Interfacing hardware (so the labs can control real world stuff, even if only a LED), Logic including all kinds of flipflops, race conditions (folks whom started programing on CPUs always have trouble adjusting to this), fork/join (and whatever the VHDL equivalent is), initial vs always (initial as a type of always that only runs once or whatever), parallel "programming" in general, computer or other system interfacing,
then, and only then, you're all set to do both Verilog or VHDL. Even if you can only do one or the other in lab, try to at least gloss over both at lecture time.
Designing a class by starting with the specific lab tool is kind of like designing a literature class beginning with word processor font selection.
If you don't know the theory, you're lost lost lost no matter if you choose Verilog or VHDL.
Americans have never accepted a radical political transformation that would change their future. They prefer technology, not radical politics, to propel social change.
Does the American Revolution not count as a radical political transformation? Federal republics were not common in 1776.
Yes, but at the time the American Revolution started, we were Brits.
How about the "civil war" / "war of northern aggression"? No fair saying the confederates were no longer americans, since they still resided on the N.A. continent.
Could you point us to something with more in-depth information, by all means.
Your interpretation was backwards. He's looking for less because it's expensive.
When purchasing a $200 graphics card in a corporate environment, the technical staff will read 200 page technical documents, search google for hours, write reports, run simulations, justify the upfront cost vs long term labor savings, basically spend at least a grand or two of labor costs to pick the best $200 card.
However, when purchasing a $30K "buzzword of the month" the decision will be made at a high level by a manager whom is proud of being non-technical based on: 1) What they saw on CSI and/or 24 last night, or maybe Obama's latest speech. 2) Whom has the scariest marketing material (buy this expensive magic widget or you be p0wned) 3) How much he enjoyed the sporting event the sales exec took him to, or how much he enjoyed the sales exec in general. 4) The cheapest, or the first one he saw in a magazine, or perhaps a brand that will offend one of his enemies (you know, like he hates the guy who happens to love Cisco products, so if the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then...)
In the digital realm it isn't a zero-sum game. If I help you write some code or share information with you then I don't lose it. In the physical world, if I share a cow or chicken with you then I have less food. It's easier to share when you don't lose that which you share.
Analogy falls apart w/ sharing bandwidth such as P2P in general or torrents specifically. Your DL uses up my UL, even worse if you suffer under an oppressive regime of transfer caps or even worse, pay-per-byte. Also affects anonymity networks like I2P that devote 80% of used bandwidth to switching other peoples traffic.
On the other hand, it works with the 80s style ratio ftp sites / ratio BBSes.
all three have worked. It is interesting that the 3rd works the least well from what I've seen. If people are acting in common because they want to believe it is of value to do so , communism works well. If people are sharing and acting in common because they are forced to by a contract or a government , it doesn't seem to work as well.
A good fourth example is the US military, of which I was a part of in the early 90s. It's all teamwork, everyone shares, no one owns the hummvee (although is gets weird where one individual signed responsibility for it, yet does not "own it"). This is by no means my unique idea, I heard it all the time when I was in the military, the irony that our military forces exist to save us from the commies but ironically here we are with our military as the only really successful communist society....
A pretty good summary of basic training was converting attitudes and outlooks via mild brainwashing techniques (sleep deprivation, stress, excessive enforced exercise, etc) from your second example "forced by contract" to your first example "believe it is of value to do so".
I would interpret that as the only stable communistic societies would be either medieval theocratic (from your other examples) or modern militaristic, and I have little respect for either in general for all to live under (although I personally enjoyed my "time in green")
By some miracle, Sears can pull "1.5 Hp" using "only 8 amps at 115 volts". Truly a miracle of perpetual motion.
So, I figure, using "sears horsepower" they could calculate 200000 / ( ( 8*115) / 1.5 ) = some 326 Sears Horsepower for their little car.
Sears horsepower used to be the absolute peak of scummy non-scientific marketing, second only to "music power" of audiophile amplifiers, but these car guys might set a new low.
The advantage of Digital is cost. You might as well take ten pictures and throw out nine.
I've done "serious" amateur photography, film and digital. "serious" as in a dedicated darkroom for film and semi-pro (expensive) digital gear, etc.
The disadvantage of digital is training/learning. Each picture is "free", so relax, right? You end up leisurely taking ten pictures, all poorly framed, bad perspective, poorly timed, wrong aperture/FoV/shutter speed tradeoff, shakey cam holding technique, and poorly lit, and end up throwing out all ten, thus having no usable picture at all... vs the film guy whom feels his wallet lighten each time he clicks, so he tries very hard and gets, perhaps, three Great pics out of every five expensive snaps.
The digital guy took more "Free" pics (unfortunately worth every penny), but the film guy took more "Great" pics. In the end the film guy comes out ahead with more "Great" pics and learns more.
'Polaroid' is, of course, a trademark of the Polaroid corporation.
'Instamatic' is a trademark of the Kodak corporation
I think he was trying to make a joke, because Kodak and Polaroid get along about as well as Linux and SCO. "The great Kodak / Polaroid lawsuit". In summary, Kodak didn't just lose but was utterly spanked, and could no longer sell their instant film, and had to mail refunds to the owners of their now unusable cameras. I think everyone alive in the 80s either personally junked their Kodak or was related to someone whom junked their Kodak. I remember goodwill stores had shelves of them... It was fun to take them apart.
How is hauling >1,000 pounds of steel with an engine that has a thermal efficiency rating of
The fuel for the horse, and the "exhaust", is transported with a 10,000 pound steel truck with a nice low thermal efficiency.
Muscle is not terribly efficient, far worse than modern engines, and the horse does not have an on/off switch... He/She uses food and water 24x7 never dropping below "idle".
Also you'd be shocked at the fossil fuel consumption to grow food. Generally about ten calories of oil per calorie of food consumed. Admittedly animal feed is somewhat less processed, but I'd be surprised if less than five calories of crude oil is used to product one calorie of animal feed.
I am quite certain my car uses less crude oil than a team of horses.
Take a documentary like Who Killed the Electric Car, which IMDB estimates to have cost circa $1m. I am ready to believe that estimate. Equipment rental needs to be paid.....
(Snip very long, interesting list of expensive "requirements" to make a film)
..... If you thought going all-digital was going to save you money and you did all your movie in HD video, the day you want to show it in a real theater the first filmout is going to run you more than $1 a *frame*. 24 frames per second.
That's all very impressive that it takes a village to raise a child and stuff, makes me wonder how my wife makes a home movie of my kid eating birthday cake without a home mortgage loan of expenses, and its all very impossible for a mere mortal individual to make a movie, but how come, relative to the electric car movie, "The BBS Documentary" by Jason Scott is better, longer, more interesting, better packaged, had more "actors" and better graphics, better sound, better DVD mastering (w/ easter eggs and stuff) probably has a higher ROI (although admittedly probably lower total dollar amount of profit) and was done by one dude in his basement? Don't get me wrong here, for an agit-prop documentary, "who killed the electric car" is pretty good and I mostly enjoyed it. Its just the BBS documentary is better, yet was immensely cheaper than your description. Could Jason Scott have blown, say $20 million on his much more complicated documentary? Maybe, but he didn't, as far as I know.
Let's put it this way, some guy comes to you and says he wants to make a documentary about the electric car. You don't know the guy. Says he needs a million bucks. I'm sure you wouldn't give him even one hundred bucks.
Didn't slow down Jason Scott, he just did his movie anyway. Doing his next video on text adventures all in HD, according to his blog. Very impressive. Interestingly, he asked for people to front him a small amount of money to buy HD gear, and plenty of people did in a very short amount of time. I would have, but didn't have time before he collected all the cash he needed.
"New media" isn't just a cheaper copy of old media, it's a whole different way of doing things. Your description is not why old media deserves big bucks, but why old media is going away.
I remember back in the days of Desert Combat when I was in early high school, getting the idea of parking mobile AA on the hillside, allowing you to get the gun pointed down farther than being level and using the AA guns against people - was great stuff,
I mean, I doubt I was the first person to do it, but I'd never seen or heard of anybody else doing it before after playing it for months myself...
Oh for the lack of history education now a days... I suspect the great desert fox himself might have invented the technique circa 1941...
Unless the business world converts to a French way of living...
A premise for a good joke, no doubt, but I'm having trouble getting the one that was already made. It's sunny in Paris? The French wear expensive glasses?
Ahem... He's referring to the synergistic effects of merging Amero-Dilbertian corporate dress codes with french clothing optional beaches, obviously.
The glove method is even safer, more quickly reversible, and arguably cheaper, since you don't need glue and probably already own gloves.
Can either use little magnets stuffed in the pointer fingertip of the gloves, or big ole hard drive magnets kind of held in the palm. Or both, I suppose, but be careful they don't stick together.
I've tried this and it works quite well until your hands sweat too much from the gloves being too warm inside the house. Old fashioned linear power supplies are much more entertaining than modern switchers. It's pretty strange knowing by touch if a material is ferromagnetic, because it's "sticky". I was not able to move my hands fast enough / use strong enough magnets to experience magnetic braking when waved over conductive surfaces, although I suppose it should be possible with stronger magnets. Tiny bits of magnetic junk built up on the gloves as I pawed everything... Best not touch CDs/DVDs when covered with magnetically attached iron shrapnel. In summary, it was a fun, cheap, and respectible way to entertain myself for about an hour.
I like that in a boss. You tell me what you want working, I'll work out the technical details and let you know if we can do it (or what it'll take to do it). You want to tell time - we'll build the watch.
It's impossible to usefully supervise/manage/direct someone if you have absolutely no idea what they are doing or how they do it.
Not saying that relationship can't work in an alternative form, kind of like an in-house independent contractor, but there's no way the yearly review or whatever can be even remotely accurate.
That, sir, is an oxymoron. Like "Military Intelligence" or "Deafening silence" or "clean coal"
The "mass pound" and "weight pound" may be equal at sea level in a certain location or whatever, but probably not equal at any other gravitational potential, which must make for some confusing equations and explanations. Therefore, Why the willful misunderstanding? Because its icky to have the same name for inertial mass and gravitational weight/force.
Thank you Peter for the info. Always a pleasure to converse with another five-digit UID, in our social class above the unwashed masses of six and seven digit UIDs.
Um, it's the pound. Doesn't everyone know that? 2.2 lbs to the kilo.
While weight certainly means the force created between two masses due to gravity, it is almost always used interchangeably with mass in practice.
Still messed up. Trying to compare a metric unit of mass to a imperial unit of weight using a conversion factor that only works at roughly sea level on earth.
Metric unit of weight - Newton N Metric unit of mass - Gram g
Imperial unit of weight - Pound lb (you know, like Pound Sterling being a pound of silver?) Imperial unit of mass - Slugs
I would consider a leak possible (even likely), so you need to manage down the risk such a leak can generate. This thing is supposed to be part of preventing recurrence of a highly tragic event, if it does that with a bit of leakage it's IMHO OK.
This "leakage" strategy will work about as well with the big brother database as it did with Olestra.
You can't open an account in a childs name except a savings account.
Every year you can open accounts using another 1/18th of them. So, that is what, a mere 21000 accounts per year? How much money laundering can you possibly want to do, anyway?
Furthermore, steal dear old grannies ID number, and I'm sad to say you can only use it for fraudulent purposes for a couple decades at most, until she dies and her number shows up on the UK equivalent of the SSDI (assuming they've even got something like that). But steal a kids ID number, and you can haunt them literally for the better part of a century.
all you have to do is show up in person to a bank with your child
For way more fun, show up at the Dr office with some random kid whom vaguely fits the description... Dr I hurtz my back playing tiddly winks, can you prescribe me a giant bottle of your finest painkillers? K thx bye.
Or, show up at any welfare office or whatever is the local equivalent asking for handouts with a similar looking kid.
Or, if you really need medical treatment for "insert delicate/embarrassing medical condition here" just pick any kid in the database whom matches kind of close. Works great for drug addiction, teen pregnancies/abortions, what they used to call "social diseases", mental conditions...
This data is WORTHLESS to theives
How about blackmail? Ranging from the obvious "I know what naughty-ness they secretly investigated you for, and I could forget it for a fee" all the way to the very creepy, "I know where your 14 year old daughter lives, where she goes to school, all her extracurricular activity schedules, and here's my paypal address" to the even creepier trick of doing that but providing your enemies/competitors/victims paypal address instead of your own...
First rule of security is just because you are not creative enough to make money, doesn't mean no one in the entire world is creative enough to make money.
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Absolutely seconded. If you understand:
Interfacing hardware (so the labs can control real world stuff, even if only a LED),
Logic including all kinds of flipflops,
race conditions (folks whom started programing on CPUs always have trouble adjusting to this),
fork/join (and whatever the VHDL equivalent is),
initial vs always (initial as a type of always that only runs once or whatever),
parallel "programming" in general,
computer or other system interfacing,
then, and only then, you're all set to do both Verilog or VHDL. Even if you can only do one or the other in lab, try to at least gloss over both at lecture time.
Designing a class by starting with the specific lab tool is kind of like designing a literature class beginning with word processor font selection.
If you don't know the theory, you're lost lost lost no matter if you choose Verilog or VHDL.
I followed the link to free beer, nice. However, you forgot to put the link to the porn.
http://127.0.0.1/index.html works for me
Americans have never accepted a radical political transformation that would change their future. They prefer technology, not radical politics, to propel social change.
Does the American Revolution not count as a radical political transformation? Federal republics were not common in 1776.
Yes, but at the time the American Revolution started, we were Brits.
How about the "civil war" / "war of northern aggression"? No fair saying the confederates were no longer americans, since they still resided on the N.A. continent.
you still aren't going to get good signal inside of most public buildings.
Isn't that like the company motto of most cellphone providers?
Could you point us to something with more in-depth information, by all means.
Your interpretation was backwards. He's looking for less because it's expensive.
When purchasing a $200 graphics card in a corporate environment, the technical staff will read 200 page technical documents, search google for hours, write reports, run simulations, justify the upfront cost vs long term labor savings, basically spend at least a grand or two of labor costs to pick the best $200 card.
However, when purchasing a $30K "buzzword of the month" the decision will be made at a high level by a manager whom is proud of being non-technical based on: ...)
1) What they saw on CSI and/or 24 last night, or maybe Obama's latest speech.
2) Whom has the scariest marketing material (buy this expensive magic widget or you be p0wned)
3) How much he enjoyed the sporting event the sales exec took him to, or how much he enjoyed the sales exec in general.
4) The cheapest, or the first one he saw in a magazine, or perhaps a brand that will offend one of his enemies (you know, like he hates the guy who happens to love Cisco products, so if the enemy of my enemy is my friend, then
In the digital realm it isn't a zero-sum game. If I help you write some code or share information with you then I don't lose it. In the physical world, if I share a cow or chicken with you then I have less food. It's easier to share when you don't lose that which you share.
Analogy falls apart w/ sharing bandwidth such as P2P in general or torrents specifically. Your DL uses up my UL, even worse if you suffer under an oppressive regime of transfer caps or even worse, pay-per-byte. Also affects anonymity networks like I2P that devote 80% of used bandwidth to switching other peoples traffic.
On the other hand, it works with the 80s style ratio ftp sites / ratio BBSes.
You're 99% correct except for:
No socialist effort is going to make a web site that beats Google, Apple's itune Store, or Amazon.
Response: thepiratebay
all three have worked. It is interesting that the 3rd works the least well from what I've seen.
If people are acting in common because they want to believe it is of value to do so , communism works well. If people are sharing and acting in common because they are forced to by a contract or a government , it doesn't seem to work as well.
A good fourth example is the US military, of which I was a part of in the early 90s. It's all teamwork, everyone shares, no one owns the hummvee (although is gets weird where one individual signed responsibility for it, yet does not "own it"). This is by no means my unique idea, I heard it all the time when I was in the military, the irony that our military forces exist to save us from the commies but ironically here we are with our military as the only really successful communist society....
A pretty good summary of basic training was converting attitudes and outlooks via mild brainwashing techniques (sleep deprivation, stress, excessive enforced exercise, etc) from your second example "forced by contract" to your first example "believe it is of value to do so".
I would interpret that as the only stable communistic societies would be either medieval theocratic (from your other examples) or modern militaristic, and I have little respect for either in general for all to live under (although I personally enjoyed my "time in green")
TFA is even worse than "Sears Horsepower". Take this link for example:
http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_00970394000P?vName=Tools&keyword=compressor
By some miracle, Sears can pull "1.5 Hp" using "only 8 amps at 115 volts". Truly a miracle of perpetual motion.
So, I figure, using "sears horsepower" they could calculate 200000 / ( ( 8*115) / 1.5 ) = some 326 Sears Horsepower for their little car.
Sears horsepower used to be the absolute peak of scummy non-scientific marketing, second only to "music power" of audiophile amplifiers, but these car guys might set a new low.
The advantage of Digital is cost. You might as well take ten pictures and throw out nine.
I've done "serious" amateur photography, film and digital. "serious" as in a dedicated darkroom for film and semi-pro (expensive) digital gear, etc.
The disadvantage of digital is training/learning. Each picture is "free", so relax, right? You end up leisurely taking ten pictures, all poorly framed, bad perspective, poorly timed, wrong aperture/FoV/shutter speed tradeoff, shakey cam holding technique, and poorly lit, and end up throwing out all ten, thus having no usable picture at all... vs the film guy whom feels his wallet lighten each time he clicks, so he tries very hard and gets, perhaps, three Great pics out of every five expensive snaps.
The digital guy took more "Free" pics (unfortunately worth every penny), but the film guy took more "Great" pics. In the end the film guy comes out ahead with more "Great" pics and learns more.
What sort of photography job do you envision doing at some site with some client, where you are using Polariod instant film and camera?
Insurance claims agent. Industrial/Railroad/Aircraft accident investigator. Pretty much any job title containing the word "inspector".
'Polaroid' is, of course, a trademark of the Polaroid corporation.
'Instamatic' is a trademark of the Kodak corporation
I think he was trying to make a joke, because Kodak and Polaroid get along about as well as Linux and SCO. "The great Kodak / Polaroid lawsuit". In summary, Kodak didn't just lose but was utterly spanked, and could no longer sell their instant film, and had to mail refunds to the owners of their now unusable cameras. I think everyone alive in the 80s either personally junked their Kodak or was related to someone whom junked their Kodak. I remember goodwill stores had shelves of them... It was fun to take them apart.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_camera
How is hauling >1,000 pounds of steel with an engine that has a thermal efficiency rating of
The fuel for the horse, and the "exhaust", is transported with a 10,000 pound steel truck with a nice low thermal efficiency.
Muscle is not terribly efficient, far worse than modern engines, and the horse does not have an on/off switch... He/She uses food and water 24x7 never dropping below "idle".
Also you'd be shocked at the fossil fuel consumption to grow food. Generally about ten calories of oil per calorie of food consumed. Admittedly animal feed is somewhat less processed, but I'd be surprised if less than five calories of crude oil is used to product one calorie of animal feed.
I am quite certain my car uses less crude oil than a team of horses.
Take a documentary like Who Killed the Electric Car, which IMDB estimates to have cost circa $1m. I am ready to believe that estimate. Equipment rental needs to be paid .....
(Snip very long, interesting list of expensive "requirements" to make a film)
That's all very impressive that it takes a village to raise a child and stuff, makes me wonder how my wife makes a home movie of my kid eating birthday cake without a home mortgage loan of expenses, and its all very impossible for a mere mortal individual to make a movie, but how come, relative to the electric car movie, "The BBS Documentary" by Jason Scott is better, longer, more interesting, better packaged, had more "actors" and better graphics, better sound, better DVD mastering (w/ easter eggs and stuff) probably has a higher ROI (although admittedly probably lower total dollar amount of profit) and was done by one dude in his basement? Don't get me wrong here, for an agit-prop documentary, "who killed the electric car" is pretty good and I mostly enjoyed it. Its just the BBS documentary is better, yet was immensely cheaper than your description. Could Jason Scott have blown, say $20 million on his much more complicated documentary? Maybe, but he didn't, as far as I know.
http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/
Let's put it this way, some guy comes to you and says he wants to make a documentary about the electric car. You don't know the guy. Says he needs a million bucks. I'm sure you wouldn't give him even one hundred bucks.
Didn't slow down Jason Scott, he just did his movie anyway. Doing his next video on text adventures all in HD, according to his blog. Very impressive. Interestingly, he asked for people to front him a small amount of money to buy HD gear, and plenty of people did in a very short amount of time. I would have, but didn't have time before he collected all the cash he needed.
"New media" isn't just a cheaper copy of old media, it's a whole different way of doing things. Your description is not why old media deserves big bucks, but why old media is going away.
I remember back in the days of Desert Combat when I was in early high school, getting the idea of parking mobile AA on the hillside, allowing you to get the gun pointed down farther than being level and using the AA guns against people - was great stuff,
I mean, I doubt I was the first person to do it, but I'd never seen or heard of anybody else doing it before after playing it for months myself...
Oh for the lack of history education now a days ... I suspect the great desert fox himself might have invented the technique circa 1941...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_mm_gun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Rommel
36 million electrical meters
Electrical meters are physical meters times velocity of propagation, right?
So, whats the conversion factor for electrical meters to imperial?
Unless the business world converts to a French way of living ...
A premise for a good joke, no doubt, but I'm having trouble getting the one that was already made. It's sunny in Paris? The French wear expensive glasses?
Ahem... He's referring to the synergistic effects of merging Amero-Dilbertian corporate dress codes with french clothing optional beaches, obviously.
The glove method is even safer, more quickly reversible, and arguably cheaper, since you don't need glue and probably already own gloves.
Can either use little magnets stuffed in the pointer fingertip of the gloves, or big ole hard drive magnets kind of held in the palm. Or both, I suppose, but be careful they don't stick together.
I've tried this and it works quite well until your hands sweat too much from the gloves being too warm inside the house. Old fashioned linear power supplies are much more entertaining than modern switchers. It's pretty strange knowing by touch if a material is ferromagnetic, because it's "sticky". I was not able to move my hands fast enough / use strong enough magnets to experience magnetic braking when waved over conductive surfaces, although I suppose it should be possible with stronger magnets. Tiny bits of magnetic junk built up on the gloves as I pawed everything... Best not touch CDs/DVDs when covered with magnetically attached iron shrapnel. In summary, it was a fun, cheap, and respectible way to entertain myself for about an hour.
Have you licked a Buick lately? Not as sweet as they were in the 50s.
Uh, thats the anti-freeze. The old glycol was terribly toxic and terribly sweet tasting. I am told the new dexcool stuff does not taste sweet.
I like that in a boss. You tell me what you want working, I'll work out the technical details and let you know if we can do it (or what it'll take to do it). You want to tell time - we'll build the watch.
It's impossible to usefully supervise/manage/direct someone if you have absolutely no idea what they are doing or how they do it.
Not saying that relationship can't work in an alternative form, kind of like an in-house independent contractor, but there's no way the yearly review or whatever can be even remotely accurate.
modern imperial system
That, sir, is an oxymoron. Like "Military Intelligence" or "Deafening silence" or "clean coal"
The "mass pound" and "weight pound" may be equal at sea level in a certain location or whatever, but probably not equal at any other gravitational potential, which must make for some confusing equations and explanations. Therefore, Why the willful misunderstanding? Because its icky to have the same name for inertial mass and gravitational weight/force.
Thank you Peter for the info. Always a pleasure to converse with another five-digit UID, in our social class above the unwashed masses of six and seven digit UIDs.
Um, it's the pound. Doesn't everyone know that? 2.2 lbs to the kilo.
While weight certainly means the force created between two masses due to gravity, it is almost always used interchangeably with mass in practice.
Still messed up. Trying to compare a metric unit of mass to a imperial unit of weight using a conversion factor that only works at roughly sea level on earth.
Metric unit of weight - Newton N
Metric unit of mass - Gram g
Imperial unit of weight - Pound lb (you know, like Pound Sterling being a pound of silver?)
Imperial unit of mass - Slugs
Sorry, this is making a story out of basically nothing.
Next up on slashdot, Biden reveals the top secret name of the president's aircraft is "air force one".
Followed up by "don't tell anybody, but there's gold at ft knox"
I would consider a leak possible (even likely), so you need to manage down the risk such a leak can generate. This thing is supposed to be part of preventing recurrence of a highly tragic event, if it does that with a bit of leakage it's IMHO OK.
This "leakage" strategy will work about as well with the big brother database as it did with Olestra.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olestra
You can't open an account in a childs name except a savings account.
Every year you can open accounts using another 1/18th of them. So, that is what, a mere 21000 accounts per year? How much money laundering can you possibly want to do, anyway?
Furthermore, steal dear old grannies ID number, and I'm sad to say you can only use it for fraudulent purposes for a couple decades at most, until she dies and her number shows up on the UK equivalent of the SSDI (assuming they've even got something like that). But steal a kids ID number, and you can haunt them literally for the better part of a century.
all you have to do is show up in person to a bank with your child
For way more fun, show up at the Dr office with some random kid whom vaguely fits the description... Dr I hurtz my back playing tiddly winks, can you prescribe me a giant bottle of your finest painkillers? K thx bye.
Or, show up at any welfare office or whatever is the local equivalent asking for handouts with a similar looking kid.
Or, if you really need medical treatment for "insert delicate/embarrassing medical condition here" just pick any kid in the database whom matches kind of close. Works great for drug addiction, teen pregnancies/abortions, what they used to call "social diseases", mental conditions...
This data is WORTHLESS to theives
How about blackmail? Ranging from the obvious "I know what naughty-ness they secretly investigated you for, and I could forget it for a fee" all the way to the very creepy, "I know where your 14 year old daughter lives, where she goes to school, all her extracurricular activity schedules, and here's my paypal address" to the even creepier trick of doing that but providing your enemies/competitors/victims paypal address instead of your own...
First rule of security is just because you are not creative enough to make money, doesn't mean no one in the entire world is creative enough to make money.