I would hazard a guess that a significant part of this cost is upgrading the buildings to have modern networking, as opposed to token ring or whatever the old machines were using.
Costs get pretty high quickly when your upgrade involves bashing out walls to replace data cables that were installed before the era when ducting became a thing.
Slashdot is not the demographics of the country as a whole. The vast majority of the population only has a vague idea of what a credit rating is, what it is used for, and what could happen if the information gets out.
The news folks went and interviewed random Joe/Jill-on-the-streets on this issue when it happened. The majority response was "What's an Equifax?".
The second link in the summary "describe a method for spraying invisibly thin antennas" seems to go to an article titled "Facebook stops sending staff to help political campaigns". Was this link changed when being posted?
>> There should be an IQ test that needs to be passed before being allowed to vote.
IQ (Literacy) tests were used for many years to keep "undesirables" from exercising their ability to influence government. Wealth requirements (land ownership or poll taxes), race requirements, and other methods have also been used. Historically, these "undesirables" were poor rural black people. Maybe now these "undesirables" are poor rural white people?
The current method of "only people that care enough can vote" seems to be a reasonable compromise between the country being run by "only the not undesirables of the day" vs "everybody is required to vote, nobody cares, so the result is effectively random()".
The distributed nature of our elections means we can get the best security if each state implements different security measures, so an attacker would need to figure out the weaknesses of 50 of them, as opposed to a single monolithic system.
The way our voting system works, if one state was "hacked" then the worst that would come of it would be the electoral votes from that one state would be potentially affected. This could swing an election, in theory, if a swing state was "hacked".
That being said, "hacking" the election in a non-swing state like North Dakota or California wouldn't do much. Nobody would believe it if North Dakota suddenly went 90%+ Democrat, nor would they believe it if California went 90%+ Republican.
It's very likely that this site isn't hosted in a location where a US court has much jurisdiction. Contrary to popular belief, Americans are not the only people interested in firearms.
What it really means is that both directions would have heavy traffic, whereas now only one direction is packed.
I wonder what effect this would have on fuel usage?
It's unlikely that this bot is designed in such a way that makes it exempt from these laws.
A warning at the beginning of the call would get them "around" many of the laws, by basically saying "this is a robot, it isn't going to try to sell you anything".
Building out of concrete is problematic in an earthquake zone.
Mid rise buildings around here are made from steel for a reason. The downside is that they cost much, much, more then a similar non-earthquake safe building.
"The First Amendment really was designed to protect a debate at the fringes. You don't need the courts to protect speech that everybody agrees with, because that speech will be tolerated. You need a First Amendment to protect speech that people regard as intolerable or outrageous or offensive - because that is when the majority will wield its power to censor or suppress, and we have a First Amendment to prevent the government from doing that." - ACLU Legal Director Steven Shapiro
It's true that companies are not limited by the First Amendment, but it's refreshing when one acts as if they were.
Also known as "China wants us to believe that China Is On Track To Fully Phase Out Cash".
I've toured rural China with my Wife's family. Most folks outside the big cities only have power during the day, unless they are lucky and own a generator.
In California you have: $150k - (28% fed avg taxes, 9% state avg taxes) = 94,500 - (5000*12) = $34,500
In Oregon you have: $75k - (25% fed avg taxes, 0% state tax) = 56,250 - (1000*12) = 44,250
The argument could very well be made that neither $34k in California or $44k in Oregon is "poor", but the point is that $75k in Oregon nets you more disposable income after tax then $150k does in California.
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Wireless power of that wattage would also prevent any cell phones from working in a 2-block radius!
Added bonus!
I would hazard a guess that a significant part of this cost is upgrading the buildings to have modern networking, as opposed to token ring or whatever the old machines were using.
Costs get pretty high quickly when your upgrade involves bashing out walls to replace data cables that were installed before the era when ducting became a thing.
You would think it would be worth it to brute force the password for that much money.
Do you have a source for this? I have not heard of such a thing.
There wasn't really a huge public outcry.
Slashdot is not the demographics of the country as a whole. The vast majority of the population only has a vague idea of what a credit rating is, what it is used for, and what could happen if the information gets out.
The news folks went and interviewed random Joe/Jill-on-the-streets on this issue when it happened. The majority response was "What's an Equifax?".
I guess it's time to cancel my Pandora subscription.
Who else is around that is better?
The second link in the summary "describe a method for spraying invisibly thin antennas" seems to go to an article titled "Facebook stops sending staff to help political campaigns". Was this link changed when being posted?
>> There should be an IQ test that needs to be passed before being allowed to vote.
IQ (Literacy) tests were used for many years to keep "undesirables" from exercising their ability to influence government. Wealth requirements (land ownership or poll taxes), race requirements, and other methods have also been used. Historically, these "undesirables" were poor rural black people. Maybe now these "undesirables" are poor rural white people?
The current method of "only people that care enough can vote" seems to be a reasonable compromise between the country being run by "only the not undesirables of the day" vs "everybody is required to vote, nobody cares, so the result is effectively random()".
Yes. Doom-emacs mode is supported.
https://github.com/hlissner/do...
"All elections are local"
The distributed nature of our elections means we can get the best security if each state implements different security measures, so an attacker would need to figure out the weaknesses of 50 of them, as opposed to a single monolithic system.
The way our voting system works, if one state was "hacked" then the worst that would come of it would be the electoral votes from that one state would be potentially affected. This could swing an election, in theory, if a swing state was "hacked".
That being said, "hacking" the election in a non-swing state like North Dakota or California wouldn't do much. Nobody would believe it if North Dakota suddenly went 90%+ Democrat, nor would they believe it if California went 90%+ Republican.
It can view live OTA TV with a few accessories.
You'll need some hardware: https://www.silicondust.com/
And some software: https://getchannels.com/ (VLC.app also works if you don't need a channel guide)
It converts the OTA TV into a MP4 stream that you can watch over your network with any DNLA viewer.
I'm not affiliated with either company.
Did you click the link on the parent site?
http://thehomegunsmith.com/
Did you notice the giant UK flag at the top?
It's very likely that this site isn't hosted in a location where a US court has much jurisdiction. Contrary to popular belief, Americans are not the only people interested in firearms.
What it really means is that both directions would have heavy traffic, whereas now only one direction is packed. I wonder what effect this would have on fuel usage?
There are existing laws against robocalls.
It's unlikely that this bot is designed in such a way that makes it exempt from these laws.
A warning at the beginning of the call would get them "around" many of the laws, by basically saying "this is a robot, it isn't going to try to sell you anything".
Or more likely, the IP is part of an outbound load balancing proxy with a bunch of AWS servers sitting behind it.
Are the subdivisions in the same location geographically ?
Most of what you pay for buying a house is the location/land/lot and isn't the building.
Building out of concrete is problematic in an earthquake zone.
Mid rise buildings around here are made from steel for a reason. The downside is that they cost much, much, more then a similar non-earthquake safe building.
Fixing a software issue by saying "I should be able to replace my battery with another one" is not a good answer.
There would then be no incentive to even attempt to have reasonable battery life. You could just swap batteries once an hour!
They really need to fix the underlying issue that is causing this. It isn't unusual for OS .0 releases to have significant bugs either.
An external tuner and a coax terminator on the tuner built into the TV fixes that pretty easily.
"The First Amendment really was designed to protect a debate at the fringes. You don't need the courts to protect speech that everybody agrees with, because that speech will be tolerated. You need a First Amendment to protect speech that people regard as intolerable or outrageous or offensive - because that is when the majority will wield its power to censor or suppress, and we have a First Amendment to prevent the government from doing that."
- ACLU Legal Director Steven Shapiro
It's true that companies are not limited by the First Amendment, but it's refreshing when one acts as if they were.
A very significant percentage of people going to "the frontier of old" DID die within a short period of time.
http://www.octa-trails.org/art...
I will now be very disappointed if the default background isn't a HDR HIDPI 35MB RAW picture of a very specific plant.
Also known as "China wants us to believe that China Is On Track To Fully Phase Out Cash".
I've toured rural China with my Wife's family. Most folks outside the big cities only have power during the day, unless they are lucky and own a generator.
That is assuming you don't count the jailbreaks themselves as a security exploit that is in the wild.
The math is a little off...
In California you have:
$150k - (28% fed avg taxes, 9% state avg taxes) = 94,500 - (5000*12) = $34,500
In Oregon you have:
$75k - (25% fed avg taxes, 0% state tax) = 56,250 - (1000*12) = 44,250
The argument could very well be made that neither $34k in California or $44k in Oregon is "poor", but the point is that $75k in Oregon nets you more disposable income after tax then $150k does in California.