For both Visa and MasterCard, the merchant is supposed to match the signature on the receipt that they keep with the signature on the back of the card.
The merchant cannot make showing an ID a requirement for processing the transaction, but they can ask to see it. (You can say no right back to them, which is fun).
A card that isn't signed isn't valid.
A card with "See ID" or similar in the signature both isn't a valid card, and is unenforceable, due to the above.
If the shell was powerful enough, it could actually use the force of the explosion to force the birds out of the flight path. If not, at least it would have the potential of scaring the flock into changing course.
Plus it would give the people inside the plane an exciting ride, going through a concussion wave like that.
and some sort of explosive shell (think fireworks)
No, there isn't an echo, because I am saying that requiring a company to provide a plant to every neighborhood is a large investment. You wouldn't have 4-5 cable companies providing service to every drop box in every neighborhood. Your solution is really pretty much what we have now, which is no choice at all.
I am saying that the choice should be at what current telephones call the "central office", which is much more than 100 feet from every home.
A better way to do that: Separate the last-mile from the content provided over that connection. Have a company (or public utility) provide the connection from a central point to each house. Then let the customer choose who is going to provide the service over that connection.
You are talking about every phone/cable connection requiring 4-5 times the room in the conduit, or retrofitting areas with 4 times as many cables which aren't going to get used.
I said "was used for transatlantic flights 20 years before the Hercules was built" not "was used for transatlantic flights for 20 years before the Hercules was built"
For crying out loud, keeping system time as a well defined MDYHMS would be more usable than posix time
YYYYMMDDHHMMSS is better (big-endian, not WTF-endian that you used), and adding on an time zone offset from UTC ends up looking like ISO 8601, and ISO is a bigger standards group than IEEE.
I use XP all the time and I can say that I am quite satisfied so far. Sometimes I just do not get it, therefore I wonder why Microsoft would want to replace it.
Because the longer that XP is around, the closer Wine is to replicating the environment, and Linux is to overtaking it in usability.
Then just have 1 live disk in a server, and 1 floating backup that is in a USB/Firewire enclosure.
As a bonus, you could take the floating backup to a laptop or somewhere else if you want to watch those shows.
(Personally I have a RAID 1 array AND 2 floating backups, one of which gets stored in a different building in a concrete room. I have had more issues with the software RAID than anything, and if I built my computer again, would skip the RAID. If a hard drive has failed, I can't just keep my computer up, it is too annoying to listen to the broken drive, so the computer is going to go down for a while. Having backups is necessary, so I can't skip that.)
Instead of a RAID 1 array, buy 2 disks, and 1 USB case.
Put one drive in the computer, use the other as a backup that is only connected when actually backing stuff up, then remove it, and put it in a different building, not connected to anything, and maybe in a media rated firesafe.
RAID only helps you if 1 drive breaks, and automatically destroys the data if there is a software error that corrupts the data.
Having 1 drive live and one spare gives you much, much better data reliability, and gives you at least one "oh shit, ReiserFS just murdered my data" checkpoint.
I also have a big head, and that is the only place I can buy headgear that fits well. (Except even there if they have a size selection to choose from, I have to get the biggest one.)
I do wildland firefighting, and it was an issue to get a helmet that fit me at all. The helmet I currently have doesn't provide very much protection in the back because it was only made for up to about a 7 3/4 size hat, and I am beyond that.
Established convention is that bytes are measured in binary (powers of 1024), and bits in decimal (powers of 1000). There's no need to introduce ridiculous-sounding terms like "gibibytes".
So there are 8.5899 gigabits in a gigabyte when there are 8 bits in a byte?
Yeah, that is much more logical than Giga = 10^9 and Gibi = 2^30. Especially since Giga = 10^9 everywhere else, including, as you say, in gigabits.
Depends on the level of RAID. I have yet to see this in any of my RAID 5 arrays.
sudo rm -rf /
Doesn't matter how many levels of RAID you have, in that case your data is gone pretty quickly.
I have had something similar happen to me on a RAID 1 array. The ReiserFS partition got really messed up, luckily I had just backed up everything in that array, but the RAID didn't do anything to save my data.
I have seen a couple of problems with FAT based flash drives. What happened in both cases was that the files got "locked", and couldn't be deleted on OSX and Linux, but a fsck fixed the issue.
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For both Visa and MasterCard, the merchant is supposed to match the signature on the receipt that they keep with the signature on the back of the card.
The merchant cannot make showing an ID a requirement for processing the transaction, but they can ask to see it. (You can say no right back to them, which is fun).
A card that isn't signed isn't valid.
A card with "See ID" or similar in the signature both isn't a valid card, and is unenforceable, due to the above.
Plus it would give the people inside the plane an exciting ride, going through a concussion wave like that.
Like Ack-Ack?
No, there isn't an echo, because I am saying that requiring a company to provide a plant to every neighborhood is a large investment. You wouldn't have 4-5 cable companies providing service to every drop box in every neighborhood. Your solution is really pretty much what we have now, which is no choice at all.
I am saying that the choice should be at what current telephones call the "central office", which is much more than 100 feet from every home.
A better way to do that:
Separate the last-mile from the content provided over that connection. Have a company (or public utility) provide the connection from a central point to each house. Then let the customer choose who is going to provide the service over that connection.
You are talking about every phone/cable connection requiring 4-5 times the room in the conduit, or retrofitting areas with 4 times as many cables which aren't going to get used.
And the H-4 was built in 1947.
1947-1936 = 21 years.
I said "was used for transatlantic flights 20 years before the Hercules was built" not "was used for transatlantic flights for 20 years before the Hercules was built"
The Hindenburg was used for transatlantic flights 20 years before the Hercules was built.
YYYYMMDDHHMMSS is better (big-endian, not WTF-endian that you used), and adding on an time zone offset from UTC ends up looking like ISO 8601, and ISO is a bigger standards group than IEEE.
The switch user thing in Ubuntu has worked since at least 2006, it is nothing new.
Since 100Gb/month is a rate, why not just convert it to 40Kbps?
So that plan is "15Mbps max, monthly average max of 40Kbps".
My TV has a USB port. (It is there for firmware updates)
Can this boot Sugar on to my TV?
Or made it much more intense. Maybe without the dam and lake instead of one large earthquake it would have been a series of smaller earthquakes.
Adding a large weight almost on top of a fault is definitely going to influence it, flexing the Earth and altering the stresses in the fault.
You have never had the "Check for updates?" dialog that Acrobat sometimes raises end up behind the browser, freezing Acrobat and the browser?
Or that it took as much time to load Acrobat from DOS on my 486 as on a modern system?
How about people thinking you need to pay to create PDFs?
I think that is a VERY legitimate use of a tinfoil hat... /Couldn't resist.
The bank would quickly jump on the issue if it was possible for a transaction to fail and the user to have cash.
Or too much cash, what if someone got $50s instead of $20s? For e-voting that would be like people voting more than once.
Traveling north or south becomes much cheaper than heading east or west?
Because the longer that XP is around, the closer Wine is to replicating the environment, and Linux is to overtaking it in usability.
That is one reason that MS wants to move forward.
Then just have 1 live disk in a server, and 1 floating backup that is in a USB/Firewire enclosure.
As a bonus, you could take the floating backup to a laptop or somewhere else if you want to watch those shows.
(Personally I have a RAID 1 array AND 2 floating backups, one of which gets stored in a different building in a concrete room. I have had more issues with the software RAID than anything, and if I built my computer again, would skip the RAID. If a hard drive has failed, I can't just keep my computer up, it is too annoying to listen to the broken drive, so the computer is going to go down for a while. Having backups is necessary, so I can't skip that.)
That could work, but you would be abusing RAID in a way that it isn't designed to do.
What if it mirrors the wrong way, replacing your new data with the old data?
You really want to suggest a "backup" scheme that is right out of TheDailyWTF
RAID != Backups.
Instead of a RAID 1 array, buy 2 disks, and 1 USB case.
Put one drive in the computer, use the other as a backup that is only connected when actually backing stuff up, then remove it, and put it in a different building, not connected to anything, and maybe in a media rated firesafe.
RAID only helps you if 1 drive breaks, and automatically destroys the data if there is a software error that corrupts the data.
Having 1 drive live and one spare gives you much, much better data reliability, and gives you at least one "oh shit, ReiserFS just murdered my data" checkpoint.
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I also have a big head, and that is the only place I can buy headgear that fits well. (Except even there if they have a size selection to choose from, I have to get the biggest one.)
I do wildland firefighting, and it was an issue to get a helmet that fit me at all. The helmet I currently have doesn't provide very much protection in the back because it was only made for up to about a 7 3/4 size hat, and I am beyond that.
So there are 8.5899 gigabits in a gigabyte when there are 8 bits in a byte?
Yeah, that is much more logical than Giga = 10^9 and Gibi = 2^30. Especially since Giga = 10^9 everywhere else, including, as you say, in gigabits.
sudo rm -rf /
Doesn't matter how many levels of RAID you have, in that case your data is gone pretty quickly.
I have had something similar happen to me on a RAID 1 array. The ReiserFS partition got really messed up, luckily I had just backed up everything in that array, but the RAID didn't do anything to save my data.
I have seen a couple of problems with FAT based flash drives.
What happened in both cases was that the files got "locked", and couldn't be deleted on OSX and Linux, but a fsck fixed the issue.
Except RAID isn't a backup, so your data isn't that "safe and happy".
You mean 1800 Gibibytes?