Can you prove they intended to 'steal'? If you can beyond reasonable doubt, then take it to a jury. Otherwise STHU (not you personally, of course). If it is a crime to win at gambling, then I'm thinking we should come up with a new word for the practice; something akin to 'fleecing', but with a more guttural twist.
How the hell am I supposed to know that 1 dollar != 10 credits?
The above cited use case where a player cashed out 9 dollars for every dollar entered is an obvious case of intent. Otherwise, you have to give the player the benefit of the doubt.
I am not a gambler, so the few times I have been to casinos have been very different experiences. I have used cash, tokens, magnetic strip cards, and paper tickets ala chuck-e-cheese for 'money'. Why is it be so hard to believe that players may have honestly not known what was up in an environment designed to disorient and lure people into spending more money?
I'm sure this is redundant by now, but it sure is ironic to hear the Government crying about their lack of privacy.
However, blowing the lid on undercover people is bad bureaucratic karma, if nothing else. There aren't going to be any people in the gubmint disposed toward leniency for the hapless webmaster in the article.
If this did come from The Outside, then this is the first domestic instance of nuclear terrorism (that we know of).
It is a darn good thing we have the DMCA to have their AOL accounts pulled, and prosecutorial power over their actions.
I feel quite relieved and secure now. --- On a serious note, I really hope the problem was stupidity, or malfunction instead of malicious intent, no matter what the agenda of the attacker.
f I could suddenly type two or three times faster, I think it'd probably make my text even more incomprehensible than it usually is...
No, you would have more time reread and think about what you wrote.
Writing is 'hard' because most people are terrible writers, but are actually pretty good re-writers. The problem, of course, is that we don't take the time to look over and rewrite our stuff. You understand yourself perfectly well when you think. If you take the time to look at your thoughts from the reader's point of view, glaring errors of assumption and clarity jump off the page.
Just like those how to get riches infomercials, none of this information is earth shattering, or particularly insightful. Some people never think along the lines to make the conclusions, others know and are too lazy, and of course one half of the bell curve is below average anyway and just doesn't 'get it'.
Seeing words laid out as text helps me think. I can compose things better, more coherently.
You have trained yourself this way. You can just as 'easily' train yourself to work from outlines, single words, short phrases, and even color. It is a fascinating area of study that I never thought would be useful until this moment on slashdot; good thing too, because I've just about tapped out my depth in this area.
Don't ask me to explain the color thing. I read about it, but do not comprehend it because my brain most decidedly does not work that way.
The point is, if you were born 100 years ago, would you still write a lot? Food for thought.
Kudos for seeing the 'relationship crap' as an expose of the human condition. Showing how the characters deal with situations that people normally avoid like the plague inspires a certain amount of self examination.
In the real world infidelity usually dissolves relationships. Stuck in a tin can where you can name the inhabitants of your universe, the 'laws' have to change out of necessity. But those laws did not exist before zero hour on Caprica. Exploring questions like this is a very valid place for BSG to go. I don't think they should go there for 9 of 13 episodes in a season, though.
I see. He fits your definition of scumbag, therefore his life is worthless and the police should simply have shot him out of hand.
I think I would argue that exactly that kind of scumbag is why restraints are put on the police. Awesome police powers must also carry awesome responsibility.
I would have to try hard to care less about Rodney King on a personal level. However, I care mightily how he was treated by the control and enforcement arm of the State.
This is probably lost on you, but I'm obliged to whack the horse one more time:
When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent...
Vision is not enhanced, perception is. You are training your brain to quickly evaluate information that is not directly in line of sight. In a RTS, you are looking intently at what you are shooting at, with literally part of an eye out for your next target and/or threat.
Your peripheral vision is mainly a warning system. Through practice you train your brain to look for the "not right" peripheral vision information. Processing speed of the information is also increased.
I wish I had more authority to cite beside this is what I was taught during my time in the service.
Pray tell, what do you think our teachers therefore deserve? Here's a hint: many did 6 years of schooling, and almost all work 80 hr weeks for a whole hell of a lot less than $50K/year.
Wow, just wow. Pass the pipe dude, or buy trans-universe tickets for the rest of us. I have to nominate you for Exaggeration of the Year Award. This guy sacrifices his youth to learn how to save peoples lives and shows just a touch of hubris and you nail him to a cross. OK, so it's not like you are the only one showing attitude, but as a previous poster said, we all have our cross to bear and some are more deserving than others. I don't mind the good doc getting a bit more in life. Would you (generic, not specific) treat the guy the same way if he had spent 3-5 years in a tech start up and then became an IPO billionaire over night?
If the quote were along the lines of "I've spent my time in the trenches coding dozens of hours on end, and now I want to enjoy my Linux distribution, fly to space, and patent bull*hit obvious crap with all my wealth", would the slash crowd react the same way? Ok, I retract my own question:s
My understanding is that when you are learning, you need to take a break every 50 or 60 minutes to let things absorb. Now I know it is not exactly the same thing when you are doing your fellowship (isn't that really like a doctor's apprenticeship?), but how the hell does keeping someone in a perpetual state of exhaustion aid the learning process?
Pre-apology for gratuitous use of CAPS.
You are confused as to what the professions require. Practicing medicine is NOT a problem solving skill. The closest analogy I could think of is if 8 of the 10 problems that come across your desk require a simple bubble sort to solve. Engineers CREATE solutions, Doctors (lawyers, CPA's) APPLY solutions.
However, there is a LOT of crap to remember in the regulated positions. Even engineers are regulated in a lot of places. These occupations are regulated because an incompetent practitioner can cost you everything from money, to freedom, to your very life.
Now, for the rest of you on this guys case, lay off, already! Healthcare is a BUSINESS. A lot of things need to change, but this guy is reacting to the existing environment, not causing it. He may peg his regular office visit at 95 bux because his predominant payers (read insurance company) only compensate 65% of the customary regional rate. Most payers compensate a flat fee, 20-60 bux, in my limited experience. Then you have to deal with flat out denials. There are many payers with myriad, often bizarre, rules for reimbursement. In some smaller practices, that can't afford staff to chase claims, the 10-25 dollar co-pay is all the reimbursement the doc sees for 20 to 30% of patients; although typically the denial rate is a lot lower percentage DUE TO DEDICATED OFFICE staff pursuing documentation and resubmitting claims.
Now, let's talk about malpractice insurance. IN a lot of ways, being a doctor is like driving a cab. The cabby ekes out a living between regulated rates, meter fees and car overhead, with each knowing what the other charges. The malpractice rates are set by insurance companies, who by the way, also compensate the doctor for most of their business (patients). The insurance companies all share information and thus they know to a penny what the average patient load of a physician is, how often they get sued, how much is paid to settle the suits, and what the cost of living is. I wholeheartedly believe that there is some secret formula designed to see to it that the physician sees between 110,000 and 225,000 in take home income per year. Expand beyond the physician to the hospital and there is one very telling statistic to relay: on average, a hospital can expect to see 50 cents on the dollar for charges to patients. Actually, 50 cents is a fantastic number with the real average between 46 (very bad) to 48 (treading water) cents.
Let's not get started on the time value of money issue! Payers take a LONG time to pay the bills. If I open my door as a new doctor today, I can't expect to see a THIN DIME for 90 days from today. Insurance companies enjoy the luxury of the float time between collecting dues from your paycheck, and paying claims to service providers. That float time makes a LOT of money for the insurance company, but actually hurts the physician and service provider as they are literally making money losing 'loans' to the insurance company.
One final thought, YOU the human being, are the product of healthcare. Physicians and hospitals are the manufacturers of healthcare, and the insurance companies (gubment, too) are the actual customers.
Completely unrelated, but anyway...In a previous life, the "Friday Police" was a term applied to part time officers who were called in for carnivals, traffic, , and the like. Most could not carry firearms for lack of proper training and certification.
When I left my first real job, after six and a half years there I gave them four months notice. I wasn't sure where I was going or what I was going to do, but I knew I was leaving. So I told them. About two months short of that, I decided to start my own business in direct competition, so after sitting on that idea for a month, I told them. I was told that they were going to accept my resignation early. I told them, "Bullshit. You're firing me. If you think that I haven't had ample opportunity to mine whatever resources I'd want to steal, than you're an idiot. I've hated you for at least the last four years, and those conditions haven't changed. I'm leaving in one month unless you are firing me right now."
You are an idiot, professionally speaking. Sorry to be so harsh, but someone needed to clue you in. For those at playing the home game, the above is bad advice.
"'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury." -Ben Franklin
However, I am glad it worked out in your specific case.
I think they could have achieved the same effect by just scaling back IT in the usual way -- cutting staff, sticking with older computers, fixing only the most critical problems.
I can't believe you got modded up for a post with that sentence in it.
This is the information age. Businesses who still operate that way will go the way of the bronze axe and buggy whip.
On the plus side, those type of operations don't know how to offshore jobs, either.
Please return to edit your post after your third child learns rudimentary environmental manipulation.
Just because the TV is on that long does not necessarily mean someone was watching it that long.
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Can you prove they intended to 'steal'? If you can beyond reasonable doubt, then take it to a jury. Otherwise STHU (not you personally, of course). If it is a crime to win at gambling, then I'm thinking we should come up with a new word for the practice; something akin to 'fleecing', but with a more guttural twist.
Mod parent up.
How the hell am I supposed to know that 1 dollar != 10 credits?
The above cited use case where a player cashed out 9 dollars for every dollar entered is an obvious case of intent. Otherwise, you have to give the player the benefit of the doubt.
I am not a gambler, so the few times I have been to casinos have been very different experiences. I have used cash, tokens, magnetic strip cards, and paper tickets ala chuck-e-cheese for 'money'. Why is it be so hard to believe that players may have honestly not known what was up in an environment designed to disorient and lure people into spending more money?
I'm sure this is redundant by now, but it sure is ironic to hear the Government crying about their lack of privacy.
However, blowing the lid on undercover people is bad bureaucratic karma, if nothing else. There aren't going to be any people in the gubmint disposed toward leniency for the hapless webmaster in the article.
If this did come from The Outside, then this is the first domestic instance of nuclear terrorism (that we know of).
It is a darn good thing we have the DMCA to have their AOL accounts pulled, and prosecutorial power over their actions.
I feel quite relieved and secure now.
---
On a serious note, I really hope the problem was stupidity, or malfunction instead of malicious intent, no matter what the agenda of the attacker.
Suggestions:
/. about your hellish commute.
:)
1. Drive half way.
2. Move
3. Advocate teleworking at your office. Of course, if you can do it 2 hours away, Waheed can do it half a world away.
4. Continue to sit home and bitch on
BTW, it would help to mention what country you are talking about.
PS, my 50 mile train journey in Chicago takes 43 minutes on the rush hour trains; 65 minutes including driving and walking.
f I could suddenly type two or three times faster, I think it'd probably make my text even more incomprehensible than it usually is...
No, you would have more time reread and think about what you wrote.
Writing is 'hard' because most people are terrible writers, but are actually pretty good re-writers. The problem, of course, is that we don't take the time to look over and rewrite our stuff. You understand yourself perfectly well when you think. If you take the time to look at your thoughts from the reader's point of view, glaring errors of assumption and clarity jump off the page.
Just like those how to get riches infomercials, none of this information is earth shattering, or particularly insightful. Some people never think along the lines to make the conclusions, others know and are too lazy, and of course one half of the bell curve is below average anyway and just doesn't 'get it'.
Seeing words laid out as text helps me think. I can compose things better, more coherently.
You have trained yourself this way. You can just as 'easily' train yourself to work from outlines, single words, short phrases, and even color. It is a fascinating area of study that I never thought would be useful until this moment on slashdot; good thing too, because I've just about tapped out my depth in this area.
Don't ask me to explain the color thing. I read about it, but do not comprehend it because my brain most decidedly does not work that way.
The point is, if you were born 100 years ago, would you still write a lot? Food for thought.
Mod parent up.
Kudos for seeing the 'relationship crap' as an expose of the human condition. Showing how the characters deal with situations that people normally avoid like the plague inspires a certain amount of self examination.
In the real world infidelity usually dissolves relationships. Stuck in a tin can where you can name the inhabitants of your universe, the 'laws' have to change out of necessity. But those laws did not exist before zero hour on Caprica. Exploring questions like this is a very valid place for BSG to go. I don't think they should go there for 9 of 13 episodes in a season, though.
Freakin amateur wannabe.
I gotta nail gun. And a pneumatic chisel.
I simply OWN Anything within range of my air hose.
Cutting Call pay is inversely proportional to cell phone and pager dead coverage areas. For proof, ask anyone who has lived through the phenomena.
The creator of this post (Jacob Smith) hereby releases it, and all other posts on slashdot, into the public domain.
HEY! What gives you the right to release my posts to the Public Domain?
IF that is not enough an worldwide embargo, what is?
Name one executive detained, barred, fined, or otherwise inconvenienced by this law.
Redesignate the open floor space as the management conference room. The oxygen will be sucked out in no time.
What is a solider? Sure, I could decipher from context by following the link, but why is it up to me to figure out your stupidity.
I see. He fits your definition of scumbag, therefore his life is worthless and the police should simply have shot him out of hand.
I think I would argue that exactly that kind of scumbag is why restraints are put on the police. Awesome police powers must also carry awesome responsibility.
I would have to try hard to care less about Rodney King on a personal level. However, I care mightily how he was treated by the control and enforcement arm of the State.
This is probably lost on you, but I'm obliged to whack the horse one more time:
When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent...
Vision is not enhanced, perception is. You are training your brain to quickly evaluate information that is not directly in line of sight. In a RTS, you are looking intently at what you are shooting at, with literally part of an eye out for your next target and/or threat.
Your peripheral vision is mainly a warning system. Through practice you train your brain to look for the "not right" peripheral vision information. Processing speed of the information is also increased.
I wish I had more authority to cite beside this is what I was taught during my time in the service.
Pray tell, what do you think our teachers therefore deserve? Here's a hint: many did 6 years of schooling, and almost all work 80 hr weeks for a whole hell of a lot less than $50K/year.
:s
Wow, just wow. Pass the pipe dude, or buy trans-universe tickets for the rest of us. I have to nominate you for Exaggeration of the Year Award. This guy sacrifices his youth to learn how to save peoples lives and shows just a touch of hubris and you nail him to a cross. OK, so it's not like you are the only one showing attitude, but as a previous poster said, we all have our cross to bear and some are more deserving than others. I don't mind the good doc getting a bit more in life. Would you (generic, not specific) treat the guy the same way if he had spent 3-5 years in a tech start up and then became an IPO billionaire over night?
If the quote were along the lines of "I've spent my time in the trenches coding dozens of hours on end, and now I want to enjoy my Linux distribution, fly to space, and patent bull*hit obvious crap with all my wealth", would the slash crowd react the same way? Ok, I retract my own question
My understanding is that when you are learning, you need to take a break every 50 or 60 minutes to let things absorb. Now I know it is not exactly the same thing when you are doing your fellowship (isn't that really like a doctor's apprenticeship?), but how the hell does keeping someone in a perpetual state of exhaustion aid the learning process?
Pre-apology for gratuitous use of CAPS.
You are confused as to what the professions require. Practicing medicine is NOT a problem solving skill. The closest analogy I could think of is if 8 of the 10 problems that come across your desk require a simple bubble sort to solve. Engineers CREATE solutions, Doctors (lawyers, CPA's) APPLY solutions.
However, there is a LOT of crap to remember in the regulated positions. Even engineers are regulated in a lot of places. These occupations are regulated because an incompetent practitioner can cost you everything from money, to freedom, to your very life.
Now, for the rest of you on this guys case, lay off, already! Healthcare is a BUSINESS. A lot of things need to change, but this guy is reacting to the existing environment, not causing it. He may peg his regular office visit at 95 bux because his predominant payers (read insurance company) only compensate 65% of the customary regional rate. Most payers compensate a flat fee, 20-60 bux, in my limited experience. Then you have to deal with flat out denials. There are many payers with myriad, often bizarre, rules for reimbursement. In some smaller practices, that can't afford staff to chase claims, the 10-25 dollar co-pay is all the reimbursement the doc sees for 20 to 30% of patients; although typically the denial rate is a lot lower percentage DUE TO DEDICATED OFFICE staff pursuing documentation and resubmitting claims.
Now, let's talk about malpractice insurance. IN a lot of ways, being a doctor is like driving a cab. The cabby ekes out a living between regulated rates, meter fees and car overhead, with each knowing what the other charges. The malpractice rates are set by insurance companies, who by the way, also compensate the doctor for most of their business (patients). The insurance companies all share information and thus they know to a penny what the average patient load of a physician is, how often they get sued, how much is paid to settle the suits, and what the cost of living is. I wholeheartedly believe that there is some secret formula designed to see to it that the physician sees between 110,000 and 225,000 in take home income per year. Expand beyond the physician to the hospital and there is one very telling statistic to relay: on average, a hospital can expect to see 50 cents on the dollar for charges to patients. Actually, 50 cents is a fantastic number with the real average between 46 (very bad) to 48 (treading water) cents.
Let's not get started on the time value of money issue! Payers take a LONG time to pay the bills. If I open my door as a new doctor today, I can't expect to see a THIN DIME for 90 days from today. Insurance companies enjoy the luxury of the float time between collecting dues from your paycheck, and paying claims to service providers. That float time makes a LOT of money for the insurance company, but actually hurts the physician and service provider as they are literally making money losing 'loans' to the insurance company.
One final thought, YOU the human being, are the product of healthcare. Physicians and hospitals are the manufacturers of healthcare, and the insurance companies (gubment, too) are the actual customers.
Completely unrelated, but anyway...In a previous life, the "Friday Police" was a term applied to part time officers who were called in for carnivals, traffic, , and the like. Most could not carry firearms for lack of proper training and certification.
It's OK, Peter, Mr. J. Jonah Jamison is a busy man, under a lot of pressure. Ask Jimmy how he handles it. :)
When I left my first real job, after six and a half years there I gave them four months notice. I wasn't sure where I was going or what I was going to do, but I knew I was leaving. So I told them. About two months short of that, I decided to start my own business in direct competition, so after sitting on that idea for a month, I told them. I was told that they were going to accept my resignation early. I told them, "Bullshit. You're firing me. If you think that I haven't had ample opportunity to mine whatever resources I'd want to steal, than you're an idiot. I've hated you for at least the last four years, and those conditions haven't changed. I'm leaving in one month unless you are firing me right now."
You are an idiot, professionally speaking. Sorry to be so harsh, but someone needed to clue you in. For those at playing the home game, the above is bad advice.
"'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury." -Ben Franklin
However, I am glad it worked out in your specific case.
I think they could have achieved the same effect by just scaling back IT in the usual way -- cutting staff, sticking with older computers, fixing only the most critical problems.
I can't believe you got modded up for a post with that sentence in it.
This is the information age. Businesses who still operate that way will go the way of the bronze axe and buggy whip.
On the plus side, those type of operations don't know how to offshore jobs, either.
Please return to edit your post after your third child learns rudimentary environmental manipulation. Just because the TV is on that long does not necessarily mean someone was watching it that long.
Always appear with a court reporter on your arm.
MOD PARENT UP, NOW.