Statistically you should be able to guess the right letter/number in half the keyspace.
What if there is more than one right character and the one you chose matches someone else's code that wasn't cut off? You'll have stolen someone else's key. A fair brute-force search would start with the widest characters first (more likely to be missing due to (I assume) non-monospaced string length).
That could be a reason why they pulled the brute-force solution from their site.
The MICR ink is not a requirement. Contrary to popular belief you can still write out a check on a napkin if you wish. It'll just take 2+ weeks to cash because a person will have to actually deal with it instead of their computerized systems.
Yes, my Accounting teacher in High School related a similar story where he had forgotten his checkbook and didn't have enough cash. As he said it, as long as the written order is valid, the account number is there, and the bank's name and address was correct, the improvised check was just as valid as any other check. It's basically a written order to the bank to pay to the order of the named bearer the funds from the account. Though I also recall someone, perhaps him, adding that with a new law (it would have to have been enacted in the 1980s) that you couldn't do that anymore. Possibly this was a MICR ink requirement, which now may be an obsolete requirement thus allowing for improvised checks again. I have not kept up with the laws on this. Also, that teacher has since died.
In any case, I'm pretty sure the bank would be well within their rights to charge a special handling fee for improvised checks.
Has anyone checked those big novelty checks for lottery winnings people have their photos taken with whether they have readable routing numbers? There's likely a lot of money in those accounts.
The magnetic ink is no longer used, post-"Check21". It's all done with optical scanning now. The physical check is mostly meaningless, and I doubt your bank has received even one that you wrote in this century.
Oh, I have gotten canceled checks back in this century. In fact, only this year have they started sending me the photocopies instead. And all the pages of my statements including the check copies are now three-ring punched, and they've provided me a binder for them.
For awhile, a couple of places that bill me said that they may convert any check to EFTs and that by paying by check I'm allowing them to do it, but I was still getting my canceled checks from them up until I moved everything I could (for no fee) to charge to my credit card.
Oh, I still pay for my trash service by check, but it's always the same amount every month so I now prepay for the whole year every January.
All of those security features in paper checks are becoming worthless. I was standing in line at the grocery store, and the customer ahead of me wrote a check. The clerk fed the check into a document scanner built into the cash register, and returned the original check to the customer. Besides, banks are so automated that it's a rare occasion that a human ever looks at a check.
And now, even if the physical check gets back to the bank, I don't even get it back. Instead I get a reduced-size photocopy of only the front of the check. I don't even get a rubber stamp from Krusty the Klown's Cayman Islands holding company anymore (or anything I can dust for fingerprints or swab for DNA).
The only checks I write anymore are for credit card payments, loan payments, electric and gas bills (they still charge a fee for payment by credit card, which went up this month to $3.95 (they use Western Union® Speedpay®)), and to get pocket cash. Only two of the last three come back, as photocopies.
I'd be tempted to pay my bills with checks signed instead by celebrities, with the hope that perhaps the person receiving the check would value the autograph more than the amount on the check, except that they would still get that routing number and be able to get the payment and keep the autograph.
To protect against accidental disclosure, why can't they print the routing number in black magnetic ink on top of a black field of non-magnetic ink? The check-reading machines can still decode it.
We've seen 9 regenerations on screen, and had one implied (McGann->Eccleston).
Your count is wrong. There are ten actors in the canonical role. There were seven regeneration scenes (no scene between 6 and 7 (Colin Baker->Sylvester McCoy) except for after the fact for a convention, nor one between 8 and 9 for the McGann->Eccleston regeneration).
Or are you counting the abbreviated regeneration of Tennant to Tennant and producing another Tennant from the severed hand? We'll have to wait and see if that counts (if it does, then Jenny's counts against her as well).
Each voter gets two little black-box chips in which their vote is stored in a quantum bit, entangled between the chips. The voter keeps one chip and turns over the other. When the vote is tallied and the bit read, this trips a state in both chips indicating that this vote was accessed. If the voter wishes he can have his vote verified in a private booth where his copy revealed to him and a panel consisting of representatives of the candidates' interests and a neutral party for contesting the record. The voter knows how he voted and can verify if his chip and thus his counted vote was correct.
The voter knows how he voted. If his chip doesn't match how he knows he voted, the count is corrected. The verification step is in isolation to prevent sale of the vote. Premature access of the chip in the voter's possession invalidates the other chip. If the chip was not accessed at all, the vote wasn't counted and the voter's chip can correct the omitted vote.
The chips of course are certified tamper-proof and forgery-proof.
Best if the "tally" is a system governed by wholly natural forces where the quantum states combine to form a superstate revealing the count.
Indeed, there should be a comparison video of Sarah Palin talking around what periodicals she reads vs. Miss Teen USA talking about the global map shortage.
OH, almost forgot to mention that the file format is the same Apple ][ format from the 1970s.:)
That would be a file of type T, which is just a flat text file with line (or paragraph) ends delimited with Carriage Return (CR) instead of any of Line Feed (LF), CRLF, or LFCR and no other special formatting.
The academics and computer scientists who said they were unreliable "have won that battle."'
Damn those stupid, fearful academics and computer scientists! Always standing in the way of progress!
Seriously, though, what's the tone they're going for there?
That the war over electronic voting machines is not yet over and they (Election Data Systems, nee Diebold) will continue to push for victory for their side regardless?
(EDS: Enter your vote for President of the United States! You have 30 seconds to comply!)
And who decides what words are "supposed to mean"? That's right, it's majority rule!
No. Right and wrong is not subject to majority rule.
Washington: Project Freelancer had one last resort failsafe: a high power E.M.P. that can wipe out all the A.I. in this facility. Now that the Meta is here we have a chance to take them all out at once and put this entire project out of commission. Grif: What's an E.M.P.? Washington: It's an electo-magnetic pulse. It wipes out all circuitry and computers it touches. It will destroy the A.I.-- Simmons: Oh, you mean an Emp. Sarge: Yeah, I was just about to say. Sounds like he's talkin' 'bout an Emp. Washington: Emp? That's not how you say it. Sarge: That's how most people say it. "Emp." Washington: No, they don't. Church: I say it that way. Washington: It's initials for Electro, Magnetic, Pulse. That's E.M.P. Grif: Right. Which spells Emp. Durr. Washington: We don't have time for this. You're wrong. Simmons: Why don't we take a vote? Washington: A vote? No. No vote, you're just wrong. There's no vote, it's E.M.P. Caboose: Not very democratic. Washington: Being wrong isn't a Democracy.
Once enough people "misspeak" the expression, it reaches critical mass and becomes proper usage.
And thus, the English language evolves.
Or devolves as the case may be where words and phrases change meaning to mean the opposite of what they're supposed to mean. See also "moot".
Either people are getting more sarcastic or just too lazy to include the "n't" of "couldn't". We've gone from double- and triple-negatives to omitted negatives.
Apple Corps & Paul McCartney's ex-wife still gets paid. I don't remember which ex.
I'd assume the one that is still alive, except for the state of copyright laws mandate dead people still get paid for 70 more years to encourage them to keep producing new works.
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Statistically you should be able to guess the right letter/number in half the keyspace.
What if there is more than one right character and the one you chose matches someone else's code that wasn't cut off? You'll have stolen someone else's key. A fair brute-force search would start with the widest characters first (more likely to be missing due to (I assume) non-monospaced string length).
That could be a reason why they pulled the brute-force solution from their site.
Or the character Theresa "Terry" Dolittle from the movie Jumpin' Jack Flash?
#FF00FF for pure (transparent in GIFs) pink
I think you want a more lightish than bluish red, like #FFCCCC (or, more concisely, #FCC).
The big question is -- can this program tell the difference between a porn photo and a photo of Fidel Castro eating a banana?
For some, a photo of Fidel Castro eating a banana would be porn. Won't someone think of the Kreetassans?
The study concludes that it has "pretty good evidence" that there is a link between video games and childhood aggression.
I didn't RTFA, so I'll just assume that the link is that video games reduce childhood aggression.
The MICR ink is not a requirement. Contrary to popular belief you can still write out a check on a napkin if you wish. It'll just take 2+ weeks to cash because a person will have to actually deal with it instead of their computerized systems.
Yes, my Accounting teacher in High School related a similar story where he had forgotten his checkbook and didn't have enough cash. As he said it, as long as the written order is valid, the account number is there, and the bank's name and address was correct, the improvised check was just as valid as any other check. It's basically a written order to the bank to pay to the order of the named bearer the funds from the account. Though I also recall someone, perhaps him, adding that with a new law (it would have to have been enacted in the 1980s) that you couldn't do that anymore. Possibly this was a MICR ink requirement, which now may be an obsolete requirement thus allowing for improvised checks again. I have not kept up with the laws on this. Also, that teacher has since died.
In any case, I'm pretty sure the bank would be well within their rights to charge a special handling fee for improvised checks.
Has anyone checked those big novelty checks for lottery winnings people have their photos taken with whether they have readable routing numbers? There's likely a lot of money in those accounts.
The magnetic ink is no longer used, post-"Check21". It's all done with optical scanning now. The physical check is mostly meaningless, and I doubt your bank has received even one that you wrote in this century.
Oh, I have gotten canceled checks back in this century. In fact, only this year have they started sending me the photocopies instead. And all the pages of my statements including the check copies are now three-ring punched, and they've provided me a binder for them.
For awhile, a couple of places that bill me said that they may convert any check to EFTs and that by paying by check I'm allowing them to do it, but I was still getting my canceled checks from them up until I moved everything I could (for no fee) to charge to my credit card.
Oh, I still pay for my trash service by check, but it's always the same amount every month so I now prepay for the whole year every January.
All of those security features in paper checks are becoming worthless. I was standing in line at the grocery store, and the customer ahead of me wrote a check. The clerk fed the check into a document scanner built into the cash register, and returned the original check to the customer. Besides, banks are so automated that it's a rare occasion that a human ever looks at a check.
And now, even if the physical check gets back to the bank, I don't even get it back. Instead I get a reduced-size photocopy of only the front of the check. I don't even get a rubber stamp from Krusty the Klown's Cayman Islands holding company anymore (or anything I can dust for fingerprints or swab for DNA).
The only checks I write anymore are for credit card payments, loan payments, electric and gas bills (they still charge a fee for payment by credit card, which went up this month to $3.95 (they use Western Union® Speedpay®)), and to get pocket cash. Only two of the last three come back, as photocopies.
I'd be tempted to pay my bills with checks signed instead by celebrities, with the hope that perhaps the person receiving the check would value the autograph more than the amount on the check, except that they would still get that routing number and be able to get the payment and keep the autograph.
To protect against accidental disclosure, why can't they print the routing number in black magnetic ink on top of a black field of non-magnetic ink? The check-reading machines can still decode it.
I give you a pass as it let you make a "foo" reference.
As much as this will sound like a trolling post, it's not... what is the point of buying a Mac and then triple booting OS X, Windows, and Linux?
We choose to triple-boot a Mac in this decade and hack the other things, not because it is practical, but because it is fun.
If the Time Lords can bring back The Master after he was sucked into the Eye of Harmony....
Didn't they have two or three contradicting reasons for the destruction of Atlantis already?
We've seen 9 regenerations on screen, and had one implied (McGann->Eccleston).
Your count is wrong. There are ten actors in the canonical role. There were seven regeneration scenes (no scene between 6 and 7 (Colin Baker->Sylvester McCoy) except for after the fact for a convention, nor one between 8 and 9 for the McGann->Eccleston regeneration).
Or are you counting the abbreviated regeneration of Tennant to Tennant and producing another Tennant from the severed hand? We'll have to wait and see if that counts (if it does, then Jenny's counts against her as well).
The doctor regenerates but can initially only speak this alien language. Consequently, we have a new doctor with a non-English accent
Canon counter-example: Sylvester McCoy regenerated to Paul McGann in an American setting, but did not adopt an American accent.
Just in time for the release of Spaceballs: The Video Game.
Each voter gets two little black-box chips in which their vote is stored in a quantum bit, entangled between the chips. The voter keeps one chip and turns over the other. When the vote is tallied and the bit read, this trips a state in both chips indicating that this vote was accessed. If the voter wishes he can have his vote verified in a private booth where his copy revealed to him and a panel consisting of representatives of the candidates' interests and a neutral party for contesting the record. The voter knows how he voted and can verify if his chip and thus his counted vote was correct.
The voter knows how he voted. If his chip doesn't match how he knows he voted, the count is corrected. The verification step is in isolation to prevent sale of the vote. Premature access of the chip in the voter's possession invalidates the other chip. If the chip was not accessed at all, the vote wasn't counted and the voter's chip can correct the omitted vote.
The chips of course are certified tamper-proof and forgery-proof.
Best if the "tally" is a system governed by wholly natural forces where the quantum states combine to form a superstate revealing the count.
Can entangled quantum bits do this?
Well, next time they'll just have to change the deadline.
Like Texas?
Indeed, there should be a comparison video of Sarah Palin talking around what periodicals she reads vs. Miss Teen USA talking about the global map shortage.
OH, almost forgot to mention that the file format is the same Apple ][ format from the 1970s. :)
That would be a file of type T, which is just a flat text file with line (or paragraph) ends delimited with Carriage Return (CR) instead of any of Line Feed (LF), CRLF, or LFCR and no other special formatting.
Simple file formats last longest.
The academics and computer scientists who said they were unreliable "have won that battle."'
Damn those stupid, fearful academics and computer scientists! Always standing in the way of progress!
Seriously, though, what's the tone they're going for there?
That the war over electronic voting machines is not yet over and they (Election Data Systems, nee Diebold) will continue to push for victory for their side regardless?
(EDS: Enter your vote for President of the United States! You have 30 seconds to comply!)
Which part of "moot" do you think is this discussion?
That they were able to reduce it down to just one C. Now it's just GC.
Of course. It's a GNU Compiler.
And who decides what words are "supposed to mean"? That's right, it's majority rule!
No. Right and wrong is not subject to majority rule.
Once enough people "misspeak" the expression, it reaches critical mass and becomes proper usage.
And thus, the English language evolves.
Or devolves as the case may be where words and phrases change meaning to mean the opposite of what they're supposed to mean. See also "moot".
Either people are getting more sarcastic or just too lazy to include the "n't" of "couldn't". We've gone from double- and triple-negatives to omitted negatives.
It's time for another Good Idea, Bad Idea.
Good Idea: playing the accordion at a polka festival.
Bad Idea: playing the accordion anywhere else.
Apple Corps & Paul McCartney's ex-wife still gets paid. I don't remember which ex.
I'd assume the one that is still alive, except for the state of copyright laws mandate dead people still get paid for 70 more years to encourage them to keep producing new works.