I can use this information to approach other financial institutions and apply for further credit. If someone wants to confirm that I am you, what are they going to ask me? Your mother's maiden name? Or maybe they have other security questions, like the name of your high school or a former employer. Well, that's all available from the resume you have up on your blog, or your facebook account. Or whatever. Where do you live, in Nigeria? Or USA? In any modern country to apply for a credit you need to show a passport. In person. Plain and simple. If you financial system has not learned this nifty trick I would suggest moving to a sane country because there must be a lot of other things wrong with that economy as well.
It is absurd that a bank allows anyone access to you money without a piece of paper with your authorized signature verified in a presence of a bank official and cross-checked with you passport. Either that or the same level of security on the internet bank - use you standard two-factor authentication to log in, enter a code from you service provider, verify that the code matches up with the company that you want to pay to, set a monthly limit, confirm that with a one-time password and off you go: secure direct debit.
It is absurd that such basic information as your name, bank account number, social security number and such can actually be used to harm you in any way shape or form. It simply shows the fatal immaturity of the banking system.
Note: on that list this reactor is rated at 10 megawatt and not at 0.2 megawatt as in the article here. Looks like 0.2 megawatt is the minimal size this reactor design could be and typical size is closer to 10 megawatt.
My gods, you all forgot the most important part - the alignment! The cable must be aligned from magnetic south (amp-side) to magnetic north (speaker-side) to maximize the positive effect of the proper geomagnetic atomic alignment in the frozen cable!
Can confirm this - there is a bunch of long range links powered by Mikrotik routers where retransmitters are basically a 10m pole with a router, two antennas, solar panel and an accumulator on top. As the Mikrotik RouterBoard design draws 5 W of power at full load, the accumulator can hold for a week without the solar panel. I am told that some of these devices are working for around 5 years now without any maintenance. Having no moving parts helps a lot in a sandy dessert situation these things are used at.
Not to mention, with the amount of highly skilled people at their company they could probably even come up with some applications for automatic generation of depositions, interviews, and even legal briefs and motions. Kinda like those kids from MIT created an automatic paper generator a few years ago and actually got a couple of conference acceptances. http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ How can you lawyer a company into submission that has, for all intents and purposes, an infinite number of lawyers at their disposal for dollars a day? They could completely bog down the legal system if they wanted to.
There is some nice research showing that easy access to pornography reduces the incidence of rape and violence, so that is also a blessing in any rural society.
Not hardly. Everybody knows what it means. It's held that meaning for hundreds of years. You're a smart person, and if a buddy tells you that they have a pirated version of a DVD, you'll know exactly what they mean. The courts are full of smart people, too. Yes, "piracy" has its meaning that has been there for hundreds of years and no, "making a copy of a CD" is NOT it. "To pirate" is to be part of organised para-military criminal unit that sails the seas and destroys all other ships in sight killing the crew and passengers, raping female passengers or crew members and plundering or destroying all the goods aboard. Pillaging raids on coastal territories also comes under the term.
The very attempt to equate such horrendous criminal activity with copying a CD is outrageous and should be prosecuted as slander.
WoW works perfectly in Linux using standard Wine. The WoW developers are very well aware of Wine and cooperate to fix or not introduce bugs that would prevent WoW working in Linux. In fact WoW in Linux is mch better then in Windows - it is about 5% faster and you can have you software on one virtual desktop and WoW on another and switch between them in an instant. That is why I am usually the one in the guild that looks stuff up on the Web - in the Windows it is painful to Alt-Tab from WoW to Firefox, in Linux it takes around 0.1 second.
Disclaimer: I do have 2 Gb of RAM that helps a lot in this scenario.
I wonder why animated sci-fi was not included in the same vote. For example anime series such as Cowboy Bebop and Trigun could very easily compete with Serenity and Star Wars in all departments, especially in story and characters.
BTW: if you liked Firefly/Serenity, then watch Cowboy Bebop series - it gave a lot of inspiration to the Firefly. And Trigun is of very similar quality but with more humour and even more bitter end.
So, why did I read the title as "Neuroscience, Psychology Eroding Idea of a Free Wii" - I mean, that is a nice and deep research into Nintendo freeby effecting brain chemistry.
For an inside look on the raid and what happened after that and how the Pirate Party is involved, find "Steal This Movie" on you preferred P2P network:)
Isn't that the whole principle behing Self-organizing maps and other methods of unsupervised neral networks? I mean it has been solved for a couple decades now.
Saying that spam is a global problem implies that someone must step in and solve that for everyone, but that is not how market economy works. If a company can make spam irrelevant to its customers, then it is great for the customers and thus to the company that managed to do that. In fact I have read the research that this is based on and must say that there is absolutely nothing new or innovative - just a lot of number crunching trying to solve a complex problem in the most direct way possible - by throwing millions in computing power at it. I am also in that research area and I think that direction is a dead end - non-content information can be faked much cheaper computationally then this faking can be detected. Faking a real web site with consistent content and not too much advertisement is much much harder.
Actually Map and Reduce are basic concepts of ant functional laguage, but the way they were intergrated in a huge and fully automated job control system required some major vision. And a bunch of code.
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I suggested enhancements such as this in 2006. http://www.aigarius.com/blog/2006/08/12/bit-horizon/
Only one thing you can do - change you bank to a sane one.
Well, doh!
It is absurd that a bank allows anyone access to you money without a piece of paper with your authorized signature verified in a presence of a bank official and cross-checked with you passport. Either that or the same level of security on the internet bank - use you standard two-factor authentication to log in, enter a code from you service provider, verify that the code matches up with the company that you want to pay to, set a monthly limit, confirm that with a one-time password and off you go: secure direct debit.
It is absurd that such basic information as your name, bank account number, social security number and such can actually be used to harm you in any way shape or form. It simply shows the fatal immaturity of the banking system.
Note: on that list this reactor is rated at 10 megawatt and not at 0.2 megawatt as in the article here. Looks like 0.2 megawatt is the minimal size this reactor design could be and typical size is closer to 10 megawatt.
http://www.inrainbows.com/Store/index3.htm is a much better start.
My gods, you all forgot the most important part - the alignment! The cable must be aligned from magnetic south (amp-side) to magnetic north (speaker-side) to maximize the positive effect of the proper geomagnetic atomic alignment in the frozen cable!
http://webconverger.com/ does just that and a bit more to ensure a functional and safe web kiosk experience.
Easy, there is specialised Web kiosk software that is free and easy to get and use - http://webconverger.com/
Can confirm this - there is a bunch of long range links powered by Mikrotik routers where retransmitters are basically a 10m pole with a router, two antennas, solar panel and an accumulator on top. As the Mikrotik RouterBoard design draws 5 W of power at full load, the accumulator can hold for a week without the solar panel. I am told that some of these devices are working for around 5 years now without any maintenance. Having no moving parts helps a lot in a sandy dessert situation these things are used at.
Only a problem in USA and Japan. The rest of the world still has some sanity in their patent systems.
Not to mention, with the amount of highly skilled people at their company they could probably even come up with some applications for automatic generation of depositions, interviews, and even legal briefs and motions. Kinda like those kids from MIT created an automatic paper generator a few years ago and actually got a couple of conference acceptances. http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ How can you lawyer a company into submission that has, for all intents and purposes, an infinite number of lawyers at their disposal for dollars a day? They could completely bog down the legal system if they wanted to.
Admit it, you took that idea from Accelerando
There is some nice research showing that easy access to pornography reduces the incidence of rape and violence, so that is also a blessing in any rural society.
The very attempt to equate such horrendous criminal activity with copying a CD is outrageous and should be prosecuted as slander.
RTFA - the author of the article has described just such a travel in his Creative Commons licensed book 'Accelerando'.
WoW works perfectly in Linux using standard Wine. The WoW developers are very well aware of Wine and cooperate to fix or not introduce bugs that would prevent WoW working in Linux. In fact WoW in Linux is mch better then in Windows - it is about 5% faster and you can have you software on one virtual desktop and WoW on another and switch between them in an instant. That is why I am usually the one in the guild that looks stuff up on the Web - in the Windows it is painful to Alt-Tab from WoW to Firefox, in Linux it takes around 0.1 second.
Disclaimer: I do have 2 Gb of RAM that helps a lot in this scenario.
Try WoW. Now that is social.
I wonder why animated sci-fi was not included in the same vote. For example anime series such as Cowboy Bebop and Trigun could very easily compete with Serenity and Star Wars in all departments, especially in story and characters.
BTW: if you liked Firefly/Serenity, then watch Cowboy Bebop series - it gave a lot of inspiration to the Firefly. And Trigun is of very similar quality but with more humour and even more bitter end.
Works perfectly with simple, regular Wine on Ubuntu. At the same speed. There are just two tweaks to settings that can be easily googled.
So, why did I read the title as "Neuroscience, Psychology Eroding Idea of a Free Wii" - I mean, that is a nice and deep research into Nintendo freeby effecting brain chemistry.
I actually ment Steal this film, like from here
For an inside look on the raid and what happened after that and how the Pirate Party is involved, find "Steal This Movie" on you preferred P2P network :)
Isn't that the whole principle behing Self-organizing maps and other methods of unsupervised neral networks? I mean it has been solved for a couple decades now.
Saying that spam is a global problem implies that someone must step in and solve that for everyone, but that is not how market economy works. If a company can make spam irrelevant to its customers, then it is great for the customers and thus to the company that managed to do that.
In fact I have read the research that this is based on and must say that there is absolutely nothing new or innovative - just a lot of number crunching trying to solve a complex problem in the most direct way possible - by throwing millions in computing power at it.
I am also in that research area and I think that direction is a dead end - non-content information can be faked much cheaper computationally then this faking can be detected. Faking a real web site with consistent content and not too much advertisement is much much harder.
Actually Map and Reduce are basic concepts of ant functional laguage, but the way they were intergrated in a huge and fully automated job control system required some major vision. And a bunch of code.