It does not increase your odds. It reduces you winnings if those odds are met. Say that a payout is 80c with head an tails. You play for 50 cents, That mean if I play head and it is tail I lose 50c. If I win, I get 80c.
Now if we BOTH play the same, payout is still 80c, so we get 40c each. "But there are many people playing so they would still pay out 80c" This was just an example. In Lotery they set a percentage of winning the first rang, then go down. So instead of winning 100MM, they only get 50MM.
The ball picking is mostly not done as if it is a bingo. That is, they do not put their hands in the big bowl. At least not the ones I have seen. The fact that they pick it up and show it is pure for entertainment.
There are some lotteries where they pick a ball, open it and then show the name/number. There it COULD be in theory be possible. In reality? Not so much. What they do afterwards is verify that the numbers that where not picked are still in there.
The only reason this was possible is the identical reason why elections should not be done without a paper trail: because it is easy to do some things that nobody sees.
Two other things: 1) In Belgium names will not be known, unless they put it out themselves 2) The lottery is PROUD that their people can play, if they so like, because they KNOW how secure it is and not possible to crack.
If you do not allow some people to play, you say that the system is hackable and thus not to be trusted. It would be the same as if people who wrote gpg or pgp would not be able to use it, because they could hack it.
So the 2 points you give prove that it is not secure. At that moment you are just waiting for something to go wrong. And then it did.
This. I have a relative slow connection and a friend of mine tells me his is much faster. I have up 10Mbps and down 50Mps and he has something that is 5 times as fast.The difference is that I have all ports open, his are closed below 1024. I have true limitless data, so I download as much as I like and am able to download faster than I can watch. He had to upgrade because he was reaching his data limit a few times. His is cable, mine is VDSL. I should get 30 up and 100 down from my provider, but I can't even be bothered to call them and solve it.
I rather have no data limit than speed that I can't use. Luckily in Belgium there are options to go to several different providers.
Many people are addicted to their TV. Try to be without TV for a week. If you can't cut it for a week, you are addicted. And people stress because they have no time. You will have oodles of time if you won't spend it sitting down and doing nothing. And yes, that includes YouTube, Netflix, Torrent files and DVDs.
And yes, you know exactly what I am talking about. You will know that if you are trying to find an excuse you are cheating.
Few years ago there was a series that showed people live how they lived in a certain era. It was always the parents that cheated with TV, never the kids. They LOVED spending time with their parents playing games and what not.
Seriously, try it for a week and see if you are addicted or not. Read up on what addiction is in the mean time.
1) This would fall under false advertising in Europe. We even include the taxes, so the price you see is the price you pay.
2) And some do not want that. I cut the cable when they moved BBC to digital in Belgium a few years back. I then looked at what I actually watched and it was a bit of BBC and that was it. Perhaps 2-3 hours per week. That was just not worth the money.
I did the cancelation in the store, not via writing, email or the phone. In the store you have the following advantages: 1) It is much harder for them to try to talk you out of it. You will also have proof in your hand that the cancel has been done. They asked for a reason and I told them that I wanted to cancel. The asked the question and I asked them why they needed to know. "Because it is a question we must ask" "So you asked the question, now cancel it." I did not give a reason.
Cancel for payment was done immediately. Technically it was 2 months later.
This would fall under 'human error' and can be reversed as it is clear that this is not normal. This is how it is written in European law.
The moment they ask you to either reverse the deal or pay the rest and you refuse, you are breaking the law.
Also something similar: There was a woman in The Netherlands who received a serious sum of money on her bank account. She had not asked for it and she used it to pay her debt and buy a car. She was found guilty for fraud when she was unable to pay back. OTOH a cow orker of mine received 6 months pay after he left. They asked it back + interest. He said ok to the money, but not to the interest. He knew his rights and could keep the interests.
In Europe, the law is much more concerned to the intention of the law than the letter of the law.
Buying a 25.000EUR car for 25EUR makes it clear that there is something weird going on.
OTOH I once saw a pair of headphones in a store and they where priced 8EUR or something like that. The actual price would be something like 38EUR. I got them for 8. They could have argued that the difference was too much, but they didn't. It was cheaper to just take the 30EUR loss and correct the price.
In yet other ads they make an actual expensive product and sell it for cheap, but have only 3 items. This is illegal as well, as it is false advertisement, even if they can prove that they had 3 items in stock and it said 'limited, first come first served'.
Courts in Belgium do not like it if you use the excuse of a 12 year old broy saying "Stop hitting yourself" or "But you SAID I could not have 1 cookie, so I took 2., not 1"
It does however nothing for the silly things they added. Open a file, e.g. a JPEG and edit it. You can't save it, like in any other program, you need to use 'save as'. (Unless they have changed that) That and the fact they are unable to write a usable manual for the scripting makes me not use it anymore. In the past each version upgrade broke the scripts I had. Not sure if that is still the case, as, like I said, I don't use it anymore.
So now I use ImageMagick on CLI when possible or nothing.
This question has been asked so often here, I start to think that it is not possible, otherwise you could have used one of the many ideas that has been proposed in the past.
I think everything has been proposed, except perhaps to hit them with some starter cables if they make errors. (Don't do that. It will only work in the short term.)
So what has been tried so far and what is the expected result? How did YOU get into it and how did others you know get into it?
I am not so much using a player as a server. MPD is what I use. It is on a data server and my PCs can connect to it with anything I like. I use xfce4-mpc-plugin and gmpc and I use them at the same time, depending on my mood. Sometimes I even use mpc in CLI.
That way I can play it from any of my machines.
If I wanted I could even do it from my phones , but I have no need for it at this moment.
Receiving the money and the sending of the packages will be done by completely different departments. On the one side you have a system that verifies if the payment is ok. The moment that is ok, it will be send to the department (or company) that does the packaging. They have no idea with the pricing or promotions. They just verify (if that) if there is an OK for payment. They should not even need to do that.
I have worked at a company and we had a promotion where if you bought one item, you would get another item for free. Instead of doing a separate order ID, they placed 2 items in the basked and 1 was at 0 EUR (This due to legal issues, but that is not important right now). So what some people did was remove the item they needed to pay and left in the item for free.
They did the payment (transport) so the payment was ok.
When we noticed, it was because it was strange we had 3 orders of that one item, we looked into it. Changes where done immediately and we just send out those 3, taking the loss. The sole reason we did that was because it would be cheaper to just take that loss than to go through the hassle of canceling the order, contacting the people and what not.
Now if the person sending out the item would not have done more than was expected of him (e.g. just packing the boxes and not care what was in them) much more would have gone out. We where a small company where the person had to take the item by hand.
If you have a much larger company, much of the packaging will be automated. That will mean that the few people who handle it will have no idea what is in the packages.
What I am interested in is HOW they found out. My guess is that the number of orders triggered a warning and a manual override would be needed for further orders. This normally would be just an OK when they see all is done nicely. In this instance they saw something was weird, looked into it and that is how they are where they are now.
The fact that they did this over and over again makes it clear they where fully aware what was going on. Then saying "I did not know it was a crime" is an extremely weak excuse as they should know that what they where doing was wrong.
What sentence they get depends on the laws. People get send to prison for much less.
If you see a new car that would cost 25.000USD and you get it for 22.000USD. There is no issue. When you get that car for 25USD, there clearly is an issue. When you go back several times, there is clearly an intend to defraud. At least that is how it works in Belgium.
Several petrol cars change the sound of the engine just so it sounds louder. (Some even use loudspeakers) There is no reason not to put on headphones that are linked to the throttle and have any sound you like, Including your semi enhancing Hemi sound and turn it all the way to 11.
They want to sell new content as those prices are higher. They think that if they sell the old content, people will not be willing to pay for new content.
So they rather sell one item for 10 than 8 items for 1.
Obviously these numbers are completely random. No idea if they are correct and even then it might be wrong how they think, but basically the reason is that this way they think they can make more money.
And it could also be that on the old content, they still would need to pay others some percentage, so the profit margin on those might be even smaller. So small that is not worth the time.
The Brave young Aryans are completely free to sign up with any service that will have them.
This implies that companies are allowed to refuse them, right? The African Americans are completely free to sign up with any service that will have them and companies are allowed to refuse them. The Women are completely free to sign up with any service that will have them and companies are allowed to refuse them. The [Insert Any Group] are completely free to sign up with any service that will have them and companies are allowed to refuse them.
Or is this only valid for services on the Internet?
Both of these groups have committed some serious crimes
If that is the case, there should be due process. Now it looks more like a witch hunt. And no I do not like their ideas. I detest their ideas. However this is not about their ideas. It is about their and with that, everybodies rights.
You could see that you reduce their rights, so that what they do is illegal. What they do would be illegal in e.g. Germany. That would mean reducing freedom of speech and I doubt anybody is willing to do that.
Although in this case I have no reason to believe otherwise
I am assuming that by "hatefull" you mean "illegal" and not "Not my opinion". There are two outcomes: 1) It was not illegal. That means it falls under free speech and they should not be taken down. 2) It was illegal. That means they should be prosecuted and that is what we have due process for.
I suspect it was not illegal and now we are doing censorship. Some will say that it isn't, because it is not done by the government and they would be wrong. Others will say that it is up to companies to decide who they serve as customer and that could be wrong as well. It could fall under discrimination. And even if it where legally ok, it would be morally not ok, as it restricts free speech.
So either it is illegal and it should be prosecuted, or it is free speech and it should be allowed. A last option would be to change what is legal and what not. That would be restricting free speech. e.g. Germany has restricted free speech on specially the Nazis. Many European countries will not allow you to e.g. deny the holocaust.
It can be both. You need to have access to TOR, but once you do it is just as easy.
That means that for people who want to read about them, there is an extra step and that can be too cumbersome or hard so they will not bother. The people who want to track them (not talking about some script kiddies) will already be tracking other websites, so for them it is not harder.
How many and is that head count or FTE or a combination of both? I can imagine it being headcount and they hire 10 people working 4 hours, instead of 1 person 40 hours.
Also: with that amount of money, they can hire people just to get the monies. These people do not need to do anything and the benefits pay for it, while they pocket the profit.
And from what we have seen with e.g. Internet providers who promised to get fast Internet and took the money and did nothing, it does not mean a lot.
It could also be that it is caused by a (new) device to prevent spying via microphones and installed there by the CIA/NSA or anybody else from within the USofA.
They could just look at the data they have on everybody else already: the browsing history. Why should they walk all the way to the parking when they have the info at their desk?
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It does not increase your odds. It reduces you winnings if those odds are met.
Say that a payout is 80c with head an tails. You play for 50 cents, That mean if I play head and it is tail I lose 50c. If I win, I get 80c.
Now if we BOTH play the same, payout is still 80c, so we get 40c each. "But there are many people playing so they would still pay out 80c"
This was just an example. In Lotery they set a percentage of winning the first rang, then go down. So instead of winning 100MM, they only get 50MM.
The ball picking is mostly not done as if it is a bingo. That is, they do not put their hands in the big bowl. At least not the ones I have seen. The fact that they pick it up and show it is pure for entertainment.
There are some lotteries where they pick a ball, open it and then show the name/number. There it COULD be in theory be possible. In reality? Not so much. What they do afterwards is verify that the numbers that where not picked are still in there.
The only reason this was possible is the identical reason why elections should not be done without a paper trail: because it is easy to do some things that nobody sees.
Two other things:
1) In Belgium names will not be known, unless they put it out themselves
2) The lottery is PROUD that their people can play, if they so like, because they KNOW how secure it is and not possible to crack.
If you do not allow some people to play, you say that the system is hackable and thus not to be trusted. It would be the same as if people who wrote gpg or pgp would not be able to use it, because they could hack it.
So the 2 points you give prove that it is not secure. At that moment you are just waiting for something to go wrong. And then it did.
This. I have a relative slow connection and a friend of mine tells me his is much faster.
I have up 10Mbps and down 50Mps and he has something that is 5 times as fast.The difference is that I have all ports open, his are closed below 1024. I have true limitless data, so I download as much as I like and am able to download faster than I can watch. He had to upgrade because he was reaching his data limit a few times.
His is cable, mine is VDSL. I should get 30 up and 100 down from my provider, but I can't even be bothered to call them and solve it.
I rather have no data limit than speed that I can't use. Luckily in Belgium there are options to go to several different providers.
Many people are addicted to their TV. Try to be without TV for a week. If you can't cut it for a week, you are addicted.
And people stress because they have no time. You will have oodles of time if you won't spend it sitting down and doing nothing. And yes, that includes YouTube, Netflix, Torrent files and DVDs.
And yes, you know exactly what I am talking about. You will know that if you are trying to find an excuse you are cheating.
Few years ago there was a series that showed people live how they lived in a certain era. It was always the parents that cheated with TV, never the kids. They LOVED spending time with their parents playing games and what not.
Seriously, try it for a week and see if you are addicted or not. Read up on what addiction is in the mean time.
1) This would fall under false advertising in Europe. We even include the taxes, so the price you see is the price you pay.
2) And some do not want that. I cut the cable when they moved BBC to digital in Belgium a few years back. I then looked at what I actually watched and it was a bit of BBC and that was it. Perhaps 2-3 hours per week.
That was just not worth the money.
I did the cancelation in the store, not via writing, email or the phone. In the store you have the following advantages:
1) It is much harder for them to try to talk you out of it. You will also have proof in your hand that the cancel has been done. They asked for a reason and I told them that I wanted to cancel. The asked the question and I asked them why they needed to know. "Because it is a question we must ask" "So you asked the question, now cancel it." I did not give a reason.
Cancel for payment was done immediately. Technically it was 2 months later.
.... but the label says it isn't good anymore. It is past its sale date, so I should throw it away and buy new stuff, right?
Oh wait, their customers are not the consumers. They are the companies that hope that people will throw away food sooner, so they buy food sooner.
... but fear itself.
This would fall under 'human error' and can be reversed as it is clear that this is not normal.
This is how it is written in European law.
The moment they ask you to either reverse the deal or pay the rest and you refuse, you are breaking the law.
Also something similar:
There was a woman in The Netherlands who received a serious sum of money on her bank account. She had not asked for it and she used it to pay her debt and buy a car. She was found guilty for fraud when she was unable to pay back.
OTOH a cow orker of mine received 6 months pay after he left. They asked it back + interest. He said ok to the money, but not to the interest. He knew his rights and could keep the interests.
In Europe, the law is much more concerned to the intention of the law than the letter of the law.
Buying a 25.000EUR car for 25EUR makes it clear that there is something weird going on.
OTOH I once saw a pair of headphones in a store and they where priced 8EUR or something like that. The actual price would be something like 38EUR. I got them for 8. They could have argued that the difference was too much, but they didn't. It was cheaper to just take the 30EUR loss and correct the price.
In yet other ads they make an actual expensive product and sell it for cheap, but have only 3 items. This is illegal as well, as it is false advertisement, even if they can prove that they had 3 items in stock and it said 'limited, first come first served'.
Courts in Belgium do not like it if you use the excuse of a 12 year old broy saying "Stop hitting yourself" or "But you SAID I could not have 1 cookie, so I took 2., not 1"
It does however nothing for the silly things they added. Open a file, e.g. a JPEG and edit it. You can't save it, like in any other program, you need to use 'save as'. (Unless they have changed that) That and the fact they are unable to write a usable manual for the scripting makes me not use it anymore.
In the past each version upgrade broke the scripts I had. Not sure if that is still the case, as, like I said, I don't use it anymore.
So now I use ImageMagick on CLI when possible or nothing.
This question has been asked so often here, I start to think that it is not possible, otherwise you could have used one of the many ideas that has been proposed in the past.
I think everything has been proposed, except perhaps to hit them with some starter cables if they make errors. (Don't do that. It will only work in the short term.)
So what has been tried so far and what is the expected result? How did YOU get into it and how did others you know get into it?
I am not so much using a player as a server. MPD is what I use. It is on a data server and my PCs can connect to it with anything I like. I use xfce4-mpc-plugin and gmpc and I use them at the same time, depending on my mood.
Sometimes I even use mpc in CLI.
That way I can play it from any of my machines.
If I wanted I could even do it from my phones , but I have no need for it at this moment.
Receiving the money and the sending of the packages will be done by completely different departments.
On the one side you have a system that verifies if the payment is ok. The moment that is ok, it will be send to the department (or company) that does the packaging. They have no idea with the pricing or promotions. They just verify (if that) if there is an OK for payment. They should not even need to do that.
I have worked at a company and we had a promotion where if you bought one item, you would get another item for free. Instead of doing a separate order ID, they placed 2 items in the basked and 1 was at 0 EUR (This due to legal issues, but that is not important right now).
So what some people did was remove the item they needed to pay and left in the item for free.
They did the payment (transport) so the payment was ok.
When we noticed, it was because it was strange we had 3 orders of that one item, we looked into it. Changes where done immediately and we just send out those 3, taking the loss. The sole reason we did that was because it would be cheaper to just take that loss than to go through the hassle of canceling the order, contacting the people and what not.
Now if the person sending out the item would not have done more than was expected of him (e.g. just packing the boxes and not care what was in them) much more would have gone out. We where a small company where the person had to take the item by hand.
If you have a much larger company, much of the packaging will be automated. That will mean that the few people who handle it will have no idea what is in the packages.
What I am interested in is HOW they found out. My guess is that the number of orders triggered a warning and a manual override would be needed for further orders. This normally would be just an OK when they see all is done nicely. In this instance they saw something was weird, looked into it and that is how they are where they are now.
The fact that they did this over and over again makes it clear they where fully aware what was going on. Then saying "I did not know it was a crime" is an extremely weak excuse as they should know that what they where doing was wrong.
What sentence they get depends on the laws. People get send to prison for much less.
If you see a new car that would cost 25.000USD and you get it for 22.000USD. There is no issue. When you get that car for 25USD, there clearly is an issue. When you go back several times, there is clearly an intend to defraud. At least that is how it works in Belgium.
If 91% said that it COULD be used by hackers, I assume that the other 9% said that it WOULD be used by hackers.
Several petrol cars change the sound of the engine just so it sounds louder. (Some even use loudspeakers) There is no reason not to put on headphones that are linked to the throttle and have any sound you like, Including your semi enhancing Hemi sound and turn it all the way to 11.
They want to sell new content as those prices are higher. They think that if they sell the old content, people will not be willing to pay for new content.
So they rather sell one item for 10 than 8 items for 1.
Obviously these numbers are completely random. No idea if they are correct and even then it might be wrong how they think, but basically the reason is that this way they think they can make more money.
And it could also be that on the old content, they still would need to pay others some percentage, so the profit margin on those might be even smaller. So small that is not worth the time.
This implies that companies are allowed to refuse them, right?
The African Americans are completely free to sign up with any service that will have them and companies are allowed to refuse them.
The Women are completely free to sign up with any service that will have them and companies are allowed to refuse them.
The [Insert Any Group] are completely free to sign up with any service that will have them and companies are allowed to refuse them.
Or is this only valid for services on the Internet?
If that is the case, there should be due process. Now it looks more like a witch hunt. And no I do not like their ideas. I detest their ideas. However this is not about their ideas. It is about their and with that, everybodies rights.
You could see that you reduce their rights, so that what they do is illegal. What they do would be illegal in e.g. Germany. That would mean reducing freedom of speech and I doubt anybody is willing to do that.
I am assuming that by "hatefull" you mean "illegal" and not "Not my opinion".
There are two outcomes:
1) It was not illegal. That means it falls under free speech and they should not be taken down.
2) It was illegal. That means they should be prosecuted and that is what we have due process for.
I suspect it was not illegal and now we are doing censorship. Some will say that it isn't, because it is not done by the government and they would be wrong.
Others will say that it is up to companies to decide who they serve as customer and that could be wrong as well. It could fall under discrimination. And even if it where legally ok, it would be morally not ok, as it restricts free speech.
So either it is illegal and it should be prosecuted, or it is free speech and it should be allowed. A last option would be to change what is legal and what not. That would be restricting free speech. e.g. Germany has restricted free speech on specially the Nazis. Many European countries will not allow you to e.g. deny the holocaust.
It can be both. You need to have access to TOR, but once you do it is just as easy.
That means that for people who want to read about them, there is an extra step and that can be too cumbersome or hard so they will not bother.
The people who want to track them (not talking about some script kiddies) will already be tracking other websites, so for them it is not harder.
The SS had black uniforms. Less hilarious. They also hate(d) people that where white and not just Jews.
How many and is that head count or FTE or a combination of both? I can imagine it being headcount and they hire 10 people working 4 hours, instead of 1 person 40 hours.
Also: with that amount of money, they can hire people just to get the monies. These people do not need to do anything and the benefits pay for it, while they pocket the profit.
And from what we have seen with e.g. Internet providers who promised to get fast Internet and took the money and did nothing, it does not mean a lot.
It could also be that it is caused by a (new) device to prevent spying via microphones and installed there by the CIA/NSA or anybody else from within the USofA.
Yes, because revenge is way cooler than due process.
They could just look at the data they have on everybody else already: the browsing history. Why should they walk all the way to the parking when they have the info at their desk?