Let's say you have a firm job offer in Middle America that pays $100K after taxes.
Let's say you have another firm offer in San Francisco that pays $120K after taxes.
Both jobs are with the same company doing pretty much the same work. The difference in the offer is to cover what the company thinks is a fair cost-of-living adjustment.
Let's say you are a cheapskate and you can actually live cheap in Middle America on 40K but it will cost you 60K in San Francisco.
Financially, it's a wash. You'll pocket $60K/year and have those student loans paid off in almost no time.
On the other hand, if your particular cost of living gap is less than 20K, San Francisco is looking nice. If it's more, Middle America is financially better.
Obviously, to keep things simple, I'm ignoring things like "which place will give you better career opportunities" and "which place do you actually want to live and play in more."
From what I understand, 99% of the mice experiments findings and results also apply to humans because our DNA is so similar. Is this wrong? How often does something affect mice differently than humans?[emphasis added]
Quite often actually.
As just one example, mice are rarely affected by what an AC contributes enough on/. to bother replying.
You can't prove that Jesus isn't the son of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, either.
In principle, you could. Unfortunately the evidence of the FSM's sterilization at the hands of the Great Pasta Fork prior to reaching puberty has been lost to time.
And remember, the belief in God is not backed by any evidence
I assume you mean evidence which, by today's standards, would be considered scientific. I've seen plenty of 21st-century evidence of God's existence that I consider reliable, but because it is not scientific, it is unreasonable for me to expect those who demand only scientific evidence to accept it, so I don't bother trying.
the historical record shows that its a creation of man. Superstitious nonsense.
I know enough about history to know that historical records, particularly those more than a few hundred years ago, are spotty. I also know that they can be un-reliable: Those who win military or philosophical or cultural wars are the ones that write the history books. If you had said "the historical record strongly sugguests..." instead of "shows..." or "historical evidence which is generally considered to be reliable enough on this matter shows..." and you said "the God desribed in [insert particular holy book here]" instead of just "God," then I would at least be willing to listen to evidence to support your claim (evidence you did not provide, by the way). When you say it "[definitively] shows..." then that's basically a faith statement, which is kind of ironic given your claim that God is made-up by man.
And what kills me is that 40% of scientists believe in God. Completely irrational. So much for the theory that science education makes one more rational or logical.
I think the number is a lot higher than that, expecially among the "hard" sciences. I'm just speculating here, but perhaps like me they have seen reliable non-scientific evidence which has led to their personal belief (aka "world view") but, like me, they know the evidence is not scientific.
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By the way, there are scientists who are trying to use scientific principles to prove this-or-that religion. Some are total shams. Some are well-meaning scientists who are blinded by their faith and don't see that they are not really applying scientific methodology. Others are actually using scientific methodologies. As far as I know, the latter group is having some success in proving certain historical events written about in this-or-that holy book are either likely or at least plausible, but AFAIK none has ever come close to scientificly proving the existence of God.
Likewise, I have never seen - and do not ever expect to see - any scientific proof that there is not an intelligent, omnicient, onmipresent, omnipotent entity that created the universe and still exists today.
In short, to make a scientific claim that such an entity ("God" - not just the specific God of any specific holy book) does not exist is not a scientific claim at all - it is a statement of faith masquerading as science.
-- Personally, I do believe in the God of Genesis. I also beleive that this same God interacts with people today. But I do not expect anyone reading this to believe in this God based on anything I say here on Slashdot. The best I can hope for is that, if they know me personally, they will come to know that I am sincere in my beliefs, and that these beliefs affect who I am and the decisions I make, for the better for myself and for those around me.
One, that is modern and feature-rich, and a second one that is very simple, maybe even analog, well-understood, reliable systems which will provide protection when the main system isn't working.
I'll use brakes in trains as a comparison:
You can have a modern system where automated train controls can cause the train to speed up or slow down, but you still have 19th century air brakes connected to some very simple but very reliable sensors. These sensors would detect "critical" things like the train moving too fast around a curve or moving too fast downhill, among other things. If the air-brake line is damaged and loses pressure, the train stops. If any of the simple sensors detect a problem, the trains stops. To get the train going again, a human being has to go to the train and fix the problem with the air brake system or manually reset the sensors.
Apply this design philosophy to any system where you absolutely positively do not want certain bad things to happen without corrective action being taken and/or an alarm sounding, and you'll have at least some minimum level of safety even when your modern technology fails or is compromised.
Perjury - lying in a affidavit - is a crime in the Untied States. The threat of jail and having a criminal record should be deterrent enough, at least in the United States.
In places where it not a good enough deterrent, then I concede that this solution won't work.
The purpose of the notarization and the affidavit is to deter fraudulent claims of "I lost control of my account" by making it much more likely that someone making such a false claim would be caught and could be criminally prosecuted.
Yes, you are correct, there is nothing to stop someone from claiming to be the owner of an abandoned account. However, if the original account-holder or his estate ever realizes it's been taken over by me though such a false claim and they can prove the claim was false - they don't have to prove they are or represent the original owner, only that the claim was false - the police will know who to arrest.
Sure, some version of LibreOffice or one of its forks may be 99.9% bug-for-bug compatible with Microsoft Office 2016 for Windows, but in the corporate world, that 0.1% that causes a pagentation issue when you turn your Word document to a PDF file can cost you a promotion. If you use the corporate-approved Microsoft product, you can blame IT and get away with it.
In K-12 schools, colleges, and universities, people usually use whatever their institution buys or recommends, which usually means whatever company gives the institutions the best deal. For decades, Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, and others have been giving institutional discounts that made it very hard for the institutions to say "none of the above, we will recommend Linux to everyone, not just our geeky students."
In the non-corporate/home/small-business world, people usually go for "as close to free as in beer as possible, easy to use, and as close to 100% compatible with what everyone else is doing as possible." Whatever they learned at work or school or whatever their kids are learning at school usually equals "easy to use" and if they have kids, they want to be compatible with what the school uses if possible.
... someone stole the social media's unsalted password database without being caught and managed to crack my not-strong-enough password.
Or... I logged in from a new device in a semi-public place and someone shoulder-surfed and saw what I was typing.
OK that last one isn't scale-able but it could happen in places like schools. My guess it that it happens at least once a week for the lulz of it at a middle school somewhere in America.
Would filing a police report for idenitty theft help?
Would a letter from a lawyer demanding the account not be used by anyone else pending a resolution help?
How about a court order?
Granted, those are inconveniet and expensive, but the bad publicity of a few dozen cases of "I had to get a court order to get my account back" in a short period of time would be expensive for the social-media companies too. It might be enough to get them to streamline the procedures to regain control.
For people in the USA and other countries with similar laws that would get YOU arrested for fraudulently trying to "take over" someone else's account by claiming you were the rightful owner, it shouldnt take more than a notarized copy of your driver's license, an affidavit saying the account is mine, and an affidavit saying you are who you say you are for the social media company to at least kick out the imposter. As far as you getting control of the account back, they might insist on some kind of video interview.
For people who are in countries without a reasonably efficient legal system, and for people who - for good reasons or bad - deliberately lied about things like their birth dates when they created the account, well, it's going to be hard to prove you are the rightful owner.
[People with auto-brewery syndrime] can function at alcohol levels such as 0.30 and 0.40 when the average person would be comatose or dying.
So what if I have this? I might be able to get my own car's interlock disabled, but I doubt I'll be able to drive a rental car, drive on the job, or drive a friend's car, even though I could drive one safely today.
However there are ways to re-enable it on a per-boot-cycle basis; you just have to know how. This capability is included and allowed so that 'closed box' debugging can be done by Intel if there is a problem an OEM is having that requires Intel to assist with it.
Okay, fine, but compromise a bit on the "closed box" and require that a pin on the CPU be jumpered to something during boot to enable this, so it cannot be enabled without physical access.
And it can also be argued that if they didn't drones before, they dont need them now and they are a waste of tax payer funds.
Actually, there are cases now where it would be good for the taxing authority to have aerial photos and videos, but you don't really need or want them to be part of the database or even stored online.
I'm thinking cases where you expect the property owner to challenge the appraisal and want to avoid sending out another set of appraisers, so you film it so the appeal board can judge what the original appraisers saw.
On the cynical side,
they dont need them now and they are a waste of tax payer funds
means that using drones to take videos will now become standard practice for tax-appraisers everywhere.
Now you'll hear some idiots saying "ain't broke don't fix it" which is is a poor argument for technology that clearly so far behind the state of the art.
But it is a good argument for decades-old technology that is not that far behind the state of the art.
I'm still using a wood-encased graphite writing stick despite the wide availability of plastic mechanical pencils.
It's a matter of preference - I like the feel of wood over plastic.
I will grant you this: * The training requirements to use one if you know how to use the other is minimal * Both are still widely available * For me, they are approximately equally efficient * The tools needed to use one until its useful life is over, namely a pencil sharpener for the wood one, replacement lead for the refillable mechanical kind, and nothing for the disposable mechanical kind, are widely available and inexpensive
I can't say that about most computers designed and built 30-50 years ago vs. most computers designed and built 30-50 months ago.
If they substitute PCs with terminal emulation software - and a serial line or other old-school connection for actual terminals, those PCs may be connected to the internet.
Theoretically, if you want to get to the ancient mainframe, get into that PC first springboard to the mainframe.
Also, many of those ancient computers have dialup modems used for remote maintenance from the vendor. If you can get in that way....
Some kid who got vaccinated but didn't get immunity will die.
They will find out their kid got it from some kind in school who wasn't vaccinated.
It will come out that the kid's parents were influenced by anti-vaccination groups.
When this happens in the USA, the lawsuits will fly.
Eventually, the courts will say the anti-vaccination groups are not responsible in this particular case, but there will be enough legal uncertaintly about future cases that corporate beheamoths will give them the heave-ho to protect their own bottom line.
The courts will also find the other kids' parents negligent, which will scare most parents into vaccinating their kids, either to avoid being sued or because they don't want to feel guilty if their own kid's friend dies of something they caught from their kid.
If I buy a new release in an obsolte format when I could get it in a modern format, it's to buy it as a work of art.
That is, it's either for display or as an investment collectable. Almsot all are only for display: Other than very limited releases - say, low-run anniversary releases with special cover art - these likely won't be investment collectables.
Besides, the only "nostalgia" value of vinyl or analog tape for me is if it wasn't available in CD or other digital form when it first came out.
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Let's say you have a firm job offer in Middle America that pays $100K after taxes.
Let's say you have another firm offer in San Francisco that pays $120K after taxes.
Both jobs are with the same company doing pretty much the same work. The difference in the offer is to cover what the company thinks is a fair cost-of-living adjustment.
Let's say you are a cheapskate and you can actually live cheap in Middle America on 40K but it will cost you 60K in San Francisco.
Financially, it's a wash. You'll pocket $60K/year and have those student loans paid off in almost no time.
On the other hand, if your particular cost of living gap is less than 20K, San Francisco is looking nice. If it's more, Middle America is financially better.
Obviously, to keep things simple, I'm ignoring things like "which place will give you better career opportunities" and "which place do you actually want to live and play in more."
From what I understand, 99% of the mice experiments findings and results also apply to humans because our DNA is so similar. Is this wrong? How often does something affect mice differently than humans? [emphasis added]
Quite often actually.
As just one example, mice are rarely affected by what an AC contributes enough on /. to bother replying.
You can't prove that Jesus isn't the son of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, either.
In principle, you could. Unfortunately the evidence of the FSM's sterilization at the hands of the Great Pasta Fork prior to reaching puberty has been lost to time.
Oh, I fixed your quotation marks for you.
And remember, the belief in God is not backed by any evidence
I assume you mean evidence which, by today's standards, would be considered scientific. I've seen plenty of 21st-century evidence of God's existence that I consider reliable, but because it is not scientific, it is unreasonable for me to expect those who demand only scientific evidence to accept it, so I don't bother trying.
the historical record shows that its a creation of man. Superstitious nonsense.
I know enough about history to know that historical records, particularly those more than a few hundred years ago, are spotty. I also know that they can be un-reliable: Those who win military or philosophical or cultural wars are the ones that write the history books. If you had said "the historical record strongly sugguests..." instead of "shows..." or "historical evidence which is generally considered to be reliable enough on this matter shows..." and you said "the God desribed in [insert particular holy book here]" instead of just "God," then I would at least be willing to listen to evidence to support your claim (evidence you did not provide, by the way). When you say it "[definitively] shows..." then that's basically a faith statement, which is kind of ironic given your claim that God is made-up by man.
And what kills me is that 40% of scientists believe in God. Completely irrational. So much for the theory that science education makes one more rational or logical.
I think the number is a lot higher than that, expecially among the "hard" sciences. I'm just speculating here, but perhaps like me they have seen reliable non-scientific evidence which has led to their personal belief (aka "world view") but, like me, they know the evidence is not scientific.
---
By the way, there are scientists who are trying to use scientific principles to prove this-or-that religion. Some are total shams. Some are well-meaning scientists who are blinded by their faith and don't see that they are not really applying scientific methodology. Others are actually using scientific methodologies. As far as I know, the latter group is having some success in proving certain historical events written about in this-or-that holy book are either likely or at least plausible, but AFAIK none has ever come close to scientificly proving the existence of God.
Likewise, I have never seen - and do not ever expect to see - any scientific proof that there is not an intelligent, omnicient, onmipresent, omnipotent entity that created the universe and still exists today.
In short, to make a scientific claim that such an entity ("God" - not just the specific God of any specific holy book) does not exist is not a scientific claim at all - it is a statement of faith masquerading as science.
--
Personally, I do believe in the God of Genesis. I also beleive that this same God interacts with people today. But I do not expect anyone reading this to believe in this God based on anything I say here on Slashdot. The best I can hope for is that, if they know me personally, they will come to know that I am sincere in my beliefs, and that these beliefs affect who I am and the decisions I make, for the better for myself and for those around me.
... in mice ... who were in the BBQ pit with the Bible.
... in mice.
One, that is modern and feature-rich, and a second one that is very simple, maybe even analog, well-understood, reliable systems which will provide protection when the main system isn't working.
I'll use brakes in trains as a comparison:
You can have a modern system where automated train controls can cause the train to speed up or slow down, but you still have 19th century air brakes connected to some very simple but very reliable sensors. These sensors would detect "critical" things like the train moving too fast around a curve or moving too fast downhill, among other things. If the air-brake line is damaged and loses pressure, the train stops. If any of the simple sensors detect a problem, the trains stops. To get the train going again, a human being has to go to the train and fix the problem with the air brake system or manually reset the sensors.
Apply this design philosophy to any system where you absolutely positively do not want certain bad things to happen without corrective action being taken and/or an alarm sounding, and you'll have at least some minimum level of safety even when your modern technology fails or is compromised.
See 58401372 above.
Perjury - lying in a affidavit - is a crime in the Untied States. The threat of jail and having a criminal record should be deterrent enough, at least in the United States.
In places where it not a good enough deterrent, then I concede that this solution won't work.
The purpose of the notarization and the affidavit is to deter fraudulent claims of "I lost control of my account" by making it much more likely that someone making such a false claim would be caught and could be criminally prosecuted.
Yes, you are correct, there is nothing to stop someone from claiming to be the owner of an abandoned account. However, if the original account-holder or his estate ever realizes it's been taken over by me though such a false claim and they can prove the claim was false - they don't have to prove they are or represent the original owner, only that the claim was false - the police will know who to arrest.
Sure, some version of LibreOffice or one of its forks may be 99.9% bug-for-bug compatible with Microsoft Office 2016 for Windows, but in the corporate world, that 0.1% that causes a pagentation issue when you turn your Word document to a PDF file can cost you a promotion. If you use the corporate-approved Microsoft product, you can blame IT and get away with it.
In K-12 schools, colleges, and universities, people usually use whatever their institution buys or recommends, which usually means whatever company gives the institutions the best deal. For decades, Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, and others have been giving institutional discounts that made it very hard for the institutions to say "none of the above, we will recommend Linux to everyone, not just our geeky students."
In the non-corporate/home/small-business world, people usually go for "as close to free as in beer as possible, easy to use, and as close to 100% compatible with what everyone else is doing as possible." Whatever they learned at work or school or whatever their kids are learning at school usually equals "easy to use" and if they have kids, they want to be compatible with what the school uses if possible.
... someone stole the social media's unsalted password database without being caught and managed to crack my not-strong-enough password.
Or ... I logged in from a new device in a semi-public place and someone shoulder-surfed and saw what I was typing.
OK that last one isn't scale-able but it could happen in places like schools. My guess it that it happens at least once a week for the lulz of it at a middle school somewhere in America.
Would filing a police report for idenitty theft help?
Would a letter from a lawyer demanding the account not be used by anyone else pending a resolution help?
How about a court order?
Granted, those are inconveniet and expensive, but the bad publicity of a few dozen cases of "I had to get a court order to get my account back" in a short period of time would be expensive for the social-media companies too. It might be enough to get them to streamline the procedures to regain control.
For people in the USA and other countries with similar laws that would get YOU arrested for fraudulently trying to "take over" someone else's account by claiming you were the rightful owner, it shouldnt take more than a notarized copy of your driver's license, an affidavit saying the account is mine, and an affidavit saying you are who you say you are for the social media company to at least kick out the imposter. As far as you getting control of the account back, they might insist on some kind of video interview.
For people who are in countries without a reasonably efficient legal system, and for people who - for good reasons or bad - deliberately lied about things like their birth dates when they created the account, well, it's going to be hard to prove you are the rightful owner.
Woman claims her body brews alcohol, has DUI charge dismissed (2016)
[People with auto-brewery syndrime] can function at alcohol levels such as 0.30 and 0.40 when the average person would be comatose or dying.
So what if I have this? I might be able to get my own car's interlock disabled, but I doubt I'll be able to drive a rental car, drive on the job, or drive a friend's car, even though I could drive one safely today.
<whiteout>Don't</whiteout> be evil.
... this headline would be an April Fools joke.
However there are ways to re-enable it on a per-boot-cycle basis; you just have to know how. This capability is included and allowed so that 'closed box' debugging can be done by Intel if there is a problem an OEM is having that requires Intel to assist with it.
Okay, fine, but compromise a bit on the "closed box" and require that a pin on the CPU be jumpered to something during boot to enable this, so it cannot be enabled without physical access.
Since these features are meant for use on the assembly line you can't just remove them.
But you can design them to be permanently disabled as one of the last steps before the chip leaves the manufacturing plant.
And it can also be argued that if they didn't drones before, they dont need them now and they are a waste of tax payer funds.
Actually, there are cases now where it would be good for the taxing authority to have aerial photos and videos, but you don't really need or want them to be part of the database or even stored online.
I'm thinking cases where you expect the property owner to challenge the appraisal and want to avoid sending out another set of appraisers, so you film it so the appeal board can judge what the original appraisers saw.
On the cynical side,
they dont need them now and they are a waste of tax payer funds
means that using drones to take videos will now become standard practice for tax-appraisers everywhere.
If your IP "pops" then it was under-priced.
You won't be keeping a MB on each piece of property
The videos captured by the drones operated by the tax assessors take up a lot more than 1 MB.
Now you'll hear some idiots saying "ain't broke don't fix it" which is is a poor argument for technology that clearly so far behind the state of the art.
But it is a good argument for decades-old technology that is not that far behind the state of the art.
I'm still using a wood-encased graphite writing stick despite the wide availability of plastic mechanical pencils.
It's a matter of preference - I like the feel of wood over plastic.
I will grant you this:
* The training requirements to use one if you know how to use the other is minimal
* Both are still widely available
* For me, they are approximately equally efficient
* The tools needed to use one until its useful life is over, namely a pencil sharpener for the wood one, replacement lead for the refillable mechanical kind, and nothing for the disposable mechanical kind, are widely available and inexpensive
I can't say that about most computers designed and built 30-50 years ago vs. most computers designed and built 30-50 months ago.
If they substitute PCs with terminal emulation software - and a serial line or other old-school connection for actual terminals, those PCs may be connected to the internet.
Theoretically, if you want to get to the ancient mainframe, get into that PC first springboard to the mainframe.
Also, many of those ancient computers have dialup modems used for remote maintenance from the vendor. If you can get in that way....
Some kid who got vaccinated but didn't get immunity will die.
They will find out their kid got it from some kind in school who wasn't vaccinated.
It will come out that the kid's parents were influenced by anti-vaccination groups.
When this happens in the USA, the lawsuits will fly.
Eventually, the courts will say the anti-vaccination groups are not responsible in this particular case, but there will be enough legal uncertaintly about future cases that corporate beheamoths will give them the heave-ho to protect their own bottom line.
The courts will also find the other kids' parents negligent, which will scare most parents into vaccinating their kids, either to avoid being sued or because they don't want to feel guilty if their own kid's friend dies of something they caught from their kid.
If I buy a new release in an obsolte format when I could get it in a modern format, it's to buy it as a work of art.
That is, it's either for display or as an investment collectable. Almsot all are only for display: Other than very limited releases - say, low-run anniversary releases with special cover art - these likely won't be investment collectables.
Besides, the only "nostalgia" value of vinyl or analog tape for me is if it wasn't available in CD or other digital form when it first came out.
... to not bother applying will be one of the outcomes.
The real question is, is it an intended outcome?
Maybe companies make pronouncements like this to "encourage" people they see as rabble-rousers to leave or never sign on in the first place.