I imagine you need an 'inside man' - maybe the person who reloads the cash dispenser and unloads the collection bin, but maybe not if the computer hardware is secured in a separate lock box. Anyway, you need somebody with physical access to compromise the machine.
THEN you go and use the ATM to get cash... but remember you're on camera, and your transactions are logged, right? So what you probably want is the ability to have the machine spit out extra money when you enter a particular code (which hopefully you can do with a camera watching the suspicious activity) during an otherwise perfectly legitimate transaction.
And you want to time it so you do it immediately after the machine has been reloaded, so you have the maximum possible time before the machine runs out of cash before it should and an investigation starts. And then you want to never hit that ATM again, or your risk of getting caught skyrockets.
So you need two conspirators and you get one payout that needs to be limited so you don't get caught. You're going to clear a few hundred with a single attempt or maybe have it 'accidentally' slip you an extra bill over many visits. Certainly you're not going to make enough to justify the risks - the inside man is risking their presumably steady legitimate employment in addition to jail.
1) You meant to say 'Romani', a distinct ethnic group that isn't actually bound to the nation of Romania.
2) Still racist. Yep, there's higher crime rates with the Romani, probably because they're not particularly interested as a cultural group in integrating into their larger community. Which may be due to racists like you, who discriminate against them and remove the opportunity from many of those who would integrate if they could. Chicken and egg.
3) People who describe other people as 'filthy animals' are rarely the best of humanity. You're dehumanizing others as a justification for treating them like shit. Aren't you a wonderful person?
The best part is that - thanks to the information age - there are a lot of parents who believe that, too. I've no idea how they do it, I simply can't watch my kids constantly.
Anyway, it ultimately leads to full-grown people who can't function without mom and dad holding their hand. As a parent, that's not the kind of result you should be looking for.
I got a media center, put all the acceptable / 'parent-approved' stuff in a network share, and then gave the media center the credentials for that share - and NOT the shares with the more adult stuff on them.
It didn't take long for them to figure out how to turn on the box, navigate to their share, and select a file. Kids aren't dumb, they're ignorant... and they have nothing else to do but learn so they're pretty good at it if you give them even half a chance (and don't just do it for them when they whine).
>Did you forget where you are? This is Slashdot, not Reddit.
Ha... and I made a point of leaving Reddit a year or so ago because it was getting pretty toxic and stupid... maybe it's time to take my Internet surfing license away.:(
Determine what a safe market share is, set an exponential growth in corporate tax by percentage over that share.
Determine which goods and services are best considered 'infrastructure' where competition is counter-productive, and have the government take them over - ideally while farming out the actual work to contractors in accordance with the first rule.
Now look at Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc... how do you break up such things when the whole point of them is that they provide a single interface? Consider search and social media (over a certain market share) to be infrastructure, nationalize it, and have a government central interface that combines regional providers. And deal with the idea that instead of a corporation deciding what is acceptable to do with your personal information, you now have a government making those decisions.
I'd argue that chopping companies up will reduce their influence on government, and remind the government that their 'shareholders' are voting citizens, and that ultimately so long as you don't elect a tyrant you'll be better off.
A couple of months of research can frequently save a couple of hours in the library.
Your questions are not new, to science or to science fiction, and have been covered extensively by people with relevant PhDs. Instead of tracking down their research and reading their conclusions and the reasoning for them... you're asking Reddit. Anonymous, probably ignorant and wish-based responses with the occasional gem you won't be able to reliably distinguish from the giant manure pile.
Actually, at least according to the local community newspaper... cops here focus enforcement based on public complaints, because that's how the Police Board rolls and they tend not to keep a Chief that won't do the same.
But that's just my experience in Southern Ontario, Canada. YMMV.
Ideally, yes, I'd love to see the process directed by someone with an understanding of road safety and statistics rather than where cops find 'good spots' to fill their quota or where some nuisance has managed to pester the Chief enough to get a reaction.
The last time this came up on Slashdot, the objection to forcing replaceable batteries was that having fixed batteries allows for unusual battery shapes and less concern regarding seals so that engineers can design thinner phones.
You know what? Not good enough. If it's so important to have such a thin phone, then the manufacturers need to be required by law to take back their product at the end of its life cycle and REcycle.
I'd argue this would be an expensive but good idea anyway, because 'the environment' isn't just a thing for tree-huggers, we all need it.
So why do they need to hide? What are they hiding? What are they afraid of?
Isn't the whole point of policing to increase public safety? Isn't the point of enforcing the speed limits to increase public safety? If a visible police presence is seen on a roadway, that alone will deter most drivers from speeding. The stupidest drivers who speed anyway will then get ticketed for speeding.
If officers must be visible to enforce traffic law, then you find bad drivers will only comply with traffic law when they can't see a cop. If officers hide, then bad drivers will be less likely to ignore traffic laws. Now, this is going to be limited to bad drivers who can actually manage to drive safely when they want to, and to when there isn't a clear line of sight up and down the road to give them confidence there isn't a cop around.
And to add to that, I prefer enforcement of aggressive driving laws over speed limits, since pretty much everyone around here drives about 20% over the speed limit, and it's the 'tail-gate and weave through traffic cutting people off' drivers who are the real potential threats. Other than aggressive drivers, if everyone but you is doing 20% over... YOU are the accident risk. In general, as long as the road is dry, visibility is good, you leave adequate space for reaction time, and your car is in acceptable condition, it's speed differential that's the killer and not simple speed (within reason).
>Looks like they've solved the 3rd world food problem. Just don't tell anyone what it's made from.
We don't really have a 'food' problem, we have an energy problem... it's just that Nature's put a lot of unnecessary steps between us and the energy source.
Let's say, in theory, you could wear one of these reactor kits on a belt with a tube coming out your rectum as its input, and a tube feeding your stomach as its output... you're still not a perpetual motion machine. It takes energy to convert bodily waste back into fuel for your body.
Humans being humans, a perfect waste recycling system just means we'll breed more until we're starving again.
For me, it depends. If it's for something I anticipate using on an ongoing basis, I have a 'commercial email' email account on my own server and I just add another alias to it (so I know which company sold me out when I start getting spammed).
If it's a one-off, I use a Hotmail throw-away and let Microsoft deal with the spam.
There's no difference for the purposes of my argument - any time you expect to move Bitcoin, you pay through the nose and you wait a long time (if the network has any popularity at the time of the transaction).
If your transaction happens in a quick and low-cost manner... no Bitcoin was moved, which means none of the selling features of Bitcoin were utilized.
To be really blunt - if you use Coinbase, you're using their private, trusted ledger.
Which means you're not using Bitcoin, you're using Coinbase, which defeats the whole purpose of Bitcoin in the first place and leaves you better off using a more traditional method of payment accepted in more locations and with better protections on transactions.
Imagine a 'mess with Tinder' app that sits on your phone, and allows you to inject images of your choice into the stream of anyone using the same local connection.
I look at video games as a reinforcement/training tool... you have to be aware of what you're reinforcing/training.
If you're a stable individual, killing hookers after sex to get your money back in GTA V is reinforcing mindless videogame fun. If you're a violent nutcase, perhaps you're instead reinforcing a fantasy and it's getting you one step closer to acting it out.
But you know what? If you're in that latter group, it's only a matter of time, and it's your mental health and not the video game that's to blame. People who blame video games for violence are looking for an easy answer, often because they have at least an idea what the difficult answer is, and they don't want to deal with it.
At some point, a communications channel becomes 'official' and 'important'. I would say that when that threshold is crossed, it's a really good idea to have a couple of people involved to ensure every t is crossed and every i is dotted.
And I also think that the fact that Twitter is considered an emergency communications channel AT ALL is disturbing.
You can buy fake news as well as real news... but I'd say that if you've chosen to pay, at least you're going to choose what you're paying for.
So if Facebook had paid news feeds, you'd have some confidence that they were feeds Facebook had approved. What that is worth depends on your assessment of Facebook.
> I can't see how anyone can actually claim it is non-invasive unless they have a way of getting your blood without actually having to penetrate your skin.
They infect you with a hemorrhagic fever first, then simply wait for the blood to come out on its own.
> All of those people making 100K+/year should easily increase my home price by 20% if not more.
I live just outside of Toronto, and as the population grows the cost of housing grows, and both slowly migrate outwards from the core.
When I retire, I'll be able to sell my house and live quite well in some semi-rural area... but my kids are going to be lucky if they get a cardboard box on the street corner anywhere within commuting distance of a real job.
That's pretty high for a test with a less-than-stellar detection rate (roughly 2/3 false negative for breast cancer and 1/3 false negative for pancreatic cancer).
My (statistically uninformed) gut says you're going to get a lot more extremely anxious people worse off from false positives than you're going to save with early diagnosis.
Hopefully it can be improved - both in accuracy and cost - because I'd gladly give a vial of blood to a lab every year for an 'all-clear'. I just don't see this as being a good option yet.
Informed opinion then, awesome! (No/s tag, I'm serious) It'd be nice if you had posted with an account, though, to confirm continuity of the comment chain if nothing else.
>The suggestion to mark runways by geographical heading is inane, since aircraft navigation is by magnetic heading and local magnetic variation may make the geographical heading substantially different from the mag heading,
Magnetic declination in my region runs about 10deg. Keeping in mind I am asking this seriously and not trying to troll or antagonize: Is 10deg really that important when you're on approach? That's 1/36th of the compass, and I'm pretty sure I couldn't see the difference between 10deg and the plane being slightly deflected by a light cross wind. (I say that as someone who has all of 2 hours of flight time in an ultralight, so scoff freely and correct me).
>, especially the closer to a magnetic pole you are
Oh, come on! One pole is very, very wet, and the other is extremely remote and cold and gets very experienced pilots only.
>What you suggest would also mean re-marking all the runways on the planet,
No, I was thinking more like "Don't worry so much about relatively small differences that won't affect your approach, going forward just mark geographically". Runway 27 or runway 26... I know pretty much where I'm approaching from to as much accuracy as I'd expect to matter.
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I imagine you need an 'inside man' - maybe the person who reloads the cash dispenser and unloads the collection bin, but maybe not if the computer hardware is secured in a separate lock box. Anyway, you need somebody with physical access to compromise the machine.
THEN you go and use the ATM to get cash... but remember you're on camera, and your transactions are logged, right? So what you probably want is the ability to have the machine spit out extra money when you enter a particular code (which hopefully you can do with a camera watching the suspicious activity) during an otherwise perfectly legitimate transaction.
And you want to time it so you do it immediately after the machine has been reloaded, so you have the maximum possible time before the machine runs out of cash before it should and an investigation starts. And then you want to never hit that ATM again, or your risk of getting caught skyrockets.
So you need two conspirators and you get one payout that needs to be limited so you don't get caught. You're going to clear a few hundred with a single attempt or maybe have it 'accidentally' slip you an extra bill over many visits. Certainly you're not going to make enough to justify the risks - the inside man is risking their presumably steady legitimate employment in addition to jail.
So who is doing this and why?
1) You meant to say 'Romani', a distinct ethnic group that isn't actually bound to the nation of Romania.
2) Still racist. Yep, there's higher crime rates with the Romani, probably because they're not particularly interested as a cultural group in integrating into their larger community. Which may be due to racists like you, who discriminate against them and remove the opportunity from many of those who would integrate if they could. Chicken and egg.
3) People who describe other people as 'filthy animals' are rarely the best of humanity. You're dehumanizing others as a justification for treating them like shit. Aren't you a wonderful person?
The best part is that - thanks to the information age - there are a lot of parents who believe that, too. I've no idea how they do it, I simply can't watch my kids constantly.
Anyway, it ultimately leads to full-grown people who can't function without mom and dad holding their hand. As a parent, that's not the kind of result you should be looking for.
I got a media center, put all the acceptable / 'parent-approved' stuff in a network share, and then gave the media center the credentials for that share - and NOT the shares with the more adult stuff on them.
It didn't take long for them to figure out how to turn on the box, navigate to their share, and select a file. Kids aren't dumb, they're ignorant... and they have nothing else to do but learn so they're pretty good at it if you give them even half a chance (and don't just do it for them when they whine).
>Did you forget where you are? This is Slashdot, not Reddit.
Ha... and I made a point of leaving Reddit a year or so ago because it was getting pretty toxic and stupid... maybe it's time to take my Internet surfing license away. :(
Determine what a safe market share is, set an exponential growth in corporate tax by percentage over that share.
Determine which goods and services are best considered 'infrastructure' where competition is counter-productive, and have the government take them over - ideally while farming out the actual work to contractors in accordance with the first rule.
Now look at Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc... how do you break up such things when the whole point of them is that they provide a single interface? Consider search and social media (over a certain market share) to be infrastructure, nationalize it, and have a government central interface that combines regional providers. And deal with the idea that instead of a corporation deciding what is acceptable to do with your personal information, you now have a government making those decisions.
I'd argue that chopping companies up will reduce their influence on government, and remind the government that their 'shareholders' are voting citizens, and that ultimately so long as you don't elect a tyrant you'll be better off.
A couple of months of research can frequently save a couple of hours in the library.
Your questions are not new, to science or to science fiction, and have been covered extensively by people with relevant PhDs. Instead of tracking down their research and reading their conclusions and the reasoning for them... you're asking Reddit. Anonymous, probably ignorant and wish-based responses with the occasional gem you won't be able to reliably distinguish from the giant manure pile.
Actually, at least according to the local community newspaper... cops here focus enforcement based on public complaints, because that's how the Police Board rolls and they tend not to keep a Chief that won't do the same.
But that's just my experience in Southern Ontario, Canada. YMMV.
Ideally, yes, I'd love to see the process directed by someone with an understanding of road safety and statistics rather than where cops find 'good spots' to fill their quota or where some nuisance has managed to pester the Chief enough to get a reaction.
The last time this came up on Slashdot, the objection to forcing replaceable batteries was that having fixed batteries allows for unusual battery shapes and less concern regarding seals so that engineers can design thinner phones.
You know what? Not good enough. If it's so important to have such a thin phone, then the manufacturers need to be required by law to take back their product at the end of its life cycle and REcycle.
I'd argue this would be an expensive but good idea anyway, because 'the environment' isn't just a thing for tree-huggers, we all need it.
If officers must be visible to enforce traffic law, then you find bad drivers will only comply with traffic law when they can't see a cop. If officers hide, then bad drivers will be less likely to ignore traffic laws. Now, this is going to be limited to bad drivers who can actually manage to drive safely when they want to, and to when there isn't a clear line of sight up and down the road to give them confidence there isn't a cop around.
And to add to that, I prefer enforcement of aggressive driving laws over speed limits, since pretty much everyone around here drives about 20% over the speed limit, and it's the 'tail-gate and weave through traffic cutting people off' drivers who are the real potential threats. Other than aggressive drivers, if everyone but you is doing 20% over... YOU are the accident risk. In general, as long as the road is dry, visibility is good, you leave adequate space for reaction time, and your car is in acceptable condition, it's speed differential that's the killer and not simple speed (within reason).
>Looks like they've solved the 3rd world food problem. Just don't tell anyone what it's made from.
We don't really have a 'food' problem, we have an energy problem... it's just that Nature's put a lot of unnecessary steps between us and the energy source.
Let's say, in theory, you could wear one of these reactor kits on a belt with a tube coming out your rectum as its input, and a tube feeding your stomach as its output... you're still not a perpetual motion machine. It takes energy to convert bodily waste back into fuel for your body.
Humans being humans, a perfect waste recycling system just means we'll breed more until we're starving again.
> Who would create a hotmail account.
For me, it depends. If it's for something I anticipate using on an ongoing basis, I have a 'commercial email' email account on my own server and I just add another alias to it (so I know which company sold me out when I start getting spammed).
If it's a one-off, I use a Hotmail throw-away and let Microsoft deal with the spam.
There's no difference for the purposes of my argument - any time you expect to move Bitcoin, you pay through the nose and you wait a long time (if the network has any popularity at the time of the transaction).
If your transaction happens in a quick and low-cost manner... no Bitcoin was moved, which means none of the selling features of Bitcoin were utilized.
To be really blunt - if you use Coinbase, you're using their private, trusted ledger.
>Coinbase charges 1%
Which means you're not using Bitcoin, you're using Coinbase, which defeats the whole purpose of Bitcoin in the first place and leaves you better off using a more traditional method of payment accepted in more locations and with better protections on transactions.
You've made me think of something MORE evil - hijacking Tinder to sell coffee.
What if every other profile served up on your phone was a menu item???
Imagine a 'mess with Tinder' app that sits on your phone, and allows you to inject images of your choice into the stream of anyone using the same local connection.
>OK, that has me wondering what Trump would tweet as he launched the nukes
"Showing little Rocket Man how it's done. I start the best nukular wars, believe me. #MAGA"
I look at video games as a reinforcement/training tool... you have to be aware of what you're reinforcing/training.
If you're a stable individual, killing hookers after sex to get your money back in GTA V is reinforcing mindless videogame fun. If you're a violent nutcase, perhaps you're instead reinforcing a fantasy and it's getting you one step closer to acting it out.
But you know what? If you're in that latter group, it's only a matter of time, and it's your mental health and not the video game that's to blame. People who blame video games for violence are looking for an easy answer, often because they have at least an idea what the difficult answer is, and they don't want to deal with it.
At some point, a communications channel becomes 'official' and 'important'. I would say that when that threshold is crossed, it's a really good idea to have a couple of people involved to ensure every t is crossed and every i is dotted.
And I also think that the fact that Twitter is considered an emergency communications channel AT ALL is disturbing.
You can buy fake news as well as real news... but I'd say that if you've chosen to pay, at least you're going to choose what you're paying for.
So if Facebook had paid news feeds, you'd have some confidence that they were feeds Facebook had approved. What that is worth depends on your assessment of Facebook.
> I can't see how anyone can actually claim it is non-invasive unless they have a way of getting your blood without actually having to penetrate your skin.
They infect you with a hemorrhagic fever first, then simply wait for the blood to come out on its own.
Do I have to think of everything?
You get that runways already are marked to the nearest 10degrees, right? Are you upset that you're not heading for runway 273.5 instead of 27?
Aviation has already decided that a difference of 10 degrees doesn't matter.
> All of those people making 100K+/year should easily increase my home price by 20% if not more.
I live just outside of Toronto, and as the population grows the cost of housing grows, and both slowly migrate outwards from the core.
When I retire, I'll be able to sell my house and live quite well in some semi-rural area... but my kids are going to be lucky if they get a cardboard box on the street corner anywhere within commuting distance of a real job.
That's pretty high for a test with a less-than-stellar detection rate (roughly 2/3 false negative for breast cancer and 1/3 false negative for pancreatic cancer).
My (statistically uninformed) gut says you're going to get a lot more extremely anxious people worse off from false positives than you're going to save with early diagnosis.
Hopefully it can be improved - both in accuracy and cost - because I'd gladly give a vial of blood to a lab every year for an 'all-clear'. I just don't see this as being a good option yet.
>Former air traffic controller/pilot here.
Informed opinion then, awesome! (No /s tag, I'm serious) It'd be nice if you had posted with an account, though, to confirm continuity of the comment chain if nothing else.
>The suggestion to mark runways by geographical heading is inane, since aircraft navigation is by magnetic heading and local magnetic variation may make the geographical heading substantially different from the mag heading,
Magnetic declination in my region runs about 10deg. Keeping in mind I am asking this seriously and not trying to troll or antagonize: Is 10deg really that important when you're on approach? That's 1/36th of the compass, and I'm pretty sure I couldn't see the difference between 10deg and the plane being slightly deflected by a light cross wind. (I say that as someone who has all of 2 hours of flight time in an ultralight, so scoff freely and correct me).
>, especially the closer to a magnetic pole you are
Oh, come on! One pole is very, very wet, and the other is extremely remote and cold and gets very experienced pilots only.
>What you suggest would also mean re-marking all the runways on the planet,
No, I was thinking more like "Don't worry so much about relatively small differences that won't affect your approach, going forward just mark geographically". Runway 27 or runway 26... I know pretty much where I'm approaching from to as much accuracy as I'd expect to matter.