something with more strength. I highly recommend the features like those I noted above.
oh - and the best feature of my air conditioner - It has a Remote Control!
Excuse me while I interrupt your flaming rant, but I have spent several years working with both Java and Java Security, including research on how static analysis (better known as reverse engineering) can improve code security. This includes READING research papers (you know, from academic journals) that would make the normal person's head spin. Point: I know a lot more than the typical slashdotter, which is what you appear to be given your childish flamage.
.NET is a complete atrocity and undoes the concept and idea of OO-design and it's principles.
.NET's security model is so complex it's near impossible to get working correctly (it's been described as having too many bells and whistles). I've seen demonstrations (by MS employees) that would not work because of a security glitch that caused the user to be denied access.
I've also spent more years in Object-Oriented languages where the terms public, private, and protected are used to control the scope of a class attribute (it's called encapsulation, in case you've never heard of it). Having it be so simple to violate the protection on a private attribute as easily as it was described to do in
I have no idea what you refer to as "versioning", not to mention it wasnt discussed in my post. Deployment was also never discussed in my post.
MS's "millions of dollars" of work was just a rehashing and facelifting of the real grunt work done by Gosling and others at Sun Microsystems. Do you know who James Gosling is?
Perhaps it would help you to know that
every presentation I've seen on .NET, C#, etc, have all had curious parallels to Java. What MS calls the CLR, Sun calls the JVM. What MS calls IDL, Sun calls bytecode. What MS calls Just-In-Time compiling, Sun calls HotSpot. All three pairings are the same basic ideas, and there are more of them.
.NET is simply all of Sun's research and development work embraced (and not even extended) by Microsoft.
.NET implementaion simply either doesnt enforce it at all or blatently ignores visibility scoping. My (also educated) guess is that the OSS community knew that scope checking was necessary, and hence implemented it in Mono regardless of what the spec says.
It's mostly a set of renamed technologies and concepts and MS is trying to push it as being totally new and previously unheard of. This is why Sun is pissed at MS for the whole Microsoft & Java issue, as
As for scoping, in Java, visibility scoping (ie, public vs private) is checked by the compiler (and will refuse to compile if there are errors), but this also has to be enforced at runtime, sandbox or no sandbox. My (educated) guess is that the spec would stipulate enforcement, though MS's
while we're at it - do a similar analysis on the movie industry and DVDs, which are currently on what you call the "replacement period." Many people are buying up DVDs of movies made before the widespread availibility of DVD players.
what do you mean - "did not invent the internet"? Of course he invented it!
Haven't you heard it's all based on Al-Gore-ithms?
i'm surprised a moderator hasn't picked up on this yet. recall taht the a mars explorer system was lost because of a imperial/metric conversion error.
probably not. google does simple spell-checking of your query, not searches based on first few letters. Though there may be an option (in google or other search engines) somewhere that allows the user to say "po*" to search for terms starting with the letters "po", but that would not infringe on this amazon patent as google wont care what the current hot selling item is. (IANAL)
(standard disclaimer: IANAL)
I know in the US someone can register for religious recognition if they have something like 100 followers. (i dont know the exact number) The application can be accepted as long as no animal or person is sacrificed or otherwise eliminated as part of the religion's practice. Other requirements probably have to be met, but I do know that religious killings are a no-no.
Canada probably has something similar. Maybe someone should consider institutionalizing the Jedi religion and filing the proper paperwork.
maybe it'll solve CmdrTaco's troubles about him getting emails from people looking to crack hotmail.
Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone
... you mean to say someone has figured out her last name?
Wow
KDE/GNU/after KDE/GNU/awhile KDE/GNU/you KDE/GNU/dont KDE/GNU/seem KDE/GNU/to KDE/GNU/notice KDE/GNU/it KDE/GNU/anyway.
KDE/GNU/what KDE/GNU/the KDE/GNU/heck KDE/GNU/do KDE/GNU/you KDE/GNU/mean KDE/GNU/by "KDE/GNU/getting KDE/GNU/out KDE/GNU/of KDE/GNU/hand"? KDE/GNU/after KDE/GNU/awhile KDE/GNU/you KDE/GNU/dont KDE/GNU/seem KDE/GNU/to KDE/GNU/notice KDE/GNU/it KDE/GNU/anyway.
police in many cities worldwide do video surviellence of major demonstrations/protests/etc - but as part of their own defense. Some protest groups, for whatever reason, are quick to say there was undue police force involved if they get arrested, deny things like resisting arrest, etc. The tapes are used to counter those arguments.
Think I'm off my rocker? Guess what - protest groups bring their own cameras to do their own surveillence of the police. It's used both ways to keep everyone (protesters and police) in check.
Linus's book Just For Fun specifically mentions this concept. Somewhere in there (I dont have the book in front of me), he says something along the lines of "the wife and I somehow figured out how to conceive a child"
the press is still clinging to this clonaid clan. they're not a company, they havent cloned anything, they refuse to let their claims be tested, and their claims have been dismissed entirely.
the press is just feeding into what they want: publicity for that whacked group the two employees belong to.
that's the kind of thing I was expecting, but I dont think a phone goes through enough vibes to generate the amount of power needed.
A watch on a wrist moves much more than a phone on a person's belt or in a bag. Compare the amount of movement there would while the person is sitting down of the watch with a phone, and the amount of energy needed for each device. Watch wins both in terms of amount of movement and that it needs far less power.
Besides - the poster was "imagining" - the article itself was about small sensors that need to be placed in odd spots. Their power requirements are small - they only need to transmit data a short distance and need just enough juice to do their analysis. The raw data would probably be the only thing transmitted and the processing be done on a more full-powered computer.
what about the simple vibrations a phone endures just sitting on someone's belt? would simply walking around create enough vibration on the phone?
actually - i dont think lobbying is it. DARPA provides a lot (and I do mean a LOT) of money for projects that eventually releases OSS code. Even ReiserFS (a russian company at that!) is a recipient of DARPA funding.
CHATS, is one such program specifically for OSS, which is where Reiser's funding comes from. TIA, believe it or not, will be generating OSS code in the next few years, assuming privacy extremists let it get off the ground.
Yet the people who pirate products rarely have any of the above mentioned problems. OK, so they have to keep up-to-date with keygens and no-CD patches, but my point is that ordinary consumers are penalised for the crimes of others.
That has to be one of the most insightful comments ever stated on slashdot. good show!
this book tells HR depts how not to ask for people with 10 years .NET experience?
(I'm graduating this semester, no job yet, and I've seen 3 or 4 of those and things like it)
catapult
gasoline and matches
long chain, car with boat hook
sledge hammer
that should help get you started