Kirk: Just keep nodding as though I'm still giving orders. Mister Saavik, punch up the data charts of Reliant's command console. Saavik: Reliant's command...? Kirk: Hurry. Khan: Forty-five seconds! Spock: The prefix code? Kirk: It's all we've got.
They apparently caved to the public outcry (EA listening to its customers? No wai!!) and have scaled back their copy-protection scheme. Now it will require verification when you first install the game as well as anytime you use it to retrieve online content (creatures, patches, etc.).
Conversely, most rural voters don't know how to help themselves and ultimately vote for the candidate that will keep them in poverty. I say the same thing about urban voters.
I think he would have been better served to have limited the charges to a core set that are clear cut. When you're politically grandstanding, you're supposed to go all-out.
I think you misunderstand me. I'm not saying that a government agency would be particularly nimble. I merely mean that it would be even slower and more problematic for a private organization to manage the clearinghouse, when it comes to expecting federal prosecution to go off without a hitch when someone violates the law.
Making it a government agency would streamline the process of prosecuting companies that violate lending laws by not consulting the clearinghouse. It would (should) also improve transparency to the public, in terms of government audits and things of that nature, to ensure that the job is being done correctly.
Yeah, I know, the gubment isn't always the most trustworthy organization, but look at the FTC - people seem to like them pretty well, and the identity clearinghouse is right up their alley.
A long time ago, I wrote up a description of an identity clearinghouse, a government-run agency that allowed lenders to verify a potential borrower's identity without giving the lender any unnecessary information about the borrower's true identity. From the private citizen's side, it's all optional - register with the clearinghouse if you want, and go it alone if you want. From the lenders' side, it's mandatory to check with the clearinghouse before opening a line of credit for someone.
To register with the clearinghouse, you go to a local government agency where identity is "managed" - e.g., your local DMV. You register there by providing your current contact information, and they ensure that you are the person you claim to be through their normal identification procedures (such as picture ID/driver's license pictures on file). If you later need to change your contact info, you do the same procedure (going to the DMV in person) to prove your identity.
When you apply for credit somewhere, the lender first uses the identifying information you have provided to them (such as name, address, SS#, etc.) to verify your identity with the clearinghouse. If you haven't registered, the clearinghouse just responds that there's no such registrant in their records, and the lender is free to grant credit to the applicant. But if you have registered, the clearinghouse first checks to make sure the information they have on file matches the information the lender provides, and second, they use the information they have on file to contact you directly and ensure that you actually applied for credit with the lender in question. If both of those checks succeed, they respond to the lender with "yes", and if either fails, they tell the lender "no".
This would greatly reduce the instances of people opening lines of credit in other people's names. However, one problem it doesn't address is fraudulent charges to legitimate lines of credit you already have (e.g., stolen/copied credit cards). Credit card issuers and merchants are both often on the hook for most of those sorts of charges, though, so they already take at least some steps to reduce that kind of fraud.
instead it incorrectly detected a problem that did not in fact exist This might be splitting hairs, but I'd say it correctly detected a data inconsistency and responded appropriately. There could be a dangerous condition that is indistinguishable to the failsafe system from what actually happened - and it could be a condition that nobody's ever thought of before. It's far better to trigger the failsafe when a data inconsistency has occurred than to make a potentially incorrect automated judgment concerning the cause of the inconsistency leading to a more severe problem down the road.
Dear next president, please kill that program on your first day. It's pretty obvious that you never got to take that civics class mentioned in the OP, because otherwise you'd know that it's Congress's responsibility to change or repeal laws.
we're not in the reality that has met the asgaard yet either... How do you know? It'd obviously be one of the most well-protected secrets in the world.
I mean, for all you know, the Asgard could beam me up ri
the likelihood of getting the death penalty for blacks and whites accused of the same crime We hear statistics like that all the time, but has anyone ever really done a study to determine how "same" these same crimes are? There are lots of possible reasons why such an overbroad statistic could be true, and most of them don't involve racism.
Actually, April was up in part because US troops were taking increased measures against Al Qaeda in Mosul, and in part because Iraqi troops were taking action against insurgents in Sadr City and Basra. Had it not been for the US's continued presence, Mosul would now be experiencing the sorts of chaos that Al Anbar was going through a couple of years ago, and Basra would be stricken with lawlessness as well. (Of course, Basra probably wouldn't have run into trouble in the first place, had the UK continued maintaining a greater presence there instead of pulling back too soon.)
Military action alone isn't going to solve the political problems in Iraq, but it's a required component of any solution to the problems there.
I think the problem is more that the test structure is poorly designed (e.g., bubble tests with no written portion) than anything else. Yes, it's profoundly more difficult to score an exam manually than by computer, but we're not talking "rocket scientists needed" here.
Now it's ti-83+ for algebra class and the ti-89 has more computing power than the original Macintosh. I was going to post along the same lines, but you beat me to it.
Math is probably the most obvious field in child education in terms of building on what went before, but calculators have, to some degree, abridged everything between "easy" things like remembering multiplication tables and "hard" things like series expansion or multivariate calculus. Geometry-by-proof is probably the only intermediate thing that has escaped the calculator's wrath, but algebra, trigonometry, and simple differentiation/integration are all done easily by calculator now, which means that students never learn the whys behind them.
It also makes it harder on teachers, who have to figure out how to teach those parts of the math curriculum in such a way that calculators aren't that much of a help (depending on textbooks to do that isn't a great idea, given the abysmal quality of them these days).
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Kirk: Just keep nodding as though I'm still giving orders. Mister Saavik, punch up the data charts of Reliant's command console.
Saavik: Reliant's command...?
Kirk: Hurry.
Khan: Forty-five seconds!
Spock: The prefix code?
Kirk: It's all we've got.
They apparently caved to the public outcry (EA listening to its customers? No wai!!) and have scaled back their copy-protection scheme. Now it will require verification when you first install the game as well as anytime you use it to retrieve online content (creatures, patches, etc.).
I dunno. I've seen one of these things in person, and it can actually display octarine.
I think you misunderstand me. I'm not saying that a government agency would be particularly nimble. I merely mean that it would be even slower and more problematic for a private organization to manage the clearinghouse, when it comes to expecting federal prosecution to go off without a hitch when someone violates the law.
"Emo"? I think you meant to say "a Democrat".
Making it a government agency would streamline the process of prosecuting companies that violate lending laws by not consulting the clearinghouse. It would (should) also improve transparency to the public, in terms of government audits and things of that nature, to ensure that the job is being done correctly.
Yeah, I know, the gubment isn't always the most trustworthy organization, but look at the FTC - people seem to like them pretty well, and the identity clearinghouse is right up their alley.
A long time ago, I wrote up a description of an identity clearinghouse, a government-run agency that allowed lenders to verify a potential borrower's identity without giving the lender any unnecessary information about the borrower's true identity. From the private citizen's side, it's all optional - register with the clearinghouse if you want, and go it alone if you want. From the lenders' side, it's mandatory to check with the clearinghouse before opening a line of credit for someone.
To register with the clearinghouse, you go to a local government agency where identity is "managed" - e.g., your local DMV. You register there by providing your current contact information, and they ensure that you are the person you claim to be through their normal identification procedures (such as picture ID/driver's license pictures on file). If you later need to change your contact info, you do the same procedure (going to the DMV in person) to prove your identity.
When you apply for credit somewhere, the lender first uses the identifying information you have provided to them (such as name, address, SS#, etc.) to verify your identity with the clearinghouse. If you haven't registered, the clearinghouse just responds that there's no such registrant in their records, and the lender is free to grant credit to the applicant. But if you have registered, the clearinghouse first checks to make sure the information they have on file matches the information the lender provides, and second, they use the information they have on file to contact you directly and ensure that you actually applied for credit with the lender in question. If both of those checks succeed, they respond to the lender with "yes", and if either fails, they tell the lender "no".
This would greatly reduce the instances of people opening lines of credit in other people's names. However, one problem it doesn't address is fraudulent charges to legitimate lines of credit you already have (e.g., stolen/copied credit cards). Credit card issuers and merchants are both often on the hook for most of those sorts of charges, though, so they already take at least some steps to reduce that kind of fraud.
...shortly after he rode the mighty moon worm.
I'm guessing you've never flown El Al.
I'm really sad you posted AC, because I'm dying to hear some cool shop stories about nuclear reactors scramming.
IMDb, which is owned and operated by Amazon, was down for a little while as well.
Actually, I'm a somewhat conservative independent. But thanks for prejudging me all the same - it lets me know that you really care.
I mean, for all you know, the Asgard could beam me up ri
It's also possible that that many people actually do have something to hide.
Actually, April was up in part because US troops were taking increased measures against Al Qaeda in Mosul, and in part because Iraqi troops were taking action against insurgents in Sadr City and Basra. Had it not been for the US's continued presence, Mosul would now be experiencing the sorts of chaos that Al Anbar was going through a couple of years ago, and Basra would be stricken with lawlessness as well. (Of course, Basra probably wouldn't have run into trouble in the first place, had the UK continued maintaining a greater presence there instead of pulling back too soon.)
Military action alone isn't going to solve the political problems in Iraq, but it's a required component of any solution to the problems there.
I think the problem is more that the test structure is poorly designed (e.g., bubble tests with no written portion) than anything else. Yes, it's profoundly more difficult to score an exam manually than by computer, but we're not talking "rocket scientists needed" here.
Math is probably the most obvious field in child education in terms of building on what went before, but calculators have, to some degree, abridged everything between "easy" things like remembering multiplication tables and "hard" things like series expansion or multivariate calculus. Geometry-by-proof is probably the only intermediate thing that has escaped the calculator's wrath, but algebra, trigonometry, and simple differentiation/integration are all done easily by calculator now, which means that students never learn the whys behind them.
It also makes it harder on teachers, who have to figure out how to teach those parts of the math curriculum in such a way that calculators aren't that much of a help (depending on textbooks to do that isn't a great idea, given the abysmal quality of them these days).