1) IQ (as opposed to knowledge and skill) is mostly pre-set and is able to be determined comparably early in childhood and will have only comparably minor variations throughout later years. 2) There is a not huge, but statistically significant correlation between IQ of children and their parents. Children of IQ 150 parents won't statistically have huge IQ, but their mean IQ will be approx 110 instead of 100 as for general population, which does suggest that intelligence is at least partly inherited. 3) Genocide based on genetic properties is evil. But this does not make the above things untrue.
Well yeah, the mechanism by which evolution has always worked is having lots of mutations; and ensuring that the 'faulty' mutations don't reproduce.
Nowadays our advanced medicine is ensuring that people with many of possible genetic defects are able to live a more or less normal life. It is very good for those people and their relatives; but it does mean that such defects will be becoming much more common in future.
What benefits? What benefits does a US-headquartered multinational company gets from US that does not apply for foreign multinational companies that do a lot of business in US?
Especially, what is the difference between benefits received of company A that has a US subsidiary and Ireland subsidiary, and has most of it's profits (and thus, most of taxes) in the US branch; and company B with exact subsidiaries, but where all the profits somehow magically are in the Ireland subsidiary?
I see no difference there. Especially when all the "benefits" are really just infrastructure-related, it all comes out something like the tragedy of commons scenario.
Exactly, that's for merchants who never see your card number (as it often is and IMHO should be). The merchant (i.e., the checkout page on the website) forwards the transaction details (amount + description) to a 3rd party secure processor; customer gets redirected to that 3rd party site, and handles the card authorisation; and the 3rd party responds to the merchant 'OK, we got the money!'.
In that way the small merchants do not have to worry about properly securing card information, which is good, since I cannot imagine a small merchant being able to do that properly, since it does take quite a lot of money and effort.
I work in the credit card industry. There has never been a single fraud case with a cloned EMV chip+pin card in my country, and as far as I know, in the world as well. You can copy the magnetic stripe off the card, and clone a magnetic card; this is sometimes done, and if a merchant does not check the chip, then fraud can be performed; but then it's the merchant's fault and liability for not checking the cip.
So, no, you cannot clone a EMV chip+pin. If it could be done, then it would be done by someone, as the $$$ is there for stealing...
Gulfstream stopping wouldn't do anything for Earth's ice age. It would have a local effect, fucking up the climate of western Europe - Spain, France, England, Sweden, etc, and causing pretty ugly winters there. While these are culturally important areas, and I live nearby as well, still, it's not a global thing.
Doesn't UK Government issue passports and handle birth sertificates and grant citizenships ? If so, then they, naturally, have a database of all the personal data of all citizens already for a long, long time? I mean, if they are able to check that Mr. John Q. Random is your citizen, then it's done by checking it against a database of citizens...
The primary force holding the counterweight in orbit (and the only reason for it) is the weight of the cable. The holding force at ground-height should be approximately 0 - i.e., just the force to hold it steady and prevent it being blown all over the place by winds, not any noticeable downward pull.
(gah, mispost above - mod it down please) My wife got a HP laptop that came with Vista, which I promptly threw out, since it didn't work well with it's 1 GB of RAM. On Windows XP the onboard wifi and soundcard did not work. And after quite a lot of searching I found out that Windows XP won't be supported, and no known similar drivers work on it - but Ubuntu seems to work fine..
My wife got a HP laptop that came with Vista, which I promptly threw XP wasn't supported, and the onboard wifi and soundcard did not work in XP. And after quite a lot of searching I found out that it won't be supported, and no known similar drivers work for Windows XP - but Ubuntu seems to work fine..
Well, but after a statement like "I definitely wouldn't hire a pagan. It's not religious discrimination, it's just that there's a 95% chance that they'll be really annoying." you'd better be able to prove in court that the candidate you hired was really, really much more qualified than the original poster. If you wouldn't hire a pagan, then it is illegal for you to ask about his religious preferences, or to google his religious preferences. Actually, even if there was solid evidence that 95% of pagans are really poor workers, it would be illegal for you to refuse to hire him based on that.
For example, there is complaining about statements with the general "perpetual and irrevocable right to retain and store copies of user submitted data".
Have you ever done backups?
If you store any user-submitted content, and the user deletes part of it, are you really going to go through all of your securely stored backup media and alter these backups by deleting that content? If not, then these terms are abolutely neccesary in order to comply with the copyright legislation while maintaining your backup data.
"the DVDs it makes will only be playable on the computer where they were created" - i.e., they are not copies of the original DVD's, and probably not DVD's at all.
Looks like a completely useless product, and the fact that it got Slashvertised shows that some people have no sense of shame at all.
Like the "You understand and agree, however, that YouTube may retain, but not display, distribute, or perform, server copies of User Submissions that have been removed or deleted. The above licenses granted by you in User Comments are perpetual and irrevocable" and similar others the article complains about.
Don't any of you guys do backups?
If you store user-submitted content, and the user deletes part of it, are you going to go through all of your securely stored backup media and alter these backups by deleting that content?
Please note the "may retain, but not display" part of these terms.
Yeah, the unskippable cutscenes are pure idiocy. I liked the stealth action, and after finishing final boss I wanted to re-run through a few of the assasinations once more to try a different approach at them. I did the first one, suffered the long cutscenes once more with the aid of a few beers, and uninstalled the game.
Unskippable cutscenes = replay value of less than 0. This means I go to a used game store to sell the game instead of keeping it and replaying sometime afterward.
And the reasons for the European situation are not because EU banks behave better - it's because of heavy-handed intervention from the governments to protect consumers.
All these benefits of EU Direct Debit system(s) that make it good for the customer (instantly reverse payments weeks after they have been debited, authorisation requirements, fee and float limits) are not due to goodwill, but due to requirements set by initiatives such as EU Payment Service Directive and SEPA. The situation would me much more in favor of the billing companies' and bank fee-income (like in USA) if it were driven purely by free market.
Seconded. I work in banking, and the primary assumption in fraud prevention is that your procedures have to reasonably control fraud/theft attempts where fully authorised employees are involved - and then 'purely outside' fraud gets covered by that as well.
This article has made me curious - what are the full names of the accused? Slashdot, and any non-NZ posters are not bound by any such orders, and the names presumable are available on press, so I kindly ask of anyone who has seen the names to post them here on Slashdot. Just to make a point.
They are not. For raiding, the big point is learning the encounter for the group - and for my guild (national semi-casual) it takes quite a few evenings to get right. For example, we needed 6 three-hour evenings to learn Archimonde, and since we are raiding 3 evenings/week, and one evening is needed to clear the first 4 bosses, then it required 3+weeks of us to progress through that one boss. Same with many other bosses. If your guild has problems with Teron Gorefiend or some other boss, grinding other bosses for gear won't help you much - you just go there and try and practice until you can coordinate well and get everything done properly.
If I have something specific that I want (say, some rare bindonequip epic, or a stack of flasks), that I'd want to buy for 1000g, and the game has set a max price of 100 gold for it, then it doesn't mean that I will be able to buy this for 100g and will have to grind less.
It will mean that I will not be able to buy that at all - at least not for gold. There would be a 'black economy' where I'd have to pay the other player the true value in some other goods - say, stacks of consumables or whatever, just reducing the convenience of AH and requiring me to spend significant RL time on bartering the goods.
The point is not the gold - the point is the valuable items required by players - primals, epic gems, consumables, leather and ore.
Add some random salt to the SSN before, and it automagically becomes as secure as any 160-bit hash.
Bu why would you need to hash them? Just make sure with your usual database permission structure that in most of your applications can access only a view of the table that does not have the SSN column at all.
cuil didn't find anything with my family name - 0, nada, zilch. Google gets 1420 results from all kinds of pages - both the forum posts and bug reports that you mention - but these are the questionable places; Cuil doesn't even find any of the organisation homepages where I am listed as a contact person....
The layout of search results is nice, I like that - but I'd like that showing the results found by google.
Any decent bank's security system cannot be bypassed by a keylogger. For example, my bank authorizes me with an user-id + entering a one-time password at login and at approving payments. I get these one-time passwords from a piece of paper issued by bank with a 120 of them, or I could get a keyfob that would show them to me digitally. All a keylogger can do is to capture one of 'used' passwords, which becomes useless right then.
I can do my online banking through a web-cafe in Elbonia and feel much safer than, for example, paying in the same cafe with a creditcard.
Well, but you can choose between the selfish, cynical, stupid and purely wrong options.
For example, classical story of a dragon assaulting a village and demanding the lord's daughter as lunch - which the hero has an emotional involvement with.
If the story is set not in a fairy-tale atmosphere, but in a grim 'realistic' world as I and my tabletop roleplaying group tend to prefer - and where the players tend to be not superheroes, but of average abilities (i.e., a warrior PC is slightly more powerful than the average king's soldier, but has pretty slim chance at defeating 2-3 soldiers), then the obvious options would be:
a) rescue the maiden from this horrible fate - take her away to your place, and marry her.
(dragon burns the village and kills most of them - but hey, you're happy) - the selfish option b) take advance payment from the villagers, take the maiden away, fuck her, and then give her up to the dragon
(dragon leaves, you leave, some people cry, but the rest live happily) - the cynical option c) challenge the dragon to a duel
(you die, and the problem of the village remains unchanged) - the stupid option d) inspire the villagers to assault the dragon with bows and pitchforks
(Everyone dies. Dragon eats everyone, gets bellyache of overfeeding) - the purely wrong option.
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You are factually wrong.
1) IQ (as opposed to knowledge and skill) is mostly pre-set and is able to be determined comparably early in childhood and will have only comparably minor variations throughout later years.
2) There is a not huge, but statistically significant correlation between IQ of children and their parents. Children of IQ 150 parents won't statistically have huge IQ, but their mean IQ will be approx 110 instead of 100 as for general population, which does suggest that intelligence is at least partly inherited.
3) Genocide based on genetic properties is evil. But this does not make the above things untrue.
Well yeah, the mechanism by which evolution has always worked is having lots of mutations; and ensuring that the 'faulty' mutations don't reproduce.
Nowadays our advanced medicine is ensuring that people with many of possible genetic defects are able to live a more or less normal life. It is very good for those people and their relatives; but it does mean that such defects will be becoming much more common in future.
What benefits? What benefits does a US-headquartered multinational company gets from US that does not apply for foreign multinational companies that do a lot of business in US?
Especially, what is the difference between benefits received of company A that has a US subsidiary and Ireland subsidiary, and has most of it's profits (and thus, most of taxes) in the US branch; and company B with exact subsidiaries, but where all the profits somehow magically are in the Ireland subsidiary?
I see no difference there. Especially when all the "benefits" are really just infrastructure-related, it all comes out something like the tragedy of commons scenario.
Exactly, that's for merchants who never see your card number (as it often is and IMHO should be).
The merchant (i.e., the checkout page on the website) forwards the transaction details (amount + description) to a 3rd party secure processor; customer gets redirected to that 3rd party site, and handles the card authorisation; and the 3rd party responds to the merchant 'OK, we got the money!'.
In that way the small merchants do not have to worry about properly securing card information, which is good, since I cannot imagine a small merchant being able to do that properly, since it does take quite a lot of money and effort.
I work in the credit card industry.
There has never been a single fraud case with a cloned EMV chip+pin card in my country, and as far as I know, in the world as well.
You can copy the magnetic stripe off the card, and clone a magnetic card; this is sometimes done, and if a merchant does not check the chip, then fraud can be performed; but then it's the merchant's fault and liability for not checking the cip.
So, no, you cannot clone a EMV chip+pin. If it could be done, then it would be done by someone, as the $$$ is there for stealing...
Gulfstream stopping wouldn't do anything for Earth's ice age. It would have a local effect, fucking up the climate of western Europe - Spain, France, England, Sweden, etc, and causing pretty ugly winters there. While these are culturally important areas, and I live nearby as well, still, it's not a global thing.
Doesn't UK Government issue passports and handle birth sertificates and grant citizenships ?
If so, then they, naturally, have a database of all the personal data of all citizens already for a long, long time?
I mean, if they are able to check that Mr. John Q. Random is your citizen, then it's done by checking it against a database of citizens...
The primary force holding the counterweight in orbit (and the only reason for it) is the weight of the cable. The holding force at ground-height should be approximately 0 - i.e., just the force to hold it steady and prevent it being blown all over the place by winds, not any noticeable downward pull.
(gah, mispost above - mod it down please)
My wife got a HP laptop that came with Vista, which I promptly threw out, since it didn't work well with it's 1 GB of RAM. On Windows XP the onboard wifi and soundcard did not work. And after quite a lot of searching I found out that Windows XP won't be supported, and no known similar drivers work on it - but Ubuntu seems to work fine..
My wife got a HP laptop that came with Vista, which I promptly threw XP wasn't supported, and the onboard wifi and soundcard did not work in XP. And after quite a lot of searching I found out that it won't be supported, and no known similar drivers work for Windows XP - but Ubuntu seems to work fine..
Well, but after a statement like "I definitely wouldn't hire a pagan. It's not religious discrimination, it's just that there's a 95% chance that they'll be really annoying." you'd better be able to prove in court that the candidate you hired was really, really much more qualified than the original poster. If you wouldn't hire a pagan, then it is illegal for you to ask about his religious preferences, or to google his religious preferences. Actually, even if there was solid evidence that 95% of pagans are really poor workers, it would be illegal for you to refuse to hire him based on that.
For example, there is complaining about statements with the general "perpetual and irrevocable right to retain and store copies of user submitted data".
Have you ever done backups?
If you store any user-submitted content, and the user deletes part of it, are you really going to go through all of your securely stored backup media and alter these backups by deleting that content? If not, then these terms are abolutely neccesary in order to comply with the copyright legislation while maintaining your backup data.
Yeah, well, that's the point - but if the designers want to match font size exactly with an image X pixels high, then they are setting up a failure.
"the DVDs it makes will only be playable on the computer where they were created" - i.e., they are not copies of the original DVD's, and probably not DVD's at all.
Looks like a completely useless product, and the fact that it got Slashvertised shows that some people have no sense of shame at all.
Don't any of you guys do backups?
If you store user-submitted content, and the user deletes part of it, are you going to go through all of your securely stored backup media and alter these backups by deleting that content? Please note the "may retain, but not display" part of these terms.
Yeah, the unskippable cutscenes are pure idiocy.
I liked the stealth action, and after finishing final boss I wanted to re-run through a few of the assasinations once more to try a different approach at them. I did the first one, suffered the long cutscenes once more with the aid of a few beers, and uninstalled the game.
Unskippable cutscenes = replay value of less than 0. This means I go to a used game store to sell the game instead of keeping it and replaying sometime afterward.
And the reasons for the European situation are not because EU banks behave better - it's because of heavy-handed intervention from the governments to protect consumers.
All these benefits of EU Direct Debit system(s) that make it good for the customer (instantly reverse payments weeks after they have been debited, authorisation requirements, fee and float limits) are not due to goodwill, but due to requirements set by initiatives such as EU Payment Service Directive and SEPA. The situation would me much more in favor of the billing companies' and bank fee-income (like in USA) if it were driven purely by free market.
Seconded. I work in banking, and the primary assumption in fraud prevention is that your procedures have to reasonably control fraud/theft attempts where fully authorised employees are involved - and then 'purely outside' fraud gets covered by that as well.
This article has made me curious - what are the full names of the accused? Slashdot, and any non-NZ posters are not bound by any such orders, and the names presumable are available on press, so I kindly ask of anyone who has seen the names to post them here on Slashdot. Just to make a point.
They are not.
For raiding, the big point is learning the encounter for the group - and for my guild (national semi-casual) it takes quite a few evenings to get right. For example, we needed 6 three-hour evenings to learn Archimonde, and since we are raiding 3 evenings/week, and one evening is needed to clear the first 4 bosses, then it required 3+weeks of us to progress through that one boss. Same with many other bosses. If your guild has problems with Teron Gorefiend or some other boss, grinding other bosses for gear won't help you much - you just go there and try and practice until you can coordinate well and get everything done properly.
Uhh, 3) will not be working.
If I have something specific that I want (say, some rare bindonequip epic, or a stack of flasks), that I'd want to buy for 1000g, and the game has set a max price of 100 gold for it, then it doesn't mean that I will be able to buy this for 100g and will have to grind less.
It will mean that I will not be able to buy that at all - at least not for gold. There would be a 'black economy' where I'd have to pay the other player the true value in some other goods - say, stacks of consumables or whatever, just reducing the convenience of AH and requiring me to spend significant RL time on bartering the goods.
The point is not the gold - the point is the valuable items required by players - primals, epic gems, consumables, leather and ore.
Add some random salt to the SSN before, and it automagically becomes as secure as any 160-bit hash.
Bu why would you need to hash them? Just make sure with your usual database permission structure that in most of your applications can access only a view of the table that does not have the SSN column at all.
cuil didn't find anything with my family name - 0, nada, zilch.
Google gets 1420 results from all kinds of pages - both the forum posts and bug reports that you mention - but these are the questionable places; Cuil doesn't even find any of the organisation homepages where I am listed as a contact person....
The layout of search results is nice, I like that - but I'd like that showing the results found by google.
Any decent bank's security system cannot be bypassed by a keylogger.
For example, my bank authorizes me with an user-id + entering a one-time password at login and at approving payments.
I get these one-time passwords from a piece of paper issued by bank with a 120 of them, or I could get a keyfob that would show them to me digitally. All a keylogger can do is to capture one of 'used' passwords, which becomes useless right then.
I can do my online banking through a web-cafe in Elbonia and feel much safer than, for example, paying in the same cafe with a creditcard.
Well, but you can choose between the selfish, cynical, stupid and purely wrong options.
For example, classical story of a dragon assaulting a village and demanding the lord's daughter as lunch - which the hero has an emotional involvement with.
If the story is set not in a fairy-tale atmosphere, but in a grim 'realistic' world as I and my tabletop roleplaying group tend to prefer - and where the players tend to be not superheroes, but of average abilities (i.e., a warrior PC is slightly more powerful than the average king's soldier, but has pretty slim chance at defeating 2-3 soldiers), then the obvious options would be:
a) rescue the maiden from this horrible fate - take her away to your place, and marry her.
(dragon burns the village and kills most of them - but hey, you're happy) - the selfish option
b) take advance payment from the villagers, take the maiden away, fuck her, and then give her up to the dragon
(dragon leaves, you leave, some people cry, but the rest live happily) - the cynical option
c) challenge the dragon to a duel
(you die, and the problem of the village remains unchanged) - the stupid option
d) inspire the villagers to assault the dragon with bows and pitchforks
(Everyone dies. Dragon eats everyone, gets bellyache of overfeeding) - the purely wrong option.