I often send e-mails with new tasks to the person next to me. If I can see that she is concentrated on something right now (or on the phone with a customer), and she doesn't need to be interrupted - quite likely that the current task is more urgent. She'll be able to read the e-mail later and get to my new task then - and I can write down the details and feel free to do other things without waiting for her.
If we don't wont someone to live to a 1000 years, we don't want him to live to 80 years as well, so we just kill him. Nazi Germany did not end because Hitler died of old age.
It's not like death from old age is a significant factor for dictators - "acute lead poisoning" is a much more important factor, and longevity research does not affect that.
Well, that was the whole point. One CPU-unit for the whole year is more expensive than needed; but for such cases you need 0.01 'units' non-stop for the whole year, and 100 units for one weekend, it's much cheaper in Amazon's way.
Well, even if the device would decode the thoughts a second before the muscles react, I would imagine that the throat/neck muscles would move anyway - it's hard for people to 'disconnect' such reactions, if you are trying to "speak", then your speech-related areas of brain would move the muscles even if it's not neccessary, because you learned to do it that way in your childhood.
Soccer-mom SUV's have a higher fatality rates than small cars. Big SUV's tend to roll over easily; and modern small cars built to European safety standards protect the driver/passengers very well.
The lightweight carbon-fiber body style that VW One-Liter uses is also used in racing cars where drivers walk away after hitting a brick wall on high speed. The main downside of such car body is that it is expensive, not it's safety.
So for your example, I'd say that the H3 would have a few dents and the VW would be trashed - but the VW driver would be safe with minor bruises, but the Soccer Mom would break her neck in a rolled-over car because she probably wasn't wearing a safety belt as well.
You don't index the web as it should be, you index the web as it is. "Flash for entire websites is horrible and inaccessible." - probably yes, but there are such websites in noticeable amounts, so indexing them properly is a good thing. And maybe that will make them more accessible - via a deep link to the content you want, bypassing their flash menus.
Exactly, and it's not legal to make advertising promises that don't match your fine print. But as another poster says here, they have stopped such advertising, so it's a moot point.
Well, that's why there are laws that prohibit lying in advertising; and the 'limited' ISP should be able to get punitive damages if other ISPs falsely advertise 'unlimited' access.
But I am not holding my breath while waiting for this to really happen this way:)
That would have stopped this attack. For EMV cards the PIN code wouldn't even be sent to the transaction processor, it would be validated by the card chip itself; So cracking the transaction servers would not work.
Also, unlike mag-stripe card, the full transaction information is not enough to make a clone card - in order to make a clone chip-card, you would need to sign it's card number with the appropriate bank's private key, which also was not compromised in this case.
it appears that no keys were compromised, it was similar to the traditional skimmer scenario.
Crooks cracked a transaction-processing server, and "legitimate parties' information was captured through the use of malicious software" - so apparently via some rootkit+logging they captured full data for some real transactions that were made by these customers.
It still seems ridiculous. Transaction-processing servers has reason on being able to access the PIN's used in the transaction. Mandatory security requirements apparently weren't followed and it will cost the bank the mentioned two million in losses to help educate them.
Bullshit, the encryption keys for PIN's are not stored in any ATM's. That would be ridiculous, there is absolutely no way that one bank would give it's keys to another bank's ATM - but the ATM's can and do interoperate.
There are two options - for magstripe cards, PIN-check is done by ATM sending an encryped packet containing card number, pin and the transaction requested to the card-issuing bank (even if that bank is on the other side of the world) where a high-security-module in the bank that essentially is a black-box confirms if the transaction/PIN is valid and should be accepted. These keys are obviously important - see for example the publically available guidelines from Visa, Mastercard or Amex that specify the requirements for these HSM's, their management, rooms/buildings containing them, etc. If such a key is somehow compromised, then that would allow the fraud described and the only solution would be to block and re-issue the whole range cards affected.
For chip (EMV-type mostly) cards PIN validation is done by the card itself. Compromising a bank's private key could lead to crooks being able to create a fake card that could authenticate to the ATM as being issued by the compromised bank, but that hasn't happened ever yet, AFAIK.
Of course, it's possible that the existing crooks compromised no keys and simply got quite a lot of cardnumbers+PIN's using a skimmer device on some ATM's or a compromised POS somewhere - simply recording the magstripe data and PIN that the real customers entered at that place.
Well, no matter how hard you work for it, you won't be winning any contests without being bright. Working hard is like being good looking. Both are helpful and give you a competitive edge.
You still have to earn your place in the world, but there are a LOT of places which some people can earn with some work, and some people cannot. (Well, except in feel-good Hollywood stories)
Actually, the return will be much better. It is not blind mass-spam of random e-mail adresses - this is a list of competitors customers, so its 100% the target audience for a switching campaign. If you have a good offer, then you can get 20-30% purchase chance out of them.
This is the best possible scenario for targeted, personal advertisement campaign with an offer that really is relevant - as opposed to any mass advertising.
Ok, so here is the major difference - in Europe, electronic transfer/wire transfer (i.e., you open up your internetbank, enter your friend's bank+account number and the amount, authorise yourself in whatever way required, and the money will be available on his account/card tomorrow) costs somewhere between $0.00 and $0.20, depending on your bank.
It actually does make sense, as such transfers have tiny overhead cost, when compared to processing paper checks which involves manual labor.
Well, daisy-chaining multiple devices would be easy - just have multiple people walk through with a waterbottle with this explosive, and the guards themselves will put all of them together in the trashbin.
I'm eager to try something better - can you point me to a better IDE for me? I'm not on it full-time and don't want to get deep, but I need to maintain/develop some Java apps, and need an IDE for development/debugging small Java apps for win32 desktop use, I currently use Eclipse for that. What would be a better choice?
Enough said. The original poster seems to misunderstand 'credit' - credit for any good stuff that anybody achieves in a department is given to the dept. manager by his superiors; and to you by your manager.
Your manager's manager usually won't have a true picture of who deserves credit, and would (wisely) abstain from doing so in most situations - he'd give you credit if there were really exceptional things achieved (thus, rarely, probably less than once a year for him, or it's not exceptional), and even then only after confirming with your manager.
A whole another situation would be if your colleague would claim your work as his own; but here your direct manager knows the true situation, and it is perfectly valid for the manager to be both responsible and credited for all good and bad things done by his team.
No, you cannot, because in reality, as per theory of relativity, there is no such as a thing as a global "now". In our frame of reference their 25860 years may be 25000 years or 26000 years depending on how it moves and accelerates relative to us (the galactic rotation, etc), so 'now' (our now) the event maybe has happened long ago or maybe will happen long afterward. And you wouldn't know how their time goes until a lightspeed signal can get to you from them - so even discussing anything in terms "what is happening 'now' there" is basically wrong, there is no reasonable concept of 'now' as soon as you are talking in relativistic terms, and the distances and time involved here are large enough for relativity to play a role.
80% cannot form a consensus. 99% cannot form a consensus either - if one member of the committee wants a different result, whatever his reasons, ergo, consensus is not achieved.
It's quite easy to imagine a natural disaster killing 10% of humans. It's quite possible to screw up our environment so that we cannot feed ourselves, and 90% of population dies within a year. But I cannot really imagine anything that kills 100%. 99.99% - well, that would leave 600,000 people scattered in remote locations. That'd probably wipe out our culture, but it would be enough for homo sapiens as a species to bounce back, and use their opposable thumbs and remnants of technology to become the dominant predator once again.
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I often send e-mails with new tasks to the person next to me. If I can see that she is concentrated on something right now (or on the phone with a customer), and she doesn't need to be interrupted - quite likely that the current task is more urgent. She'll be able to read the e-mail later and get to my new task then - and I can write down the details and feel free to do other things without waiting for her.
If we don't wont someone to live to a 1000 years, we don't want him to live to 80 years as well, so we just kill him. Nazi Germany did not end because Hitler died of old age.
It's not like death from old age is a significant factor for dictators - "acute lead poisoning" is a much more important factor, and longevity research does not affect that.
Well, that was the whole point. One CPU-unit for the whole year is more expensive than needed; but for such cases you need 0.01 'units' non-stop for the whole year, and 100 units for one weekend, it's much cheaper in Amazon's way.
Well, even if the device would decode the thoughts a second before the muscles react, I would imagine that the throat/neck muscles would move anyway - it's hard for people to 'disconnect' such reactions, if you are trying to "speak", then your speech-related areas of brain would move the muscles even if it's not neccessary, because you learned to do it that way in your childhood.
Soccer-mom SUV's have a higher fatality rates than small cars. Big SUV's tend to roll over easily; and modern small cars built to European safety standards protect the driver/passengers very well.
The lightweight carbon-fiber body style that VW One-Liter uses is also used in racing cars where drivers walk away after hitting a brick wall on high speed. The main downside of such car body is that it is expensive, not it's safety.
So for your example, I'd say that the H3 would have a few dents and the VW would be trashed - but the VW driver would be safe with minor bruises, but the Soccer Mom would break her neck in a rolled-over car because she probably wasn't wearing a safety belt as well.
You don't index the web as it should be, you index the web as it is.
"Flash for entire websites is horrible and inaccessible." - probably yes, but there are such websites in noticeable amounts, so indexing them properly is a good thing. And maybe that will make them more accessible - via a deep link to the content you want, bypassing their flash menus.
Exactly, and it's not legal to make advertising promises that don't match your fine print. But as another poster says here, they have stopped such advertising, so it's a moot point.
Well, that's why there are laws that prohibit lying in advertising; and the 'limited' ISP should be able to get punitive damages if other ISPs falsely advertise 'unlimited' access.
But I am not holding my breath while waiting for this to really happen this way :)
I don't want to know how and why you got this knowledge. :(
That would have stopped this attack. For EMV cards the PIN code wouldn't even be sent to the transaction processor, it would be validated by the card chip itself;
So cracking the transaction servers would not work.
Also, unlike mag-stripe card, the full transaction information is not enough to make a clone card - in order to make a clone chip-card, you would need to sign it's card number with the appropriate bank's private key, which also was not compromised in this case.
Read the article more carefully -
it appears that no keys were compromised, it was similar to the traditional skimmer scenario.
Crooks cracked a transaction-processing server, and "legitimate parties' information was captured through the use of malicious software" - so apparently via some rootkit+logging they captured full data for some real transactions that were made by these customers.
It still seems ridiculous. Transaction-processing servers has reason on being able to access the PIN's used in the transaction. Mandatory security requirements apparently weren't followed and it will cost the bank the mentioned two million in losses to help educate them.
Bullshit, the encryption keys for PIN's are not stored in any ATM's. That would be ridiculous, there is absolutely no way that one bank would give it's keys to another bank's ATM - but the ATM's can and do interoperate.
There are two options - for magstripe cards, PIN-check is done by ATM sending an encryped packet containing card number, pin and the transaction requested to the card-issuing bank (even if that bank is on the other side of the world) where a high-security-module in the bank that essentially is a black-box confirms if the transaction/PIN is valid and should be accepted.
These keys are obviously important - see for example the publically available guidelines from Visa, Mastercard or Amex that specify the requirements for these HSM's, their management, rooms/buildings containing them, etc. If such a key is somehow compromised, then that would allow the fraud described and the only solution would be to block and re-issue the whole range cards affected.
For chip (EMV-type mostly) cards PIN validation is done by the card itself.
Compromising a bank's private key could lead to crooks being able to create a fake card that could authenticate to the ATM as being issued by the compromised bank, but that hasn't happened ever yet, AFAIK.
Of course, it's possible that the existing crooks compromised no keys and simply got quite a lot of cardnumbers+PIN's using a skimmer device on some ATM's or a compromised POS somewhere - simply recording the magstripe data and PIN that the real customers entered at that place.
Yeah, and in the same way there is no Natural Intelligence. At best you have an intelligent lump of neurons.
Well, no matter how hard you work for it, you won't be winning any contests without being bright. Working hard is like being good looking. Both are helpful and give you a competitive edge.
You still have to earn your place in the world, but there are a LOT of places which some people can earn with some work, and some people cannot. (Well, except in feel-good Hollywood stories)
Actually, the return will be much better.
It is not blind mass-spam of random e-mail adresses - this is a list of competitors customers, so its 100% the target audience for a switching campaign. If you have a good offer, then you can get 20-30% purchase chance out of them.
This is the best possible scenario for targeted, personal advertisement campaign with an offer that really is relevant - as opposed to any mass advertising.
Ok, so here is the major difference - in Europe, electronic transfer/wire transfer (i.e., you open up your internetbank, enter your friend's bank+account number and the amount, authorise yourself in whatever way required, and the money will be available on his account/card tomorrow) costs somewhere between $0.00 and $0.20, depending on your bank.
It actually does make sense, as such transfers have tiny overhead cost, when compared to processing paper checks which involves manual labor.
Well, daisy-chaining multiple devices would be easy - just have multiple people walk through with a waterbottle with this explosive, and the guards themselves will put all of them together in the trashbin.
I'm eager to try something better - can you point me to a better IDE for me? I'm not on it full-time and don't want to get deep, but I need to maintain/develop some Java apps, and need an IDE for development/debugging small Java apps for win32 desktop use, I currently use Eclipse for that. What would be a better choice?
Enough said. The original poster seems to misunderstand 'credit' - credit for any good stuff that anybody achieves in a department is given to the dept. manager by his superiors; and to you by your manager.
Your manager's manager usually won't have a true picture of who deserves credit, and would (wisely) abstain from doing so in most situations - he'd give you credit if there were really exceptional things achieved (thus, rarely, probably less than once a year for him, or it's not exceptional), and even then only after confirming with your manager.
A whole another situation would be if your colleague would claim your work as his own; but here your direct manager knows the true situation, and it is perfectly valid for the manager to be both responsible and credited for all good and bad things done by his team.
No, you cannot, because in reality, as per theory of relativity, there is no such as a thing as a global "now". In our frame of reference their 25860 years may be 25000 years or 26000 years depending on how it moves and accelerates relative to us (the galactic rotation, etc), so 'now' (our now) the event maybe has happened long ago or maybe will happen long afterward. And you wouldn't know how their time goes until a lightspeed signal can get to you from them - so even discussing anything in terms "what is happening 'now' there" is basically wrong, there is no reasonable concept of 'now' as soon as you are talking in relativistic terms, and the distances and time involved here are large enough for relativity to play a role.
Soylent Green.
80% cannot form a consensus. 99% cannot form a consensus either - if one member of the committee wants a different result, whatever his reasons, ergo, consensus is not achieved.
It's quite easy to imagine a natural disaster killing 10% of humans. It's quite possible to screw up our environment so that we cannot feed ourselves, and 90% of population dies within a year.
But I cannot really imagine anything that kills 100%. 99.99% - well, that would leave 600,000 people scattered in remote locations. That'd probably wipe out our culture, but it would be enough for homo sapiens as a species to bounce back, and use their opposable thumbs and remnants of technology to become the dominant predator once again.
Inhabitable (by our standards) planets are considered much more likely to be inhabited than, say, Jupiter-like planets.
If we can learn to detect planets of such size, then at the very least it's a way to see in which directions should we look for signs of life.