No, you fail at logic. Let P be the proposition, "Company X treats frequent customers better." This is logically equivalent to "Company X treats infrequent customers worse" So saying a company does one but not the other is contradictory.
Not at all.
Lets assign a numeric value to how well a company treats its customers. Lets start with a default '100' value.
Company Y treats all their customers the same: 100.
Company X treats some of their customers better: 125, and the rest of their customers at 100.
Company X has treated some customers better (than average), while not treating any customers worse (than average).
Yucca Mountain does have it's issues however. Fault lines and fractures could mean contamination of the water table.
1) YM is "already located within a former nuclear test site" 2) The formation that makes up Yucca Mountain... has special physical, chemical and thermal characteristics that some experts believe make it a suitable material to entomb radioactive waste for the hundreds of thousands of years required... 3)Officials state that the waste containers will be stored in such a way as to minimize or even nearly eliminate [leaking into the water table]....due to the depth of the water table it is estimated that by the time the waste enters the water supply it will be safe.
Look, YM may not be perfect (nothing is), but it is a secure place to store nuclear waste. It's certainly better than the random places Mother Nature chose to put the original radioactive ore to begin with.
how much is it going to cost to keep it in good repair
No maintainance needed, other than post a few 'danger do not enter' signs around the general area.
some radioactive waste can take upwards of a million years to decay to safe levels
Yes, and no. The waste that lasts for 'million and milions of years!!!11!!1!' is waste with a long half-life. But BECAUSE it has such a long half-life, it's not very radioactive. It's an inverse relationship. Look it up.
yes, it asks you repeatedly. How is that "directly dangerous?"
If it can run the code to 'ask you repeatedly', it can run other code.
Or if you insist that there is no possible way in Windows to do this (I'm sure someone could post a half a dozen IE security holes that allow arbitrary execution of code), then how about popping up a window with the 'OK' and 'Cancel' buttons reversed? [cancel], [cancel],[cancel],[ok] oh, shit.
That assumes that you know what it is, and you know how it's attached there are other issues that a worker needs to be aware of ...all of which they knew after retreiving the first one.
if Mr. Berdovsky had told the authorities on site what he knew instead of staying quiet and video taping it, maybe things could have gone more efficiently
If by 'things' you mean arresting him, sure. I'm sure his going to the cops at the scene of a 'terrurist bombing threat!!11!" and saying 'Hi, I'm the one who placed the device' wouldn't have resulted in his getting thrown to the ground and arrested. That'd be efficient.
man-lift bucket truck or cherry picker scissor lifts
Oh, did you miss the link someone else posted of a cop on a ladder taking one down? No 'special precautions', no "booms" (pun intended), no lifts or lane closures. Just a cop on a ladder.
I know it's easy to sit behind your keyboard and second guess these things but I've actually had to work in situations like that. Even in the most benign of circumstances, there are lots of dangers.
I've worked plenty of jobs where I'm 'supposed' to follow certain safety rules. However, if I actually bothered to follow all of them, my productivity would slow to a crawl and I'd be fired. A trivial example from my early years in retail would be ladder safety. If I insisted on reading and obeying all the ladder safety rules*, I'd piss off customers by taking too long to get their computer/printer/whatever off the top shelf, and they'd go elsewhere.
*Never stand on the top step, Keep your body centered , never lean out sideways, alway have a spotter, never carry anything up/down a ladder (how can I get the box down if I can't carry it? Drop it?), etc.
he wasn't doing it safely. You want to hang off the side of a highway and get yourself or someone else killed
Actually, from what I heard, he used a stick to lift the devices into position. Therefore, a stick with a hook on the end could be used to pull the devices down, after, perhaps closing the traffic lane under it for 30 seconds. No need to "close the street" for the day.
Even if a 'cherry picker' truck was needed to 'safely' get the worker up the 10 feet or so, that also only requires the closing on a single lane, if that.
Main PC- living room. General use. Second PC- bedroom. Useful for watching downloa... er, DVDs. Or letting the kid(s) play online. Or for the missus to play WOW on. "TVPC"- Tucked in under the TV, hooked to Cable wire. Used to playback downloa... er, record and playback TV.
1) Cops who commit crimes 2) Cops who don't commit crimes, but know that others do, and do nothing about it. This is just as bad. 3) Cops who don't commit crimes, and who are too stupid to know that others do. 4) Serpico. Oh- wait. Frank Serpico retired after he was shot in the face during a drug bust, and left for dead by other police officers, who refused to call for backup.
So there you go- 4 types of cops. The bad, the just-as-bad, the stupid, and the non-existant.
Wow, you reply to a post that is over three hours old. Then wait an hour and a half for a response
Read the timestamps again, AC. I waited over 25 hours. That's A DAY AND an hour and a half.
I believe that not allowing a purchase to proceed without checking an ID is a bad business practice and I think VISA and MC would agree.
Not according to their Merchant Agreements, which I quoted.
their lawyers added that part
Free Clue: 'their lawyers' added the whole darn agreement.
If the person was trying to purchase gasoline or emergency supplies it is one thing. If they are trying to purchase a magazine, sex toy, or hot tub, then perhaps they should go get their ID.
Actually, I'd be more concerned about the people buying gasoline.
If they are not in attendance, but their shirt seems to be walking around the school,
And how will you know that?
If you can keep track of the students bodies, you don't need the RFID in their clothes. OTOH, if you cannot keep track of them, then you will not find out their RFID is present, but they are not.
RFID is only an identifier, not a tracker.
If there are enough sensors everywhere, it can be used to track. One at each doorway in school, now you know which room the kid is in. One in each quarter of the room, and you know if he's at the front/back, left/right in the room. 100 in a grid on the ceiling, and you know within a few feet.
As for tracking outside the school, that's just a matter of time. The schoolbus will have one at the door, so you'll know he got on/off the bus. In cities (where school kids use public transit), ALL public busses could have a sensor at the door. Bus stops, lamp posts, etc could all have sensors. 'For the safety of the children.'
Then it's trivial to start tracking other RFIDs, not just the school kid's.
If it is a credit card then I automatically ask for an ID. If they cannot provide a state issued photo id, then I refuse the transaction.
Then you are in violation of your (companies) merchant agreement:
Visa.com:
Although Visa rules do not preclude merchants from asking for cardholder ID, merchants cannot make an ID a condition of acceptance. Therefore, merchants cannot refuse to complete a purchase transaction because a cardholder refuses to provide ID. Visa believes merchants should not ask for ID as part of their regular card acceptance procedures
mastercard.com:
A merchant must not refuse to complete a MasterCard card transaction solely because a cardholder who has complied with the conditions for presentment of a card at the POI refuses to provide additional identification information, except as specifically permitted or required by the Standards.
Thankfully, my employer agrees with that.
Where do you work? I'd like to report you to the above organizations.
...a jury of her peers found so. We gave her her day in court, the evidence was presented, and she was found guilty.
Juries are a group of 12 people not even smart enough to get out of Jury Duty.
Seriously- I've been a juror twice. I've posted elsewhere about the details, but suffice it to say that in BOTH cases, the other jurors were, well, idiots.
The first case was a civil case. A guy walked behind a car that was reversing, got knocked down, and broke hic collarbone. He was asking for Over HALF A MILLION DOLLARS for 'pain and suffering', for an accident that was his own freakign fault!! (He admitted, on the stand, to: 1: Leaving the crosswalk, and 2: not paying attention to his surroundings. He also perjured himself (in my opinion), as his sworn testimony contradicted his sworn deposition.) The other jurors found FOR this idiot, and decided to award him $100,000. Then one juror pipes up "But what about his lawyer? He'll take a third!" So they decide to increase the award to account for his lawyers fee. They multiply it by "1.33", and awarded him $133,000.
How many things wrong can you see with that?
The second case was a criminal trial. Long story short, the cops had audio and video tapes of several drug deals going down. Video of the defendant walking away from the deals, counting his money, smiling. Hours of audio and video. And two of the jurors simply refused to say 'guilty'. One more refused to vote 'guilty' for the first count, since there was no video of it (the perp was so eager to sell, that he sold the first time he met the UnderCover cop. The cops were only expecting to meet the guy the first day, not buy anything, so they were not recording.) In this case, I beleive it was racism rather than pure stupidity- the two hold outs were of the same race as the defendant.
So, when you say "She was found guilty by a jury", it really is not as impressive a fact as you think it is. Juries are made up of mostly stupid people.
Metric is a made-up system of measurement, based upon certain arbitrary measurements.
Imperial is a more useful system of measurements. Everyone has feet. 1 foot= (approx) the length of a foot. Stretch out your arm, and the distance from the end of your index finger to your nose = (approx) 1 yard. 1 mile? 1000 paces. Acre? Amount you can plow in a day. A pint of water= a pound etc
See, all these are handy. Sure, it's a little more complicated to convert from one to another, but they are all more useful measurements to begin with. Even temperature- with 180 degrees between freezing and boiling, the Fahrenheit scale provides a finer granularity than Celsius. It's easier to say "75 degrees, oops, no, just changed to 76" (F) then "23.8888889 degrees, just changed to 24.4444444" (C) (Note- both of those round to "24")
Geeks. People who deal with computers daily, and actually bother to look at the specs of hard drives.
You see, computers use Binary. When refering to computers, "1k" is 1024. To a scientist, '1K ' is 1000. Hard drives are not for scientists, they are for computers, therefore memory and storage capacities should use the 'computer' definition of "k".
Wikipedia notes its techie-colloquial usage, and states that it is incorrect according to the SI/metric standard.
Too bad we're "techies" and not scientists. Also too bad we don't use the metric system in the USA. As a matter of fact, we wouldn't touch it with a 3.04800 meter pole.
it's far more difficult to watch someone's hand and imagine exactly how they typically draw a password.
It's not as difficult as you think. It's a standard magicians trick to secretly watch a persons hand/pen movements and then 'magically' re-create the drawing they made.
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Taking his bow, it's Magical Trevor.
No, you fail at logic. Let P be the proposition, "Company X treats frequent customers better." This is logically equivalent to "Company X treats infrequent customers worse" So saying a company does one but not the other is contradictory.
Not at all.
Lets assign a numeric value to how well a company treats its customers. Lets start with a default '100' value.
Company Y treats all their customers the same: 100.
Company X treats some of their customers better: 125, and the rest of their customers at 100.
Company X has treated some customers better (than average), while not treating any customers worse (than average).
Thing is we didn't need someone with 6 years of experience,
Then's what was the problem? You lied about what experience you needed , he lied about what experience he had.
Everyone loves Magical Trevor.
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Utinam coniurati te in foro interficiant.
Yucca Mountain does have it's issues however. Fault lines and fractures could mean contamination of the water table.
... has special physical, chemical and thermal characteristics that some experts believe make it a suitable material to entomb radioactive waste for the hundreds of thousands of years required ... ...due to the depth of the water table it is estimated that by the time the waste enters the water supply it will be safe.
1) YM is "already located within a former nuclear test site"
2) The formation that makes up Yucca Mountain
3)Officials state that the waste containers will be stored in such a way as to minimize or even nearly eliminate [leaking into the water table].
Look, YM may not be perfect (nothing is), but it is a secure place to store nuclear waste. It's certainly better than the random places Mother Nature chose to put the original radioactive ore to begin with.
how much is it going to cost to keep it in good repair
Dig tunnel. Please waste in tunnel. Collapse tunnel entrance, burying waste.
No maintainance needed, other than post a few 'danger do not enter' signs around the general area.
some radioactive waste can take upwards of a million years to decay to safe levels
Yes, and no. The waste that lasts for 'million and milions of years!!!11!!1!' is waste with a long half-life. But BECAUSE it has such a long half-life, it's not very radioactive. It's an inverse relationship. Look it up.
yes, it asks you repeatedly. How is that "directly dangerous?"
If it can run the code to 'ask you repeatedly', it can run other code.
Or if you insist that there is no possible way in Windows to do this (I'm sure someone could post a half a dozen IE security holes that allow arbitrary execution of code), then how about popping up a window with the 'OK' and 'Cancel' buttons reversed? [cancel], [cancel],[cancel],[ok] oh, shit.
If you say no....nothing happens
Perhaps you missed the part(s) in the video where he specifically clicked 'CANCEL', and it still scans his PC.
It politely asks you to download and run a trojan.
And asks you...and asks you.. and asks you....
That assumes that you know what it is, and you know how it's attached ...all of which they knew after retreiving the first one.
there are other issues that a worker needs to be aware of
if Mr. Berdovsky had told the authorities on site what he knew instead of staying quiet and video taping it, maybe things could have gone more efficiently
If by 'things' you mean arresting him, sure. I'm sure his going to the cops at the scene of a 'terrurist bombing threat!!11!" and saying 'Hi, I'm the one who placed the device' wouldn't have resulted in his getting thrown to the ground and arrested. That'd be efficient.
man-lift
bucket truck or cherry picker
scissor lifts
Oh, did you miss the link someone else posted of a cop on a ladder taking one down? No 'special precautions', no "booms" (pun intended), no lifts or lane closures. Just a cop on a ladder.
http://www.bradleysalmanac.com/pictures/2007-01/athf-err.jpg
I know it's easy to sit behind your keyboard and second guess these things but I've actually had to work in situations like that. Even in the most benign of circumstances, there are lots of dangers.
I've worked plenty of jobs where I'm 'supposed' to follow certain safety rules. However, if I actually bothered to follow all of them, my productivity would slow to a crawl and I'd be fired. A trivial example from my early years in retail would be ladder safety. If I insisted on reading and obeying all the ladder safety rules*, I'd piss off customers by taking too long to get their computer/printer/whatever off the top shelf, and they'd go elsewhere.
*Never stand on the top step, Keep your body centered , never lean out sideways, alway have a spotter, never carry anything up/down a ladder (how can I get the box down if I can't carry it? Drop it?), etc.
he wasn't doing it safely. You want to hang off the side of a highway and get yourself or someone else killed
Actually, from what I heard, he used a stick to lift the devices into position. Therefore, a stick with a hook on the end could be used to pull the devices down, after, perhaps closing the traffic lane under it for 30 seconds. No need to "close the street" for the day.
Even if a 'cherry picker' truck was needed to 'safely' get the worker up the 10 feet or so, that also only requires the closing on a single lane, if that.
The main issue during the day was that the streets had to be be closed so investigators could safely access the devices
Funny. No one had to close the streets to PLACE the devices...
when you are assaulted, mugged, or your home is broken into and your stuff stolen or your family terrorized, tell me: who will you call?
Yes, please- someone tell me who I call when the police do this?
Main PC- living room. General use.
Second PC- bedroom. Useful for watching downloa... er, DVDs. Or letting the kid(s) play online. Or for the missus to play WOW on.
"TVPC"- Tucked in under the TV, hooked to Cable wire. Used to playback downloa... er, record and playback TV.
Radio is "Free" as in 'the end-listener doesn't pay anything'. I mean, who really listens to the ads, anyway?
Exactly.
There are 4 types of cops:
1) Cops who commit crimes
2) Cops who don't commit crimes, but know that others do, and do nothing about it. This is just as bad.
3) Cops who don't commit crimes, and who are too stupid to know that others do.
4) Serpico. Oh- wait. Frank Serpico retired after he was shot in the face during a drug bust, and left for dead by other police officers, who refused to call for backup.
So there you go- 4 types of cops. The bad, the just-as-bad, the stupid, and the non-existant.
His score of 1206 combined sets him up with an IQ of about 130
People can test well and still be stupid.
Wow, you reply to a post that is over three hours old. Then wait an hour and a half for a response
Read the timestamps again, AC. I waited over 25 hours. That's A DAY AND an hour and a half.
I believe that not allowing a purchase to proceed without checking an ID is a bad business practice and I think VISA and MC would agree.
Not according to their Merchant Agreements, which I quoted.
their lawyers added that part
Free Clue: 'their lawyers' added the whole darn agreement.
If the person was trying to purchase gasoline or emergency supplies it is one thing. If they are trying to purchase a magazine, sex toy, or hot tub, then perhaps they should go get their ID.
Actually, I'd be more concerned about the people buying gasoline.
Hmm. I thought so.
If they are not in attendance, but their shirt seems to be walking around the school,
And how will you know that?
If you can keep track of the students bodies, you don't need the RFID in their clothes. OTOH, if you cannot keep track of them, then you will not find out their RFID is present, but they are not.
RFID is only an identifier, not a tracker.
If there are enough sensors everywhere, it can be used to track. One at each doorway in school, now you know which room the kid is in. One in each quarter of the room, and you know if he's at the front/back, left/right in the room. 100 in a grid on the ceiling, and you know within a few feet.
As for tracking outside the school, that's just a matter of time. The schoolbus will have one at the door, so you'll know he got on/off the bus. In cities (where school kids use public transit), ALL public busses could have a sensor at the door.
Bus stops, lamp posts, etc could all have sensors. 'For the safety of the children.'
Then it's trivial to start tracking other RFIDs, not just the school kid's.
Then you are in violation of your (companies) merchant agreement:
Visa.com:
mastercard.com:
Thankfully, my employer agrees with that.
Where do you work? I'd like to report you to the above organizations.
...a jury of her peers found so. We gave her her day in court, the evidence was presented, and she was found guilty.
Juries are a group of 12 people not even smart enough to get out of Jury Duty.
Seriously- I've been a juror twice. I've posted elsewhere about the details, but suffice it to say that in BOTH cases, the other jurors were, well, idiots.
The first case was a civil case. A guy walked behind a car that was reversing, got knocked down, and broke hic collarbone. He was asking for Over HALF A MILLION DOLLARS for 'pain and suffering', for an accident that was his own freakign fault!! (He admitted, on the stand, to: 1: Leaving the crosswalk, and 2: not paying attention to his surroundings. He also perjured himself (in my opinion), as his sworn testimony contradicted his sworn deposition.) The other jurors found FOR this idiot, and decided to award him $100,000. Then one juror pipes up "But what about his lawyer? He'll take a third!" So they decide to increase the award to account for his lawyers fee. They multiply it by "1.33", and awarded him $133,000.
How many things wrong can you see with that?
The second case was a criminal trial. Long story short, the cops had audio and video tapes of several drug deals going down. Video of the defendant walking away from the deals, counting his money, smiling. Hours of audio and video. And two of the jurors simply refused to say 'guilty'. One more refused to vote 'guilty' for the first count, since there was no video of it (the perp was so eager to sell, that he sold the first time he met the UnderCover cop. The cops were only expecting to meet the guy the first day, not buy anything, so they were not recording.) In this case, I beleive it was racism rather than pure stupidity- the two hold outs were of the same race as the defendant.
So, when you say "She was found guilty by a jury", it really is not as impressive a fact as you think it is. Juries are made up of mostly stupid people.
Metric is a made-up system of measurement, based upon certain arbitrary measurements.
Imperial is a more useful system of measurements. Everyone has feet. 1 foot= (approx) the length of a foot. Stretch out your arm, and the distance from the end of your index finger to your nose = (approx) 1 yard.
1 mile? 1000 paces.
Acre? Amount you can plow in a day.
A pint of water= a pound
etc
See, all these are handy. Sure, it's a little more complicated to convert from one to another, but they are all more useful measurements to begin with. Even temperature- with 180 degrees between freezing and boiling, the Fahrenheit scale provides a finer granularity than Celsius. It's easier to say "75 degrees, oops, no, just changed to 76" (F) then "23.8888889 degrees, just changed to 24.4444444" (C) (Note- both of those round to "24")
Not sure who "we're" refers to there
Geeks. People who deal with computers daily, and actually bother to look at the specs of hard drives.
You see, computers use Binary. When refering to computers, "1k" is 1024. To a scientist, '1K ' is 1000. Hard drives are not for scientists, they are for computers, therefore memory and storage capacities should use the 'computer' definition of "k".
Wikipedia notes its techie-colloquial usage, and states that it is incorrect according to the SI/metric standard.
Too bad we're "techies" and not scientists. Also too bad we don't use the metric system in the USA. As a matter of fact, we wouldn't touch it with a 3.04800 meter pole.
it's far more difficult to watch someone's hand and imagine exactly how they typically draw a password.
It's not as difficult as you think. It's a standard magicians trick to secretly watch a persons hand/pen movements and then 'magically' re-create the drawing they made.