My credit card works fine on transactions below $10.
Where exactly is the need for this?
Credit cards companies take a cut out of what merchants later get, and it's normally a percentage, but it is not unusual for there to also be a minimum transaction fee. So, small credit card transactions aren't good for retailers, since the lose an unusually high amount of money to the credit card company.... in fact, in the states, July 2010's Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act recently legalized businesses setting a "minimum purchase with credit card" of up to $10.
I believe what they're trying to say is that it's more akin to the Windows world of things - "Hey, this apache-thing is trying to bind to port 80... do you want to let it through the firewall?"
Just think about it for a minute. The only way a government or dictator could tap someone's phone without the phone company knowing would involve using secret agents (in the broadest sense) to plant bugs or intercept signals.
Not really; listening in on the radio signals sent between the phone and the tower would not be difficult, and the encryption for it is a joke.
This is not a privacy issue; there is little expectation of privacy in a workplace when using company property anyway.
I personally feel this would be a nice help; imagine working for a government contractor and having having software automatically raise flags when someone copies documents with "DO NOT COPY" or "CONFIDENTIAL" in the OCR text. This is somewhat useful.
See, you can say this like it's a bad thing, but the concept of phone numbers is/retarded/. Why should you have to know some arcane, difficult to remember internal routing ID of a phone subscriber just to call them? It's like, instead of having DNS, you have to put in every IP address manually for any server/website you wish to visit. Sure, you can have a phone book, but this is like just putting an entry in/etc/hosts; it's definitely a horrible solution to a now-solved problem.
If the Senate had banned phone numbers, that would have forced the phone companies to create something better. A kind of Telephone Name Service of sorts.
I've seen a lot of promising college-aged open source devs that seem to have an overwhelming reverence and awe towards the kernel, thinking it far too complicated for them to work on with their own programming abilities. In reality, most of them could pick up the kernel and figure it out quite quickly, but they'll never convince themselves of that.
If Sega sold the contents of this room, it'd make more profit than it ever had in the history of the entire company... and they just found it lying around?!
Pressurizing equipment would likely be prohibitively large and weighty for the flight up. Have you ever seen an air compressor? And then a piping system (one that can handle high pressure hydrogen, and probably while the pipes themselves expand and contract a lot due to whether they are in the sun or not at that moment) to get the hydrogen to the thrusters themselves. Then try and imagine piping a small-moleculed flamable gas all around your gazillion dollar (USD) space station. All that extra weight and space for a somewhat small supply of thrust? No. This wouldn't be enough to keep the ISS in orbit all by themselves, as the drag at their relatively low altitude requires much more significant burn times and ISPs than these tiny pressure jets could likely allow.
What? Our depraved liberal government allowed such obscenities to be posted to his birth certificate, social security card, and driver's license?! This is outrageous! I call for a vote of no-confidence in Chancellor Valorum's leadership! Vote now! Vote now!
I'm not sure how this app works, but other people (jail breakers) don't do this over bluetooth, they establish an ad-hoc wifi connection with their laptop and start up a proxy on their phone.
All in all, I'm never one to side with The Man, but I can see why AT&T wouldn't want people to have unlimited download plans with a laptop on 3G. There isn't a whole lot of bandwidth to go around, and the only reason they could possibly offer unlimited data plans for the iphone is that they can reasonably bet on a relatively low traffic flow, as compared to some git on his laptop with torrents running over 3G. (Which, I'll note, is something AT&T _will_ boot you off their network for)
both mplayer and VLC run that sort of thing fine on my E6700 (2 cores) without noticeably dropping frames, even in action scenes. Are you using hardware acceleration? It helps a lot...
The beauty of open source is that if you miss the odd-kernel numbering system more, you can fork the kernel and make your own! Yay!
Enjoy maintaining both a stable and experimental code tree, constantly backporting important security fixes and features everyone wants, when you could just be modifying only one tree. Hope you have lots of free time!
When the government came for alt.binaries,
I remained silent:
I was not a filesharer.
When they locked up the kiddy porn posters,
I remained silent:
I was not a pedophile.
When they came for alt.religion.vim,
I remained silent:
I was not a Vim follower.
But when they came for alt.religion.emacs,
there was no one left to speak out.
>> "six billion people on earth used hand calculators
>> and performed calculations 24 hours a day and seven
>> days a week, it would take them 46 years to do what
>> the Roadrunner can in one day."
Who the hell is sitting out there submitting/. stories with the most crazy-ass units?!!
6-billion-people-hand-calculating-24/7-years?
Libraries of Congress?
Rods per hogshead?
Slashdot Mirror
My credit card works fine on transactions below $10.
Where exactly is the need for this?
Credit cards companies take a cut out of what merchants later get, and it's normally a percentage, but it is not unusual for there to also be a minimum transaction fee. So, small credit card transactions aren't good for retailers, since the lose an unusually high amount of money to the credit card company. ... in fact, in the states, July 2010's Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act recently legalized businesses setting a "minimum purchase with credit card" of up to $10.
I believe what they're trying to say is that it's more akin to the Windows world of things - "Hey, this apache-thing is trying to bind to port 80... do you want to let it through the firewall?"
Just think about it for a minute. The only way a government or dictator could tap someone's phone without the phone company knowing would involve using secret agents (in the broadest sense) to plant bugs or intercept signals.
Not really; listening in on the radio signals sent between the phone and the tower would not be difficult, and the encryption for it is a joke.
No one went for the mildly insulting tag "Chinasaurus Rex"? Dissapointing.
In other news, approximately 50% of people are of lower-than-average intelligence :-)
Three whole gigabytes? My word, what would one do with all that space. Perhaps store half a DVD? What absolute nonsense.
This is not a privacy issue; there is little expectation of privacy in a workplace when using company property anyway. I personally feel this would be a nice help; imagine working for a government contractor and having having software automatically raise flags when someone copies documents with "DO NOT COPY" or "CONFIDENTIAL" in the OCR text. This is somewhat useful.
See, you can say this like it's a bad thing, but the concept of phone numbers is /retarded/. Why should you have to know some arcane, difficult to remember internal routing ID of a phone subscriber just to call them? It's like, instead of having DNS, you have to put in every IP address manually for any server/website you wish to visit. Sure, you can have a phone book, but this is like just putting an entry in /etc/hosts; it's definitely a horrible solution to a now-solved problem.
If the Senate had banned phone numbers, that would have forced the phone companies to create something better. A kind of Telephone Name Service of sorts.
I've seen a lot of promising college-aged open source devs that seem to have an overwhelming reverence and awe towards the kernel, thinking it far too complicated for them to work on with their own programming abilities. In reality, most of them could pick up the kernel and figure it out quite quickly, but they'll never convince themselves of that.
I'm waiting till they start to allow acronyms, so that we geeks can win with our multitude of TLAs.
That is one Intrepid Ibex for sure. Maybe they spliced in some penguin DNA? *wink*
You know you're old if you remember that your copy of 25th Anniversary came with a video demo for Fury :-)
>> Linux groups would be a good bet for meeting more geeks.
>> Something that help me get out of my shell...
>_>
You should check out what you're missing - I hear they ported Linux to it :-)
If Sega sold the contents of this room, it'd make more profit than it ever had in the history of the entire company... and they just found it lying around?!
Pressurizing equipment would likely be prohibitively large and weighty for the flight up. Have you ever seen an air compressor? And then a piping system (one that can handle high pressure hydrogen, and probably while the pipes themselves expand and contract a lot due to whether they are in the sun or not at that moment) to get the hydrogen to the thrusters themselves. Then try and imagine piping a small-moleculed flamable gas all around your gazillion dollar (USD) space station. All that extra weight and space for a somewhat small supply of thrust? No. This wouldn't be enough to keep the ISS in orbit all by themselves, as the drag at their relatively low altitude requires much more significant burn times and ISPs than these tiny pressure jets could likely allow.
What? Our depraved liberal government allowed such obscenities to be posted to his birth certificate, social security card, and driver's license?! This is outrageous! I call for a vote of no-confidence in Chancellor Valorum's leadership! Vote now! Vote now!
I'm not sure how this app works, but other people (jail breakers) don't do this over bluetooth, they establish an ad-hoc wifi connection with their laptop and start up a proxy on their phone. All in all, I'm never one to side with The Man, but I can see why AT&T wouldn't want people to have unlimited download plans with a laptop on 3G. There isn't a whole lot of bandwidth to go around, and the only reason they could possibly offer unlimited data plans for the iphone is that they can reasonably bet on a relatively low traffic flow, as compared to some git on his laptop with torrents running over 3G. (Which, I'll note, is something AT&T _will_ boot you off their network for)
Maybe not? http://www.crn.com/retail/209900617 [crn.com]
both mplayer and VLC run that sort of thing fine on my E6700 (2 cores) without noticeably dropping frames, even in action scenes. Are you using hardware acceleration? It helps a lot...
The beauty of open source is that if you miss the odd-kernel numbering system more, you can fork the kernel and make your own! Yay! Enjoy maintaining both a stable and experimental code tree, constantly backporting important security fixes and features everyone wants, when you could just be modifying only one tree. Hope you have lots of free time!
When the government came for alt.binaries, I remained silent: I was not a filesharer. When they locked up the kiddy porn posters, I remained silent: I was not a pedophile. When they came for alt.religion.vim, I remained silent: I was not a Vim follower. But when they came for alt.religion.emacs, there was no one left to speak out.
>>plus, being in the CIA is serious work
Come on, the internet is serious business too!
>> "six billion people on earth used hand calculators
/. stories with the most crazy-ass units?!!
>> and performed calculations 24 hours a day and seven
>> days a week, it would take them 46 years to do what
>> the Roadrunner can in one day."
Who the hell is sitting out there submitting
6-billion-people-hand-calculating-24/7-years?
Libraries of Congress?
Rods per hogshead?
For 8 million euros, you'd think they could find someone to develop a new language testing app...