Mine just asks for the last 4 numbers, and the numbers in my postal code to validate. I figure they are using caller ID to check my home phone number.
Incidentally, I never do money related things from work, whether it's on the phone or on the computer. The computer is obviously a big black box (running XP no less), but I don't trust the phone system there either. My employer has the ability to record phone conversations, so you never know who's listening in.
All my banking gets done from this desk, here in my bedroom.
She's saying that it's probably easier to catch them because of the physical phone involved. She's also saying that there are probably additional laws, over and above the general fraud laws, being broken by using a phone to commission the crime. Phone laws are more mature than internet laws, so it's probably easier to prosecute someone using those laws.
I don't think there is any specific gene for tolerance to radioactivity. That would imply that this gene produced some protein that shielded the rest of the DNA in a cell from damage.
I think it's more likely that the crucial genes (i.e. the ones that govern reproduction and vital bodily functions) have enough redundancy to survive a certain level of damage.
I can beleive it. I started out with soft contacts in the early nineties. I wore them for a year, and they were all right. I had to build up a tolerance for extended periods of wear, which probably means that my eyes were ramping up the blood flow and tear production over time.
After that, I switched to rigid gas permeables, because I was really anal about getting the most accurate correction I could. I wore them for up to 16 hours a day, over a period of three years. Near the middle of this period, I started noticing halos around streetlights at night. That's when i began to wonder if maybe these things wore damaging my eyes. Mind you, they were still pretty comfortable to wear.
I stopped wearing them for a couple of years. Then I did something that was probably pretty stupid. I started wearing them again, for more than 12 hours a day. The same pair, which had been sitting at the bottom of my travel pack for two years. They were really not comfortable. My eyes were probably saved by the fact that my job was outside, in the winter, so that I had constant wind and tears on my eyes. I wore them for two more years, than tossed them and went back to glases.
A couple of years later, I started using wear-once daily disposables. I've been using them for about four years now. I notice a big difference in quality by brand. I like accuvues the best, Ciba the least.
The halos were permanent. My eyes dry out quickly. I guess I caused some scarring, but my optometrist says my corneas are clear and healthy. I definitely screwed with my tear response.
Regarding LASIK vs PRK: The way the nurse described it, the LASIK flap is through the clear corneal tissue, and not just the epithelium on top. The problem is that the corneal tissue doesn't have any blood vessels in it, so new cells can't grow into the space between the cut surfaces and the adjacent cells will never be as strongly bonded to each other as they would be if they grew like that, or something. She said that only the epithelium actually regenerates.
Anyway, I had the PRK done today. Everything's foggy (but sharper) now. I need to keep a pair of bandage contacts in for three days, until the skin grows back. Got home and passed out for a few hours. My eyes feel like, well, like I slept in my lenses, which I did. They gave me lots of different eyedrops, and I have to go in every day for checkups, for the next three days. They were supposed to give me pills for pain and sedation, but they either forgot, or I get them tomorrow. The pain isn't supposed to start for a day or so, so I guess I'll be ok until tomorrow.
Well, glasses are fine for looking at a screen, but they suck for those full contact staff meetings, where you have to aggressively push your agenda, or defend a technical design decision from the PHBs and marketing people. There's nothing worse than getting a headbutt on the bridge of a $500 pair of Armani frames.
One might want to consider PRK as an alternative to LASIK.
LASIK creates a flap. This severs the nerves, which means your eyeballs can't tell your tear ducts to cry. Also the flap only rebonds on the edges, and not underneath, so the flap can be dislodged or wrinkled quite easily. This is a disadvantage for people who participate in contact or water sports, where the eye gets a pounding. The advantage of LASIK is that the recovery time is very short (couple of days) and relatively painless. This made it LASIK fashionable with film actors and high profile athletes for a while.
PRK removes the outer layer of eyeball skin before reshaping the cornea. The removed layer is very thin, compared to the lasik flap. The skin grows back, and there is no nerve damage. The integrity of the eye is much better, because the new skin is bonded completely to the eye. The disadvantage of PRK is that the healing time is longer (several weeks) and it can be very painful for the first few days, while the skin is regenerating. Of course, pain means the nerves are working properly, which is a good sign. Also, they will give you drugs and eyedrops (and eyedrops with drugs), to make you more comfortable.
Many doctors are now leaning back towards the older PRK procedure for these reasons.
FWIW, I'm having a PRK procedure done tomorrow afternoon (and I really wish I could have a beer right now).
Excellent point: It's not the source that has to be signed, but rather the built binary.
In this case, the source code is almost completely useless for building binaries. Even if you don't change the source, something as innocuous as changing the optimization level or version of your compiler will produce a useless binary.
I didn't understand before what the big deal was with the DRM additions in GPLv3. I'm starting to get it now.
I suppose it's possible he means that the atmosphere of Mars has wind that contains abrasive particulate matter, and as such, it can cause problems with airlock seals and moving machine parts. In contrast, the moon doesn't have that problem. However, on the moon, you can kick up the dust more easily, due to the lower gravity, so perhaps the advantage is cancelled.
Ha! After I posted, I realized that the real money is in things that are not patented. Persuant to this, I proceeded to patent the idea of not having the idea of patenting anything.
Do you honestly think Comcast gives a flying turd about getting sued by its customers?
It's not their customers that will be looking to sue them. Rather, it's the big, multinational content providers. The MPAA/RIAA demand that the ISP hand over their customer records. The MPAA/RIAA demand that ISPs filter copyrighted material out of the traffic stream. The ISPs can tell them to go fuck themselves, because they are a common carrier, which means that they have no legal responsibility for the contents of the data on their lines. If an ISP starts filtering content, then they're no longer acting as a common carrier. Suddenly, they become legally responsible for the content being transmitted over their lines, and copyright owners can then sue them into the ground.
I think the submitter's speculation that this could be the end of the global internet is a little melodramatic. AFACT, all this means is that the human readable domain names associated with the IP addresses will not be centrally managed, like they are now. It doesn't mean that Chinese people will stop using IP addresses. If you know someone's IP, you can still connect to them.
The only hard part is finding a distro that best fits my needs. I've thought about doing it from scratch and customizing Linux myself, but that doesn't seem like such a good idea. Anyone recommend any Linux distributions which aren't cluttered and simple to use to add program to?
You can have both, with Gentoo. I've been using Gentoo for a couple of years now, and other than the occasional screwup caused by a bad new version of the package manager, it's almost completely self maintaining. By default, it is a source based distro, which means that the source is downloaded and compiled locally when you install a package. The beauty of this is that once you have it set up properly, your software is optimized for your hardware.
It is also generally easy to select only functionality you want, and leave out the stuff you don't want. For example, if you like Gnome but not KDE, you can tell the package manager to build only Gnome interfaces for your packages, and to explicitly NOT build the KDE interfaces. This will reduce the number of dependent packages that have to be installed, and also reduce the size of the installed packages that would otherwise depend on the KDE libraries.
Gentoo also supports prebuilt, binary packages, if you want it, but of course, these packages are generally built for lowest common denominator hardware, so they will be more bloated, and less zippy in general. I haven't used this functionality much, though, so I can't comment on the usability of this feature.
Fair enough, I guess. I had assumed you meant legal liability. If you exclude legal liability, then it looks like the author of the unofficial patch is equally as liable as Microsoft would be.
It occurs to me that this 1kW power supply that runs cool enough to be put in an average computer enclosure. I hope this implies that a 500W power supply based on the same component technology will run even cooler. This raises the possibility of passive cooling, which is good if you don't like to hear your computer's fans spinning.
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Beat me to it. :)
This is ridiculous. It's obviously not a pyramid, but rather one corner of the timecube.
Incidentally, I never do money related things from work, whether it's on the phone or on the computer. The computer is obviously a big black box (running XP no less), but I don't trust the phone system there either. My employer has the ability to record phone conversations, so you never know who's listening in.
All my banking gets done from this desk, here in my bedroom.
She's saying that it's probably easier to catch them because of the physical phone involved. She's also saying that there are probably additional laws, over and above the general fraud laws, being broken by using a phone to commission the crime. Phone laws are more mature than internet laws, so it's probably easier to prosecute someone using those laws.
I think it's more likely that the crucial genes (i.e. the ones that govern reproduction and vital bodily functions) have enough redundancy to survive a certain level of damage.
After that, I switched to rigid gas permeables, because I was really anal about getting the most accurate correction I could. I wore them for up to 16 hours a day, over a period of three years. Near the middle of this period, I started noticing halos around streetlights at night. That's when i began to wonder if maybe these things wore damaging my eyes. Mind you, they were still pretty comfortable to wear.
I stopped wearing them for a couple of years. Then I did something that was probably pretty stupid. I started wearing them again, for more than 12 hours a day. The same pair, which had been sitting at the bottom of my travel pack for two years. They were really not comfortable. My eyes were probably saved by the fact that my job was outside, in the winter, so that I had constant wind and tears on my eyes. I wore them for two more years, than tossed them and went back to glases.
A couple of years later, I started using wear-once daily disposables. I've been using them for about four years now. I notice a big difference in quality by brand. I like accuvues the best, Ciba the least.
The halos were permanent. My eyes dry out quickly. I guess I caused some scarring, but my optometrist says my corneas are clear and healthy. I definitely screwed with my tear response.
Regarding LASIK vs PRK: The way the nurse described it, the LASIK flap is through the clear corneal tissue, and not just the epithelium on top. The problem is that the corneal tissue doesn't have any blood vessels in it, so new cells can't grow into the space between the cut surfaces and the adjacent cells will never be as strongly bonded to each other as they would be if they grew like that, or something. She said that only the epithelium actually regenerates.
Anyway, I had the PRK done today. Everything's foggy (but sharper) now. I need to keep a pair of bandage contacts in for three days, until the skin grows back. Got home and passed out for a few hours. My eyes feel like, well, like I slept in my lenses, which I did. They gave me lots of different eyedrops, and I have to go in every day for checkups, for the next three days. They were supposed to give me pills for pain and sedation, but they either forgot, or I get them tomorrow. The pain isn't supposed to start for a day or so, so I guess I'll be ok until tomorrow.
Well, glasses are fine for looking at a screen, but they suck for those full contact staff meetings, where you have to aggressively push your agenda, or defend a technical design decision from the PHBs and marketing people. There's nothing worse than getting a headbutt on the bridge of a $500 pair of Armani frames.
LASIK creates a flap. This severs the nerves, which means your eyeballs can't tell your tear ducts to cry. Also the flap only rebonds on the edges, and not underneath, so the flap can be dislodged or wrinkled quite easily. This is a disadvantage for people who participate in contact or water sports, where the eye gets a pounding. The advantage of LASIK is that the recovery time is very short (couple of days) and relatively painless. This made it LASIK fashionable with film actors and high profile athletes for a while.
PRK removes the outer layer of eyeball skin before reshaping the cornea. The removed layer is very thin, compared to the lasik flap. The skin grows back, and there is no nerve damage. The integrity of the eye is much better, because the new skin is bonded completely to the eye. The disadvantage of PRK is that the healing time is longer (several weeks) and it can be very painful for the first few days, while the skin is regenerating. Of course, pain means the nerves are working properly, which is a good sign. Also, they will give you drugs and eyedrops (and eyedrops with drugs), to make you more comfortable.
Many doctors are now leaning back towards the older PRK procedure for these reasons.
FWIW, I'm having a PRK procedure done tomorrow afternoon (and I really wish I could have a beer right now).
That site is a joke, right?
In this case, the source code is almost completely useless for building binaries. Even if you don't change the source, something as innocuous as changing the optimization level or version of your compiler will produce a useless binary.
I didn't understand before what the big deal was with the DRM additions in GPLv3. I'm starting to get it now.
I suppose it's possible he means that the atmosphere of Mars has wind that contains abrasive particulate matter, and as such, it can cause problems with airlock seals and moving machine parts. In contrast, the moon doesn't have that problem. However, on the moon, you can kick up the dust more easily, due to the lower gravity, so perhaps the advantage is cancelled.
Is that an EQ reference?
Ha! After I posted, I realized that the real money is in things that are not patented. Persuant to this, I proceeded to patent the idea of not having the idea of patenting anything.
In fact, now that I've thought about it, I could patent the idea of patenting the idea of patenting the act of applying for a patent.
It's not their customers that will be looking to sue them. Rather, it's the big, multinational content providers. The MPAA/RIAA demand that the ISP hand over their customer records. The MPAA/RIAA demand that ISPs filter copyrighted material out of the traffic stream. The ISPs can tell them to go fuck themselves, because they are a common carrier, which means that they have no legal responsibility for the contents of the data on their lines. If an ISP starts filtering content, then they're no longer acting as a common carrier. Suddenly, they become legally responsible for the content being transmitted over their lines, and copyright owners can then sue them into the ground.
I think the submitter's speculation that this could be the end of the global internet is a little melodramatic. AFACT, all this means is that the human readable domain names associated with the IP addresses will not be centrally managed, like they are now. It doesn't mean that Chinese people will stop using IP addresses. If you know someone's IP, you can still connect to them.
You can have both, with Gentoo. I've been using Gentoo for a couple of years now, and other than the occasional screwup caused by a bad new version of the package manager, it's almost completely self maintaining. By default, it is a source based distro, which means that the source is downloaded and compiled locally when you install a package. The beauty of this is that once you have it set up properly, your software is optimized for your hardware.
It is also generally easy to select only functionality you want, and leave out the stuff you don't want. For example, if you like Gnome but not KDE, you can tell the package manager to build only Gnome interfaces for your packages, and to explicitly NOT build the KDE interfaces. This will reduce the number of dependent packages that have to be installed, and also reduce the size of the installed packages that would otherwise depend on the KDE libraries.
Gentoo also supports prebuilt, binary packages, if you want it, but of course, these packages are generally built for lowest common denominator hardware, so they will be more bloated, and less zippy in general. I haven't used this functionality much, though, so I can't comment on the usability of this feature.
I ask merely for information.
McGyver rocked. I would never have thought of making an afterburner out of a flare gun, and using it to rocket to safety.
The normal IRS computers all run some variant of Microsoft Windows(tm).
Now, if you were the IRS, would you calculate my taxes, using a program that I wrote?
Maybe it has something to do with it being the first commercial linux game I ever bought.
I still get a tingly feeling when the intro movie plays, and I know that it's running native.
I can pick it up after years of not playing, and still lose an entire weekend. "On my way!".
That's a pretty bold statement.
Fair enough, I guess. I had assumed you meant legal liability. If you exclude legal liability, then it looks like the author of the unofficial patch is equally as liable as Microsoft would be.
That would be the same as the liability that Microsoft would have if its patch screwed something up, right? Zippo in either case. RTFEULA.
It occurs to me that this 1kW power supply that runs cool enough to be put in an average computer enclosure. I hope this implies that a 500W power supply based on the same component technology will run even cooler. This raises the possibility of passive cooling, which is good if you don't like to hear your computer's fans spinning.