Changing a handle is not the same as creating a new account. The followers of the old handle are automatic followers of the new handle. I can see why he made the error - it's easier and he got to keep the people he'd connected with, but some of those followers legitimately came because of the company, not him.
I'm glad to see why one should start a fresh account when the previous had work implications.
I know Wal-Mart sells censored versions of CDs. Will they be doing the same with the movies, or is there a reasonable expectation that the streaming movie will be the same as I would see in the theater or on Netflix?
We're SIX years into the 360, and FIVE for the PS3. Do we really need to constantly be analyzing which is selling more every quarter as though there's going to be a loser?
Both companies have proven very successful, and have buyers of overlapping interest. Why should anyone care which one sold more in random month half a decade into the production cycle? Really, why does it matter?
Both companies have survived this cycle. That's obvious. They'll both be throwing their hats into the next generation, which is a clear indicator that there are no losers between them. The only point I see is getting the fanboys all riled up.
I certainly missed the part where it had worse snowfall 20 years ago, but then I didn't listen to the sound on the BBC link. I suspect you're just making things up to troll, but who knows?
I did read the wiki though, which said this: "Evidence suggests that the Atacama may not have had any significant rainfall from 1570 to 1971.[5]"
So, whether you're right about what happened 20 years ago (or not), I'd say that this is a storm we can happily qualify as an anomaly.
The plan is, and has been for a while, to not produce the Roadster for 6 or 7 years after the end of this run. They're going to focus on the Model S, then do an SUV or crossover, filling the gaps, as needed, with their Toyota deal on the Rav 4, and with the Smart car.
The whole summary is troll. Maybe the submitter works for Fisker, or just loves oil?
from Dan's link: § 507. Limitations on actions7 (a) Criminal Proceedings. — Except as expressly provided otherwise in this title, no criminal proceeding shall be maintained under the provisions of this title unless it is commenced within 5 years after the cause of action arose. (b) Civil Actions. — No civil action shall be maintained under the provisions of this title unless it is commenced within three years after the claim accrued.
Maybe it's possible to work in one division of a major corporation and have no idea what the other divisions are doing. If so, my money's on the fact that the corporate legal team has made it such that separate divisions are indeed separate entities, and gross failure on the games division won't destroy the foundations of the other divisions.
If you're company is not that big, take a clue from the corporate culture which is usually used to sell a potential employee - "we're sure you'll love it here, as our culture is such that mostly like minded people work here, and you're sure to get along with your co-workers". Does your division do things that are wrong? Then it's likely they all do. So, there's that for the 'poor employees' excuse.
Investors are crap. Look at mutual funds. Do you have qualms about investing in something that has ties to modern pseudo-slavery or insane environmental malfeasance in the third world? Try to find a fund that excludes those potentials. Then you'll find the ethical funds that return a FRACTION of the others. Investors are trying to turn a buck, which is fair, but it's also fair if they lose money because no investment is guaranteed. Want investors to stop turning a blind eye as long as the returns are high? Then make sure they pay their share when the returns were earned through shitty practices.
That said, I agree with what you say about the executives. They need to be punished for their decisions and not paid off with disregard to their ethics.
The average ID fraud in 2009 was for over $4000. They had open access to CC details for 8 months! Even the out of pocket expenses per fraud victim is over $600, so if there were 200 victims as a result of this company's lax security, the fine isn't even on par with the individual cost of those affected, which is absurd.
Though, TFA is obscenely light on detail, so it's possible that their security issue actually caused no individual harm and only led to the possibility of harm having occurred. I suspect though that if you're the victim if ID fraud it is impossible to find the one bar (in this case) where your problems nucleated.
Source for numbers: https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/11823-Identity-Fraud-Cases-and-Costs-Plummeted-Last-Year.html
No. A 10 year old used Honda Civic will run you a couple grand and still get far better fuel efficiency than the average new car. For, example, I drive an '01 Toyota Echo, that is completely reliable, gets 42 mpg in the summer and 36-38 mpg in the winter, and has a current private-party Blue Book value of $3500. The current CAFE standard is 30.2 mpg.
Sure, being poor means no brand new Prius, but it doesn't relegate one to an ancient Oldsmobile or truck.
Because our national highway infrastructure has nothing to do with how much or where *you* drive.
Maybe all of Arkansas only uses/buys products that were grown, developed, and manufactured within the state, and in that case it's possible you'd have a legitimate argument. However, the moment you buy anything that's been shipped over land, such as a non-local piece of produce or a book from Amazon, or even gasoline that wasn't from a local well, you're using the national infrastructure that all the contiguous states rely on, more or less equally.
That said, I use this same argument to find taxing individual miles driven absurd, as the majority use and damage of the roads is from trucking/shipping.
Yeah! The reason I bought a car that gets 40 mpg instead of an SUV was to evade taxes!
Or so the assumption seems to be, when really I just don't want to pay a ton for gas or fill up more than every 6 hours of highway driving, and I prefer to drive a smaller and lighter car because it is more fun than driving a truck.
Roads are a fundamental necessity to our national infrastructure, and as such should be payed for with general taxes, not exclusively an excise tax on oil and its derivatives.
The miles my car puts on the roads in a year (even as a high mileage, long distance driver) is negligible when compared to the shipping industry's impact, so putting the burden on individual cars instead of the populace as a whole makes little sense to me. Also, any police car will drive and order of magnitude more miles with a range limited to a very small area (comparatively) - are we going to tax the police departments and then fund them more with taxes to cover that cost?
States are going bankrupt because we have a population that believes that ANY increase in their income tax is communism. Especially if that increase has an effect on the income they DREAM of having some day.
Maybe they had a lot of people downloading the SDK and not doing anything, leading to bandwidth costs? Or maybe this is an extra hurdle for the jailbreaking for free apps set, in some way?
I really have no good idea, just brainstorming. But, as someone that has toyed with the idea of buying a mac to develop an iphone app, I don't see $5 as something that would make me consider another market outlet.
1) I trust the longevity more. Feel free to disagree. 2) I can upload full resolution images. 3) My friends can download full albums of full resolution images if I've set privacy settings accordingly.
When people post images on FB, I'm always bummed that I can't backup the high quality image myself, and these days people seem to email around photo backups of events far less, and simply tag people on Facebook.
As far as backing up: I have everything important at full res in Picasa, in the cloud, I have them on my computer HD, my iPhone syncs full resolution copies daily, and I keep a regular external HD backup. That all seems pretty safe to me, especially compared to simply expecting FB to keep the sole copy forever.
Yeah - we've seen a lot of evidence that the financial industry is full of above the board, buttoned down types. None of the riff raff that would bring down the global economy in shady dealings for a quick buck.
I went to college to learn how to think. I went to graduate school to learn how to apply that way of thinking to solve problems. I became a postdoc use my problem solving skills to apprentice in how to be a researcher.
None of it was inane trivia, though in the end a lot of trivia has stuck, and been useful.
I suspect you're mindset was formed in a high school history class that was rather 'date this happened' focused, and you haven't adapted that mindset to newer experiences. Or, you had a shit program in college.
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Changing a handle is not the same as creating a new account. The followers of the old handle are automatic followers of the new handle. I can see why he made the error - it's easier and he got to keep the people he'd connected with, but some of those followers legitimately came because of the company, not him.
I'm glad to see why one should start a fresh account when the previous had work implications.
He says it's a dead ringer. Then goes on to GUESS a PROBABLE source. The alternative to his guess is that there's a leak from the plugged well.
You a BP apologist, or did you just skim TFS in hopes of FP?
Mod parent informative. The Naked Scientist is accessible to children, but constantly surprises me with what I learn, and I have a physics PhD.
Other great general audience podcasts:
Nature
Science
60 second science, from Scientific American
Science Fridays, from NPR
I know Wal-Mart sells censored versions of CDs. Will they be doing the same with the movies, or is there a reasonable expectation that the streaming movie will be the same as I would see in the theater or on Netflix?
Unclear convo:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=85664
We're SIX years into the 360, and FIVE for the PS3. Do we really need to constantly be analyzing which is selling more every quarter as though there's going to be a loser?
Both companies have proven very successful, and have buyers of overlapping interest. Why should anyone care which one sold more in random month half a decade into the production cycle? Really, why does it matter?
Both companies have survived this cycle. That's obvious. They'll both be throwing their hats into the next generation, which is a clear indicator that there are no losers between them. The only point I see is getting the fanboys all riled up.
My bad then. I apologize to AC.
However, the claim that 2 storms 20 years apart indicates a 20 year cycle is a bit outlandish, considering the 4 centuries without, eh?
I certainly missed the part where it had worse snowfall 20 years ago, but then I didn't listen to the sound on the BBC link. I suspect you're just making things up to troll, but who knows?
I did read the wiki though, which said this:
"Evidence suggests that the Atacama may not have had any significant rainfall from 1570 to 1971.[5]"
So, whether you're right about what happened 20 years ago (or not), I'd say that this is a storm we can happily qualify as an anomaly.
The plan is, and has been for a while, to not produce the Roadster for 6 or 7 years after the end of this run. They're going to focus on the Model S, then do an SUV or crossover, filling the gaps, as needed, with their Toyota deal on the Rav 4, and with the Smart car.
The whole summary is troll. Maybe the submitter works for Fisker, or just loves oil?
MOD PARENT UP
from Dan's link:
§ 507. Limitations on actions7
(a) Criminal Proceedings. — Except as expressly provided otherwise in this title, no criminal proceeding shall be maintained under the provisions of this title unless it is commenced within 5 years after the cause of action arose.
(b) Civil Actions. — No civil action shall be maintained under the provisions of this title unless it is commenced within three years after the claim accrued.
Bingo.
I know this is a site for technocrats, but some things technology can't solve.
I recommend this transcript of Al Bartlett's famous lecture:
http://old.globalpublicmedia.com/transcripts/645
And for those who thing populating Mars is the solution, please refer to the story on bacteria doubling.
We may not have topped out yet, but population growth will come to a halt, and likely in ways that are rather painful for a lot of people.
Anyone else accidentally pronounce that site's name with the first g soft, as in magic?
Never heard of that, but am compelled. Perhaps AC will return and tell us who he banks with, please?
Maybe it's possible to work in one division of a major corporation and have no idea what the other divisions are doing. If so, my money's on the fact that the corporate legal team has made it such that separate divisions are indeed separate entities, and gross failure on the games division won't destroy the foundations of the other divisions.
If you're company is not that big, take a clue from the corporate culture which is usually used to sell a potential employee - "we're sure you'll love it here, as our culture is such that mostly like minded people work here, and you're sure to get along with your co-workers". Does your division do things that are wrong? Then it's likely they all do. So, there's that for the 'poor employees' excuse.
Investors are crap. Look at mutual funds. Do you have qualms about investing in something that has ties to modern pseudo-slavery or insane environmental malfeasance in the third world? Try to find a fund that excludes those potentials. Then you'll find the ethical funds that return a FRACTION of the others. Investors are trying to turn a buck, which is fair, but it's also fair if they lose money because no investment is guaranteed. Want investors to stop turning a blind eye as long as the returns are high? Then make sure they pay their share when the returns were earned through shitty practices.
That said, I agree with what you say about the executives. They need to be punished for their decisions and not paid off with disregard to their ethics.
I can watch Netflix using Chrome, but the Project Tuva site says my browser isn't supported for Silverlight...
Small in that it's less than the damage they likely caused through negligence.
The average ID fraud in 2009 was for over $4000. They had open access to CC details for 8 months! Even the out of pocket expenses per fraud victim is over $600, so if there were 200 victims as a result of this company's lax security, the fine isn't even on par with the individual cost of those affected, which is absurd.
Though, TFA is obscenely light on detail, so it's possible that their security issue actually caused no individual harm and only led to the possibility of harm having occurred. I suspect though that if you're the victim if ID fraud it is impossible to find the one bar (in this case) where your problems nucleated.
Source for numbers: https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/11823-Identity-Fraud-Cases-and-Costs-Plummeted-Last-Year.html
No. A 10 year old used Honda Civic will run you a couple grand and still get far better fuel efficiency than the average new car. For, example, I drive an '01 Toyota Echo, that is completely reliable, gets 42 mpg in the summer and 36-38 mpg in the winter, and has a current private-party Blue Book value of $3500. The current CAFE standard is 30.2 mpg.
Sure, being poor means no brand new Prius, but it doesn't relegate one to an ancient Oldsmobile or truck.
Because our national highway infrastructure has nothing to do with how much or where *you* drive.
Maybe all of Arkansas only uses/buys products that were grown, developed, and manufactured within the state, and in that case it's possible you'd have a legitimate argument. However, the moment you buy anything that's been shipped over land, such as a non-local piece of produce or a book from Amazon, or even gasoline that wasn't from a local well, you're using the national infrastructure that all the contiguous states rely on, more or less equally.
That said, I use this same argument to find taxing individual miles driven absurd, as the majority use and damage of the roads is from trucking/shipping.
Yeah! The reason I bought a car that gets 40 mpg instead of an SUV was to evade taxes!
Or so the assumption seems to be, when really I just don't want to pay a ton for gas or fill up more than every 6 hours of highway driving, and I prefer to drive a smaller and lighter car because it is more fun than driving a truck.
Roads are a fundamental necessity to our national infrastructure, and as such should be payed for with general taxes, not exclusively an excise tax on oil and its derivatives.
The miles my car puts on the roads in a year (even as a high mileage, long distance driver) is negligible when compared to the shipping industry's impact, so putting the burden on individual cars instead of the populace as a whole makes little sense to me. Also, any police car will drive and order of magnitude more miles with a range limited to a very small area (comparatively) - are we going to tax the police departments and then fund them more with taxes to cover that cost?
+1 funniest one liner I've read all day.
States are going bankrupt because we have a population that believes that ANY increase in their income tax is communism. Especially if that increase has an effect on the income they DREAM of having some day.
Maybe they had a lot of people downloading the SDK and not doing anything, leading to bandwidth costs?
Or maybe this is an extra hurdle for the jailbreaking for free apps set, in some way?
I really have no good idea, just brainstorming.
But, as someone that has toyed with the idea of buying a mac to develop an iphone app, I don't see $5 as something that would make me consider another market outlet.
I use Picasa instead of FB for photos.
1) I trust the longevity more. Feel free to disagree.
2) I can upload full resolution images.
3) My friends can download full albums of full resolution images if I've set privacy settings accordingly.
When people post images on FB, I'm always bummed that I can't backup the high quality image myself, and these days people seem to email around photo backups of events far less, and simply tag people on Facebook.
As far as backing up: I have everything important at full res in Picasa, in the cloud, I have them on my computer HD, my iPhone syncs full resolution copies daily, and I keep a regular external HD backup. That all seems pretty safe to me, especially compared to simply expecting FB to keep the sole copy forever.
Yeah - we've seen a lot of evidence that the financial industry is full of above the board, buttoned down types. None of the riff raff that would bring down the global economy in shady dealings for a quick buck.
Right?
Glad I didn't go to school where you did.
I went to college to learn how to think.
I went to graduate school to learn how to apply that way of thinking to solve problems.
I became a postdoc use my problem solving skills to apprentice in how to be a researcher.
None of it was inane trivia, though in the end a lot of trivia has stuck, and been useful.
I suspect you're mindset was formed in a high school history class that was rather 'date this happened' focused, and you haven't adapted that mindset to newer experiences. Or, you had a shit program in college.