A SSN is between 1-1,000,000,000. Code the number as an integer, a 26 bit integer. No delimiter needed, and under 4 bytes. There are less than 700 valid area codes, and many fewer than that in use. If one were to "encode" the phone number, one could compress the phone numbers into fewer bits. Efficient packing in fixed length would work for everything but open strings, like addresses, unless you want to code against the USPS database of addresses. I have no idea how many are in that database, but if you had the UID for each of those and numbered those sequentially from 0, you'd probably have the smallest form a complete and valid address, for any address, can fit.
But that'd take some work. Violating his privacy doesn't need nearly that much work.
Why is Nancy Pelosi the demon of all conservatives? I just saw the NRA campaign against Staci Appel. Plastered all over the conservative blogs. Why do the conservatives hate women? I haven't met a conservative that didn't hate Nancy Pelosi or Hillary Clinton. Women should stay home with the kids?
A libertarian state would pass laws banning people from having the freedom to implant themselves with an RFID? What a totalitarian distopian libertarian world you long for.
Because I'm not a billionaire multi-national. Are you certain they don't get a tax credit, rather than "just" a deduction? Often there are loopholes that make the donation an alternative way of paying tax, such that every $1 donated reduces taxes by $1. They get the publicity of a "donation" and it costs $0 to the bottom line.
Those special deals/rules aren't available to people. Companies are taxed on profits. Citizens are taxed on income
Someone else linked the rules, it appears that my knowledge of the laws of 10 states were the "norm" and that CA is not the norm. It's illegal in some places to offer a "cash discount" because that's the same as a usurious surcharge on credit. Oddly, surcharges are illegal more than they are legal. And in the '80s and '90s, I watched a number of places (even in CA) lose their merchant agreement over such charges. But they are apparently tolerated now.
But yes, in CA, they are "legal" and any bans on them in contracts are invalid. Though the credit companies aren't bound to renewing their contracts, they apparently do.
And you'd be surprised how "small" the Shell/Mobile/Chevron and other stations are. Almost all are franchised, and many of those owner-operated, not corporate owned by a large chain.
To reject the notion of expertise, and to replace it with a sanctimonious insistence that every person has a right to his or her own opinion, is just plain silly.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. - Daniel Patrick Moynihan
I would similarly mock the flat-earth society. This conference should be granted the same treatment as the Flat Earth Society. Would allowing the Flat Earth Society to speak at MSU make MSU look worse? If so, then MSU should be able to deny them a forum, right? If MSU would allow the FES to speak, then this conference should be allowed as well.
Most states have no distinctions anymore. There are "public" universities, and "private" universities. Originally, most states had a "main" university, and an "agricultural" university. In Texas, The University of Texas (UT) and Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (Texas A&M - TAMU), in CA it's Cal-State and UC. Though most states had two initial public universities, many constituted and funded in the Constitution, all public universities are roughly equal now. Yes, even the ones that started out "rural" are interchangeable with their counterparts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... Indicates that funding is the distinction. And note that "private" doesn't require or even imply a for-profit status. It just means that it doesn't rely on public funding.
There has never been anything that has disproven the fact that the world was born on January 1, 1960 (my birthdate), just for me, and anyone older was created at that point "artificially" aged. The fossil record was implanted, and all history is fabricated? The world will be destroyed the moment I'm dead.
Nobody can prove that false (at least not to me, as I'll be dead before the final test can be administered). It may be wrong, but it is untestable. God could have created the Earth 8000 years ago as is, with the historical "evidence" planted for continuity's sake. A "person" within a sufficiently advanced simulation wouldn't be able to prove it a simulation. And you can't prove it wrong, can you? So where's the proof against this that you claim is so well documented? It doesn't exist. You can argue facts, but there's no point arguing opinion.
Non sequitur. The cards either do or don't have a mag stripe. Some have indicated there are chip cards without the mag stripe, and others have indicated not. You are apparently saying they have the mag stripe, but you shouldn't use it. Though, my experience is that the chips are more delicate than they assert, and I've had a chip failure, and I had to swipe many times with that card before I got the bank to replace it without a fee.
Swipe, it says "insert" insert, and it says "card read failure, please swipe". Swipe, and it works with a PIN. Wasn't the merchant pulling a fast one, but a flaky card.
There are no validations, and no ability to reverse charges. You tell your bank to send $100 to destination account number 012345678 (with the same or another bank). Done, gone. Why do you need a way to reverse charges on something you explicitly authorized and sent? You call the guy you sent it to and ask them to send it back.
Though in places like that, any mistakes are the responsibility of the recipient. If you get $1,000,000 and you know it was an error, it's fraud/theft to spend it. And you must give it back when asked. It isn't yours.
In the US, unsoliscited send is considered a "gift" (when sent through the USPS), so many people assume the same with all mistakes. Places that never had that mentality seem to think that something belongs to a person until they deliberately transfer ownership. Errors don't count.
Have you ever had kids? Nothing like watching a 4 year old jump off a platform 4x their height, with no fear. Confident until proven otherwise. Only when they learn they have limitations do they believe they have them.
I never had that problem. Though I was obviously a tourist, and not some shifty local, so they may have let it slide. And many tourists, especially from the US, don't have chip cards.
You can do contactless payments up to a certain threshold and chip and pin transactions after that.
I have tap and go with magstripe. If You tap and go over $80 (or something like that) it becomes tap and PIN, and is *never* (required to be) chip and pin on a contactless terminal. So it's tap and go, tap and PIN, chip and PIN or magstripe, with the user's choice of tap or chip, and won't use magstripe unless the terminal can't do it, or the chip transaction is attempted and failed (bad read, but not bad auth, bad auth requires chip and pin).
What bank is it? You talk like you worked there, so I understand trying to hide your personal details, but I've not seen any cards without a magstripe. I did a quick google and the only contactles cards with no magstripe I could find were work IDs, no credit cards/debit cards that had no magstripes. Can you at least point to the state or country that has chip-only cards?
The contract clause is void in some places, but that won't stop them from failing to renew the agreement when it comes up for renewal, to the same effect without running afoul of the law.
(almost) All people are confident. That's human nature. (almost) all people are ignorant. That's human nature. That learning causes a loss of confidence doesn't mean that ignorance causes confidence. So I reject the "causitive mechanism" stated. He's proving the control (the "natural" state), not the experimental case, where someone who is ignorant is confident, and as their knowledge grows, they get less confident. One would presume that there's a turnaround on the other end. It's hard to imagine that the most knowledgeable person on every subject thinks themselves the least knowledgeable.
When most people lock up a bike with a lock through the front tire and a quick-release hub, it takes 10 seconds to steal a bike. When he'd go out stealing, he'd take a front wheel with him, and put it on the recently-stolen bike and ride it away. Sometimes he'd steal a wheel from a bike next to the bike he stole, but never walked away without a rideable bike. Carrying your own wheel around campus is odd, but not illegal. Carrying a stolen bike with no wheels is odd and illegal. So be odd only when legal, and fit in when illegal.
After a while word got around, and bikes would be locked up better. He never broke or cut a single lock, but probably stole 100 bikes in his 4-5 years there.
Most of the car shenanigans was by some curious, but not malicious people. Eventually, some more malicious people in the group caught on, and the non malicious people stopped. I only know of two times cars were started with the Golden Keys, it was more a theoretical exercise to see how bad GM's security was. I know there were likely more, but I was only personally aware of two.
I've seen no law that requires credit card companies to do business with people who won't follow their ToS, so I think you are misinformed.
So they won't go to jail for a discount, but they can (and will) lose their merchant agreement for cash discounts or minimum charges ("no credit cards under $10").
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Every comment about libertarians is obtuse, yours included.
A SSN is between 1-1,000,000,000. Code the number as an integer, a 26 bit integer. No delimiter needed, and under 4 bytes. There are less than 700 valid area codes, and many fewer than that in use. If one were to "encode" the phone number, one could compress the phone numbers into fewer bits. Efficient packing in fixed length would work for everything but open strings, like addresses, unless you want to code against the USPS database of addresses. I have no idea how many are in that database, but if you had the UID for each of those and numbered those sequentially from 0, you'd probably have the smallest form a complete and valid address, for any address, can fit.
But that'd take some work. Violating his privacy doesn't need nearly that much work.
Why is Nancy Pelosi the demon of all conservatives? I just saw the NRA campaign against Staci Appel. Plastered all over the conservative blogs. Why do the conservatives hate women? I haven't met a conservative that didn't hate Nancy Pelosi or Hillary Clinton. Women should stay home with the kids?
A libertarian state would pass laws banning people from having the freedom to implant themselves with an RFID? What a totalitarian distopian libertarian world you long for.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. That you choose to not use the mag stripe is irrelevant to the fact that it is there and usable.
Because I'm not a billionaire multi-national. Are you certain they don't get a tax credit, rather than "just" a deduction? Often there are loopholes that make the donation an alternative way of paying tax, such that every $1 donated reduces taxes by $1. They get the publicity of a "donation" and it costs $0 to the bottom line.
Those special deals/rules aren't available to people. Companies are taxed on profits. Citizens are taxed on income
Someone else linked the rules, it appears that my knowledge of the laws of 10 states were the "norm" and that CA is not the norm. It's illegal in some places to offer a "cash discount" because that's the same as a usurious surcharge on credit. Oddly, surcharges are illegal more than they are legal. And in the '80s and '90s, I watched a number of places (even in CA) lose their merchant agreement over such charges. But they are apparently tolerated now.
But yes, in CA, they are "legal" and any bans on them in contracts are invalid. Though the credit companies aren't bound to renewing their contracts, they apparently do.
And you'd be surprised how "small" the Shell/Mobile/Chevron and other stations are. Almost all are franchised, and many of those owner-operated, not corporate owned by a large chain.
To reject the notion of expertise, and to replace it with a sanctimonious insistence that every person has a right to his or her own opinion, is just plain silly.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. - Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Would you silence a dissenting view?
I would similarly mock the flat-earth society. This conference should be granted the same treatment as the Flat Earth Society. Would allowing the Flat Earth Society to speak at MSU make MSU look worse? If so, then MSU should be able to deny them a forum, right? If MSU would allow the FES to speak, then this conference should be allowed as well.
Most states have no distinctions anymore. There are "public" universities, and "private" universities. Originally, most states had a "main" university, and an "agricultural" university. In Texas, The University of Texas (UT) and Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (Texas A&M - TAMU), in CA it's Cal-State and UC. Though most states had two initial public universities, many constituted and funded in the Constitution, all public universities are roughly equal now. Yes, even the ones that started out "rural" are interchangeable with their counterparts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... Indicates that funding is the distinction. And note that "private" doesn't require or even imply a for-profit status. It just means that it doesn't rely on public funding.
There has never been anything that has disproven the fact that the world was born on January 1, 1960 (my birthdate), just for me, and anyone older was created at that point "artificially" aged. The fossil record was implanted, and all history is fabricated? The world will be destroyed the moment I'm dead.
Nobody can prove that false (at least not to me, as I'll be dead before the final test can be administered). It may be wrong, but it is untestable. God could have created the Earth 8000 years ago as is, with the historical "evidence" planted for continuity's sake. A "person" within a sufficiently advanced simulation wouldn't be able to prove it a simulation. And you can't prove it wrong, can you? So where's the proof against this that you claim is so well documented? It doesn't exist. You can argue facts, but there's no point arguing opinion.
Non sequitur. The cards either do or don't have a mag stripe. Some have indicated there are chip cards without the mag stripe, and others have indicated not. You are apparently saying they have the mag stripe, but you shouldn't use it. Though, my experience is that the chips are more delicate than they assert, and I've had a chip failure, and I had to swipe many times with that card before I got the bank to replace it without a fee.
Swipe, it says "insert" insert, and it says "card read failure, please swipe". Swipe, and it works with a PIN. Wasn't the merchant pulling a fast one, but a flaky card.
" 2 to 16 percent of the discharged oil" != "4–31% of the oil sequestered in the deep ocean"
They are comparing slightly different things.
There are no validations, and no ability to reverse charges. You tell your bank to send $100 to destination account number 012345678 (with the same or another bank). Done, gone. Why do you need a way to reverse charges on something you explicitly authorized and sent? You call the guy you sent it to and ask them to send it back.
Though in places like that, any mistakes are the responsibility of the recipient. If you get $1,000,000 and you know it was an error, it's fraud/theft to spend it. And you must give it back when asked. It isn't yours.
In the US, unsoliscited send is considered a "gift" (when sent through the USPS), so many people assume the same with all mistakes. Places that never had that mentality seem to think that something belongs to a person until they deliberately transfer ownership. Errors don't count.
Have you ever had kids? Nothing like watching a 4 year old jump off a platform 4x their height, with no fear. Confident until proven otherwise. Only when they learn they have limitations do they believe they have them.
I never had that problem. Though I was obviously a tourist, and not some shifty local, so they may have let it slide. And many tourists, especially from the US, don't have chip cards.
You can do contactless payments up to a certain threshold and chip and pin transactions after that.
I have tap and go with magstripe. If You tap and go over $80 (or something like that) it becomes tap and PIN, and is *never* (required to be) chip and pin on a contactless terminal. So it's tap and go, tap and PIN, chip and PIN or magstripe, with the user's choice of tap or chip, and won't use magstripe unless the terminal can't do it, or the chip transaction is attempted and failed (bad read, but not bad auth, bad auth requires chip and pin).
What bank is it? You talk like you worked there, so I understand trying to hide your personal details, but I've not seen any cards without a magstripe. I did a quick google and the only contactles cards with no magstripe I could find were work IDs, no credit cards/debit cards that had no magstripes. Can you at least point to the state or country that has chip-only cards?
The contract clause is void in some places, but that won't stop them from failing to renew the agreement when it comes up for renewal, to the same effect without running afoul of the law.
(almost) All people are confident. That's human nature. (almost) all people are ignorant. That's human nature. That learning causes a loss of confidence doesn't mean that ignorance causes confidence. So I reject the "causitive mechanism" stated. He's proving the control (the "natural" state), not the experimental case, where someone who is ignorant is confident, and as their knowledge grows, they get less confident. One would presume that there's a turnaround on the other end. It's hard to imagine that the most knowledgeable person on every subject thinks themselves the least knowledgeable.
Confidence increases with ignorance doesn't mean that all confident people are unable to gauge their own abilities.
Only pointed out by the idiots suffering from the effect themselves.
There's nothing that says that confidence implies ignorance. Well, other than the assertions by those suffering from the effect themselves.
And they can lose their merchant agreement over it.
You can always read in the ToS. Not all ToS are designed to screw the customer.
When most people lock up a bike with a lock through the front tire and a quick-release hub, it takes 10 seconds to steal a bike. When he'd go out stealing, he'd take a front wheel with him, and put it on the recently-stolen bike and ride it away. Sometimes he'd steal a wheel from a bike next to the bike he stole, but never walked away without a rideable bike. Carrying your own wheel around campus is odd, but not illegal. Carrying a stolen bike with no wheels is odd and illegal. So be odd only when legal, and fit in when illegal.
After a while word got around, and bikes would be locked up better. He never broke or cut a single lock, but probably stole 100 bikes in his 4-5 years there.
Most of the car shenanigans was by some curious, but not malicious people. Eventually, some more malicious people in the group caught on, and the non malicious people stopped. I only know of two times cars were started with the Golden Keys, it was more a theoretical exercise to see how bad GM's security was. I know there were likely more, but I was only personally aware of two.
I've seen no law that requires credit card companies to do business with people who won't follow their ToS, so I think you are misinformed.
So they won't go to jail for a discount, but they can (and will) lose their merchant agreement for cash discounts or minimum charges ("no credit cards under $10").