By "figure out where the customer lives" do you mean look at the "bill-to" and/or "ship-to" address the customer just filled out? Because that is all that is required. Its not difficult, you make 'state' a required field. There are no data subscriptions, nor a lot of coding involved.
So what happens when cities disagree on which tax rate the customer should pay, or when some cities want to charge based on bill-to vs. ship-to?
Leaving aside the inherent complications in the actual data, consider the scale here: you have to support well over a billions transactions per day with latency in the neighborhood of 200ms. You also have to be very available - 99.99+ because nobody can buy anything if you go offline. The logistics involved are daunting to say the least.
If you build HSR, it will be on its own track, so no routing problems, and fuck the terrorists. Seriously, who cares? They can go blow shit up, and we hunt them down as criminals, and that's the end of it. Meanwhile, HSR is faster than air travel for short-mid trips (under 500 miles, you'd see 2-3 hours transit time door to door. Also, the TSA can go to hell - bunch of useless trolls...
wasn't the purpose of the salting to avoid the issue we saw with Gawker in that once you figured out Bob's unsalted password "password" hashed to "5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99" you suddenly has the credentials for X other users that all used "password" as their password as well? Where if the password had been salted all the hashes would be different and they would have had to brute force each one?
No, they're there so that you can't precompute a rainbow table and turn password cracking into a lookup. Once you crack Bob's password on gawker, you can easily check other sites with the same password, and often it will work. Nothing to do with salt.
The thing is that if they go after you and noone else, you can argue that it isn't actually a banned practice - there's some legal precedent for requiring rules to be enforced somewhat uniformly.
Given that everywhere I've worked, most people used work computers for personal browsing, they can't really discipline you for that. All that they can do is discipline you for doing it to excess or missing deadlines.
If I dropped you in one of those places from 10 feet, you'd be pissed off and in a position to do something about it. Are you just dense or something? I'm saying that being held back is less permanent than failing the big test.
No, you can fall off a wall and hit the ground 10 feet below and be okay. 10,000 feet will kill most people. Likewise, being held back is less likely to kill you because you can recover and you won't have a bunch of people calling you a failure. Duh.
They actually do that. Specifically, they do things like build prototypes intended for non computer users and go find them and see what they do with it. Of course, part of the problem with letting users get too much power in designing the product is that the product needs to do something different, and most users will operate within their own paradigm.
And Japan [gaijinpot.com] has one of the highest student suicide rates in the world.
What's that got to do with being held back? It's most likely because of the big test that everyone takes that basically determines your future - do poorly and you're basically fucked. Doesn't really matter if you apply yourself later.
I always get a full summary of the route when I use GPS. I can then see where the route goes in general and check pieces for weirdness or plot alternatives. I also hate turn navigation - it always yaks at me and hijacks the display. What I want is far more low key.
What, you don't look at the route before you start? Seriously, if it isn't obviously a city, you should be doing that - sometimes turns are tricky, and you can easily get lost, or the GPS can send you to the jersey shore for no particular reason. It's just an aid.
Aspiring to be different is basically trying to identify as not-something, which is just asinine. Your identity should be about who you are or what groups you choose to associate with, not about being different from some other. This also why I think Jesse Jackson is a tool.
And that will do fuck all to reduce DUI rates. The people that kill will drive anyway, and ratcheting up the punishment won't really make them stop. Give them another way to get to and from the bar and you'll see changes.
Most places acknowledge these situations and allow in one way or another the violation of a law to avert a worse problem. DUI to escape a bear is perfectly reasonable, though unlikely. If I were to debate, I'd go with the heat cycling and environmental factors - those alcohol based hand sanitizers are fairly popular - wonder how they interact with the sensor.
1. lots of things kill people, and despite the hype, DUI isn't a major factor; it's hard to say how much, though, because any fatal accident where someone had any booze in them (driver, victim, passenger) is alcohol related, which is what is tracked. DUI is no longer socially accepted (except where there's no other way to drink socially). Make it easier to not drive and people will.
2. sure, no sweat, but let's stop treating it like a cash cow - lock people up for injury accidents and obvious problems - most of the people you worry about are.15 and over, and that hasn't changed in 30 years. Ever wonder why?
3. Hey, I'd love that. Probably go to bars more if I never had to worry about drinking a bit much. Hell, I'd go for trains and subways if it meant I could leave my car at home most days - that'd be awesome.
4. money makes problems go away - don't expect this to change in your lifetime.
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Maybe the hospital should have a smoking patio here and there so people aren't looking for ways to get their fix.
By "figure out where the customer lives" do you mean look at the "bill-to" and/or "ship-to" address the customer just filled out? Because that is all that is required. Its not difficult, you make 'state' a required field. There are no data subscriptions, nor a lot of coding involved.
So what happens when cities disagree on which tax rate the customer should pay, or when some cities want to charge based on bill-to vs. ship-to?
Leaving aside the inherent complications in the actual data, consider the scale here: you have to support well over a billions transactions per day with latency in the neighborhood of 200ms. You also have to be very available - 99.99+ because nobody can buy anything if you go offline. The logistics involved are daunting to say the least.
Ahhh the old "if you are innocent, then you shouldn't have a right to privacy" argument.
No, if you're under investigation and start shredding everything in sight, you probably did something bad.
Dude, put down the crack. Seriously.
If you build HSR, it will be on its own track, so no routing problems, and fuck the terrorists. Seriously, who cares? They can go blow shit up, and we hunt them down as criminals, and that's the end of it. Meanwhile, HSR is faster than air travel for short-mid trips (under 500 miles, you'd see 2-3 hours transit time door to door. Also, the TSA can go to hell - bunch of useless trolls...
wasn't the purpose of the salting to avoid the issue we saw with Gawker in that once you figured out Bob's unsalted password "password" hashed to "5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99" you suddenly has the credentials for X other users that all used "password" as their password as well? Where if the password had been salted all the hashes would be different and they would have had to brute force each one?
No, they're there so that you can't precompute a rainbow table and turn password cracking into a lookup. Once you crack Bob's password on gawker, you can easily check other sites with the same password, and often it will work. Nothing to do with salt.
The thing is that if they go after you and noone else, you can argue that it isn't actually a banned practice - there's some legal precedent for requiring rules to be enforced somewhat uniformly.
Given that everywhere I've worked, most people used work computers for personal browsing, they can't really discipline you for that. All that they can do is discipline you for doing it to excess or missing deadlines.
If I dropped you in one of those places from 10 feet, you'd be pissed off and in a position to do something about it. Are you just dense or something? I'm saying that being held back is less permanent than failing the big test.
No, you can fall off a wall and hit the ground 10 feet below and be okay. 10,000 feet will kill most people. Likewise, being held back is less likely to kill you because you can recover and you won't have a bunch of people calling you a failure. Duh.
He's making a mark, he just doesn't want it to be a bullet wound.
The 360 I believe is now turning a profit.
Has it made back the R&D/marketing cost yet? Consoles need to pay for themselves within their own cycle at the very least.
They actually do that. Specifically, they do things like build prototypes intended for non computer users and go find them and see what they do with it. Of course, part of the problem with letting users get too much power in designing the product is that the product needs to do something different, and most users will operate within their own paradigm.
and sometimes, he curses back. That's steve for you.
If it doesn't work, as you say, then why does virtually every government on earth employ this tactic?
Because it gets votes. Over in europe, they're closing prisons, though - with effective rehab and social programs, they're running out of crims.
And being held back is in no way comparable to being told that you are irrevocably fucked for life. Duh.
And Japan [gaijinpot.com] has one of the highest student suicide rates in the world.
What's that got to do with being held back? It's most likely because of the big test that everyone takes that basically determines your future - do poorly and you're basically fucked. Doesn't really matter if you apply yourself later.
I always get a full summary of the route when I use GPS. I can then see where the route goes in general and check pieces for weirdness or plot alternatives. I also hate turn navigation - it always yaks at me and hijacks the display. What I want is far more low key.
What, you don't look at the route before you start? Seriously, if it isn't obviously a city, you should be doing that - sometimes turns are tricky, and you can easily get lost, or the GPS can send you to the jersey shore for no particular reason. It's just an aid.
Probably a good bet. There are a number of people on my friends list that have that happen to them.
well, those guys are just cooler than us.
Aspiring to be different is basically trying to identify as not-something, which is just asinine. Your identity should be about who you are or what groups you choose to associate with, not about being different from some other. This also why I think Jesse Jackson is a tool.
And that will do fuck all to reduce DUI rates. The people that kill will drive anyway, and ratcheting up the punishment won't really make them stop. Give them another way to get to and from the bar and you'll see changes.
Most places acknowledge these situations and allow in one way or another the violation of a law to avert a worse problem. DUI to escape a bear is perfectly reasonable, though unlikely. If I were to debate, I'd go with the heat cycling and environmental factors - those alcohol based hand sanitizers are fairly popular - wonder how they interact with the sensor.
1. lots of things kill people, and despite the hype, DUI isn't a major factor; it's hard to say how much, though, because any fatal accident where someone had any booze in them (driver, victim, passenger) is alcohol related, which is what is tracked. DUI is no longer socially accepted (except where there's no other way to drink socially). Make it easier to not drive and people will.
2. sure, no sweat, but let's stop treating it like a cash cow - lock people up for injury accidents and obvious problems - most of the people you worry about are .15 and over, and that hasn't changed in 30 years. Ever wonder why?
3. Hey, I'd love that. Probably go to bars more if I never had to worry about drinking a bit much. Hell, I'd go for trains and subways if it meant I could leave my car at home most days - that'd be awesome.
4. money makes problems go away - don't expect this to change in your lifetime.