I, for one, will be surprised if it can be done for a trillion dollars. Especially if you throw in the lunar sideshow. But more likely we'll spend half that much, and then drop the project.
With the amount of time that will go by from now until we are actually able to do that, I would be surprised if it cost only twice that amount, if only because of inflation.
That's always been part of the problem with the space (or any government) program. Things take so long to go from concept to reality that the original cost is always much less than the actual cost when all is said and done.
Running the software in a virtual machine wouldn't bother me, but the encryption board used won't work in a modern machine.
The web application has been coming for some time now, and with some of the changes that Check 21 will force, it should be completed sooner rather than later.
Really, we're just waiting for one or two more things to be ported over to the web application before dumping the DOS box.
No - I was just pointing out that most banks do have free accounts - and that they make up the low balance service charges through overdraft fees (which would be waived in the event of fraud).
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It's like telling my kids that they "sound like a broken record" - I own one record player that I've never used and have had CD's for longer than they've been around.
Expressions like that stick around but may not mean much to those with no real frame of reference.
I don't think a-Q is going to be swapping any pr0n, unless you define it as putting fuses into hot boxes of combustible materiel.
I think I read somewhere that terrorists used pornographic sites as communications hubs - most people avoid them (unless they're looking for that kind of thing) and they are left well enough alone.
In general, I think you also have to be logically consistent. If you are a strict constructionist (as many Bush-lovers are) you pretty much could only have the guns that existed at the time of the constitution or you'd be pretty logically inconsitent (yes on the exact law for everything else, but that whole arms and militia thing we can be a little wavy on).
At the time, there was very little difference between civilian and military firearms. To be logically consistant would require the government to end all gun control laws...
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But it still hurts.
How would you like to write out that check?
That's the way that government accounting works!
If I spend less money than what was originally reported (but still more than I am now) I "saved" money!
I, for one, will be surprised if it can be done for a trillion dollars. Especially if you throw in the lunar sideshow. But more likely we'll spend half that much, and then drop the project.
With the amount of time that will go by from now until we are actually able to do that, I would be surprised if it cost only twice that amount, if only because of inflation.
That's always been part of the problem with the space (or any government) program. Things take so long to go from concept to reality that the original cost is always much less than the actual cost when all is said and done.
We're dealing with government software - and it doesn't work that way :)
The encryption board still requires an ISA slot, and they're not on too many of those tiny PCs.
Running the software in a virtual machine wouldn't bother me, but the encryption board used won't work in a modern machine.
The web application has been coming for some time now, and with some of the changes that Check 21 will force, it should be completed sooner rather than later.
Really, we're just waiting for one or two more things to be ported over to the web application before dumping the DOS box.
It's FedLine - for communicating with the federal reserve bank. It requires DOS.
They are in the process of moving the software to a web based application, but won't be there for a couple of years.
I've still got one DOS machine running because the application that it runs hasn't yet been ported to the web.
No - I was just pointing out that most banks do have free accounts - and that they make up the low balance service charges through overdraft fees (which would be waived in the event of fraud).
Most banks offer free checking accounts that don't have balance restrictions. Overdrafts, however, do cost $$$$$.
The same way that everyone only uses Xerox photocopiers?
Just because the brand name is in the popular lexicon, doesn't mean that the product will be forever dominant.
That's right - the second (western) front never diverted a single unit from Hitlers attack into Russia.
Bull. Hitler might have been able to play Russia to a stalemate had the western front not been opened up at Normandy.
Then please (oh please!) let them be illegal!
It's like telling my kids that they "sound like a broken record" - I own one record player that I've never used and have had CD's for longer than they've been around.
Expressions like that stick around but may not mean much to those with no real frame of reference.
Probably because of the myriad of "camera-phones" that are now out on the market. Lame devices that can misused in many, many ways.
I am - this is my job and i am sure that (in our case at least) that this is the case.
Who do you work for up there?
That's credit unions for you.
Do you know what servicer that they are dealing with?
To be honest, you don't need to own a bank server or computer system to do damage.
You'd be amazed at what a little social engineering will do.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that no ones out to get you
All able bodied citizens in good standing are members of the militia.
militia != national guard
militia != military reserve
I don't think that spammers are subject to the death penalty, but now that you mention it ...
I don't think a-Q is going to be swapping any pr0n, unless you define it as putting fuses into hot boxes of combustible materiel.
I think I read somewhere that terrorists used pornographic sites as communications hubs - most people avoid them (unless they're looking for that kind of thing) and they are left well enough alone.
All of those driving skills picked up in Grand Theft Auto (splitting lanes, jumping rivers, shooting pedestrians, etc) come in handy every day!
Seriously though, the ambulance in that game handles terribly compared to the real thing.
In general, I think you also have to be logically consistent. If you are a strict constructionist (as many Bush-lovers are) you pretty much could only have the guns that existed at the time of the constitution or you'd be pretty logically inconsitent (yes on the exact law for everything else, but that whole arms and militia thing we can be a little wavy on).
At the time, there was very little difference between civilian and military firearms. To be logically consistant would require the government to end all gun control laws...
But often it is difficult to say that the problem is definitely one thing or another until you get a chance to start digging in and troubleshooting.