When I had a credit card stolen, it was signed. Someone of a different race used the card, which would have been quite obvious if ID were required. It took several hours of my time to clear up the matter and it was very inconvenient.
Having your identity stolen because the clerk got your credit card # in addition to everything on your ID would be more convenient?
even though I have written on the back of the credit card in the signature space, 'Ask for ID'.
No. Visa and MasterCard specifically do not allow seeing an ID to be required for completing a transaction. The merchant can ask, but they can't require the ID.
If your card isn't signed, then it isn't a valid credit card, and the merchant shouldn't honor it.
The trick lies in blocking adult entertainment from children...
Why?
If it is covered by free speech, I don't see how you can say "you must be *this* old to use free speech". Is porn harmful to people under 18? Even if they are legally allowed to have sex?
Why not violent material?
This is where parental supervision comes into play, and often where the kick falls short.
Absolutely, that is where this kind of oversight belongs.
My opinion? We simply cannot be competitive as a nation with a "weak" federal government in concert with "strong" state governments.
In that case, then the 10th amendment should be changed, not ignored. It is bad to have laws, and especially parts of the constitution, that are ignored.
Just saying that the 10th amendment doesn't really apply to the current world is a bad precidient. Does that mean that congress can start making laws abridging the freedom of speech, establish a state religion, since we can't be "competitive" with those restrictions on the federal government?
The problem with that is questions of whenever a minor can legally consent to having his/her picture taken...
These students were allowed to have sex with each other, based on the age of consent, so it seems like having a picture taken in the nude should have less legal repercussions, not significantly more.
I'd go further and file charges of malicious prosecution. Put a couple of these asshole cops and prosecutors in jail for a while and teach them some sense of right and wrong. The kids need discipline from their parents, not involvement with the legal system.
Maybe, but it would be better to get the law changed so that it can't apply to people consenting to having their picture taken. Don't make it a case-by-case thing as to whether a person under 18 is going to get charged with making "underage porn", change the law. This IS supposedly a country with rule of law, so if the law is wrong that should get charged. It is worse if there are laws that are rarely used to charge people, since that means that police have more power than they should have.
And what do you want to bet some cop has copies of the pictures carefully hidden away somewhere?
Hahahaha, you think that laws are about preventing harm done to anybody?
There are plenty of laws that cause harm, from the bans on marijuana, prostitution, speech, guns for self-defense, carrying over $10K in cash, etc.
(I agree with you, but laws haven't been about preventing harm for a long time. Really a law should have to show that something is harmful to other people before it can be banned. Water being more toxic than marijuana by LD50 is a good example for that.)
That is the worst way to write dates. You can't tell 2010 and 1910 apart, and if you try to sort a bunch of files named by date, in your scheme the dates are all mixed up.
No, the very nature of a router is to... route. Or do the core internet routers also NAT? Is China behind a large NAT? (This will probably be true in 2015, so hello people from then)
True, but considering both computers should easily be able to saturate a 100baseT connection, shouldn't both configurations be able to saturate a 22Mbps link?
This is different than the guy complaining that the computers can't fill a gigabit ethernet connection with a scp transfer while music is playing. The http that the speed test should be using doesn't have any encryption, shouldn't be using gzip, and it shouldn't be saved to hard drive.
If taking the picture is illegal, why is the AmTrak police officer forcing the person to destroy the evidence? (This should be coercion and quite illegal)
If taking the picture isn't illegal, why is the police officer coercing the person to destroy their property?
Don't let cops get away with shit they shouldn't be allowed to. (Relevant page by a lawyer with a very nice brochure)
Just seems like it could be an interesting twist on solar power.
Not really. If you were to put a giant reflector like that in space, solar winds would move it more than radiation pressure, and that would be a uniform pressure away from the sun.
If you wanted to generate electricity, it would be much better to curve that reflector and concentrate the lights on a collector that runs a turbine or similar heat powered generator. (This design has been used on earth before)
Nope, a radiometer depends on the air inside the bulb to function. If it was a complete vacuum, it doesn't work.
It works by the air on the black side of the vanes expanding, while the air on the light side doesn't, moving the vane towards the light side. If it was powered by momentum, it would move the other direction, since absorbing the light should impart less momentum than bouncing the light.
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Use a camera, not a cell phone with a camera?
I hope you meant "hashed". There is no reason whatsoever for a company to use anything but a one-way hash with a salt for storing passwords.
http://justfuckinggoogleit.com/
http://www.google.com/search?q=captcha+for+porn&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a
Even if they had a perfect system that could tell a person from a computer, how can they prevent a CAPTCHA for porn system?
(You make a website offering porn for entering the solution to a CAPTCHA from a 2nd site, and then use that solution on that 2nd site)
Having your identity stolen because the clerk got your credit card # in addition to everything on your ID would be more convenient?
No.
Visa and MasterCard specifically do not allow seeing an ID to be required for completing a transaction. The merchant can ask, but they can't require the ID.
If your card isn't signed, then it isn't a valid credit card, and the merchant shouldn't honor it.
Are you sure they aren't prepared to understand that?
Is exposing kids to things they "are not prepared to understand the answers to" harmful? We are going to have to censor calculus websites now?
This is one of those things where repeating it often enough makes it true. Show me a study that shows that exposing kids to nudity or porn is harmful.
Why?
If it is covered by free speech, I don't see how you can say "you must be *this* old to use free speech". Is porn harmful to people under 18? Even if they are legally allowed to have sex?
Why not violent material?
Absolutely, that is where this kind of oversight belongs.
Yeah, releasing news about the largest breach ever during the inauguration of a popular half-white president isn't trying to hide what they did wrong?
In that case, then the 10th amendment should be changed, not ignored. It is bad to have laws, and especially parts of the constitution, that are ignored.
Just saying that the 10th amendment doesn't really apply to the current world is a bad precidient. Does that mean that congress can start making laws abridging the freedom of speech, establish a state religion, since we can't be "competitive" with those restrictions on the federal government?
These students were allowed to have sex with each other, based on the age of consent, so it seems like having a picture taken in the nude should have less legal repercussions, not significantly more.
Why do people hate the 10th amendment?
If it isn't interstate commerce, then the federal government, according to the 10th amendment, lacks jurisdiction.
Maybe, but it would be better to get the law changed so that it can't apply to people consenting to having their picture taken. Don't make it a case-by-case thing as to whether a person under 18 is going to get charged with making "underage porn", change the law. This IS supposedly a country with rule of law, so if the law is wrong that should get charged. It is worse if there are laws that are rarely used to charge people, since that means that police have more power than they should have.
Yeah, that is called the "Evidence Locker".
Hahahaha, you think that laws are about preventing harm done to anybody?
There are plenty of laws that cause harm, from the bans on marijuana, prostitution, speech, guns for self-defense, carrying over $10K in cash, etc.
(I agree with you, but laws haven't been about preventing harm for a long time. Really a law should have to show that something is harmful to other people before it can be banned. Water being more toxic than marijuana by LD50 is a good example for that.)
That is the worst way to write dates. You can't tell 2010 and 1910 apart, and if you try to sort a bunch of files named by date, in your scheme the dates are all mixed up.
You want big-endian, and 4 digit years:
YYYY/MM/DD.
The ISO agrees
For an example of a keyboard for a non-Latin alphabet, look at the alternate symbols on this Japanese keyboard:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MacBookProJISKeyboard-1.jpg
Keanu Reeves knows Japanese?
No, the very nature of a router is to... route.
Or do the core internet routers also NAT?
Is China behind a large NAT? (This will probably be true in 2015, so hello people from then)
True, but considering both computers should easily be able to saturate a 100baseT connection, shouldn't both configurations be able to saturate a 22Mbps link?
This is different than the guy complaining that the computers can't fill a gigabit ethernet connection with a scp transfer while music is playing.
The http that the speed test should be using doesn't have any encryption, shouldn't be using gzip, and it shouldn't be saved to hard drive.
That is one reason that the only thing I do on Wikipedia is to add pictures.
Then you don't even have to read the articles, and there is less room for error in a picture.
Plus, I don't write very good English.
2 questions:
If taking the picture is illegal, why is the AmTrak police officer forcing the person to destroy the evidence? (This should be coercion and quite illegal)
If taking the picture isn't illegal, why is the police officer coercing the person to destroy their property?
Don't let cops get away with shit they shouldn't be allowed to. (Relevant page by a lawyer with a very nice brochure)
Not really. If you were to put a giant reflector like that in space, solar winds would move it more than radiation pressure, and that would be a uniform pressure away from the sun.
If you wanted to generate electricity, it would be much better to curve that reflector and concentrate the lights on a collector that runs a turbine or similar heat powered generator. (This design has been used on earth before)
Nope, a radiometer depends on the air inside the bulb to function. If it was a complete vacuum, it doesn't work.
It works by the air on the black side of the vanes expanding, while the air on the light side doesn't, moving the vane towards the light side. If it was powered by momentum, it would move the other direction, since absorbing the light should impart less momentum than bouncing the light.
That was Tesla's idea around the turn of last century, and what he made large Tesla coils for.
It is possible to do, but there are very large issues that have to be dealt with, mostly the incredible inefficiency.
Wouldn't that mean storing all http traffic?
What about https traffic, if the destination is in a foreign country that doesn't have the British "give us your keys" lunacy?