Once someone is willing to die to accomplish their goal, I maintain that there is no 100% foolproof method for preventing an attack (either on themselves or others).
More just a comment to illustrate that, once they got the locking heavy cockpit doors in place, the rest of the 'preventing a hijacking' problem was mostly taken care of. It is, however, a REALLY good reason to stay buckled in (tight) at all times unless you're up for the bathroom.
All of the planes flying can handle going from 1g to -1g. Up / down / up / down / up / down until anyone who isn't strapped in has been beaten senseless (or to death) by the plane's floor and ceiling. Passengers need to do very little.
Yes, why do anything ever if there is something better eventually behind it? You are starting to skirt the edge of stupidly fanatical. If we have a technology NOW that allows us to effectively halt our contribution to climate change, we do that. While we are doing the thing that we know how to do, we're also researching how to do the thing that we'd like to be doing - solar in the near term (100 years), fusion out past that.
My point about coal & natural gas is made to illustrate the huge gains to be made in divorcing ourselves from coal as rapidly as possible. Almost anything is better. "Better" is what we're all supposed to be working towards - my better is a drastic reduction in dispersed pollutants from energy production (mercury, ash, atmospheric uranium, CO2, etc.). What's yours? Solar isn't worth doing just for solar's sake, there needs to be a reason.
All this is irrelevant. Uranium, is limited in supply, even if it's a large supply. This limit means we will eventually have to stop using it and use something else. So why bother starting?
Whilst living on this planet the sun will provide us with all the energy we need if we can just work out how to harness it effectively. Save the Fissile materials for when we *really* need them, like if/when we get into deep space exploration.
There are enough fissile materials for 100,000 years worth of power, once you put thorium and breeders and non-traditional uranium sources into the mix. Even if this is off by an order of magnitude, a 10,000 year supply of power lasts longer than recorded human history. To me, this is a reliable enough supply (and one that can be used TODAY) that I support its use until we bridge to some form of terrestrial fusion, and/or solar energy.
Let me ask you this: If we started now and built even just enough natural gas plants in the US to replace every erg of coal power that are currently used here, what would the effect on US carbon emissions be? Don't sweat the limits of the gas supply, it's a thought exercise. And this doesn't even attempt to consider all of the other crap that coal puts into the environment.
Doesn't even matter - she's demonstrated that either:
a. Her technical adviser was too stupid to tell her that she could get two (or more) email addresses worth of mail on a single device.
b. She thinks that she can sway independent voters with a pack of lies that I'd be embarrassed to hear come out of a ten year old's mouth.
Either way, I'm of the opinion that she would have been better off ignoring it. Her dyed in the wool followers would continue to support her and the maybe-third-party voters wouldn't have had to listen to the dumb.
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltes... produced a big red-boxed 'F' when I clicked on it. Perhaps their server isn't doing well with the load of Slashdot's attention?
In the event that it was a hijack, we now get to wonder when the plane will mysteriously show up flying again and what it will be loaded with when it does.
I didn't say they were looking at signatures (and really, how many cashiers are trained in handwriting analysis to tell the difference between my variable scribbling and a forgery). Visa (and MC and Amex) disallow either a customers willingness to produce an ID or anything about the ID itself as a legitimate factor in refusing to accept someones card.
Absolutely correct. In fact, merchants should not (cannot, in practice) ask for your drivers license to compare to your credit card. Visa's rules don't allow them to base a decision off of that. Once they touch a drivers license, they have now colored any future decision to reject the card as a payment type.
If they really want to make sure he stays in forever, they'll try him on this too. Only finding him guilty of the DPR charges means that they're the only thing keeping him in - an appeal might fix that. If he is found guilty of the murder-for-hire charge as well, his chances of successfully appealing them both and getting out are likely poor.
It's not just sick or die. There is a whole range of horrible lifelong consequences - blindness, deafness, impaired motor function, damaged kidneys, brain damage, heart damage, etc.
I haven't looked in-depth, but I'm guessing that the companies that are accepting bitcoin payments are behaving more like a foreign currency exchange transaction. The thing being purchased is priced only in the local currency, and they will happily take something else in payment for a small fee for what it will cost them to convert that payment into local currency. All of the chocolate that I bought in Germany at the airport with dollars, for example.
(On the other hand, if large companies will accept it in payment, they've probably got an idea that a given currency will be around next month or next year.)
I don't think this is the most likely answer. Most likely is that the big companies have an instant exchange set up where a purchase made in bitcoins is immediately converted to dollars, and they charge their customers a small transaction fee in the form of an exchange rate difference.
There's not a single thing in what you've written that requires you to vote from home, instead of at a polling place with election observers.
I will also tell you that from 3 decades of watching this stuff I believe that you've put yourself at the mercy of the propaganda people. They are the ones who retain, manipulate, and present the information that you are election-night-cramming on. Off the top of my head I can think of a dozen examples of candidate-selection-altering events that, when I go back later to see what history has had to say, are entirely missed, glossed over, or are otherwise mischaracterized.
In summation (not to the parent at this point) - get yourself to a town hall meeting or two sometime, and get off your lazy butt and walk to the post office or a polling place.
But this isn't about "no votes". Low turnout needs to be addressed while repeating the mantra "correlation is not causation". Until the true root cause(s) is/are understood, just doing something isn't a good approach (and will likely be a "something" that slimeball politicians will use to abuse voters futher).
You're going to do your vote research AT THE TIME OF VOTING? Are you nuts? Politicians lie pretty much... constantly. Are you really going to trust the single site presented to you by whoever runs the voting system as an unbiased source of information?
Your argument that "it simply takes too much time to do the research" reads to me as an admission of being uninformed. Your statements preceding that set off every alarm in my system for propaganda abuse.
Do your own research. If you care about an issue watch your local, state, and national politicians over time and keep track of what they DO, not just what they SAY.
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Once someone is willing to die to accomplish their goal, I maintain that there is no 100% foolproof method for preventing an attack (either on themselves or others).
More just a comment to illustrate that, once they got the locking heavy cockpit doors in place, the rest of the 'preventing a hijacking' problem was mostly taken care of. It is, however, a REALLY good reason to stay buckled in (tight) at all times unless you're up for the bathroom.
All of the planes flying can handle going from 1g to -1g. Up / down / up / down / up / down until anyone who isn't strapped in has been beaten senseless (or to death) by the plane's floor and ceiling. Passengers need to do very little.
Request Tracker by Best Practical is quite powerful, although it can be a real pain in the butt to get installed due to Perl.
https://www.bestpractical.com/...
Why invest in short term solutions?
Yes, why do anything ever if there is something better eventually behind it? You are starting to skirt the edge of stupidly fanatical. If we have a technology NOW that allows us to effectively halt our contribution to climate change, we do that. While we are doing the thing that we know how to do, we're also researching how to do the thing that we'd like to be doing - solar in the near term (100 years), fusion out past that.
My point about coal & natural gas is made to illustrate the huge gains to be made in divorcing ourselves from coal as rapidly as possible. Almost anything is better. "Better" is what we're all supposed to be working towards - my better is a drastic reduction in dispersed pollutants from energy production (mercury, ash, atmospheric uranium, CO2, etc.). What's yours? Solar isn't worth doing just for solar's sake, there needs to be a reason.
All this is irrelevant. Uranium, is limited in supply, even if it's a large supply. This limit means we will eventually have to stop using it and use something else. So why bother starting?
Whilst living on this planet the sun will provide us with all the energy we need if we can just work out how to harness it effectively. Save the Fissile materials for when we *really* need them, like if/when we get into deep space exploration.
There are enough fissile materials for 100,000 years worth of power, once you put thorium and breeders and non-traditional uranium sources into the mix. Even if this is off by an order of magnitude, a 10,000 year supply of power lasts longer than recorded human history. To me, this is a reliable enough supply (and one that can be used TODAY) that I support its use until we bridge to some form of terrestrial fusion, and/or solar energy.
Let me ask you this: If we started now and built even just enough natural gas plants in the US to replace every erg of coal power that are currently used here, what would the effect on US carbon emissions be? Don't sweat the limits of the gas supply, it's a thought exercise. And this doesn't even attempt to consider all of the other crap that coal puts into the environment.
Doesn't even matter - she's demonstrated that either:
a. Her technical adviser was too stupid to tell her that she could get two (or more) email addresses worth of mail on a single device.
b. She thinks that she can sway independent voters with a pack of lies that I'd be embarrassed to hear come out of a ten year old's mouth.
Either way, I'm of the opinion that she would have been better off ignoring it. Her dyed in the wool followers would continue to support her and the maybe-third-party voters wouldn't have had to listen to the dumb.
Or they can and these sorts of stories are designed and released to falsely imply otherwise.
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltes... produced a big red-boxed 'F' when I clicked on it. Perhaps their server isn't doing well with the load of Slashdot's attention?
In the event that it was a hijack, we now get to wonder when the plane will mysteriously show up flying again and what it will be loaded with when it does.
Here's probably the best things I've seen written on refactoring: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/... & http://www.joelonsoftware.com/...
I didn't say they were looking at signatures (and really, how many cashiers are trained in handwriting analysis to tell the difference between my variable scribbling and a forgery). Visa (and MC and Amex) disallow either a customers willingness to produce an ID or anything about the ID itself as a legitimate factor in refusing to accept someones card.
Absolutely correct. In fact, merchants should not (cannot, in practice) ask for your drivers license to compare to your credit card. Visa's rules don't allow them to base a decision off of that. Once they touch a drivers license, they have now colored any future decision to reject the card as a payment type.
See the top of page 34: http://usa.visa.com/download/m...
It doesn't even have to move! Menacing trees are cause for murder and mayhem! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
If they really want to make sure he stays in forever, they'll try him on this too. Only finding him guilty of the DPR charges means that they're the only thing keeping him in - an appeal might fix that. If he is found guilty of the murder-for-hire charge as well, his chances of successfully appealing them both and getting out are likely poor.
It's not just sick or die. There is a whole range of horrible lifelong consequences - blindness, deafness, impaired motor function, damaged kidneys, brain damage, heart damage, etc.
https://ellislab.com/ - There is plenty of flexibility here, which also means a requirement to do a fair bit of work by hand.
http://pagekit.com/ - The company behind this (Yootheme) has a good track record.
I haven't looked in-depth, but I'm guessing that the companies that are accepting bitcoin payments are behaving more like a foreign currency exchange transaction. The thing being purchased is priced only in the local currency, and they will happily take something else in payment for a small fee for what it will cost them to convert that payment into local currency. All of the chocolate that I bought in Germany at the airport with dollars, for example.
You beat me to the punch. Agreed.
(On the other hand, if large companies will accept it in payment, they've probably got an idea that a given currency will be around next month or next year.)
I don't think this is the most likely answer. Most likely is that the big companies have an instant exchange set up where a purchase made in bitcoins is immediately converted to dollars, and they charge their customers a small transaction fee in the form of an exchange rate difference.
There's not a single thing in what you've written that requires you to vote from home, instead of at a polling place with election observers.
I will also tell you that from 3 decades of watching this stuff I believe that you've put yourself at the mercy of the propaganda people. They are the ones who retain, manipulate, and present the information that you are election-night-cramming on. Off the top of my head I can think of a dozen examples of candidate-selection-altering events that, when I go back later to see what history has had to say, are entirely missed, glossed over, or are otherwise mischaracterized.
In summation (not to the parent at this point) - get yourself to a town hall meeting or two sometime, and get off your lazy butt and walk to the post office or a polling place.
Where's the money to be made in that? Furthermore, how can I pump some hype up about bitcoins with pedestrian paper?
But this isn't about "no votes". Low turnout needs to be addressed while repeating the mantra "correlation is not causation". Until the true root cause(s) is/are understood, just doing something isn't a good approach (and will likely be a "something" that slimeball politicians will use to abuse voters futher).
This is interesting to me. Have you ever looked at the Swiss system of voting?
You're going to do your vote research AT THE TIME OF VOTING? Are you nuts? Politicians lie pretty much ... constantly. Are you really going to trust the single site presented to you by whoever runs the voting system as an unbiased source of information?
Your argument that "it simply takes too much time to do the research" reads to me as an admission of being uninformed. Your statements preceding that set off every alarm in my system for propaganda abuse.
Do your own research. If you care about an issue watch your local, state, and national politicians over time and keep track of what they DO, not just what they SAY.