What the hell was your college doing using that in your ID?
Being irresponsible with people's personal information of course. The SSN was also on Faculty-Staff IDs.
You can imagine how uncomfortable I was while employed by the campus network administration (as an undergrad) being assigned the task of calling every user and getting their ID numbers, which had not been collected when accounts were assigned, so as to be used to challenge identities later in case of unauthorized access and other account administration issues.
I expressed my concern to my boss, and he said I could accept any number they provided, but to request the ID number. Only one user elected to provide a much longer string of letters and numbers instead.
When a user touches the screen an electrical signal is sent through their body and picked up by a receiver located in their chair, telling a computer precisely where the screen was touched and by whom.
Of course the chair would also need to be able to read the RFID tag implanted in your butt to solve the Musical Chairs Problem.
I have a correction. The state tax refund is taxed on line 10 of 1040. However, my state form has me deduct that same amount from my state taxes.
So either the fed is collecting taxes from the state for the state's mistake, or state taxes are withheld before fed taxes, so the fed is entitled to some of the refund they would have taxed had it not been withheld by the state.
My state taxes my state tax refunds. They treat it as additional income, which is then taxed in the next tax year.
That means that when they take more money than they were entitled to out of my paycheck, they get to use it for a year without paying me for the privilege. Then when I catch them at it and they return it to me, the next year they say are suddenly entitled to a piece of something they weren't entitled to before?
So the government gets a one-year interest-free loan from me, then loans it back to me for a year, and then charges me interest on that!
At least I don't have to telecommute and have to deal with double-taxation from two states. I live close enough to my workplace that I could walk, even in Winter.
A: A crime is a crime, why shouldn't you be arrested for it? If you don't want to be arrested, don't do it.
Because no crime needs to be committed, only an arrest. Arrests on false charges are common, and will become more common as pretext to getting a DNA sample.
Expect being a recluse to become a crime of evading law enforcement, because if they can't find you on the street and arrest you for loitering in a queue then you're trying to shield your DNA from their database.
After that, being put in a database for no crime being committed and a search being made against it to match suspect DNA samples would become an unreasonable search of the very essence of your person. It would seem you have no protections against that. (I'm not sure we do here anymore, either.)
Probably because it is a statutory requirement. In TFA it reports he'd offered to provide hair and nail samples, but they insisted it must be blood. Possibly not because it must be fresh to feed the government's grove of Audrey IIs but rather that it is considered impossible to provide a false blood sample when the government acquires it directly. Hair samples can be faked using extremely realistic wigs. Nail samples can be faked by removing your own and supergluing someone else's. But it's damn hard to determine which vein the government will tap to extract the sample to provide a subdermal false vein.
Blood also greatly reduces the possibility that a chimeric individual (having multiple sets of DNA due to two or more non-identical fertilized ova fusing into one individual in early cell division) can avoid DNA identification; because it gets circulated all over the body, all genetic strings could be obtained from white blood cells. (CSI also covered this situation.)
BTW, I don't like the supposition in the summary that "everyone should provide [their fingerprints] to their government". Though I wouldn't put it past this administration to lift fingerprints from every tax return and DNA from the saliva used to wet the envelope's glue strip.
But I'll say, if you do demand source you should be able to find and fix any security flaws yourself and report them for the benefit of those who can't and/or don't.
Fixing flaws will always be faster for open source users because users can be doing it for themselves, and they'll be found faster too since you'll have more users proactively looking for and fixing flaws than a closed source company will (waste of manpower better tasked to adding new features and enhancements (i.e. future profits)).
Assuming that is true, then Apple should be suing them over their acquisition of the manual, or to force them to disclose their source for the manual.
Publishing an excerpt of the manual may be proof of misappropriation of such a manual, but making public only that excerpt necessary for their report is still fair use of that information and is not illegal.
That's 4x or ^2. By doubling both dimensions you square the area.
Large displays are needed when non-linear-editing HD video at full resolution. Not only do you need to see the clip you're adding and the resulting sequence, you need room for the timeline. And maybe you're mixing in 720p or 480p footage.
From a bad dream? Did you miss this whole Jedi have visions thing?
You just gave me an idea. What if in reediting Episodes 1 and 2 you not only trim the pod race and cut out Jar-Jar and the midichloroform and insert second-long flashes forward from Episode 3 as visions little Annie has. That could kick up the tension a bit and defuse the "cute kid" movie ruination.
Prime times would be scenes where you might go "Awww" to suddenly change it to "Aaaah!"
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this bends the light around the object
So if you're inside the field with the object, you can still see it.
Which just proves what I've always said (since my days playing in TinyMUCKs): invisible objects aren't really invisible; they only look that way.
I think he was being funny. ;)
;)
Give that man an Insightful mod!
What the hell was your college doing using that in your ID?
Being irresponsible with people's personal information of course. The SSN was also on Faculty-Staff IDs.
You can imagine how uncomfortable I was while employed by the campus network administration (as an undergrad) being assigned the task of calling every user and getting their ID numbers, which had not been collected when accounts were assigned, so as to be used to challenge identities later in case of unauthorized access and other account administration issues.
I expressed my concern to my boss, and he said I could accept any number they provided, but to request the ID number. Only one user elected to provide a much longer string of letters and numbers instead.
When a user touches the screen an electrical signal is sent through their body and picked up by a receiver located in their chair, telling a computer precisely where the screen was touched and by whom.
Of course the chair would also need to be able to read the RFID tag implanted in your butt to solve the Musical Chairs Problem.
Why not integrate RFID tags into college IDs?
My college ID number was a letter + my social security number + 3 digits. I don't think I'd want its RFID chip broadcasting that number.
I have a correction. The state tax refund is taxed on line 10 of 1040. However, my state form has me deduct that same amount from my state taxes.
So either the fed is collecting taxes from the state for the state's mistake, or state taxes are withheld before fed taxes, so the fed is entitled to some of the refund they would have taxed had it not been withheld by the state.
My state taxes my state tax refunds. They treat it as additional income, which is then taxed in the next tax year.
That means that when they take more money than they were entitled to out of my paycheck, they get to use it for a year without paying me for the privilege. Then when I catch them at it and they return it to me, the next year they say are suddenly entitled to a piece of something they weren't entitled to before?
So the government gets a one-year interest-free loan from me, then loans it back to me for a year, and then charges me interest on that!
At least I don't have to telecommute and have to deal with double-taxation from two states. I live close enough to my workplace that I could walk, even in Winter.
if you give people the ability to store their massive datasets in Excel, they'll do it.
It is accepted wisdom that programs, and thus generally data, will expand to fill all available memory.
Of course, if someone figures out a way to use the Internet itself as a nigh-infinitely expanding storage medium for virtual memory....
no matter what arbitrary limit is set, someone is going to hit the boundry and be upset because they could use "just a little more".
AKA "Reasonable limits aren't."
It is better to make your limits be unreasonably large than to discover they were unreasonably small. Best is to not have them at all.
Except animation cells for the forgotten two seasons of the Star Trek animated series which have yet to make it to DVD (out-of-print VHS only so far).
A: A crime is a crime, why shouldn't you be arrested for it? If you don't want to be arrested, don't do it.
Because no crime needs to be committed, only an arrest. Arrests on false charges are common, and will become more common as pretext to getting a DNA sample.
Expect being a recluse to become a crime of evading law enforcement, because if they can't find you on the street and arrest you for loitering in a queue then you're trying to shield your DNA from their database.
After that, being put in a database for no crime being committed and a search being made against it to match suspect DNA samples would become an unreasonable search of the very essence of your person. It would seem you have no protections against that. (I'm not sure we do here anymore, either.)
Probably because it is a statutory requirement. In TFA it reports he'd offered to provide hair and nail samples, but they insisted it must be blood. Possibly not because it must be fresh to feed the government's grove of Audrey IIs but rather that it is considered impossible to provide a false blood sample when the government acquires it directly. Hair samples can be faked using extremely realistic wigs. Nail samples can be faked by removing your own and supergluing someone else's. But it's damn hard to determine which vein the government will tap to extract the sample to provide a subdermal false vein.
Blood also greatly reduces the possibility that a chimeric individual (having multiple sets of DNA due to two or more non-identical fertilized ova fusing into one individual in early cell division) can avoid DNA identification; because it gets circulated all over the body, all genetic strings could be obtained from white blood cells. (CSI also covered this situation.)
BTW, I don't like the supposition in the summary that "everyone should provide [their fingerprints] to their government". Though I wouldn't put it past this administration to lift fingerprints from every tax return and DNA from the saliva used to wet the envelope's glue strip.
I guess my signature would be banned there.
I seem to recall long ago TiVo announcing a partnership with RealMedia for content. Last I heard, the fruits of that partnership were still buffering.
It's called THE OTHER CANDIDATE.
You mean Kodos?
He said, "If... you don't".
But I'll say, if you do demand source you should be able to find and fix any security flaws yourself and report them for the benefit of those who can't and/or don't.
Fixing flaws will always be faster for open source users because users can be doing it for themselves, and they'll be found faster too since you'll have more users proactively looking for and fixing flaws than a closed source company will (waste of manpower better tasked to adding new features and enhancements (i.e. future profits)).
Pixelated boobies make Baby Jesus...
cut his gums and tongue on the sharp edges.
What, you thought Mary fed Baby Jesus formula?
Assuming that is true, then Apple should be suing them over their acquisition of the manual, or to force them to disclose their source for the manual.
Publishing an excerpt of the manual may be proof of misappropriation of such a manual, but making public only that excerpt necessary for their report is still fair use of that information and is not illegal.
IANAL.
That should cover 3840x2160 (2x1080p)
That's 4x or ^2. By doubling both dimensions you square the area.
Large displays are needed when non-linear-editing HD video at full resolution. Not only do you need to see the clip you're adding and the resulting sequence, you need room for the timeline. And maybe you're mixing in 720p or 480p footage.
Worse, broadcast TV is likely to switch to HDCP as a requirement for HD broadcasts once the switchover is complete, or even before.
Last I heard, FCC rules require all broadcast TV to be unencrypted. The Broadcast Flag is not encryption.
Edwards told the FCC's lawyer that his arguments were 'gobbledygook' and 'nonsense.'
Not "jibberjabber" and "poopycock"?
Now then, when do they release the original version of Blade Runner to DVD?
I get confused. If it includes the 2004, does that mean it includes Han shooting first (theatrical) or Han shooting simultaneously (DVD release)?
IIRC, in the original version (also included), Greedo doesn't get a shot off.
From a bad dream? Did you miss this whole Jedi have visions thing?
You just gave me an idea. What if in reediting Episodes 1 and 2 you not only trim the pod race and cut out Jar-Jar and the midichloroform and insert second-long flashes forward from Episode 3 as visions little Annie has. That could kick up the tension a bit and defuse the "cute kid" movie ruination.
Prime times would be scenes where you might go "Awww" to suddenly change it to "Aaaah!"
This is exactly why my daughter will not have a keyless chastity belt...
Like there aren't portals around back and on the balcony.