The store I work at takes debit cards and while I don't go out of my way to check out peoples' PINs, I've definitely noticed somebody who has picked that PIN at least once. Another one I remember is somebody who picked 4444. Actually, now that I think about it, it may have even been a 6 digit PIN that was all fours. I mean, I guess it doesn't really matter what your PIN is, but I just can't imagine somebody deciding to make it all the same digit.
The authors of rails books need to stop writing tutorials and write some comprehensive documentation
This is exactly right. Yeah maybe $50 isn't so much for a couple of books, but it's just one more impediment to people learning Ruby/RoR. One of the reasons PHP has gotten so big is because it's got good, comprehensive documentation both for the language and most of it's add-ons (PEAR, PECL, Smarty).
The problem is, rather than just weeding out the stupid, they are very likely to take someone driving appropriately out with them.
This is true, but I would think that the drivers of the cars causing these accidents are the most likely to be killed. Thus, there are more incapable drivers dying than capable ones, ultimately resulting in a better ratio of capable to incapable drivers. Plus it reduces the total number of drivers on the road, making driving even safer. Right?
When you "flip" your start-up, you'll be put right back into the corporate ladder, albeit a little higher, but you're still working for the "man". Why not make your start-up into a viable, self-sustaining business? Or is that not Web 2.0?
Well, there are a couple reasons. It's common for entrepeneurs to get bored with a business once it's established. Having an idea is exciting and realizing that idea is exciting (and satisfying) but once you've got a successful business running off that idea, the novelty and excitement of the idea is gone. This is not something that's unique to the world of tech startups either, you find this in all sorts of small businesses. Once things get to a certain point in a business, their founders will often either sell the business or employ somebody else to run their business for them and then they go work on a new business idea.
More particular to tech startups though, it's often more lucrative to sell your startup. Suppose you have someone willing to buy your startup for $25M. Sure, if you keep going on your own, you *might* get lucky and you *might* earn more in a few years, but that's a big risk.
This attack was terrible and completely unprovoked, I think we need to strike back at the octopuses with full force to show that we can't be pushed around! This giant octopus attacked a sub, so I say we build a giant sub to attack an octopus!!
I think you may have misread something important. He bought Pixar for 10 million and it is now worth 7.4 billion of which he owns >50% of the shares. His personal profit is far far greater than 3.5 million.
Yeah, Disney released twice the number of movies than pixar 1995-2005, but revenue was almost half per movie, so its the same in the end for both
I think actually what he was trying to point out was that Pixar's revenues are going up while Disney's are going down. Besides that though, in regards to what you said, given the numbers in the grandparent post, the average Pixar film makes ~$242M and the average Disney film gets $127M, so already Pixar is getting close to double the revenue.
Not all PINs in the US are 4 digits, some banks have switched to 6 digit PINs (a few to 8 even) some banks give you the option of a 4 or 6 digit PIN as well.
As for liability, the issue isn't as clearcut as it used to be, most banks nowadays limit liability themselves and even if they don't, if they've issued you a Visa or Mastercard debit card (as almost all are nowadays) you are IIRC entitled to the same fraud protection as a regular Visa/MC cardholder.
Usually when the original site is dead, nyud.net is just as dead. Why do people bother with Coral?
This is a valid point, but it's only true if the Coral link is linked to afterwards. If Slashdot or any other high traffic site with a link to breaking news puts up a Coral cache link instead of a direct link, then it'll be cached.
But yeah, that is a big practical limitation of Coral because you don't know which sites are going to go down and so you don't know which ones should be linked through Coral!
That doesn't sound right. Maybe for felonies, but not all criminal offenses get that treatment.
My personal experience that I alluded to was of receiving the court date of my arraignment*. They sent it to me as both a return receipt letter and a regular letter actually, which still seems silly.
*In case anyone cares, I was being arraigned for driving without a license when I was 17 and I was let off the hook at the arraignment, not because I didn't commit the crime but largely because I had a lawyer. The legal system is weird. Full story here.
They could probably send the SMS with a confirmation code etc etc.
That doesn't really verify somebody's identity though, because anybody could be sending back that person's confirmation code. Suppose they had the wrong number for the person who was indicted, what then?
I've only had a little personal experience, but I always thought that letters like these from the courts (indictments, notices of arraignment dates, etc.) were usually sent certified return receipt so that they can be certain that you've gotten the letter.
Am I wrong or are things just different in South Korea?
I still think it might be a poor tradeoff, but regardless, I don't think it's necessary. I mean, why does WXYZ Software have to make the folder for their program ABCDE (or it's place on the start menu or whatever) named after their company when they could combine them into one by naming it "WXYZ ABCDE" or if you want to make it so that somebody can find the program alphabetically, "ABCDE by WXYZ".
I don't know about your area, but around here, the internet connection will cut out for a while almost every monday morning (2am or so). Now I don't want to complain too much because I know they have to maintain shit sometimes and that they're doing it at the time they have the least usage, but it's really fucking annoying if you are using it then and like I said, it seems to happen almost every week (I'm not up every week at this time so I can't really keep track) and sometimes it's not a quick downtime (5-15 min) like I would think, it can be like an hour and a half.
Honestly though, this is the lease of my complaints about Comcast.
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The store I work at takes debit cards and while I don't go out of my way to check out peoples' PINs, I've definitely noticed somebody who has picked that PIN at least once. Another one I remember is somebody who picked 4444. Actually, now that I think about it, it may have even been a 6 digit PIN that was all fours. I mean, I guess it doesn't really matter what your PIN is, but I just can't imagine somebody deciding to make it all the same digit.
More particular to tech startups though, it's often more lucrative to sell your startup. Suppose you have someone willing to buy your startup for $25M. Sure, if you keep going on your own, you *might* get lucky and you *might* earn more in a few years, but that's a big risk.
This attack was terrible and completely unprovoked, I think we need to strike back at the octopuses with full force to show that we can't be pushed around! This giant octopus attacked a sub, so I say we build a giant sub to attack an octopus!!
Those Octopussies won't know what hit 'em!!
Not all PINs in the US are 4 digits, some banks have switched to 6 digit PINs (a few to 8 even) some banks give you the option of a 4 or 6 digit PIN as well.
As for liability, the issue isn't as clearcut as it used to be, most banks nowadays limit liability themselves and even if they don't, if they've issued you a Visa or Mastercard debit card (as almost all are nowadays) you are IIRC entitled to the same fraud protection as a regular Visa/MC cardholder.
But yeah, that is a big practical limitation of Coral because you don't know which sites are going to go down and so you don't know which ones should be linked through Coral!
That doesn't sound right. Maybe for felonies, but not all criminal offenses get that treatment.
My personal experience that I alluded to was of receiving the court date of my arraignment*. They sent it to me as both a return receipt letter and a regular letter actually, which still seems silly.
*In case anyone cares, I was being arraigned for driving without a license when I was 17 and I was let off the hook at the arraignment, not because I didn't commit the crime but largely because I had a lawyer. The legal system is weird. Full story here.
I've only had a little personal experience, but I always thought that letters like these from the courts (indictments, notices of arraignment dates, etc.) were usually sent certified return receipt so that they can be certain that you've gotten the letter.
Am I wrong or are things just different in South Korea?
I still think it might be a poor tradeoff, but regardless, I don't think it's necessary. I mean, why does WXYZ Software have to make the folder for their program ABCDE (or it's place on the start menu or whatever) named after their company when they could combine them into one by naming it "WXYZ ABCDE" or if you want to make it so that somebody can find the program alphabetically, "ABCDE by WXYZ".
I don't know about your area, but around here, the internet connection will cut out for a while almost every monday morning (2am or so). Now I don't want to complain too much because I know they have to maintain shit sometimes and that they're doing it at the time they have the least usage, but it's really fucking annoying if you are using it then and like I said, it seems to happen almost every week (I'm not up every week at this time so I can't really keep track) and sometimes it's not a quick downtime (5-15 min) like I would think, it can be like an hour and a half.
Honestly though, this is the lease of my complaints about Comcast.