do consumers not have credit card loss protection in Europe, the way they do in the U.S.? In the U.S., you're only liable for something like $50 on a fraudulent charge
Yes, we do. The whole point of Chip+PIN is to transfer the liability for fraud to the cardholder, as any transaction made using the PIN "must" have been made by that cardholder. So no fraud protection, no reversing the charge.
...The issue is that banks have used the argument that chip and pin is 100% secure to transfer liability for fraud away from themselves and onto the cardholder.
It is more secure than a signature that is never checked, sure, but 100% secure? No way.
This effort is designed to prove that it can theoretically be defeated without posession of the physical card, but you can easily imagine the decidely low-tech method of someone looking over your shoulder as you make a transaction and then pick-pocketing your card.
Because it's the ANSI standard...
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- It's the standard, vendor extensions for outer joins (+) are non-standard. Hence helps with code portablity. - It's a lot easier to read. - It keeps operations that are conceptually seperate (joins and filtering the data set) syntactically seperate. - A few other advantages, including: full outer joins are possible which had to be fudged with UNIONs before, and cartesian products cannot be created accidentally but have to be explicitly specified.
...during the winter, in the interior. Certainly in Iraq. Colder still in Afghanistan (which in fairness is not in the middle east, but it is the other current war.) It's a fair bet people are familiar with ice.
...fair use was a gradually evolved (e.g. court-developed) common law doctrine that was only codified in US law in 1976.
The right to make backups applies specifically to computer software and evolved contemporaneously.
The closest you have as to a right to space-shift is the 1999 judgement in the Rio case that "such copying is a paradigmatic noncommercial personal use." Again, I don't disagree that it should be allowed, but it's not exactly a constitutional right.
...you can just be asked for a signature instead. This happens to me often enough as it is, although more often abroad on the continent (where it only seems to work around 50% of the time.)
You already register your car every year with the state I assume?No, we don't, tax is paid yearly but the vehicle itself isn't checked. Granted this could be acceptable if there was a yearly check involved, although it would encourage odometer fraud which is already widespread enough.
I still don't understand though the advantage of a mileage tax to gas taxation, which seems simpler and has the _advantage_ of taxing not only increased mileage but also inefficiency.
No, because that would be basically impossible without massive and expensive privacy invasion by the government (mandatory GPS tracking, anyone?) And besides, what's the advantage, emissions-wise? With regard to road maintenance, etc. well that is called a toll road.
Comparitively, tax on gas is simple and as an added benefit encourages the development of vehicles with better fuel economy. Compare the sort of vehicles generally driven in Europe (with high gas tax) to those in the US. Your average car in Europe will have far better MPG figures. Throw in some sort of tax break at the point of purchase linked to low emissions and that's not a bad system.
...well timed to coincide with the (non) launch of the PS3. Given that it's made the front page of Slashdot, I'd say quite a successful one. I am sure there are many slashdotters who would be interested in their other (cheaper and more practical) lasers.
Well Ireland is a smaller country, so sure, there are fewer roads and road signs; Britain has circa 15 times the population (and thus potential tax receipts to spend on such a project) but probably not 15 times as many signposts. Besides, Ireland has been replacing distance signs with km versions on a continual basis over the last decade or so as they wear out; only the speed limits were done all at once.
With regard to the advantages, little things like Ordnance Survey maps and the British national grid being metric (since 1936!) would suggest there might be advantages to using the same system on signposts.
P.S. Using "Éire" while speaking English is about as appropriate as using "Deutschland" or "Suomi" in English - e.g. not very!
...certainly changing the side of the road at _this_ point would be a gargantuan challenge; however changing speed limits/distances to kilometres would not (Ireland completed such a change last year, and at minimal cost - 9 million euros for the entire country.)
Would make a lot of sense as (as you say) Britain otherwise uses metric almost everywhere (pints being the notable exception; but it's hard to see how you could reduce them to 500ml without formenting revolution!)
TGV carriages have this cute little logo of a sleeping mobile phone, with a logo of a smiling mobile phone bopping about at the ends of the carriages, by the doors/toilets. I don't know that there is any culture that enjoys listening to other people yapping on mobiles.
To some extent, this sort of behaviour (especially at, say, the high-school-ish age level) is part of a search for belonging, and (some people more so than others) are unfortunate enough to be surrounded by a shallow sort of a society where the price of belonging is to maintain certain superficial things - tastes in music, for instance.
Sure, I completely agree, but this guy isn't a high-schooler, he's a journalist for the Wall Street Journal.
example, i buy a beethoven cd, can i then copy and pass it around? not according to them.....as there is copyright in sound _recordings_ seperate from the copyright in the music as composed by the composer - although, amazingly, only since 1972 in the United States.
A better example would be sheet music, where there is indeed a concerted effort by publishers to keep works by long-dead composers in copyright by creating new editions and in some cases refusing to sell but only renting the music.
I just downloaded this myself and it seems very neat and tidy and integrates straight into Task Manager. It's as simple as adding "save priority" checkbox to the right-click menu. It also integrates a services tab (connected to the processes) and an optional TCP/IP tab which shows TCP/IP activity by process. And it has a few other nice features.
Now I have only had it 5 minutes so can't give an in-depth account of how it is going to behave long-term regarding stability/system resources etc. but certainly the learning curve is non-existent if you know how to use task manager.
Honestly, someone asks how to do something simple in Windows (note a closed source cost-money OS) and most of the replies divide between:
completely igoring the problem and telling him how to _start_ a process with a given priority, duh;
explaining how he can install cygwin and write a script himself to scan for processes and reset them to whatever priority (good luck on making that one neat and efficient in a 5-minute script;)
reminding him that if was only using Linux he could recompile the kernel to achieve his aims (a completely irrelevant point in any case as Windows actually does expose interfaces to adjust process priorities. Recompiling the kernel is rarely the best way to achieve something if you have the option of a defined API. This is no different in Linux.)
While the one answer that points out a simple and elegant freeware utility that does the exact job requested and does it well gets flamed.
(And yes they do describe it as "freeware" on their website; I suspect what they mean to mean by "free for personal use" is that they retain copyright and you can't redistribute it, I don't think they actually intend to exclude commercial use - as suggested by the lack of a way to buy it on their purchase page.)
In early 2006 Steorn decided to seek validation from the scientific community in a more public forum, and as a result have published the challenge in The Economist. The company is seeking a jury of twelve qualified experimental physicists to define the tests required, the test centres to be used, monitor the analysis and then publish the results.
Steorn has decided to publish its challenge in The Economist because of the breadth of its readership. "We chose it over a purely scientific magazine simply because we want to make the general public aware that this process is about to commence and to generate public support, awareness, interest etc for what we are doing."
The Economist. Yeah right those were your reasons for publishing there. More like because this would work better for your pump and dump scheme, I reckon.
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...while the iPod levy is meant to take into account that the music is compressed and thus more songs will fit into so many bytes.
do consumers not have credit card loss protection in Europe, the way they do in the U.S.? In the U.S., you're only liable for something like $50 on a fraudulent charge
Yes, we do. The whole point of Chip+PIN is to transfer the liability for fraud to the cardholder, as any transaction made using the PIN "must" have been made by that cardholder. So no fraud protection, no reversing the charge.
...The issue is that banks have used the argument that chip and pin is 100% secure to transfer liability for fraud away from themselves and onto the cardholder.
It is more secure than a signature that is never checked, sure, but 100% secure? No way.
This effort is designed to prove that it can theoretically be defeated without posession of the physical card, but you can easily imagine the decidely low-tech method of someone looking over your shoulder as you make a transaction and then pick-pocketing your card.
- It's the standard, vendor extensions for outer joins (+) are non-standard. Hence helps with code portablity.
- It's a lot easier to read.
- It keeps operations that are conceptually seperate (joins and filtering the data set) syntactically seperate.
- A few other advantages, including: full outer joins are possible which had to be fudged with UNIONs before, and cartesian products cannot be created accidentally but have to be explicitly specified.
...during the winter, in the interior. Certainly in Iraq. Colder still in Afghanistan (which in fairness is not in the middle east, but it is the other current war.) It's a fair bet people are familiar with ice.
...fair use was a gradually evolved (e.g. court-developed) common law doctrine that was only codified in US law in 1976.
The right to make backups applies specifically to computer software and evolved contemporaneously.
The closest you have as to a right to space-shift is the 1999 judgement in the Rio case that "such copying is a paradigmatic noncommercial personal use." Again, I don't disagree that it should be allowed, but it's not exactly a constitutional right.
...according to this article. Indeed, a nurse called during the contest to warn that what they were doing was dangerous and was dismissed by the DJs.
...you can just be asked for a signature instead. This happens to me often enough as it is, although more often abroad on the continent (where it only seems to work around 50% of the time.)
here it suggests that it was someone riding their bike in a pedestrian-only zone, not "too fast" as such.
...and I found that one particularly peculiar all right.
You already register your car every year with the state I assume?No, we don't, tax is paid yearly but the vehicle itself isn't checked. Granted this could be acceptable if there was a yearly check involved, although it would encourage odometer fraud which is already widespread enough.
I still don't understand though the advantage of a mileage tax to gas taxation, which seems simpler and has the _advantage_ of taxing not only increased mileage but also inefficiency.
No, because that would be basically impossible without massive and expensive privacy invasion by the government (mandatory GPS tracking, anyone?) And besides, what's the advantage, emissions-wise? With regard to road maintenance, etc. well that is called a toll road.
Comparitively, tax on gas is simple and as an added benefit encourages the development of vehicles with better fuel economy. Compare the sort of vehicles generally driven in Europe (with high gas tax) to those in the US. Your average car in Europe will have far better MPG figures. Throw in some sort of tax break at the point of purchase linked to low emissions and that's not a bad system.
...well timed to coincide with the (non) launch of the PS3. Given that it's made the front page of Slashdot, I'd say quite a successful one. I am sure there are many slashdotters who would be interested in their other (cheaper and more practical) lasers.
...as there are countless examples of spyware companies sueing or threatening to sue anti-spyware vendors.
I can't wait 'till we have enough photo's to make an animation of two colliding galaxies.
You may be waiting some time on that one...
Hence the Six-One News.
Well Ireland is a smaller country, so sure, there are fewer roads and road signs; Britain has circa 15 times the population (and thus potential tax receipts to spend on such a project) but probably not 15 times as many signposts. Besides, Ireland has been replacing distance signs with km versions on a continual basis over the last decade or so as they wear out; only the speed limits were done all at once.
With regard to the advantages, little things like Ordnance Survey maps and the British national grid being metric (since 1936!) would suggest there might be advantages to using the same system on signposts.
P.S. Using "Éire" while speaking English is about as appropriate as using "Deutschland" or "Suomi" in English - e.g. not very!
...certainly changing the side of the road at _this_ point would be a gargantuan challenge; however changing speed limits/distances to kilometres would not (Ireland completed such a change last year, and at minimal cost - 9 million euros for the entire country.)
Would make a lot of sense as (as you say) Britain otherwise uses metric almost everywhere (pints being the notable exception; but it's hard to see how you could reduce them to 500ml without formenting revolution!)
...or dentures?
TGV carriages have this cute little logo of a sleeping mobile phone, with a logo of a smiling mobile phone bopping about at the ends of the carriages, by the doors/toilets. I don't know that there is any culture that enjoys listening to other people yapping on mobiles.
example, i buy a beethoven cd, can i then copy and pass it around? not according to them.. ...as there is copyright in sound _recordings_ seperate from the copyright in the music as composed by the composer - although, amazingly, only since 1972 in the United States.
A better example would be sheet music, where there is indeed a concerted effort by publishers to keep works by long-dead composers in copyright by creating new editions and in some cases refusing to sell but only renting the music.
Now I have only had it 5 minutes so can't give an in-depth account of how it is going to behave long-term regarding stability/system resources etc. but certainly the learning curve is non-existent if you know how to use task manager.
Honestly, someone asks how to do something simple in Windows (note a closed source cost-money OS) and most of the replies divide between:
- completely igoring the problem and telling him how to _start_ a process with a given priority, duh;
- explaining how he can install cygwin and write a script himself to scan for processes and reset them to whatever priority (good luck on making that one neat and efficient in a 5-minute script;)
- reminding him that if was only using Linux he could recompile the kernel to achieve his aims (a completely irrelevant point in any case as Windows actually does expose interfaces to adjust process priorities. Recompiling the kernel is rarely the best way to achieve something if you have the option of a defined API. This is no different in Linux.)
While the one answer that points out a simple and elegant freeware utility that does the exact job requested and does it well gets flamed.(And yes they do describe it as "freeware" on their website; I suspect what they mean to mean by "free for personal use" is that they retain copyright and you can't redistribute it, I don't think they actually intend to exclude commercial use - as suggested by the lack of a way to buy it on their purchase page.)
...she took her story to a national newspaper.
In early 2006 Steorn decided to seek validation from the scientific community in a more public forum, and as a result have published the challenge in The Economist. The company is seeking a jury of twelve qualified experimental physicists to define the tests required, the test centres to be used, monitor the analysis and then publish the results.
Steorn has decided to publish its challenge in The Economist because of the breadth of its readership. "We chose it over a purely scientific magazine simply because we want to make the general public aware that this process is about to commence and to generate public support, awareness, interest etc for what we are doing."
The Economist. Yeah right those were your reasons for publishing there. More like because this would work better for your pump and dump scheme, I reckon.