They're completely reinventing the wheel. Most places have barcode scanners or OCR cameras at the bouncer's station that record IDs as they come into the bar. Since most drivers licenses record gender info, why not tap into that?
"My grandmother used to think the Amber alert was the same girl. Every time we pass it: 'oye hijo a la chingada Amber got into another car today....'" - George Lopez
What's the worth of an education the market isn't waiting for, even if you attended the most prestigious university? Harvard art students still don't become CEOs.
With limited exceptions, American universities will crank out graduates in almost any subject, regardless of their demand in the marketplace. University is sold to the students with a wink and nod toward greater job prospects and lifetime earning potential. If that premise falls apart and the students complain, they're haughtilly reminded that University is a place of learning, not a job training program.
That said, is the University system in Holland heavily subsidized? Crushing student loan debt is another hallmark of the American Uni experience for many students that can take years to pay off, if ever. Ironically, some students attending the elite institutions can often receive generous financial aid packages that their state school counterparts may never see.
If they (security people) are -really- worried then they'd have made sure that like most other systems they have their own battery-backup built in for just these sorts of situations ( not to mention the whole 3G/Wireless backups which would make more sense in order to eliminate the whole cut-wire silence issue )
Wouldn't one of those cell phone jammers make quick work of a GSM alarm module?
There's no treatment for it and nothing they can do. I'd rather not know for as long as possible, you start going crazy as you watch yourself deteriorating every day.
And to think we used to cluck our tongues at the people who ate badly, smoked, drank, etc who died of a coronary at 60-70. Now you can live to 90 and be a vegetable. Hooray.
Until the mind can be prolonged the same way medicine has prolonged the body, it's all for nothing.
Forgive this for being only tangentially on topic:
The press surrounding Wikileaks's release of secret Afghan war documents has been drawing comparisons to Woodward & Bernstein's release of the Pentagon Papers back in the early 1970s. Public opinion of Wikileaks seems to run the gamut from "serving the public right to know" to "string up the traitors for putting troops in danger".
I'd bet that a sizable portion of those reading this thread (myself included) were born long after the Pentagon Papers issue. For the older Slashdotters in here I ask: Is the comparison valid? Was the public similarly as divided over the Pentagon Papers then as they are over Wikileaks now?
They're also playing fast and loose with the definition of "critical thinking". Critical thinking in that context is "speaking truth to power" by combatting the liberal ivory tower intellectual agenda pushed on kids in schools to undermine their belief in God. As long as a contrarian position is held, no matter how far removed from reality, that's what typically passes for "critical thinking" these days.
After all, America is the country that was sure it was being attacked by Martians only a couple generations ago, when Orson Welles did his "War of the Worlds" radio show.
Radiolab did an episode on this a while back. Welles timed the broadcast so that people would tune from the bogus big band show and hear the opening to the immensely popular Bergen & McCarthy show before flipping back in time to hear the "special bulletin" and conveniently missing the disclaimer that it was all a work of fiction.
Sometimes I'll answer these calls by saying "911, what's your emergency?".
Nothing will get you on their do not call list faster than if they think that they direct dialed an emergency serices center. Don't be afraid to chastise them for doing so and threaten fines and jailtime for added effect.
Looking at the "inst. owned" field of those Google Finance links, that would be the collective shouting of "oh shit!" by the institutional traders whose machine-generated trades are liquidating their portfolios. Some scenarios are as simple as "if price dips below $X, initiate sell of y shares", including complex algorithms that consider myriad factors (prices of other stocks, indices, or any other arcane information that a modeler came up with) to trigger a buy or sell. If a trade couldn't be reversed, they would have to take market action to recover.
While it is possible to "dummy" in trade reports, even a rudimentary glance at the corresponding blotter would throw up red flags as there would be no clearing associated with the trades, and they would have no presence on the tape. I know the auditors were crooked, but this is an aspect of the scam that the SEC should have been all over.
A fake blotter report would take care of this. An auditor following the trade from the initial booking to settlement would be satisfied from seeing these reports. There's zero chance that your average auditing wonk would call the contrabroker to see if the trade was legit.
How could internships be that hard to come by? What company wouldn't want a starving college kid that will do your grunt work in exchange for being shown something vaguely educational for the price of filling out a few forms?
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Just don't come asking for aid and the use of our military when things start to get tough.
That's a little harsh. If they're in real trouble, have the Navy deliver a pallet of bootstraps and 5000 gallons of personal responsibility.
...and it's still compiling!
They're completely reinventing the wheel. Most places have barcode scanners or OCR cameras at the bouncer's station that record IDs as they come into the bar. Since most drivers licenses record gender info, why not tap into that?
Kevin Poulsen hacked into L.A.â(TM)s KIIS-FM radio station to rig a competition that eventually scored him a Porsche.
IIRC, he actually broke into the phone company switch so that he or his friend would be the Nth caller to win the car.
Slashdot has a new name?
And Hulk Hogan whacked it with a folding chair a few times for good measure.
Thank you for pushing the envelope in hot grits technology.
I'm surprised they went public with this. Usually, these things are cloaked in secrecy.
"My grandmother used to think the Amber alert was the same girl. Every time we pass it: 'oye hijo a la chingada Amber got into another car today....'" - George Lopez
What's the worth of an education the market isn't waiting for, even if you attended the most prestigious university? Harvard art students still don't become CEOs.
With limited exceptions, American universities will crank out graduates in almost any subject, regardless of their demand in the marketplace. University is sold to the students with a wink and nod toward greater job prospects and lifetime earning potential. If that premise falls apart and the students complain, they're haughtilly reminded that University is a place of learning, not a job training program.
That said, is the University system in Holland heavily subsidized? Crushing student loan debt is another hallmark of the American Uni experience for many students that can take years to pay off, if ever. Ironically, some students attending the elite institutions can often receive generous financial aid packages that their state school counterparts may never see.
If they (security people) are -really- worried then they'd have made sure that like most other systems they have their own battery-backup built in for just these sorts of situations ( not to mention the whole 3G/Wireless backups which would make more sense in order to eliminate the whole cut-wire silence issue )
Wouldn't one of those cell phone jammers make quick work of a GSM alarm module?
Those girls will really feel the Sting of their actions once the Police get involved.
There's no treatment for it and nothing they can do. I'd rather not know for as long as possible, you start going crazy as you watch yourself deteriorating every day.
And to think we used to cluck our tongues at the people who ate badly, smoked, drank, etc who died of a coronary at 60-70. Now you can live to 90 and be a vegetable. Hooray.
Until the mind can be prolonged the same way medicine has prolonged the body, it's all for nothing.
Forgive this for being only tangentially on topic:
The press surrounding Wikileaks's release of secret Afghan war documents has been drawing comparisons to Woodward & Bernstein's release of the Pentagon Papers back in the early 1970s. Public opinion of Wikileaks seems to run the gamut from "serving the public right to know" to "string up the traitors for putting troops in danger".
I'd bet that a sizable portion of those reading this thread (myself included) were born long after the Pentagon Papers issue. For the older Slashdotters in here I ask: Is the comparison valid? Was the public similarly as divided over the Pentagon Papers then as they are over Wikileaks now?
They're also playing fast and loose with the definition of "critical thinking". Critical thinking in that context is "speaking truth to power" by combatting the liberal ivory tower intellectual agenda pushed on kids in schools to undermine their belief in God.
As long as a contrarian position is held, no matter how far removed from reality, that's what typically passes for "critical thinking" these days.
After all, America is the country that was sure it was being attacked by Martians only a couple generations ago, when Orson Welles did his "War of the Worlds" radio show.
Radiolab did an episode on this a while back. Welles timed the broadcast so that people would tune from the bogus big band show and hear the opening to the immensely popular Bergen & McCarthy show before flipping back in time to hear the "special bulletin" and conveniently missing the disclaimer that it was all a work of fiction.
PLZ water my farm 4me, being raped IRL!!! BRB? :'-(
+Roman Polansky likes this.
It's penises all the way down.
Sometimes I'll answer these calls by saying "911, what's your emergency?".
Nothing will get you on their do not call list faster than if they think that they direct dialed an emergency serices center. Don't be afraid to chastise them for doing so and threaten fines and jailtime for added effect.
Looking at the "inst. owned" field of those Google Finance links, that would be the collective shouting of "oh shit!" by the institutional traders whose machine-generated trades are liquidating their portfolios. Some scenarios are as simple as "if price dips below $X, initiate sell of y shares", including complex algorithms that consider myriad factors (prices of other stocks, indices, or any other arcane information that a modeler came up with) to trigger a buy or sell. If a trade couldn't be reversed, they would have to take market action to recover.
If you look closely, you can see the flag that Louis Armstrong planted on the surface.
There were eyewitness accounts describing the suspect as a man in motion, also in need of a pair of wheels. This could only implicate John Parr.
While it is possible to "dummy" in trade reports, even a rudimentary glance at the corresponding blotter would throw up red flags as there would be no clearing associated with the trades, and they would have no presence on the tape. I know the auditors were crooked, but this is an aspect of the scam that the SEC should have been all over.
A fake blotter report would take care of this. An auditor following the trade from the initial booking to settlement would be satisfied from seeing these reports. There's zero chance that your average auditing wonk would call the contrabroker to see if the trade was legit.
How could internships be that hard to come by? What company wouldn't want a starving college kid that will do your grunt work in exchange for being shown something vaguely educational for the price of filling out a few forms?
one was a non-combination arc-fault circuit breaker instead of the combination arc-fault model now required by electrical codes
You fell for the old "non-combination arc-fault circuit breaker instead of the combination arc-fault" trick?
Everybody laugh!