I met an elderly gentleman who received his first 419 email just last week. When he told me about it, I laughed at how silly it was. He look perplexed. Turns out he was just about to send the scammer money because he felt sorry for him. No matter what I said, he refused to believe that it was a trick.
Even worse, about 5 years ago an auditor working for Revenue Canada (like Canadian IRS) got dinged for tens of thousands over a 419 scam. He even flew to Nigeria to try to pick up the money. He also racked up thousands of dollars in long distance charges, and since he was using his office phone, the Canadian taxpayer ended up paying the bill. No disciplinary action was taken against him.
I've also read about people who have been 419-scammed numerous times, each time thinking "this time it's for real".
1) Can the older folks actually remember all their passwords? Or are they writing them down?
2) On a related note, if they only have one or two passwords to remember (email and maybe something else) that's easier than younger more tech-savvy individuals who may be trying to remember MANY MANY passwords (email 1, email 2, bank account 1, bank account 2, social media website 1, 2, 3, online forum 1, 2, brokerage 1, 2, iTunes Store, Amazon, Ebay, some app, electricity bill, wireless plan, phone plan, credit card 1, 2,3, etc, etc, etc).
I am by no means young, I'm 31, but am part of a more tech savvy generation. I have so many passwords to remember, even after trying to keep them the same, that now I have a whole Gmail label called login info where I store my passwords for everything..
I'm an old geezer and I use LastPass. My LastPass password is a very long sequence that I generated with a random number generator and memorized. Problem solved.
You actually illustrate the article's point: as long as we don't see the errors or shortcomings in a theory, we take it for granted and base further assumptions on it.
No, Science is applied philosophy, aka the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method. It is _one_ way to acquire Truth. And like any process, it works well with certain types of inputs, and completely fails at others.
Philosophers like to see it that way, as philosophy been sidelined into irrelevancy.
Science is nothing more than the study of the natural world by the systematic application of skepticism. The greater the degree of skepticism (rigor) employed, the better the science. And no, that never fails, because whenever you move away from skepticism, you move toward faith. And faith has never solved anything.
It's true: I was a prof at U of Utah at the time. The hype machine was insane.
Example: someone in the physics dept. published a paper disputing P&F's results. As a result, P&F sued the physicist for libel. Since when does publishing a paper constitute libel? The silliest part is that to promote cold fusion, the university agreed to pay for P&F's legal bills. And as the physicist was a faculty member, they had to pay his legal bills too.
Eventually the suit was dropped, but the university still ended up spending hundreds of thousands to sue itself.
I have seen simply innocuous statements turned into huge raging battles over who is 'right or wrong'. Just because some atheist wants to show off 'how smart they are'.
Look no further than this *VERY* thread to see it.
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The crime is why there isn't a criminal investigation.
FIFY
I was thinking of the T-1000.
Mars will need lawyers & politicians. I suggest we start by sending them.
And telephone sanitizers.
In vacuum, or in the almost-like-vacuum kind of atmosphere that Mars has, losing pressure means losing consciousness within ten seconds or so.
And no one can hear you scream.
There are many examples of "living fossils"
One of them is that Australian guy who owns Fox News.
If it is the the Baptists are all going to hell because they like their pork sandwiches.
And they will!
Yahweh.
I met an elderly gentleman who received his first 419 email just last week. When he told me about it, I laughed at how silly it was. He look perplexed. Turns out he was just about to send the scammer money because he felt sorry for him. No matter what I said, he refused to believe that it was a trick.
Even worse, about 5 years ago an auditor working for Revenue Canada (like Canadian IRS) got dinged for tens of thousands over a 419 scam. He even flew to Nigeria to try to pick up the money. He also racked up thousands of dollars in long distance charges, and since he was using his office phone, the Canadian taxpayer ended up paying the bill. No disciplinary action was taken against him.
I've also read about people who have been 419-scammed numerous times, each time thinking "this time it's for real".
Did anybody else read this as "Computers May Be As Good As (Or Better Than) Human Binoculars"?
I thought it meant people with really good eyesight.
Just a small correction:
It may be 100% true and correct. Every word, every letter of the Bible could be correct.
Nopz, it can't, because it is full of contradictions. Unless you put logic aside it can't be proven 100% correct even if god itself showed evidence.
Logic is the tool of the devil!
1) Can the older folks actually remember all their passwords? Or are they writing them down?
2) On a related note, if they only have one or two passwords to remember (email and maybe something else) that's easier than younger more tech-savvy individuals who may be trying to remember MANY MANY passwords (email 1, email 2, bank account 1, bank account 2, social media website 1, 2, 3, online forum 1, 2, brokerage 1, 2, iTunes Store, Amazon, Ebay, some app, electricity bill, wireless plan, phone plan, credit card 1, 2 ,3, etc, etc, etc).
I am by no means young, I'm 31, but am part of a more tech savvy generation. I have so many passwords to remember, even after trying to keep them the same, that now I have a whole Gmail label called login info where I store my passwords for everything. .
I'm an old geezer and I use LastPass. My LastPass password is a very long sequence that I generated with a random number generator and memorized. Problem solved.
Maybe clueless magazine writers do. Scientists don't.
No, Science is applied philosophy, aka the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method. It is _one_ way to acquire Truth. And like any process, it works well with certain types of inputs, and completely fails at others.
Philosophers like to see it that way, as philosophy been sidelined into irrelevancy.
Science is nothing more than the study of the natural world by the systematic application of skepticism. The greater the degree of skepticism (rigor) employed, the better the science.
And no, that never fails, because whenever you move away from skepticism, you move toward faith. And faith has never solved anything.
I actually know a lot about methane and frankly I don't see it happening. We're still wasting most of the methane feedstocks.
MasterBlaster rules BarterTown!
Then you are hardly representative of the average electric car customer, who is a suburban commuter and pays 11-16 cents per kW/h.
Actually, if anyone defeated the Nazis, it was the Soviets.
It just so happens that your government is in Chinese sphere of interests at the moment
And we aren't?
It's true: I was a prof at U of Utah at the time. The hype machine was insane.
Example: someone in the physics dept. published a paper disputing P&F's results. As a result, P&F sued the physicist for libel. Since when does publishing a paper constitute libel?
The silliest part is that to promote cold fusion, the university agreed to pay for P&F's legal bills. And as the physicist was a faculty member, they had to pay his legal bills too. Eventually the suit was dropped, but the university still ended up spending hundreds of thousands to sue itself.
Rim shot!
It's all the chickpeas they eat.
I have seen simply innocuous statements turned into huge raging battles over who is 'right or wrong'. Just because some atheist wants to show off 'how smart they are'.
Look no further than this *VERY* thread to see it.
Some specific examples?
Yep. My wife has a Masters in CS; I have assorted math degrees; and we couldn't get either our son or our daughter to be math/engineering nerds.
Maybe it's because you are a famous English actor?
so the "Spanish Inquisition" was simply a particularly energetic implementation of the inquisition.
That was unexpected.
The U.S. is well and truly fucked.
They're also better at making weapons grade plutonium than LWRs thanks to online refuelling
You can refuel them over the internet? Cool.
We "assume" certain basic conditions that resemble our own conditions. Silicone?
Like Pamela Anderson, you mean?