Most people only think they can count cards. The casinos love those people, and sell them books on card counting in the book store.
If you "make too much" they might notice you, I suppose, but they will probably refuse service to anyone who's not losing money over a long enough time period, regardless of method, just-in-case. They're private businesses. They can refuse service to whomever they wish. Although I suspect they let a few "career card counters" go on for a while. Those guys are the kernel of stories about beating the casino that gives their real customers false hope.
The real scam is the poker tables. The casino risks none of its own money on the poker tables, yet feels entitled to a percentage of every pot? WTF?
Are you receiving something that's not yours? Without giving anything in return? Or without the owner's permission?
How is that not stealing?
Now, the real issue here is that illicitly sharing music files is so dead easy that there are literally two hundred million people in this country alone that have the equipment to do so at nearly no additional cost to themselves. I'd bet that there are probably fifty million who have obtained music in this way in the past twelve months.
Copyright is an artificial construct designed to encourage authors to create and publish (and thereby promote progress in science and the useful arts), but a law that makes a sixth to five sixths of the population criminals is kind of unjust. The whole thing needs to be reviewed and examined to make sure that the status quo really is the best environment for maximizing public benefit.
And here's the depressing problem: Can you think of a better policy than the one we currently have? (I mean beyond just getting rid of the absurd, ever-lengthening terms. Assume the terms are reasonable, as they once were.)
Why would you think prison was about rehabilitation? Prison terms are specified by the crime committed, not by the estimation of the time required for sufficient behavior modification.
Real Genius laser was turret mounted in a B1 bomber bay. Did you even watch the movie?
Furthermore, Val Kilmer's character had it all wrong. Assassinations are way better than wars. In wars, the peasants who join the armies do all the dying, while in assassinations, only the assholes who command the wars get killed, because it's too expensive to assassinate each member of an opposing army individually.
3) And.. the post 9/11 recovery began barely two months later.
So.. are you saying Bush actually was capable of working with congress to create a recovery plan that works? What happened in 2008, then? Was he following someone else's playbook?
Good point. I hadn't bothered to consider skip or diffraction, in my effort to refute the idea that interference in one place isn't a problem because it's not in the other place.
By law, the max you have to pay for the test to get a license is about $10, but it's supposed to be limited to cost of materials for the VEs, so it should be far less than that under normal circumstances.
Beyond that, you can get on HF with a radio you designed yourself to fit in a sardine tin, and work the world using morse code. As long as it doesn't give off out-of-band emissions, you can build it out of things you find after gently applying a hammer to a cheap drugstore radio.
You can also get plans or pre-built radios for a range of prices from $5 to $5k (and up, I suppose, but you're going to be hard pressed to get much additional value for the dollars over $5k.)
With a UHF handie and a hand-held yagi (total cost new well under $1k), you can talk to people using satellite repeaters. Add in a modem and you can download and share files (which might be images the satellite itself recorded).
For such a low price, and no real requirement of understanding (beyond knowing just enough to avoid violating regulations put in place for safety and interference reasons), I hardly think amateur radio can be considered an elitist hobby. The whole point is to chit chat with new and interesting people from as many places near and far as possible.
No one is accounting for the fact that the second marshmallow may not only not be forthcoming, but that the original marshmallow might be taken away at the end of the interval, or even during the interval. Then the waiters are the ones with the poor decision process.
Why assume that the researchers are telling the truth? People who do psychological research on humans are a notoriously untrustworthy bunch.
Sioux City is remarkable in that the solution was thought of during the event. Pilots train so that emergency procedures are reflex, so most of the time you don't get something like that. In fact, I'm aware of only two events where new doctrine was invented during the event to deal solve a mechanical problem in an aircraft. Sioux City and Apollo 13.
But.. in the sioux city case, a good computer could have that doctrine programmed in (if a programmer thought of it) and a really good computer would have discovered it on its own. " Just" a matter of knocking some terms out of the state machine, and some way of evolving new coefficients without destroying the airframe or encountering terrain.
Most of the time, the pilot is just a computer that can't download updates. It's a simple matter that the "bandwidth" of training is rapidly being approached by the bandwidth of swapping a SSD. When it is exceeded, only emotion will keep pilots in the seats, whether commercially or thrill seekers.
Violations of the law? Yes, they should wait for DOJ gets around to it. And they should receive prison time. If laws are broken, then someone broke them. That person should get the punishment necessary.
Now liabilities. Torts. Companies should have to suffer the consequences of those as well. But invoking "class action" should require some tradeoffs for the lawyers as it does for the plaintiffs.
How do you propose to deal with the possibility of injustice being done by lawyers seeking a larger class and punting on the settlement. 10--30 percent of a crappy but gigantic settlement is still a big number for the lawyers.
Sg1 started on on showtime, then SciFi started up a few years later (four, I think) then the networks got it. over half a decade late.
Which is doubly weird, because NBC owns SciFi (or as it's called now, "the syphilis channel" presumably due to the close contact wrestling shows it likes to air.)
Brilliant. "as determined by the MTA" Invariably means that you should periodically visit the disused lavatory in the basement. The one with the sign, "beware of the leopard."
On the one hand, the agreement is clearly designed to take away or discourage recourse and thereby reduce AT&T's liability risk.
But on the other hand, no one really benefits from class action suits except the lawyers. I mean, yeah, the company gets punished for wrongdoing, but the victims don't get made whole, which I thought was kinda the whole point of lawsuits as opposed to criminal proceedings.
Yeah, yours wasn't the comment I'd intended to post under. Either slashdot messed up or I hit the wrong reply button.
I can't find the comment I intended to post under, but it was from someone who saw no problem with luring business in with low tax rates then bumping them up after the businesses are established, and having some kind of law to "recover" the "tax break" if the businesses decide to leave when they change the law.
Sorry for shouting. But something you leave on everything you touch is, at best, a very insecure user name.
"something you know" is always going to be a key part of the equation, since smart cards are "something you have."
But, I do have hope that we'll never need more than 12 or so characters. You just need to make sure that the authentication pathway has some verifiable hardware limitation preventing high-speed brute-force attacks. Perhaps a smartcard that has a built-in keypad and rate limiter. (and the server on the other end would also have some kind of rate limiter. BOTH would have to be leaving you as the weak link.)
They can deduct their cost of living from their income to offset the taxes they have to pay.
Try deducting your car's mileage or your restaurant or grocery bills or depreciating your house, car, furniture, appliances, etc. on your next return and see where that gets you.
No, I think he's saying that the union's ratcheted up benefits and obligations upon the company, which forced those crappy designs down the line so that the margins would be high enough to pay for all those obligations. Unfortunately for GM, they depended on ever-increasing sales of ever crappier cars to maintain their obligations to the workers. Namely, the very important and conflicting obligations of workforce size and worker benefits: you can't increase worker pay/benefits without improving productivity (using automation as one of many tools) and laying off extra employees.
Well, you can, if you borrow against a future that cannot ever exist because you're simultaneously cutting corners left and right. And when sales couldn't keep up with the debt/obligations (unexpectedly, due to outside conditions), the gamble paid off: the government took on, co-signed, or relieved those costs.
Yeah, that'll really encourage businesses to establish operations in the first place.
There are a few basic principles which I wish people, especially politicians would take into account when setting up these things.
The Laffer Curve. It's certainly more complicated than that, but the basic argument that there is a maximum revenue possible at some optimum tax rate shouldn't be simply scoffed at and ignored. Further, the more general idea is that, for any given level of required revenue (below the maximum, wherever it may lie), if there is more than one level of taxation which would generate that revenue, it is immoral to choose the higher rate, as it needlessly restrains the activity which lifts everyone's standard of living.
If you want to play social games, have higher taxes on things you want to discourage and lower taxes on things you want to encourage now. If you change your mind later, don't be surprised or upset when people doing those things decide to move somewhere where the state wants those things done.
Don't demonize people or organizations for taking advantage of your tax structure to minimize their taxes. You had lower taxes on certain things because you wanted to encourage that behavior, didn't you?
No special cases. There is too much opportunity for graft if your politicians can make special deals on an individual basis and claim credit for those very visible jobs. If the deal is good for one company, it's good for every company. Make that the policy.
Your plan is every bit objectionable as the cable company's sleezy "super low introductory rate for six months, with unspecified but much higher rate for the remainder of your twenty-four month commitment." Except that when the government does it, there are guns or the threat of guns involved.
I would expect decent speakers to have protection from this. Either simply being incapable of breaking themselves (if they have a built-in amp, which should be the standard at this point), filters, or a protective fuse at the very least.
If you're going to pay a lot for speakers, you should get a little more than just some thin wire and a powerful magnet.
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Most people only think they can count cards. The casinos love those people, and sell them books on card counting in the book store.
If you "make too much" they might notice you, I suppose, but they will probably refuse service to anyone who's not losing money over a long enough time period, regardless of method, just-in-case. They're private businesses. They can refuse service to whomever they wish. Although I suspect they let a few "career card counters" go on for a while. Those guys are the kernel of stories about beating the casino that gives their real customers false hope.
The real scam is the poker tables. The casino risks none of its own money on the poker tables, yet feels entitled to a percentage of every pot? WTF?
To paraphrase office space a little:
Are you receiving something that's not yours?
Without giving anything in return?
Or without the owner's permission?
How is that not stealing?
Now, the real issue here is that illicitly sharing music files is so dead easy that there are literally two hundred million people in this country alone that have the equipment to do so at nearly no additional cost to themselves. I'd bet that there are probably fifty million who have obtained music in this way in the past twelve months.
Copyright is an artificial construct designed to encourage authors to create and publish (and thereby promote progress in science and the useful arts), but a law that makes a sixth to five sixths of the population criminals is kind of unjust. The whole thing needs to be reviewed and examined to make sure that the status quo really is the best environment for maximizing public benefit.
And here's the depressing problem: Can you think of a better policy than the one we currently have? (I mean beyond just getting rid of the absurd, ever-lengthening terms. Assume the terms are reasonable, as they once were.)
Why would you think prison was about rehabilitation? Prison terms are specified by the crime committed, not by the estimation of the time required for sufficient behavior modification.
Real Genius laser was turret mounted in a B1 bomber bay. Did you even watch the movie?
Furthermore, Val Kilmer's character had it all wrong. Assassinations are way better than wars. In wars, the peasants who join the armies do all the dying, while in assassinations, only the assholes who command the wars get killed, because it's too expensive to assassinate each member of an opposing army individually.
3) And.. the post 9/11 recovery began barely two months later.
So.. are you saying Bush actually was capable of working with congress to create a recovery plan that works? What happened in 2008, then? Was he following someone else's playbook?
Good point. I hadn't bothered to consider skip or diffraction, in my effort to refute the idea that interference in one place isn't a problem because it's not in the other place.
By law, the max you have to pay for the test to get a license is about $10, but it's supposed to be limited to cost of materials for the VEs, so it should be far less than that under normal circumstances.
Beyond that, you can get on HF with a radio you designed yourself to fit in a sardine tin, and work the world using morse code. As long as it doesn't give off out-of-band emissions, you can build it out of things you find after gently applying a hammer to a cheap drugstore radio.
You can also get plans or pre-built radios for a range of prices from $5 to $5k (and up, I suppose, but you're going to be hard pressed to get much additional value for the dollars over $5k.)
With a UHF handie and a hand-held yagi (total cost new well under $1k), you can talk to people using satellite repeaters. Add in a modem and you can download and share files (which might be images the satellite itself recorded).
For such a low price, and no real requirement of understanding (beyond knowing just enough to avoid violating regulations put in place for safety and interference reasons), I hardly think amateur radio can be considered an elitist hobby. The whole point is to chit chat with new and interesting people from as many places near and far as possible.
Other way around. Interference in china keeps the chinese from hearing us. Interference here keeps us from hearing the chinese.
Either one prevents communication.
No one is accounting for the fact that the second marshmallow may not only not be forthcoming, but that the original marshmallow might be taken away at the end of the interval, or even during the interval. Then the waiters are the ones with the poor decision process.
Why assume that the researchers are telling the truth? People who do psychological research on humans are a notoriously untrustworthy bunch.
Sioux City is remarkable in that the solution was thought of during the event. Pilots train so that emergency procedures are reflex, so most of the time you don't get something like that. In fact, I'm aware of only two events where new doctrine was invented during the event to deal solve a mechanical problem in an aircraft. Sioux City and Apollo 13.
But.. in the sioux city case, a good computer could have that doctrine programmed in (if a programmer thought of it) and a really good computer would have discovered it on its own. " Just" a matter of knocking some terms out of the state machine, and some way of evolving new coefficients without destroying the airframe or encountering terrain.
Most of the time, the pilot is just a computer that can't download updates. It's a simple matter that the "bandwidth" of training is rapidly being approached by the bandwidth of swapping a SSD. When it is exceeded, only emotion will keep pilots in the seats, whether commercially or thrill seekers.
The information has to be somewhere. How does the "primary" partition know not to write to the sectors that the "hidden" partition occupies?
Violations of the law? Yes, they should wait for DOJ gets around to it. And they should receive prison time. If laws are broken, then someone broke them. That person should get the punishment necessary.
Now liabilities. Torts. Companies should have to suffer the consequences of those as well. But invoking "class action" should require some tradeoffs for the lawyers as it does for the plaintiffs.
How do you propose to deal with the possibility of injustice being done by lawyers seeking a larger class and punting on the settlement. 10--30 percent of a crappy but gigantic settlement is still a big number for the lawyers.
Sg1 started on on showtime, then SciFi started up a few years later (four, I think) then the networks got it. over half a decade late.
Which is doubly weird, because NBC owns SciFi (or as it's called now, "the syphilis channel" presumably due to the close contact wrestling shows it likes to air.)
Brilliant. "as determined by the MTA" Invariably means that you should periodically visit the disused lavatory in the basement. The one with the sign, "beware of the leopard."
On the one hand, the agreement is clearly designed to take away or discourage recourse and thereby reduce AT&T's liability risk.
But on the other hand, no one really benefits from class action suits except the lawyers. I mean, yeah, the company gets punished for wrongdoing, but the victims don't get made whole, which I thought was kinda the whole point of lawsuits as opposed to criminal proceedings.
or OSX Leopard, which I guess you could technically call obsolete. Does Snow Leopard actually improve on it, though?
You know, I think it's kind of humorous that ubuntu.im belongs to a domain squatter....
Yeah, yours wasn't the comment I'd intended to post under. Either slashdot messed up or I hit the wrong reply button.
I can't find the comment I intended to post under, but it was from someone who saw no problem with luring business in with low tax rates then bumping them up after the businesses are established, and having some kind of law to "recover" the "tax break" if the businesses decide to leave when they change the law.
Sorry for shouting. But something you leave on everything you touch is, at best, a very insecure user name.
"something you know" is always going to be a key part of the equation, since smart cards are "something you have."
But, I do have hope that we'll never need more than 12 or so characters. You just need to make sure that the authentication pathway has some verifiable hardware limitation preventing high-speed brute-force attacks. Perhaps a smartcard that has a built-in keypad and rate limiter. (and the server on the other end would also have some kind of rate limiter. BOTH would have to be leaving you as the weak link.)
They can deduct their cost of living from their income to offset the taxes they have to pay.
Try deducting your car's mileage or your restaurant or grocery bills or depreciating your house, car, furniture, appliances, etc. on your next return and see where that gets you.
No, I think he's saying that the union's ratcheted up benefits and obligations upon the company, which forced those crappy designs down the line so that the margins would be high enough to pay for all those obligations. Unfortunately for GM, they depended on ever-increasing sales of ever crappier cars to maintain their obligations to the workers. Namely, the very important and conflicting obligations of workforce size and worker benefits: you can't increase worker pay/benefits without improving productivity (using automation as one of many tools) and laying off extra employees.
Well, you can, if you borrow against a future that cannot ever exist because you're simultaneously cutting corners left and right. And when sales couldn't keep up with the debt/obligations (unexpectedly, due to outside conditions), the gamble paid off: the government took on, co-signed, or relieved those costs.
Yeah, that'll really encourage businesses to establish operations in the first place.
There are a few basic principles which I wish people, especially politicians would take into account when setting up these things.
Your plan is every bit objectionable as the cable company's sleezy "super low introductory rate for six months, with unspecified but much higher rate for the remainder of your twenty-four month commitment." Except that when the government does it, there are guns or the threat of guns involved.
I would expect decent speakers to have protection from this. Either simply being incapable of breaking themselves (if they have a built-in amp, which should be the standard at this point), filters, or a protective fuse at the very least.
If you're going to pay a lot for speakers, you should get a little more than just some thin wire and a powerful magnet.
Memsistors store current values.
Close. I'm pretty sure they actually store voltage values (or are used to create voltage values in a voltage divider network).
Murdoch is pretty far to the left, foxnews is a surprising anomaly considering previous statements made by him.