That's fine. Email an extremely large code to the email address on file. When the user follows that link, you whitelist their current ip. Some effort, but far better than a compromised account. I guess this won't protect email though.
The purpose of mod isn't to reward commenters. It's to raise visibility for worthy comments. So next time, mod anon up so that people reading on +2, etc. can see the good comments.
You think people appreciate the cost of education when their parents pay? No. How about when they take out loans? Most students I know have no idea what their educational debt really means (of course, this is a pervasive problem in our credit card culture). So I guess the only way to properly instill an appreciation for the cost of education would be to force people to work-study or pre-pay their tuition without debt. Unfortunately, while work-study will increase appreciation, it will reduce the amount of time the student has to, you know, study.
Well, if it really bothered you, maybe you'd be more likely to hit mute or change the channel. Then they would lose an advertising opportunity and presumably revenue would go down. On the other hand, maybe the increased volume is effective for the vast majority of people, so they don't mind losing you as a customer.
That said, I think a 50 year problem is worthy of regulation. I'd say the FCC or FTC should do it without congress needing to write a bill, but that kind of thinking doesn't often go over well here.
Straightforward is not the same as obvious. Plenty of patentable ideas are easy to implement once you hear the idea from someone else. I haven't read this particular patent history, so I am only addressing your apparent assertion that anything easy to do should not be patentable. I think the appropriate standard is not how easy it is to do something, rather how easy it is to invent something.
You are voting with your wallet, but did you make your reasons known? It may seem idiotic, but I'm sure someone at an airline is looking at the numbers and saying "people aren't flying anymore, it must be because they DON'T FEEL SAFE... we must make them feel safer by launching operation anal cavity probe!"
This is huge. If we can't trust the government not to leak classified data over P2P, what makes anyone think they will successfully keep our records private?
It is a little known fact that soap can be used to make bubbles.
It is completely irresponsible for you to post this information on the public interwebs. I demand that you delete your post at once, or I will be forced to back trace your IP and report you to the cyber police. Don't try to raise any kind of First Amendment defense, because as we all know, national security trumps freedom of speech, and due to your carelessness a terrerist may learn how to make bubbles of doom.
So, if you pay 30% taxes, then you had to earn $142.85 to pay the plumber $100, for which you got less than $70 worth of services. In the end, $142 of your dollars bought something less than $70 worth of services.
But by your logic, I only had to do $100 of work to earn the $142.85 (you say the plumber does $70 of work for the $100). So there's no double dipping.
Troll? I guess it depends on how you define "serious" learning, but when I seriously needed to replace the headlight on my car, I seriously found a how-to online and seriously gained the knowledge of how to do it. Gaining knowledge that you did not have before is learning, in my book. Sorry if you don't think practical learning is "serious".
I don't really use twitter, but doesn't the format itself make conversations that are "more than three levels deep" almost impossible because you can't preserve the context? Twitter itself knows how many times each tweet was accessed for display, which is probably proportional to the number of times it's been read. Those statistics would be more informative.
Ironically, however, by passing a progressive income tax, this guy might have ended up getting fire services subsidized by the more affluent folk in the neighboring city.
That's all you've seen, but have you been hanging out in REAL pedophile forums? Obviously pedobear started as a joke, but I'll fully admit I have no knowledge of whether the real pedophile community has adopted the image to communicate with each other. If (and its a big if) the police have real (i.e. not hypothetical) knowledge that real pedophiles use the image to communicate with each other, then the warning is appropriate (maybe they have undercovers in pedophile forums?).
I looked at the actual bulletin and it seemed to be a downright reasonable explanation of pedobear, minus the reference to "pedophiles and sexual deviants," which again I can't really dispute because I have no idea what those guys are doing!
That may work for data it stores, but what about data it sends? Of course, an elite hacker can make a remote computer blow up by sending a few choice lines of code over the network.
Well, if what he says is true (25 years old and living on SSI) then yes, he is either (1) totally or partially blind; or
(2) has a medical condition that keeps him from working and is expected to last at least one year or result in death.
I guess (3) has faked one ore more of the above -- could also be true.
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No true Scotsman would disagree with you.
That's fine. Email an extremely large code to the email address on file. When the user follows that link, you whitelist their current ip. Some effort, but far better than a compromised account. I guess this won't protect email though.
The purpose of mod isn't to reward commenters. It's to raise visibility for worthy comments. So next time, mod anon up so that people reading on +2, etc. can see the good comments.
You think people appreciate the cost of education when their parents pay? No. How about when they take out loans? Most students I know have no idea what their educational debt really means (of course, this is a pervasive problem in our credit card culture). So I guess the only way to properly instill an appreciation for the cost of education would be to force people to work-study or pre-pay their tuition without debt. Unfortunately, while work-study will increase appreciation, it will reduce the amount of time the student has to, you know, study.
Well, if it really bothered you, maybe you'd be more likely to hit mute or change the channel. Then they would lose an advertising opportunity and presumably revenue would go down. On the other hand, maybe the increased volume is effective for the vast majority of people, so they don't mind losing you as a customer.
That said, I think a 50 year problem is worthy of regulation. I'd say the FCC or FTC should do it without congress needing to write a bill, but that kind of thinking doesn't often go over well here.
Straightforward is not the same as obvious. Plenty of patentable ideas are easy to implement once you hear the idea from someone else. I haven't read this particular patent history, so I am only addressing your apparent assertion that anything easy to do should not be patentable. I think the appropriate standard is not how easy it is to do something, rather how easy it is to invent something.
You are voting with your wallet, but did you make your reasons known? It may seem idiotic, but I'm sure someone at an airline is looking at the numbers and saying "people aren't flying anymore, it must be because they DON'T FEEL SAFE... we must make them feel safer by launching operation anal cavity probe!"
The boa then proceeded to test the fences, looking for weak spots.
This is huge. If we can't trust the government not to leak classified data over P2P, what makes anyone think they will successfully keep our records private?
I hate to have to explain the joke, but since I don't have any mod points available... that's why he said branch office.
It is a little known fact that soap can be used to make bubbles.
It is completely irresponsible for you to post this information on the public interwebs. I demand that you delete your post at once, or I will be forced to back trace your IP and report you to the cyber police. Don't try to raise any kind of First Amendment defense, because as we all know, national security trumps freedom of speech, and due to your carelessness a terrerist may learn how to make bubbles of doom.
Are you for real? Don't you know bubbles are a detergent? A DETERGENT for God's sake! The situation was on the precipice of doom. DOOOM!
My understanding is that the gate makes it illegal without a warrant.
So, if you pay 30% taxes, then you had to earn $142.85 to pay the plumber $100, for which you got less than $70 worth of services. In the end, $142 of your dollars bought something less than $70 worth of services.
But by your logic, I only had to do $100 of work to earn the $142.85 (you say the plumber does $70 of work for the $100). So there's no double dipping.
Citibank does this also (for credit cards.. not sure about check cards)
Troll? I guess it depends on how you define "serious" learning, but when I seriously needed to replace the headlight on my car, I seriously found a how-to online and seriously gained the knowledge of how to do it. Gaining knowledge that you did not have before is learning, in my book. Sorry if you don't think practical learning is "serious".
Negative, red leader!
I don't really use twitter, but doesn't the format itself make conversations that are "more than three levels deep" almost impossible because you can't preserve the context? Twitter itself knows how many times each tweet was accessed for display, which is probably proportional to the number of times it's been read. Those statistics would be more informative.
Ironically, however, by passing a progressive income tax, this guy might have ended up getting fire services subsidized by the more affluent folk in the neighboring city.
I assume that samzenpus is a pedophile and can attest that neither he or his sexually deviant buddies use pedobear except as an internet joke.
That's all you've seen, but have you been hanging out in REAL pedophile forums? Obviously pedobear started as a joke, but I'll fully admit I have no knowledge of whether the real pedophile community has adopted the image to communicate with each other. If (and its a big if) the police have real (i.e. not hypothetical) knowledge that real pedophiles use the image to communicate with each other, then the warning is appropriate (maybe they have undercovers in pedophile forums?).
I looked at the actual bulletin and it seemed to be a downright reasonable explanation of pedobear, minus the reference to "pedophiles and sexual deviants," which again I can't really dispute because I have no idea what those guys are doing!
That may work for data it stores, but what about data it sends? Of course, an elite hacker can make a remote computer blow up by sending a few choice lines of code over the network.
current persons don't know jack about technology
I'm not saying I agree with these rulings, but privacy rights and sales licenses sound more like law than technology to me.
At some point, I believe the CMU robotics motto was "building robots today... to fight aliens tomorrow."
Well, if what he says is true (25 years old and living on SSI) then yes, he is either (1) totally or partially blind; or (2) has a medical condition that keeps him from working and is expected to last at least one year or result in death.
I guess (3) has faked one ore more of the above -- could also be true.
I think he meant "convergence." I think you knew what he meant too.