So when victim.email@victim.domain.com is asked to validate that he wants to send $1,000,000, and is asked to provide a debit card for the transaction, he'll go along with it because the email says he originated the request?
What are you trying to rent? I've rented everything from cars to tuxes using a credit card, never cash. The only rentals that I imagine are a cash-only service involve illicits. NYC is different from the rest of the country. Here in Texas, even the taco trucks take credit card (alongside U.S. cash, and sometimes pesos).
So when you go to a store to buy something, you ask the guy behind the register to follow you to a bank to complete the transaction?
No, I didn't think so. Instead, if you don't use cash everywhere, you probably hand the guy behind the register your credit card. If his register looks iPad shaped (and, in my experience, any new business that has opened in the past two years has registers that are distinctly iPad shaped), then he's processing your credit card through Square or a similar service. So you already trust them.
This is totally unworkable in our system of checks and balances. In this case, it's the differences between the House and the Senate that preclude this. The House is elected every two years, and is supposed to represent the "immediate will of the people" or somesuch. However, due to gerrymandering of districts many are guaranteed safe for reelection, at least unless they face a challenger from the extreme wing of their own party. The Senate is elected on staggering terms so that only a third are up every two years. Originally they were elected by the states, but now they are elected by the people of each state. Given that state boundaries are fixed, Senate seats in swing states are easier to lose.
Imagine that the House and Senate are controlled by different parties, as they are now. If the Senate came up for reelection whenever Congress couldn't pass a budget, then the House majority would just vote down everything until they could have another shot at taking back the Senate, knowing that gerrymandering makes it unlikely they'll lose control of the House. On the other hand, if only the House is up for reelection if a budget won't pass, we'd likely see 3 or 4 elections in a row before enough of the non-voting majority get annoyed enough to do something. And then once they do, they'll go back to not caring and things will go right back to bad.
Instead of all of that, my suggestion is that we create two-year budgets, and have to pass them by October 1 of the second year of each term. Then, on November 1 of that year (or whatever the election date is), if they haven't yet made a budget, the voters have a timely way to throw them all out. Oh, and we should define the rules for drawing district boundaries that preclude prejudice based on past voting habits (i.e. no more discrimination against white democrats in the South) or just require a circumference-to-area ratio no worse than 150% of optimal or somesuch.
I live in the middle of Austin, yet I'm represented by someone who lives in suburban Houston. My only option is to vote for or against the guy who is guaranteed to win thanks to gerrymandering.
Republicans lost the overall vote in the House, but have many entrenched politicians thanks to excessive gerrymandering. They only can't do that for the senate because they can't manipulate state boundaries!
And yes, Democrats gerrymander too, but clearly Republicans have done it more, since they can drastically lose the popular vote for the house and still hold the majority of the seats.
No, we have several old cables that won't charge newer devices. The interface in my wife's old car wouldn't work with iPhones, though it charges iPod Touches and older iPods just fine.
I think they could reduce the trade frequency to, say, once a second, with a known way to manage the influx of trades in the last second + carryover of unexecuted trades from previous seconds.
For example, if there is any overlap between buy and sell prices for a given stock, match the highest buy with lowest sell, and execute at exactly the midpoint. Then repeat until all overlap is executed. Anything left over is held to the next second, unless it expires.
Then let the SEC randomly audit a given second, to ensure that NASDAQ or NYSE itself didn't use it's one-second knowledge of the pending trades to profit on their "inside" information. Hell, audit the code and hardware to ensure that there's no port to export the list of pending transactions. (I think there's a data diode that's military approved for one-way communication. Use it to accept trade requests, then have another one to export the trade results, and audit the code to ensure the export doesn't encode hidden information about the held-over trade requests.) Or something like that.
And everything above would work just as well with trades executing once every 10 seconds, or once a minute, giving everyone time to see news and react to it fairly.
Well, yeah, I'm already assuming that they consider their time worthless since they were in line not knowing their phones would be paid for. =P
Maybe sitting on a street in New York is their idea of an ideal vacation, similar to other people sitting on a beach somewhere somehow not bored to death.
Competition in this space is good... but since I already have a Netflix account and Amazon Prime, I really don't want to see anything decent signed exclusively to Hulu. I especially don't want to see the owners of Hulu (content producers) make it their exclusive provider. That's using one monopoly (copyright, a government granted monopoly) in one market to try to move into another market, and should be illegal.
Plus, and I know this is hearsay, but just a few days ago someone on slashdot was complaining that they had a Hulu account in their real name, and then they discovered that all the shows they watched were searchable online. Uh, no thanks. Even if that's not true now, if that was ever true they can screw off. (If it was never true, I got trolled, sorry.)
The only thing keepping such people from buying the Tesla, and would be many given the number of Lotus, Rolls Royce, not to mention a mercedes in every driveway, that exists in Texas, is the lack of charging stations, Right now there is one.
Wow, I didn't know that the charging station in my company's parking garage in Austin was the only one in the state. No wonder it's 10 bays are almost always full with a little row of Volts and Teslas.
Sure it is. All you can win on line at Apple is an iPhone. And by "win" I mean pay the same amount as anybody else.
Actually, per TFA the first two people in line have been "bought out" by a third-party Apple reseller, and now sport the company's logo on their shirts, and, in exchange, will now have their phones (plural, two each) paid for by the company.
So... yeah, they won the advertising game and now get their phones for free.
Maybe it would be better if providers managed this not as a cap, which no one likes, but in terms of burst and sustained speeds.
For example, would it be better to buy 30 Mbps, with a soft cap at 1 GB/month, or maybe buy a package with 30 Mbps "burst" speed, 1 Mbps "average" speed for a four-day rolling window? I made up those numbers, but if something similar would work, it might be better, in that I would at least understand how they were throttling and when it would end.
No shit. I tried to pay online for a medical bill, and they want me to create an account on their site. WTF? Just let me type in a unique pay code or something, give them a credit card number, and tell them how much to deduct. They don't even have to acknowledge that the amount is correct for the bill, if somehow that gives away private information.
Instead, I thought "screw this, I'll just write a check". Which I haven't done yet, now five weeks later, so they're out the money until I feel like finding my old checkbook.
Props to cpllabs.com for having a "guest" pay system as I describe. I pay their bills promptly and in full.
The good news is that although the botnet itself is bad, the number of connections and extra clients improves Tor security overall for all the other users.
And how does it do that? Suppose your traffic is routed through 3 hops on Tor, from your entry point to exit. Suppose that all 3 of those hops are controlled by the same botnet operator. That operator now knows who you are and what you did. Note that "quadrupled clients" = "3 out of 4 clients are bots" and the odds of your whole path going through the same operator's equipment is very high.
If the US actually cared, they would have been in Rwanda. Or another half dozen countries over the past few decades. The US is happy to sit by and watch full blown genocide at massive scales if there is no strategic reason for being there.
Uh, you know it's not the same people in charge now as it was then, right? And that the people in charge now might even disagree with what was done then?
Plenty of courts have shown that exact replicas of an existing work show no originality, and are thus merely mechanical reproductions unworthy of a unique copyright. In other words, the replicas cannot be copyrighted separately from the original work. (The ability to produce replicas remains with the original work's owner.)
Meanwhile, the original works are in the public domain, having been produced in the 1880s or 1890s. So there's no original owner. In other words, anyone can produce a copy or derivative of any style you choose, limited only by your access to the original to study it.
If these reproductions don't come with a EULA, there's nothing legally stopping me from scanning it myself and printing 2000 more copies.
I don't know if you understand this or not, but trees need to be harvested and used to take the carbon out of the loop else they die and decay and go right back into it.
Uhh, that's almost completely wrong. The only harvested trees that are taken out of the loop are ones shoved into the earth's crust somewhere. Otherwise, they go right back into the system.
Meanwhile, there are millions and millions of trees that aren't dying, but are instead growing larger, consuming more and more carbon. A study a few years back (Google for it) showed that, for many plant species, the amount (not percent, raw amount) of wood they added each year continued to grow as they aged, even if the percent of growth slowed down. And you can't forget the majesty of old growth forests - if you haven't seen an old growth tree in person, you really don't understand what old growth means.
If entire forests can grow as large as the old growth forests that blanketed the U.S. before we cut them all down, then there's plenty of opportunity for trees to keep growing for hundreds of years and suck carbon from the air.
The incineration plant was 50 miles from the city that produces the garbage. The idea is to have the plant so close to the city that you can use the heat to heat houses in the winter.
We don't have steam pipes, and the losses would be pretty severe unless the plant was located in the middle of the residential area. It's far more efficient to turn the heat into electricity, and then use heat pumps in each house to use the electricity to pull residue heat from the air. (Assuming the area isn't too cold for heat pumps to be effective.)
Once you're converting to electricity, 50 miles away is nothing, and solves the NIMBY problems.
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So when victim.email@victim.domain.com is asked to validate that he wants to send $1,000,000, and is asked to provide a debit card for the transaction, he'll go along with it because the email says he originated the request?
What are you trying to rent? I've rented everything from cars to tuxes using a credit card, never cash. The only rentals that I imagine are a cash-only service involve illicits. NYC is different from the rest of the country. Here in Texas, even the taco trucks take credit card (alongside U.S. cash, and sometimes pesos).
So when you go to a store to buy something, you ask the guy behind the register to follow you to a bank to complete the transaction?
No, I didn't think so. Instead, if you don't use cash everywhere, you probably hand the guy behind the register your credit card. If his register looks iPad shaped (and, in my experience, any new business that has opened in the past two years has registers that are distinctly iPad shaped), then he's processing your credit card through Square or a similar service. So you already trust them.
This is totally unworkable in our system of checks and balances. In this case, it's the differences between the House and the Senate that preclude this. The House is elected every two years, and is supposed to represent the "immediate will of the people" or somesuch. However, due to gerrymandering of districts many are guaranteed safe for reelection, at least unless they face a challenger from the extreme wing of their own party. The Senate is elected on staggering terms so that only a third are up every two years. Originally they were elected by the states, but now they are elected by the people of each state. Given that state boundaries are fixed, Senate seats in swing states are easier to lose.
Imagine that the House and Senate are controlled by different parties, as they are now. If the Senate came up for reelection whenever Congress couldn't pass a budget, then the House majority would just vote down everything until they could have another shot at taking back the Senate, knowing that gerrymandering makes it unlikely they'll lose control of the House. On the other hand, if only the House is up for reelection if a budget won't pass, we'd likely see 3 or 4 elections in a row before enough of the non-voting majority get annoyed enough to do something. And then once they do, they'll go back to not caring and things will go right back to bad.
Instead of all of that, my suggestion is that we create two-year budgets, and have to pass them by October 1 of the second year of each term. Then, on November 1 of that year (or whatever the election date is), if they haven't yet made a budget, the voters have a timely way to throw them all out. Oh, and we should define the rules for drawing district boundaries that preclude prejudice based on past voting habits (i.e. no more discrimination against white democrats in the South) or just require a circumference-to-area ratio no worse than 150% of optimal or somesuch.
You forgot to reply to his last sentence.
I live in the middle of Austin, yet I'm represented by someone who lives in suburban Houston. My only option is to vote for or against the guy who is guaranteed to win thanks to gerrymandering.
How exactly can I fire him?
It's the entire House every 2 years, and 1/3rd of the Senate. Not that they can be replaced, thanks to the massive gerrymandering.
The exchanged opened a few days ago, October 1, not January 1 of next year.
Republicans lost the overall vote in the House, but have many entrenched politicians thanks to excessive gerrymandering. They only can't do that for the senate because they can't manipulate state boundaries!
And yes, Democrats gerrymander too, but clearly Republicans have done it more, since they can drastically lose the popular vote for the house and still hold the majority of the seats.
So yes, MINORITY.
Each time, I walk into the election booth and decide whether I want to vote For or Against the candidate pre-ordained to win. Thanks gerrymandering!
Duh, the U.S. Department of Editing is shut down.
No, we have several old cables that won't charge newer devices. The interface in my wife's old car wouldn't work with iPhones, though it charges iPod Touches and older iPods just fine.
I think they could reduce the trade frequency to, say, once a second, with a known way to manage the influx of trades in the last second + carryover of unexecuted trades from previous seconds.
For example, if there is any overlap between buy and sell prices for a given stock, match the highest buy with lowest sell, and execute at exactly the midpoint. Then repeat until all overlap is executed. Anything left over is held to the next second, unless it expires.
Then let the SEC randomly audit a given second, to ensure that NASDAQ or NYSE itself didn't use it's one-second knowledge of the pending trades to profit on their "inside" information. Hell, audit the code and hardware to ensure that there's no port to export the list of pending transactions. (I think there's a data diode that's military approved for one-way communication. Use it to accept trade requests, then have another one to export the trade results, and audit the code to ensure the export doesn't encode hidden information about the held-over trade requests.) Or something like that.
And everything above would work just as well with trades executing once every 10 seconds, or once a minute, giving everyone time to see news and react to it fairly.
Well, yeah, I'm already assuming that they consider their time worthless since they were in line not knowing their phones would be paid for. =P
Maybe sitting on a street in New York is their idea of an ideal vacation, similar to other people sitting on a beach somewhere somehow not bored to death.
Competition in this space is good... but since I already have a Netflix account and Amazon Prime, I really don't want to see anything decent signed exclusively to Hulu. I especially don't want to see the owners of Hulu (content producers) make it their exclusive provider. That's using one monopoly (copyright, a government granted monopoly) in one market to try to move into another market, and should be illegal.
Plus, and I know this is hearsay, but just a few days ago someone on slashdot was complaining that they had a Hulu account in their real name, and then they discovered that all the shows they watched were searchable online. Uh, no thanks. Even if that's not true now, if that was ever true they can screw off. (If it was never true, I got trolled, sorry.)
The only thing keepping such people from buying the Tesla, and would be many given the number of Lotus, Rolls Royce, not to mention a mercedes in every driveway, that exists in Texas, is the lack of charging stations, Right now there is one.
Wow, I didn't know that the charging station in my company's parking garage in Austin was the only one in the state. No wonder it's 10 bays are almost always full with a little row of Volts and Teslas.
Sure it is. All you can win on line at Apple is an iPhone. And by "win" I mean pay the same amount as anybody else.
Actually, per TFA the first two people in line have been "bought out" by a third-party Apple reseller, and now sport the company's logo on their shirts, and, in exchange, will now have their phones (plural, two each) paid for by the company.
So... yeah, they won the advertising game and now get their phones for free.
Maybe it would be better if providers managed this not as a cap, which no one likes, but in terms of burst and sustained speeds.
For example, would it be better to buy 30 Mbps, with a soft cap at 1 GB/month, or maybe buy a package with 30 Mbps "burst" speed, 1 Mbps "average" speed for a four-day rolling window? I made up those numbers, but if something similar would work, it might be better, in that I would at least understand how they were throttling and when it would end.
No shit. I tried to pay online for a medical bill, and they want me to create an account on their site. WTF? Just let me type in a unique pay code or something, give them a credit card number, and tell them how much to deduct. They don't even have to acknowledge that the amount is correct for the bill, if somehow that gives away private information.
Instead, I thought "screw this, I'll just write a check". Which I haven't done yet, now five weeks later, so they're out the money until I feel like finding my old checkbook.
Props to cpllabs.com for having a "guest" pay system as I describe. I pay their bills promptly and in full.
The good news is that although the botnet itself is bad, the number of connections and extra clients improves Tor security overall for all the other users.
And how does it do that? Suppose your traffic is routed through 3 hops on Tor, from your entry point to exit. Suppose that all 3 of those hops are controlled by the same botnet operator. That operator now knows who you are and what you did. Note that "quadrupled clients" = "3 out of 4 clients are bots" and the odds of your whole path going through the same operator's equipment is very high.
If the US actually cared, they would have been in Rwanda. Or another half dozen countries over the past few decades. The US is happy to sit by and watch full blown genocide at massive scales if there is no strategic reason for being there.
Uh, you know it's not the same people in charge now as it was then, right? And that the people in charge now might even disagree with what was done then?
Plenty of courts have shown that exact replicas of an existing work show no originality, and are thus merely mechanical reproductions unworthy of a unique copyright. In other words, the replicas cannot be copyrighted separately from the original work. (The ability to produce replicas remains with the original work's owner.)
Meanwhile, the original works are in the public domain, having been produced in the 1880s or 1890s. So there's no original owner. In other words, anyone can produce a copy or derivative of any style you choose, limited only by your access to the original to study it.
If these reproductions don't come with a EULA, there's nothing legally stopping me from scanning it myself and printing 2000 more copies.
True, garbage is harder to truck than electricity.
I don't know if you understand this or not, but trees need to be harvested and used to take the carbon out of the loop else they die and decay and go right back into it.
Uhh, that's almost completely wrong. The only harvested trees that are taken out of the loop are ones shoved into the earth's crust somewhere. Otherwise, they go right back into the system.
Meanwhile, there are millions and millions of trees that aren't dying, but are instead growing larger, consuming more and more carbon. A study a few years back (Google for it) showed that, for many plant species, the amount (not percent, raw amount) of wood they added each year continued to grow as they aged, even if the percent of growth slowed down. And you can't forget the majesty of old growth forests - if you haven't seen an old growth tree in person, you really don't understand what old growth means.
If entire forests can grow as large as the old growth forests that blanketed the U.S. before we cut them all down, then there's plenty of opportunity for trees to keep growing for hundreds of years and suck carbon from the air.
Wow, they are doing it wrong!
The incineration plant was 50 miles from the city that produces the garbage. The idea is to have the plant so close to the city that you can use the heat to heat houses in the winter.
We don't have steam pipes, and the losses would be pretty severe unless the plant was located in the middle of the residential area. It's far more efficient to turn the heat into electricity, and then use heat pumps in each house to use the electricity to pull residue heat from the air. (Assuming the area isn't too cold for heat pumps to be effective.)
Once you're converting to electricity, 50 miles away is nothing, and solves the NIMBY problems.