You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say or do can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed to you. You have the right to simulate a story that is favorable to your defense. If you can't afford custom simulations, public domain simulations will be provided for you. Do you understand these rights as they have been read to you?
I second that. London is expensive. Especially in tourist spots.
I was last there when 1 GBP was 2 USD ouch! It is better now at 1.60, but still...
Note, however, that you can find reasonable prices in a normal grocery store - pick up your bottle of water there. Also, speaking of stores, do see that tourist stuff (like the Tower of London, etc.) but also pop into a grocery store, just to see what's the same and what's different than what you are used to.
If you are really spending 2 weeks on one city, you are really going to want a hotel walking distance to a tube station. Mind the gap and have fun!
Their front page is (and always has been) right up front that they are selling you a service.
They even give you the link to the "real" free credit report.
Name aside, they don't seem too shady. There are plenty of opportunities to buy something you don't need, this is just another one. It's like buying clothes that say "dry clean only" right on the tag. You know what you are getting up front.
I just assumed Lord Lode works for the government, and while wasting work time on Slashdot, accidentally let slip the acronym for the latest program he is working on.
Genious is clearly short for "generate IOUs", which, if you live in California, you have seen in the recent past, and will probably be seeing more of, if the state owes you money.
You might want to see a doctor if hearing a particular song causes you to lose balance. I'm not saying tumor or anything, but you might want to check it out.
I saw another post that already has the wikipedia on exactly this, and, as a bonus, includes:
A Fred Saberhagen Berserker science fiction short story, "The Annihilation of Angkor Apeiron," has a Berserker directed to a star system by an encyclopedia salesman. The salesman is put on trial for treason, but reveals that the encyclopedia article for the star system, with population figures, resources, etc., was a fictitious entry included in the encyclopedia to detect plagiarism; thus the Berserker actually ended up in an empty star system where it ran out of fuel and ceased to be a threat to humanity.
This technique has been used to find spies for decades, if not centuries.
Ironically, something akin is even explained in literature... an old SF story, about a doctored "galactic encyclopedia" or some such (Saberhagen or Asimov?).
The story line there was that it was common practice for cartographers and encyclopedia/dictionary publishers purposely add minor bits of fiction to the reference work, with the idea that it won't do any harm, and if it gets copied, we'll know.
This reference work embellishing is not the same as rendering each copy as individually identifiable, but it still reeks of prior art.
BTW, I thought there was a term for this intentional "salting" of material to make it identifiable, but it escapes me right now. If you know the word, please educate us.
I bought some flood-light type bulb replacements from a big box store (Lowes or Home Depot, I forget which). The bulb looked like a flood light, but you could see it was just a curly CFL inside.
The bulbs were purchased about 18 months ago, so I assume they were "modern".
I hated them. They were slow to start, and had a terrible pink cast to them until they warmed up over 5 to 10 minutes. I was both surprised and glad that they lasted less than a year (maybe 1500 hours on them).
To be fair, I do have some regular CFL bulbs behind a couch that come on fast, run cool and look fine.
I think the CFL Hate comes from a couple of directions, first, some may have had bad experiences like me (or just not like the quality of the light). The other reason for the hate is just the idea that they may be mandated, and the ensuing slippery slope arguments that follow.
No kidding, if you are testing the theory of "good smelling" one needed use Windex for every test group.
You could have nothing, nothing, nothing, windex, rose water, fresh baked cookie smell, etc. Also, you could do some foul smell runs to see if they are even worse than nothing...
Slashdot Mirror
But deleting the genuine data
There's an app for that.
If your only tool is a hammer, every problem becomes a nail.
If your only tool is a screwdriver, the answer to every problem is "screw it". Apologies to Maslow.
FWIW, original is "To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail." A. Maslow
You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say or do can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed to you. You have the right to simulate a story that is favorable to your defense. If you can't afford custom simulations, public domain simulations will be provided for you. Do you understand these rights as they have been read to you?
How do you know that wasn't the poster's point? Best to igore -1 Offtopic posts, IMHO.
That way me and my Humvee are never wrong.
heh, just google "garrido". Read it and weep.
Have no doubt, if you are on an "enemies list" (e.g. political enemy of the current power holder) you could very well be toast.
However, if you are a common criminal, no matter the magnitude, I have no doubt you can escape justice for a long while, if you are clever.
Fortunately, most fugitives are not "clever".
I second that. London is expensive. Especially in tourist spots.
I was last there when 1 GBP was 2 USD ouch! It is better now at 1.60, but still...
Note, however, that you can find reasonable prices in a normal grocery store - pick up your bottle of water there. Also, speaking of stores, do see that tourist stuff (like the Tower of London, etc.) but also pop into a grocery store, just to see what's the same and what's different than what you are used to.
If you are really spending 2 weeks on one city, you are really going to want a hotel walking distance to a tube station. Mind the gap and have fun!
No, I Say "OMG", You Say "Ponies!".
So, you are saying people should eat less fish, or there should be fewer people.
Logically, here is what the "fair share" should be.
(Cost of Government) / (Number of Citizens) = the fair tax per citizen.
Anything else is unfair, but "necessary*" simply because not everyone can afford their fair share.
The tax code boils down to extracting unfair amounts of money from those that can pay (and the politics of helping friends and punishing enemies).
Since politicians don't pay for anything out of their own pocket, there is no reason to curtail spending.
* necessary - of course if you are "lucky" enough to be asked to pay. However, if you don't see the spending as "necessary", it is especially galling.
6 decades?
Hundreds of millions have been born and died in that time period.
Carpe Diem!
I think its a waste of perfectly good food to not to eat people
Well, maybe with chiani.... and if properly prepared, then again, there is that prion issue.
No, I think I'll stand by my sig, as long as I deign preserve it thus.
Their front page is (and always has been) right up front that they are selling you a service.
They even give you the link to the "real" free credit report.
Name aside, they don't seem too shady. There are plenty of opportunities to buy something you don't need, this is just another one. It's like buying clothes that say "dry clean only" right on the tag. You know what you are getting up front.
Maybe GoGo would be better. That has some nice possibilities for logos...
I just assumed Lord Lode works for the government, and while wasting work time on Slashdot, accidentally let slip the acronym for the latest program he is working on.
Genious is clearly short for "generate IOUs", which, if you live in California, you have seen in the recent past, and will probably be seeing more of, if the state owes you money.
The complaint seeks class-action status
Even if the "class", um, "wins", it would be something like this; Lawyer gets well paid for all the hard work to bring justice to the world.
iPhone users get a coupon for a free iPhone download or two.
It would be nice if all government operations were this efficient - only a 10% loss, that's great!
It's kind of like the way hard drive companies measure disk capacity.
You might want to see a doctor if hearing a particular song causes you to lose balance. I'm not saying tumor or anything, but you might want to check it out.
Can you please just show the mathematical equation for this curve of which you speak? That way we won't have to use imprecise words.
I saw another post that already has the wikipedia on exactly this, and, as a bonus, includes:
A Fred Saberhagen Berserker science fiction short story, "The Annihilation of Angkor Apeiron," has a Berserker directed to a star system by an encyclopedia salesman. The salesman is put on trial for treason, but reveals that the encyclopedia article for the star system, with population figures, resources, etc., was a fictitious entry included in the encyclopedia to detect plagiarism; thus the Berserker actually ended up in an empty star system where it ran out of fuel and ceased to be a threat to humanity.
This technique has been used to find spies for decades, if not centuries.
Ironically, something akin is even explained in literature... an old SF story, about a doctored "galactic encyclopedia" or some such (Saberhagen or Asimov?). The story line there was that it was common practice for cartographers and encyclopedia/dictionary publishers purposely add minor bits of fiction to the reference work, with the idea that it won't do any harm, and if it gets copied, we'll know.
This reference work embellishing is not the same as rendering each copy as individually identifiable, but it still reeks of prior art.
BTW, I thought there was a term for this intentional "salting" of material to make it identifiable, but it escapes me right now. If you know the word, please educate us.
What is that, voice phishing? What's next, we're going to call telemarketers "vammers"? And we'll call phreakers "vackers"?
Nah, following the "vishing" substitution logic, I come up with telemarketing spammers = tammers and phreaker hackers would be phackers.
I bought some flood-light type bulb replacements from a big box store (Lowes or Home Depot, I forget which). The bulb looked like a flood light, but you could see it was just a curly CFL inside.
The bulbs were purchased about 18 months ago, so I assume they were "modern".
I hated them. They were slow to start, and had a terrible pink cast to them until they warmed up over 5 to 10 minutes. I was both surprised and glad that they lasted less than a year (maybe 1500 hours on them).
To be fair, I do have some regular CFL bulbs behind a couch that come on fast, run cool and look fine.
I think the CFL Hate comes from a couple of directions, first, some may have had bad experiences like me (or just not like the quality of the light). The other reason for the hate is just the idea that they may be mandated, and the ensuing slippery slope arguments that follow.
No kidding, if you are testing the theory of "good smelling" one needed use Windex for every test group.
You could have nothing, nothing, nothing, windex, rose water, fresh baked cookie smell, etc. Also, you could do some foul smell runs to see if they are even worse than nothing...