And if you are caught with red dye in your fuel while on a public road you're in for a nice big fine. That's okay for a vehicle that never leaves private land, but for a vehicle that travels regularly on both you're effectively stuck paying the fuel tax for all your driving, unless you want to take your chances. And yes, they do bust people for this.
Supposedly you can reclaim the extra road taxes you paid come April 15th, but it's generally too much trouble to bother with.
While I don't like the tracking idea at all, cameras could be used to help catch odometer fraud. Basically, they can simply add up all the distances between all the cameras the car is photographed at in order. If the odometer reads less than that amount, then the driver is busted. Obviously, the system won't be perfect, and you could probaby roll off 10% with virtually no risk. But it would curb serious abuse, and scare a lot more people from attempting it at all.
While we obviously won't have the real numbers for a while, the Whitehouse's own budget projection has just over 9 trillion being added to the debt over the next 10 years. So I'd say a large increase to the national debt during the Obama years is pretty likely.
Which is exactly my point. They would have fixed it if Opera was doing something wrong (by not properly following the standards). This leads me to believe that eBay is doing something wrong, but eBay doesn't care because it still mostly works in other browsers.
The next couple of elections could be interesting. People voted for the Democrats because they were tired of the Republicans. Now they are pissed off at the Democrats, so they won't make that mistake again. Not enough time has passed for them to forget why they are pissed at the Republicans, so who are they going to vote for? If a third party plays its cards right, they could find themselves as a major contender. Of course, since the current system favors two parties, it would be at the expense of one of the two major parties - almost certainly the Republicans as they are becoming more and more irrelevant every day. Maybe it's time to bring back the Whigs?
It's unlikely eBay uses IP addresses. If you actually think about it, you'd have a problem with dynamic IPs, shared computers, proxies and NATs, etc. causing otherwise unrelated accounts to appear linked because they were accessed from the same NAT.
My guess, assuming the story is real, is they used credit card info and/or the billing address to link the accounts.
While eBay can ignore Opera, Opera can't ignore big sites like eBay. I'm guessing if it was a problem with Opera, Opera would have fixed it by now. That implies the problem is on eBay's end.
The problem with that is the viewing angle is terrible with the cheap TN panels turned sideways. And it's getting harder and harder to find good quality panels anymore.
In practice, I'll take the aging Intel system over the aging AMD system. It really has nothing to do with the CPU, but there wasn't a chipset for AMD processors from that timeframe that wasn't complete and utter shit. I'd much rather use the old P3/P4 because I know it will work and be stable. I won't bother with old Athlons unless they are new enough to be running an nVidia chipset.
Well, I don't get your logic. Do you only consider it an armed robbery if someone gets shot?
In my mind, flashing a loaded gun and an unloaded gun is the same thing, as there is no way for people to tell them apart. The fact that a loaded gun can cause a lot more harm than an unloaded gun is irrelevant. Likewise, there is no difference between flashing the gun and otherwise letting people know you have a gun while not showing it. It then follows that it makes no difference if the gun is real, or even exists so long as people believe the criminal has it.
The real reason they don't like routers is that they want to tie the student to the MAC address so they know who is doing what on their network. If there are routers with multiple people getting their connection through them, then that's no longer true. In addition, the MAC on the WAN side of that router is still tied to someone's student ID, so if you're in the dorms don't let that person be you.
I pay 8 cents a kilowatt-hour. My current computer idles at around 100W. If I was to reduce my computer's power use by 50W, that would save me about $35 a year in electricity in a year. And those numbers are assuming I leave the computer on 24/7, which I don't. I actually only have it on about 1/3 of the time, so that cuts the savings down to about $12 a year.
So basically, I don't see how energy costs outweigh the hardware costs. Certainly lower power is better, all other things being equal - but if the lower power parts are more expensive then I'm probably better off just eating the additional electricity costs. Perhaps the real lesson is to turn the computer off when you're not using it to cut energy costs?
Interestingly, they have dropped all that III IV Dual-Core, etc. nonsense, and they are now just "Intel(R) Pentium(R) Processors" again.
Apparently they are budget processors of some kind, which are positioned between the Celerons and the Core 2's. At least I think so - I'm finding Intel's product line rather confusing at the moment too.
As the article correctly pointed out - why not call it "i6" to prevent consumer confusion?
Probably because Intel loves to confuse consumers? For extra fun, try to figure out the pattern for what chips have virtualization and for which chips don't.
What about the criminal being able to do more harm because others think they have gun? It doesn't require that the criminal actually shoot anyone. If people think the criminal has a gun, they are more likely to cooperate with the criminal and give them what the criminal wants instead of fleeing or fighting back. Maybe you might not consider that such a big deal for robbery where it's only property loss, but what about crimes like rape and kidnapping?
My short experience with those is that they only work once the OS has loaded a driver for them. So they would be useless for poking around in the BIOS or with boot CDs and the like. The drivers were also for Windows only. Well, they might have had a Mac driver (don't remember right now), but certainly nothing for Linux.
I wouldn't count on it for this kind of thing. You would have to remove the the flash chip from the board without damaging it, and soldering it to something that could read it. Given that flash chips now have dozens of pads and they're all tiny - yeah, good luck with that. On the other hand, if I wanted to read a ROM chip on a dead board from 25 years ago, I would have a much easier time of it.
Plus we all know that taxes get paid by consumers anyway. If next year the Congress announced a 20% National Tax on every product sold, do you think Walmart or MS or other Corps would just say, "Oh that's okay. We'll pay it ourselves." Of course not. They'll pass it onto the customers as 20% higher prices. Corporate taxation is just a hidden tax that ultimately comes out of OUR wallets.
That's not always true. For inelastic goods, you can just pass the cost onto the consumer and they'll pay it. But for elastic goods, increasing the cost of producing the good by 20% won't bump the price up by 20%. Instead, you'll reach a new equilibrium where the consumer pays some of the tax (in higher prices), and the business owners and/or shareholders pays the rest (in the form of reduced profits).
The requirement is that the car dealer that takes the car in must seize the engine. I don't know where you live, but most new car dealers aren't anywhere close to the salvage yards, so pushing them around really isn't an option.
Also, the seized engine effectively prevents a lot of the re-use of parts. Typically when a salvage yard gets an old car through the normal channels, it will usually still run to some extent. That allows the yard to easily test whether parts like the transmission, alternator, AC compressor, power steering, brakes, to see if they work. With the engines seized, they can't do any of that. They can still test the parts in other ways, but that cuts into their already slim profits.
Given all of that, some dealers with a lot of the cars are calling in the mobile car crushers, and all but the most valuable hulks are being crushed on the spot.
What if they were switching jobs because of the working conditions in their previous job? If someone was being forced to work 80 hours a week, I would see switching to a job with the same pay but more sane working hours as a completely reasonable thing to do. Ditto for other things like bad management, benefits, hostile coworkers, and other reasons people might switch jobs.
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And if you are caught with red dye in your fuel while on a public road you're in for a nice big fine. That's okay for a vehicle that never leaves private land, but for a vehicle that travels regularly on both you're effectively stuck paying the fuel tax for all your driving, unless you want to take your chances. And yes, they do bust people for this.
Supposedly you can reclaim the extra road taxes you paid come April 15th, but it's generally too much trouble to bother with.
While I don't like the tracking idea at all, cameras could be used to help catch odometer fraud. Basically, they can simply add up all the distances between all the cameras the car is photographed at in order. If the odometer reads less than that amount, then the driver is busted. Obviously, the system won't be perfect, and you could probaby roll off 10% with virtually no risk. But it would curb serious abuse, and scare a lot more people from attempting it at all.
Why not? It's not like the mileage of either car is a secret, so I would assume fuel costs would be one of the things buyers take into account.
While we obviously won't have the real numbers for a while, the Whitehouse's own budget projection has just over 9 trillion being added to the debt over the next 10 years. So I'd say a large increase to the national debt during the Obama years is pretty likely.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/blog/09/08/25/Mid-SessionReview/
Which is exactly my point. They would have fixed it if Opera was doing something wrong (by not properly following the standards). This leads me to believe that eBay is doing something wrong, but eBay doesn't care because it still mostly works in other browsers.
The next couple of elections could be interesting. People voted for the Democrats because they were tired of the Republicans. Now they are pissed off at the Democrats, so they won't make that mistake again. Not enough time has passed for them to forget why they are pissed at the Republicans, so who are they going to vote for? If a third party plays its cards right, they could find themselves as a major contender. Of course, since the current system favors two parties, it would be at the expense of one of the two major parties - almost certainly the Republicans as they are becoming more and more irrelevant every day. Maybe it's time to bring back the Whigs?
It's unlikely eBay uses IP addresses. If you actually think about it, you'd have a problem with dynamic IPs, shared computers, proxies and NATs, etc. causing otherwise unrelated accounts to appear linked because they were accessed from the same NAT.
My guess, assuming the story is real, is they used credit card info and/or the billing address to link the accounts.
While eBay can ignore Opera, Opera can't ignore big sites like eBay. I'm guessing if it was a problem with Opera, Opera would have fixed it by now. That implies the problem is on eBay's end.
The problem with that is the viewing angle is terrible with the cheap TN panels turned sideways. And it's getting harder and harder to find good quality panels anymore.
You mean like the legendary IBM T221, 3840 by 2400 at 22.2"? Sadly it's been out of production for some time now, with nothing else to replace it.
In practice, I'll take the aging Intel system over the aging AMD system. It really has nothing to do with the CPU, but there wasn't a chipset for AMD processors from that timeframe that wasn't complete and utter shit. I'd much rather use the old P3/P4 because I know it will work and be stable. I won't bother with old Athlons unless they are new enough to be running an nVidia chipset.
Well, I don't get your logic. Do you only consider it an armed robbery if someone gets shot?
In my mind, flashing a loaded gun and an unloaded gun is the same thing, as there is no way for people to tell them apart. The fact that a loaded gun can cause a lot more harm than an unloaded gun is irrelevant. Likewise, there is no difference between flashing the gun and otherwise letting people know you have a gun while not showing it. It then follows that it makes no difference if the gun is real, or even exists so long as people believe the criminal has it.
The real reason they don't like routers is that they want to tie the student to the MAC address so they know who is doing what on their network. If there are routers with multiple people getting their connection through them, then that's no longer true. In addition, the MAC on the WAN side of that router is still tied to someone's student ID, so if you're in the dorms don't let that person be you.
I pay 8 cents a kilowatt-hour. My current computer idles at around 100W. If I was to reduce my computer's power use by 50W, that would save me about $35 a year in electricity in a year. And those numbers are assuming I leave the computer on 24/7, which I don't. I actually only have it on about 1/3 of the time, so that cuts the savings down to about $12 a year.
So basically, I don't see how energy costs outweigh the hardware costs. Certainly lower power is better, all other things being equal - but if the lower power parts are more expensive then I'm probably better off just eating the additional electricity costs. Perhaps the real lesson is to turn the computer off when you're not using it to cut energy costs?
How come everyone seems to have forgotten that Intel is still making new Pentium processors? For example:
http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=42805
Interestingly, they have dropped all that III IV Dual-Core, etc. nonsense, and they are now just "Intel(R) Pentium(R) Processors" again.
Apparently they are budget processors of some kind, which are positioned between the Celerons and the Core 2's. At least I think so - I'm finding Intel's product line rather confusing at the moment too.
But what if they decided to name the processor the EightOhNineEightSix(tm)?
Probably because Intel loves to confuse consumers? For extra fun, try to figure out the pattern for what chips have virtualization and for which chips don't.
What about the criminal being able to do more harm because others think they have gun? It doesn't require that the criminal actually shoot anyone. If people think the criminal has a gun, they are more likely to cooperate with the criminal and give them what the criminal wants instead of fleeing or fighting back. Maybe you might not consider that such a big deal for robbery where it's only property loss, but what about crimes like rape and kidnapping?
If you're shipping to an overseas military address, you may only have one choice of carrier.
My short experience with those is that they only work once the OS has loaded a driver for them. So they would be useless for poking around in the BIOS or with boot CDs and the like. The drivers were also for Windows only. Well, they might have had a Mac driver (don't remember right now), but certainly nothing for Linux.
I wouldn't count on it for this kind of thing. You would have to remove the the flash chip from the board without damaging it, and soldering it to something that could read it. Given that flash chips now have dozens of pads and they're all tiny - yeah, good luck with that. On the other hand, if I wanted to read a ROM chip on a dead board from 25 years ago, I would have a much easier time of it.
That's not always true. For inelastic goods, you can just pass the cost onto the consumer and they'll pay it. But for elastic goods, increasing the cost of producing the good by 20% won't bump the price up by 20%. Instead, you'll reach a new equilibrium where the consumer pays some of the tax (in higher prices), and the business owners and/or shareholders pays the rest (in the form of reduced profits).
The requirement is that the car dealer that takes the car in must seize the engine. I don't know where you live, but most new car dealers aren't anywhere close to the salvage yards, so pushing them around really isn't an option.
Also, the seized engine effectively prevents a lot of the re-use of parts. Typically when a salvage yard gets an old car through the normal channels, it will usually still run to some extent. That allows the yard to easily test whether parts like the transmission, alternator, AC compressor, power steering, brakes, to see if they work. With the engines seized, they can't do any of that. They can still test the parts in other ways, but that cuts into their already slim profits.
Given all of that, some dealers with a lot of the cars are calling in the mobile car crushers, and all but the most valuable hulks are being crushed on the spot.
What if they were switching jobs because of the working conditions in their previous job? If someone was being forced to work 80 hours a week, I would see switching to a job with the same pay but more sane working hours as a completely reasonable thing to do. Ditto for other things like bad management, benefits, hostile coworkers, and other reasons people might switch jobs.
Actually, there can be if they are collecting unemployment.