The point was that pretty much everywhere else 100% settlements are non-cheque settlements and people there don't really use anything like a cheque. USA and (partly) UK are only large markets where cheques are still seriously considered.
Yeah, the man could've just forged the checks himself, submitted to his bank, wired it out to Malaysia and went for an early tropical retirement sipping margaritas..
If you want to eat a severely restricted diet, then you must spend osme time to consider what replacements to eat to sustain your long-term health, you can't just skip a major food group and rely on things working out by themselves. Some vegans do it, some don't - and suffer after some time.
You can't stay healthy on salad and tomatoes; I know some extremely healthy vegans who eat an extreme variety of foods every day that I don't consume in significant amounts - nuts, sprouts, berries, extreme variety of foreign origin vegetables. But if you take the lazy way of usually eating what your local food places have as vegetarian option, then you probably have an extremely unbalanced diet that's missing or lacking at at least a couple essential aminoacids or vitamins.
That's the problem. With meat you can be lazy - while steak alone isn't balanced either, there have been experiments trying a sustained 100% meat+offal/brains diet for more than a year with no problems identified; but you can't survive on any staple plant alone, you need a diverse mix of them.
If most people would be able to stay reasonably healthy and with normal functional capacity for 500 years on average, then there is no reason or possibility for retirement at 60 - eternal life would naturally mean eternal work to sustain yourself, of course.
+1. I don't normally care about these 'first birds' of data working for or against something, since the conclusions quite often change after it has been discussed in the scientific community for a few months, but for this, my first thought was "in your face, Sheldon!":)
USA levels of imprisonment are apparently possible without a collapse of society.
So in UK, they could imprison five times more people than currently are held incarcerated there. For every axe-murderer, we could put five Anonymous guys behind bars, and the society most likely would function just as well as USA. From what I see about the numbers of Anonymous, they could imprison every one that did something online to 'protect wikileaks' if they get the evidence, and imprison ten times as many for simple suspicions on doing that, and that imprisonment level would still be quite possible. Does that answer your question?
You most likely haven't lived in a totalitarian regime. You can very simply throw enough people in jail to change everyone's behavior - ask any old ex-USSR citizen who has lived in times of Stalin, there are quite many of them around. You might ask people of North Korea if you could. The nature of homo sapiens is that they need far more serious worries to consider rebellion against a strong authoritative power - wikileaks wouldn't be it, so such causes can be easily suppressed by simple ruthless actions, jails, torture and executions. Only widespread poverty or starvation or perception of weak leadership or outside force could do it - as for the large dictatorships of 20th century. Force of people? Bah. It can be easily suppressed for generations, as history has shown.
Make two or three high-profile arrests and convictions, and the membership of Anonymous may easily decrease by an order of magnitude, as Joe Random Citizen will not do it anymore out of fear of reprisals.
The "dumbest folks" as you call them are your bread and butter, your main force, your only resource. Who cares about the smart hackers for uses such as Anonymous? They are an extreme minority, they can perform as individuals, but for a major effect you need to convince regular guys to do their part - and they wouldn't even know what a vpn was even if you wrote and gave them a vpn-for-dummies pamphlet.
I believe that the uninformed people also have a right to free their mind from intruding advertising - so I tell them about AdBlock and suggest to try it. I believe that the current majority who watch ads don't do it because of an informed choice - they just don't know what modern technology can do for them.
There are hundreds of websites that insist that I get an 'account' in order to use their intended functionality.
There is no way I can remember hundreds of different, secure passwords. Actually, there is no way to even reasonably remember my username if my 'default' one is occasionally taken on some websites.
Ergo, on sites such as gawker a trivial password should be used. Like, say, '123456'. And I still would have trouble logging in - I'd have to try 1-3 usernames until I find the one that works, and it's quite possible that I had created a couple other user accounts there some years ago but just forgotten about them, and after a few reinstalls and changed computers, the computer doesn't remember it either.
There is no way ever how I would have a secure password on something like gawker. Actually gawker shouldn't in any way require or expect the passwords to be secure. Noone should, except if you really, truly believe that your site has something that's worth enough for people to take seriously. Well, banks could do that. Maybe paypal. And maybe these who believe that they running most of your life, such as facebook or google. But 99% of the sites that require logins - you're just kidding yourself.
My memory capacity allows to reliably remember something like 3 decent, periodically changeable passwords. Two are taken up for work purposes, one is for my gmail/googleapps account. Your site most likely is not important at all, and if your password criteria disallows my usual 7-letter alphanumeric password that's the same for a hundred websites, then f*** you, i'll probably just click on the password reset link if I encounter your site and my browser doesn't log me in automatically. No forum or shopping site or 'community' or blog or game site or news site like slashdot is worth the mindspace to think about secure passwords.
I'd think that normal electronics would simply be fried by being inside of EM fields of railgun barrel during firing, rendering the acceleration question moot.
Who says that I want to have the privilege of being tried by peers? If you went from home to home, asking people face-to-face what they prefer, I'd bet that most would easily give up that 'privilege' to avoid the inconvenience of jury duty.
I don't see anywhere that the stated goal of the donation is to help everyone in the world. If most of the donated money stays within the donors country, that may easily be what is desired; and if the foundation donates 5% annually to causes in Africa, well, then it's 5% more than it would be otherwise. If there aren't profitable companies in Africa, then it's not the duty of a malaria foundation to make these companies happen, they should just invest where it's best.
I don't really have a desire to 'teach a lesson' anyone in Congo or have the first-world come in and fix the problems of their corruption and governments - if I donated the money, I'd stipulate that it should definitely be benefitting my country as well while doing something for globally important issues. Why not? A local man who has lost his job in the recession and needs money for food&shelter is far more important to me than a foreign man who needs the same money for food&shelter.
There is none of this artificial USA-style difference between 'job with benefits' and something I don't know how to call.
All paid employment has the same rules, including minimum wage, paid overtime, paid vacation, firing process, etc. The rules apply to everyone from half-time fast-food waiters to bank directors.
It would suck to look for a job in countries like USA, where in some states employers can fire you at will for not working unpaid overtime, or deny you these "benefits" which are called basic rights everywhere else if you work for less hours or are filling a temporary position. In Finland at least every employer has to treat everyone according to some basic standards.
24-25 is biologically pretty much the later end of optimum time to have first kids - waiting until 30+ for your first kid is due to quite unnatural social pressure and is not really that good to the kid and the family in many different aspects.
Is the poster seriously claiming that a 49 year old grandmother implies some problem with safe sex or lying about age?? It seems really, really ridiculous to me. You could say that about a 35-year old grandmother, but not for this age.
Well, the situation is that you are in the minority and always will be - the general population has now been introduced to networked gaming through facebook; and they and their wallets outnumber 'true gamers' 100-to-1, so they will get priority attention and developer resources, and you will get the remains or @#$@ off (or develop it yourself, 'by gamers for gamers' style).
Have someone that you trust sign the root data - it can be ICANN, it can be some other organization like FSF or ACLU or whomever you like, it can be any random individual that happens to have your trust and is willing to do the signing periodically.
Replace the state sales tax with a federal sales tax to level the playing field.
Or get your tax system and enforcement simpler but working - the same Amazon has no problem at all in calculating and charging the country-specific VAT taxes in EU, when shipping from their centers in UK/France/Germany to any other of the 24 countries. There is no excuse - either it's not taxed because the government doesn't want to do it properly or the government has been bought to not want to do it.
A yearly test of the backup recovery process would be sensible, and it would work as due diligence and reveal any such problems while the data is not yet lost.
I could see usage of this in portable consumer devices (phones, tablets, whatever is the next thing), offering the possibility for app-dependent 'ASIC' on otherwise low-computing-power devices - say, when the user is watching a video, put the stream decoding stuff on the FPGA, if there is music in the background, put the mp3/ogg/whatever decoding there so that the main processor is free for other apps, heck, if flash or html5 is too slow then probably some compute-intensive part of it can also be pushed to the FPGA in one way or another.
According to early data security research performed by KGB, thermorectal cryptoanalysis (involving a penetration test with soldering iron) can reveal encryption keys of any length within a couple of minutes.
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The point was that pretty much everywhere else 100% settlements are non-cheque settlements and people there don't really use anything like a cheque. USA and (partly) UK are only large markets where cheques are still seriously considered.
Yeah, the man could've just forged the checks himself, submitted to his bank, wired it out to Malaysia and went for an early tropical retirement sipping margaritas..
That's how commonly used payments work everywhere else (Europe except UK, Asia) - all settlements are final and that's it.
If you want to eat a severely restricted diet, then you must spend osme time to consider what replacements to eat to sustain your long-term health, you can't just skip a major food group and rely on things working out by themselves. Some vegans do it, some don't - and suffer after some time.
You can't stay healthy on salad and tomatoes; I know some extremely healthy vegans who eat an extreme variety of foods every day that I don't consume in significant amounts - nuts, sprouts, berries, extreme variety of foreign origin vegetables. But if you take the lazy way of usually eating what your local food places have as vegetarian option, then you probably have an extremely unbalanced diet that's missing or lacking at at least a couple essential aminoacids or vitamins.
That's the problem. With meat you can be lazy - while steak alone isn't balanced either, there have been experiments trying a sustained 100% meat+offal/brains diet for more than a year with no problems identified; but you can't survive on any staple plant alone, you need a diverse mix of them.
If most people would be able to stay reasonably healthy and with normal functional capacity for 500 years on average, then there is no reason or possibility for retirement at 60 - eternal life would naturally mean eternal work to sustain yourself, of course.
Most people would gladly work their asses off for 0.1% stake in the next Facebook, Zynga, Google or whatever.
+1. I don't normally care about these 'first birds' of data working for or against something, since the conclusions quite often change after it has been discussed in the scientific community for a few months, but for this, my first thought was "in your face, Sheldon!" :)
USA levels of imprisonment are apparently possible without a collapse of society.
So in UK, they could imprison five times more people than currently are held incarcerated there. For every axe-murderer, we could put five Anonymous guys behind bars, and the society most likely would function just as well as USA. From what I see about the numbers of Anonymous, they could imprison every one that did something online to 'protect wikileaks' if they get the evidence, and imprison ten times as many for simple suspicions on doing that, and that imprisonment level would still be quite possible.
Does that answer your question?
You most likely haven't lived in a totalitarian regime. You can very simply throw enough people in jail to change everyone's behavior - ask any old ex-USSR citizen who has lived in times of Stalin, there are quite many of them around. You might ask people of North Korea if you could. The nature of homo sapiens is that they need far more serious worries to consider rebellion against a strong authoritative power - wikileaks wouldn't be it, so such causes can be easily suppressed by simple ruthless actions, jails, torture and executions. Only widespread poverty or starvation or perception of weak leadership or outside force could do it - as for the large dictatorships of 20th century. Force of people? Bah. It can be easily suppressed for generations, as history has shown.
Make two or three high-profile arrests and convictions, and the membership of Anonymous may easily decrease by an order of magnitude, as Joe Random Citizen will not do it anymore out of fear of reprisals.
The "dumbest folks" as you call them are your bread and butter, your main force, your only resource. Who cares about the smart hackers for uses such as Anonymous? They are an extreme minority, they can perform as individuals, but for a major effect you need to convince regular guys to do their part - and they wouldn't even know what a vpn was even if you wrote and gave them a vpn-for-dummies pamphlet.
I believe that the uninformed people also have a right to free their mind from intruding advertising - so I tell them about AdBlock and suggest to try it.
I believe that the current majority who watch ads don't do it because of an informed choice - they just don't know what modern technology can do for them.
If it was made by military saboteurs, then wouldn't such a targeted action be an act of war?
There are hundreds of websites that insist that I get an 'account' in order to use their intended functionality.
There is no way I can remember hundreds of different, secure passwords. Actually, there is no way to even reasonably remember my username if my 'default' one is occasionally taken on some websites.
Ergo, on sites such as gawker a trivial password should be used. Like, say, '123456'. And I still would have trouble logging in - I'd have to try 1-3 usernames until I find the one that works, and it's quite possible that I had created a couple other user accounts there some years ago but just forgotten about them, and after a few reinstalls and changed computers, the computer doesn't remember it either.
There is no way ever how I would have a secure password on something like gawker. Actually gawker shouldn't in any way require or expect the passwords to be secure. Noone should, except if you really, truly believe that your site has something that's worth enough for people to take seriously. Well, banks could do that. Maybe paypal. And maybe these who believe that they running most of your life, such as facebook or google. But 99% of the sites that require logins - you're just kidding yourself.
My memory capacity allows to reliably remember something like 3 decent, periodically changeable passwords. Two are taken up for work purposes, one is for my gmail/googleapps account. Your site most likely is not important at all, and if your password criteria disallows my usual 7-letter alphanumeric password that's the same for a hundred websites, then f*** you, i'll probably just click on the password reset link if I encounter your site and my browser doesn't log me in automatically. No forum or shopping site or 'community' or blog or game site or news site like slashdot is worth the mindspace to think about secure passwords.
I'd think that normal electronics would simply be fried by being inside of EM fields of railgun barrel during firing, rendering the acceleration question moot.
Who says that I want to have the privilege of being tried by peers?
If you went from home to home, asking people face-to-face what they prefer, I'd bet that most would easily give up that 'privilege' to avoid the inconvenience of jury duty.
If you are guilty, then you also want a jury trial; judicial panels are more likely to find guilty.
I don't see anywhere that the stated goal of the donation is to help everyone in the world.
If most of the donated money stays within the donors country, that may easily be what is desired; and if the foundation donates 5% annually to causes in Africa, well, then it's 5% more than it would be otherwise. If there aren't profitable companies in Africa, then it's not the duty of a malaria foundation to make these companies happen, they should just invest where it's best.
I don't really have a desire to 'teach a lesson' anyone in Congo or have the first-world come in and fix the problems of their corruption and governments - if I donated the money, I'd stipulate that it should definitely be benefitting my country as well while doing something for globally important issues. Why not? A local man who has lost his job in the recession and needs money for food&shelter is far more important to me than a foreign man who needs the same money for food&shelter.
There is none of this artificial USA-style difference between 'job with benefits' and something I don't know how to call.
All paid employment has the same rules, including minimum wage, paid overtime, paid vacation, firing process, etc. The rules apply to everyone from half-time fast-food waiters to bank directors.
It would suck to look for a job in countries like USA, where in some states employers can fire you at will for not working unpaid overtime, or deny you these "benefits" which are called basic rights everywhere else if you work for less hours or are filling a temporary position. In Finland at least every employer has to treat everyone according to some basic standards.
24-25 is biologically pretty much the later end of optimum time to have first kids - waiting until 30+ for your first kid is due to quite unnatural social pressure and is not really that good to the kid and the family in many different aspects.
Is the poster seriously claiming that a 49 year old grandmother implies some problem with safe sex or lying about age?? It seems really, really ridiculous to me. You could say that about a 35-year old grandmother, but not for this age.
Well, the situation is that you are in the minority and always will be - the general population has now been introduced to networked gaming through facebook; and they and their wallets outnumber 'true gamers' 100-to-1, so they will get priority attention and developer resources, and you will get the remains or @#$@ off (or develop it yourself, 'by gamers for gamers' style).
Have someone that you trust sign the root data - it can be ICANN, it can be some other organization like FSF or ACLU or whomever you like, it can be any random individual that happens to have your trust and is willing to do the signing periodically.
Replace the state sales tax with a federal sales tax to level the playing field.
Or get your tax system and enforcement simpler but working - the same Amazon has no problem at all in calculating and charging the country-specific VAT taxes in EU, when shipping from their centers in UK/France/Germany to any other of the 24 countries. There is no excuse - either it's not taxed because the government doesn't want to do it properly or the government has been bought to not want to do it.
HD/3D rendering has nothing to do with games. The gameplay of Crysis 2 could be run on PS1, let alone PS2.
Sure, the aliens do look really good in Crytek's games a high end PC, but the game would be the same game if the graphics were pixellated brown goo.
A yearly test of the backup recovery process would be sensible, and it would work as due diligence and reveal any such problems while the data is not yet lost.
I could see usage of this in portable consumer devices (phones, tablets, whatever is the next thing), offering the possibility for app-dependent 'ASIC' on otherwise low-computing-power devices - say, when the user is watching a video, put the stream decoding stuff on the FPGA, if there is music in the background, put the mp3/ogg/whatever decoding there so that the main processor is free for other apps, heck, if flash or html5 is too slow then probably some compute-intensive part of it can also be pushed to the FPGA in one way or another.
According to early data security research performed by KGB, thermorectal cryptoanalysis (involving a penetration test with soldering iron) can reveal encryption keys of any length within a couple of minutes.